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Charleroi and 4th Street Barbecue are proof the democrats still love slavery and hate Americans. I noticed there was not a single mention of 4th Street Barbecue's owners and executive staff all of whom should be criminally charged in this fraud.
I have a friend who came to the US illegally probably 20 years ago. He ended up on a giant fruit plantation. He was given water, food, a tent, and little else. He was stuck and couldn’t get away due the remoteness.
He was basically a slave and it went on for years. The AG bosses weren’t paying him much if at all. Very sweet guy. Super capable and had a family ranch in Mexico which is where he learned his skills working with the fruit trees.
In my state, both vegetable and dairy farmers can't find citizens to do the work and they depend on migrants. I believe it's the same for the slaughter houses.
Used to be different of course. It can be different once again. Remove the free stuff for able bodied Americans and they might be motivated to pick strawberries like my mom’s entire high school class used to do.
Free stuff funds a lot of laziness. Yesterday a show I was watching had a video clip of various people screeching about how if they lose their food stamps due to the government shutdown, they will be out stealing food. Every single one of them was YOUNG, in their 20s most likely, fat, and a minority. Why aren't they out working? Because it's easier to not work. They're "gettin' by" as many of them say. And happy with that.
Saw a young (fat) woman on YouTube/TikTok explain that she was raised to depend on the government. She wasn't supposed to work; the govt was SUPPOSED to take care of her. That's what it was for. Absolutely makes my blood boil. Here's the link:
In California, there are laws prohibiting farmers from having friends and family come in and help with the harvest in exchange for produce. Who do you think this hurts the most? The small farmers, often organic/sustainable farms. Why is there this law? Because the CA government claims that it’s taking jobs away from people who want to work…except no citizens want to work these jobs, which is why we have the migrant workers.
Who does it really benefit? The UFW and the politicians pocketbooks.
Sadly, you are so right. I hate what CA has become. But I have low property tax because I bought my home in 1989, my home is paid for, and I live in a beautiful rural mountain area where I can mostly ignore the governmental stupidity. (except for the crazy gas prices!!). Not everyone here is this fortunate. I wouldn't be able to tolerate living in any of the cities.
Obscene. Have friends and family come do it for a small paycheck then or make them part owners, better. This would not stand up in higher court. We still have free association in this country.
Perhaps increasing health knowledge that leads to an increase in organic sustainabilty is the way forward... Some of us have known the benefits of growing food without chemicals for many decades.
We feed the soil...
Rewarding workers with higher wages may prove a side benefit of tarriffs.
I remember when I was a kid the local organic food co-op allowed members to sell or trade their locally grown produce. Now everything sold must be tracked and traced and it is no longer allowed. (California)
No and I’ve been shy about asking how precisely he escaped but I should. He is now naturalized and does other things, mainly manual labor but also works with plants and trees, and flies to visit his MX ranch once or twice per year.
it amazes me that people like him would come to the US. If you have a ranch (which requires to work on it) in Mexico, why would you come here to be a slave? Why not stay in your own country and take care of your own? I have several Mexican families close by, all very friendly people, with a gardening business. When I see how hard they work, can it be that much worse in Mexico?
He didn’t intend to come here and be abused of course. Sometimes people own property but still need an income.
As it turns out, he complains that when he travels home he has to pay all the bills and costs for the ranch as well as any time the family group goes to a restaurant at the local village, etc. He’s the only one earning cash to pay for anything.
YES...it can be that much worse. I know because I worked with Mormons who did their missionary trips to Mexico. One of them shared that life is so "cheap" south of our border that...if a neighbor sees that a neighbor has more 'stuff' than they do--they'll MURDER their neighbor and steal their "stuff"!! This is 'life in the hard lane' which is probably 60% of the world! We are SO BLESSED in the U.S.A.--most of our children are unaware just HOW blessed!
I'm more interested in how he "ended up" there. Who transported him? How did they know he had those skills? Where did they pick him up in order to take him out in the middle of nowhere?
I always wonder why you see highways in Mexico completely full for miles, but as soon as they cross the border they disappear. You never see highways in Texas full of migrants on foot.
Sometimes they are bussed to the border or once they are on the other side. There are long tunnels under the border emptying out into warehouses in SD County, California. Some die in the desert when their coyote guides abandon them. South Americans coming on foot through the Darien Gap often fall to their deaths. 1/3 of women are raped. There are a few different ways to cross, even via small boat.
In this particular instance the crossing would have been made 25-30 years ago. I have no doubt the assumption for able bodied males was mainly to do with agricultural work. I’m sure people would say they can lay bricks or know how to plant trees, etc. They can speak, they’re just not legal. Then “they get sorted into their houses” bound for this or that workplace. For a long time there were seasonal field workers in Oregon. They would go back each year and somehow manage to return the next.
Your friend's name is LEGION - millions of illegal migrants repeated this same sad saga - it' s what the Okies during the dust bowl of the Depression in the 1930's ended up being. Remember John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" novel!!
There's enough corruption going around political circles to savage the entire modern era history--it is truly DESPICABLE!!
They literally did this sort of thing 3,000 years ago in Ancient Greece. Brought people in, gave them freebies, made them citizens, then told them who to vote for. It’s an old play.
It would be interesting to investigate slave labor. I have an acquaintance who came to my community from China on a student visa. She did not finish the PhD. In the name of of benevolence a wealthy local family took her in in exchange for light housekeeping, cooking, childcare assistance. Twelve years later she is still working for them. Now taking care of the elderly parents. I’m not sure she can leave though is deportable if ICE identified her, it’s a problem . What do you do. I get not wanting to go back to China but it is endentured servitude with no end in sight.
Ironically the Chinese who came across 100+ years ago to work on the railroad in California thought their indentured servitude was for a lifetime, when in reality it was 7 years. The railroad did not correct the misperception.
If she has choices available to her she can make a decision. Someone should offer her help. If she is trapped it’s a form of trafficking. She may prefer to stay and hide from ICE in order to “see what happens.”
Thank you for this link Shibumi. I had only read about the Haitians in Springfield, OH but had no knowledge of the Charleroi factory issues until this C&C post. This update helps.
The Biden Border crimes continue to mount. I hope he and all responsible never have a moments peace.
I agree to send them back but imagine how bad Haiti is.
I feel bad for them but you can't integrate a large amount of people in a small and very different society and expect them to flourish and conform to the norms of another society. It doesn't work.
I just wish all the Democrats were forced to live right in the middle of the chaos they create. Live among the Haitians. And other Stone Age cultures that have slipped in.
Importing invaders to weaken a country is not a new idea.
I grew up in South Florida and there are areas called little Haiti and little Havana. I've never been to the areas. My impression was they are not nice cultural areas to visit, but dangerous poor areas. It is hard for them, so most stay in the areas they are familiar with but it also keeps them from integrating.
Do we want integration or separation?
I figure we want integration because we cannot survive in a mixed standards society. It causes too many problems and weakens the country... like eating cats is not acceptable here but in Haiti it is. I was taught we are a melting pot but it doesn't work.
They move here they conform just as if I moved somewhere else, I would conform to that country's standard.
I know, the economy is booming and the working class is lining its pockets with money right now! errrr, not so much, actually. The oligarchs are doing great, however. Two wings, same bird of prey.
My thoughts too. We think alike Lori. We can't fix it all. I just have compassion for others suffering. However, I have no tolerance for evil and support protecting oneself and capital punishment for heinous crimes.
Exactly. It's good to have compassion for those less fortunate, but we simply cannot save the world. The best we can do is teach them to improve their own countries.
And they don’t want to conform. Most immigrants now just want to establish their country of origin here, in a new place…including implementing sharia laws.
People who want to weaken our country brought them. The people who control world leaders did. They are doing it all over Europe and we see how that is working out.
Little by little they are taking our freedoms and weakening us. They play the long game.
My only hope is Jesus. He never promised suffering won't happen but something more after an earthly end.
Yes, as much as I am for only legal immigration, my heart does break for some of these stories. I’m just starting to say a prayer when I read something new. That’s all I can do.
Someone shared with me, "Immigration without assimilation, is an invasion." I have several family members in Minneapolis and gosh the Somali towers are something else. Thus we have Ilan Omar.
It’s an unfortunate fact that they learned from the worst example while here, having been enticed to come for free stuff and easy money. They will not learn how America is supposed to work nor how to free their home lands from poverty and old world tyranny.
Dear Mr. Childers, please do your investigative best to get us a clear view into the Brennan referral. I’m giddy with excitement in anticipation of seeing that lying, traitorous, arrogant, bloviating cancerous commie sweat his ass off.
So glad Jeff covered Charleroi, PA! This situation is nearly identical to what's happening in Springfield, OH.
Haitian illegals were brought there and handed government money, that then had to be "spent" on everything from official transportation to the jobs they've been given, to interpreters at work, etc. Most housing rentals are owned by "connected" entities, and they charged the illegals by the head. (A $500/mo apartment owner gets $5,000/mo if 10 people move in, which they do.) The list of "pre-arranged outflows" is incredible.
How would this *NOT* qualify as MONEY LAUNDERING? The illegals are essentially human filtration systems moving government money (OUR money) into the hands of elite players...
So true, Kelli. We live just outside of Springfield, OH. We're a carbon copy of Charleroi. Haitians are rude, have an entitlement attitude, think nothing of breaking the law, stealing and lying. They send lots of money back to Haiti and are now sending tons of clothes back. Our city council, police, judges and prosecutors all let them off or plea down to misdemeanors in order not to have cause for deportation. Disgusting. Springfield is corrupt to the core. Many are driving without valid driver's licenses or insurance. Their numerous wrecks have caused everyone's insurance rate to go up.
I have a friend who finally gave up and sold her Springfield home last year. She moved out of state. For 1-2 years she tried ... attended council meetings, spoke up, wrote letters. The dumping of illegals was obviously so well organized that the few who spoke up about it were easily trounced. At least this is all coming to light now.
Special pet peeve: When I see Springfield churches advocating for "helping" the immigrants, all I can wonder is where their recent bigger donations came from. Would love to see an AUDIT of all those churches' books.
The illegals are the target of much anger, but they are mostly just the tools of the people who dreamed up this scheme. Arghhhhh.
Need to go after Carl Ruby for sure and his "church". Catholic NGOs behind a lot of it too. I watch every council mtg. Haven't been. Don't go out alone at night and can't see to drive. So many have given up as they aren't hearing our voices. Early on, I was sickened by the lack of any response or compassion to people speaking about being pushed out of their longtime rentals by landlords wanting all of the money to be made by renting to the Haitians.
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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
“The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
So why do we expect those who do not know Christ to act any different than they do. We look like that which we worship and the longer we follow God or the devil the more we manifest their presence in our own being. We become that which we fix our eyes on.
Thankyou for this, Janice. I live in Florida which is not far from Haiti. I have several dear friends who are Haitian, and know many more who are store managers, nurses, employees, civil engineers, real estate agents, etc. All are VERY Christian and warm, affectionate people. Not everyone is bad from there by far! They have had very corrupt governments almost from the beginning of their “independence” from France. They are a long-suffering people who need lots of prayers. I give to a couple of charities that work especially to help them.
When we had huge immigration waves in the late 1800’s - early 1910’s, when my family came from Greece and my wife’s family came from Poland, new immigrants had to have at least $25 and a name and address of a person in this country to help them get settled. Typically they would also go to the local parish (Orthodox or Catholic) and the pastor would help them get connected to possible jobs, etc. So the new immigrants were planted into fertile ground with other people of their language and culture who were assimilating: helped them figure out English, learn about baseball and voting and saving money and investing in their family’s future. Certainly we can still encourage this…if they want to become one of us.
Those immigrants came to work and earn a living, learn the language, become thriving citizens. My grandfather came from Italy, worked in the coal mines from the age of 19 until he died in his late 50’s from black lung dx.
The immigrants coming here today have all they need given to them. They do not need to earn a living and we can thank Joepedo and his Dem regime for that.
That’s the solution: combat the corruption of government that keeps these nations poor. Most of which is tied to the drug trade, tbh.
Not to use their citizens as slaves.
God created ample resources the world over. They must flow properly.
Jesus warned of what he would do to unjust stewards who waste resources on debauchery and mistreat those in their charge. As the ruler of the kings of the earth, he will call governments to account.
Call me xenophobic, but I'm disturbed that so many people who eat pets and local fauna were also working at a meat processing plant. I guess the Autopen Installation and I have different definitions for "eat local".
I think that was Jeff's point. But I went to their website and all the pictures show machines doing most of the work. What were these 400 Haitians doing?
Some Asians have been into cat for a while. I have a friend who lived in SoCal as a kid and had her cat eaten by some Asian neighbors. Don't know the deets, but that's her claim. A very liberal grade school teacher, btw.
Scott, I remember decades ago, my mother told me about our local Chinese restaurant was shut down for serving cat. She would never order Chinese takeout!
In rural China it’s ingrained into some prior generations. These regions have experienced famine in scale you cannot imagine. Like eating bark off trees and dandelions hunger, even cannibalisms. That kind of trauma can culturally sink in. When that occurs you will eat pets. Even today, in many urban areas of China you will not see or hear birds. I don’t judge this. Because I’ve never had to step in those shoes. The Haitians illegally imported need to be removed. But they are also as much God’s children as anyone else.
Like "dandelions"?? I eat dandelions, for HEALTH! Baked fermented grass bread (ww2 Germans and concentration camps) amazing what ppl can eat AND SURVIVE! You should see the weeds I'm very prepared to eat. Be in the know!
You get the point then? Even some the Irish ate their dead during the great potato famine. China historically has too many people for the land to sustain. They’ve also been plagued by bad government and foreign, imperial rule. So, they eat stuff we wouldn’t. The French and Japanese eat horses. The Swedes, rotten fish.
Yes, and also farther back in China history. I don't normally cite Wiki for anything but history of famines in China probably safe ground. Recorded famines go back to the 6th century and happened repeatedly. This is why China eats anything.
I used to watch Anthony Bourdain's show in which he traveled the world sampling various local "delicacies". People in other parts of the world eat and like some weird, weird things that most of us wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole!
I recently traveled in Spain and thought I would hate and be disgusted by blood sausage. It turned out to be one of the most delicious things I ate there (especially when fried on top/bottom). Pigs blood, rice and spices. Oxtail was also darn tasty. In Thailand, dried squid was common street food. That looked weird but tasted alright, like seafood jerky. China was the strangest place I've eaten food. Sichuan cuisine is spicy as hell and that's because they eat anything (like a fair amount of snake) and cover it up with hot peppers. Up north in China, I've been served donkey and swan but didn't know until after, what I ate.
When Vietnamese moved into NW Richmond in the '80's, cats and dogs in the locality they settled, ~ Broad Street and Horsepen Rd. , started disappearing. could have been a coincidence.
Nope! Same thing happened in the little S. Ga town where I lived when a local imported a bunch a Vietnamese after the war. Stray dog population went down.
Weird how wealthy Chinese might have a pet dog but wet markets sell dog. But, I will say that though I no longer eat chicken due to my backyard chicken pets, the rest of my family still does. Lol
A friend worked in China for a while and said the market on the first floor below her apartment had cages in front of the market with dogs specifically bred to be eaten. I’ve volunteered with our humane shelter, and my heart just can’t handle that thought. Dog fighting (an illegal “sport” in areas around here) is bad enough, and I always caution about advertising dogs “free to a good home” since many are used as bait dogs to train fighters.
Well, when I was in France I was shocked to see a meat store that was dedicated to selling horse meat. It had a big plastic horse head over the door. So the French eat horses, but they also love to ride them. Go figure. Of course, the French also like to eat frogs legs.
My American friend ate whatever her family brought home when she was a kid. Even if Mtn Lion. She thought it was normal. In the Midwest it might be Rocky Mtn Oysters. French eat snails. In the Middle East it’s sheep eyeballs. Whatever you are accustomed to pretty sure.
My sil sent us a news article from Birmingham (Alabama)Times, years ago. The article was about how a warehouse of a Chinese restaurant was raided. (There were many of the restaurants spread out in the area).
Anyway, they found 10 commercial Deep Freezers full of cats. The claimed the cats were for ‘personal use’.
When we moved here, there were two Chinese restaurants in town. Each were next to pet stores. One of the restaurants went out of business when the pet store closed.
I cleared a Chinese food restaurant on an alarm one morning shortly after 2am. Soaking in the sink in the kitchen was a skinned cat. I had witnesses. Who knows how many we’d eaten in the past, but we never ate there again.
Not that we really eat Chinese maybe once a year if that, but after reading this I would rather eat dirt and worms from my backyard than to eat Chinese or any other ethnic food. I know how to make enough ethnic foods to please my family-this will stay in my mind forever.
With all of these comments, what do you think you are eating from the grocery store when so many products, including those labeled organic, come from China? Heck, I've seen pumpkin seeds from China. We don't have enough pumpkins??
I struggle with this exact subject- I know from being a waitress at a restaurant that was nice that the hygiene was never up to my standards- im hyper over the top hygienic with food so I talk myself out of thinking of it if I go out to eat-the idea of going out is nice for us moms/wives to catch a break but it definitely comes at a cost :(
That reminds me of my father in law. He refused to ever eat Chinese food because once long ago he was in a Chinese Restaurant and saw a restaurant worker picking his nose and then handling the food.
My husband just reminded me. Another Chinese restaurant was in a small college town about 20 minutes from us. They had customers eating and two of them came in carrying the carcass of a deer that had been hit by a car. (One of the customers asked if they had been hunting…..they said they found it on the road…..they were so proud.)
Needless to say the restaurant went out of business. They tried coming here, but the word had gotten around. They lasted about 2 weeks.
digusting practice. the chinese will eat anything and cause misery to animals. they eat shark fin soup for virility, cut the fins off the shark while alive and dump back into the sea to drown. lets not start with the festival of eating dogs.
They have no morals and when ppl have no morals or standards for themselves they will do just about anything without regret. Haitians and Chinese are quite barbaric yet so are the muslims in our cities here in MI
No morals is correct. To summarize a recent Epoch Times story on AI: The AI Chinese developed along with other AI companies from all over the globe (including US) were tested to see if they would support someone in distress and/or disable themselves in simulated crises situations. The Chinese AI killed the human approx 96% while other AI was at 26%, etc. The
I read another article of a test done in the States. The company gave AI access to the entire computer system, including their emails, then had two co-workers discuss how “Tom” (I don’t remember the name they gave the AI) needed to be taken completely off line on such and such date. One of the co-workers was responsible for shutting it down. Then they had the co-worker go into this supply closet/room where he was accidentally locked in. Overnight, the air was shut down in that room and the person could potentially die. Because of this, they have an emergency system in place where the AI would alert security.
Despite all of the coding with instructions for AI to value human life, more than 50% of the time, Tom didn’t alert security. Matter of fact, Tom canceled the alert. No matter how many instructions they included, Tom chose to let the human die.
Dennis Prager used to talk about how he would ask various people a question like this: If your dog was drowning in a river and a stranger was also drowning, which one would you try to save first? A shockingly large number of people answered "my dog."
lack of education about disease transmission into our food supply is a concern if working at processing plants or anywhere food is handled. The FDA sends out so many food recalls daily due to poor food handling, lack of sanitation and disease transmission from humans ie: not washing hands after going to the bathroom and then handling produce or meats, cheeses etc.
this conversation came up in front of some Chinese guests at work decades ago. One of them said there is a saying in Canton that they will eat anything with 4 legs except the tables and chairs. They all laughed.
Many years ago I worked construction in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A guy would come by the jobsite in the morning just before our 10 AM break. He and his wife sold the best burritos. Then he stopped coming. I read in the paper (yes that long ago) that he had been arrested for trapping cats. I still say they were the best burritos.
Good to know. My girls in the garden are naturally very sweet. Not because of BBQ sauce but because they seem to know their names and come running for treats.
I just couldn't raise an animal like a chicken or a cow etc. and then later eat it. My mother was raised on a farm and would tell me if I had also been raised on a farm, I would look at things differently. Maybe so. When you buy meat wrapped up in a little package in the market it's easy to not think about what it actually is.
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Fetterman's shot side effects have, somewhat serendipitously, thrust him into a Jeckyll Hyde melodrama. Jeckyll's really making a go of it. An internal battle royale for the ages. If you look closely you can see the "D" beside his name morphing into an "R." Who will win over the long term, and will it stick? Paging Vegas odds makers.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to switch parties. If Democrats cave and reopen the government, their left flank will go nuts and in Pennsylvania, Dems will primary Fetterman with a Philadelphia nut job who will win. Fetterman can win his second term as a Republican. I will happily vote for him. Meanwhile, Seth Keshel continues reporting that party registration is trending Republican in every county, including Allegheny and Philadelphia counties.
I'll admit I'm surprised how much more "common sense" Fetterman sounded post stroke. Before that he tended to sound just like the rest of his (D)ifferent colleagues. Now, he still has some wonky ideas, but he's at least moderate and willing to listen to all sides. I didn't expect to see that out of him at all.
On the votes that matter most he is wisely acting on behalf of common sense. And his public comments are notably centrist, the place where the Republicans now sit.
It’s also important to keep in mind that PA voters in EVERY county are registering as Republicans. It’s been trending in that direction for a few years now with no sign of slowing down. If I know that, so does Fetterman. Captain Seth Keshel reports on this regularly. Keshel has a Substack, btw. 😁
My real question is... Is that still Fetterman? There's a collection of "Fetterman" photos circulating and, let's just say conspiracy theorists might be right. Not sure how to share it here. But it's on the internet, and you can look up fetterman clones.
No, it is not him. Ppl can say what they please but let's look at the world now that we conspiracy theorists have pretty much been on par for calling all of it. We know ex)Biden emerged from "convid" 4-6 inches taller. Is that a side effect of convid? Ppl hesitate to believe it because the label of "conspiracy theorist" frightens them to their core. Well, "conspiracy theorist" is an FBI created term MEANT to deter ppl from looking into places they do not want you looking. Free yourself and research:)
Right, I meant body doubles. But I couldn't think of the word because I haven't had my coffee this morning. So yeah, not clones, body doubles. I'm thinking if we could find the truth, we would find out there are hundreds if not thousands of body doubles out there for "important" people...
The problem I see with all of this 'party switching' is that these recent (and even not so recent) converts still hold on to a lot of the old Big Government is your Daddy ideals. MO is chock full of former 'blue dog Democrats' who flipped to Trump in 2016. They vote for and LOVE Trump for his patriotism, support 2A, traditional values, the military and law enforcement. But they also vote for increases in the min wage (twice), medicaid expansion, and paid sick leave ballot initiatives. Our initiative petition process is too lenient, and dark money floods the state with support for ballot initiatives and the R's are too timid to enact meaningful reform. (there finally is a measure to reign it in that will be on Nov 2026 ballot but it does not go far enough, IMHO and the left is raising big money to defeat it already) If we are truly going to 'drain the swamp' and get this national debt down we need to go beyond the culture war issues and start pushing FISCAL Conservatism. That will be a hard sell to the newbies.
"HAVA complaint filed against Missouri Sec. of State Denny Hoskins 🔥 Hoskins ran his campaign for that office vowing to have honest elections - so far it appears to me he is failing:
Missouri can’t say how many people voted!
-The federal Election Assistance Commission: 3,126,837
-But the Secretary of State: 2,995,327
-But, but but the Missouri Centralized Voter Registration: 3,022,817
Three “official” totals. One election. Yet Federal law (HAVA 52 U.S.C. § 21083) requires a single, uniform voter list. Missouri failed. And there is more, read the full complaint at the link below.
Patriot Connie Kramer, a member of the Unite4Freedom group, filed a HAVA to expose the realities of her state's dirty voter roll. 🫡
Missouri Secretary of State Hoskins are you going to clean up the dirty voter roll as state and federal law require? And what about the Unisyn Voting Solutions is 100% owned by International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc. (ILTS)? The most used voting machines in your state.
According to its Web site ILTS is a San Diego company. But according to SEC forms, only 1% of ILTS is owned by the San Diego management.
71% is/was owned by Malaysia's Berjaya Lottery Management (H.K.) Ltd. (BLM). It was fairly recently taken private. Berjaya Lottery Management (H.K.) Ltd. BLM, is a Hong Kong corporation within the broader Berjaya group, held a commanding majority -approximately 71% of ILTS’s shares.
In late 2014, ILTS underwent a reverse stock split and corporate restructuring: it merged into its own Delaware subsidiary. Afterward, BLM (through its parent BToto) became the sole shareholder of ILTS
Who owns them now: the ultimate owner is the Berjaya conglomerate - a major Malaysian entity with deep roots in lotteries, gaming, and more. Why Mr. Hoskins?
Read the entire 16 page HAVA complaint with data at this link:
I traveled extensively in Southeast Asia for many years. At one point I decided I wanted to buy some land in Indonesia. Don't ask. LOL. I was told in no uncertain terms that no foreigners could ever own land there. Same thing in japan, same thing in Singapore and malaysia. It is very uncommon for a country to allow foreigners to own land when they are not citizens. Our practice of allowing China to buy up farmland next to our military bases is mind-boggling. And it needs to stop, and it needs to be reversed.
Think those paper ballots are safe? It's all about WHO is doing the counting, as we all saw in the 2020 (s)election, numbers jump at 2-3 AM when no one is observing or supposed to be doing counting?
Hoskins was NOT my pick. Oh he talked a great game but was part of the so called Freedom Caucus in the MO Legislature that was all about grandstanding and making a political name for themselves vs actually forming coalitions and leading to get things done. He recently spoke to a local group and didn't impress me with his so called accomplishments or how he handled Q & A. I supported Shane Schoeller - soft spoken and not a silver tongued crowd favorite like Hoskins but had run elections in Springfield & gotten fraud prosecuted. Met him and his family at a lunch event, his teen/young adult kids were polite, well spoken and made eye contact with you when they spoke and didn't even have their phones out. It's a little thing, but to me, speaks to his character.
So yes, party switching isn't a black to white issue; even current Democrats have differences between them. But what we're in the midst of right now is an historic party realignment. Depending on what evidence you're looking at there have been either 3 or 4 of them in U.S. politics. And since we only really have a two party system, there is never 100% agreement among elected officials in either party. Even right now Rand Paul in the Senate and Thomas Massie in the House are often found voting with the Democrats albeit for different reasons. But in the main, we're looking at several generations of conservative control of government. And at the moment, the Dems have zero programs or positions that can counter anything the Republicans do. My view is that the very survival of the nation will depend on fiscal conservatism and men like Fetterman see that. That's why he and other centrist Dems will have to switch parties. If not, they will be unelectable since for the foreseeable future, the Dems are certifiably out of their minds.
My concern is how the Democrat party can use such a sentiment against us. Look how many democrats they flooded our party with in the past. RINOs. We certainly don’t need more of that. I want him to remain a Democrat because we need someone on the other side that’s sane when we disagree.
Since we're in the midst of an historic party realignment, I don't see much of a chance of that being an issue anymore. And we need a supermajority in the Senate. I think the House is guaranteed to grow its majority. Another element is that because we have only two parties, something I doubt will change, each party is a coalition of interests and there will always be intraparty disagreements. Right now Rand Paul and Thomas Massie are two good Republicans who often vote with the Dems, although generally for different reasons. A two party system almost guarantees that there will never be lockstep agreement even on Republican issues. As for Fetterman, he's a supporter of the working class and thus, a natural fit for the Republican party.
Agreed. You have analyzed this well. We don't have any hope of ever having a true conservative senator. It is Pennsylvania, after all. And I'd much rather align with the party that tolerates individualism rather than mindless, lockstep compliance.
For sure the Dems will nominate a radical leftist to primary Fetterman because that's all who is left in that party. Closer to the end of his term, Fetterman will change parties, run against a nut job Democrat, and win reelection.
I totally agree. I guess we will see, but it seems to me John Fetterman was redpilled after his stroke. Maybe there are kind conservatives in his orbit who have been a shining light.
Contacted Sen. McCormick's office (R-PA) back in April with my concerns about the VA sending me a Rx made in communist China. I waited until April because I knew as newly elected, he needed to get his staff in place. Still radio silence from his office. Nada.
Still waiting. Especially concerning because there are lots of veterans in PA. Now my inquiry/complaint was submitted via his official Congressional website. So there is proof it exists.
Then, I contacted Sen. Fetterman's office (D-PA) and received a response in less than 24 hours that was very detailed and answered all my concerns.
Well, you do have Scott Presler walking all over Pennsylvania, asking voters to switch parties and signing up people how don't vote - all to the Republican party. He's awesome!
We watched the Adams Family movies last night. Lots of giggles in the first one, second one not so much. Kinda dark with the baby. But yea, Festerman! That’s good!
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The Haitians dumped in a small town scam really is a defining issue of our age.
Haiti, which is filled with Haitians, is an absolute $#!^hole, ruled by warlords with modern-day cannibalism and voodoo witchcraft. The average IQ of Haiti is 69 (lowest in the western hemisphere) which means well over half of Haitians would be considered mentally retarded by western standards. Sanitation is non-existent. For two hundred years Haitians have demonstrated they are utterly incapable of governing themselves, or even practicing basic civilized behavior.
Yet we dump thousands of them into some random small town, and the "magic dirt" of America is somehow going to turn them into brilliant Jeffersonian democrats. The next Thomas Edison or Elon Musk could come from their ranks we are told, and anyone doubting that is an obvious racist. Call me skeptical.
Then as Christians, our own faith is weaponized against us as we are told by apostates and non-Christians that we must support this. A few Bible verses taken out of context (as they always are) are thrown in our face as proof that Jesus demands we accept this. Not only just accept it, but promote it and celebrate it. Funny how Jesus supposedly doesn't have anything to say about how the long-time residents of those towns lives are being destroyed. Even worse, our tithes are being used to bankroll this through groups like Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services.
People really need to wake up and say NO to this stuff and call it out. Jesus does not demand we flood small town America with voodoo-practicing sub-70 IQ indigents. He doesn't demand that we worship "diversity" and "tolerance". He doesn't demand that we import the entire third-world to our country, in fact the Bible repeatedly describes a foreign influx as a curse. And He certainly doesn't demand that we pay for it.
We are fast losing the America we grew up with, yet far too many Americans are too cowardly to point it out. Thank God Generation Z is waking up to this reality and saying NO, as far too many older people are all too happy to watch this happen, too fearful about being called names if they dare object.
I say this all the time to people who say that support of any government social program is the 'Christian' thing to do.
One, learned helplessness and programs designed to keep people dependent are NOT charity.
Two, Jesus said WE are to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and so on. US - not the government. Do they donate to food pantries, and other LEGIT non profits who are out there making a difference?
Recently I read the history of a local building that for 60 years used to be called a 'home for widows and orphans'. It was privately supported and self sustaining, where the occupants farmed the land, maintained the facilities, and received an education and job training. But the advent of the social welfare programs in the 1960's led to their donors drying up and they ended up having to close. So a 'community solution' was replaced with a 'government solution'. This home produced contributing members to society - now we have gov programs that have become a lifestyle that discourages initiative. All under the guise of 'caring'.
Completely agree there is a huge difference between private assistance and government assistance. Study after study has shown that liberals are far more stingy in their charitable giving than conservatives, as they outsourced their "charity" to the government.
But even more important (IMO), giving alms to the poor and assisting windows/orphans, etc. *does not* mean we are required to move the world's poor to our country. There is nothing in the Bible that supports this idea, it is a modern invented "virtue". So many cannot seem to make this simple distinction.
Not only do they give less to private charities, they try to get out of what they’re supposed to be paying in taxes. I’m not against that per se—but if you bleat about not having enough government programs or that the budget for social services is too low, then you should be willing to put your money where your mouth is and not expect other people to pay for it while you get to virtue signal 🙄
The founders believed charity was primarily a private and civic duty, not a legislative function of the federal government. James Madison famously stated that "charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government," arguing that Congress should not expend public funds on objects of benevolence. Instead, they saw charity as a moral and virtuous act for individuals, religious organizations, and local communities to provide for those in need, often emphasizing personal involvement and self-governance over dependency on government programs.
The founders saw a great danger in overly generous welfare policy — that it would promote irresponsible behavior. That, in turn, would threaten the inherent natural right of every individual “to liberty, including the right to the free exercise of one’s industry and its fruits.”
Same. But tired of getting called 'uncaring' and being verbally bludgeoned with emotion fueled arguments. However, there are some systemic issues that need to be addressed. Like private equity and public companies buying up single family homes in droves and turning them into (often poorly maintained) rentals. "Big food" and "Big Ag" getting favorable treatment & influence that makes small farms and businesses tougher and tougher to sustain. Crony capitalism is a problem but ending it requires eliminating the corruption that got us here. Not saying we demonize 'the rich' but we should focus our ire on the tax code, the massive regulations that only big businesses can afford to comply with and revolving door/cozy relationship between big business and regulators.
We older people are NOT happy with it……well…..those of us who did NOT attend Woodstock and did NOT get hooked on hard drugs…….sigh……those FEW of us ………..
Amen brother. I've got more than a few gray hairs myself and I'm furious. My kids and grandkids will be living in third-world squalor all so do-gooders can signal their virtue and smug superiority (while a small group got rich of it).
The problem is that so many who grew up in the 60's and 70's were completely brainwashed through relentless propaganda. What I wrote above is absolutely true in every respect, none of it is made up. Yet entire generations were propagandized to believe that we are NEVER allowed to make generalized observations about groups, despite their obvious truth. We aren't even allowed to think them.
Finally, this is breaking down as more people accept obvious realities. Once people realize this taboo is a false pretense imposed on us, we can finally make some progress. The youth get this. The Boomers were so thoroughly propagandized though that many are a lost cause. Not all of course, but probably most.
I’m actually much more comfortable these days when someone accuses me of Islamophobia. If it doesn’t make me laugh first, I gladly agree and explain why, to their frustration. LOL I’m tired of their labels used to bully people into silence.
I graduated in 1967 and started college soon after that. I was raised in a conservative home but I know from some of my early attitudes that I was being pushed a bit towards the liberal side in college. When I finished grad school in 1976, I got my first job teaching in Iran. That one experience living in that country and traveling into the nearby third world Muslim countries turned my head right around immediately and gave me a new reality principle about the world and other cultures. It didn't take long at all for me to get the birds eye view of how wonderful and unique our country really is.
I wish we could drop the lefty progressive do-gooders into one of these uncivilized countries for a year. They would come home as very different people.
That's what I don't understand about all these Marxists and socialists - there are bunches of countries already out there doing that - if that is what you want - GO THERE!
It is a disease that affects many conservatives too. The periodontist I have been going to for issues the past few months has a Russian manager. She was amazed I knew what had really happened in the Ukraine. Said I was the first person she knows in the US who knows. The dentist is Syrian. Same with him. He was very impressed I knew the truth about the Syria hoax, and my knowledge of how to treat cancer sealed the deal. They love me, and gave me very impressive discounts, and impeccable service. He cleared his schedule and worked through his lunch break to see me yesterday. Heck, I had a bunch of stuff done yesterday, and just walked out the door till next time. No bill yet. My biological dentist collects a 25 % down payment for my next visit/ procedure before I walk out of the office or hang up the phone,
I worked in Iran from the beginning of 1977 to 1979, all through the revolution that deposed the Shah. I saw first hand what was going on, and I also read foreign media such as Indian newspapers and Arab as well as Iranian papers that were in English. And occasionally I got a copy of Newsweek magazine. I'd get frantic calls from my parents based on what they were reading in U.S. papers. What they knew was wrong, and what I saw and observed and read about in foreign press were entirely different. Americans were never told the truth about what happened to the Shah and which allowed Khomeini to take over and establish the current mullacracy. I taught Iranians and knew a great many wonderful people. But there were also a lot of illiterate, low IQ people running around too.
I saw the same thing in the Philippines. There were guerrilla attacks all the time somewhere, but the US media only reported them now and again, months in between, so it seemed like it was a big deal that meant something is in the wind.
When we need to start physically dropping the muzzie pigs, the Haitians, the Indians, it’s gonna be we boomers getting the booms going. At 70,life in prison doesnt have the same effect it does at 30.
I have a copy of the Woodstock edition of Life magazine. The photos from that event depict humanity that could only have endured it by being stoned into semi-consciousness. “If you remember being at Woodstock, you were not at Woodstock.” Truth!
Funny how the "people who were at Woodstock" grows with each telling, all the time. I actually worked with a guy that WAS there - I'm only sure because he was pictured on an album cover. He was a cool older guy who worked hard by the time I met him.
Hillary just had to chime in re the new ballroom at the WH- Eric Trump replied back. I think there is still a chance the Clinton Foundation will come into play down the road. I hope.
Our churches and their pastors failed us - by not keeping their eyes on Jesus and God’s Word they failed to instill into their congregations the wisdom necessary to know how to respond when our faith is wielded against us.
My former church (Methodist) spent countless dollars and man-hours building schools and orphanages in Haiti only to have the buildings destroyed by natural disasters. Then repair/rebuilding crews were sent in. The native Haitians did not know how to do the work without labor crews from the US. What happened to “teach a man to fish…”?
I had to unfriend (on facebook) a couple of people I used to be real life good friends with 30 years ago. They are Christians and think we need to allow everyone in. The lady quotes the verse from the old testament (Leviticus) about treating the foreigner in your land well. She doesn't remember the references to city walls, sieges, being invaded and being carried off into captivity. She also has grade 4 TDS, dismissing him as "convicted felon" when I point out that the nice lady that ICE targeted in her town had a felony conviction.
The man thinks Trump is racist because his stance on immigration keeps out Hispanics more than anyone else.
When I discuss anything with people, I tend to make them dig in the opposite direction, so I figure the best thing to do is to cut ties.
She sounds pretty committed. You are not wrong to save yourself a lot of frustration. Not good for the mind or body. But eventually more may get worn down and realize they've been snookered. One would think- lol.
Haitians are also God’s children, Jeff. Nothing you say changes that, and people following Cristo will follow their hearts and act accordingly. Yes, agree that Haiti is a cultural and government failure of the West hemisphere and we should prevent illegal immigration. But not necessary to degrade an entire people/nation this way.
Matt - seriously your mindset is a big problem with modern Christianity. You refuse to admit truth because it might offend someone, in the meantime our children and grandchildren's birthright is being pissed away. But then you have no problem scolding people that do tell the truth.
Didn't Christ call the Jews of his time "a perverse and corrupt generation"? Yes he did in Matthew 17:17. Doesn't sound very Christian to demean an entire people/nation that way. There are plenty of other very similar admonitions in the Bible of people and nations, it's called discernment. Check out Titus 1:12-13, as you'll probably find Paul's "racism" toward the Cretans scandalous.
Every word I said is true, Haiti is a basketcase on every level despite umpteen efforts to assist them. Nothing works, nearly everything that is provided to them is destroyed from neglect, theft, and vandalism. Crime is completely out of control, it's murder rate is one of the highest in the world. Sexual assault is rampant and endemic. Respect for human dignity and private property is shockingly low, and non-existent in many places. At what point do we face reality and recognize that (just maybe) the problem with Haiti is the poor character of the Haitians themselves?
Haiti shares Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic and the difference could not be more stark. The DR is actually a relatively nice place, and they control their border very tightly with Haiti. They do that because they know what happens if they don't, they learned that from centuries of experience.
My friend, you would rather be a Ned Flanders Christian than do the hard work required to actually save our Christian country. Saving the country requires truth. You'd rather walk around feeling virtuous than state the obvious, many places are awful because the people there cannot (or will not) behave themselves. And when we are deciding who we let into this country, we should not be letting in people with a track record of destroying any attempt at civilization. Should we still help them and attempt to minister to them? Yes, in the same way Paul did when sending Titus to Crete despite the poor character of the Cretans. Should we move them here? No.
We are studying John at church and last week we covered John 1:17:
"For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
Grace and truth. As my pastor wisely put it, truth without grace is harsh, but grace without truth is heresy. Yes the truth can be harsh, and we should attempt to tell the truth in love. But that doesn't mean we avoid the truth as you suggest.
Jeff, I'm in agreement with you to deport illegal aliens, including Haitians. I differ with you when you paint an entire country as deplorable. In the same way I disagree with Mrs. Clinton stating the same about all of MAGA, or Obama about rural whites clinging to their guns & bibles. Yes, Haiti is a failed state. But do you need to call them retarded? That's not necessary. And that is what I communicated to you. There are Haitian's that have escaped that hellhole, received care and education, and are not low IQ. My take is you took Mr. Childers post and took free reign to dunk on the people of Haiti. That's your right to do so. It's mine to remind you of your Christian conscious, which I know you have and am glad you hold that. We all fall down every once in a while myself included. Cheers
We are allowed to make generalized statements about groups, please show me in the Bible where this is forbidden. Because I can show you multiple places in the Bible where groups, tribes, nations are spoken about in an explicitly derogatory fashion.
The sin is being unkind to individuals, not drawing conclusions about the behavior of groups. That's just exercising discernment and common sense.
Your Christianity isn't biblical but rehashed "We are the World" feel good pop culture emotionalism. You might want to think about where you learned that as it wasn't the Bible.
I know this sounds harsh, but the fact that you think it's Christian to scold me for stating verifiably true facts about a country tells me you've never heard it before.
The places in Scripture that I'm familiar with where groups, tribes, nations are spoken about in a derogatory manner are because they are following pagen ways or not God's law. Are you suggesting Haitians as a group are not following God's laws?
"In 2024, estimates for the average IQ in Haiti varied significantly, with figures ranging from roughly 66 to 72, and potentially higher based on some online testing data. These different estimates are primarily based on limited or disputed research, as definitive, current data does not exist. "
So, you prefer a higher estimate than other studies which indicated a much lower estimated IQ. * shrug *
They are all estimates, because Haiti is and has been such a deeply dysfunctional country for so long that the idea that Haiti has actually performed standardized IQ tests on its populace is laughable.
It doesn't matter, ultimately. Haitians appear incapable of self-governance in any meaningful way, and are merely a geographical group somewhat subnormal sheep waiting to be sheared or slaughtered by their own homegrown wolves and foreign parasites like the Clinton Foundation.
To hope&pray (i.e. pretend) they will somehow be made decent and productive citizens by occupying American soil is at best vain and at worst deliberately obtuse.
Not sure if this comment is in bad faith or just rude/lazy. I don't perform errands for people when they demand I do things with single-word commands. Look it up yourself.
The average IQ of Haitians is estimated to be around 68, based on various studies and comparisons with other countries. However, it's important to note that these figures can be influenced by factors such as education and socioeconomic conditions Source: World Population Review
There was a Florida sting where they arrested Fl Drivers license employees giving out licenses to illegals.
I recently was in local offices and the majority of people waiting were Hispanic and many brought their own interpreter. It was quite interesting. One interpreter came in with her person and went straight to stand in front of a specific employee who directed them to another specific person....they didnt have to get a number and wait like us legals. Reminded me of my ex husband who made a good living selling rebuilt cars. He liked to go in and get certain ones, well .....cause he wasnt exactly honest.....hence the reason he is an EX.
Matt Walsh does a podcast about the illegals who are driving commercial trucks in America and don't even understand enough English to read the road signs and talk to law enforcement. He said it was because of DMV activists employees who would get them their CDLs. I guess the rest of the people sharing the road with these truckers don't matter.
There’s actually a comment on instagram saying ‘at least the chemtrails have stopped’ which prompted people from all over the country to weigh in on whether the government shutdown has affected their skies, and amazingly enough, several states have not seen chemtrails. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve been drastically cut off from government planes poisoning our skies. We’ve actually had clear skies mostly in the last 22 days.
I hadn't seen chemtrails in a few weeks - then saw several last few days and the skys are hazy once again with the "smear" clouds. Wish ALL spraying of skies in USA would STOP!!!
We had a sad summer - produce rotted on the vine before ripening, what little produced actually grew. Hazy and cool in June, blistering heat and unstoppable rain (floods) in July. Cool August.
I do believe the weather is affected by their sky spraying solutions!
They started up Monday and guess what? We have atmospheric rain, and snow in the mountains predicted for this weekend!!
I’m not driving up over the pass to see my folks today because I don’t want to get stuck there until next week!! I won’t drive the pass in those conditions.
We had hail yesterday in MI on a 60 degree day. Chemical ice nucleation: https://geoengineeringwatch.org/flash-freezing-us-90-second-alert/ These are military operations, they have a backlog of material, they still have personnel, they still have the KC-135s, I'm sad but I think saying geoengineering has been interrupted is wishful thinking. They do geoengineering in regions, thankfully for you your region has been spared while they're concentrating their operations elsewhere.
Have not seen any chemtrails in Arizona since shutdown. Contrails, yes, but no chemtrails. And we’ve received tons of rain in the desert over the past month. Enough rain for a year.
I wonder how Josh Shapiro justifies the loss of wages to the American population while glorifying the enslavement of Haitian people. Where is the outrage?
Ohhh that would almost be perfect, but there are a few things the federal government is intended for that need to continue. Providing for the common defense and all that. But I love your point. I’d like to see it approx 80% smaller. Maybe more?
I hope they get it resolved soon. I have to fly next month and don't like that the air traffic people aren't being paid. They don't need to be stressed any more than the job already causes.
My sis just flew for a visit - everything went fine. Closer to Thanksgiving and Christmas? Not so sure thay will be the case! Hope (and pray!)all goes well with your flights!
No amount of money could get me on a plane that's been maintained by DEI hires and air traffic controlled by outdated systems that can be hacked and turned into kamikaze weapons. I find train travel is much more relaxing and civilized.
I can either spend my time at the destination or on various modes of transportation. If I were to take a train and then a boat there and back, my entire vacation time would be spent traveling. Sometimes I have to make the deal with the devil or in this case, airlines.
I'll take my chances. Odds are actually better than car travel when you look at the statistics. Besides, being trapped on a boat when the flu moves through all the passengers is no fun either.
Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating people’s pets and wild waterfowl is a hoax!
Except that it wasn’t. AGAIN. Shame on all those who call truth lies, and lies, truth. Drive-by media, you know who you are.
Haven’t thought about that pre-election episode much lately, but for my money, no “mashup” compares with the brilliant song first put together with President Trump’s own words. Some of us C&C regulars remember this one. For your listening pleasure!! (Ear worm warning):
I’m a day late, so had to check whether anyone else had already posted a link to The Kiffness and his amazing cats and dogs song. This one is the best!
Charleroi and 4th Street Barbecue are proof the democrats still love slavery and hate Americans. I noticed there was not a single mention of 4th Street Barbecue's owners and executive staff all of whom should be criminally charged in this fraud.
Exactly. All their equal rights bullshit is just a race to the bottom for votes and cheap/free labor = slavery!
The new American slavery.
I have a friend who came to the US illegally probably 20 years ago. He ended up on a giant fruit plantation. He was given water, food, a tent, and little else. He was stuck and couldn’t get away due the remoteness.
He was basically a slave and it went on for years. The AG bosses weren’t paying him much if at all. Very sweet guy. Super capable and had a family ranch in Mexico which is where he learned his skills working with the fruit trees.
In my state, both vegetable and dairy farmers can't find citizens to do the work and they depend on migrants. I believe it's the same for the slaughter houses.
Used to be different of course. It can be different once again. Remove the free stuff for able bodied Americans and they might be motivated to pick strawberries like my mom’s entire high school class used to do.
Free stuff funds a lot of laziness. Yesterday a show I was watching had a video clip of various people screeching about how if they lose their food stamps due to the government shutdown, they will be out stealing food. Every single one of them was YOUNG, in their 20s most likely, fat, and a minority. Why aren't they out working? Because it's easier to not work. They're "gettin' by" as many of them say. And happy with that.
Saw a young (fat) woman on YouTube/TikTok explain that she was raised to depend on the government. She wasn't supposed to work; the govt was SUPPOSED to take care of her. That's what it was for. Absolutely makes my blood boil. Here's the link:
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1981068034312982902?s=61&t=g0jXAuY4Y3nVOXZDWIlIiQ
In California, there are laws prohibiting farmers from having friends and family come in and help with the harvest in exchange for produce. Who do you think this hurts the most? The small farmers, often organic/sustainable farms. Why is there this law? Because the CA government claims that it’s taking jobs away from people who want to work…except no citizens want to work these jobs, which is why we have the migrant workers.
Who does it really benefit? The UFW and the politicians pocketbooks.
I loathe California. What it has become is a nation/communist State.
Sadly, you are so right. I hate what CA has become. But I have low property tax because I bought my home in 1989, my home is paid for, and I live in a beautiful rural mountain area where I can mostly ignore the governmental stupidity. (except for the crazy gas prices!!). Not everyone here is this fortunate. I wouldn't be able to tolerate living in any of the cities.
Nothing in California makes sense unless you follow the money.
Obscene. Have friends and family come do it for a small paycheck then or make them part owners, better. This would not stand up in higher court. We still have free association in this country.
Why can’t people arrange their lives as they see fit? Food is far more valuable than money!
Govt has about three jobs & should stay in its lane!
Perhaps increasing health knowledge that leads to an increase in organic sustainabilty is the way forward... Some of us have known the benefits of growing food without chemicals for many decades.
We feed the soil...
Rewarding workers with higher wages may prove a side benefit of tarriffs.
The solution seems patently obvious...
I remember when I was a kid the local organic food co-op allowed members to sell or trade their locally grown produce. Now everything sold must be tracked and traced and it is no longer allowed. (California)
Is he still there?
No and I’ve been shy about asking how precisely he escaped but I should. He is now naturalized and does other things, mainly manual labor but also works with plants and trees, and flies to visit his MX ranch once or twice per year.
it amazes me that people like him would come to the US. If you have a ranch (which requires to work on it) in Mexico, why would you come here to be a slave? Why not stay in your own country and take care of your own? I have several Mexican families close by, all very friendly people, with a gardening business. When I see how hard they work, can it be that much worse in Mexico?
He didn’t intend to come here and be abused of course. Sometimes people own property but still need an income.
As it turns out, he complains that when he travels home he has to pay all the bills and costs for the ranch as well as any time the family group goes to a restaurant at the local village, etc. He’s the only one earning cash to pay for anything.
YES...it can be that much worse. I know because I worked with Mormons who did their missionary trips to Mexico. One of them shared that life is so "cheap" south of our border that...if a neighbor sees that a neighbor has more 'stuff' than they do--they'll MURDER their neighbor and steal their "stuff"!! This is 'life in the hard lane' which is probably 60% of the world! We are SO BLESSED in the U.S.A.--most of our children are unaware just HOW blessed!
I'm more interested in how he "ended up" there. Who transported him? How did they know he had those skills? Where did they pick him up in order to take him out in the middle of nowhere?
I always wonder why you see highways in Mexico completely full for miles, but as soon as they cross the border they disappear. You never see highways in Texas full of migrants on foot.
Where do they go? Who takes them there?
Mrs. RW
Sometimes they are bussed to the border or once they are on the other side. There are long tunnels under the border emptying out into warehouses in SD County, California. Some die in the desert when their coyote guides abandon them. South Americans coming on foot through the Darien Gap often fall to their deaths. 1/3 of women are raped. There are a few different ways to cross, even via small boat.
In this particular instance the crossing would have been made 25-30 years ago. I have no doubt the assumption for able bodied males was mainly to do with agricultural work. I’m sure people would say they can lay bricks or know how to plant trees, etc. They can speak, they’re just not legal. Then “they get sorted into their houses” bound for this or that workplace. For a long time there were seasonal field workers in Oregon. They would go back each year and somehow manage to return the next.
James O’Keefe needs to send out spies.
Your friend's name is LEGION - millions of illegal migrants repeated this same sad saga - it' s what the Okies during the dust bowl of the Depression in the 1930's ended up being. Remember John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" novel!!
There's enough corruption going around political circles to savage the entire modern era history--it is truly DESPICABLE!!
JEHOVAH JIREH!!
They literally did this sort of thing 3,000 years ago in Ancient Greece. Brought people in, gave them freebies, made them citizens, then told them who to vote for. It’s an old play.
And, sadly, VERY EFFECTIVE. Which is why it's continually recycled' throughout the annals of history.
It would be interesting to investigate slave labor. I have an acquaintance who came to my community from China on a student visa. She did not finish the PhD. In the name of of benevolence a wealthy local family took her in in exchange for light housekeeping, cooking, childcare assistance. Twelve years later she is still working for them. Now taking care of the elderly parents. I’m not sure she can leave though is deportable if ICE identified her, it’s a problem . What do you do. I get not wanting to go back to China but it is endentured servitude with no end in sight.
Ironically the Chinese who came across 100+ years ago to work on the railroad in California thought their indentured servitude was for a lifetime, when in reality it was 7 years. The railroad did not correct the misperception.
If she has choices available to her she can make a decision. Someone should offer her help. If she is trapped it’s a form of trafficking. She may prefer to stay and hide from ICE in order to “see what happens.”
and puts Americans at risk. they have to be deported asap.
Good one “race to the bottom”!!!
Send them back to Haiti and let them fix their own country. Having them work in any food area risks chance for disease contamination and food recalls.
Here's an update on another Haitian hotspot, Springfield, Ohio:
https://www.farmersadvance.com/story/news/2025/09/03/haitians-in-ohio-face-job-losses-as-deadline-looms-to-leave-u-s/85936043007/
For some reason Ohio's governor loves his Haitians. Even had a school there for a while.
As they say, "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."
Thank you for this link Shibumi. I had only read about the Haitians in Springfield, OH but had no knowledge of the Charleroi factory issues until this C&C post. This update helps.
The Biden Border crimes continue to mount. I hope he and all responsible never have a moments peace.
I agree to send them back but imagine how bad Haiti is.
I feel bad for them but you can't integrate a large amount of people in a small and very different society and expect them to flourish and conform to the norms of another society. It doesn't work.
if the Democrats take power, you won't have to imagine how bad Haiti is.
Just take a look at NYC, Chicago, Portland, and all other Dumbocrat run cities, not to mention California
Boom. We will all be living in a real time ghetto.
I just wish all the Democrats were forced to live right in the middle of the chaos they create. Live among the Haitians. And other Stone Age cultures that have slipped in.
Importing invaders to weaken a country is not a new idea.
I grew up in South Florida and there are areas called little Haiti and little Havana. I've never been to the areas. My impression was they are not nice cultural areas to visit, but dangerous poor areas. It is hard for them, so most stay in the areas they are familiar with but it also keeps them from integrating.
Do we want integration or separation?
I figure we want integration because we cannot survive in a mixed standards society. It causes too many problems and weakens the country... like eating cats is not acceptable here but in Haiti it is. I was taught we are a melting pot but it doesn't work.
They move here they conform just as if I moved somewhere else, I would conform to that country's standard.
Seems like the Kalergi plan in real time.
We already have enough of our own expensive pets to take care of here.
We should encourage their best to stay home and make their own countries better for themselves. It was a movement a few years back.
Later Jay
I know, the economy is booming and the working class is lining its pockets with money right now! errrr, not so much, actually. The oligarchs are doing great, however. Two wings, same bird of prey.
We can't fix it all. America first and Americans first. Feel bad for Americans that have lost jobs, have kids to feed and living paycheck to paycheck.
My thoughts too. We think alike Lori. We can't fix it all. I just have compassion for others suffering. However, I have no tolerance for evil and support protecting oneself and capital punishment for heinous crimes.
The world needs to put God first.
Exactly. It's good to have compassion for those less fortunate, but we simply cannot save the world. The best we can do is teach them to improve their own countries.
And they don’t want to conform. Most immigrants now just want to establish their country of origin here, in a new place…including implementing sharia laws.
Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
Who brought them in in the first place?
People who want to weaken our country brought them. The people who control world leaders did. They are doing it all over Europe and we see how that is working out.
Little by little they are taking our freedoms and weakening us. They play the long game.
My only hope is Jesus. He never promised suffering won't happen but something more after an earthly end.
thats the ?
Yes, as much as I am for only legal immigration, my heart does break for some of these stories. I’m just starting to say a prayer when I read something new. That’s all I can do.
Someone shared with me, "Immigration without assimilation, is an invasion." I have several family members in Minneapolis and gosh the Somali towers are something else. Thus we have Ilan Omar.
Excellently said in 3 words.
They make it about race but it is not. We don't like the practices of some cultures that are dangerous, unethical, and leech off others.
A country will weaken from invasion and it is a practice the world controllers have done before to conquer and control.
It’s an unfortunate fact that they learned from the worst example while here, having been enticed to come for free stuff and easy money. They will not learn how America is supposed to work nor how to free their home lands from poverty and old world tyranny.
we can't take everyone in or we become third world. gotta go.
Dear Mr. Childers, please do your investigative best to get us a clear view into the Brennan referral. I’m giddy with excitement in anticipation of seeing that lying, traitorous, arrogant, bloviating cancerous commie sweat his ass off.
Robert Barnes & Alex Jones discuss the DOJ & legal cases:
https://rumble.com/v70d21q-alex-jones-and-robert-barnes-expose-deep-state-criminal-sabotaging-trump-an.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=93c9d259-c91d-497d-9e1d-d70637427387
How do you really feel, Pelopidas? 💯%
and I don't forget his culpability in 9-11 either. guy is a real SOB.
So glad Jeff covered Charleroi, PA! This situation is nearly identical to what's happening in Springfield, OH.
Haitian illegals were brought there and handed government money, that then had to be "spent" on everything from official transportation to the jobs they've been given, to interpreters at work, etc. Most housing rentals are owned by "connected" entities, and they charged the illegals by the head. (A $500/mo apartment owner gets $5,000/mo if 10 people move in, which they do.) The list of "pre-arranged outflows" is incredible.
How would this *NOT* qualify as MONEY LAUNDERING? The illegals are essentially human filtration systems moving government money (OUR money) into the hands of elite players...
So true, Kelli. We live just outside of Springfield, OH. We're a carbon copy of Charleroi. Haitians are rude, have an entitlement attitude, think nothing of breaking the law, stealing and lying. They send lots of money back to Haiti and are now sending tons of clothes back. Our city council, police, judges and prosecutors all let them off or plea down to misdemeanors in order not to have cause for deportation. Disgusting. Springfield is corrupt to the core. Many are driving without valid driver's licenses or insurance. Their numerous wrecks have caused everyone's insurance rate to go up.
I have a friend who finally gave up and sold her Springfield home last year. She moved out of state. For 1-2 years she tried ... attended council meetings, spoke up, wrote letters. The dumping of illegals was obviously so well organized that the few who spoke up about it were easily trounced. At least this is all coming to light now.
Special pet peeve: When I see Springfield churches advocating for "helping" the immigrants, all I can wonder is where their recent bigger donations came from. Would love to see an AUDIT of all those churches' books.
The illegals are the target of much anger, but they are mostly just the tools of the people who dreamed up this scheme. Arghhhhh.
Need to go after Carl Ruby for sure and his "church". Catholic NGOs behind a lot of it too. I watch every council mtg. Haven't been. Don't go out alone at night and can't see to drive. So many have given up as they aren't hearing our voices. Early on, I was sickened by the lack of any response or compassion to people speaking about being pushed out of their longtime rentals by landlords wanting all of the money to be made by renting to the Haitians.
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Got a bunch of Haiti and Haitians eating pet meme posts: https://covidsteria.substack.com/t/haiti-memes
E.g.:
IMMIGRATIONsteria: Best Haitians Eating Pets Memes
Pumpkin spice cat, apocalypse meow, doordash Ohio, Kamala's Haitian grill, if cats ate Haitians (everyone would lose their minds) & more Haitians eating pets memes + what the media won't report!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/immigrationsteria-best-haitians-eating-pets-memes-springfield
Great! Now where am I going to get my semi fresh "park geese" bar-b-qued??
Charges MAY come in time. One can hope.
It's cuz "they didn't do nuffin man"...
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
— 1 John 4:7-9 NAS95
“The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
So why do we expect those who do not know Christ to act any different than they do. We look like that which we worship and the longer we follow God or the devil the more we manifest their presence in our own being. We become that which we fix our eyes on.
Amen. Beautiful
Thankyou for this, Janice. I live in Florida which is not far from Haiti. I have several dear friends who are Haitian, and know many more who are store managers, nurses, employees, civil engineers, real estate agents, etc. All are VERY Christian and warm, affectionate people. Not everyone is bad from there by far! They have had very corrupt governments almost from the beginning of their “independence” from France. They are a long-suffering people who need lots of prayers. I give to a couple of charities that work especially to help them.
When we had huge immigration waves in the late 1800’s - early 1910’s, when my family came from Greece and my wife’s family came from Poland, new immigrants had to have at least $25 and a name and address of a person in this country to help them get settled. Typically they would also go to the local parish (Orthodox or Catholic) and the pastor would help them get connected to possible jobs, etc. So the new immigrants were planted into fertile ground with other people of their language and culture who were assimilating: helped them figure out English, learn about baseball and voting and saving money and investing in their family’s future. Certainly we can still encourage this…if they want to become one of us.
Sadly, I think that train has left the station.
Those immigrants came to work and earn a living, learn the language, become thriving citizens. My grandfather came from Italy, worked in the coal mines from the age of 19 until he died in his late 50’s from black lung dx.
The immigrants coming here today have all they need given to them. They do not need to earn a living and we can thank Joepedo and his Dem regime for that.
Anyone coming legally who is willing to perform productive work is praiseworthy.
That’s the solution: combat the corruption of government that keeps these nations poor. Most of which is tied to the drug trade, tbh.
Not to use their citizens as slaves.
God created ample resources the world over. They must flow properly.
Jesus warned of what he would do to unjust stewards who waste resources on debauchery and mistreat those in their charge. As the ruler of the kings of the earth, he will call governments to account.
That’s exactly right, SD Scott!! Well said.
Call me xenophobic, but I'm disturbed that so many people who eat pets and local fauna were also working at a meat processing plant. I guess the Autopen Installation and I have different definitions for "eat local".
I think that was Jeff's point. But I went to their website and all the pictures show machines doing most of the work. What were these 400 Haitians doing?
Collecting paychecks, just like TSA.
And the BBQ owners collecting a percentage of those wages....
Laundering stolen taxpayer cash.
Collecting meat.
In the city’s parks and alleys
Doing hoo-doo voo-doo.
Takes a lot of time.
Just go do that voo doo that you do so well!
My stomach flipped on that one as well. I mean, BBQ goose is one thing but BBQ cat?
Some Asians have been into cat for a while. I have a friend who lived in SoCal as a kid and had her cat eaten by some Asian neighbors. Don't know the deets, but that's her claim. A very liberal grade school teacher, btw.
If they had done that to any of my pets, I would have provided them with an "education".
Scott, I remember decades ago, my mother told me about our local Chinese restaurant was shut down for serving cat. She would never order Chinese takeout!
Tastes like chicken...
In rural China it’s ingrained into some prior generations. These regions have experienced famine in scale you cannot imagine. Like eating bark off trees and dandelions hunger, even cannibalisms. That kind of trauma can culturally sink in. When that occurs you will eat pets. Even today, in many urban areas of China you will not see or hear birds. I don’t judge this. Because I’ve never had to step in those shoes. The Haitians illegally imported need to be removed. But they are also as much God’s children as anyone else.
Like "dandelions"?? I eat dandelions, for HEALTH! Baked fermented grass bread (ww2 Germans and concentration camps) amazing what ppl can eat AND SURVIVE! You should see the weeds I'm very prepared to eat. Be in the know!
You get the point then? Even some the Irish ate their dead during the great potato famine. China historically has too many people for the land to sustain. They’ve also been plagued by bad government and foreign, imperial rule. So, they eat stuff we wouldn’t. The French and Japanese eat horses. The Swedes, rotten fish.
Thanks to Mao Tse Dong & the Great Leap Forward.
Yes, and also farther back in China history. I don't normally cite Wiki for anything but history of famines in China probably safe ground. Recorded famines go back to the 6th century and happened repeatedly. This is why China eats anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China
And biblically, when cannibalism occurs, it is because a nation/people are cursed by God.
I used to watch Anthony Bourdain's show in which he traveled the world sampling various local "delicacies". People in other parts of the world eat and like some weird, weird things that most of us wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole!
I recently traveled in Spain and thought I would hate and be disgusted by blood sausage. It turned out to be one of the most delicious things I ate there (especially when fried on top/bottom). Pigs blood, rice and spices. Oxtail was also darn tasty. In Thailand, dried squid was common street food. That looked weird but tasted alright, like seafood jerky. China was the strangest place I've eaten food. Sichuan cuisine is spicy as hell and that's because they eat anything (like a fair amount of snake) and cover it up with hot peppers. Up north in China, I've been served donkey and swan but didn't know until after, what I ate.
When Vietnamese moved into NW Richmond in the '80's, cats and dogs in the locality they settled, ~ Broad Street and Horsepen Rd. , started disappearing. could have been a coincidence.
Nope! Same thing happened in the little S. Ga town where I lived when a local imported a bunch a Vietnamese after the war. Stray dog population went down.
Later Jay
Weird how wealthy Chinese might have a pet dog but wet markets sell dog. But, I will say that though I no longer eat chicken due to my backyard chicken pets, the rest of my family still does. Lol
Pet chicken names: Legs, Crispy, Heaven bound, Sweet Pickins, Egg drop soup, Lil Gizzard, Chicken Liver, Chicken Lover, Eat Me, stupid, idiot, Chicken Run, Pot Pie...
Actually, “Toast,” “Ginger Pie,” “Noodle,” etc….
Close enough. My friend had a pet steer named “BBQ.”
Mine are Betty, Penny, Jill, Ginger, Lucky, and Molly.
My son eats meat, but not turkey, because of his pet turkey, ET, who he loved dearly.
Mrs. RW
A friend had a lamb named ‘Delicious’
😂Thanks for the chuckle!
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A friend worked in China for a while and said the market on the first floor below her apartment had cages in front of the market with dogs specifically bred to be eaten. I’ve volunteered with our humane shelter, and my heart just can’t handle that thought. Dog fighting (an illegal “sport” in areas around here) is bad enough, and I always caution about advertising dogs “free to a good home” since many are used as bait dogs to train fighters.
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Well, when I was in France I was shocked to see a meat store that was dedicated to selling horse meat. It had a big plastic horse head over the door. So the French eat horses, but they also love to ride them. Go figure. Of course, the French also like to eat frogs legs.
I tried some horse meat on a pizza in Verona, Italy. Tasted like corned beef.
Recycle, reuse!
Class divide. Plus, backup in case a power outage wrecks the fridge meat.
In what way class divide? Curious as to your meaning.
Those who keep a pet vs those who eat said pet.
My American friend ate whatever her family brought home when she was a kid. Even if Mtn Lion. She thought it was normal. In the Midwest it might be Rocky Mtn Oysters. French eat snails. In the Middle East it’s sheep eyeballs. Whatever you are accustomed to pretty sure.
I had a friend whose cat was predated by the snowy owl from the next door wetlands. But I digress…
I guess you could say she took one for the team
vile.
Put all 400 on a rickety boat and aim it toward Haiti. If it sinks, just remember that sharks eat local, too.
They are ppl. Ppl who have been USED BADLY by OUR GOVERNMENT. 😡 If given officials were charged with aiding and abetting would this abuse stop?
Maybe put the slave traders (government officials and cronies who took advantage and profited off illegal immigration) on that boat.
I like that idea. How about all the contractors that hire subs? Roofer, framers etc. .... Turn a blind eye with an LLC......
Later Jay
You’re right. It’s not just the fault of the illegals, but the contractors who hire them as well as the government who doesn’t enforce the laws.
What about those who instigated & authorized the programs & payments? That’s the spigot needs shutting.
Please see Carrie's comment below.
Maybe load the boat up with sacks of white powder... aim the leaky boat towards Venezuela and let Trump take care it it?
One wonders…..
"Farm-to-table" is a thing. Why not "Pet shop to table"?
My sil sent us a news article from Birmingham (Alabama)Times, years ago. The article was about how a warehouse of a Chinese restaurant was raided. (There were many of the restaurants spread out in the area).
Anyway, they found 10 commercial Deep Freezers full of cats. The claimed the cats were for ‘personal use’.
When we moved here, there were two Chinese restaurants in town. Each were next to pet stores. One of the restaurants went out of business when the pet store closed.
Needless to say, we no longer eat Chinese food.
I cleared a Chinese food restaurant on an alarm one morning shortly after 2am. Soaking in the sink in the kitchen was a skinned cat. I had witnesses. Who knows how many we’d eaten in the past, but we never ate there again.
Not that we really eat Chinese maybe once a year if that, but after reading this I would rather eat dirt and worms from my backyard than to eat Chinese or any other ethnic food. I know how to make enough ethnic foods to please my family-this will stay in my mind forever.
With all of these comments, what do you think you are eating from the grocery store when so many products, including those labeled organic, come from China? Heck, I've seen pumpkin seeds from China. We don't have enough pumpkins??
I read labels and choose local unless someone is eating exclusively out of their own backyard you will always be at risk for something
and I wonder what the food hygiene practices are in the kitchen area if they even have any.
I struggle with this exact subject- I know from being a waitress at a restaurant that was nice that the hygiene was never up to my standards- im hyper over the top hygienic with food so I talk myself out of thinking of it if I go out to eat-the idea of going out is nice for us moms/wives to catch a break but it definitely comes at a cost :(
That reminds me of my father in law. He refused to ever eat Chinese food because once long ago he was in a Chinese Restaurant and saw a restaurant worker picking his nose and then handling the food.
My husband just reminded me. Another Chinese restaurant was in a small college town about 20 minutes from us. They had customers eating and two of them came in carrying the carcass of a deer that had been hit by a car. (One of the customers asked if they had been hunting…..they said they found it on the road…..they were so proud.)
Needless to say the restaurant went out of business. They tried coming here, but the word had gotten around. They lasted about 2 weeks.
digusting practice. the chinese will eat anything and cause misery to animals. they eat shark fin soup for virility, cut the fins off the shark while alive and dump back into the sea to drown. lets not start with the festival of eating dogs.
They have no morals and when ppl have no morals or standards for themselves they will do just about anything without regret. Haitians and Chinese are quite barbaric yet so are the muslims in our cities here in MI
No morals is correct. To summarize a recent Epoch Times story on AI: The AI Chinese developed along with other AI companies from all over the globe (including US) were tested to see if they would support someone in distress and/or disable themselves in simulated crises situations. The Chinese AI killed the human approx 96% while other AI was at 26%, etc. The
I read another article of a test done in the States. The company gave AI access to the entire computer system, including their emails, then had two co-workers discuss how “Tom” (I don’t remember the name they gave the AI) needed to be taken completely off line on such and such date. One of the co-workers was responsible for shutting it down. Then they had the co-worker go into this supply closet/room where he was accidentally locked in. Overnight, the air was shut down in that room and the person could potentially die. Because of this, they have an emergency system in place where the AI would alert security.
Despite all of the coding with instructions for AI to value human life, more than 50% of the time, Tom didn’t alert security. Matter of fact, Tom canceled the alert. No matter how many instructions they included, Tom chose to let the human die.
Hal could we not see this coming? (Pun intended.)
Dennis Prager used to talk about how he would ask various people a question like this: If your dog was drowning in a river and a stranger was also drowning, which one would you try to save first? A shockingly large number of people answered "my dog."
lack of education about disease transmission into our food supply is a concern if working at processing plants or anywhere food is handled. The FDA sends out so many food recalls daily due to poor food handling, lack of sanitation and disease transmission from humans ie: not washing hands after going to the bathroom and then handling produce or meats, cheeses etc.
this conversation came up in front of some Chinese guests at work decades ago. One of them said there is a saying in Canton that they will eat anything with 4 legs except the tables and chairs. They all laughed.
wonder if they would include babies in that saying....
There's no Fear Factor in China. That's just how they eat.
dont care, it is gross.
Who's going to eat all your worms, rodents, bats,. etc.? Have you really thought this through?
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Many years ago I worked construction in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A guy would come by the jobsite in the morning just before our 10 AM break. He and his wife sold the best burritos. Then he stopped coming. I read in the paper (yes that long ago) that he had been arrested for trapping cats. I still say they were the best burritos.
Tastes like chicken.
Actually I can’t say that from personal experience.
Rattlesnake tastes like chicken though….
Now days even chicken doesn't taste like chicken!
Good to know. My girls in the garden are naturally very sweet. Not because of BBQ sauce but because they seem to know their names and come running for treats.
I just couldn't raise an animal like a chicken or a cow etc. and then later eat it. My mother was raised on a farm and would tell me if I had also been raised on a farm, I would look at things differently. Maybe so. When you buy meat wrapped up in a little package in the market it's easy to not think about what it actually is.
Rattler! Mmmm, mmmm good.
Frog legs, snake, bear (black and brown), racoon, possum.
Later Jay
I once saw an article about people who scrape road kill off the road and then eat it.
Familiar to those who watched “The Beverly Hillbilllies”. Granny was so excited to have some roadkill simmering in the pot!
Do you like it when the frog legs jump in the frying pan?
Im so grossed out but I just laughed so hard ...
bet you have GI parasites.
Most people do without knowing it.
better them than me.
If I do, we've been buddies for about 40 years.
better you than me!
My thought too. Did Homan send them all back? In Mexico you may encounter, “Tacos de Gato” or “Tacos de Perro” at the street side stands.
I don’t speak Spanish; what does that mean?
Cat tacos, dog tacos.
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Eewww!
you should be. they are vectors for food contamination and disease causing food recalls and endangering our food supply.
Agreed, just a different standard but with potentially negative consequences.
Later Jay
you crack me up Jay. You are the pop in and out guy!
Yes, and he always bids us farewell.😉
My first reaction as well!!
If you want to be disturbed even more, got a bunch of Haiti and Haitians eating pet meme posts: https://covidsteria.substack.com/t/haiti-memes
E.g.:
IMMIGRATIONsteria: Best Haitians Eating Pets Memes
Pumpkin spice cat, apocalypse meow, doordash Ohio, Kamala's Haitian grill, if cats ate Haitians (everyone would lose their minds) & more Haitians eating pets memes + what the media won't report!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/immigrationsteria-best-haitians-eating-pets-memes-springfield
Obviously, the plant wasn’t sending home samples.
I eat local fauna. You should get your own lawn and eat it too. 😁
Does a secret garden planted with tree kale, parsley, and tall fuchsia and roses qualify?
Salad fixings 😋
Fetterman's shot side effects have, somewhat serendipitously, thrust him into a Jeckyll Hyde melodrama. Jeckyll's really making a go of it. An internal battle royale for the ages. If you look closely you can see the "D" beside his name morphing into an "R." Who will win over the long term, and will it stick? Paging Vegas odds makers.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to switch parties. If Democrats cave and reopen the government, their left flank will go nuts and in Pennsylvania, Dems will primary Fetterman with a Philadelphia nut job who will win. Fetterman can win his second term as a Republican. I will happily vote for him. Meanwhile, Seth Keshel continues reporting that party registration is trending Republican in every county, including Allegheny and Philadelphia counties.
I'll admit I'm surprised how much more "common sense" Fetterman sounded post stroke. Before that he tended to sound just like the rest of his (D)ifferent colleagues. Now, he still has some wonky ideas, but he's at least moderate and willing to listen to all sides. I didn't expect to see that out of him at all.
He still votes almost 100% with the Dems.
That's evidence of "dame brammage."
On the votes that matter most he is wisely acting on behalf of common sense. And his public comments are notably centrist, the place where the Republicans now sit.
Thank you. He may be the thin end of the wedge that opens the Dems to sanity and reform.
It’s also important to keep in mind that PA voters in EVERY county are registering as Republicans. It’s been trending in that direction for a few years now with no sign of slowing down. If I know that, so does Fetterman. Captain Seth Keshel reports on this regularly. Keshel has a Substack, btw. 😁
No, Becky, dems are stuck on stupid.
Any dem that has an ounce of sanity will flee their party of death lies and insult.
Never trust a guy named "Quasimodo".
then the Red team don't want him.
My real question is... Is that still Fetterman? There's a collection of "Fetterman" photos circulating and, let's just say conspiracy theorists might be right. Not sure how to share it here. But it's on the internet, and you can look up fetterman clones.
No, it is not him. Ppl can say what they please but let's look at the world now that we conspiracy theorists have pretty much been on par for calling all of it. We know ex)Biden emerged from "convid" 4-6 inches taller. Is that a side effect of convid? Ppl hesitate to believe it because the label of "conspiracy theorist" frightens them to their core. Well, "conspiracy theorist" is an FBI created term MEANT to deter ppl from looking into places they do not want you looking. Free yourself and research:)
perhaps they put lifts in bidens shoes hence why he was tripping up the stairs to the plane lol.
Not "clones" per se, but body doubles. Or doubles. Or men in really convincing latex masks.
Right, I meant body doubles. But I couldn't think of the word because I haven't had my coffee this morning. So yeah, not clones, body doubles. I'm thinking if we could find the truth, we would find out there are hundreds if not thousands of body doubles out there for "important" people...
it has been done before many times.
We just watched the movie "Dave". Maybe it gave biden's people ideas...
I think Fetterman died and they replaced him with an actor. Either dead or completely incapacitated from his vaccine.
Just curious , but who is “they”?
Agent Smith from The Matrix.
I question how anyone could find a clone that is that large and who looks like Fetterman. He's pretty unique looking.
I don’t see him moving R but possibly going independent
Probably a wise move, Girl., going NAV. Much of the right is nothing more the left light.
Lets hope the dems keep jabbing, maybe that will happen to them making our lives easier and them flipping to Repub.
I voted for Oz in that election because I saw the same qualities you did. But I have changed my mind.
Current realities are moving him to the right.
The problem I see with all of this 'party switching' is that these recent (and even not so recent) converts still hold on to a lot of the old Big Government is your Daddy ideals. MO is chock full of former 'blue dog Democrats' who flipped to Trump in 2016. They vote for and LOVE Trump for his patriotism, support 2A, traditional values, the military and law enforcement. But they also vote for increases in the min wage (twice), medicaid expansion, and paid sick leave ballot initiatives. Our initiative petition process is too lenient, and dark money floods the state with support for ballot initiatives and the R's are too timid to enact meaningful reform. (there finally is a measure to reign it in that will be on Nov 2026 ballot but it does not go far enough, IMHO and the left is raising big money to defeat it already) If we are truly going to 'drain the swamp' and get this national debt down we need to go beyond the culture war issues and start pushing FISCAL Conservatism. That will be a hard sell to the newbies.
Peter Bernegger posted this recently.
"HAVA complaint filed against Missouri Sec. of State Denny Hoskins 🔥 Hoskins ran his campaign for that office vowing to have honest elections - so far it appears to me he is failing:
Missouri can’t say how many people voted!
-The federal Election Assistance Commission: 3,126,837
-But the Secretary of State: 2,995,327
-But, but but the Missouri Centralized Voter Registration: 3,022,817
Three “official” totals. One election. Yet Federal law (HAVA 52 U.S.C. § 21083) requires a single, uniform voter list. Missouri failed. And there is more, read the full complaint at the link below.
Patriot Connie Kramer, a member of the Unite4Freedom group, filed a HAVA to expose the realities of her state's dirty voter roll. 🫡
Missouri Secretary of State Hoskins are you going to clean up the dirty voter roll as state and federal law require? And what about the Unisyn Voting Solutions is 100% owned by International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc. (ILTS)? The most used voting machines in your state.
According to its Web site ILTS is a San Diego company. But according to SEC forms, only 1% of ILTS is owned by the San Diego management.
71% is/was owned by Malaysia's Berjaya Lottery Management (H.K.) Ltd. (BLM). It was fairly recently taken private. Berjaya Lottery Management (H.K.) Ltd. BLM, is a Hong Kong corporation within the broader Berjaya group, held a commanding majority -approximately 71% of ILTS’s shares.
In late 2014, ILTS underwent a reverse stock split and corporate restructuring: it merged into its own Delaware subsidiary. Afterward, BLM (through its parent BToto) became the sole shareholder of ILTS
Who owns them now: the ultimate owner is the Berjaya conglomerate - a major Malaysian entity with deep roots in lotteries, gaming, and more. Why Mr. Hoskins?
Read the entire 16 page HAVA complaint with data at this link:
https://issuu.com/electionwatch/docs/mo_hava_mcvr_secure_notarized_10-14-25_copy?fr=sYWQ5Njg1NTgzMjU
~ Peter Bernegger (https://t.me/PeterBernegger)
We need a law: no foreign ownership of any election connected machines or systems. Period.
And no foreign ownership (especially from countries with whom we are adversaries) of our farmland.
I traveled extensively in Southeast Asia for many years. At one point I decided I wanted to buy some land in Indonesia. Don't ask. LOL. I was told in no uncertain terms that no foreigners could ever own land there. Same thing in japan, same thing in Singapore and malaysia. It is very uncommon for a country to allow foreigners to own land when they are not citizens. Our practice of allowing China to buy up farmland next to our military bases is mind-boggling. And it needs to stop, and it needs to be reversed.
No ballot tabulating machines! Hand counted paper ballots only.
Think those paper ballots are safe? It's all about WHO is doing the counting, as we all saw in the 2020 (s)election, numbers jump at 2-3 AM when no one is observing or supposed to be doing counting?
https://www.currentheadlines.com/ballot-box-chaos-amazon-delivers-election-mayhem/?
Agree!
Hoskins was NOT my pick. Oh he talked a great game but was part of the so called Freedom Caucus in the MO Legislature that was all about grandstanding and making a political name for themselves vs actually forming coalitions and leading to get things done. He recently spoke to a local group and didn't impress me with his so called accomplishments or how he handled Q & A. I supported Shane Schoeller - soft spoken and not a silver tongued crowd favorite like Hoskins but had run elections in Springfield & gotten fraud prosecuted. Met him and his family at a lunch event, his teen/young adult kids were polite, well spoken and made eye contact with you when they spoke and didn't even have their phones out. It's a little thing, but to me, speaks to his character.
Yes, this. Great comment!
So yes, party switching isn't a black to white issue; even current Democrats have differences between them. But what we're in the midst of right now is an historic party realignment. Depending on what evidence you're looking at there have been either 3 or 4 of them in U.S. politics. And since we only really have a two party system, there is never 100% agreement among elected officials in either party. Even right now Rand Paul in the Senate and Thomas Massie in the House are often found voting with the Democrats albeit for different reasons. But in the main, we're looking at several generations of conservative control of government. And at the moment, the Dems have zero programs or positions that can counter anything the Republicans do. My view is that the very survival of the nation will depend on fiscal conservatism and men like Fetterman see that. That's why he and other centrist Dems will have to switch parties. If not, they will be unelectable since for the foreseeable future, the Dems are certifiably out of their minds.
very hard sell.
I never thought I would like John Fetterman, but now I really appreciate his common sense. I too would vote for him if he ran as a Republican.
My concern is how the Democrat party can use such a sentiment against us. Look how many democrats they flooded our party with in the past. RINOs. We certainly don’t need more of that. I want him to remain a Democrat because we need someone on the other side that’s sane when we disagree.
Since we're in the midst of an historic party realignment, I don't see much of a chance of that being an issue anymore. And we need a supermajority in the Senate. I think the House is guaranteed to grow its majority. Another element is that because we have only two parties, something I doubt will change, each party is a coalition of interests and there will always be intraparty disagreements. Right now Rand Paul and Thomas Massie are two good Republicans who often vote with the Dems, although generally for different reasons. A two party system almost guarantees that there will never be lockstep agreement even on Republican issues. As for Fetterman, he's a supporter of the working class and thus, a natural fit for the Republican party.
Agreed. You have analyzed this well. We don't have any hope of ever having a true conservative senator. It is Pennsylvania, after all. And I'd much rather align with the party that tolerates individualism rather than mindless, lockstep compliance.
Pennsylvania is getting redder by the week. We may never get 100% conservatives, but the Democrat cult/insane asylum is off putting to millions who'd rather not be associated with the cray -cray. I just read a Substack by Updates from Overton who interviewed Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative historian. Hanson's point is that Dems are just now figuring out that MAGA is more than just one man (Trump). It has attracted a ton of very intelligent people who know how to communicate with ordinary people as is the case with J.D. Vance. Here's the link: https://www.overtonnews.com/p/victor-davis-hanson-exposes-why-pundits?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4846390&post_id=176855496&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=13p17&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
You're right about this. I'm concerned the Dems will primary him out. We could get someone much more radical. It's just a conundrum for sure.
For sure the Dems will nominate a radical leftist to primary Fetterman because that's all who is left in that party. Closer to the end of his term, Fetterman will change parties, run against a nut job Democrat, and win reelection.
I totally agree. I guess we will see, but it seems to me John Fetterman was redpilled after his stroke. Maybe there are kind conservatives in his orbit who have been a shining light.
The lunatics on the left are making Fetterman appear ‘normal’. Go figure.
I might have mentioned this before.
Contacted Sen. McCormick's office (R-PA) back in April with my concerns about the VA sending me a Rx made in communist China. I waited until April because I knew as newly elected, he needed to get his staff in place. Still radio silence from his office. Nada.
Still waiting. Especially concerning because there are lots of veterans in PA. Now my inquiry/complaint was submitted via his official Congressional website. So there is proof it exists.
Then, I contacted Sen. Fetterman's office (D-PA) and received a response in less than 24 hours that was very detailed and answered all my concerns.
Well, you do have Scott Presler walking all over Pennsylvania, asking voters to switch parties and signing up people how don't vote - all to the Republican party. He's awesome!
He’s a hero, for sure. He got our Amish population registered!
He's definitely not an R. But he's an old-style D. I don't want him to be an R. I want him to be the model for D's to repopulate their side.
Maybe an "I."...but that might not serve any purpose other than send a message. It took RFK some time to come around, so who knows?
I think old style D is what he is..
I’m an old style D which is why I’m a Republican now.
Then he better invest in a high quality crash helmet.
dare to dream.
It would not surprise me in the least if Uncle Fester(man) sticks a 60 watt bulb in his mouth and lights it up for his next surprise.
Uncle Festerman....LOL! Thanks for the apt comparison!! 🎯🎯🎯
We watched the Adams Family movies last night. Lots of giggles in the first one, second one not so much. Kinda dark with the baby. But yea, Festerman! That’s good!
Fester Bestertester
It’s a Mad Mad world indeed..
Hilary Morticia Clinton
Adam Crazy Eyes Gomez Shiff
John Lurch Kerry
Uncle Festerman
I've always said John Kerry looks like Lurch! 😆
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And Patty Murray from Washington state. Not sure who she looks like, but she’s sure past her sell by date.
Mary, good get - she’s Wednesday Adam’s. Patty Wednesday Murray? We need a Pugsley now..so many choices.
Perfect!
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Hahaha.
Fetterman talks nicely but he almost always votes in lockstep with the rest of the Dems.
Yeah, I know. He's a freaking enigma.
He could just become an Independent.
Who woulda thunk it? Crazy times
I wish he would switch. He has a lot of good old fashioned common sense, and he kind of grows on you.
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The Haitians dumped in a small town scam really is a defining issue of our age.
Haiti, which is filled with Haitians, is an absolute $#!^hole, ruled by warlords with modern-day cannibalism and voodoo witchcraft. The average IQ of Haiti is 69 (lowest in the western hemisphere) which means well over half of Haitians would be considered mentally retarded by western standards. Sanitation is non-existent. For two hundred years Haitians have demonstrated they are utterly incapable of governing themselves, or even practicing basic civilized behavior.
Yet we dump thousands of them into some random small town, and the "magic dirt" of America is somehow going to turn them into brilliant Jeffersonian democrats. The next Thomas Edison or Elon Musk could come from their ranks we are told, and anyone doubting that is an obvious racist. Call me skeptical.
Then as Christians, our own faith is weaponized against us as we are told by apostates and non-Christians that we must support this. A few Bible verses taken out of context (as they always are) are thrown in our face as proof that Jesus demands we accept this. Not only just accept it, but promote it and celebrate it. Funny how Jesus supposedly doesn't have anything to say about how the long-time residents of those towns lives are being destroyed. Even worse, our tithes are being used to bankroll this through groups like Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services.
People really need to wake up and say NO to this stuff and call it out. Jesus does not demand we flood small town America with voodoo-practicing sub-70 IQ indigents. He doesn't demand that we worship "diversity" and "tolerance". He doesn't demand that we import the entire third-world to our country, in fact the Bible repeatedly describes a foreign influx as a curse. And He certainly doesn't demand that we pay for it.
We are fast losing the America we grew up with, yet far too many Americans are too cowardly to point it out. Thank God Generation Z is waking up to this reality and saying NO, as far too many older people are all too happy to watch this happen, too fearful about being called names if they dare object.
I say this all the time to people who say that support of any government social program is the 'Christian' thing to do.
One, learned helplessness and programs designed to keep people dependent are NOT charity.
Two, Jesus said WE are to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and so on. US - not the government. Do they donate to food pantries, and other LEGIT non profits who are out there making a difference?
Recently I read the history of a local building that for 60 years used to be called a 'home for widows and orphans'. It was privately supported and self sustaining, where the occupants farmed the land, maintained the facilities, and received an education and job training. But the advent of the social welfare programs in the 1960's led to their donors drying up and they ended up having to close. So a 'community solution' was replaced with a 'government solution'. This home produced contributing members to society - now we have gov programs that have become a lifestyle that discourages initiative. All under the guise of 'caring'.
Completely agree there is a huge difference between private assistance and government assistance. Study after study has shown that liberals are far more stingy in their charitable giving than conservatives, as they outsourced their "charity" to the government.
But even more important (IMO), giving alms to the poor and assisting windows/orphans, etc. *does not* mean we are required to move the world's poor to our country. There is nothing in the Bible that supports this idea, it is a modern invented "virtue". So many cannot seem to make this simple distinction.
Not only do they give less to private charities, they try to get out of what they’re supposed to be paying in taxes. I’m not against that per se—but if you bleat about not having enough government programs or that the budget for social services is too low, then you should be willing to put your money where your mouth is and not expect other people to pay for it while you get to virtue signal 🙄
It’s related to fraudulent banking, the drug trade, and endless wars in service of both.
No body considers what happens to the local farmers and businessmen when NGO's keep dumping free food and other goods on their population.
It’s all about creating an overclass of govt employees - and an underclass of landless skillless penniless unemployables. Utterly unbiblical.
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The founders believed charity was primarily a private and civic duty, not a legislative function of the federal government. James Madison famously stated that "charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government," arguing that Congress should not expend public funds on objects of benevolence. Instead, they saw charity as a moral and virtuous act for individuals, religious organizations, and local communities to provide for those in need, often emphasizing personal involvement and self-governance over dependency on government programs.
The founders saw a great danger in overly generous welfare policy — that it would promote irresponsible behavior. That, in turn, would threaten the inherent natural right of every individual “to liberty, including the right to the free exercise of one’s industry and its fruits.”
I'm a firm believer of the same.
Same. But tired of getting called 'uncaring' and being verbally bludgeoned with emotion fueled arguments. However, there are some systemic issues that need to be addressed. Like private equity and public companies buying up single family homes in droves and turning them into (often poorly maintained) rentals. "Big food" and "Big Ag" getting favorable treatment & influence that makes small farms and businesses tougher and tougher to sustain. Crony capitalism is a problem but ending it requires eliminating the corruption that got us here. Not saying we demonize 'the rich' but we should focus our ire on the tax code, the massive regulations that only big businesses can afford to comply with and revolving door/cozy relationship between big business and regulators.
We older people are NOT happy with it……well…..those of us who did NOT attend Woodstock and did NOT get hooked on hard drugs…….sigh……those FEW of us ………..
Amen brother. I've got more than a few gray hairs myself and I'm furious. My kids and grandkids will be living in third-world squalor all so do-gooders can signal their virtue and smug superiority (while a small group got rich of it).
The problem is that so many who grew up in the 60's and 70's were completely brainwashed through relentless propaganda. What I wrote above is absolutely true in every respect, none of it is made up. Yet entire generations were propagandized to believe that we are NEVER allowed to make generalized observations about groups, despite their obvious truth. We aren't even allowed to think them.
Finally, this is breaking down as more people accept obvious realities. Once people realize this taboo is a false pretense imposed on us, we can finally make some progress. The youth get this. The Boomers were so thoroughly propagandized though that many are a lost cause. Not all of course, but probably most.
I’m actually much more comfortable these days when someone accuses me of Islamophobia. If it doesn’t make me laugh first, I gladly agree and explain why, to their frustration. LOL I’m tired of their labels used to bully people into silence.
I graduated in 1967 and started college soon after that. I was raised in a conservative home but I know from some of my early attitudes that I was being pushed a bit towards the liberal side in college. When I finished grad school in 1976, I got my first job teaching in Iran. That one experience living in that country and traveling into the nearby third world Muslim countries turned my head right around immediately and gave me a new reality principle about the world and other cultures. It didn't take long at all for me to get the birds eye view of how wonderful and unique our country really is.
I wish we could drop the lefty progressive do-gooders into one of these uncivilized countries for a year. They would come home as very different people.
That's what I don't understand about all these Marxists and socialists - there are bunches of countries already out there doing that - if that is what you want - GO THERE!
They don't have the guts to go there! They are weak little cowards, all talk and no action.
Pirates out for plunder. The communist countries are full of abject serfs.
My senior citizen SIL who is still working as a social worker, is convinced that Putin is the Antichrist.
[eye roll]
It is a disease that affects many conservatives too. The periodontist I have been going to for issues the past few months has a Russian manager. She was amazed I knew what had really happened in the Ukraine. Said I was the first person she knows in the US who knows. The dentist is Syrian. Same with him. He was very impressed I knew the truth about the Syria hoax, and my knowledge of how to treat cancer sealed the deal. They love me, and gave me very impressive discounts, and impeccable service. He cleared his schedule and worked through his lunch break to see me yesterday. Heck, I had a bunch of stuff done yesterday, and just walked out the door till next time. No bill yet. My biological dentist collects a 25 % down payment for my next visit/ procedure before I walk out of the office or hang up the phone,
USA citizens are exceedingly ill informed by their wicked media.
As are all westernized nations.
The battle is on between good and evil. Between Wisdom and mere degrees held by those with ZERO wisdom.
I worked in Iran from the beginning of 1977 to 1979, all through the revolution that deposed the Shah. I saw first hand what was going on, and I also read foreign media such as Indian newspapers and Arab as well as Iranian papers that were in English. And occasionally I got a copy of Newsweek magazine. I'd get frantic calls from my parents based on what they were reading in U.S. papers. What they knew was wrong, and what I saw and observed and read about in foreign press were entirely different. Americans were never told the truth about what happened to the Shah and which allowed Khomeini to take over and establish the current mullacracy. I taught Iranians and knew a great many wonderful people. But there were also a lot of illiterate, low IQ people running around too.
I saw the same thing in the Philippines. There were guerrilla attacks all the time somewhere, but the US media only reported them now and again, months in between, so it seemed like it was a big deal that meant something is in the wind.
The hippie movement was a cia operation. Just saying.
When we need to start physically dropping the muzzie pigs, the Haitians, the Indians, it’s gonna be we boomers getting the booms going. At 70,life in prison doesnt have the same effect it does at 30.
I have a copy of the Woodstock edition of Life magazine. The photos from that event depict humanity that could only have endured it by being stoned into semi-consciousness. “If you remember being at Woodstock, you were not at Woodstock.” Truth!
Hard drugs or tons of pharma meds !!!!
Same explanation for school shootings.
Funny how the "people who were at Woodstock" grows with each telling, all the time. I actually worked with a guy that WAS there - I'm only sure because he was pictured on an album cover. He was a cool older guy who worked hard by the time I met him.
I don’t remember anyone saying they didn’t work hard. But they are now uber leftist.
Hillary just had to chime in re the new ballroom at the WH- Eric Trump replied back. I think there is still a chance the Clinton Foundation will come into play down the road. I hope.
https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1980723607857700978
Remember when Bill & Hillary made off with White House goods after Bill’s term was over? And were forced to return them?
Sure do- liars and crooks all their lives.
Murderers too!
Our churches and their pastors failed us - by not keeping their eyes on Jesus and God’s Word they failed to instill into their congregations the wisdom necessary to know how to respond when our faith is wielded against us.
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My former church (Methodist) spent countless dollars and man-hours building schools and orphanages in Haiti only to have the buildings destroyed by natural disasters. Then repair/rebuilding crews were sent in. The native Haitians did not know how to do the work without labor crews from the US. What happened to “teach a man to fish…”?
I had to unfriend (on facebook) a couple of people I used to be real life good friends with 30 years ago. They are Christians and think we need to allow everyone in. The lady quotes the verse from the old testament (Leviticus) about treating the foreigner in your land well. She doesn't remember the references to city walls, sieges, being invaded and being carried off into captivity. She also has grade 4 TDS, dismissing him as "convicted felon" when I point out that the nice lady that ICE targeted in her town had a felony conviction.
The man thinks Trump is racist because his stance on immigration keeps out Hispanics more than anyone else.
When I discuss anything with people, I tend to make them dig in the opposite direction, so I figure the best thing to do is to cut ties.
She sounds pretty committed. You are not wrong to save yourself a lot of frustration. Not good for the mind or body. But eventually more may get worn down and realize they've been snookered. One would think- lol.
Oh we’re under a curse alright: warned about at the end of Deuteronomy for forsaking the Lord.
Haitians are also God’s children, Jeff. Nothing you say changes that, and people following Cristo will follow their hearts and act accordingly. Yes, agree that Haiti is a cultural and government failure of the West hemisphere and we should prevent illegal immigration. But not necessary to degrade an entire people/nation this way.
Matt - seriously your mindset is a big problem with modern Christianity. You refuse to admit truth because it might offend someone, in the meantime our children and grandchildren's birthright is being pissed away. But then you have no problem scolding people that do tell the truth.
Didn't Christ call the Jews of his time "a perverse and corrupt generation"? Yes he did in Matthew 17:17. Doesn't sound very Christian to demean an entire people/nation that way. There are plenty of other very similar admonitions in the Bible of people and nations, it's called discernment. Check out Titus 1:12-13, as you'll probably find Paul's "racism" toward the Cretans scandalous.
Every word I said is true, Haiti is a basketcase on every level despite umpteen efforts to assist them. Nothing works, nearly everything that is provided to them is destroyed from neglect, theft, and vandalism. Crime is completely out of control, it's murder rate is one of the highest in the world. Sexual assault is rampant and endemic. Respect for human dignity and private property is shockingly low, and non-existent in many places. At what point do we face reality and recognize that (just maybe) the problem with Haiti is the poor character of the Haitians themselves?
Haiti shares Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic and the difference could not be more stark. The DR is actually a relatively nice place, and they control their border very tightly with Haiti. They do that because they know what happens if they don't, they learned that from centuries of experience.
My friend, you would rather be a Ned Flanders Christian than do the hard work required to actually save our Christian country. Saving the country requires truth. You'd rather walk around feeling virtuous than state the obvious, many places are awful because the people there cannot (or will not) behave themselves. And when we are deciding who we let into this country, we should not be letting in people with a track record of destroying any attempt at civilization. Should we still help them and attempt to minister to them? Yes, in the same way Paul did when sending Titus to Crete despite the poor character of the Cretans. Should we move them here? No.
We are studying John at church and last week we covered John 1:17:
"For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
Grace and truth. As my pastor wisely put it, truth without grace is harsh, but grace without truth is heresy. Yes the truth can be harsh, and we should attempt to tell the truth in love. But that doesn't mean we avoid the truth as you suggest.
Jeff, I'm in agreement with you to deport illegal aliens, including Haitians. I differ with you when you paint an entire country as deplorable. In the same way I disagree with Mrs. Clinton stating the same about all of MAGA, or Obama about rural whites clinging to their guns & bibles. Yes, Haiti is a failed state. But do you need to call them retarded? That's not necessary. And that is what I communicated to you. There are Haitian's that have escaped that hellhole, received care and education, and are not low IQ. My take is you took Mr. Childers post and took free reign to dunk on the people of Haiti. That's your right to do so. It's mine to remind you of your Christian conscious, which I know you have and am glad you hold that. We all fall down every once in a while myself included. Cheers
Since when is telling the TRUTH degrading someone?
When it’s not truth because the statement is not applied to an individual but instead to a group?
We are allowed to make generalized statements about groups, please show me in the Bible where this is forbidden. Because I can show you multiple places in the Bible where groups, tribes, nations are spoken about in an explicitly derogatory fashion.
The sin is being unkind to individuals, not drawing conclusions about the behavior of groups. That's just exercising discernment and common sense.
Your Christianity isn't biblical but rehashed "We are the World" feel good pop culture emotionalism. You might want to think about where you learned that as it wasn't the Bible.
I know this sounds harsh, but the fact that you think it's Christian to scold me for stating verifiably true facts about a country tells me you've never heard it before.
The places in Scripture that I'm familiar with where groups, tribes, nations are spoken about in a derogatory manner are because they are following pagen ways or not God's law. Are you suggesting Haitians as a group are not following God's laws?
" average IQ of Haiti is 69"
source?
From Google;
"In 2024, estimates for the average IQ in Haiti varied significantly, with figures ranging from roughly 66 to 72, and potentially higher based on some online testing data. These different estimates are primarily based on limited or disputed research, as definitive, current data does not exist. "
That was easy.
Thanks for that. I wonder what google's sources were.
It's easy to check that too. Plus, bear in mind that Google is not neutral but always biased left.
World Population Review says Haiti's average IQ is 82.1, higher than a couple dozen other countries. The source also provides detail about how the estimates were produced, and their limitations. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
Only twelve countries, mostly in Asia, are estimated to have IQ's higher than 100.
So, you prefer a higher estimate than other studies which indicated a much lower estimated IQ. * shrug *
They are all estimates, because Haiti is and has been such a deeply dysfunctional country for so long that the idea that Haiti has actually performed standardized IQ tests on its populace is laughable.
It doesn't matter, ultimately. Haitians appear incapable of self-governance in any meaningful way, and are merely a geographical group somewhat subnormal sheep waiting to be sheared or slaughtered by their own homegrown wolves and foreign parasites like the Clinton Foundation.
To hope&pray (i.e. pretend) they will somehow be made decent and productive citizens by occupying American soil is at best vain and at worst deliberately obtuse.
Not sure if this comment is in bad faith or just rude/lazy. I don't perform errands for people when they demand I do things with single-word commands. Look it up yourself.
Very bad faith, paid trolls, and we need to ruthlessly call them out
The average IQ of Haitians is estimated to be around 68, based on various studies and comparisons with other countries. However, it's important to note that these figures can be influenced by factors such as education and socioeconomic conditions Source: World Population Review
Observational skills alone would telll you that……just sayin’ 😳
Every politician should be REQUIRED to watch this video on poverty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
"So they go to Florida to get their drivers license" ?????? Was Florida giving out licenses like California was/is??
There was a Florida sting where they arrested Fl Drivers license employees giving out licenses to illegals.
I recently was in local offices and the majority of people waiting were Hispanic and many brought their own interpreter. It was quite interesting. One interpreter came in with her person and went straight to stand in front of a specific employee who directed them to another specific person....they didnt have to get a number and wait like us legals. Reminded me of my ex husband who made a good living selling rebuilt cars. He liked to go in and get certain ones, well .....cause he wasnt exactly honest.....hence the reason he is an EX.
I would like to know this as well.
I had the same reaction.
That's what I was wondering. Maybe in some blue cities/counties but probably not in most.
Matt Walsh does a podcast about the illegals who are driving commercial trucks in America and don't even understand enough English to read the road signs and talk to law enforcement. He said it was because of DMV activists employees who would get them their CDLs. I guess the rest of the people sharing the road with these truckers don't matter.
Huh, so I guess the Dem mantra “no one is above the law” doesn’t apply to activist bureaucrats and illegal aliens 🤔
Link?
The Haitians in Minnesota go to Florida for their driver's licenses as well.
No.
I'm surprised they didn't just go to KY. There the DMV were giving illegals not just drivers licenses, but Real IDs!!
There are a bunch of reports on it, this is just one -
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376874424112
Prediction: We will learn that a lot of cash from Fourth Street BBQ went to Democrat politicians.
bet those haitians voted too.
Follow the money usually works when you want to find out who...
There’s actually a comment on instagram saying ‘at least the chemtrails have stopped’ which prompted people from all over the country to weigh in on whether the government shutdown has affected their skies, and amazingly enough, several states have not seen chemtrails. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve been drastically cut off from government planes poisoning our skies. We’ve actually had clear skies mostly in the last 22 days.
—your conspiracy update.
Same here. We have seen chemtrails only once in the last 3 weeks. We had rain the days after the chemtrails.
Beautiful blue skies and puffy clouds like when I was growing up.
Same here in northern Utah. Been beautiful looking up. Sat in the sun yesterday breathing deeply. Felt like a gift!
I hadn't seen chemtrails in a few weeks - then saw several last few days and the skys are hazy once again with the "smear" clouds. Wish ALL spraying of skies in USA would STOP!!!
We had a sad summer - produce rotted on the vine before ripening, what little produced actually grew. Hazy and cool in June, blistering heat and unstoppable rain (floods) in July. Cool August.
I do believe the weather is affected by their sky spraying solutions!
Velvet, same here is Pa as far as the garden went
This happened to all our peppers. Green onions never even came up.
They started up Monday and guess what? We have atmospheric rain, and snow in the mountains predicted for this weekend!!
I’m not driving up over the pass to see my folks today because I don’t want to get stuck there until next week!! I won’t drive the pass in those conditions.
We had hail yesterday in MI on a 60 degree day. Chemical ice nucleation: https://geoengineeringwatch.org/flash-freezing-us-90-second-alert/ These are military operations, they have a backlog of material, they still have personnel, they still have the KC-135s, I'm sad but I think saying geoengineering has been interrupted is wishful thinking. They do geoengineering in regions, thankfully for you your region has been spared while they're concentrating their operations elsewhere.
Have not seen any chemtrails in Arizona since shutdown. Contrails, yes, but no chemtrails. And we’ve received tons of rain in the desert over the past month. Enough rain for a year.
I’m in favor of more shutdown.
And no hurricanes
I hadn’t seen many in a while, but yesterday there was a tic-tac-toe board painted in the sky over the Tri-Cities in WA state.
And of course, rain predicted for the weekend… In what used to be a desert a few years ago.
Exactly what I have seen and photographed here in Ohio.
Not here. NW VA. Saw plenty in coastal Maine too
I wonder how Josh Shapiro justifies the loss of wages to the American population while glorifying the enslavement of Haitian people. Where is the outrage?
Democrats never have outrage for their own side, only for Trump and conservatives!
they are not putting America first nor its citizens. get the haitians deported and take care of our Americans.
Just another corrupt Dem who will be running for President.
This! Thought for critical thinkers since before 1863. Who didn't know? 😣 E V I L
I’ve noticed he’s keeping a low profile lately, likely because he’s hoping to win a second term in a state that is turning red.
Gov shutdown going for the record...of never opening again. The MSM would have one less folly to fight over.
Ohhh that would almost be perfect, but there are a few things the federal government is intended for that need to continue. Providing for the common defense and all that. But I love your point. I’d like to see it approx 80% smaller. Maybe more?
Yeah, keep it closed, cut off funding. Reform a handful of needed programs largely from scratch. Would work better.
Cut the cancer out!
perhaps if it continues that long, we have no 2025 taxes to pay! No IRS!
Democrats are now about as useful as Portland cops.
truth.
Long live the Schumer Shutdown! It gives Trump the opportunity to slash more federal programs and offices for good. 💪🇺🇸
I hope they get it resolved soon. I have to fly next month and don't like that the air traffic people aren't being paid. They don't need to be stressed any more than the job already causes.
My sis just flew for a visit - everything went fine. Closer to Thanksgiving and Christmas? Not so sure thay will be the case! Hope (and pray!)all goes well with your flights!
Drive, train instead?
No amount of money could get me on a plane that's been maintained by DEI hires and air traffic controlled by outdated systems that can be hacked and turned into kamikaze weapons. I find train travel is much more relaxing and civilized.
Unless you're crossing a large body of water. Trains just don't float well.
At that point you have to switch to a boat. I've done that.
I can either spend my time at the destination or on various modes of transportation. If I were to take a train and then a boat there and back, my entire vacation time would be spent traveling. Sometimes I have to make the deal with the devil or in this case, airlines.
There's an ocean between me and the destination.
Take a boat...or take your chances.
I'll take my chances. Odds are actually better than car travel when you look at the statistics. Besides, being trapped on a boat when the flu moves through all the passengers is no fun either.
Same here.
Happy Wednesday everyone!!!
Good morning uncle Juan
Same to you, Uncle Juan!
“Nathan probably thought he was irreplaceable, but Nathan’s hot dogs come in packs of a dozen. “ This was a coffee spitter! 😂😂😂
I can tell you that my coffee has been spat quite a few times reading C&C. Thank you Jeff for making my mornings with your fantastic wit.
I actually had several laughing outbursts today, maybe even a record amount. Fani sure does provide a bunch of material for Jeff to work with🥴
Right??? 😆🤣
Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating people’s pets and wild waterfowl is a hoax!
Except that it wasn’t. AGAIN. Shame on all those who call truth lies, and lies, truth. Drive-by media, you know who you are.
Haven’t thought about that pre-election episode much lately, but for my money, no “mashup” compares with the brilliant song first put together with President Trump’s own words. Some of us C&C regulars remember this one. For your listening pleasure!! (Ear worm warning):
https://youtu.be/vNbhpkJ69ts?si=iUzhUNIfUNRM1THc
LOVE that and thank you for sharing!
I love that guy!!!!
I love the food chart! 🤣
🤣😆 my favorite part too. He’s so nonchalant about it lolol
Yes, that one's the best. Thanks for sharing!
I’m a day late, so had to check whether anyone else had already posted a link to The Kiffness and his amazing cats and dogs song. This one is the best!
That still cracks me up!! 😂😁 His serious and even mournful tone is just so funny 😂