Artemis II launches America back to the Moon. Hershey admits to fake chocolate. And the NYT writes fan fiction about Trump firing Bondi. The Great Reformulation is bigger than food. More.
When we were young, my father was the plant manager of Nielson's, the largest chocolate manufacturer in Canada. They made all kinds of chocolate, and very good chocolate. He would bring home ~ 50 candy bars a month in his briefcase that looked like the bags doctors making house calls carried. 5 & 10 pound boxes of mixed chocolates in December. When we trick or treated, neither my sister or I would eat Hershey bars, so we gave them away. It was crap chocolate in the '60's , so I can only imagine how wretched it is now. Dad used to bring home bags of cocoa bean shells, and use them for mulch in his garden. Needless to say, we had the best smelling garden around.
I grew up in a small town near Hershey PA and my parents always bought cocoa mulch for our flower beds every Spring! It was delightful! Not to mention when the old Chocolate factory was in its prime, we could smell the chocolate aroma coming from the actual factory itself! This e were the days!
I'm going to Hersey in a few weeks. My Grandma worked at Cadbury's in the UK when he came over as a war bride in 48. Once a year they sent her a gift box and us grandkids ate it all. (I was in the UK at the time)
I now spend $$$ on actual chocolate with cocoa butter still in it. Though I was shocked at IKEA on the weekend while waiting (forever) to check out I picked up a chocolate rabbit. and shockingly it still had cocoa butter in in. But it didn't weight much @ $5.99!
Cocoa butter is removed, sold to the cosmetics industry and replaced by palm oils in "chocolate". yuk.
I should have mentioned the part where he sat and clucked like a chicken and candy bars would fall out of his clothes. He probably only did the chicken routine once, but obviously it was memorable because here I am nearly 60 years later recalling it. In unrelated news, he was a decorated WWII soldier. 💜🇺🇸
I love those kinds of memories of our fathers. There were 3-4 specific occasions when my dad came home from work and stood in our kitchen doing whatever and there would be bulges moving under his jacket or his sleeves. By the third or fourth time we squealed on queue knowing there was a puppy underneath there somewhere and we would claw at him to reveal it. My memory is that my dad brought home a puppy every single month of my childhood 😂 even though it probably only happened a handful of times. 🤣 What wonderful memories I will forever cherish and love reliving. It’s why I regularly go get puppy fixes at stores even at the age of 60.
I went out to watch the launch yesterday and broke into tears. I remembered the last moon launch back in ‘72 that I hadn’t thought about in so long. We are so back!
I’m genX and I had a lot of stress with the launch… I have strong memories of watching challenger blow up while watching the launch in my high school cafeteria. Didn’t even realize I was still hanging on to that.
I'm a boomer and it was the faulty O-ring that caused the Challenger to blow up. Our tech is so advanced. I watched the 1969 moon landing and loved it. Yesterday was triumphant! I watched the Challenger from work. We, in Chicago, we're fresh off the stunning Bears Superbowl win, excited for parades, when that happened. It ended all our celebrations.
As a boomer, those tragic things we witness make us strong and thoughtful. If you carry fear, it will cripple you. You have to go on, bravely. If I could not do that, I'd still be in the fetal position for all thr loss I've endured. Breathe one breath at a time, while you still can, for death is the only way out.
God loves you with an everlasting Love, lean into Him.✌🏻🕊
I saw the 69 moon landing as a boy of 12. Loved it. (am grateful for the lack of a moon landing conspiracy crowd here.)
Regarding the the DOJ’s lack of success prosecuting James Comey and Letitia James—
I think this in a microcosm shows what Bondi is facing. Of all the institutions marched through, the DOJ was the most overrun. These have been stifled yet are still active. Persecuting any DC Democrat is like trying to get orcs to convict Sauron.
My mind is not made up on Bondi, and a deep dive by Jeff on this would be appreciated. (Likely done in the past but there have been many updates.)
@Valerie- I'm a Boomer and remember the early launches but I, too, watched the Challenger break up and I nearly closed my eyes at this launch because of that trauma.
I was in Hawaii for the Challenger launch. Ellison onizuka's brother was my banker. Gosh it's hard to type this. I was on the viaduct near the airport in my car, when the launch was going overhead. The entire city had stopped and we were all looking up to watch the exciting spectacle.
We were all out of our cars on the freeway, looking up and cheering as it went overhead. And then we saw it. From Hawaii you could watch that without binoculars. It seemed so close.
Then it happened. Shock rippled all along the freeway, people started to cry. This was one of our own boys who was up there. The world just stopped.
I remember getting back in my car and just sitting there. No one around me seem to mind, they were doing the same thing. Finally traffic started up again very slowly. We were all in a fog. It drove home the reality of the danger of missions like that.
I was at the local junior college cafeteria for a meeting when challenger went. I was newly married huddled by a heater during a snow and ice storm in our trailer home at university of Illinois when the 3 astronauts died in a fire on the launch pad. Hard to forget. January 1967.
The elementary school where I was working had filled the cafeteria for watching. Then quickly ushered everyone out. I’m guessing teachers had lots of counseling to do. So sad.
I felt stressed the whole time too. That memory from 4th grade is intense. Have you heard the conspiracy that it was faked too?? I don't go looking for these things...info was sent to me, and some points seemed plausible - either way, a tragedy or real lives, or a tragedy of insane lies & corruption
I haven’t, but I try not to buy into conspiracies. They exist, absolutely, but there are so many that are just BS. I like to ignore them til a ton of info comes out. Because all they do is stress me out.
I finds a lot of them require more willing suspension of disbelief than a B horror movie. Occam’s razor is usually what I go by. Still, I try to keep an open mind in case additional information surfaces to add credibility or explain anything I have a hard time believing.
All six dead astronauts have same age same name same face replicas in related and unrelated fields around the country 😱. It comes up occasionally on my feeds, sorry I cannot link it here
Nasa is fake and the challenger was fake too. No one died and they all went on to work inndifferent jobs, even using their real names. No need to be stressed or sad about something so fake. Read ypur Bible. The firmament rests above the planet and nothing can get past that.
The Challenger disaster was the first inkling I had that there might indeed be a collective subconscious. I recall dreaming that there were great noises and people running and screaming, only to awake to the news breaking on TV.
My dream did not have much of a plot, but it sure was on point.
I remember all the Gemini manned missions. Then Apollo and the Moon missions. Every takeoff was magical. Tracking reentry and splash down was dramatic. After all these years I do have doubts about actual moon landings. Then Challenger tragically exploded and the American zest for Space Travel exploded with it. I am optimistic that Space Exploration can be a thing again. Eliminate all the “Learing Centers” and it’s paid for.
Let’s not forget Columbia, which broke up on re-entry killing 7 crew members. There was a known problem which NASA ignored. Par for the course for NASA. That’s why I just prayed, “Please don’t let it blow up” during take off yesterday. Thank heavens SpaceX is handling the lunar landing part of the mission.
weird that I have no recollection of the Columbia at all but remember the Challenger explosion vividly. I wonder if that's maybe because it was covered differently in the news?
I frequently watched the moon missions. They were a bright spot, shining through the otherwise dark spot known as Vietnam for those of us growing up in the 60s and early 70s.
On a trip to Florida, got to see Apollo 15 on its launch crawler. I was struck at how massive it was. The moon missions were a key influence for my decision to major in engineering.
Sorry, but no one has been to the moon. It's all fake. This should start you on your deep dive. Before he died, Stanley Kubrick confessed to filming the moon landing in Studio City CA. Apply some critical thinking to this, how did 3 men, all of their gear, food, medical supplies, land rover fit in that rocket? They can't. Also, if you look up the many, many videos you can see bubbles becUse the space scenes are really filmed in a pool. Nasa's hebrew translation means to deceive. It's logo is demonic. It's a war on God. Sorry to birst your bubble but it's all fake so they can steal billions in tax money and project demonology onto society.
My Birthday in January 28, I remember walking into the house and seeing Challenger blowing apart in 1986, worst Birthday ever. I didn't realize at first what was happening.
I called Hersheys a few months ago and asked if their products contain bioengineered ingredients bc it has no such label on the bags of chocolate. They answered all their candy has bioengineered/GMOs in them and that they do not put this info on the bags of chocolate. The only product not using bioengineered ingredients is the Hershey's toll house morsels used for choc. chip cookies. Told them they lost a customer and I tell everyone I know aout this.
I just started making my own peanut butter cups. It's super simple. I use natural peanut butter sweeten it with a little monk fruit and excellent milk chocolate chips. If I was a dark chocolate lover which I'm not, you can get dark chocolate. To heck with Hershey's.
This is a great story! On a not really related note, have you ever tried brewed cacao beans? They roast and brew them like coffee but with a minuscule amount of caffeine. I love it. I doctor mine up just like a cup of coffee.
Signed a chocoholic from way back in the day, lol.
I started doing this - Crio Bru is my brand - over the Christmas holidays. Never been much of a coffee drinker, I'd have it if it's a convenient routine (i.e. mornings), but we went to Spain twice, for a total of 25 days, and I never once had coffee there.
After reading about cacao's myriad health benefits last year I decided to give it a try. Got the starter's kid [edit: "kit"] from Crio Bru, which included a French press, and loved it.
We also have a $600 Ninja coffee machine at home that a former renter left behind when he moved back to Europe, so I use it now to brew the ground cacao.
Every morning now, 8-12oz of the stuff. And no shakes or jitters or heart palps like I'd sometimes get from the caffeine in coffee.
Wholeheartedly recommend for anyone who doesn't have a physical or emotional need for coffee per se.
(I also have Cocoa Via cocoa powder and add one scoop to my smoothies, along with a scoop of protein powder, 12oz coconut water, spinach, 1-2T of EVOO (another dietary change born of learning about EVOO's myriad health benefits), 1-2T of lowfat Greek yogurt, sometimes some turmeric & ground pepper, sometimes 1t of PB, sometimes a half avocado instead of the yogurt, and frozen strawberries and frozen blueberries. Fantastic smoothie combo.)
I would do that but that would require swapping out the coffee beans for the cacao beans back and forth in the grinder in our Ninja, and swapping out beans is time-consuming and you lose some beans in the process, so I get the ground version and use the Ninja to do the rest.
The bf and I are doing the carnivore diet. As soon as I fully got onboard and ate a 100% protein meal, my sugar cravings and binge eating stopped. In the past week or so, I started craving chocolate, though. I've been mixing cacao powder with my evening Dandy Blend (fake coffee), but this sounds SOOO much yummier. I will have to look into it!
There are SO many higher quality ingredients that can be used for our favorite 'guilt' foods.
One of my favorites is swapping out wheat flour for almond or coconut flour or (in Russia) pine nut flour when making pancakes.
High protein and good fats ... just don't try to eat more than a couple - they're VERY filling.
P.S. I drown them in butter and top them off with REAL maple syrup (which is a far healthier sugar than contemptible corn syrup versions - much lower glycemic).
Same here Kelly! We have really been played by the cereal companies. That food pyramid was a scam! And I eat a lot cheaper just eating meat!
I just run to a local small butcher who I know sources beef from a local rancher. And I buy eggs from a local farmer. I feel so much better now than I did! And I'm sneaking up on 75!
Wow! That sounds fantastic! Where do you get your cacao beans to brew? Do you grind them? I'm a big coffee fan - would love to try a brew you detailed! Yummy!
It’s SO GOOD. The brand I’m familiar with is called Crio Bru and you can get it on Amazon. It comes already ground as far as what I’ve gotten so far. They have lots of different kinds, most of them taste pretty much the same to me except the one that’s like Mexican hot chocolate… spicy (it’s delicious if you’re into that). That’s the one with ‘maya’ in the name. I honestly can’t tell the difference otherwise, the Scottish grog version, light roast vs dark roast…. I have a simple palate, lol.
You can make it taste like hot chocolate if you add cream and sugar, but like coffee it’s bitter without anything but still has a chocolate flavor.
I have to get Crio Bru through Amazon because Crio Bru doesn't ship to Puerto Rico. I even called them out on that and they apologized and had no good reason why they don't ship to PR (since they do ship to Hawaii, another island).
But I order directly from Crio Bru for the product I have shipped to my kids' houses so that I can have my cacao when I visit (such as now; just finished a 12oz serving in rainy, raw Maine).
The problem I've had with Amazon (which is my only source, because CB doesn't ship to PR) is the limited variety available in the larger bag size.
I've gotten the Spanish Roast and the Ghana French Roast from Amazon, but the Grog I had shipped to Maine directly from the CB website and then took it home with me when I left Maine. I also have a bag of Tall Dark & Handsome shipped to Maine from the CB website.
I usually do half caf (with Swiss water method decaf) so I can have more coffee because I like to drink it throughout the day 🙂 But this would be a great alternative!
I should also say… cacao is really good for you. My husband and I often mix coffee and cacao half and half in the morning in the coffee pot. My preference if I’m just making cacao is to use a coffee press.
You guys are driving me crazy I can’t wait to try this!!!! Sitting here salivating. Right now I add chocolate collagen powder to my coffee and enjoy it immensely, but this is probably far more delectable.
I also add collagen powder to my coffee but unflavored. It seems like every flavored collagen (or whey for that matter) has to add sucralose or stevia or some other sweetener and I can’t abide the aftertaste 😝
Just last weekend my son told me about Transparent Labs' whey protein powder. No artificial sweeteners.
I had been using Optimum Nutrition's whey after reading reviews of different wheys, but it is artificially flavored vanilla powder. The Transparent Labs' whey is vanilla/peanut butter, unfortunately, two weeks ago I ran out of Optimum and bought a new jug, so I'll have to wait til I use that up to then go try Transparent's stuff.
I’ve tried many MANY different brands. They all had a weird taste for one reason or another, either terrible sweetener balance with horrible after taste or not enough true chocolate flavor. But the following brand I found to be delicious and have the best nutritional analysis and ingredients.
I get the chocolate version of Sports Research brand, but this links to their “unflavored” version. Not sure what’s up with the chocolate being unavailable right now. I get it on subscribe and save every month. If I ever had to I’d get the unflavored and just add 1-2T of my own powdered cocoa.
A similar concoction I like is cacao powder brewed in my single serve French press, then made into my version of hot chocolate by adding honey and non dairy creamer, Nut Pods, not the plastic coffee mate stuff.
European chocolate, however, is also starting to use soy lecithin as the emulsifier....can't eat it anymore....European chocolate is not what it used to be....Laima, from Latvia, has been ruined....
Maybe, because they don’t allow all the fake ingredients. But it’s still owned by Hershey’s and in my opinion, not the same as it used to be. I quit eating Cadbury’s when Hershey’s bought them. I’m still mad!
I grew up overseas, and all my teenage years were spent in Italy and Switzerland. When I moved back to the US for college, I was revolted by the candy here. I would spent my few available funds on imported chocolate and my friends thought I was crazy to “waste” my money. I had the same issue with yogurt and bread. They just didn’t compare to what I was used to. Frankly, they still don’t!
Neilson’s Crispy Crunch candy bar was my favorite as a kid when we visited Toronto. My mom (born Canadian) brought one home for one my birthdays (my 45th? maybe?) one year. I literally kept the wrapper in my computer bag for years for the memory of her sweet gesture - she was such a kind and thoughtful soul. I think the closest American analog to this candy bar is the “butterfinger” but the Neilsen‘s product was/is far superior. I have often joked that if I were ever to be in my doctors office and some lab work came back indicating I had cancer and a very short time to live My first request would be, “can someone please bring me a piece of paper and a pen? I need to write a letter to the Neilsen’s chocolate bar company to thank them for all the joy they brought me in this life…”
Never liked Hersey chocolate! Had noticed the difference when KitKat’s were sold to whoever bought them. Recall, KitKat was never sold in the US until late 1900, early 2000. Maybe @rolandttg can give a further history lesson
I never really found hershey bars to be 'all that', it's a giant scheme pushed by hershey corp and marketing.... I only eat them on a smores and that is about once a year.
Never liked them either. In fact, as a child, I always thought I didn’t really like chocolate all that much—until as a teen I had some good quality Belgian dark chocolate and realized that I actually did like chocolate, but only *good quality chocolate* 😆
I started boycotting Hershey's during covid. I remember reading that the company was brutal in forcing the jab on its employees. Life long employees who refused the jab were summarily fired. On paper I think the company allowed for religious or medical exemptions. Not sure how many they actually gave out. Employees who were fired lost their retirement benefits, even those who had worked nearly 30 years and were due to retire shortly. Some lawsuits are still in process. Here's one cited by chatgpt:
"A long‑term employee claimed he lost retirement benefits.
In a civil lawsuit, a senior manager with nearly 30 years of service alleged that when Hershey terminated him in January 2022 for refusing the COVID‑19 vaccine (after denying his religious exemption), the company characterized his separation as a voluntary resignation or resignation without good cause.
Because of this designation, the plaintiff said he was precluded from collecting his retirement benefits, severance, and unemployment compensation that he would otherwise have been eligible for, including retirement eligibility he would have reached about 10 months later."
All this contradicted the nice caring family environment I was told about the company when I took the Hershey, PA factory tour in the pre-covid years.
The Cloisters in NYC use the cocoa shells ( or did) as mulch as well and you are not wrong about the lovely aroma! I love the nibs. So raw and close to the source.
When I was a child my father had business near Tacoma and would stop by the Almond Roca factory. It was such a treat. This last Christmas I had my husband order a can of it for me. Not the same. I was disappointed. Looking forward to the real stuff soon.
This is not meant to be sarcasm but a small tribute: If a contest was held to determine who was America's best cheerleader, who would you choose: Donald Trump or Jeff Childers?
Our uncle gave us 5 kids a whole box of Hersey candy bars at Christmas. They would come in a nice box. This was the 50s. Mom would parcel them out. I don’t know how they were made then but we sure weren’t chocolate snobs. Ate slowly square by square. I figure we got good stuff.
The Bondi-bashers focus solely on political arrests, the absolutely toughest to prove with intent. (Did Deep Stroke---Peter Strzok---participate in a conspiracy against a President, or did he just state personal feelings? Can you PROVE his statements were linked to verifiable actions that could be made into a criminal case?) I'm no lawyer, but I have watched "Law and Order" and "Lincoln Lawyer." I do think there has to be credible proof that expressing disgusting opinions must actually be shown to be connected for it to be a prosecutable crime.
Second, though, in addition to the plunging murder rates, Bondi's DOJ has overseen and supervised (again, no lawyer but just what it appears) the most successful series of legal defenses of an administration in American history. By my count, she/DoJ has won 32-33 appeals on various aspects of Trump's agenda. She has facilitated and supported the removal of 3.5 million illegal invaders. She has, via Harmeet Dhillon, brought universities to their knees over DEI (still a couple of guerilla holdouts). In short, if you omit the "big name arrests," Bondi's DoJ is simply the most effective and successful in history. And, oh yeah, did I mention that there have been FIVE major human trafficking busts in 18 mo. Now, again, impossible to prove, but where did the leads for those busts---that have freed thousands of kiddos---come from? Gee, couldn't be the old Eppy Files, could it?
Why I no longer subscribe to VivaBarnesLaw on Locals....had a stomach full of Barnes, who is full of himself, and his Pam bashing...same with Baris who is influenced by Barnes...I cringe every time that Mark Groubert makes a sarcastic comment....None of them any idea what a staffing nightmare she must deal with....
No kidding. The Senate STILL hasn't even approved over half of the nominees, and according to Bongino and Patel, there are still a lot of fifth columnists there.
Not possible. Technically, the Senate isn't in recess. They do that deliberately. There is a "pro forma" session going on so long as one Senator is there, and they always make sure one is so Trump cannot.
Silly. No case that reaches U.S. Appellate courts or the Supes is a “sham case.” No AG in history has had to fight this hard for a president. Sad you people all think this stuff just “happens.”
She has actively blocked and/or dismissed major cases against her buddies in big pharma and the the antitrust division has been obliterated. She is absolutely horrible.
Remember the fake Epstein File binders publicity stunt full of already released info she pretended was new info?Let's not forget "the Epstein Fikes are on my desk" comment that came after it.
Then awhile later she says there are no files. Then she was forced to release files. So ridiculous.
Again, these are extremely difficult cases to prove. I know to outside observers they seem slam dunks. They absolutely are not. Think of how long the Feds tried to get Al Capone on serious charges---yet ultimately only got him on tax fraud.
Financial crimes are easier because there is a paper trail beyond text messages.
First impeach the judges. Until they are prevented from interfering with Executive functions, the Executive branch will continue to have its legs cut out from under it. https://notthebee.com/groups/no-kings-in-black-robes
What about the elephant in the room, Pres DJT, whose name is mentioned 1000s of times in the files? A pedo is a pedo, no matter what side of the aisle.
So, by your calculation, merely mentioning someone’s name in emails connected to Epstein is proof of pedophilia? No mention of such acts or even accusations, but the name alone implies guilt and therefore, actual guilt?
No - but when someone like Epstein, who uses acid to desolve bodies, says that Trump is literally the "worst person he has ever met, not one decent cell in his body" what do you think it means? There are more documents I can find linking DJT to illicit behavior, trouble is...who wants to hear it?
🤣🤣 I think it means Epstein hated him with every oz of his body because of the threat Trump posed to him. Sorry, I’ll believe the word of Trump BEFORE the words of an ACTUAL convicted pedo. 🙄🙄🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Trump's personal character is amazing - someone who claims they have never apologized is indeed a stand up person.
Or the way he has talked about his daughters in sexualized ways. Disgusting and disturbing, to say the least. We can all see the creepiness in joe biden, but when it comes to trump, your blinders work well.
Go read the Koran some more and Iranian marriage laws setting age 9 as the minimum for a wife and shaming consequences for raping infants. Get that log out of your eye.
I know of lots of people who I think are amongst “the worst people in the world” but that term doesn’t imply pedophilia. Why would Epstein call a fellow pedo that?? Makes no sense. You are wishcasting.
If Epstein called Trump the ""worst person he has ever met, not one decent cell in his body", that would be a badge of honor coming from the likes of Epstein.
How do you NOT grasp the obvious point?
Who do you think comes out better, Trump or James Carville, based on the unhinged vitriolic diatribe Carville spewed in the last day or so? You think that redounds to CARVILLE'S benefit and Trump's detriment?
@Roman- Epstein was pissed at Trump because Trump had the balls to publicly humiliate him by kicking him out of Mar-A Lago. That's what whiners do- they whine.
@Roman - you've been mentioned twice now. Right here on C&C. That must mean that you like coffee. Or maybe covid. And that you agree, 100%, with everything Jeff says on his page.
Because: you HAVE been mentioned, afterall.
I think everybody should mention Roman in their posts for the rest of the day. Just so he can see how easy it is to be "mentioned". And how guilty that makes him.
More documents, you say? ALL from the National Enquirer I assume. As the ol' Cabbage Head himself would say, "C'mon, man!" Roman, PLEASE do tell how you arrived at the the most asinine assumption that I've come across recently in that Epstein "use(d) acid to desolve (sp?) bodies"? Sources? Links? Please.
I think you would do well sticking with reading The Daily Mail as they are well known for publishing pure rubbish (i.e., Libtard talking points) rather than trying to create "click bait" comments in a more conservative publication. Just saying. (I'll await your sources. Till then, try to enjoy the glorious transformations that President Trump is bringing to the WORLD!!!)
Few days ago in an exchange with Roman, he indicated that Peter Thiel was running the CIA because Palantir was supported by the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, in its early stages. So by extension Thiel must also be running the DoD, NSA, DHS and 2300 other companies that use Palantir products. By further extension, since Palantir uses Nvidia chips then Jensen Huang must be running Palantir and a whole host of other companies. Maybe they use Dell computers and Michael Dell is running all of those. Roman makes these stretches, longer than the Artemis II mission, that try to connect dots that IMHO simply are a bridge too far. I explicitly stated this is my opinion, but mostly Roman makes these statements as facts that readers should take as such. At least in this instance Roman did not include a link back to his substack.
Your argument would sound a lot better if there were actual investigations happening into Epstein pedos......and don't forget Lutnick - right in Trump's inner circle.
The OP has accused a person of horrific crimes merely because his name being mentioned but not connected with any pedophilia activities. That is my point. You shifted your commentary to Lutnick now, which is not the subject of the comment. If the OP has proof, he needs to bring it. (Edited: Didn’t realize I was responding tosomeone else)
One thing great about finding the trolls is that they all gather like vultures over the same worthless carcass to knit pick and continually circle over whatever it was long after it's not even identifiable. Like D'rats they show up late and try to make a big deal outta that got nuthin. Hey WAIT A MINUTE! I bet you work for the Dead Gray Old Woman, the gossip witch.
According to sources familiar with the situation, they held back because of their high moral character, their unwillingness to besmirch a former president and their disdain for those that grovel in the mud like feral pigs.
And yet not a single link of Trump to any sexual allegations in the Epstein files. Because if there was any links we would have heard of them by now from the TDS media.
Bingo! Funny how the Libtards had 4 years under Biden in which to release all "this obviously incriminating evidence against Trump," BUT THEY NEVER DID!!! Hmmm. I wonder why that is??? Of course, we ALL know the answer when you quit pretending. It's ALL BS. Period.
Roman, why didn't the Biden Admin use all that so-called evidence to go after Trump when they had the chance, if the evidence is what you claim it is? Why did they use an official phone call, a check notation, made-up Russia 'evidence,' and a fake, ancient 'rape' claim instead?
My question also! It’s not like the Biden administration was shy about trying to get Trump on anything they possibly could, with even the shakiest kinds of “evidence” 🙄
@roman- they were also released with Alan Dershowitz's name all over them. Wanna know why? because he was Epstein's defense attorney. A man doing his job. Doesn't mean he was involved.
I think he has been completely incompetent in handling the Epstein files but unlikely he is a pedo. He is mentioned becuase all Epstein was majorly involved in the circles of the high $$ elites. He is protecting his big donors, elites and the like which is awful.
Your thinking is EXACTLY why they won’t release anything. Epstein sent tons of emails TRYING to get Trump. He did so for many other high profile people. That’s a lot different than being in the log book as a guest on the island and having eye witness account of presence on the island
With the exception of perhaps Harvard, which submitted, then backed out, virtually every U has had to demolish its DEI. See Christopher Rufo on this. It has been an extremely successful campaign. Now DoJ is going after racial hiring practices. All done in one year.
Thus says Yahweh, “Let not a wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might; let not a rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Yahweh who shows lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares Yahweh.
Who in their right mind could ever think the founders, or the writers of the 14th amendment would have agreed with the notion of birth tourist coming to America, having children, getting citizenship for their child and then going back home. 36,000 births a year is the last stat taken. Later, when the child comes back the parents are automatically able to get a type of green card status as the child’s guardian. So if we are to believe the Supreme Court is going to rule on the founders intent of the law, this should be a slam dunk, birth right citizenship should be voted out! But we know this probably isn’t going to happen, the Supreme Court has become influenced by politics and their public perception. The majority is certainly not influenced by what is right or good for America.
I think turning over birthright citizenship isn’t going to happen but for a different reason. It’s constitutional. Do I think it makes sense given how it’s being abused? Do I think it’s being used for its original intent? Absolutely not. I think it’s a terrible policy in this day and age. But I also don’t think that the supremes are going to rule the other way because the amendment is pretty straightforward. The ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ argument has merit, but I don’t think it’ll be enough. I desperately hope I’m wrong.
The primary intent of the 14th Amendment (1868) was to constitutionalize the citizenship and rights of formerly enslaved people, ensuring equality before the law and protecting them from discriminatory southern "Black Codes". It aimed to establish birthright citizenship, impose federal protection over state actions, and enforce equal rights for all individuals.
In my opinion it had nothing to do with people coming here for a visit, near the time of giving birth, having the child, so their child becomes a citizen. I have heard there are 5 organizations in China now that set up trips for families and women to travel to the U.S. just to have their child in the states. This allows future access to America for China. They’re laughing at us, and these buffoon justices I guess are part of the comedy act. It’s a dangerous world, the people in power need to start acting as if it’s dangerous. Just my opinion.
Bingo, again! James, you have hit the nail squarely on the head. And just because the purpose (and/or "intent") of this 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted for a very long time does NOT make it "correct" now by continuing the illicit behavior. Fix it!!! The same goes for allowing the Chinese Communist Party (and other foreign countries) from purchasing American soil/property. More insanity. The Founders had just fled a Tyrannical Government. As such, do you really think that they would then want to sell the same tyrants property in their newly established country, as well as offer citizenship to the child every dang bitch/prostitute/woman of British blood? Obviously, not. And It only makes sense when one says "No" to both. So, again, Fix it!!!
Oh I know what the intent was, my point is that the way it was written was pretty simple and doesn’t leave a lot of room for judicial reinterpretation, except in the ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ part.
But that’s the part that matters. We have documents of the writers of the amendments stating clearly it was NOT intended to apply to foreigners or aliens. That coupled with “under the jurisdiction of” would make it clear that the child would have no other allegiances because the parents didn’t. They were born here from parents that were under the jurisdiction of our country, NOT as tourists or visitors, but as citizens. So therefore logically their child would too, and that was the situation for children of slaves. Trying to apply this to illegal aliens is mind blowing given the national security risk it poses. Not to mention it literally destroys the sovereignty of every American citizen.
Also, back then there was never any inclination of separating a child from their parent so long as they had any, so they wouldn’t have thought to need to actually say “parents” because it was implied. Separating children from their parents is a new disgusting practice of the modern era.
I understand, I’m sure your probably right. There was a time in America when the government would do what it took to protect citizens and citizenship. Now it’s not about intent of the law. Everything gets twisted, many times, it seems, to legalize the selling out of America so to line one’s pockets.
It’s SO distressing, isn’t it? To watch our beautiful constitution and laws being warped into something that abuses the citizens rather than protect them. Uggghhhh.
The Congressional Globe, May 30, 1866. pages 2890-2897
Quotes Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, author of the 14th amendment.
Bottom of right column page 2890 and top of left column page 2891
Very clearly this does NOT support birthright citizenship, which was offered only to freed slaves after the Civil War.
It didn't even support birthright citizenship for Native Americans because they were part of sovereign nation to which they owed allegiance within the US. A separate law had to be passed to confer citizenship on them. "in 1884 ... Elk vs. Wilkins ... citizenship was denied to an American Indian because he “owed immediate allegiance to” his tribe and not the United States.
Exactly. Howard stated “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers… but will include every other class of persons.”
Pretty clear. Why won’t Scotus consider that “original intent” while they search for “original intent”?
you are wrong....go back and look at the 14th through the eyes of the founders not the eyes of the SCOTUS. Art. VI, clause 2 says that only the Constitution, laws made pursuant to the Constitution, and Treaties made under the authority of the United States are the supreme law of the land. Supreme Court “opinions” are NOT part of that supreme law.
In 1868, when the 14th amendment was ratified, homosexual contact was a crime in every state in America. So, suggesting that the original meaning and intent of the 14th amendment was to grant a same-sex marriage right is ridiculous.
Illegal aliens are not “subject to the jurisdiction of the US” – they are invaders whose allegiance is to the Country they left. Foreign diplomats stationed here are not “subject to the jurisdiction of the US”. Thus, children born here of these aliens are not citizens!
The key is not just being born in the United States, but being born “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
American Indians born here were not made citizens by the 14th Amendment b/c they were not considered “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”, but instead were subject to the jurisdiction of their own tribes.
Babies born here of illegal aliens are not citizens of the United States b/c their illegal alien parents are subject to the jurisdiction of the Country they left.
Ted Kennedy was behind rewriting our citizenship laws in 1965 and everyone knows what a liberal progressive he was. The fact is that NOTHING can “change” an amendment to the Constitution except another amendment, which has never been done on the 14th Amendment. According to the framers of the 14th Amendment, a child of FOREIGN parents does NOT get U.S. citizenship at all! They did NOT recognize “dual” citizenship. Any citizenship law that runs contrary to the 14th Amendment is NOT constitutional.
The SCOTUS, the progressive left, and most in both houses of congress want WTP to believe that all the illegal invaders born on american soil are citizens. Good grief, how gullible and stupid we must seem.
Tourism for the purpose of birthing an instant American citizen is Not assimilation. What about wealthy Chinese tourists who birth their children in the US, return to China to have their child educated/indoctrinated in their homeland to eventually run for President? Mamdani can’t run for president because he wasn’t born in the US. His type of communism however, is what globalists are aiming for. Closing the borders must include stopping chain migration through birthright citizenship.
Particularly since at the time, it was a very long and arduous journey to come to this country for most people, they couldn’t have anticipated people coming here on airplanes or even in cars. If people came here, it was usually to stay. Also I highly doubt most women at that time would have been traveling in their last trimester of pregnancy, even if coming over land from Mexico.
I don’t know about any of you but I am feeling incrementally more optimistic and free since President Trump got reelected. With all this news today, I got a big dose of it. I’m praying this same experience for many. Revel in the blessings.
Trolls be rolling deep this morning. Most of us have better things to do than slogans through BS comments. Keep up the good work, Jeff. Those who matter are listening.
Tap their avatar. In their profile there are three dots upper right (on iPhone app anyway) and tap those dots. From there you can mute or block or report. Note that muting only stops notifying you if they reply to you, but you both can still see each other’s comments. Block removes both your replies from their view and theirs from yours. I use that more than mute. I’ve muted a few that I don’t mind reading their comments but have no desire to ever interact with them. But most of these dishonest and manipulative posters I block.
Go to the profile by clicking on their name and you should see three dots at the top right. If you click on that, you should get several options, one of which is to block.
I think you go to your avatar, then go to something about privacy. There will be your muted and blocked lists there. I know I'm not giving the best directions, but thatxs the jist ...
WOW! 2027 when Hershey begins to make real chocolate again. So, between now and then, who's going to be dumb enough to buy their fake nasty products. 🤮
I’ll make my own. It’s really not that difficult and plenty of YouTube instructionals. Just get cocoa butter, real chocolate powder, choice of sweetener and any flavorings you desire. I even made homemade Reeces once and they were delicious. They sell wonderful silicone candy molds of all sizes.
Oh! And if you like butterfingers, go to chocolate covered katie.com (no spaces. I dont know if we are allowed to share links here.) She has a great "healthier butterfinger" recipe. I take the extra sugar out, as it doesnt need it. I made it for a church function this past weekend - but they are soooo yummy!
People eat fake food all the time....what do you think the purpose is for MSG? Ever read ingredients on packages, including sandwiches from reputable stores?
And appalling that producers have to pay $$$$ to jewish organizations to get the certification of kosher for a small per cent of a small percent who actually eat kosher..talking huge amounts of money...where the money is then spent is untraceable..in my area the most common sign is a U with a circle around it but there are many more..one reason our foods and some appliances and other things are so expensive..meat, condiments, bread, drinks, stoves, pots, refrigerators, snacks..if a company produces multiple products some of which can't necessarily made in the same facilities, it means having separate facilities..costing more money which is passed on to the US consumers. I haven't found products made in other countries so far who have these jewish/kosher codes...
Our kids were so excited about those HP kisses. Then quite dismayed they had dyes in them. The bag sits unfinished in our pantry a month later - a rare occurrence with candy in a house of 7 people (it's a treat so it usually doesn't last long!)
Your daily read should be required reading for all seniors in our public education system. Actually, all public education teachers should be required to read it as well. Thank you for your witty commentary and accurate reporting on real news of the day!
I love how it's going to take them until 2027 to put real chocolate back into Hershey's! This is ridiculous. Boycott Hershey's until there is proof in the candy! It's sheer plastic and poison until then!
Hersey’s and a supposed ‘good’ brand, Lindt, are some of the worst for cadmium and lead in their chocolates. It gets so tiring trying to figure out what is safe. Soy lecithin is bad too.
Cut out all processed foods is the answer I guess. Good luck.
And imagine the price once they use what they are supposed to be using anyway....I tell you they squeeze every dime out of us in every direction! Hershey's can kiss my A$$!
I think consumers are more important! They made billions saving money on this garbage they have been selling us especially when the prices of real cocoa have plumeted!
For all Christian fans of C&C, please check out this YouTube video from May 23, 2025, titled “Christian Astronauts share what secular scientists WON’t about space”. Sorry I don’t know how to post a direct link, but the summary is: “Why do three men who’ve traveled to space all believe in the God of the Bible? In this interview, astronauts Charlie Duke, Butch Wilmore, and Jeffrey Williams share their most powerful moments in space, how they came to know Jesus, what space revealed to them about the Creator, and how they respond to flat-earth claims and questions about science vs. faith.” I am so sick of all the bullshit about it all being fake. I can maybe understand why young people are skeptical, but I was 14 when the first moon landing happened in 1969, and I wept with joy when that rocket launched yesterday. Please join me in praying for the safety of these four brave astronauts and a successful trip around the MOON, for the glory of God.
Victor Glover is the pilot for the Artemis II and he always brings his Bible. Plans on reading the book of Genesis this time. In the past he brings communion cups as well.
Yes, I watched that a year ago. Thanks for bringing it up. [I also appreciate the Canadian "Answers in Genesis" regarding the creation of earth.]
I was eleven, in sixth grade, when John Glenn was to go up. The fifth grade teacher had announced that she was going to bring in a portable TV so we children could watch. I was so excited! And then, school was called off for a snow day, so we had to watch from home TV. Never before nor after was I disappointed to have a snow day.
I was raised in Tucson, AZ, and one day when I was five years old my dad told me he was taking me to meet someone important and that I would always remember this. For some reason John Glenn was flying into Tucson that night and my dad drove us out to the airport. My dad and I walked up to greet him as Glenn walked down the stairs from the plane (back when you deplaned outdoors and walked across the tarmac). He leaned down to me, said hi and I got to shake his hand. This was in 1965, so he had first flown into space just three years earlier. My dad was a private pilot, but I never found out how he managed the whole "meeting John Glenn" thing. All these years later, it remains a special memory for sure!
What a cheerful, enthusiastic, triumphant picture Jeff painted of our America returning to normalcy again - i.e. Leader of the Free World!! Made my heart sing for a moment, too!!
It’s amazing that in the SAME MONTHS at the same time Trump not only handles once and for all getting rid of the greatest terrorist regime on the planet AND sends a rocket back to the moon. America is so back.
We wouldn't have debt if we were not supporting half of the US, citizens and non-citizens, as well as half the world. And then we have the female fraud judges not making the fraudsters repay the money.
Jeff, I used to work on the Space Shuttle program, and knew many who had worked on Apollo. We went to the Moon. We went several times. Fact, not fiction.
One dot you missed; during the launch, the NASA announcer mentioned “American exceptionalism.” Remember when Obama ran, how he dismissed “American exceptionalism?” This was somebodies dig at him for canceling Constellation and setting us back ten years,and I loved they dinged him during the launch using his words.
The only value that I have ever found with them is that I find the solutions to their issues sometimes interesting. It increased my knowledge of surprising circumstances.
When we were young, my father was the plant manager of Nielson's, the largest chocolate manufacturer in Canada. They made all kinds of chocolate, and very good chocolate. He would bring home ~ 50 candy bars a month in his briefcase that looked like the bags doctors making house calls carried. 5 & 10 pound boxes of mixed chocolates in December. When we trick or treated, neither my sister or I would eat Hershey bars, so we gave them away. It was crap chocolate in the '60's , so I can only imagine how wretched it is now. Dad used to bring home bags of cocoa bean shells, and use them for mulch in his garden. Needless to say, we had the best smelling garden around.
And I thought my dad bringing home some candy bars from the bowling alley vending machine once a week was cool.
We had a neighbor who used cocoa bean shells as a mulch. It was like walking by a chocolate factory!
There's actually a store here in FL that regularly carries cacao pods in their produce section.
I grew up in a small town near Hershey PA and my parents always bought cocoa mulch for our flower beds every Spring! It was delightful! Not to mention when the old Chocolate factory was in its prime, we could smell the chocolate aroma coming from the actual factory itself! This e were the days!
I'm going to Hersey in a few weeks. My Grandma worked at Cadbury's in the UK when he came over as a war bride in 48. Once a year they sent her a gift box and us grandkids ate it all. (I was in the UK at the time)
I now spend $$$ on actual chocolate with cocoa butter still in it. Though I was shocked at IKEA on the weekend while waiting (forever) to check out I picked up a chocolate rabbit. and shockingly it still had cocoa butter in in. But it didn't weight much @ $5.99!
Cocoa butter is removed, sold to the cosmetics industry and replaced by palm oils in "chocolate". yuk.
lol - but I bet that is one cool memory you have of your dad :)
I should have mentioned the part where he sat and clucked like a chicken and candy bars would fall out of his clothes. He probably only did the chicken routine once, but obviously it was memorable because here I am nearly 60 years later recalling it. In unrelated news, he was a decorated WWII soldier. 💜🇺🇸
I love those kinds of memories of our fathers. There were 3-4 specific occasions when my dad came home from work and stood in our kitchen doing whatever and there would be bulges moving under his jacket or his sleeves. By the third or fourth time we squealed on queue knowing there was a puppy underneath there somewhere and we would claw at him to reveal it. My memory is that my dad brought home a puppy every single month of my childhood 😂 even though it probably only happened a handful of times. 🤣 What wonderful memories I will forever cherish and love reliving. It’s why I regularly go get puppy fixes at stores even at the age of 60.
Try volunteering at your local humane shelter! Puppies everywhere❤️
Happiness is indeed a warm puppy.
Puppy breath !!! 😍😍😍
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Great memory, Janice! You should write a book 😁!!
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Aww I love this!! These are the best kinds of memories ❤️
That is just great. I love that story. Yay for Dad
Awesome.
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@Janice- HAHAHAHAHA!
I went out to watch the launch yesterday and broke into tears. I remembered the last moon launch back in ‘72 that I hadn’t thought about in so long. We are so back!
I’m genX and I had a lot of stress with the launch… I have strong memories of watching challenger blow up while watching the launch in my high school cafeteria. Didn’t even realize I was still hanging on to that.
I'm a boomer and it was the faulty O-ring that caused the Challenger to blow up. Our tech is so advanced. I watched the 1969 moon landing and loved it. Yesterday was triumphant! I watched the Challenger from work. We, in Chicago, we're fresh off the stunning Bears Superbowl win, excited for parades, when that happened. It ended all our celebrations.
As a boomer, those tragic things we witness make us strong and thoughtful. If you carry fear, it will cripple you. You have to go on, bravely. If I could not do that, I'd still be in the fetal position for all thr loss I've endured. Breathe one breath at a time, while you still can, for death is the only way out.
God loves you with an everlasting Love, lean into Him.✌🏻🕊
I saw the 69 moon landing as a boy of 12. Loved it. (am grateful for the lack of a moon landing conspiracy crowd here.)
Regarding the the DOJ’s lack of success prosecuting James Comey and Letitia James—
I think this in a microcosm shows what Bondi is facing. Of all the institutions marched through, the DOJ was the most overrun. These have been stifled yet are still active. Persecuting any DC Democrat is like trying to get orcs to convict Sauron.
My mind is not made up on Bondi, and a deep dive by Jeff on this would be appreciated. (Likely done in the past but there have been many updates.)
This why we vote the way we do. A lifetime of memories good and bad!
@Valerie- I'm a Boomer and remember the early launches but I, too, watched the Challenger break up and I nearly closed my eyes at this launch because of that trauma.
I was in Hawaii for the Challenger launch. Ellison onizuka's brother was my banker. Gosh it's hard to type this. I was on the viaduct near the airport in my car, when the launch was going overhead. The entire city had stopped and we were all looking up to watch the exciting spectacle.
We were all out of our cars on the freeway, looking up and cheering as it went overhead. And then we saw it. From Hawaii you could watch that without binoculars. It seemed so close.
Then it happened. Shock rippled all along the freeway, people started to cry. This was one of our own boys who was up there. The world just stopped.
I remember getting back in my car and just sitting there. No one around me seem to mind, they were doing the same thing. Finally traffic started up again very slowly. We were all in a fog. It drove home the reality of the danger of missions like that.
Rest in peace, Ellison. We still miss you.
I won’t forget that 8th grade science class 😱😱😱. We sat there staring and confused then the bell rang and it was off to 4th period ha ha ha
I was at the local junior college cafeteria for a meeting when challenger went. I was newly married huddled by a heater during a snow and ice storm in our trailer home at university of Illinois when the 3 astronauts died in a fire on the launch pad. Hard to forget. January 1967.
Wrong date.
Same. I was holding my breath the whole time
The elementary school where I was working had filled the cafeteria for watching. Then quickly ushered everyone out. I’m guessing teachers had lots of counseling to do. So sad.
I felt stressed the whole time too. That memory from 4th grade is intense. Have you heard the conspiracy that it was faked too?? I don't go looking for these things...info was sent to me, and some points seemed plausible - either way, a tragedy or real lives, or a tragedy of insane lies & corruption
I haven’t, but I try not to buy into conspiracies. They exist, absolutely, but there are so many that are just BS. I like to ignore them til a ton of info comes out. Because all they do is stress me out.
I finds a lot of them require more willing suspension of disbelief than a B horror movie. Occam’s razor is usually what I go by. Still, I try to keep an open mind in case additional information surfaces to add credibility or explain anything I have a hard time believing.
That’s basically how I look at it too.
All six dead astronauts have same age same name same face replicas in related and unrelated fields around the country 😱. It comes up occasionally on my feeds, sorry I cannot link it here
Why would they subject their families to living such a lie?
Faking things can be easy these days. Beware and alert to all.
https://substack.com/@sarahwestall/note/m-62b4cff3-667b-4515-a136-f1773aad21bc?r=e7vaw&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I get it too. The faces are IDENTICAL albeit older. The names are exactly the same. It's crazy!
I have absolutely no idea what that means.
That WAS a pretty awful day..
Nasa is fake and the challenger was fake too. No one died and they all went on to work inndifferent jobs, even using their real names. No need to be stressed or sad about something so fake. Read ypur Bible. The firmament rests above the planet and nothing can get past that.
https://substack.com/@sarahwestall/note/p-186357139?r=1n82mw
https://thefullertoninformer.com/nasa-666-and-the-war-on-god/
https://substack.com/@mtcali70/note/c-170155399?r=1n82mw
I remember watching the challenger blow up in high school too.
The Challenger disaster was the first inkling I had that there might indeed be a collective subconscious. I recall dreaming that there were great noises and people running and screaming, only to awake to the news breaking on TV.
My dream did not have much of a plot, but it sure was on point.
I remember all the Gemini manned missions. Then Apollo and the Moon missions. Every takeoff was magical. Tracking reentry and splash down was dramatic. After all these years I do have doubts about actual moon landings. Then Challenger tragically exploded and the American zest for Space Travel exploded with it. I am optimistic that Space Exploration can be a thing again. Eliminate all the “Learing Centers” and it’s paid for.
Let’s not forget Columbia, which broke up on re-entry killing 7 crew members. There was a known problem which NASA ignored. Par for the course for NASA. That’s why I just prayed, “Please don’t let it blow up” during take off yesterday. Thank heavens SpaceX is handling the lunar landing part of the mission.
weird that I have no recollection of the Columbia at all but remember the Challenger explosion vividly. I wonder if that's maybe because it was covered differently in the news?
Yes we are! We need to start making the astronaut lunchboxes again for the kids ...
https://aynsrants.substack.com/p/moonshot-whos-with-me
Me too!!! I had to grab the Kleenex when that rocket took off.
I frequently watched the moon missions. They were a bright spot, shining through the otherwise dark spot known as Vietnam for those of us growing up in the 60s and early 70s.
On a trip to Florida, got to see Apollo 15 on its launch crawler. I was struck at how massive it was. The moon missions were a key influence for my decision to major in engineering.
Sorry, but no one has been to the moon. It's all fake. This should start you on your deep dive. Before he died, Stanley Kubrick confessed to filming the moon landing in Studio City CA. Apply some critical thinking to this, how did 3 men, all of their gear, food, medical supplies, land rover fit in that rocket? They can't. Also, if you look up the many, many videos you can see bubbles becUse the space scenes are really filmed in a pool. Nasa's hebrew translation means to deceive. It's logo is demonic. It's a war on God. Sorry to birst your bubble but it's all fake so they can steal billions in tax money and project demonology onto society.
https://thefullertoninformer.com/nasa-666-and-the-war-on-god/
https://substack.com/@mtcali70/note/c-182523679?r=1n82mw
https://substack.com/@mtcali70/note/c-236650517?r=1n82mw
https://substack.com/@mtcali70/note/c-236650517?r=1n82mw
https://substack.com/@mtcali70/note/c-170155399?r=1n82mw
The deeper you dive, the more confusing it gets…..it’s a challenge.
My Birthday in January 28, I remember walking into the house and seeing Challenger blowing apart in 1986, worst Birthday ever. I didn't realize at first what was happening.
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I called Hersheys a few months ago and asked if their products contain bioengineered ingredients bc it has no such label on the bags of chocolate. They answered all their candy has bioengineered/GMOs in them and that they do not put this info on the bags of chocolate. The only product not using bioengineered ingredients is the Hershey's toll house morsels used for choc. chip cookies. Told them they lost a customer and I tell everyone I know aout this.
Hmm I thought labels had to say bio engineered foods! It might be tiny and underneath the list of ingredients, but it should be there. 😡
I did too. I loved peanut butter cups and just got the urge to call. Gave up cups the same day.
I get the dark chocolate ones from Trader Joe's.
Get chocolate (and other things)from Aldi’s. It’s a German company…they have much stricter regulations on food ingredients.
Yes! Very tasty.
Costco has a non GMO dark chocolate peanut butter cup candy. My apologies. You will quickly be addicted!
Glad to hear this! I love frozen choc chips for a treat!
I do too but I look to Mamavation for safety and purity of products. Ghiardelli chips are rated one of the best, not Hersheys.
Yes, I make my peanut butter cups with Ghirardelli chips and natural peanut butter.
Yes. Hershey’s uses HFCS. They taste fake. Yuck.
Yes, but HFCS has changed the taste substantially so it keeps me out of them. I seek out the brands made with real chocolate.
Never buy anything made by Hershey’s. Pure garbage.
Reese’s PB Cups are inedible. It’s a big bummer.
I just started making my own peanut butter cups. It's super simple. I use natural peanut butter sweeten it with a little monk fruit and excellent milk chocolate chips. If I was a dark chocolate lover which I'm not, you can get dark chocolate. To heck with Hershey's.
Would you consider sharing your recipe Laura?
This is a great story! On a not really related note, have you ever tried brewed cacao beans? They roast and brew them like coffee but with a minuscule amount of caffeine. I love it. I doctor mine up just like a cup of coffee.
Signed a chocoholic from way back in the day, lol.
I started doing this - Crio Bru is my brand - over the Christmas holidays. Never been much of a coffee drinker, I'd have it if it's a convenient routine (i.e. mornings), but we went to Spain twice, for a total of 25 days, and I never once had coffee there.
After reading about cacao's myriad health benefits last year I decided to give it a try. Got the starter's kid [edit: "kit"] from Crio Bru, which included a French press, and loved it.
We also have a $600 Ninja coffee machine at home that a former renter left behind when he moved back to Europe, so I use it now to brew the ground cacao.
Every morning now, 8-12oz of the stuff. And no shakes or jitters or heart palps like I'd sometimes get from the caffeine in coffee.
Wholeheartedly recommend for anyone who doesn't have a physical or emotional need for coffee per se.
(I also have Cocoa Via cocoa powder and add one scoop to my smoothies, along with a scoop of protein powder, 12oz coconut water, spinach, 1-2T of EVOO (another dietary change born of learning about EVOO's myriad health benefits), 1-2T of lowfat Greek yogurt, sometimes some turmeric & ground pepper, sometimes 1t of PB, sometimes a half avocado instead of the yogurt, and frozen strawberries and frozen blueberries. Fantastic smoothie combo.)
I will be ordering organic, roasted cocoa beens to grind with my morning coffee.
I would do that but that would require swapping out the coffee beans for the cacao beans back and forth in the grinder in our Ninja, and swapping out beans is time-consuming and you lose some beans in the process, so I get the ground version and use the Ninja to do the rest.
Yes! Crio bru was the cacao I tried. Very good.
The bf and I are doing the carnivore diet. As soon as I fully got onboard and ate a 100% protein meal, my sugar cravings and binge eating stopped. In the past week or so, I started craving chocolate, though. I've been mixing cacao powder with my evening Dandy Blend (fake coffee), but this sounds SOOO much yummier. I will have to look into it!
YES
There are SO many higher quality ingredients that can be used for our favorite 'guilt' foods.
One of my favorites is swapping out wheat flour for almond or coconut flour or (in Russia) pine nut flour when making pancakes.
High protein and good fats ... just don't try to eat more than a couple - they're VERY filling.
P.S. I drown them in butter and top them off with REAL maple syrup (which is a far healthier sugar than contemptible corn syrup versions - much lower glycemic).
I do the same for pancakes but use buckwheat flour since I am tested not sensitive to it. Same butter (A2) milk and real maple syrup.
Same here Kelly! We have really been played by the cereal companies. That food pyramid was a scam! And I eat a lot cheaper just eating meat!
I just run to a local small butcher who I know sources beef from a local rancher. And I buy eggs from a local farmer. I feel so much better now than I did! And I'm sneaking up on 75!
Me too. Crio Bru. My favorites are double chocolate and Highlander Grogg
My phone screen is overheating with screenshots this morning 🤣 Can’t wait to buy this!
Those are the ones I normally get too. I can’t believe how many options they have, though.
Wow! That sounds fantastic! Where do you get your cacao beans to brew? Do you grind them? I'm a big coffee fan - would love to try a brew you detailed! Yummy!
It’s SO GOOD. The brand I’m familiar with is called Crio Bru and you can get it on Amazon. It comes already ground as far as what I’ve gotten so far. They have lots of different kinds, most of them taste pretty much the same to me except the one that’s like Mexican hot chocolate… spicy (it’s delicious if you’re into that). That’s the one with ‘maya’ in the name. I honestly can’t tell the difference otherwise, the Scottish grog version, light roast vs dark roast…. I have a simple palate, lol.
You can make it taste like hot chocolate if you add cream and sugar, but like coffee it’s bitter without anything but still has a chocolate flavor.
You can buy it directly from them - no reason to go thru Amazon.
I have to get Crio Bru through Amazon because Crio Bru doesn't ship to Puerto Rico. I even called them out on that and they apologized and had no good reason why they don't ship to PR (since they do ship to Hawaii, another island).
But I order directly from Crio Bru for the product I have shipped to my kids' houses so that I can have my cacao when I visit (such as now; just finished a 12oz serving in rainy, raw Maine).
I just use Amazon because I can add it to my auto ship that I already get anyway. But yes, ordering direct is better.
Apparently you can try and return if you don't like it. LOVE IT OR IT'S FREE
ONLY APPLICABLE TO 'PROMOTION' ITEMS OR FIRST TIME ORDERS UNDER $50.
Love it?
Then keep and enjoy.
Don’t love it?
Get a refund and return for free.*
https://criobru.com/pages/refund-privacy-policy
The problem I've had with Amazon (which is my only source, because CB doesn't ship to PR) is the limited variety available in the larger bag size.
I've gotten the Spanish Roast and the Ghana French Roast from Amazon, but the Grog I had shipped to Maine directly from the CB website and then took it home with me when I left Maine. I also have a bag of Tall Dark & Handsome shipped to Maine from the CB website.
I wish CB would start shipping to PR.
If you want to pay extra shipping I’ll buy it for you and mail it…?
I don't pay shipping with Amazon, and I think I only pay sales tax, no shipping, when I have it shipped to my kids in VA and ME.
So that's what I've done a couple of times - ship it to VA or ME, use it there, then take it home with me when I leave.
Although even that is probably overkill; I've gotten the Spanish and Ghana blends from Amazon, and they're perfectly fine.
Oh cool, I’ll have to try that! Maybe mix with coffee beans and grind together for a mocha flavor?? 😋
That’s what we do during the week. I’m sensitive to caffeine so I love that it reduces it so I can have a second cup.
I usually do half caf (with Swiss water method decaf) so I can have more coffee because I like to drink it throughout the day 🙂 But this would be a great alternative!
I should also say… cacao is really good for you. My husband and I often mix coffee and cacao half and half in the morning in the coffee pot. My preference if I’m just making cacao is to use a coffee press.
You guys are driving me crazy I can’t wait to try this!!!! Sitting here salivating. Right now I add chocolate collagen powder to my coffee and enjoy it immensely, but this is probably far more delectable.
Right?? 🤤
I also add collagen powder to my coffee but unflavored. It seems like every flavored collagen (or whey for that matter) has to add sucralose or stevia or some other sweetener and I can’t abide the aftertaste 😝
Just last weekend my son told me about Transparent Labs' whey protein powder. No artificial sweeteners.
I had been using Optimum Nutrition's whey after reading reviews of different wheys, but it is artificially flavored vanilla powder. The Transparent Labs' whey is vanilla/peanut butter, unfortunately, two weeks ago I ran out of Optimum and bought a new jug, so I'll have to wait til I use that up to then go try Transparent's stuff.
Chocolate collagen? Sound Intresting!
Y'all need to share resources! Wow - makes me want another cup of coffee - but hiking comes first…. 😊
I’ve tried many MANY different brands. They all had a weird taste for one reason or another, either terrible sweetener balance with horrible after taste or not enough true chocolate flavor. But the following brand I found to be delicious and have the best nutritional analysis and ingredients.
I get the chocolate version of Sports Research brand, but this links to their “unflavored” version. Not sure what’s up with the chocolate being unavailable right now. I get it on subscribe and save every month. If I ever had to I’d get the unflavored and just add 1-2T of my own powdered cocoa.
https://a.co/d/0h2zFU7h
Ooh I was just saying I’d like to try it that way! Thanks for confirming the blend works well!
We think so, but my husband and I are very simple people when it comes to food, so I’m not saying it’s for everyone.
You also might want to look into cocoa powder (Cocoa Via is my preferred brand). It's a good addition, IMO, to smoothies, and mixed into Greek yogurt.
I'm sure other uses, too, like hot chocolate, but I'm simple and not creative at all.
A similar concoction I like is cacao powder brewed in my single serve French press, then made into my version of hot chocolate by adding honey and non dairy creamer, Nut Pods, not the plastic coffee mate stuff.
I need to try that. But I think I would add heavy coconut cream. 😋
I used to buy a ground coffee that was a half and half. I want to find that again. Maybe it was Trader Joe’s?
Detwiler's here in Central FL sells whole cacao pods. I just might try that!
Bought some cacao beans for a hot coffee-like beverage years ago. It was yummy but expensive, iIrc.
Cadbury chocolate went south when Hersey got hold of them
In the UK and Europe, Cadbury is still the read deal. Actual chocolate.
European chocolate, however, is also starting to use soy lecithin as the emulsifier....can't eat it anymore....European chocolate is not what it used to be....Laima, from Latvia, has been ruined....
The best chocolate imo is from smaller craft chocolate makers. More expensive but totally worth it because it tastes sooo much better!! 😋
We saw a Mike Rowe show about Dick Taylor chocolate. We just bought some to try it out.
https://dicktaylorchocolate.com/
I haven't noticed that...unless they use chocolate liqueur as the emulsifier, it's all the same to me. And I don't mind spending money for quality.
Maybe, because they don’t allow all the fake ingredients. But it’s still owned by Hershey’s and in my opinion, not the same as it used to be. I quit eating Cadbury’s when Hershey’s bought them. I’m still mad!
Me too. Cadburys was one of my favorites when I lived overseas and when I moved back to the US it was imported from England. Hersheys ruined it.
I bought a small bar of Dubai chocolate (pistacio filling in the center) at my local H Mart. It was delicious—spoiled me!
I grew up overseas, and all my teenage years were spent in Italy and Switzerland. When I moved back to the US for college, I was revolted by the candy here. I would spent my few available funds on imported chocolate and my friends thought I was crazy to “waste” my money. I had the same issue with yogurt and bread. They just didn’t compare to what I was used to. Frankly, they still don’t!
Neilson’s Crispy Crunch candy bar was my favorite as a kid when we visited Toronto. My mom (born Canadian) brought one home for one my birthdays (my 45th? maybe?) one year. I literally kept the wrapper in my computer bag for years for the memory of her sweet gesture - she was such a kind and thoughtful soul. I think the closest American analog to this candy bar is the “butterfinger” but the Neilsen‘s product was/is far superior. I have often joked that if I were ever to be in my doctors office and some lab work came back indicating I had cancer and a very short time to live My first request would be, “can someone please bring me a piece of paper and a pen? I need to write a letter to the Neilsen’s chocolate bar company to thank them for all the joy they brought me in this life…”
I love that you kept the wrapper ❤️ So sweet! (No pun intended 😆)
Never liked Hersey chocolate! Had noticed the difference when KitKat’s were sold to whoever bought them. Recall, KitKat was never sold in the US until late 1900, early 2000. Maybe @rolandttg can give a further history lesson
Did you see the news about KitKat heist in Europe??
Also the Japanese have all kinds of fun and different KitKat flavors!
I never really found hershey bars to be 'all that', it's a giant scheme pushed by hershey corp and marketing.... I only eat them on a smores and that is about once a year.
Never liked them either. In fact, as a child, I always thought I didn’t really like chocolate all that much—until as a teen I had some good quality Belgian dark chocolate and realized that I actually did like chocolate, but only *good quality chocolate* 😆
Neuhaus Belgian chocolate is the bomb! Their truffles are divine. I discovered them years ago in Europe and they are my secret treat.
Being a chocoholic i have tried many brands. My current favorite is Alter Eco - organic no fake sugars no additives no palm oils.
I started boycotting Hershey's during covid. I remember reading that the company was brutal in forcing the jab on its employees. Life long employees who refused the jab were summarily fired. On paper I think the company allowed for religious or medical exemptions. Not sure how many they actually gave out. Employees who were fired lost their retirement benefits, even those who had worked nearly 30 years and were due to retire shortly. Some lawsuits are still in process. Here's one cited by chatgpt:
"A long‑term employee claimed he lost retirement benefits.
In a civil lawsuit, a senior manager with nearly 30 years of service alleged that when Hershey terminated him in January 2022 for refusing the COVID‑19 vaccine (after denying his religious exemption), the company characterized his separation as a voluntary resignation or resignation without good cause.
Because of this designation, the plaintiff said he was precluded from collecting his retirement benefits, severance, and unemployment compensation that he would otherwise have been eligible for, including retirement eligibility he would have reached about 10 months later."
All this contradicted the nice caring family environment I was told about the company when I took the Hershey, PA factory tour in the pre-covid years.
Yeah that alone is enough to want to boycott them! 😡
The Cloisters in NYC use the cocoa shells ( or did) as mulch as well and you are not wrong about the lovely aroma! I love the nibs. So raw and close to the source.
When I was a child my father had business near Tacoma and would stop by the Almond Roca factory. It was such a treat. This last Christmas I had my husband order a can of it for me. Not the same. I was disappointed. Looking forward to the real stuff soon.
Whenever we happen through Canada, we would always come back with chocolate!
Loblaw's President's Choice! And Fortino's (don't remember brand)--also when visiting in Canada.
Good to know. I am visiting CA in August and will try some Canadian chocolate.
What great memories
This is not meant to be sarcasm but a small tribute: If a contest was held to determine who was America's best cheerleader, who would you choose: Donald Trump or Jeff Childers?
Our uncle gave us 5 kids a whole box of Hersey candy bars at Christmas. They would come in a nice box. This was the 50s. Mom would parcel them out. I don’t know how they were made then but we sure weren’t chocolate snobs. Ate slowly square by square. I figure we got good stuff.
The Bondi-bashers focus solely on political arrests, the absolutely toughest to prove with intent. (Did Deep Stroke---Peter Strzok---participate in a conspiracy against a President, or did he just state personal feelings? Can you PROVE his statements were linked to verifiable actions that could be made into a criminal case?) I'm no lawyer, but I have watched "Law and Order" and "Lincoln Lawyer." I do think there has to be credible proof that expressing disgusting opinions must actually be shown to be connected for it to be a prosecutable crime.
Second, though, in addition to the plunging murder rates, Bondi's DOJ has overseen and supervised (again, no lawyer but just what it appears) the most successful series of legal defenses of an administration in American history. By my count, she/DoJ has won 32-33 appeals on various aspects of Trump's agenda. She has facilitated and supported the removal of 3.5 million illegal invaders. She has, via Harmeet Dhillon, brought universities to their knees over DEI (still a couple of guerilla holdouts). In short, if you omit the "big name arrests," Bondi's DoJ is simply the most effective and successful in history. And, oh yeah, did I mention that there have been FIVE major human trafficking busts in 18 mo. Now, again, impossible to prove, but where did the leads for those busts---that have freed thousands of kiddos---come from? Gee, couldn't be the old Eppy Files, could it?
Until Schiff is indicted for lying to congress ( proven by the tapes) I’m not a big fan.
Why I no longer subscribe to VivaBarnesLaw on Locals....had a stomach full of Barnes, who is full of himself, and his Pam bashing...same with Baris who is influenced by Barnes...I cringe every time that Mark Groubert makes a sarcastic comment....None of them any idea what a staffing nightmare she must deal with....
Yeah, what’s up with sour grapes Barnes? Did he want that job for himself?
He is not sour grapes...he is just telling it like it is...
He is telling his perspective of how it is.
Sure…or how he wishes it was.
So you think he is actively hoping that Trump fails and kills our economy and worldwide reputation?
What do you think?
And all while experiencing big staff shortages, as well.
No kidding. The Senate STILL hasn't even approved over half of the nominees, and according to Bongino and Patel, there are still a lot of fifth columnists there.
Agree, these are both big hindrances (entirely on purpose, I am sure! 😡)
I'm surprised Trump isn't doing recess appointments!
Not possible. Technically, the Senate isn't in recess. They do that deliberately. There is a "pro forma" session going on so long as one Senator is there, and they always make sure one is so Trump cannot.
Thank you for the clarification. :)
She won sham cases that never should have been brought - sorry, that is no bar.
What about any high profile figures and cases against covid criminals, epstein criminals, 911 criminals......how did the Comey trial go?
Bimbo Bondi is an utter joke. She is completely incompenent.
Don't take it from me, take it from someone with a constitutional law background:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECr-Hf3h5kw&t=196s
Silly. No case that reaches U.S. Appellate courts or the Supes is a “sham case.” No AG in history has had to fight this hard for a president. Sad you people all think this stuff just “happens.”
BRAVO
She has actively blocked and/or dismissed major cases against her buddies in big pharma and the the antitrust division has been obliterated. She is absolutely horrible.
Remember the fake Epstein File binders publicity stunt full of already released info she pretended was new info?Let's not forget "the Epstein Fikes are on my desk" comment that came after it.
Then awhile later she says there are no files. Then she was forced to release files. So ridiculous.
You’re Another bot.
um, no. Such a well thought out response.
Still choking on getting your ahead out of your ass!
Oooooh ... Ouch ... "Don't take it from me" ... someone smart somewhere said she's bad.
Bimbo Bondi? Really?
You lost all credibility with the Bimbo Bondi comment.
Oh, go study the Koran and Sharia Law…that should improve your mood.
Notice too, except for RFJ jr. the Left seems to only be going after women in this administration.
I noticed that too.
While I don’t disagree, we are NOT seeing any movement with regard to Russiagate or Epstein and it is frustrating
Again, these are extremely difficult cases to prove. I know to outside observers they seem slam dunks. They absolutely are not. Think of how long the Feds tried to get Al Capone on serious charges---yet ultimately only got him on tax fraud.
Financial crimes are easier because there is a paper trail beyond text messages.
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First impeach the judges. Until they are prevented from interfering with Executive functions, the Executive branch will continue to have its legs cut out from under it. https://notthebee.com/groups/no-kings-in-black-robes
Then make life miserable for the miserable Mr. Thune (McConnell 2.0) who has placed confirmation of Trump's picks LAST on his to do list. One example of many: "Habba was awaiting Senate confirmation when her 120-day term as interim U.S. attorney expired..." https://abcnews.com/US/former-trump-attorney-alina-habba-passed-permanent-us/story?id=123971287
Can't Trump do recess appointments??
No, becuase they dont go on recess. They gavel in then leave.
Doesn’t mean nothing is happening. We shouldn’t be privy to everything.
What about the elephant in the room, Pres DJT, whose name is mentioned 1000s of times in the files? A pedo is a pedo, no matter what side of the aisle.
So, by your calculation, merely mentioning someone’s name in emails connected to Epstein is proof of pedophilia? No mention of such acts or even accusations, but the name alone implies guilt and therefore, actual guilt?
No - but when someone like Epstein, who uses acid to desolve bodies, says that Trump is literally the "worst person he has ever met, not one decent cell in his body" what do you think it means? There are more documents I can find linking DJT to illicit behavior, trouble is...who wants to hear it?
🤣🤣 I think it means Epstein hated him with every oz of his body because of the threat Trump posed to him. Sorry, I’ll believe the word of Trump BEFORE the words of an ACTUAL convicted pedo. 🙄🙄🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
I was just going to post what you wrote Juju.
I don't care what Epstein thought of Trump! Epstein's personal character was appalling!
IE: like asking Hitler to give you his personal recommendation for a pastor to study the Bible with.
Yeah - I think you get my drift!
Trump's personal character is amazing - someone who claims they have never apologized is indeed a stand up person.
Or the way he has talked about his daughters in sexualized ways. Disgusting and disturbing, to say the least. We can all see the creepiness in joe biden, but when it comes to trump, your blinders work well.
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Go read the Koran some more and Iranian marriage laws setting age 9 as the minimum for a wife and shaming consequences for raping infants. Get that log out of your eye.
I know of lots of people who I think are amongst “the worst people in the world” but that term doesn’t imply pedophilia. Why would Epstein call a fellow pedo that?? Makes no sense. You are wishcasting.
It’s a Muslim bot with the goal of bringing down Western Civilization and establishing Sharia Law.
So you think anything that Epstein said is credible. Your TDS controls you.
If Epstein called Trump the ""worst person he has ever met, not one decent cell in his body", that would be a badge of honor coming from the likes of Epstein.
How do you NOT grasp the obvious point?
Who do you think comes out better, Trump or James Carville, based on the unhinged vitriolic diatribe Carville spewed in the last day or so? You think that redounds to CARVILLE'S benefit and Trump's detriment?
Good grief, your TDS is pathological.
It will never grasp anything but its mission to destroy Western Civilization and ultimately rule through Sharia Law.
@Roman- Epstein was pissed at Trump because Trump had the balls to publicly humiliate him by kicking him out of Mar-A Lago. That's what whiners do- they whine.
@Roman - you've been mentioned twice now. Right here on C&C. That must mean that you like coffee. Or maybe covid. And that you agree, 100%, with everything Jeff says on his page.
Because: you HAVE been mentioned, afterall.
I think everybody should mention Roman in their posts for the rest of the day. Just so he can see how easy it is to be "mentioned". And how guilty that makes him.
More documents, you say? ALL from the National Enquirer I assume. As the ol' Cabbage Head himself would say, "C'mon, man!" Roman, PLEASE do tell how you arrived at the the most asinine assumption that I've come across recently in that Epstein "use(d) acid to desolve (sp?) bodies"? Sources? Links? Please.
I think you would do well sticking with reading The Daily Mail as they are well known for publishing pure rubbish (i.e., Libtard talking points) rather than trying to create "click bait" comments in a more conservative publication. Just saying. (I'll await your sources. Till then, try to enjoy the glorious transformations that President Trump is bringing to the WORLD!!!)
Good catch, RS! I never heard a thing about Epstein and acid. I was so busy getting caught up with Trump being "mentioned", that I missed this point.
Few days ago in an exchange with Roman, he indicated that Peter Thiel was running the CIA because Palantir was supported by the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, in its early stages. So by extension Thiel must also be running the DoD, NSA, DHS and 2300 other companies that use Palantir products. By further extension, since Palantir uses Nvidia chips then Jensen Huang must be running Palantir and a whole host of other companies. Maybe they use Dell computers and Michael Dell is running all of those. Roman makes these stretches, longer than the Artemis II mission, that try to connect dots that IMHO simply are a bridge too far. I explicitly stated this is my opinion, but mostly Roman makes these statements as facts that readers should take as such. At least in this instance Roman did not include a link back to his substack.
Sorry, but you are mind reading here in your attempt to connect the dots. You don’t really have a valid argument.
Your argument would sound a lot better if there were actual investigations happening into Epstein pedos......and don't forget Lutnick - right in Trump's inner circle.
The OP has accused a person of horrific crimes merely because his name being mentioned but not connected with any pedophilia activities. That is my point. You shifted your commentary to Lutnick now, which is not the subject of the comment. If the OP has proof, he needs to bring it. (Edited: Didn’t realize I was responding tosomeone else)
Did I say he was a pedo? We need real investigations. In what sane world do we expect people to investigate themselves with honesty?
I edited my comment, didn’t realize you weren’t the OP. My apologies.
Kash entering chat.
Simply silly. The only pedo to inhabit the WH was Rutabaga. Buzz off diddlepicker.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to add “diddlepicker” to my vocabulary now. 🤣
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I was thinking the same thing! Lol!
One thing great about finding the trolls is that they all gather like vultures over the same worthless carcass to knit pick and continually circle over whatever it was long after it's not even identifiable. Like D'rats they show up late and try to make a big deal outta that got nuthin. Hey WAIT A MINUTE! I bet you work for the Dead Gray Old Woman, the gossip witch.
Communist/Muslims
Prove it. Who's YOUR SOURCE? or shove off.
Just block him. He’s a troll. More have shown up since Jeff has gotten popular.
According to sources familiar with the situation, they held back because of their high moral character, their unwillingness to besmirch a former president and their disdain for those that grovel in the mud like feral pigs.
R u serious? Do you not know the files were released with DJT's name all over them?
And yet not a single link of Trump to any sexual allegations in the Epstein files. Because if there was any links we would have heard of them by now from the TDS media.
Bingo! Funny how the Libtards had 4 years under Biden in which to release all "this obviously incriminating evidence against Trump," BUT THEY NEVER DID!!! Hmmm. I wonder why that is??? Of course, we ALL know the answer when you quit pretending. It's ALL BS. Period.
Roman, why didn't the Biden Admin use all that so-called evidence to go after Trump when they had the chance, if the evidence is what you claim it is? Why did they use an official phone call, a check notation, made-up Russia 'evidence,' and a fake, ancient 'rape' claim instead?
My question also! It’s not like the Biden administration was shy about trying to get Trump on anything they possibly could, with even the shakiest kinds of “evidence” 🙄
@roman- they were also released with Alan Dershowitz's name all over them. Wanna know why? because he was Epstein's defense attorney. A man doing his job. Doesn't mean he was involved.
Define and explain, with sufficient detail, what you mean by "name all over them"?
Give us the context in which DJT's name was used over and over.
Dear Troll: You are not preaching to the choir here.
I think he has been completely incompetent in handling the Epstein files but unlikely he is a pedo. He is mentioned becuase all Epstein was majorly involved in the circles of the high $$ elites. He is protecting his big donors, elites and the like which is awful.
Cry harder bitch.
Your thinking is EXACTLY why they won’t release anything. Epstein sent tons of emails TRYING to get Trump. He did so for many other high profile people. That’s a lot different than being in the log book as a guest on the island and having eye witness account of presence on the island
Thousands of times? I think you’re overreaching there bot.
"Proving intent" ... is a very hard nut to crack: slow, painstaking, and utterly dependant on cooperative judges.
Because of the vast resources to prove, it's not yet a viable (manageable) option.
Not to worry though, treason begets consequences in countless ways, both visible and less so.
Nice to see you here! I miss your posts on X.
Great comments Larry. You made me laugh with “watched Law and Order and Lincoln Lawyer” Was this while you were staying at a Holiday Inn Express?
Good points.
brought universities to their knees over DEI ?
Except for Trotsyites.
With the exception of perhaps Harvard, which submitted, then backed out, virtually every U has had to demolish its DEI. See Christopher Rufo on this. It has been an extremely successful campaign. Now DoJ is going after racial hiring practices. All done in one year.
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Thank you, Janice. On this Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday) when we remember Our Lord’s Last Supper, I wish everyone a blessed weekend.
“As He broke the bread, so He broke Himself for us. Let us not forget the sacrifice.”
— Mother Teresa
Jeremiah watched the State of the Union speech.
Give it a rest
Bad Jose. I think he fancies himself as some intellectual.
Just checked, he does fancy himself as an intellectual. Retired Professor in Literacy Studies
President Trump goes to the S.Court.
Who in their right mind could ever think the founders, or the writers of the 14th amendment would have agreed with the notion of birth tourist coming to America, having children, getting citizenship for their child and then going back home. 36,000 births a year is the last stat taken. Later, when the child comes back the parents are automatically able to get a type of green card status as the child’s guardian. So if we are to believe the Supreme Court is going to rule on the founders intent of the law, this should be a slam dunk, birth right citizenship should be voted out! But we know this probably isn’t going to happen, the Supreme Court has become influenced by politics and their public perception. The majority is certainly not influenced by what is right or good for America.
I think turning over birthright citizenship isn’t going to happen but for a different reason. It’s constitutional. Do I think it makes sense given how it’s being abused? Do I think it’s being used for its original intent? Absolutely not. I think it’s a terrible policy in this day and age. But I also don’t think that the supremes are going to rule the other way because the amendment is pretty straightforward. The ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ argument has merit, but I don’t think it’ll be enough. I desperately hope I’m wrong.
The primary intent of the 14th Amendment (1868) was to constitutionalize the citizenship and rights of formerly enslaved people, ensuring equality before the law and protecting them from discriminatory southern "Black Codes". It aimed to establish birthright citizenship, impose federal protection over state actions, and enforce equal rights for all individuals.
In my opinion it had nothing to do with people coming here for a visit, near the time of giving birth, having the child, so their child becomes a citizen. I have heard there are 5 organizations in China now that set up trips for families and women to travel to the U.S. just to have their child in the states. This allows future access to America for China. They’re laughing at us, and these buffoon justices I guess are part of the comedy act. It’s a dangerous world, the people in power need to start acting as if it’s dangerous. Just my opinion.
Bingo, again! James, you have hit the nail squarely on the head. And just because the purpose (and/or "intent") of this 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted for a very long time does NOT make it "correct" now by continuing the illicit behavior. Fix it!!! The same goes for allowing the Chinese Communist Party (and other foreign countries) from purchasing American soil/property. More insanity. The Founders had just fled a Tyrannical Government. As such, do you really think that they would then want to sell the same tyrants property in their newly established country, as well as offer citizenship to the child every dang bitch/prostitute/woman of British blood? Obviously, not. And It only makes sense when one says "No" to both. So, again, Fix it!!!
Oh I know what the intent was, my point is that the way it was written was pretty simple and doesn’t leave a lot of room for judicial reinterpretation, except in the ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ part.
But that’s the part that matters. We have documents of the writers of the amendments stating clearly it was NOT intended to apply to foreigners or aliens. That coupled with “under the jurisdiction of” would make it clear that the child would have no other allegiances because the parents didn’t. They were born here from parents that were under the jurisdiction of our country, NOT as tourists or visitors, but as citizens. So therefore logically their child would too, and that was the situation for children of slaves. Trying to apply this to illegal aliens is mind blowing given the national security risk it poses. Not to mention it literally destroys the sovereignty of every American citizen.
Also, back then there was never any inclination of separating a child from their parent so long as they had any, so they wouldn’t have thought to need to actually say “parents” because it was implied. Separating children from their parents is a new disgusting practice of the modern era.
I understand, I’m sure your probably right. There was a time in America when the government would do what it took to protect citizens and citizenship. Now it’s not about intent of the law. Everything gets twisted, many times, it seems, to legalize the selling out of America so to line one’s pockets.
It’s SO distressing, isn’t it? To watch our beautiful constitution and laws being warped into something that abuses the citizens rather than protect them. Uggghhhh.
Yes it is very distressing Valerie.
We read that one of these American born children raised and indoctrinated in china or anywhere else could run for president one day
It's not constitutional.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170228210602/https://www.loc.gov/law/help/citizenship/pdf/congressglobe_2890.pdf
The Congressional Globe, May 30, 1866. pages 2890-2897
Quotes Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, author of the 14th amendment.
Bottom of right column page 2890 and top of left column page 2891
Very clearly this does NOT support birthright citizenship, which was offered only to freed slaves after the Civil War.
It didn't even support birthright citizenship for Native Americans because they were part of sovereign nation to which they owed allegiance within the US. A separate law had to be passed to confer citizenship on them. "in 1884 ... Elk vs. Wilkins ... citizenship was denied to an American Indian because he “owed immediate allegiance to” his tribe and not the United States.
American Indians and their children did not become citizens until Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. There would have been no need to pass such legislation if the 14th Amendment extended citizenship to every person born in America, no matter what the circumstances of their birth, and no matter who their parents are." https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/birthright-citizenship-fundamental-misunderstanding-the-14th-amendment
Exactly. Howard stated “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers… but will include every other class of persons.”
Pretty clear. Why won’t Scotus consider that “original intent” while they search for “original intent”?
This is very compelling. I hope the supremes agree.
I hope the government lawyer is presenting this information.
Good points, thanks for this information!
you are wrong....go back and look at the 14th through the eyes of the founders not the eyes of the SCOTUS. Art. VI, clause 2 says that only the Constitution, laws made pursuant to the Constitution, and Treaties made under the authority of the United States are the supreme law of the land. Supreme Court “opinions” are NOT part of that supreme law.
In 1868, when the 14th amendment was ratified, homosexual contact was a crime in every state in America. So, suggesting that the original meaning and intent of the 14th amendment was to grant a same-sex marriage right is ridiculous.
Illegal aliens are not “subject to the jurisdiction of the US” – they are invaders whose allegiance is to the Country they left. Foreign diplomats stationed here are not “subject to the jurisdiction of the US”. Thus, children born here of these aliens are not citizens!
The key is not just being born in the United States, but being born “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
American Indians born here were not made citizens by the 14th Amendment b/c they were not considered “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”, but instead were subject to the jurisdiction of their own tribes.
Babies born here of illegal aliens are not citizens of the United States b/c their illegal alien parents are subject to the jurisdiction of the Country they left.
Ted Kennedy was behind rewriting our citizenship laws in 1965 and everyone knows what a liberal progressive he was. The fact is that NOTHING can “change” an amendment to the Constitution except another amendment, which has never been done on the 14th Amendment. According to the framers of the 14th Amendment, a child of FOREIGN parents does NOT get U.S. citizenship at all! They did NOT recognize “dual” citizenship. Any citizenship law that runs contrary to the 14th Amendment is NOT constitutional.
The SCOTUS, the progressive left, and most in both houses of congress want WTP to believe that all the illegal invaders born on american soil are citizens. Good grief, how gullible and stupid we must seem.
I will be THRILLED if I’m wrong.
I agree Valerie, I am afraid they won't. Which puts another brick on our coffin here in America
Tourism for the purpose of birthing an instant American citizen is Not assimilation. What about wealthy Chinese tourists who birth their children in the US, return to China to have their child educated/indoctrinated in their homeland to eventually run for President? Mamdani can’t run for president because he wasn’t born in the US. His type of communism however, is what globalists are aiming for. Closing the borders must include stopping chain migration through birthright citizenship.
Particularly since at the time, it was a very long and arduous journey to come to this country for most people, they couldn’t have anticipated people coming here on airplanes or even in cars. If people came here, it was usually to stay. Also I highly doubt most women at that time would have been traveling in their last trimester of pregnancy, even if coming over land from Mexico.
So, they are going to make junk food out of real junk instead of artificial junk?
Your best bet is still to stay away from the junk altogether.
Well said! 🎯
I don’t know about any of you but I am feeling incrementally more optimistic and free since President Trump got reelected. With all this news today, I got a big dose of it. I’m praying this same experience for many. Revel in the blessings.
Yes 💯
Trolls be rolling deep this morning. Most of us have better things to do than slogans through BS comments. Keep up the good work, Jeff. Those who matter are listening.
I just got a slight smile because I’ve only seen one today. 🤣 I blocked that many! Reading comments is sooooo nice now!
Same!! They were adding nothing to my perspective, just repeating the same old tired talking points. The comments are so much more interesting now!
How do you block? I’d like to clean up a bit to make it more readable.
Tap their avatar. In their profile there are three dots upper right (on iPhone app anyway) and tap those dots. From there you can mute or block or report. Note that muting only stops notifying you if they reply to you, but you both can still see each other’s comments. Block removes both your replies from their view and theirs from yours. I use that more than mute. I’ve muted a few that I don’t mind reading their comments but have no desire to ever interact with them. But most of these dishonest and manipulative posters I block.
Thank you!
Go to the profile by clicking on their name and you should see three dots at the top right. If you click on that, you should get several options, one of which is to block.
Make sure you then go to YOUR page and make sure they are actually blocked. It once took me three times to get somebody blocked.
I think you go to your avatar, then go to something about privacy. There will be your muted and blocked lists there. I know I'm not giving the best directions, but thatxs the jist ...
It’s under settings, then privacy, at least when I just went to check.
Those who matter?
Pride comes before the fall.
WOW! 2027 when Hershey begins to make real chocolate again. So, between now and then, who's going to be dumb enough to buy their fake nasty products. 🤮
I’ll make my own. It’s really not that difficult and plenty of YouTube instructionals. Just get cocoa butter, real chocolate powder, choice of sweetener and any flavorings you desire. I even made homemade Reeces once and they were delicious. They sell wonderful silicone candy molds of all sizes.
Oh! And if you like butterfingers, go to chocolate covered katie.com (no spaces. I dont know if we are allowed to share links here.) She has a great "healthier butterfinger" recipe. I take the extra sugar out, as it doesnt need it. I made it for a church function this past weekend - but they are soooo yummy!
Is this it? Your link didn’t work…
https://cookingkatielady.com/recipe/healthy-copycat-butterfingers/
And thank you for the referral! Yum
https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/
https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/healthy-butterfingers/
Also, the brand Nature's Path has the healthiest corn flakes.
People eat fake food all the time....what do you think the purpose is for MSG? Ever read ingredients on packages, including sandwiches from reputable stores?
Yeah, I read all labels. It's appalling what's in our food.
And appalling that producers have to pay $$$$ to jewish organizations to get the certification of kosher for a small per cent of a small percent who actually eat kosher..talking huge amounts of money...where the money is then spent is untraceable..in my area the most common sign is a U with a circle around it but there are many more..one reason our foods and some appliances and other things are so expensive..meat, condiments, bread, drinks, stoves, pots, refrigerators, snacks..if a company produces multiple products some of which can't necessarily made in the same facilities, it means having separate facilities..costing more money which is passed on to the US consumers. I haven't found products made in other countries so far who have these jewish/kosher codes...
No one I hope. Not me
I buy chocolate at Aldi. It comes in from Germany. I trust them more than large US chocolate makers.
Oooo! I'll have to check that out! Thanks!
Craft chocolate makers in the US are great too! I like to support them,
I by past Hersey on my Easter chocolate buying spree! Even those Harry Potter beer kisses
Our kids were so excited about those HP kisses. Then quite dismayed they had dyes in them. The bag sits unfinished in our pantry a month later - a rare occurrence with candy in a house of 7 people (it's a treat so it usually doesn't last long!)
It’s ok to throw it in the trash. 😝
They rendered Reese’s inedible. Stupidly, stupid decision. Good for that grandson!
Your daily read should be required reading for all seniors in our public education system. Actually, all public education teachers should be required to read it as well. Thank you for your witty commentary and accurate reporting on real news of the day!
Well if there's anything that will displace Portlanders from their derisive status here, it would be public education indoctrinators.
That’s a wonderful idea
I love how it's going to take them until 2027 to put real chocolate back into Hershey's! This is ridiculous. Boycott Hershey's until there is proof in the candy! It's sheer plastic and poison until then!
they use bioengineered products in the candy too but don't label that on the bags. I had to all them to find out.
They'd poison us to save a dime and pay themselves more!
Hersey’s and a supposed ‘good’ brand, Lindt, are some of the worst for cadmium and lead in their chocolates. It gets so tiring trying to figure out what is safe. Soy lecithin is bad too.
Cut out all processed foods is the answer I guess. Good luck.
Yes and soy lechitin is full of glysophate and disrupts hormones, terrible for you!
I'll never go back. And I bake a lot.
I looked at Hershey's chocolate chips which are now $6 per small bag....pure crap, poison, plastic! No way was I buying them!
I bought the generic brand the other day, made with real cocoa and half the price.
Agreed. I buy Guittard or Ghirardelli chips.
Advertising is powerful
And even using fake crap as chocolate the price has really gone up. Sad situation.
And imagine the price once they use what they are supposed to be using anyway....I tell you they squeeze every dime out of us in every direction! Hershey's can kiss my A$$!
Ever hear of supplier contracts?
Tells me how far in advance the "chocolate" was manufacured!
Advance making of the chocolate is irrelevant. It's contracts. I guess you have a lot in common with Congress. They don't understand business either.
I think consumers are more important! They made billions saving money on this garbage they have been selling us especially when the prices of real cocoa have plumeted!
No one has to buy it. They sell what people buy.
For all Christian fans of C&C, please check out this YouTube video from May 23, 2025, titled “Christian Astronauts share what secular scientists WON’t about space”. Sorry I don’t know how to post a direct link, but the summary is: “Why do three men who’ve traveled to space all believe in the God of the Bible? In this interview, astronauts Charlie Duke, Butch Wilmore, and Jeffrey Williams share their most powerful moments in space, how they came to know Jesus, what space revealed to them about the Creator, and how they respond to flat-earth claims and questions about science vs. faith.” I am so sick of all the bullshit about it all being fake. I can maybe understand why young people are skeptical, but I was 14 when the first moon landing happened in 1969, and I wept with joy when that rocket launched yesterday. Please join me in praying for the safety of these four brave astronauts and a successful trip around the MOON, for the glory of God.
Victor Glover is the pilot for the Artemis II and he always brings his Bible. Plans on reading the book of Genesis this time. In the past he brings communion cups as well.
Cool! I didn’t know that. I will be reading up on all the astronauts to find out more about them.
Thank you for sharing that!
Unfortunately we all can’t experience such a mind blowing event…only vicariously through these brave explorers.
Yes, I watched that a year ago. Thanks for bringing it up. [I also appreciate the Canadian "Answers in Genesis" regarding the creation of earth.]
I was eleven, in sixth grade, when John Glenn was to go up. The fifth grade teacher had announced that she was going to bring in a portable TV so we children could watch. I was so excited! And then, school was called off for a snow day, so we had to watch from home TV. Never before nor after was I disappointed to have a snow day.
I was raised in Tucson, AZ, and one day when I was five years old my dad told me he was taking me to meet someone important and that I would always remember this. For some reason John Glenn was flying into Tucson that night and my dad drove us out to the airport. My dad and I walked up to greet him as Glenn walked down the stairs from the plane (back when you deplaned outdoors and walked across the tarmac). He leaned down to me, said hi and I got to shake his hand. This was in 1965, so he had first flown into space just three years earlier. My dad was a private pilot, but I never found out how he managed the whole "meeting John Glenn" thing. All these years later, it remains a special memory for sure!
Oh wow!
Fake chocolate. Fake news. Fake work. Fake elections. Fake citizens. There is still much to be done.
Sigh … I agree with you, Jason. But we have come a long, long way from the Biden and covid years. I’ll take some hope and optimism this Easter season.
Same!! Hope and optimism give us the will to continue the fight!!
What a cheerful, enthusiastic, triumphant picture Jeff painted of our America returning to normalcy again - i.e. Leader of the Free World!! Made my heart sing for a moment, too!!
It’s amazing that in the SAME MONTHS at the same time Trump not only handles once and for all getting rid of the greatest terrorist regime on the planet AND sends a rocket back to the moon. America is so back.
And my husband just told me a clemency hearing for Tina Peters is supposed to happen today. PRAY!!!
Praying!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Normalcy apparently means back to endless wars and running up the debt.
We wouldn't have debt if we were not supporting half of the US, citizens and non-citizens, as well as half the world. And then we have the female fraud judges not making the fraudsters repay the money.
Good Morning everyone... Wonderful rain overnight, finally!
Shayne, we have a skiff of snow here but I see blue skies beyond. We’ve had a warm, dry and windy winter, glad for a little moisture.
I'm jealous; no rain in my part of FL
Shayne, amen to that - got some much-needed rain where I live too. God is good!!!
" .....the Artemis rocket is apparently equipped with an en-suite, sit-down commode."
Houston....we have a problem. The only woman on board has filed a complaint about the other astronauts leaving the seat up !!!!
Howard Wallowitz from Big Bang Theory invented it! 😉
I was thinking of Howard when I read the story!
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Jeff, I used to work on the Space Shuttle program, and knew many who had worked on Apollo. We went to the Moon. We went several times. Fact, not fiction.
One dot you missed; during the launch, the NASA announcer mentioned “American exceptionalism.” Remember when Obama ran, how he dismissed “American exceptionalism?” This was somebodies dig at him for canceling Constellation and setting us back ten years,and I loved they dinged him during the launch using his words.
OSC, Thank you for your work on the space program. I'm not sure who I have less tolerance for, moon landing denier or 9/11 deniers.
I don’t even bother to talk with the moon hoaxers. I just block them for their stupidity.
The only value that I have ever found with them is that I find the solutions to their issues sometimes interesting. It increased my knowledge of surprising circumstances.
That’s a wonderful idea.
Agreed!! Don't leave out the flat-earthers. The cream of the crap.
Flat-earthers?