Carville calls for schism, Van Jones sounds alarm, Bill Maher says his vote is in play— Democrats' civil war breaks open. Plus: Bolton pleads guilty, and the spies meet their new boss.
About two decades ago after being condemned to a lonely bachelor status for an extended period of time - always saying and doing the the wrong things when meeting every single lass that caught my eye, and therefore feeling terminally unable to find someone special to spend my life with - I asked my grandfather who had been happily married for nearly 50 years for some advice on attraction and relationships.
He said, “Honestly, the moment I stopped trying to find the right woman, and started trying to become the right man, your grandmother walked up to me and said, ‘Hello.’” —Unknown
Thank you Tri🙏, wish we still had that logic around today. Shame that incredible generation is now past, and we have the No Kings baby boomer hippies in their place…fully indoctrinated and uneducated in our leftist universities 🙁 I’m still praying that this insanity ends with our new American Revolution 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is precisely why leftoids can not have discussions about issues; their ideology is "self".
Its hard to defend an ideology not based in reality, and one that requires complete subversion of self to an ideology. Thats why there is the gnashing of teeth whenever they are challenged.
Imagine having a good faith debate over a ticks right to suck your blood.
Its so absurd it'll eventually be crushed.
That said we must take them seriously. People have forgotten the Bolsheviks were a tiny party that nobody took seriously. They could've been stopped at any point...until they couldn't. They ruled for 75 years.
Hopefully, reality will kick in sooner rather than later. It took decades in places historically given to authoritarian governments like Russia and China. My special hope is that higher education will collectively purge themselves of the origins of our current love fest with commie ideology.
Good luck with the “hope” that universities will move away from the Marxism. Look at the department heads of Political Science, Psychology, English and most Economics departments. They are all devoid of any Conservatives. When I graduated from University of Colorado-Boulder in 1974 there were NO Conservatives in any of those departments and it has become progressively more liberal through the efforts of Department of Education pushing libtard ideas. Our entire “education “ system is at the root of all this.
But there is some good news in all of this: college attendance is down dramatically and that is forcing colleges to close; young men in particular are getting training in the trades; and the Dept. of Education is on Trump's "kill list." Ryan Gardener is right: "reality will eventually win the day." And once housing prices come down, young communists will buy houses and grow the hell up.
This is why, in the UK, decades ago, Tony Blair suddenly announced a majority of kids must go to university. The left wanted them to spend 3 or 4 years getting indoctrinated instead of out working, learning a trade, starting a business, becoming independent of the state.
This won't end Peacefully. It only ends WITH PRISONS (or Gulags), as always. Marxists must be convicted of real crimes instead of just allowed to support overthrow of everything good, decent, and effective. Their leaders, and those sympathetic to them, like to redefine crime, find loopholes, minimize sentencing, and get others to do the nasty work. Once they overthrow and control the Systems of Exploitation, then anything and everything is criminal, and everyone is effectively guilty, awaiting sentencing and enforcement and just existing under that new, Orwellian normal.
The Neo-Liberals who're now disavowing the Radical Extremists who've arisen are the very ones who agitated, incited, and invited them into prominence and power. The Democratic Party has worked hard to destigmatize Socialism, street violence, property seizures, Anti-Christian values, class hatred, social and race division, hyper-perversion, lawlessness, and assassinations for decades. REALITY is simply which side has the solid determination to WINNER take ALL and march the Losers into confinement. The Leftist-Communists recognize that the Dem Party of 2026 must be untethered from current norms and rules and control and then Progress ever Leftward so that America (and the world) can be Fundamentally and Fully Transformed into the Fated International Communist Global World Order. There can be no braking system or consensual stopping point for Revolution, only pauses and periods of regrouping. "Mainstream, Moderate" Democrats know this full well. They play with the Devil and now they must pay back what's owed with 1500% interest.
In many ways reality is being prevented from "kicking in". Welfare is one example. If it went only to the truly needy or desperate, great! But the fraud there and in so many other places, basically every program where a government pays out money to "help people", is rife with fraud. Shut that off and a bit of reality will "kick in".
No more DEI hires...more kicking in. My point being that reality doesn't kick in by itself...it takes us to do the kicking!
As for higher ed purging themselves...no way. They will only change one funeral at a time and we have to make sure that every new, young professor or administrator hired is not a DEI wolf in sheep's clothing.
"CommunIslam"....perfect word for their red-green alliance.
It's not just Communists. We absolutely cannot ignore or underestimate the goals of the Islamists, the goals of Islam as written clear as day in the Quran. What they are doing is undeniable, and history illustrates what they did repeatedly in the past and continue to do. Europe and the U.K. are good examples. It is in plain view in the U.S. and now is the time to stop it in its tracks once and for all.
There are things we expect of anyone running for high office: basic decency, honesty, patriotism, skill/talent to succeed, etc.
After you stop laughing at that ("honesty" HA! we Wish!), let's add to the list, a few statements of belief we should demand of anyone running for high office. Or else we laugh them out of the public square:
--Islam is evil at its root. Muslim people are mostly good, but they have been decieved.
--Socialism is evil at its root. Socialists unfortunately are NOT mostly good people but let's not kill them unless we have to.
--Educational institutions have been completely taken over by socialists. Those socialists need to all be fired and prevented from ever having anything to do with the raising of children, education of citizens, etc.
The Bolsheviks were a small party that consolidated and held power through terror and brute force; oh yeah, they were put in place by British intelligence at the height of WWI and we helped. No people suffered more under communism than the Russians; they survived, largely due to strong sense of culture and now Putin. Russian orthodoxy flowered within 10 years of the USSR collapse. Stalin was not a Russian (Georgian). I think that many lefties in the US/West perceive Russians as traitors to the movement. What else explains the visceral hatred and threats by the EU, when Russia has never fought the west Europeans unless first attacked.
Russia is still suffering from the things the Virgin Mary warned about in 1917 before the October Revolution.
1. Getting a divorce in Russia is statutorily very easy, fast, and straightforward compared to most Western nations. Because the legal system permits couples to dissolve a marriage without first resolving financial or custody disputes, the process rarely drags on for years. Russia consistently maintains one of the highest divorce rates in the world, with roughly 60% to 70% of marriages ending in separation.
2. Thankfully at least, they are getting better on abortion after basically allowing it in 1920. Under Stalin, ironically, that 'freedom' to murder one's unborn child was severely curtailed. But a couple years after his death it was allowed again. "Only to 12 weeks" but with the medical tech they it was, that was only loosely followed. It is still on the books.
3. The Fatima Apparitions of 1917 talked about Russia spreading their error to the rest of the world if the consecration she asked for was not done. It wasn't done in a timely manner and the world still suffers from those errors that were spread. (Divorce, homosexuality, abortion, etc.)
It is amazing to see the progression of the past 150 years, and where things are continuing towards unfortunately. A "secular" revival won't save us. It may "tap the brakes" a bit, but the Agenda 2030, oligarchs, WEFers, and self-anointed "aristocracy" types continue in sin. The solace is God offers us individually the graces we need to accomplish His will while we sojourn here. So many avenues of graces available to us.
Yes. But. I think that many of these communists/socialist are dupes (fools) being funded by the likes of George Soros and other billionaires who thrive in and profit from chaos. I am uncertain how to deal with that. Open borders, destroying nation-states, stealing resources and elections. These same elements are behind that war on BRICS; that is what ties the war against Iran together with the war on Russia. Sorry. wrong thread. But this is all connected.
Islam has all the necessary elements to enslave society already baked-in. Communism is just a handy means-to-an-islamic-end for muslims. Of course, all muslims will be put to death within days of a successful communist revolution, for reasons of simple pragmatism by whatever strongman emerges from the internecine bloodbath. But, all would-be communists everywhere chant, "THIS time it will be different!"
Not sure the absurdity of it all will permeate their conscience. Some of them deeply delight in senseless violence and cruelty, and others with sexual deviancy would die before ever changing their spots. So they will try to make sure the other side dies. The only way a war can be diverted is if half the Democrat party stands alongside us. Then they are outnumbered. But standing quietly on the sidelines will only exacerbate it.
The breakup of the D party could result in a new one. And that new one could draw some voters currently in the MAGA tent. This could take several years to manifest. I’ve been on the lookout for 4th Turning climax, and this could be it. We’ve been in a crisis period (winter) since at least Covid, if not before. I don’t think we can yet see all the repercussions of a coming change to the traditional, 2-party system. There are many disaffected youth of both blue and red persuasion who could be attracted to a new party. If you believe in generational theory as I do, the silver lining is that a Spring awaits us after the turmoil. And there is turmoil still to come in the sorting out. Next battleground could be the schools and universities. But it won’t be contained to just there.
Past climaxes in US history (before spring following) have involved bloodshed (Revolutionary War, Civil War of 1860, WW2). In fact climaxes in all of England’s (mother country) history also involved bloodletting except for the Glorious Revolution (1688) which nevertheless saw absolute monarchy evolve to a constitutional monarchy.
I agree with you. Have you been reading about the ghost students and ghost schools? Get federal dollars for students not there for schools that don't exist. More teachers than students. College students getting student loans and ghosting the school. Fraud to launder taxpayer's money. Less students enrolling. Remember "forgive student loan debt" campaign promise. Right when I think I couldn't get more disgusted, another fraud layer is peeled back.
Let's work on the fractured Republican party, please.
I'm not sure what exact madness you are speaking of, because there is a lot of it. Something I seem to see around here is people not connecting the dots that when societies fail to take care of the working class - and I don't mean handouts, I simply mean companies paying a living wage. When people can't make ends meet they start turning to ideologies like socialism or communism.
But around here, people don't seem to realize this, as they cheer on Elon becoming wealthier than a large chunk of the working class - Elon, by the way has taken tens of billions of taxpayer monies from the government. Just one man, owning more wealth than a person could spend in a lifetime, and it is celebrated, while the vast majority of workers struggle to buy essential goods. And speaking of essential goods, the latest economic numbers, when you actually dig into them, are not good. Growth was from increased prices on essential goods and services that people have to spend money on. Not on toys and things people don't need.
So, it seems we are again at a moment like back in the 30s, when FDR had to tell the ruling class they needed to give up some of their wealth or people were going to be coming with pitchforks. The overlords need to pay the peasants a living wage, and people won't be drawn to horrible economic/political paradigms.
Most people here can’t identify with our youth, and an average 1st time homeowner buyer now being age 40. Most people here also can’t identify with youth who’ve been sold that if you get a college degree, a job awaits you. It no longer does. Then, yes, these youth look at older generations and say ‘why can’t I have that too?’ You can, it’s just harder now compared to when us Gen X’ers and Boomers were younger (our average 1st time home purchased at age 28-30). Our youth is susceptible to socialism because they don’t know its consequences. But more so, because they don’t ‘feel’ they have the same ability to ‘make it’ as previous generations, and feel that the deck is stacked against them. DSA is the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement in a different (more powerful) format. This has been building up for some time. We need to structurally do something about it or socialism appeal will continue to grow.
Trotskyites used Teddy Roosevelt to split the Republican Party with his Bull Moose Party to allow Woodrow Wilson of the Dems to win and create WW l and the Federal Reserve.
"Albert Pike had promised his Masonic allies in Europe that they would have three world wars to consolidate the world power of the Canaanites. We have now seen two of those world wars, and, as promised, the first world war was to set up a Communist regime, the second world war was to raise it to the status of a world power, and the third world war is planned to destroy both Communism and Christianity in a great orgy of annihilation. This coming war is intended to be the final death knell of the people of Shem; after its conclusion the Canaanites will reign unchallenged throughout the world."
Wait! Are you saying that when the dust settles the Jews are going to be in charge of everything? Who chose them?....oh yeah, never mind. We were advised of this about 4 thousand years ago. It'll be alright.
Generational warfare is the result of yet another top down suffocating social engineering initiative from the likes of the WEF. The goal is to splinter us all into a million pieces and push us mental idealogical prisons that have us seeing everyone who doesn't align with every single one of our highly polititicized viewpoints as the enemy.
Politicization is an apex psyop weapon, thus everything has been deliberately deeply politized.
"There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject."—Prevensilk
Yep. Every day they are telling everyone why they should hate a different generation, and they whisper in the ears of all of them, and the different wealth categories too. People have to stop being used like this
Well we need to spoil their little splinter party. I have been talking casually to some of the 15-25 generation. They are not as lost as the generation ahead of them are. They saw the "controls" of Covid. I sincerely hope I am right when I say they are more observant and aware of the evils of Socialism. I sure hope I am right.
It appears that Steve's heart is in the right place, he just has his facts mixed up. The "No Kings" baby boomers are mostly old hippies that transformed from "free love" to "free EVERYTHING." Including free citizenship (walk right in), free food (SNAP Galore), free rent (subsidized vouchers), free public services (bus tokens & more govt. vouchers, et al), free "love" (marriages w/o traditional sacraments); basically, any kind of SELF responsibility which then leads to no accountability for one's actions which then leads to rampant crime, with abortion being used as a basic "birth control" rather than one (or two) taking the "responsibility" (there's that 'nasty' word again) to use "p-r-o-t-e-c-t-i-o-n," which further leads to a Godless society which brings us to??? Today! Which is an environment that reeks of communist ideology, one of the basic tenets addressed by BOTH Jeff & President Trump in today's post. God Bless All of You!! MAGA!!! We can still save her...
I hate to burst your bubble, but not many baby boomers were hippies. The hippies did get a lot more publicity, though. They grew out of it when they left college, for the most part.
Thank you for your insightful psychological evaluation of the "evolution of baby boomers" Dr. Russky! Quite enlightening, indeed! And, yes! They did "grow out of it" - while morphing into the Socialist anti-America comrades that they are today - thankyou, in most part, to the Marxist/Communist propaganda they were spoon fed for several years before leaving college. "Education" has consequences...
My generation is not socialist or anti-American. Subsequent generations were. But I can only speak about what I know. Hippies were very much a rarity in real life, though they kept mainstream media afloat. Did you read "Chaos Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties," by Tom O'Neill? The reason Manson sent shock waves through America is because it was, for many, the first exposure to the world of "hippies," which were at that time mostly confined to California. The colleges are trendy, but not everyone in the 60s went to college.
Of course not Jan! Only the leftover drug freaks, mentally unstable and delusional of which many didn’t survive due to life choices. Still too many left, but we Americans outnumber them by many millions. Unfortunately they sound like legion due to our corrupt media, which they still control…for now 🤔
yeah but there an awful lot of them. I am a hair away from the boomer years. Every weekend I have to watch boomers with their signs on the street corners in affluent areas. It is surreal to think these same people would have been seniors when I was a freshman in high school. Did we both listen to Cure?
LA. I get PTSD every weekend. I swear to God a woman with her walker carried a sign 8647. We need to update the old PSA asking parents if they know where their children are and change it do you know where grandma is?
I've long believed the mainstream (lie?) that says the country is 40-40-20 (right-left-middle) and that the 20 decide close elections. And because of the 40-40, most elections are close.
What if it's all a crock? What if the country is actually 70-20-20 (right-left-middle; testing the Portlanders to see if they can detect anything odd about those numbers...gotta have fun wherever we can!) but because of the huge range and depth of frauds, financial and electoral, we've been deceived?
It's actually a very happy thought since we don't have to fix nearly all of the election shenanigans to retake the country! Fix half of it and we'll have a generational majority.
Well, shouldn’t we recognize people who are trying to destroy the country? I’m not talking about my lib friends and family. Real lefties are the Platners, the Mandamis, the people carrying the pro-Palestine flags. The woman on Libs of TickTock who said white cemeteries should be turned into dog parks so dogs can urinate on the remains of white people. They’ve already crossed the divide and have essentially declared warfare on the country and those who love it. We do need to recognize our enemies. Marx wanted races to hate each other, generations to hate each other, men and women to hate each other. That is a different concept than knowing who’s out to destroy you and calling them out.
Jan, both sides have been engineered to think the other is destroying the country. And currently, to be fair, we have an admin who may leave office after his two terms owning about $15 trillion of a $45 trillion national debt, outspending Biden's record. But we can't even have a discussion about that sadly.
I remember selling my last house. I had secured my realtor, and my friend, to sell it. A little into it, I thought I might get a better deal with a different realtor. Then, I remembered that I had made a commitment to my friend and proceeded forward.
In the end, my house sold for the highest amount ever in that neighborhood.
An expensive senior living community near me organizes outings to protest everything progressive and Trump. It sickens me. These people lives that enabled them to reside in an expensive community. They stand on street corners waving their signs.
Barbara, if they get what they are asking for they will be one of the first groups to be sacrificed. These fools don’t know history. Those who put the communists in power are the first targets because they were the activists. The communists don’t want anyone who will fight against their power; they want a compliant population. All these libs are low IQ. They may be highly educated but they are not smart.
I live in a tiny coastal community in CA (there are a few conservatives here thank goodness) and seniors are out there with their anti Trump signs on the weekends. It’s sad. The good news is they don’t last too long…
Hearst Castle near Cambria last Fall. A group silver-haired Hippies gathered at the rainbow picket fence to protest Trump and wave at passers by. I began to wonder if it was their form of retirees meeting for breakfast, or car club enthusiasts gathering for coffee. It looked a bit like a Tie Dye party. Lol
My spouse and I lived in Oregon for over 40 years. This is why we moved to AZ three and half years ago. Just read where the University of Oregon is closing two dorms due to lack of numbers. Oregon continues to go more and more Blue. Go Woke, Go Broke!
Are those Mirabella residents looking like a PBS pledge drive lined up every Monday in front of Portland ICE? What cute signs they have, waving & smiling. They have zero idea of the actual world chaos they are cluelessly advocating for.
Barbara, (sorry about that Portlander thing, ever thought about moving East??) We have some friends who live in one of those fancy senior living complexes down in TX. We visited, and while everything is nice and pretty, maintained by "staff", a whole list of "things to do" posted on the elevator, they even can have little postage stamp gardens. I couldn't fathom living there, no place for my saws, lathes, hand tools, sawmill, tractors, garden as big as i want, runway for my model planes, wife's craft studio. They pay monthly fees, but none for me, though still gotta pay prop tax, of course. Different strokes, i guess, but I can see how folks in those "centers" might need something more exciting to do, and getting some sun while wearing silly clothes could be pretty edgy for them!
You could noy pay me to live in a 55+ "community." When you get a bunch of same-age people together in an institutional space, it's like high school all over again. Conform or be cast out...
Take heart, there are some gray haired boomers who were never hippies and will never be caught in a No Kings protest . . . except when they intentionally go to talk to them, which I did recently. I was told that Biden left us with the best economy ever, but, the guy said, "You wouldn't know that from watching Fox." I informed him that I do not watch Fox. All in all, it was fun, but I'm not sure it was worth the time spent.
Boomer here. My leftie neighbor recently ferreted out that I'm a conservative. She volunteers her political views all the time, no matter the topic under discussion. I usually just smile and change the subject. But she got me to admit to my conservatism and then asked accusingly whether I watch Fox. I said no. What I could have added but didn't, because it's none of her business, is that the reason is Fox is too liberal for me. That would have really set her hair on fire!
I find it amusing (and a bit frustrating) that 99% of libtards believe that all conservatives watch FOX "because their so far Right in the viewpoints." Because none of them actually watch it -they have no idea what they're talking about - which is the usual Modus Operandi of ALL talking points of such folks. They CANNOT discuss a valid point of ANY argument because they have ZERO actual talking points. Ever notice that? Better question: How could you NOT notice that? I've heard, "I don't want to talk about it" (as they turn away) so many times I've quit counting. And yes! FOX news is just as bad as ALL of the other Corporate Media, just a tee bit less obvious about it. "C'mon, man!"
I disagree. All they have is talking points. What they don't have are facts. On any subject. It is when they run out of the talking points they get aggressive and ugly.
Lots of them have a midwit attitude left over from decades past. They’re boomer liberals clinging to the traditional belief that the NY Times and NPR are “reliable sources,” while anything even slightly conservative is biased.
Well, I am not sure how much more RIGHT you could be . . . of me, but I watch Fox. "The Five" & "Jesse Watters Prime time" mostly. It is hard to believe if you have watched either show in the last six months, how you could be any more conservative. . . Jesse rips 'em a new one every night. You may be denigrating Fox as "too liberal" without having any direct knowledge of the network.
In the beginning the 'hippies' were very cool and sincere, but then were swiftly infiltrated by outsiders who actually hated hippies, but saw an opportunity for money and sex... and, of course, as they always do; brought with them, all the sins of man... In one sense, I suppose you could say the hippies were weak, and even ignorant. After reading Trump's tweets its easy to conclude he'll be dealing with the threat of Communism in America a tad more aggressively.
The media tried to "sell" them as cool and sincere, but they were mostly immature rebels who railed against "the establishment" the same way people attack President Trump today.
Being a “baby boomer hippie” myself, I would like to point out that we’re not all crazy lefties! Believe me, there are many, many of us out here who are conservative MAGA & MAHA folk…we’re just not as loud as our liberal counterparts! But then again, I’m in Texas, so there’s that…. 🤠
Yes Judy, some of the survivors grew up and properly raised their families and tried to forget the stupidity of their past. Those people chose a more conservative lifestyle due to family, values, religion and logic. Most did not grow up and address their problems. Those survivors now call themselves democrats, still deceiving themselves of the truth….
Steve, just keep looking & be open to those who speak to you. I have said "I'm just a good woman looking for a good man to be a good woman to!" I've met people at the library, the laundromat & many other places but it seems once they begin to converse something comes forward to divert getting closer. I don't know what your age group is - I'm a senior - but I am childish in my hope for a loving partner to talk to & care for. Don't give up! Best, Cb
Thank you Carol🙏 I am happily married for almost four decades. With the most incredible children and surrounded by wonderful and supportive family and the most loyal friends. I am truly a blessed man😊. Someone like yourself deserves an amazing partner and hopefully you will find him when the time is right. Sometimes asking God for a little support works wonders 🙏 Best wishes and keep up the good fight and Never Give Up💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm a boomer and the most conservative person in my family. Many of my friends who are in the same generation are also conservative. Just because the hippies got all the attention doesn't mean they were the majority in that generation. I don't believe any generation is homogenous.
DU (University of Denver) "Pioneers!" founded by inglorious, notorious, infamous, Sand Creek Massacring, Territorial Gov. John Evans, has an ad on Facebook discussing the deconstruction of student beliefs and then remaking them-- as their awesome good work aim for the student and society. Sure they dance around it with finesse and positivity, but that IS their MESSAGING.
I used this same philosophy. I was divorced with two very young kids about the time I turned 30, but I had a good job and an ex husband who wanted to see and spend time with his kids. I stayed in a state where I had no family because I didn’t want to take my kids away from their dad.
I decided that the 3 of us were going to be a complete and happy family, and if a man came along at some point and fit in and saw the value of what we had going, great. Otherwise, we would be fine. 3 years later I met my husband and we hit 25 years married next January. People are attracted to mentally healthy people that can manage their lives and are content in whatever situation they find themselves, that’s all I’m saying.
By the way, my kids were 5 months old and 3 years old when I split with their dad and 3 and 6 when I met my husband. They have a great relationship with both their father and their stepfather.
Congrats, Valerie. You and your new husband have shown your children a great example. Choose carefully the first time, and keep your priorities for a possible second time.
Thanks. It wasn’t easy but I’m so glad I did it the way I did. Both of them are functioning adults with strong marriages and have each given me a grandbaby.
Works both ways too. This happened to me!! As soon as I stopped dating and looking for Mr Right, and joined a church to put all my focus back onto my relationship with God, not joking two weeks later I met my husband. TWO WEEKS! I was so determined to not be derailed I at first resisted him. “I don’t date people who smoke” (I didn’t and I was eager to throw the excuse up as a wall.) Then I refused to go on a date unless he agreed to attend church with me every weekend. (That ought to do it! Worked with every other guy I dated 🤣) He was raised Catholic and only attended church for weddings and funerals…
God knew dating would split my focus, but He also opened a door. When I started to drift again it was my husband that protected me. By attending services with me according to my conditions God reached through to him and he is why we kept going, learning, and growing. I couldn’t have stopped attending if I wanted to because now my husband was dig in. We were married in that church three years later and dedicated all three of my children there.
(He also gave up smoking in under 30 days, and never smoked again, God Bless him… and he had been a heavy smoker since he was 8 years old (3 older partying brothers 😆) and had smoked a pack a day the entire time. So this was a real testament to his commitment to me.)
Sometimes God answers prayer quickly when we shift our focus back to a relationship with Him.
Same for me. After my divorce I was constantly looking for a man. After 3 years I thought I was never going to find one, made an assessment and realized I had a life people would kill for and set about trying to change the one thing I could do something about out of the three situations I didn’t like about my life. 6 weeks later I rode a ski lift with the man I would end up marrying within 6 months. We will celebrate 43 years together this September!
It was the opposite for me. I had sworn off men at age 28. They were creepy, liars, perverts, and low life. I decided Jesus was the only Bridegroom I needed. In walked the man I was married to for almost 40 years asking me to dance. We danced until he died in September 2022.
Ditto... I was married once, divorced, had another serious relationship that ended and decided I was done. Several months later I attended the opening night premiere of the movie "The Right Stuff" (based on the book by Tom Wolfe that was about the early space program) and found myself standing in the crowded theater entrance next to a man my age who was with his 18-year-old son (step-son I learned later). He thought I was in danger of being crushed in the crowd -- I'm 4'11"-- so they decided to protect me by standing on either side. We ended up sitting together in the theater but said goodbye when the movie ended. Three months later we met again at a different theater--he was alone then-- and we exchanged phone numbers. (He was a private pilot, hence his interest in the book and movie... he thought he'd struck gold when he met a woman who'd read the book and went to see the movie)/ By then he was in the divorce process, which was initiated independently of anything to do with me...long story short, we were married a year later and have been together for 41 years, have a son who has family and gave us three grandchildren. The "right stuff" indeed!
My experience as well Torch. Except it was a dear sister in law and in Christ. After her advice to pursue the Lord FIRST, my lovely wife walked into my life.
There have been a few times in my life where I’ve been forced to realize how the ordinary daily things we do, looked at as routine or tedious, are truly the most extraordinary things in our life. It could be a change that we may have no control over that makes us realize. We get so used to our daily routines that we can easily forget those blessings we've been handed. It could come to us when someone else points out the magic in the mundane that wakes us up. Suddenly, we stop taking for granted the very things we had forgotten to appreciate.
I think we all can agree that during the pandemic, it seemed everyday Biden and his henchmen were taking away freedom after freedom that we thought could never be taken from us. It seemed to happen in a flick of the switch. A simple thing like going to the store, or going out for a bite to eat became a big hurdle we all had to somehow climb over. Even bodily autonomy became a fight that many lost.
I’ve had these moments where I really began to think the small things I do everyday, that most days feel like a hassle, are the things that if I suddenly couldn’t do I would miss the most. Getting up at 4:30 every morning and making coffee for my wife, many mornings seems like a headache, but I know it’s extraordinary to her, from time to time she tells me how much she appreciates it. Walking my dogs everyday. They may not be able to say it but they certainly show me how much they love their walks and how extraordinary I am for taking them. We can forget how being able to get up everyday, open our eyes and see, go to work, earn a living to provide for our families, can at times seem ordinary, but to the people we support, even if they don’t notice or acknowledge it, these ordinary things we do are extraordinary. Many times the day to day routines feel like a grind but if that ability was taken away we would quickly become aware of the blessings that had been given to us. It’s these ordinary things we do that build extraordinary character.
It is easy to get caught up in the day to day routines of life and forget how precious family is and we are. Take a moment today to reflect on your blessings, and never lose sight of the extraordinary in the routines of daily life.
Do more than arrive: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” —William Arthur Ward
Everyone should watch the chosen. Jesus came during the time when the Roman occupation was very oppressive and as well the religious leaders were a bit overwhelming so the whole population of Israel lived under great stress. That’s when Jesus decided it was time for the good news of salvation from sin
He showed them that he wasn’t gonna fix the political situation but only the situation of personal character and eternal Destiny
All we need right now is to stay spiritually awake
I liked the original film 'The Shepherd' more than the remake, that short is what convinced me to follow the progress of The Chosen. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9472276/
It’s quite hard to forgive and forget when you’re still reeling and angry about being forced into batchelorhood. It’s hard not to allow anger at the person who did the forcing bleed over to everyone in that person’s gender. You’re thinking the right way about forgiving and forgetting. When you have managed to do that, I think you’ll find that you’re attracting instead of repelling. No one wants to enter a relationship having to answer for what the last person did. May God give you the strength to forgive and forget so your heart can be open to trying again and giving your next love the gift of a clean slate. We appreciate you here at C&C!
I will happily abide by all but the forgive/forget. That would require me to forgive what the Dems/commies are doing and then forget about it. Hell NO to that.
Not something I can abide right now with current events. Maybe another time. I am not capable of forgiving those that seek to destroy our country, traditions, morals and the fact they are coming for our kids/grandkids. Nope, not on my watch. You do it for me.
Lori, I'm not sure we're required to forgive groups of people. I don't think we should "let it go" either. We have to fight against these people you mentioned, not passively let them destroy our country. I have had to forgive family members, but I haven't forgotten their actions, and recently, when one of them tried to reassert himself into my life with his harassment, I wouldn't allow it.
After how much death and destruction they cause? Perhaps to you or your family? Good on you then, a big NO for me. They will never mend their ways so I don't waste my time entertaining that. I am too busy getting ready for war.
Jesus was not talking about EVIL when he was talking about forgiveness. He had some choice names for those who were desecrating the temple and the leaders who were adding rules for the people, (rules not sent down by God) and they weren't following God's rules themselves.
Ty for the reminder! Very wise words. I’ve not been able to really find joy in much since Covid. I’ve lost all joy in crafting and creating. It feels very much like “why even bother”. I think I’ve been feeling like I’m trapped in survival mode. For my sanity I must find joy again. I have so much to be thankful for and sometimes forget that. I’ve become so angry at everything and don’t know how to stop being angry at all this insanity. I own a home , something many won’t even be able to do. I have a job that pays me well. I have my soulmate of almost 37 yrs (since the age of 15). I have 2 wonderful adult children who I tho k we did right by. I have family and friends that I cherish. I need to focus on that. 💛
I have found that the more often I pray throughout the day/night, the better and calmer I feel. It is sort of like an on-going conversation with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit. The three of them don’t mind if you have to stop and run to catch the potatoes before they boil over❣️🕊️✌🏼🫶☕️🍪
I understand that completely!! I went through the same thing, I didn’t enjoy anything anymore, quit doing any crafting things I used to do. It was very hard. I made myself start crocheting something and I slowly started climbing out of the … I don’t even know what to call it, it wasn’t depression it was just … hopelessness and felt like nothing would matter ever again. I have come a long way but it is slow. Hang in there 💗 Find joy in the little things.
That’s how I crawled out of a personal tough spot…I started crocheting prayer shawls and lap blankets for others going through tough times. That group is still going strong at my old church. Promptly started another group at my new church. Turning from self to others can be uplifting. 😇🙏🏻🧶
Joy is a choice I had to put in practice when my husband passed away 7 years ago, then Covid, then my mother passing, all in the same two years. I found a huge picture of sunflowers and hummingbirds I put on my wall in the kitchen, and the verse from James 1:2 - “Today I choose Joy!” Seeing that every morning helps!
I had the opposite reaction during covid: I indulged in watercolor, playing the piano, and gardening. I joined a Bible study group, I rejoined the church I grew up in, I read books that mattered like "War and Peace," "The Divine Comedy," "The Federalist Papers," "The Underground History of American Education," "The Case for Christ," and "Mere Christianity." My life actually got better during covid because I stopped listening to legacy media and began reading what dissident doctors and scientists had to say. Hope you will discover your joy once again. ❤️
This was me but now so much crashed afterwards and aging. Earthly life goes on for God's glory but it feels lonlier as God pulls you away from all things but Himself and we are here to demonstrate His character even when those around us don't find us useful. I know why old ppl look sad, stonefaced, knowing, and grumpy. We can't hear, see, smell how we smell, my teeth hurt, I'm in comparatively very good condition but I can't afford to fix much of it and I'm too afraid to ask an expert. I'm caretaking of parents and health challenged adult children but some of my children are so caught in hating me for being a fighter (like a parent come home from a war your kids were protesting) or they can't find a trustworthy marriageable mate who isn't politically or doctrinally compromised so we are all living in a house that's old as my great grandparents I'm still trying to remodel.
Thanks for listening. God knows. God hears. God cares. This is His doing for s time for a good reason all for Him and others not just for me.
Really appreciate all you who share a common Father and talk about Him.
Yes! What a huge difference that’s been for our family! Left our Methodist church of 22+ yrs due to the ‘split’…found an amazing Bible church - wow - had no idea how far the ‘church’ had strayed. It’s been an amazing experience!
I understand your struggle. I, too, have never been the same since covid. The demonic covid fiasco and constant assault, by the media, in all areas of life promote darkness. It’s an inner battle to not surrender. My faith is the armor that helps me conquer.
Not to minimize the experiences of those who have lived through actual war and are dealing with PTSD, but the darkness unleashed during those years have left their marks mentally, physically, and spiritually. Whether one was and is a true believer in the covid scam and continues to live in fear, or one was one of the unvaxxed lepers who received the daily onslaught of vitriol from numerous sources and were impacted in their careers, businesses, and family life, the impact of the scamdemic was no tiny blip in history. It was and is a spiritual assault from Hell.
We are in a birthing of a qualitatively New Epoch, Bridget. Despite all the maddening chaos, from a 35,000 ft. vantage point America's health is very much being cared for.
Books can be extremely helpful to gain perspective. In directing our attention to deeper themes the outer mess of life is neutralized.
Societies collapse ... it's cosmic.
But ours isn't. We're undergoing the pains of childbirth.
Due to the flack of our 'Grand Renewal' not a single member of my birth family is in contact with me. No cousins, no siblings, no nieces or nephews.
So many of us understand what you're experiencing, Bridget. For me, it was the realization that my years of very rewarding international mission trips, during which I met so many wonderful people and "adopted" several young men, had come to an end because I would not get jabbed. Then the ministry we had worked with ended also because the missionaries came to the U.S. and the wife stupidly got a covid booster. She was never able to return to their country of ministry. I honestly grieved for a period of time, until one day I thought, "Be happy that you met them, not sad that you'll never see them again." I still have a lot of anger and I am not shy about opening conversations about covid fraud. I am finding more people who agree with me and that's encouraging.
I deeply relate to this. One common thing about my spirit most my life was to make my surroundings beautiful by any means necessary. Interior design, crafts, graphic design, landscaping … hosting dinners where I literally showered guests with comfort and joy. Then the LGBTQxycrazy kidnapped my only daughter, my firstborn. The past decade has been the most excruciating pain of my life. I sit here today surrounded by a cluttered, messy home that resembles a tomb, nothing done to it that I previously dreamed of doing, as if I’m caught in a time warp and time froze. It’s still 2015 for me. And I struggle to find the motivation to get up and clean it and make it beautiful once again. There’s a hopelessness without my daughter. I was doing it all for her, for our family. How do you keep doing it when they are no longer there to receive it?
So I get it. I’m trying to climb out, but it’s really long way to the top of this valley of death.
Thanks for sharing JuJu. I will remember your name in my prayers for all the self sacrificing God fearing parents who are now cast off from those God gave and Satan is testing, and the prodigals He knows who and where they are. We are many but we didn't know that "children will hate to their parents" was going to be us.
Children always hate their parents, but most grow out of it as they mature. There is a large number of parents whose children did not follow that historic trajectory, because their minds were captured in insidious ways, trained to despise their parents in ways not typical.
The joy of the Lord is a deep well that can't be affected by the storms of the world. Go to church, listen to worship music, read your Bible to be reminded of all God has done.
Bridget, surrender yourself to Jesus. Once you give Him everything you will be freed from worry. Transformed! I did this a couple of years ago and now I am grateful for every little blessing and just enjoy life. God’s blessings be upon you.
Today would have been my husband's 66th birthday. I'd gladly pick up his socks from the floor and lower the toilet seat if I could have him back. I miss being able to roll over in bed to snuggle in his warmth. I miss someone to talk to, listen to.
And I want to remind people, now that I’m in the ‘senior years,’ how fast time goes by and to be cautious how you spend it. Raising a family, caring for little ones, making time to travel and visit siblings, providing for your loved ones —- I ponder those memories and would give all the gold on earth to be back in the child-raising years and truly appreciate the treasure they were.
Indeed. My wife and I met July 1984. We married in 1989, and had our first child in 1992, and our second in 1995. We spent over 35 years taking care of people in a small NW town, and all of sudden, we were retiring. My wife and I both ask, "what happened, how'd we get to retirement so fast"? Now time passes like a one of those old movie images of the calendar pages flying by.
There are seasons in our lives. Going back to a past season would negate the next season. Today I’m in my widowed season, almost 2 years now. It’s been my most difficult season, constantly praying for wisdom and strength to move forward. I’m looking forward to the grandchildren season, hopefully soon.
Thank you James for another positive and inspiring message 🙏 Not an hour goes by that I don’t thank God for everything he has provided me. Through hard work and the love of God, Family and Country, I can say I’m one of the most blessed people on this earth…God is Good 🙏
Gratitude is everything! I’m so thankful for all the World Cup visitors who have pointed out so much of what we take for granted: AC, trucks, grocery stores on every corner, Ranch dressing, bbq, our kind and friendly people, the diverse beauty of this country.
Became acquainted with Dr. Jessica Rose's indomitable, unacceptable spirit during the pLandemic. I love her in that way you love someone's spirit whom you've never met, but hear and feel and who expands your heart 𝗮𝗻𝗱 intellect. One of the White Hats imo. SO grateful for her energy and output on the planet at this time. She was born for this. I want to be like her when I grow up! ;) ('cept that I could be her ma :\ )Thanks for posting this link.
No matter how low you feel, there are always people who are lower. Get out of your Lazyboy and go help someone else. You have talents, share them. You have energy, do something for someone else. You have time, go to a Hospice facility and sit with someone who is dying. Get off your Keister and create a life of service. You won't have time to wonder about why you're not happy.
“I woke up this morning, and thanked God that I did.” So said Rush Limbaugh on his radio show frequently during of the last year of his life, after he was diagnosed with and fighting cancer. (Miss him so much) That’s how I also start my days, although I am not facing a similar situation. Then I start counting blessings: I can see, hear, touch, smell and taste. I have generally good health. I consider the many people I know who do not. Then it’s on to miracles: hummingbirds, morning birdsongs, my Golden Retriever patiently awaiting the last bite of toast, hot coffee, etc. etc. And all this while living in America! I am blessed beyond comprehension. (Inconceivable!) Life is short, precious, and nothing stays the same for very long. Living a life of gratitude to my Creator — the One True God — seems the only appropriate response to experiencing the daily blessings I don’t deserve but have been given anyway!
Agree about both coffee and walking the dog, but i look at it as double win, while she's happy to find fresh hot, I get my coffee too, and walking the dogmakes him happy and regular and gets me needed exercise, plus i get to watch sunrise and reset me circadian rythmn each day too!
We haven't taught honest history in decades. When I was teaching I received complementary copies of every new U.S. history college text in hopes I would adopt it. I want to say that I began noticing the downward spiral in the 70s: no footnotes, no bibliographies, no primary sources, and an attitude of America as a hostile force upending the lives of "victim cultures."
Yes. AI may have some good applications to medicine, etc. But for real information, it is incredibly lame. And Wikipedia is one of the big problems. Of course, what could you expect from morons such as Katherine Maher?
George Washington studied history and learned how Europeans and Asians have fought amongst themselves for millennia. He also witnessed it in his time. From his knowledge he wisely advised all future generations of Americans to avoid foreign entanglements. Trump needs to be taught what Washington learned and advised.
Ultimately that's what Trump is trying to do, extricate outside from entangling alliances. The Iran thing complicated that, but ultimately it's for the good of the entire world and America that Iran not have nuclear weapons. Sometimes you have to take a detour on the way to a larger goal. Washington warned against alliances, something different from what you've suggested.
The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children. —Dr. James Dobson <-- we are here.
I loved and admired Dr James Dobson!! Can’t count how many of his books I read when I was raising my children. What a godly, kind, funny, wise, wise, wise man he was. 🙏🙏🙏
Yeah, I'm not pleased with the "purge" talk. From either side. That is not what America is about. I suspect they will defeat themselves because I seriously doubt the majority of Americans will just stand by and watch the USA become USSR part 2. At the same time, I never underestimate the stupidity of the majority of Americans. I just hope I'm not wrong.
Why do you think Leftoids want a foreign judge stopping the President from getting foreigners off the voter rolls so now foreigners can vote for foreigners to take over our government.... pretty sure that's called a hostile takeover.
And they want to keep birthright citizenship…any foreigner born here, but raised in a communist country, can become a congressman, senator, and even President!
Wrong. Today, a “natural born citizen “ just has to have been born in the US. Or, if out of the US, born to US citizens. There is nothing stating they have to be born to US citizen parents if born on US soil.
Stop for a moment and think about how brazen the left has been when it comes to fund raising (ActBlue), deep ties to the deep-state USAID, medicaid fraud, and everything we always suspected and now see clearly. Then, apply that same hubris to elections in blue states, counties, and cities. These people have no moral compass, only a pragmatic one. Win. Whatever it takes. Must. Seize. Power. The fraud that we will eventually uncover will be part of tomorrow's history lessons,
@jeffchilders have you seen this short clip? This is CA Dem’s Scott Weiner being devoured by his “supporters” - the Purity Spiral Polycrisis in action. :
Saw that. Definitely best example of the polycrisis. Not to mention he absolutely deserved every second of it, but not for the reasons they were doing it.
Was so curious what was going through his head. I’m sure he’s more than familiar with that wing of the party and how to deal with it (say nothing, keep moving). Towards the end of the encounter he could have said “if you’re not happy with me, how about you run for office?” And then we could get more crazy commies elected here in Blue Blue Commiefornia.
Treason is precisely what we have been watching take place for too long. May God help us to boldly stand for His Truth and for our founding documents. 🙏🇺🇸 Now, release the Wolverines!!! ( I think a bunch of us are to join that pack! 😉)
I am loving watching their pursuit of power by any means philosophy blow up in their faces.
Also, currently listening to All-In and they’re discussing the new communists coming into power and all the things they want to abolish, like the police, ICE, reform the
legislative branch, pack the supreme court etc. Someone says, ‘but isn’t this the same as what Trump campaigned on? He wants to abolish the IRS and USAID.’ (I’m pretty sure J Cal said it because he comes up with takes like this regularly, but I’m listening,not viewing, and they have a couple of guests on so I’m not completely sure).
Thankfully one of the other guys said ‘he doesn’t want to get rid of the constitution.’ I thought all of these guys are super smart, but the comparison of apples to oranges as an inability to use critical thinking makes me wonder.
I know how he’ll spend it. Throw money at union bosses, contribute to non-profits that espouse leftist ideologies, promise more funds to universities that produce uneducated leftists who will go on to be our judges, attorneys, educators, and political activists.
California has been stealing money for centuries. Mark Hopkins built his wealth on the gold rush through hotels and mining supplies. They claimed there was no family to inherit his wealth after they stated the one witness, his nanny, who could prove it belongs to Johns Hopkins family wasn't a viable witness because she was black.
The coddled middle-class educated pseudo-Marxists supporting the DSA have a certain vision. When the socialist / communist utopia arrives, these folks will all be members of the politboro, living lush in their dachas.
Not one of them will have to live UNDER socialist / communist rules and economics. They all see themselves as MAKING and ENFORCING those rules on someone else.
This is exactly what one should expect of people raised in comfort, who live in a social media world, and likely have never broken a clod of earth with hand tools in their comfy lives.
not sure they have thought it through that far - I believe that they have been brainwashed from media and school to believe that republicans are evil and who could vote for that so they automatically vote D without any critical thinking
Just like the IRGC and the Basij, or the Gasht-e Ershad. Anyone belonging to those groups as well as their family and friends are protected from the enforcers and often not required to follow the same rules. When I learned more about Iran, all I could think was how it sounded like the democrats and the deep state/RINOs.
When you see video of Iranian women uncovered, looking normal, they belong to these groups. They use it as propaganda against what they do to everyone else who must adhere to the dress code or be beaten or shot. The most successful and well paid Iranians belong to these groups too. All the privileges of employment and advancement goes to those devoted to the IRGC. Sounds too eeerily familiar. Martha’s Vineyard anyone? When illegals were dropped on their community? Rules for thee.
The sad part is, they’re likely to be right if they manage to take over the democrats party. Despite its egalitarian message, communism also rewards its early supporters with wealth and elite status.
Dennis Prager has always said that “normal” (is there such a person) democrats have more in common with republicans than leftists aka socialists/communists- let’s hope they side with republicans or indeed split the party ( with both becoming irrelevant) - democrats are modern day WHIGS and deserve the same fate
Bluesky is stocked full of the trans community. Their desire to force their lifestyle on every space is more important to them than a communist takeover. If the only way they get their way is for our country to become a communist country, they will roll out the welcome mat. We are dealing with demons, or another Sodom and Gomorra where people have chosen to align with demons.
I notice the DSA candidates seem pro Islam and anti America and Israel. Have these people, especially the women, realize the life they will live under sharia law?
And some food for thought Dr. Linda you may appreciate. The AVMA is on Bluesky, not Truth Social or any conservative social media. And these are the "professionals" taking care of your pets and ushering in self amplifying RNA shots for pets as well. I wonder if the AMA is on there too?
The AMA may be on BlueSky but it doesn’t matter. I learned early in my career that the AMA didn’t represent me. Its ultra liberal stance over the years has only reinforced my perception.
It matters to me and others. It is important for conservatives to know so it reinforces the need to seek alternative care and only use allopathic in case of a real emergency.
AVMA: Note on exceptions: Only Alaska, California, and Wisconsin are known to offer alternative pathways (such as on-the-job training or state-approved non-accredited schooling) to sit for the VTNE and get licensed. All other US states and Canada require AVMA Accreditation for Veterinary Technicians and Veterinarians .
In other words, another Rockefeller captured grift, just like human medicine.
The House of Rep has the right and ability to refuse to seat any elected member. These two commies from NY have both expressed their hatred for America and its constitution. How can they therefore actually swear to the oath of office? If they do it will be a lie given all their public statements. Will the republicans who will be in the majority have the guts to do it.
Secondly like Jeff I was always anti-communist. Where I grew up that was the default position. I remember when I was in grammar school and Stalin died. My teacher cheered that “uncle Joe” was finally dead and now the people might finally have some freedom. Later in the army I found solsynitzen’s first book: one day in the life of Ivan denistovich. Then I read gulag archipelago. If that won’t make you hate communism nothing will.
The election in NY has ten percent of the eligible voters voting. They could be beaten if the people would get off their lazy assess and vote
They won’t have the backbone to do it. They’ll fret “well they could do it to us next!” 😱 It all depends on the reasoning when you do it. Make it clear the why is to prohibit communism and you make a solid precedent. Make it unclear and you give them opportunity to accuse Conservatives of being communists just like they accused us of being fascists. It has to be extremely clear with incontestable evidence and examples.
Always weird that people espousing such beliefs can take the oath of a US office with a straight face, and be accepted, too. But Biden took the oath of office, but didn't faithfully execute immigration law, so nothing new.
They take an oath to defend the constitution, but they don’t live up to it. There are 2 city council members for the City of Asheville, Kim Roney and Shenika Smith, who will not recite the pledge of allegiance. Roney is running for mayor.
It is a big deal. Trump’s often called divisive by Democrats, and they aren’t wrong. Instead of the weak, mealy-mouthed timidity and compromise of the GOPe, he draws bold and polarizing lines. One (fully-intended) effect is to inflame his most extreme opponents. Swing voters will then see a series of easy choices: Communism or not? Keep even the violent criminal illegals or deport them? Destroy the gender binary or not?
The more sensible Democrats understand what a trap this is. It forces them to either agree with Trump and alienate their most motivated supporters, or fight Trump by aligning with the communists, jihadis, and trans types who alienate 80% of voters. That dilemma can’t be resolved by claiming “social issues are a distraction” or blathering about “affordability.”
Thank you as always Jeff! You are such a wonderful dose of sunshine in my our morning ☀️🙏 Seems like the democratic cult of insanity has finally split between the severely mentally deranged and the morally and mentally bankrupt. Let’s see which side wins, so we can all enjoy their reactions when they get destroyed in November 🙏
“The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend” is blowing up in the face of the DNC and Deep State. They can’t control the Islamists or the Communist. The Left is fracturing before they could destroy MAGA 😎.
Jeff is 100% right about those 13 "moderate Democrats": "Don’t fall for it. ‘Moderate’ Democrats aren’t rallying around their sudden, rediscovered patriotism. They are organizing against a movement that is stealing safe Democrat seats. It’s self-defense." I know this because one of them, the idiot Janelle Bynum, is my US rep. My district, south of Portland OR, was heavily gerrymandered to take in part of the very blue city of Portland, so we lost our Republican rep to her in the last election. Now she realizes that those blue Portland voters will more likely vote for a Communist than her if one runs next time.
Could go either way--either a big reaction by voters, wary of the communist threat, or a big endorsement by voters, who turn out to be ignorant about what communism really is. No way to predict what will happen.
Humm...was Mao an oligarch/banker? Lenin? Pol Pot? Stalin? Oh sorry...they were just bogey men. Wonderful folks who killed millions upon millions of people. You are one poor lost soul. How in the hell were you a university professor with that knowledge of history? Or any instructor for that matter.
As I’ve said for decades, the unspoken motto of the Democrat party is “As long as it doesn’t affect me.” Jeff is 100% correct. The rallying democrats don’t care an iota for anything but their own a$$/wallet/power.
Solid prognosticating on your part. It seems likely the dems are going to cause alot more mayhem before this gets settled. Once the young dismiss the lions as past it, do the lions become invisible? The communist heads like the media will certainly keep that notion going. Ok Boomer, is about to rear its ugly head again. The young are stupid and easy to play, half of them cant read what i just wrote! Schools teach them marxism full on. How long will we allow schools and media to poison our youth with communism. It could literally break our nation. Please God, a great midterm for the GOP.
“Reasonable Democrats,” Jones tweeted yesterday, “are going to have to get off their couches, roll up their sleeves and start organizing real voters on the ground.”
Don't forget, long before traveling the country giving those speeches, the Gipper was in a death-struggle at SAG with a powerful communist wing. William Holden and Olivia DeHavilland were his chief allies. The rank and file were with Reagan, but the commies got many of the SAG positions. In a fantastic climax to booting them out, Reagan went to D.C. to testify . . . against censorship!
All in my book, "Reagan: The American President," which I wrote with unprecedented access to the Reagan archives in Simi Valley. (You can tell by the sign-ins that I was the ONLY academic to spend any serious time there at all).
James Carville is 81 years old. Maher is 70. Nobody cares what they and their peers think other than a few other geezers. He is an old guy waving his cane at those darned youngsters zooming by in their fast cars.
Open borders is the Left’s nuke to destroy the right. They can’t convince the people to support the Revolution, so they’re bringing in a new people. They have almost succeeded. The next Democrat president will do it.
1/ Foreign-born are a record high percent of the US population. Include second and third generations and you already have local majorities:
I didn’t say whether age gave a view validity. I said:
“James Carville is 81 years old. Maher is 70. Nobody cares what they and their peers think other than a few other geezers. He is an old guy waving his cane at those darned youngsters zooming by in their fast cars.”
That describes the political impact of oldsters’ views. Not their validity.
I see a lot of "people" that simply want to muddy the water and derail the logic of the discussion. Now with AI helping, it's very difficult to keep up with all the psyops that is attempting to manipulate us.
Padawan, you are not yet to take the trials and become a Jedi. Your guessing is inaccurate and lacks wisdom.
1/ Geezers are politically impotent. The power in political and social movements comes from the young, who have numbers and energy - (hopefully) led by a few oldsters who provide insight and guidance.
2/ Calling the young “fops” and asserting that geezers will save the nation are two of the silliest claims I’ve seen in a long time.
3/ I am 70 years old.
4/ My co-authors and I have warned about the Left’s revolution for 20 years. Let’s see your history of analysis and predictions! Three examples of mine:
Yes, and as single-issue voters they have influence on that issue - although this influence declines each year. But more broadly, the elderly are a minor force due to their lack of energy and numbers.
No need to guess about this. Visit the office of a successful campaign or political movement: it is led and financed by those of middle age - and filled with young workers.
So you’re 70,same as me,and yet you ( because you apparently feel ineffectual) have no ability to make trouble, other than “ive written for 20 years” and somehow you seem to think you have a handle on everything. I’ve got news for you, geezer, and it isn’t good. You have one foot in the grave,while I can outwork most 20 year olds without whining. You really should get a grip. Keep writing, and sharpening that pencil, and I’ll keep welding, machining, building, and arming. We use to kill communists. Now they got owned by the islamopigs. We’ll just have to kill them too. And maybe , just maybe, some younguns can pick up the mantle.
Exactly! Willingness to work has been the distinguishing factor between Left and right - and the reason the Left has won since ~1964. I also recommend anger as a spur to effort.
“Anger is easy. Anger at the right person, at the right time, for the right reason, is difficult.”
— Aristotle, in the Nicomachean Ethics, book IV, chapter 5 (slightly paraphrased).
“Telemachus, now is the time to be angry.”
— Odysseus, when the time came to deal with the Suitors. From the movie The Odyssey (1997).
An interesting article. But I thought everyone knew that businesses want open borders? But there is one error in it. The Republican Party has been firmly open borders for a long time. FDR closed the borders during the Depression under pressure from unions - not Republicans or businesses. The borders have been opening since the 1960s as a bipartisan policy.
Conservatives opposition to this policy is recent, as they slowly realized it was a death sentence for the right. Even now powerful elements of the Republican Party want open borders: some Christians, Libertarians, and businesses’ shills. I’ve been a Republican volunteer and seen these battles fought out repeatedly, including this month.
About two decades ago after being condemned to a lonely bachelor status for an extended period of time - always saying and doing the the wrong things when meeting every single lass that caught my eye, and therefore feeling terminally unable to find someone special to spend my life with - I asked my grandfather who had been happily married for nearly 50 years for some advice on attraction and relationships.
He said, “Honestly, the moment I stopped trying to find the right woman, and started trying to become the right man, your grandmother walked up to me and said, ‘Hello.’” —Unknown
Thank you Tri🙏, wish we still had that logic around today. Shame that incredible generation is now past, and we have the No Kings baby boomer hippies in their place…fully indoctrinated and uneducated in our leftist universities 🙁 I’m still praying that this insanity ends with our new American Revolution 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I think reality will eventually win the day.
This is precisely why leftoids can not have discussions about issues; their ideology is "self".
Its hard to defend an ideology not based in reality, and one that requires complete subversion of self to an ideology. Thats why there is the gnashing of teeth whenever they are challenged.
Imagine having a good faith debate over a ticks right to suck your blood.
Its so absurd it'll eventually be crushed.
That said we must take them seriously. People have forgotten the Bolsheviks were a tiny party that nobody took seriously. They could've been stopped at any point...until they couldn't. They ruled for 75 years.
Time to crush CommunIslam.
Hopefully, reality will kick in sooner rather than later. It took decades in places historically given to authoritarian governments like Russia and China. My special hope is that higher education will collectively purge themselves of the origins of our current love fest with commie ideology.
Good luck with the “hope” that universities will move away from the Marxism. Look at the department heads of Political Science, Psychology, English and most Economics departments. They are all devoid of any Conservatives. When I graduated from University of Colorado-Boulder in 1974 there were NO Conservatives in any of those departments and it has become progressively more liberal through the efforts of Department of Education pushing libtard ideas. Our entire “education “ system is at the root of all this.
But there is some good news in all of this: college attendance is down dramatically and that is forcing colleges to close; young men in particular are getting training in the trades; and the Dept. of Education is on Trump's "kill list." Ryan Gardener is right: "reality will eventually win the day." And once housing prices come down, young communists will buy houses and grow the hell up.
If we can get rid of foreign squatters.
Young communists will buy houses? With what? All they have is "other people's money"! :) KIDDING--I hope you're right.
This is why, in the UK, decades ago, Tony Blair suddenly announced a majority of kids must go to university. The left wanted them to spend 3 or 4 years getting indoctrinated instead of out working, learning a trade, starting a business, becoming independent of the state.
Yes, all part of the Bush globalist agenda. New world order.
"High-quality" child care starting at age 2, pre-K, elementary school, middle school, high school then college. Indoctrination complete!
And most of them are now on the dole.
This won't end Peacefully. It only ends WITH PRISONS (or Gulags), as always. Marxists must be convicted of real crimes instead of just allowed to support overthrow of everything good, decent, and effective. Their leaders, and those sympathetic to them, like to redefine crime, find loopholes, minimize sentencing, and get others to do the nasty work. Once they overthrow and control the Systems of Exploitation, then anything and everything is criminal, and everyone is effectively guilty, awaiting sentencing and enforcement and just existing under that new, Orwellian normal.
The Neo-Liberals who're now disavowing the Radical Extremists who've arisen are the very ones who agitated, incited, and invited them into prominence and power. The Democratic Party has worked hard to destigmatize Socialism, street violence, property seizures, Anti-Christian values, class hatred, social and race division, hyper-perversion, lawlessness, and assassinations for decades. REALITY is simply which side has the solid determination to WINNER take ALL and march the Losers into confinement. The Leftist-Communists recognize that the Dem Party of 2026 must be untethered from current norms and rules and control and then Progress ever Leftward so that America (and the world) can be Fundamentally and Fully Transformed into the Fated International Communist Global World Order. There can be no braking system or consensual stopping point for Revolution, only pauses and periods of regrouping. "Mainstream, Moderate" Democrats know this full well. They play with the Devil and now they must pay back what's owed with 1500% interest.
In many ways reality is being prevented from "kicking in". Welfare is one example. If it went only to the truly needy or desperate, great! But the fraud there and in so many other places, basically every program where a government pays out money to "help people", is rife with fraud. Shut that off and a bit of reality will "kick in".
No more DEI hires...more kicking in. My point being that reality doesn't kick in by itself...it takes us to do the kicking!
As for higher ed purging themselves...no way. They will only change one funeral at a time and we have to make sure that every new, young professor or administrator hired is not a DEI wolf in sheep's clothing.
But I like your hope, Mary Ann!
It may be that our Jacobins will eat their own as they did in Paris, something that seems to be starting since the NY primaries last week.
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"CommunIslam"....perfect word for their red-green alliance.
It's not just Communists. We absolutely cannot ignore or underestimate the goals of the Islamists, the goals of Islam as written clear as day in the Quran. What they are doing is undeniable, and history illustrates what they did repeatedly in the past and continue to do. Europe and the U.K. are good examples. It is in plain view in the U.S. and now is the time to stop it in its tracks once and for all.
There are things we expect of anyone running for high office: basic decency, honesty, patriotism, skill/talent to succeed, etc.
After you stop laughing at that ("honesty" HA! we Wish!), let's add to the list, a few statements of belief we should demand of anyone running for high office. Or else we laugh them out of the public square:
--Islam is evil at its root. Muslim people are mostly good, but they have been decieved.
--Socialism is evil at its root. Socialists unfortunately are NOT mostly good people but let's not kill them unless we have to.
--Educational institutions have been completely taken over by socialists. Those socialists need to all be fired and prevented from ever having anything to do with the raising of children, education of citizens, etc.
Anything else?
What is your quote that is "clear as day"?
Do they have Amelek too?
The Bolsheviks were a small party that consolidated and held power through terror and brute force; oh yeah, they were put in place by British intelligence at the height of WWI and we helped. No people suffered more under communism than the Russians; they survived, largely due to strong sense of culture and now Putin. Russian orthodoxy flowered within 10 years of the USSR collapse. Stalin was not a Russian (Georgian). I think that many lefties in the US/West perceive Russians as traitors to the movement. What else explains the visceral hatred and threats by the EU, when Russia has never fought the west Europeans unless first attacked.
Russia is still suffering from the things the Virgin Mary warned about in 1917 before the October Revolution.
1. Getting a divorce in Russia is statutorily very easy, fast, and straightforward compared to most Western nations. Because the legal system permits couples to dissolve a marriage without first resolving financial or custody disputes, the process rarely drags on for years. Russia consistently maintains one of the highest divorce rates in the world, with roughly 60% to 70% of marriages ending in separation.
2. Thankfully at least, they are getting better on abortion after basically allowing it in 1920. Under Stalin, ironically, that 'freedom' to murder one's unborn child was severely curtailed. But a couple years after his death it was allowed again. "Only to 12 weeks" but with the medical tech they it was, that was only loosely followed. It is still on the books.
3. The Fatima Apparitions of 1917 talked about Russia spreading their error to the rest of the world if the consecration she asked for was not done. It wasn't done in a timely manner and the world still suffers from those errors that were spread. (Divorce, homosexuality, abortion, etc.)
I was going to bring up Fatima.
The older I get the less timid I get. :-)
It is amazing to see the progression of the past 150 years, and where things are continuing towards unfortunately. A "secular" revival won't save us. It may "tap the brakes" a bit, but the Agenda 2030, oligarchs, WEFers, and self-anointed "aristocracy" types continue in sin. The solace is God offers us individually the graces we need to accomplish His will while we sojourn here. So many avenues of graces available to us.
Created to kill the Czar and his family and steal his land and gold. Include the Bank of England Rothchilds.
Never about "communism".
Doubt it.
What is your source?
Ignorance is bliss.
Yes. But. I think that many of these communists/socialist are dupes (fools) being funded by the likes of George Soros and other billionaires who thrive in and profit from chaos. I am uncertain how to deal with that. Open borders, destroying nation-states, stealing resources and elections. These same elements are behind that war on BRICS; that is what ties the war against Iran together with the war on Russia. Sorry. wrong thread. But this is all connected.
Soros organization = WEF/Transnational gangsters.
Their agenda is destruction of the West.
Soros is fueled by hatred and destroying us at all costs. He just found insidious ways to do it.
And he is laughing and gleeful of the chaos he is causing. I really want to see that look wiped off his evil face.
Islam has all the necessary elements to enslave society already baked-in. Communism is just a handy means-to-an-islamic-end for muslims. Of course, all muslims will be put to death within days of a successful communist revolution, for reasons of simple pragmatism by whatever strongman emerges from the internecine bloodbath. But, all would-be communists everywhere chant, "THIS time it will be different!"
Hmmm...not sure about that. Alternatively, the Muslims might put all the commies to death. Both groups are using each other.
This would be my assessment as well.
Can we have both? Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll both pull the triggers at the same time and wipe each other out!
I can dream.
Not sure the absurdity of it all will permeate their conscience. Some of them deeply delight in senseless violence and cruelty, and others with sexual deviancy would die before ever changing their spots. So they will try to make sure the other side dies. The only way a war can be diverted is if half the Democrat party stands alongside us. Then they are outnumbered. But standing quietly on the sidelines will only exacerbate it.
Nothing is too hard for the LORD!
Amen, just praying He isn't giving us the judgement we so dererve.
As Jonah was told: for the sake of the young and innocent, who are lead astray, and have not known the mighty works of the Lord.
The breakup of the D party could result in a new one. And that new one could draw some voters currently in the MAGA tent. This could take several years to manifest. I’ve been on the lookout for 4th Turning climax, and this could be it. We’ve been in a crisis period (winter) since at least Covid, if not before. I don’t think we can yet see all the repercussions of a coming change to the traditional, 2-party system. There are many disaffected youth of both blue and red persuasion who could be attracted to a new party. If you believe in generational theory as I do, the silver lining is that a Spring awaits us after the turmoil. And there is turmoil still to come in the sorting out. Next battleground could be the schools and universities. But it won’t be contained to just there.
Past climaxes in US history (before spring following) have involved bloodshed (Revolutionary War, Civil War of 1860, WW2). In fact climaxes in all of England’s (mother country) history also involved bloodletting except for the Glorious Revolution (1688) which nevertheless saw absolute monarchy evolve to a constitutional monarchy.
The next battleground SHOULD be the schools and universities. They are the primary cause of this maddness.
That, and the weak and even heretical churches, led by women and effeminate men.
yep, you hit the nail Margot.
I agree with you. Have you been reading about the ghost students and ghost schools? Get federal dollars for students not there for schools that don't exist. More teachers than students. College students getting student loans and ghosting the school. Fraud to launder taxpayer's money. Less students enrolling. Remember "forgive student loan debt" campaign promise. Right when I think I couldn't get more disgusted, another fraud layer is peeled back.
Let's work on the fractured Republican party, please.
I'm not sure what exact madness you are speaking of, because there is a lot of it. Something I seem to see around here is people not connecting the dots that when societies fail to take care of the working class - and I don't mean handouts, I simply mean companies paying a living wage. When people can't make ends meet they start turning to ideologies like socialism or communism.
But around here, people don't seem to realize this, as they cheer on Elon becoming wealthier than a large chunk of the working class - Elon, by the way has taken tens of billions of taxpayer monies from the government. Just one man, owning more wealth than a person could spend in a lifetime, and it is celebrated, while the vast majority of workers struggle to buy essential goods. And speaking of essential goods, the latest economic numbers, when you actually dig into them, are not good. Growth was from increased prices on essential goods and services that people have to spend money on. Not on toys and things people don't need.
So, it seems we are again at a moment like back in the 30s, when FDR had to tell the ruling class they needed to give up some of their wealth or people were going to be coming with pitchforks. The overlords need to pay the peasants a living wage, and people won't be drawn to horrible economic/political paradigms.
Absolute drivel. You're not sure of anything. You are a product of marxist schools and universities. Marx would be proud of you.
Most people here can’t identify with our youth, and an average 1st time homeowner buyer now being age 40. Most people here also can’t identify with youth who’ve been sold that if you get a college degree, a job awaits you. It no longer does. Then, yes, these youth look at older generations and say ‘why can’t I have that too?’ You can, it’s just harder now compared to when us Gen X’ers and Boomers were younger (our average 1st time home purchased at age 28-30). Our youth is susceptible to socialism because they don’t know its consequences. But more so, because they don’t ‘feel’ they have the same ability to ‘make it’ as previous generations, and feel that the deck is stacked against them. DSA is the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement in a different (more powerful) format. This has been building up for some time. We need to structurally do something about it or socialism appeal will continue to grow.
very true, and lets not forget that they executed most of the Socialists who initially partnered with them in their takeover.
Yes but the gory in fight will we glorious. They will probably even go after Saint Barry and Big Mike. The prospect makes one giddy.
Could not agree more. Lefties are self imploding.
It does appear that elections may be more secure for
all the right reasons. There is that.
Bolsheviks funded by the same Trotkyites as the current "Communists". Paging George Soros.
Dont fall for the scam. All the Uniparty.
Trotskyites used Teddy Roosevelt to split the Republican Party with his Bull Moose Party to allow Woodrow Wilson of the Dems to win and create WW l and the Federal Reserve.
Same divide and Conquer.
Bull Moose is now "Communist" to bring in WWlll
And the digital currency and data center control.
"Albert Pike had promised his Masonic allies in Europe that they would have three world wars to consolidate the world power of the Canaanites. We have now seen two of those world wars, and, as promised, the first world war was to set up a Communist regime, the second world war was to raise it to the status of a world power, and the third world war is planned to destroy both Communism and Christianity in a great orgy of annihilation. This coming war is intended to be the final death knell of the people of Shem; after its conclusion the Canaanites will reign unchallenged throughout the world."
Eustace Mullins
The Curse of Canaan
Wait! Are you saying that when the dust settles the Jews are going to be in charge of everything? Who chose them?....oh yeah, never mind. We were advised of this about 4 thousand years ago. It'll be alright.
Not the Jews.
The monied Trotskyites.
Well funded by the wicked.
Communism is just a cover story. Tyranny and enslavement are the goal.
Perfectly stated!
Steve, not all of us boomers are lefties. ❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
Thank you, I get so sick of the constant blaming boomers for everything wrong in their lives.
Generational warfare is the result of yet another top down suffocating social engineering initiative from the likes of the WEF. The goal is to splinter us all into a million pieces and push us mental idealogical prisons that have us seeing everyone who doesn't align with every single one of our highly polititicized viewpoints as the enemy.
Politicization is an apex psyop weapon, thus everything has been deliberately deeply politized.
"There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject."—Prevensilk
Yep. Every day they are telling everyone why they should hate a different generation, and they whisper in the ears of all of them, and the different wealth categories too. People have to stop being used like this
Well we need to spoil their little splinter party. I have been talking casually to some of the 15-25 generation. They are not as lost as the generation ahead of them are. They saw the "controls" of Covid. I sincerely hope I am right when I say they are more observant and aware of the evils of Socialism. I sure hope I am right.
Amen to that! I just squeaked in as a "Boomer!" and I am definitely NOT a "leftie!"
We were told about the evils of Communism before we learned to tie our own shoes.
It appears that Steve's heart is in the right place, he just has his facts mixed up. The "No Kings" baby boomers are mostly old hippies that transformed from "free love" to "free EVERYTHING." Including free citizenship (walk right in), free food (SNAP Galore), free rent (subsidized vouchers), free public services (bus tokens & more govt. vouchers, et al), free "love" (marriages w/o traditional sacraments); basically, any kind of SELF responsibility which then leads to no accountability for one's actions which then leads to rampant crime, with abortion being used as a basic "birth control" rather than one (or two) taking the "responsibility" (there's that 'nasty' word again) to use "p-r-o-t-e-c-t-i-o-n," which further leads to a Godless society which brings us to??? Today! Which is an environment that reeks of communist ideology, one of the basic tenets addressed by BOTH Jeff & President Trump in today's post. God Bless All of You!! MAGA!!! We can still save her...
I hate to burst your bubble, but not many baby boomers were hippies. The hippies did get a lot more publicity, though. They grew out of it when they left college, for the most part.
Thank you for your insightful psychological evaluation of the "evolution of baby boomers" Dr. Russky! Quite enlightening, indeed! And, yes! They did "grow out of it" - while morphing into the Socialist anti-America comrades that they are today - thankyou, in most part, to the Marxist/Communist propaganda they were spoon fed for several years before leaving college. "Education" has consequences...
My generation is not socialist or anti-American. Subsequent generations were. But I can only speak about what I know. Hippies were very much a rarity in real life, though they kept mainstream media afloat. Did you read "Chaos Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties," by Tom O'Neill? The reason Manson sent shock waves through America is because it was, for many, the first exposure to the world of "hippies," which were at that time mostly confined to California. The colleges are trendy, but not everyone in the 60s went to college.
The no consequences delusion.
What does that mean?
The false notion that more government intervention or provision will change the moral nature of the universe.
Whatsoever a man sows, that will he also reap.
Of course not Jan! Only the leftover drug freaks, mentally unstable and delusional of which many didn’t survive due to life choices. Still too many left, but we Americans outnumber them by many millions. Unfortunately they sound like legion due to our corrupt media, which they still control…for now 🤔
yeah but there an awful lot of them. I am a hair away from the boomer years. Every weekend I have to watch boomers with their signs on the street corners in affluent areas. It is surreal to think these same people would have been seniors when I was a freshman in high school. Did we both listen to Cure?
Where do you live? I haven't seen any boomers with signs since the 1960s and they were a minority then.
LA. I get PTSD every weekend. I swear to God a woman with her walker carried a sign 8647. We need to update the old PSA asking parents if they know where their children are and change it do you know where grandma is?
It's worse than I thought in L.A. Maybe the kids could chip their parents, like I do with my dogs. It makes it easy to find them if they wander off.
I get PTSD as well as to all the mask wearing fools walking alone in my neighborhood! Aaaak
I’m a boomer, no street signs or corners for me, but The Cure all the way! 👍
I've long believed the mainstream (lie?) that says the country is 40-40-20 (right-left-middle) and that the 20 decide close elections. And because of the 40-40, most elections are close.
What if it's all a crock? What if the country is actually 70-20-20 (right-left-middle; testing the Portlanders to see if they can detect anything odd about those numbers...gotta have fun wherever we can!) but because of the huge range and depth of frauds, financial and electoral, we've been deceived?
It's actually a very happy thought since we don't have to fix nearly all of the election shenanigans to retake the country! Fix half of it and we'll have a generational majority.
What's a lefty?
Karl Marx created the term to divide the proles.
Well, shouldn’t we recognize people who are trying to destroy the country? I’m not talking about my lib friends and family. Real lefties are the Platners, the Mandamis, the people carrying the pro-Palestine flags. The woman on Libs of TickTock who said white cemeteries should be turned into dog parks so dogs can urinate on the remains of white people. They’ve already crossed the divide and have essentially declared warfare on the country and those who love it. We do need to recognize our enemies. Marx wanted races to hate each other, generations to hate each other, men and women to hate each other. That is a different concept than knowing who’s out to destroy you and calling them out.
You falling off all these crisis actors.
The financial Trotkyites control the drama to spark your emotions.
Dogs pissing in cemeteries?
Immigrants eating pets?
Pass the popcorn.
Jan, both sides have been engineered to think the other is destroying the country. And currently, to be fair, we have an admin who may leave office after his two terms owning about $15 trillion of a $45 trillion national debt, outspending Biden's record. But we can't even have a discussion about that sadly.
Amen, Jan!
Yes, Jan, absolutely true and hopefully people will finally understand this!
Some of that long lost and forgotten integrity from the greatest generation:
"Son, in life, love, or business, always remember, you dance with the person you brought.
This is a basic point of honor: you keep the commitments you made.
More difficult than you thought it would be?
Tough, honor it.
More expensive than you estimated?
Tough, honor it.
See something else that's better?
Tough, honor it." —Unknown
My Texan father-in-law used to say “Ya gotta dance with what brung ya.”
I remember selling my last house. I had secured my realtor, and my friend, to sell it. A little into it, I thought I might get a better deal with a different realtor. Then, I remembered that I had made a commitment to my friend and proceeded forward.
In the end, my house sold for the highest amount ever in that neighborhood.
I thought it was you dance with the person who brought you?
An expensive senior living community near me organizes outings to protest everything progressive and Trump. It sickens me. These people lives that enabled them to reside in an expensive community. They stand on street corners waving their signs.
Barbara, if they get what they are asking for they will be one of the first groups to be sacrificed. These fools don’t know history. Those who put the communists in power are the first targets because they were the activists. The communists don’t want anyone who will fight against their power; they want a compliant population. All these libs are low IQ. They may be highly educated but they are not smart.
I think demonic deception is involved.
No other explanation suffices.
I live in a tiny coastal community in CA (there are a few conservatives here thank goodness) and seniors are out there with their anti Trump signs on the weekends. It’s sad. The good news is they don’t last too long…
We visited
Hearst Castle near Cambria last Fall. A group silver-haired Hippies gathered at the rainbow picket fence to protest Trump and wave at passers by. I began to wonder if it was their form of retirees meeting for breakfast, or car club enthusiasts gathering for coffee. It looked a bit like a Tie Dye party. Lol
Pathetic.
didjya' flip 'em duh bird as you drove by?!
I ‘LL wager a good portion of these libtards are retired University professors.
Yes. Retired teachers. This is likely why the larger protests usually coincide with school breaks or Summer vacation!
Absolutely!
Orl retired government workers.
Think about that for a minute. Who are these “organizers” planning the outings but a bunch of you progressives perhaps.
Oh I’m sure they are. It’s Portland.
My spouse and I lived in Oregon for over 40 years. This is why we moved to AZ three and half years ago. Just read where the University of Oregon is closing two dorms due to lack of numbers. Oregon continues to go more and more Blue. Go Woke, Go Broke!
Are those Mirabella residents looking like a PBS pledge drive lined up every Monday in front of Portland ICE? What cute signs they have, waving & smiling. They have zero idea of the actual world chaos they are cluelessly advocating for.
These folks are at Rose Villa plus they Gather on McLaughlin on Fridays
They need Jesus.
Probably more fun than playing charades or bingo.
Hahahahaha. Hey I like bingo. I like mahjong more though.
Barbara, (sorry about that Portlander thing, ever thought about moving East??) We have some friends who live in one of those fancy senior living complexes down in TX. We visited, and while everything is nice and pretty, maintained by "staff", a whole list of "things to do" posted on the elevator, they even can have little postage stamp gardens. I couldn't fathom living there, no place for my saws, lathes, hand tools, sawmill, tractors, garden as big as i want, runway for my model planes, wife's craft studio. They pay monthly fees, but none for me, though still gotta pay prop tax, of course. Different strokes, i guess, but I can see how folks in those "centers" might need something more exciting to do, and getting some sun while wearing silly clothes could be pretty edgy for them!
You could noy pay me to live in a 55+ "community." When you get a bunch of same-age people together in an institutional space, it's like high school all over again. Conform or be cast out...
The TV indoctrinated.
They tapped into their HOA energy. Busybodies
Must be a like-wise group in Columbus on High St at Spring some days. They certainly aren't reading C&C, probably CNN fed.
And what’s with all the singing?
May I add inflatable costumes. Definitely something mental going on...
Dementia.
Sickening
They probably like having the extra money, and something to do. I doubt they'd organize protests on their own.
Take heart, there are some gray haired boomers who were never hippies and will never be caught in a No Kings protest . . . except when they intentionally go to talk to them, which I did recently. I was told that Biden left us with the best economy ever, but, the guy said, "You wouldn't know that from watching Fox." I informed him that I do not watch Fox. All in all, it was fun, but I'm not sure it was worth the time spent.
Boomer here. My leftie neighbor recently ferreted out that I'm a conservative. She volunteers her political views all the time, no matter the topic under discussion. I usually just smile and change the subject. But she got me to admit to my conservatism and then asked accusingly whether I watch Fox. I said no. What I could have added but didn't, because it's none of her business, is that the reason is Fox is too liberal for me. That would have really set her hair on fire!
Fox has always played both sides of the fence and can never be trusted.
I find it amusing (and a bit frustrating) that 99% of libtards believe that all conservatives watch FOX "because their so far Right in the viewpoints." Because none of them actually watch it -they have no idea what they're talking about - which is the usual Modus Operandi of ALL talking points of such folks. They CANNOT discuss a valid point of ANY argument because they have ZERO actual talking points. Ever notice that? Better question: How could you NOT notice that? I've heard, "I don't want to talk about it" (as they turn away) so many times I've quit counting. And yes! FOX news is just as bad as ALL of the other Corporate Media, just a tee bit less obvious about it. "C'mon, man!"
I disagree. All they have is talking points. What they don't have are facts. On any subject. It is when they run out of the talking points they get aggressive and ugly.
Fox is just as bad as corporate media?! Whaaaaat? you have no clue or have never actually watched
"The Five" & "Jesse Watters Prime time".
Jesse rips 'em a new one every night.
Could you be denigrating Fox without having any direct knowledge of their people and shows?
FOX is an appropriate name.
That’s a tactic of the left. Accuse the other side of watching a more conservative network and then make it a disparaging act.
Lots of them have a midwit attitude left over from decades past. They’re boomer liberals clinging to the traditional belief that the NY Times and NPR are “reliable sources,” while anything even slightly conservative is biased.
The liberals are far less populous in the boomer age bracket than in the college students of this decade..
Well, I am not sure how much more RIGHT you could be . . . of me, but I watch Fox. "The Five" & "Jesse Watters Prime time" mostly. It is hard to believe if you have watched either show in the last six months, how you could be any more conservative. . . Jesse rips 'em a new one every night. You may be denigrating Fox as "too liberal" without having any direct knowledge of the network.
Oh, tell her! It's too much fun to watch these people explode!
“Biden left us with the worst economy ever, "You wouldn't know that from watching CNN."”
Two can play at that childish game
In the beginning the 'hippies' were very cool and sincere, but then were swiftly infiltrated by outsiders who actually hated hippies, but saw an opportunity for money and sex... and, of course, as they always do; brought with them, all the sins of man... In one sense, I suppose you could say the hippies were weak, and even ignorant. After reading Trump's tweets its easy to conclude he'll be dealing with the threat of Communism in America a tad more aggressively.
The media tried to "sell" them as cool and sincere, but they were mostly immature rebels who railed against "the establishment" the same way people attack President Trump today.
Being a “baby boomer hippie” myself, I would like to point out that we’re not all crazy lefties! Believe me, there are many, many of us out here who are conservative MAGA & MAHA folk…we’re just not as loud as our liberal counterparts! But then again, I’m in Texas, so there’s that…. 🤠
Yes Judy, some of the survivors grew up and properly raised their families and tried to forget the stupidity of their past. Those people chose a more conservative lifestyle due to family, values, religion and logic. Most did not grow up and address their problems. Those survivors now call themselves democrats, still deceiving themselves of the truth….
I wore some of the same clothing styles, but didn't adopt their social and political fantasies. They were scarce inside the red states.
Steve, just keep looking & be open to those who speak to you. I have said "I'm just a good woman looking for a good man to be a good woman to!" I've met people at the library, the laundromat & many other places but it seems once they begin to converse something comes forward to divert getting closer. I don't know what your age group is - I'm a senior - but I am childish in my hope for a loving partner to talk to & care for. Don't give up! Best, Cb
Thank you Carol🙏 I am happily married for almost four decades. With the most incredible children and surrounded by wonderful and supportive family and the most loyal friends. I am truly a blessed man😊. Someone like yourself deserves an amazing partner and hopefully you will find him when the time is right. Sometimes asking God for a little support works wonders 🙏 Best wishes and keep up the good fight and Never Give Up💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's a lot more than "hippie boomers"
I'm a boomer and the most conservative person in my family. Many of my friends who are in the same generation are also conservative. Just because the hippies got all the attention doesn't mean they were the majority in that generation. I don't believe any generation is homogenous.
DU (University of Denver) "Pioneers!" founded by inglorious, notorious, infamous, Sand Creek Massacring, Territorial Gov. John Evans, has an ad on Facebook discussing the deconstruction of student beliefs and then remaking them-- as their awesome good work aim for the student and society. Sure they dance around it with finesse and positivity, but that IS their MESSAGING.
actually i have heard many circles who preach this.
Dating g tip: Run as fast as you can towards God. If anyone keeps up, say Hi.
Now that's awesome. Jeff should pin this dating axiom
I just sent that advice to my two grandchildren, thank you!
Worked for my husband and me. Just celebrated 48 years.
YES!!!
Excellent comment! Great advice!
I used this same philosophy. I was divorced with two very young kids about the time I turned 30, but I had a good job and an ex husband who wanted to see and spend time with his kids. I stayed in a state where I had no family because I didn’t want to take my kids away from their dad.
I decided that the 3 of us were going to be a complete and happy family, and if a man came along at some point and fit in and saw the value of what we had going, great. Otherwise, we would be fine. 3 years later I met my husband and we hit 25 years married next January. People are attracted to mentally healthy people that can manage their lives and are content in whatever situation they find themselves, that’s all I’m saying.
By the way, my kids were 5 months old and 3 years old when I split with their dad and 3 and 6 when I met my husband. They have a great relationship with both their father and their stepfather.
Congrats, Valerie. You and your new husband have shown your children a great example. Choose carefully the first time, and keep your priorities for a possible second time.
Thanks. It wasn’t easy but I’m so glad I did it the way I did. Both of them are functioning adults with strong marriages and have each given me a grandbaby.
Sweet!
Works both ways too. This happened to me!! As soon as I stopped dating and looking for Mr Right, and joined a church to put all my focus back onto my relationship with God, not joking two weeks later I met my husband. TWO WEEKS! I was so determined to not be derailed I at first resisted him. “I don’t date people who smoke” (I didn’t and I was eager to throw the excuse up as a wall.) Then I refused to go on a date unless he agreed to attend church with me every weekend. (That ought to do it! Worked with every other guy I dated 🤣) He was raised Catholic and only attended church for weddings and funerals…
God knew dating would split my focus, but He also opened a door. When I started to drift again it was my husband that protected me. By attending services with me according to my conditions God reached through to him and he is why we kept going, learning, and growing. I couldn’t have stopped attending if I wanted to because now my husband was dig in. We were married in that church three years later and dedicated all three of my children there.
(He also gave up smoking in under 30 days, and never smoked again, God Bless him… and he had been a heavy smoker since he was 8 years old (3 older partying brothers 😆) and had smoked a pack a day the entire time. So this was a real testament to his commitment to me.)
Sometimes God answers prayer quickly when we shift our focus back to a relationship with Him.
Juju, that’s awesome - praise the Lord! Thanks for sharing.
We like you and you always have something good to say!
Amen to that.
Same for me. After my divorce I was constantly looking for a man. After 3 years I thought I was never going to find one, made an assessment and realized I had a life people would kill for and set about trying to change the one thing I could do something about out of the three situations I didn’t like about my life. 6 weeks later I rode a ski lift with the man I would end up marrying within 6 months. We will celebrate 43 years together this September!
It was the opposite for me. I had sworn off men at age 28. They were creepy, liars, perverts, and low life. I decided Jesus was the only Bridegroom I needed. In walked the man I was married to for almost 40 years asking me to dance. We danced until he died in September 2022.
That’s beautiful, Debra. Thank you for sharing.
LOL... thanks for that TT! Life is full of conundrums.
What a great word, conundrums.
Hubby and I still remember our amazing college pastor say one evening, "more important than finding the right person is BEING the right person".
We never forgot.
Wow, Tri, that is so good! And it’s the Christian way, because the #1 relationship everyone needs is with Jesus Christ ❤️
I'm publishing a podcast next week with exactly this sentiment. First, know thyself, as they say.
Oh, good advice for both sexes.
Young women are encouraged (by forces that want them to stay single?) to make a list of demands of any potential boyfriend or husband.
They’re told to think exclusively about “what they want” in a partner.
This advice reminds everyone - if you want to form a happy couple, think about what YOU bring to the table!
Ditto... I was married once, divorced, had another serious relationship that ended and decided I was done. Several months later I attended the opening night premiere of the movie "The Right Stuff" (based on the book by Tom Wolfe that was about the early space program) and found myself standing in the crowded theater entrance next to a man my age who was with his 18-year-old son (step-son I learned later). He thought I was in danger of being crushed in the crowd -- I'm 4'11"-- so they decided to protect me by standing on either side. We ended up sitting together in the theater but said goodbye when the movie ended. Three months later we met again at a different theater--he was alone then-- and we exchanged phone numbers. (He was a private pilot, hence his interest in the book and movie... he thought he'd struck gold when he met a woman who'd read the book and went to see the movie)/ By then he was in the divorce process, which was initiated independently of anything to do with me...long story short, we were married a year later and have been together for 41 years, have a son who has family and gave us three grandchildren. The "right stuff" indeed!
Outstanding!
06/27/26: Brilliant. Wish I'd known that a lot time ago (but everything worked out just fine anyway).
The advice is exactly the same for the females (ceasing to look for the right, etc.).
John Bolton right now is obsessed with finding his future "right" cell mate...
My experience as well Torch. Except it was a dear sister in law and in Christ. After her advice to pursue the Lord FIRST, my lovely wife walked into my life.
There have been a few times in my life where I’ve been forced to realize how the ordinary daily things we do, looked at as routine or tedious, are truly the most extraordinary things in our life. It could be a change that we may have no control over that makes us realize. We get so used to our daily routines that we can easily forget those blessings we've been handed. It could come to us when someone else points out the magic in the mundane that wakes us up. Suddenly, we stop taking for granted the very things we had forgotten to appreciate.
I think we all can agree that during the pandemic, it seemed everyday Biden and his henchmen were taking away freedom after freedom that we thought could never be taken from us. It seemed to happen in a flick of the switch. A simple thing like going to the store, or going out for a bite to eat became a big hurdle we all had to somehow climb over. Even bodily autonomy became a fight that many lost.
I’ve had these moments where I really began to think the small things I do everyday, that most days feel like a hassle, are the things that if I suddenly couldn’t do I would miss the most. Getting up at 4:30 every morning and making coffee for my wife, many mornings seems like a headache, but I know it’s extraordinary to her, from time to time she tells me how much she appreciates it. Walking my dogs everyday. They may not be able to say it but they certainly show me how much they love their walks and how extraordinary I am for taking them. We can forget how being able to get up everyday, open our eyes and see, go to work, earn a living to provide for our families, can at times seem ordinary, but to the people we support, even if they don’t notice or acknowledge it, these ordinary things we do are extraordinary. Many times the day to day routines feel like a grind but if that ability was taken away we would quickly become aware of the blessings that had been given to us. It’s these ordinary things we do that build extraordinary character.
It is easy to get caught up in the day to day routines of life and forget how precious family is and we are. Take a moment today to reflect on your blessings, and never lose sight of the extraordinary in the routines of daily life.
God Bless and Happy Saturday!!
J.Goodrich
Do more than arrive: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” —William Arthur Ward
Be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Everyone should watch the chosen. Jesus came during the time when the Roman occupation was very oppressive and as well the religious leaders were a bit overwhelming so the whole population of Israel lived under great stress. That’s when Jesus decided it was time for the good news of salvation from sin
He showed them that he wasn’t gonna fix the political situation but only the situation of personal character and eternal Destiny
All we need right now is to stay spiritually awake
Bones, Very good series overall, true to scripture done with a bit of artistic license, but done very well. https://watch.thechosen.tv/#carousels
I liked the original film 'The Shepherd' more than the remake, that short is what convinced me to follow the progress of The Chosen. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9472276/
Beautiful thought. I for one can't even come close.
But you, and I, can try.
By our fruits let us be known.
My fruits are not acceptable right now due to the state of current affairs. Maybe once the commies are purged and the Dem party is disabled.
It’s quite hard to forgive and forget when you’re still reeling and angry about being forced into batchelorhood. It’s hard not to allow anger at the person who did the forcing bleed over to everyone in that person’s gender. You’re thinking the right way about forgiving and forgetting. When you have managed to do that, I think you’ll find that you’re attracting instead of repelling. No one wants to enter a relationship having to answer for what the last person did. May God give you the strength to forgive and forget so your heart can be open to trying again and giving your next love the gift of a clean slate. We appreciate you here at C&C!
Amen to that!
I will happily abide by all but the forgive/forget. That would require me to forgive what the Dems/commies are doing and then forget about it. Hell NO to that.
Lori—we are asked to forgive because the acid of unforgiveness eats away at us. We are not asked to forget. We can remember but let it go.🙏🏻
Not something I can abide right now with current events. Maybe another time. I am not capable of forgiving those that seek to destroy our country, traditions, morals and the fact they are coming for our kids/grandkids. Nope, not on my watch. You do it for me.
Lori, I'm not sure we're required to forgive groups of people. I don't think we should "let it go" either. We have to fight against these people you mentioned, not passively let them destroy our country. I have had to forgive family members, but I haven't forgotten their actions, and recently, when one of them tried to reassert himself into my life with his harassment, I wouldn't allow it.
Stand our ground. God does not seek for us to be milquetoasts and pushovers either.
Fortunately, the older I get the better I get at forgetting which makes my limited capability of forgiving considerably easier ;-)
That is one way to deal with it for sure!
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Should they come to Christ and mend their ways and their ideology and ask for forgiveness, yes I would forgive them.
I think we all know that's not going to happen. They want chaos and destruction.
After how much death and destruction they cause? Perhaps to you or your family? Good on you then, a big NO for me. They will never mend their ways so I don't waste my time entertaining that. I am too busy getting ready for war.
Jesus was not talking about EVIL when he was talking about forgiveness. He had some choice names for those who were desecrating the temple and the leaders who were adding rules for the people, (rules not sent down by God) and they weren't following God's rules themselves.
We know this, what is your point?
Ty for the reminder! Very wise words. I’ve not been able to really find joy in much since Covid. I’ve lost all joy in crafting and creating. It feels very much like “why even bother”. I think I’ve been feeling like I’m trapped in survival mode. For my sanity I must find joy again. I have so much to be thankful for and sometimes forget that. I’ve become so angry at everything and don’t know how to stop being angry at all this insanity. I own a home , something many won’t even be able to do. I have a job that pays me well. I have my soulmate of almost 37 yrs (since the age of 15). I have 2 wonderful adult children who I tho k we did right by. I have family and friends that I cherish. I need to focus on that. 💛
I have found that the more often I pray throughout the day/night, the better and calmer I feel. It is sort of like an on-going conversation with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit. The three of them don’t mind if you have to stop and run to catch the potatoes before they boil over❣️🕊️✌🏼🫶☕️🍪
Mrs M—God never sleeps and is always ready to listen. Praise and thanksgiving to the one, true, living God.
“Prayer is the breath of the soul”
You are on the right track. Slow down and see the beauty of the moment. Your wife’s smile, the stunning colors in your garden, moments of joy.
Thank God. We don’t benefit from the acid of resentment, and your faith can help you to look forward with joy, rather than dwell on resentment.
Speak truth to lies, stand for what is good and relish this life.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 - Pray without ceasing.🙏
Thanks for highlighting the true threat of Communism Jeff.
I appreciate the commentary.
Can hardly believe that I liked (and understood) James Carville ! ….
I understand that completely!! I went through the same thing, I didn’t enjoy anything anymore, quit doing any crafting things I used to do. It was very hard. I made myself start crocheting something and I slowly started climbing out of the … I don’t even know what to call it, it wasn’t depression it was just … hopelessness and felt like nothing would matter ever again. I have come a long way but it is slow. Hang in there 💗 Find joy in the little things.
That’s how I crawled out of a personal tough spot…I started crocheting prayer shawls and lap blankets for others going through tough times. That group is still going strong at my old church. Promptly started another group at my new church. Turning from self to others can be uplifting. 😇🙏🏻🧶
Joy is a choice I had to put in practice when my husband passed away 7 years ago, then Covid, then my mother passing, all in the same two years. I found a huge picture of sunflowers and hummingbirds I put on my wall in the kitchen, and the verse from James 1:2 - “Today I choose Joy!” Seeing that every morning helps!
I’m so sorry 😢 Yes! I will choose Joy daily. Great advice!
Such simple and meaningful advice - thanks and good for you!
I keep falling back on the post it note above my desk… Make Beautiful Things…..
I had the opposite reaction during covid: I indulged in watercolor, playing the piano, and gardening. I joined a Bible study group, I rejoined the church I grew up in, I read books that mattered like "War and Peace," "The Divine Comedy," "The Federalist Papers," "The Underground History of American Education," "The Case for Christ," and "Mere Christianity." My life actually got better during covid because I stopped listening to legacy media and began reading what dissident doctors and scientists had to say. Hope you will discover your joy once again. ❤️
This was me but now so much crashed afterwards and aging. Earthly life goes on for God's glory but it feels lonlier as God pulls you away from all things but Himself and we are here to demonstrate His character even when those around us don't find us useful. I know why old ppl look sad, stonefaced, knowing, and grumpy. We can't hear, see, smell how we smell, my teeth hurt, I'm in comparatively very good condition but I can't afford to fix much of it and I'm too afraid to ask an expert. I'm caretaking of parents and health challenged adult children but some of my children are so caught in hating me for being a fighter (like a parent come home from a war your kids were protesting) or they can't find a trustworthy marriageable mate who isn't politically or doctrinally compromised so we are all living in a house that's old as my great grandparents I'm still trying to remodel.
Thanks for listening. God knows. God hears. God cares. This is His doing for s time for a good reason all for Him and others not just for me.
Really appreciate all you who share a common Father and talk about Him.
❤️❤️❤️
Maybe find a great Bible teaching church. God can fill the void. Well that’s what I did in 2021.
Yes! What a huge difference that’s been for our family! Left our Methodist church of 22+ yrs due to the ‘split’…found an amazing Bible church - wow - had no idea how far the ‘church’ had strayed. It’s been an amazing experience!
I understand your struggle. I, too, have never been the same since covid. The demonic covid fiasco and constant assault, by the media, in all areas of life promote darkness. It’s an inner battle to not surrender. My faith is the armor that helps me conquer.
Not to minimize the experiences of those who have lived through actual war and are dealing with PTSD, but the darkness unleashed during those years have left their marks mentally, physically, and spiritually. Whether one was and is a true believer in the covid scam and continues to live in fear, or one was one of the unvaxxed lepers who received the daily onslaught of vitriol from numerous sources and were impacted in their careers, businesses, and family life, the impact of the scamdemic was no tiny blip in history. It was and is a spiritual assault from Hell.
This is war!
We are in a birthing of a qualitatively New Epoch, Bridget. Despite all the maddening chaos, from a 35,000 ft. vantage point America's health is very much being cared for.
Books can be extremely helpful to gain perspective. In directing our attention to deeper themes the outer mess of life is neutralized.
Societies collapse ... it's cosmic.
But ours isn't. We're undergoing the pains of childbirth.
Due to the flack of our 'Grand Renewal' not a single member of my birth family is in contact with me. No cousins, no siblings, no nieces or nephews.
I have my spiritual family.
Lots of brothers and sisters out there. Hugs.
So many of us understand what you're experiencing, Bridget. For me, it was the realization that my years of very rewarding international mission trips, during which I met so many wonderful people and "adopted" several young men, had come to an end because I would not get jabbed. Then the ministry we had worked with ended also because the missionaries came to the U.S. and the wife stupidly got a covid booster. She was never able to return to their country of ministry. I honestly grieved for a period of time, until one day I thought, "Be happy that you met them, not sad that you'll never see them again." I still have a lot of anger and I am not shy about opening conversations about covid fraud. I am finding more people who agree with me and that's encouraging.
I deeply relate to this. One common thing about my spirit most my life was to make my surroundings beautiful by any means necessary. Interior design, crafts, graphic design, landscaping … hosting dinners where I literally showered guests with comfort and joy. Then the LGBTQxycrazy kidnapped my only daughter, my firstborn. The past decade has been the most excruciating pain of my life. I sit here today surrounded by a cluttered, messy home that resembles a tomb, nothing done to it that I previously dreamed of doing, as if I’m caught in a time warp and time froze. It’s still 2015 for me. And I struggle to find the motivation to get up and clean it and make it beautiful once again. There’s a hopelessness without my daughter. I was doing it all for her, for our family. How do you keep doing it when they are no longer there to receive it?
So I get it. I’m trying to climb out, but it’s really long way to the top of this valley of death.
Thanks for sharing JuJu. I will remember your name in my prayers for all the self sacrificing God fearing parents who are now cast off from those God gave and Satan is testing, and the prodigals He knows who and where they are. We are many but we didn't know that "children will hate to their parents" was going to be us.
God saves. Not us. Waiting with you.
Children always hate their parents, but most grow out of it as they mature. There is a large number of parents whose children did not follow that historic trajectory, because their minds were captured in insidious ways, trained to despise their parents in ways not typical.
Eradicating the Spirit of Death from your life:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSe511sisNM&t=2s&pp=2AECkAIB0gcJCdQKAYcqIYzv&ra=m
I am so sorry to hear of your pain. I can only send you my prayers and hope for your climb up.
Most nights my husband and I have a ritual in which we count our blessings.
We do 5 each. It might seem forced to do it like that, but we enjoy it, and we riff off of each other's blessings. It becomes long conversations.
You just made a good start on counting your blessings.
Mrs. RW
Count your blessings, not your burdens.
The joy of the Lord is a deep well that can't be affected by the storms of the world. Go to church, listen to worship music, read your Bible to be reminded of all God has done.
Bridget, surrender yourself to Jesus. Once you give Him everything you will be freed from worry. Transformed! I did this a couple of years ago and now I am grateful for every little blessing and just enjoy life. God’s blessings be upon you.
https://www.surrendernovena.com/
Today would have been my husband's 66th birthday. I'd gladly pick up his socks from the floor and lower the toilet seat if I could have him back. I miss being able to roll over in bed to snuggle in his warmth. I miss someone to talk to, listen to.
Count your blessings.
Sending a hug. ❤️
Hugs and love!
Thank you, J. I appreciate your sentiments.
And I want to remind people, now that I’m in the ‘senior years,’ how fast time goes by and to be cautious how you spend it. Raising a family, caring for little ones, making time to travel and visit siblings, providing for your loved ones —- I ponder those memories and would give all the gold on earth to be back in the child-raising years and truly appreciate the treasure they were.
The days are long, but the years are short...
Indeed. Thanks for this reminder
I absolutely loved every minute of the child raising years when my kids were not yet in middle school and higher. Biggest joy of my life.
Same.
Indeed. My wife and I met July 1984. We married in 1989, and had our first child in 1992, and our second in 1995. We spent over 35 years taking care of people in a small NW town, and all of sudden, we were retiring. My wife and I both ask, "what happened, how'd we get to retirement so fast"? Now time passes like a one of those old movie images of the calendar pages flying by.
There are seasons in our lives. Going back to a past season would negate the next season. Today I’m in my widowed season, almost 2 years now. It’s been my most difficult season, constantly praying for wisdom and strength to move forward. I’m looking forward to the grandchildren season, hopefully soon.
I;feel exactly the same way, Pamela.
Thank you James for another positive and inspiring message 🙏 Not an hour goes by that I don’t thank God for everything he has provided me. Through hard work and the love of God, Family and Country, I can say I’m one of the most blessed people on this earth…God is Good 🙏
Gratitude is everything! I’m so thankful for all the World Cup visitors who have pointed out so much of what we take for granted: AC, trucks, grocery stores on every corner, Ranch dressing, bbq, our kind and friendly people, the diverse beauty of this country.
Happy Sabbath Day!
“Guard the Sabbath Day to keep it holy(separate).
And there are many blessings to behold. Happy Saturday back at you James!
James, you may find Dr. Jessica Rose's SS today very interesting. Food for thought.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/ownership?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=516896&post_id=203803585&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=qos2e&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Became acquainted with Dr. Jessica Rose's indomitable, unacceptable spirit during the pLandemic. I love her in that way you love someone's spirit whom you've never met, but hear and feel and who expands your heart 𝗮𝗻𝗱 intellect. One of the White Hats imo. SO grateful for her energy and output on the planet at this time. She was born for this. I want to be like her when I grow up! ;) ('cept that I could be her ma :\ )Thanks for posting this link.
She is a true gem!
No matter how low you feel, there are always people who are lower. Get out of your Lazyboy and go help someone else. You have talents, share them. You have energy, do something for someone else. You have time, go to a Hospice facility and sit with someone who is dying. Get off your Keister and create a life of service. You won't have time to wonder about why you're not happy.
Thank you James for always giving great messages to be grateful for everything! 🙏🏻
Thanks Teresa hope things are well with You!
You sir are a blessing, appreciate the gentle reminder...
Thank You MJ!!
“I woke up this morning, and thanked God that I did.” So said Rush Limbaugh on his radio show frequently during of the last year of his life, after he was diagnosed with and fighting cancer. (Miss him so much) That’s how I also start my days, although I am not facing a similar situation. Then I start counting blessings: I can see, hear, touch, smell and taste. I have generally good health. I consider the many people I know who do not. Then it’s on to miracles: hummingbirds, morning birdsongs, my Golden Retriever patiently awaiting the last bite of toast, hot coffee, etc. etc. And all this while living in America! I am blessed beyond comprehension. (Inconceivable!) Life is short, precious, and nothing stays the same for very long. Living a life of gratitude to my Creator — the One True God — seems the only appropriate response to experiencing the daily blessings I don’t deserve but have been given anyway!
So beautifully said James! So important to see all the blessings in life! God is so good! 💟✝️
Thanks Jennifer I hope things are well with you!!
Life is good and I am blessed! 💟✝️
Agree about both coffee and walking the dog, but i look at it as double win, while she's happy to find fresh hot, I get my coffee too, and walking the dogmakes him happy and regular and gets me needed exercise, plus i get to watch sunrise and reset me circadian rythmn each day too!
I believe my dogs are my life coaches 🤗
James another thing that we may take for granted is good health until we lose it. Be grateful for your blessings.
NY has turned into Iran in 1979.
Most people in America have no idea what im talking about.
And thats exactly why our education system no longer teaches history.
We haven't taught honest history in decades. When I was teaching I received complementary copies of every new U.S. history college text in hopes I would adopt it. I want to say that I began noticing the downward spiral in the 70s: no footnotes, no bibliographies, no primary sources, and an attitude of America as a hostile force upending the lives of "victim cultures."
Exactly.
History is the best cautionary tale.
When you don't learn history (or are taught false history), you neither have a future....nor a past. It's all planned.
This is also why they change definitions, change nuance and create euphemisms of inversion (gender affirming care), etc.etc
Books are now being written using Wikipedia. That's not a joke.
Most AI also uses Wikipedia. Beware!
Yes. AI may have some good applications to medicine, etc. But for real information, it is incredibly lame. And Wikipedia is one of the big problems. Of course, what could you expect from morons such as Katherine Maher?
George Washington studied history and learned how Europeans and Asians have fought amongst themselves for millennia. He also witnessed it in his time. From his knowledge he wisely advised all future generations of Americans to avoid foreign entanglements. Trump needs to be taught what Washington learned and advised.
Ultimately that's what Trump is trying to do, extricate outside from entangling alliances. The Iran thing complicated that, but ultimately it's for the good of the entire world and America that Iran not have nuclear weapons. Sometimes you have to take a detour on the way to a larger goal. Washington warned against alliances, something different from what you've suggested.
I noticed a lot of colleges got rid of their history professors!
In many colleges history degrees as well as departments have been disbanded. Maybe that's a good thing.
Education--completely subverted over the last 50 years. If you're looking for root causes...
The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children. —Dr. James Dobson <-- we are here.
I loved and admired Dr James Dobson!! Can’t count how many of his books I read when I was raising my children. What a godly, kind, funny, wise, wise, wise man he was. 🙏🙏🙏
Paging public school system.
Yes. All on purpose.
Remember that picture of the two girls celebrating in a car after the Shaw was overthrown?
One was brutally murdered and the other had to flee Iran on the threat of death.
The same useful idiots here will ask "why am I being marched naked to a trench full of corpses?"
And watching Gaza on Tiktok.
Subverted when created in 1920 by publishers of Rockefeller and Carnegie.
Everyone thinks they were not brainwashed.
My friends whose grandparents came from Lebanon certainly understand.
I learned about tolerance and pluralism in school.
I am shocked by any calls for violent purges of political opponents, right or left.
I am also shocked that people so recently discriminated against so eagerly become violent extremists when they get the power.
Mrs. RW
Yeah, I'm not pleased with the "purge" talk. From either side. That is not what America is about. I suspect they will defeat themselves because I seriously doubt the majority of Americans will just stand by and watch the USA become USSR part 2. At the same time, I never underestimate the stupidity of the majority of Americans. I just hope I'm not wrong.
Enjoy this piece it dovetails with today’s post and includes additional clips. From the channel American Fire with Ace:
https://youtu.be/4ESdMay7az8?is=tbS5Eod4AsA00FCj
Ryan I’m old enough to know exactly what you are talking about and it’s definitely frightening!
Where is history not being taught?
Never did teach history.
The real reason Blue States won't release their voter rolls:
Treason
Absolutely right.
Why do you think Leftoids want a foreign judge stopping the President from getting foreigners off the voter rolls so now foreigners can vote for foreigners to take over our government.... pretty sure that's called a hostile takeover.
And they want to keep birthright citizenship…any foreigner born here, but raised in a communist country, can become a congressman, senator, and even President!
Janice, Sorry President is not available to anyone who was not born in the USA of citizen parents. Constitutional requirement.
Wrong. Today, a “natural born citizen “ just has to have been born in the US. Or, if out of the US, born to US citizens. There is nothing stating they have to be born to US citizen parents if born on US soil.
Stop for a moment and think about how brazen the left has been when it comes to fund raising (ActBlue), deep ties to the deep-state USAID, medicaid fraud, and everything we always suspected and now see clearly. Then, apply that same hubris to elections in blue states, counties, and cities. These people have no moral compass, only a pragmatic one. Win. Whatever it takes. Must. Seize. Power. The fraud that we will eventually uncover will be part of tomorrow's history lessons,
The ends justify the means
@jeffchilders have you seen this short clip? This is CA Dem’s Scott Weiner being devoured by his “supporters” - the Purity Spiral Polycrisis in action. :
https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/2070831707607941601/video/1?s=46
Saw that. Definitely best example of the polycrisis. Not to mention he absolutely deserved every second of it, but not for the reasons they were doing it.
Enjoy this summary: https://youtu.be/4ESdMay7az8?is=tbS5Eod4AsA00FCj
Was so curious what was going through his head. I’m sure he’s more than familiar with that wing of the party and how to deal with it (say nothing, keep moving). Towards the end of the encounter he could have said “if you’re not happy with me, how about you run for office?” And then we could get more crazy commies elected here in Blue Blue Commiefornia.
Treason is precisely what we have been watching take place for too long. May God help us to boldly stand for His Truth and for our founding documents. 🙏🇺🇸 Now, release the Wolverines!!! ( I think a bunch of us are to join that pack! 😉)
**Newsom didn’t say what the tax money is needed for. He didn’t describe how he would spend it**
Same thing with the train-to-nowhere billions, the homeless billions and money collected to help the wild fire victims.
It's so funny watching the Ds belly ache about how these radicals are taking over their party when they allowed it just for power.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot.
Oh the schadenfreude is sublime.
I am loving watching their pursuit of power by any means philosophy blow up in their faces.
Also, currently listening to All-In and they’re discussing the new communists coming into power and all the things they want to abolish, like the police, ICE, reform the
legislative branch, pack the supreme court etc. Someone says, ‘but isn’t this the same as what Trump campaigned on? He wants to abolish the IRS and USAID.’ (I’m pretty sure J Cal said it because he comes up with takes like this regularly, but I’m listening,not viewing, and they have a couple of guests on so I’m not completely sure).
Thankfully one of the other guys said ‘he doesn’t want to get rid of the constitution.’ I thought all of these guys are super smart, but the comparison of apples to oranges as an inability to use critical thinking makes me wonder.
It’s just theft, that’s all.
Theft and greed. Seems there is never enough money. God sees everything.
You defined communism with a 3 word sentence. Bravo.
Ryan: I am assuming you mean the ‘theft and greed’ three word sentence rather than the last one. 😅
Hahaha. Yes. I didn't think of that
I know how he’ll spend it. Throw money at union bosses, contribute to non-profits that espouse leftist ideologies, promise more funds to universities that produce uneducated leftists who will go on to be our judges, attorneys, educators, and political activists.
California has been stealing money for centuries. Mark Hopkins built his wealth on the gold rush through hotels and mining supplies. They claimed there was no family to inherit his wealth after they stated the one witness, his nanny, who could prove it belongs to Johns Hopkins family wasn't a viable witness because she was black.
Ordinary people pay pretty hefty property taxes on their houses and cars. Why shouldn't rich people pay similar taxes on their stock holdings and art?
Someone has to fund the fraud and NGOs in CA.
The coddled middle-class educated pseudo-Marxists supporting the DSA have a certain vision. When the socialist / communist utopia arrives, these folks will all be members of the politboro, living lush in their dachas.
Not one of them will have to live UNDER socialist / communist rules and economics. They all see themselves as MAKING and ENFORCING those rules on someone else.
This is exactly what one should expect of people raised in comfort, who live in a social media world, and likely have never broken a clod of earth with hand tools in their comfy lives.
The communist mantra before they achieve power:
"I believe in equality."
The communist mantra after power is achieved:
"I believe in equality. As long as you get less than me."
some are more equal than others
not sure they have thought it through that far - I believe that they have been brainwashed from media and school to believe that republicans are evil and who could vote for that so they automatically vote D without any critical thinking
You’ll own nothing and be happy….
Just like the IRGC and the Basij, or the Gasht-e Ershad. Anyone belonging to those groups as well as their family and friends are protected from the enforcers and often not required to follow the same rules. When I learned more about Iran, all I could think was how it sounded like the democrats and the deep state/RINOs.
When you see video of Iranian women uncovered, looking normal, they belong to these groups. They use it as propaganda against what they do to everyone else who must adhere to the dress code or be beaten or shot. The most successful and well paid Iranians belong to these groups too. All the privileges of employment and advancement goes to those devoted to the IRGC. Sounds too eeerily familiar. Martha’s Vineyard anyone? When illegals were dropped on their community? Rules for thee.
"The First Circle" by Alexandre Solzhenitsyn ... a spectacular and pithy description of what you describe.
Soft men make hard times....
Actually, the useful idiots are usually killed after the communists takeover. Something they never count on.
The sad part is, they’re likely to be right if they manage to take over the democrats party. Despite its egalitarian message, communism also rewards its early supporters with wealth and elite status.
“We know which side BlueSky is on.”
I think we always knew what side Blue Sky is on. They just came all of the way out of the closet.
Dennis Prager has always said that “normal” (is there such a person) democrats have more in common with republicans than leftists aka socialists/communists- let’s hope they side with republicans or indeed split the party ( with both becoming irrelevant) - democrats are modern day WHIGS and deserve the same fate
Bluesky is stocked full of the trans community. Their desire to force their lifestyle on every space is more important to them than a communist takeover. If the only way they get their way is for our country to become a communist country, they will roll out the welcome mat. We are dealing with demons, or another Sodom and Gomorra where people have chosen to align with demons.
You are so right about that, Juju!
I notice the DSA candidates seem pro Islam and anti America and Israel. Have these people, especially the women, realize the life they will live under sharia law?
I really don’t think that they have thought it out that far yet!
Spot on Juju
Yes indeed Juju.
And some food for thought Dr. Linda you may appreciate. The AVMA is on Bluesky, not Truth Social or any conservative social media. And these are the "professionals" taking care of your pets and ushering in self amplifying RNA shots for pets as well. I wonder if the AMA is on there too?
The AMA may be on BlueSky but it doesn’t matter. I learned early in my career that the AMA didn’t represent me. Its ultra liberal stance over the years has only reinforced my perception.
It matters to me and others. It is important for conservatives to know so it reinforces the need to seek alternative care and only use allopathic in case of a real emergency.
AVMA: Note on exceptions: Only Alaska, California, and Wisconsin are known to offer alternative pathways (such as on-the-job training or state-approved non-accredited schooling) to sit for the VTNE and get licensed. All other US states and Canada require AVMA Accreditation for Veterinary Technicians and Veterinarians .
In other words, another Rockefeller captured grift, just like human medicine.
Yup. SSDD SHug. The AVMA has a huge and obnoxious lobby. I venture it is in bed with the AMA as well. 2 entities, same mirror.
The House of Rep has the right and ability to refuse to seat any elected member. These two commies from NY have both expressed their hatred for America and its constitution. How can they therefore actually swear to the oath of office? If they do it will be a lie given all their public statements. Will the republicans who will be in the majority have the guts to do it.
Secondly like Jeff I was always anti-communist. Where I grew up that was the default position. I remember when I was in grammar school and Stalin died. My teacher cheered that “uncle Joe” was finally dead and now the people might finally have some freedom. Later in the army I found solsynitzen’s first book: one day in the life of Ivan denistovich. Then I read gulag archipelago. If that won’t make you hate communism nothing will.
The election in NY has ten percent of the eligible voters voting. They could be beaten if the people would get off their lazy assess and vote
“The House of Rep has the right and ability to refuse to seat any elected member.” Now that would be really interesting!
They won’t have the backbone to do it. They’ll fret “well they could do it to us next!” 😱 It all depends on the reasoning when you do it. Make it clear the why is to prohibit communism and you make a solid precedent. Make it unclear and you give them opportunity to accuse Conservatives of being communists just like they accused us of being fascists. It has to be extremely clear with incontestable evidence and examples.
Always weird that people espousing such beliefs can take the oath of a US office with a straight face, and be accepted, too. But Biden took the oath of office, but didn't faithfully execute immigration law, so nothing new.
They take an oath to defend the constitution, but they don’t live up to it. There are 2 city council members for the City of Asheville, Kim Roney and Shenika Smith, who will not recite the pledge of allegiance. Roney is running for mayor.
Now that is concerning!
If we had paper ballots.
Carville calling this a schism is a very big deal. Fingers crossed.
It is a big deal. Trump’s often called divisive by Democrats, and they aren’t wrong. Instead of the weak, mealy-mouthed timidity and compromise of the GOPe, he draws bold and polarizing lines. One (fully-intended) effect is to inflame his most extreme opponents. Swing voters will then see a series of easy choices: Communism or not? Keep even the violent criminal illegals or deport them? Destroy the gender binary or not?
The more sensible Democrats understand what a trap this is. It forces them to either agree with Trump and alienate their most motivated supporters, or fight Trump by aligning with the communists, jihadis, and trans types who alienate 80% of voters. That dilemma can’t be resolved by claiming “social issues are a distraction” or blathering about “affordability.”
Thank you as always Jeff! You are such a wonderful dose of sunshine in my our morning ☀️🙏 Seems like the democratic cult of insanity has finally split between the severely mentally deranged and the morally and mentally bankrupt. Let’s see which side wins, so we can all enjoy their reactions when they get destroyed in November 🙏
“The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend” is blowing up in the face of the DNC and Deep State. They can’t control the Islamists or the Communist. The Left is fracturing before they could destroy MAGA 😎.
Only on Fox news.
Jeff is 100% right about those 13 "moderate Democrats": "Don’t fall for it. ‘Moderate’ Democrats aren’t rallying around their sudden, rediscovered patriotism. They are organizing against a movement that is stealing safe Democrat seats. It’s self-defense." I know this because one of them, the idiot Janelle Bynum, is my US rep. My district, south of Portland OR, was heavily gerrymandered to take in part of the very blue city of Portland, so we lost our Republican rep to her in the last election. Now she realizes that those blue Portland voters will more likely vote for a Communist than her if one runs next time.
Could go either way--either a big reaction by voters, wary of the communist threat, or a big endorsement by voters, who turn out to be ignorant about what communism really is. No way to predict what will happen.
I think we can guarantee that "ignorant" describes most Portland voters.
Willfully ignorant
What is communism?
Maybe you, for once, should enlighten us all.
A totalitarian state ruled by bankers and oligarchs create the word.
The word is manufactured, a bogey man to create fear and division. Look how it is used today to control the masses.
How it is used to prepare for the election.
Endless enemies.
Humm...was Mao an oligarch/banker? Lenin? Pol Pot? Stalin? Oh sorry...they were just bogey men. Wonderful folks who killed millions upon millions of people. You are one poor lost soul. How in the hell were you a university professor with that knowledge of history? Or any instructor for that matter.
Wake up BD.
All tools of the bankers.
Pick up a book.
Mandami is the latest
Bankers play all sides.
As I’ve said for decades, the unspoken motto of the Democrat party is “As long as it doesn’t affect me.” Jeff is 100% correct. The rallying democrats don’t care an iota for anything but their own a$$/wallet/power.
Wow! There is do much going on.
Good morning!!
Happy Saturday! Lots going on around here!! 😇⛈️
Happy Sabbath Day!
Shabbat Shalom
Solid prognosticating on your part. It seems likely the dems are going to cause alot more mayhem before this gets settled. Once the young dismiss the lions as past it, do the lions become invisible? The communist heads like the media will certainly keep that notion going. Ok Boomer, is about to rear its ugly head again. The young are stupid and easy to play, half of them cant read what i just wrote! Schools teach them marxism full on. How long will we allow schools and media to poison our youth with communism. It could literally break our nation. Please God, a great midterm for the GOP.
Boomers are seeing genocide early. That's transformational for the young with Tiktok.
“Reasonable Democrats,” Jones tweeted yesterday, “are going to have to get off their couches, roll up their sleeves and start organizing real voters on the ground.”
"Resonable Democrats"
Both of them?
There are two?
Fetterman aaaaand …. ?
Oh! Harold Ford Jr
Reasonable Democrats are former Democrats at this point. I should know.
Don't forget, long before traveling the country giving those speeches, the Gipper was in a death-struggle at SAG with a powerful communist wing. William Holden and Olivia DeHavilland were his chief allies. The rank and file were with Reagan, but the commies got many of the SAG positions. In a fantastic climax to booting them out, Reagan went to D.C. to testify . . . against censorship!
All in my book, "Reagan: The American President," which I wrote with unprecedented access to the Reagan archives in Simi Valley. (You can tell by the sign-ins that I was the ONLY academic to spend any serious time there at all).
Larry, thank for your work on RR.
Reagan was groomed by the Trotkyites to play a part.
No. Not in a million years.
James Carville is 81 years old. Maher is 70. Nobody cares what they and their peers think other than a few other geezers. He is an old guy waving his cane at those darned youngsters zooming by in their fast cars.
Open borders is the Left’s nuke to destroy the right. They can’t convince the people to support the Revolution, so they’re bringing in a new people. They have almost succeeded. The next Democrat president will do it.
1/ Foreign-born are a record high percent of the US population. Include second and third generations and you already have local majorities:
https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Number-and-Share-US-Population-AllTime-Highs-January-2025
2/ And they are almost all Leftists:
https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/the-political-typology-within-racial-and-ethnic-groups/
Except we old farts will be the ones that have to save your freedom, in the coming months. Otherwise,you fops become victims of islam.
I always wonder what age has to do with whether one's opinion is valid. But we hear this type of "argument" all the time.
Grateful to be an old fart. I'm not sure I was to see the next act.
Who here said that age has anything to do with the validity of one’s views? Nobody that I see.
You just did, at the beginning of this thread.
I didn’t say whether age gave a view validity. I said:
“James Carville is 81 years old. Maher is 70. Nobody cares what they and their peers think other than a few other geezers. He is an old guy waving his cane at those darned youngsters zooming by in their fast cars.”
That describes the political impact of oldsters’ views. Not their validity.
I see a lot of "people" that simply want to muddy the water and derail the logic of the discussion. Now with AI helping, it's very difficult to keep up with all the psyops that is attempting to manipulate us.
As an old lady, I find that discouraging. Are you saying we should all just shut up and go away?
🙄🤦🏼♀️ That’s the same thing. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Padawan, you are not yet to take the trials and become a Jedi. Your guessing is inaccurate and lacks wisdom.
1/ Geezers are politically impotent. The power in political and social movements comes from the young, who have numbers and energy - (hopefully) led by a few oldsters who provide insight and guidance.
2/ Calling the young “fops” and asserting that geezers will save the nation are two of the silliest claims I’ve seen in a long time.
3/ I am 70 years old.
4/ My co-authors and I have warned about the Left’s revolution for 20 years. Let’s see your history of analysis and predictions! Three examples of mine:
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2006/07/04/death-constitution/
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2020/10/29/our-future/
https://substack.com/@editorfmwebsite/note/p-185748272
I think geezers vote in higher numbers than the young, even if it is often to defend Social Security.
Yes, and as single-issue voters they have influence on that issue - although this influence declines each year. But more broadly, the elderly are a minor force due to their lack of energy and numbers.
No need to guess about this. Visit the office of a successful campaign or political movement: it is led and financed by those of middle age - and filled with young workers.
Another 70yo punk.
That’s the nicest thing anyone has said about me in quite a while.
So you’re 70,same as me,and yet you ( because you apparently feel ineffectual) have no ability to make trouble, other than “ive written for 20 years” and somehow you seem to think you have a handle on everything. I’ve got news for you, geezer, and it isn’t good. You have one foot in the grave,while I can outwork most 20 year olds without whining. You really should get a grip. Keep writing, and sharpening that pencil, and I’ll keep welding, machining, building, and arming. We use to kill communists. Now they got owned by the islamopigs. We’ll just have to kill them too. And maybe , just maybe, some younguns can pick up the mantle.
Nice to hear your fantasies. Enjoy!
Then I guess we must get out the big guns to purge them. Let it be so. That will take care of things.
Exactly! Willingness to work has been the distinguishing factor between Left and right - and the reason the Left has won since ~1964. I also recommend anger as a spur to effort.
“Anger is easy. Anger at the right person, at the right time, for the right reason, is difficult.”
— Aristotle, in the Nicomachean Ethics, book IV, chapter 5 (slightly paraphrased).
“Telemachus, now is the time to be angry.”
— Odysseus, when the time came to deal with the Suitors. From the movie The Odyssey (1997).
Who is behind & supporting the invasion -
https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/who-is-really-behind-our-illegal
An interesting article. But I thought everyone knew that businesses want open borders? But there is one error in it. The Republican Party has been firmly open borders for a long time. FDR closed the borders during the Depression under pressure from unions - not Republicans or businesses. The borders have been opening since the 1960s as a bipartisan policy.
Conservatives opposition to this policy is recent, as they slowly realized it was a death sentence for the right. Even now powerful elements of the Republican Party want open borders: some Christians, Libertarians, and businesses’ shills. I’ve been a Republican volunteer and seen these battles fought out repeatedly, including this month.