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Though being represented by an ass is wholly appropriate, or perhaps more accurately - magnificently on point, it’s time to ditch the democrat donkey symbol for an even more befitting image. Stegosaurus had one of the lowest brain-to-body mass ratios of any known dinosaur. Need I say more? Work it up. Have something on my desk by Monday morning. Throw a beard on it, purple hair and perhaps a dime store tutu....something that will send a clear message of confusion and ambiguity that captures the party's legion of twisted ideologies..
As a side note: The four year reign of terror ushered in by the previous administration's mishmash of America hating con artists and racketeers seemed to last a freaking eternity. On the other hand, doesn't it feel like Trump’s will be ending way too soon?
I am very impressed with Vance so as sad as I will be to see Trump leave the White House, I feel positive about the future. I expect Trump to stay involved until the Lord calls him home though using social media. The midterms will tell the story.
CK, even at his young age became an example and mentor for many older and professional people, Chix.. JD Vance was one of those impacted by Charlies drive for knowledge and unshakable love for Christ. The spiritual crosses the boundaries of life and death, closeness or distance. A piece of Charlie lives within many and his impact will continue for years. His book will be available soon, another way his impact will live on.
I’m sure their voters would think the Stegosaurus as being cool, while the ass jokes just write themselves. And AOC truly does look and acts like a jackass……
Yeah I understand that. I should have asked, who is the rainbow horse these days. Ass still seems appropriate. Maybe we should just start depicting a rainbow ass.
Seems to be flying by! A year since ELECTION DAY ….. & only 3 more years of daily “winning.” He needs 8 minimum to straighten out ALL the disasters of O’Biden.
Just to clarify for those who do not know the Bible: This verse applies to those brothers and sisters in Christ who are capable but choose not work. There are far more verses about helping the poor, needy and hungry.
A vast majority of those are freeloaders in a lit of ways. It was directed to the disciples to appoint people within the CHURCH to help those truly orphans and truly widows. Families were to take care of family members. You give a hand out to help in an emergency. Not create a lifestyle for generations. And never would the Bible endorse or excuse the fraud, abuse, etc within the food stamp handout. Most of the people who get food stamps also get other government handouts. If they can spend their money on fancy cars, jewelry, extreme nails and hair, the latest phones, games, and ipads..they can buy food. If you are able, work. Cook at home. Stop buying fully prepared food, snacks, candy, soft drinks, fast foods...cook regular meals. Grow your own veggies..if you have a flower pot and some soil, you an grow veggies. Stop living beyond your means. In our area there is always food being given away. The same people show up at every free give away. Friends in the black community talk of those give away supplies being taken to stores like Walmart to get a refund. Food stamp people have a cash back option to buy drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. So much fraud in this program. It was for temporary help only. Not forever.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, the federal government of the United States does not have any business being involved in the health, welfare or education of individual citizens of the United States. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the federal government is authorized to take money from Peter and give it to Paul. The words “education,” "health," "health care," or "medical care" are not found anywhere in the text of the Constitution, so it seems to me that none of these things are any business of our bloated federal government and the phrase “general welfare of the United States” does not apply to individual citizens of the United States,
… if it did, the constitution should specifically say so, since this is a legal document and words are extremely important
You're 100% right. Sadly though the Const. committed obvious SUICIDE right up front in its astounding Article VI (not Amendment VI) paragraph 3, and the final clause of the sentence, when it kicked God and Scripture forever out of the philosophical heart of the nation. It was an Enlightenment-induced fantasy perpetrated by the mainly deistic non-Christian signers. Namely and famously Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Washington and Franklin. Encouraged in addition by Jefferson, John Adams and Sam Adams.
I’m thinking, richard, that the final clause of paragraph 3 may just have been a reaction to the horror inflicted upon the citizens of Europe by the governments of Europe’s marriage with the Catholic/Christian Church. These men were very familiar with the evil that was perpetrated upon the citizens of Europe by that marriage and were looking to avoid it here in the United States. I wouldn’t say that that was kicking God and scripture forever out of the philosophical heart of the citizens of this nation.There is no place in American politics where any of men’s religions should rule over the citizens of this country
… religions that have a history of torturing and murdering people that disagree with them
The separation of Church and State does NOT kick God out. This amendment was a direct hit on England’s STATE RELIGION. Therefore, United States prohibits a Federal, mandated religion. Personally, I would like to see prohibition of any religion the runs counter to our Judeo Christian founding. If Muslim countries can prohibit Christian religions, we should be able to prohibit Muslim religions. There is no agreement in the philosophy of Muslim with Christian or Jewish faiths.
Although I belong to the band of Christians (belief in Old and New Testament) I have issues with every established Christian religion. I’m not well versed in True Jewish Reling (im rather fed up with Jewish as a culture practitioners) so will leave “Judeo” in my statement. My point is a CULTURE of mixed religions that share a basic belief in a higher power and “Do unto others” old fashioned morality is the country I was born into. The government should have no authority to dictate what branch of Christian based religion I practice.
Full of fraud. The same people go in the food pantry lines multiple times, and they also get food stamps. They resell a lot of their benefits. Food stamps ought to be completely abolished, they are too fraudulent..
Matthew 26:11 The poor will always be among us. And my momma always said “Poor is as Poor does”! I’ve seen plenty of examples of that in my lifetime, to include Christians.
God made man to work, all men to do what they can, to occupy diligently, for their own provision and to help others who God has caused to test our service and humility until such time as He would change or heal. ALL are required to give account for how we spent our time and talents.
I just saw your statement, Jamie, and I’m wondering how many of these well fed people on food stamps are so-called brothers and sisters in Christ. And I’m thinking if just 50% of them were Christians we’re talking about over 20 million people. I’m assuming a large proportion of them are in fact capable of working, but due to the government’s involvement in welfare they don’t have to work.
…And they can still eat, contrary to what the Bible says.
As we know Jeremiah, the label “Christian” does not always mean follower of Christ. That aside, I’m 100% sure at least a fraction of those who choose not to work are saved. In my opinion, we must be in the trenches helping them and guiding them to the solution. I cannot affect the masses, but I can affect those in front of me and do. We as followers of Christ need to stop complaining and start doing. Equipping people to take care of themselves. Many are so stuck that just taking the time to pull them out of the muck will set them up for success. Not all are lazy, some are lost and so overwhelmed they cannot see a way out. For the willing souls we should be there to help them out. If each of us help just one person, think of the difference we could make. To be clear I do live like this all to the glory of God, but very very few people do it along side me.
You have a very good outlook on life Jamie, and your role in it, working alongside Jesus. And we do certainly know that the label Christian does not always describe a follower of Christ. In fact, I would say that it very seldom does.
… I will say, though, it applies to the very very few people that are working alongside you
It comes from personal experience stuck in the muck myself. I was so cynical about people that needed assistance that I refused help (Pride) when I truly had no choice and God miraculously helped me anyways by sending help. I will forever be grateful that He didn’t give up on me. 🥹
I just realized I did not answer your question on my personal opinion. No I do not think an able bodied person should be on SNAP if they choose not to work. If they are able bodied and bust their butt working and cannot get food, we should help them out of poverty.
In our weakness Christ is our strength. He will use this and it will separate the “wheat from the chaff” those who lean into the Lord will find favor and those around them should help them in finding a new direction. Jesus didn’t say it would be easy, He said He would carry the burden. I have never seen the faithful forsaken. The road may be hard, but we get back up and keep walking towards Him.
I was specific for a reason. I stated what that verse referenced, because that is the context that verse was in. It gets very murky when we judge those we do not know. Personally I use the gift of discernment given by God. If He tells me to give, I give, whether I think a person deserves it or not and even when I don’t have an abundance myself.
Unfortunately the cost of living in California is so high that a lot of folks who are working full time actually qualify for SNAP. The employment requirement is going to make things interesting here … my son with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science can’t even get hired at Target, even though they have jobs posted all the time. 🤷🏼♀️
I have single moms here in FL that work full time and still need help for their kids food. Disabled adults that do what they can and need help. This is where God’s people need to step in and fill the gap.
Churches. Food banks. Neighbors. The government calls it a benefit but they take it a way as a chip. Not a fan of welfare but I do see the benefit in acute issues.
Yes, he is. I’ve been tempted to us AI to remake his LinkedIn profile photo into someone who would have the name “Patel” just so he could find a job in the tech sector.
I would love to see Jeff do a deep dive into the H1B corruption taking place. This is a guy I follow on X who reports on this, it seems like every day it’s a different company. This was about Capitol One. I had no idea about this and it’s so depressing. This has to stop! https://x.com/realmattforney/status/1981061595858907566
It seems to me that it may be time to consider moving to another lower cost state. I think Oklahoma is still offering a 10k bonus to people in certain fields who move to the state and live/work for a certain period of time. Tulsa and its greater metro area is actually quite nice. It reminds me a lot of the Sacramento area. Check it out.
My experience has been the same, CMCM. People in OK are kinder, as a general rule. Drivers are definitely more courteous and follow the rules I have noticed. Neighbors look out for each other more willingly it seems, in OK. The electric company did an in person wellness check because they had noticed no usage for a month. In CA we only get notified in the mail that we used more electricity than average even though nobody was home for a month! Very strange. This could also be based on town size however, as I live in a fairly metropolitan area in CA, and a mostly rural area in OK.
Yes. Whatever isn’t taken by AI is shipped overseas or filled via H1B hires. The number of unemployed STEM grads in the US gets higher all the time. It breaks my heart when he’s applying for jobs and there’s thousands of applicants.
Remember that the requirements include volunteering as well as working in a paid position. There’s always a way if you’re committed to getting your desired results, CeeMcG. See my comment about relocating as well. It’s worth considering.
I understand your concern as my son is in a similar situation, having graduated with a mechanical engineering degree about a year ago. He got a job in his field after looking for a long time, but was laid off due to lack of work. Then he cobbled together a few part time jobs and then recently got a temporary contract job. He also has had his real estate license, but the market this year is the worst in his four years of having his license, unfortunately. He co-owns an auto body shop with two friends as well, but it’s new and doesn’t generate much income yet. Fortunately, he’s made some fairly lucrative investments over the past several years which has helped supplement his income but it’s a shame he’s had to deplete his nest egg. They’ll figure it out. It’s definitely not as easy as it was when we graduated to find work in your field. Seems like you have to be resourceful and do several things at once. It will get better. Glad he has cast a wide net for jobs.
Wow, I would have thought mechanical engineering would fare slightly better! I’m so sorry, thank goodness your son is resourceful. Someone recently suggested a union apprenticeship for my son (basically construction work) but he’s not a big kid or very physical, so that wouldn’t work. He can’t even get hired at Kohl’s or Target for seasonal work. It’s ridiculous!
Good morning Janice, this quote is a good one and I would like to throw a couple of my pennies out there.
“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink;…”
In the latter part of the month of September back in 2001, I witnessed televised network news interviews with five of the leading Christian televangelists in America, every one of whom was fully in favor of bombing their perceived enemy, instead of feeding them or giving them something to drink, apparently believing that bombing them was a fulfillment of this part of the verse; “for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Actually, heaping burning coals on his head, was not a reference to dropping bombs on him, but instead to the ancient custom of sharing your household fire with someone whose fire had gone out. They carried the coals in a pan on their head, so when you heaped those coals on his head, you were actually helping him get his fire started, which was a favor. A favor which perhaps equates to sharing the gospel with someone that lacks that fire.
… and yet still today Christians think that bombing innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq was doing a service to God
It is truly necessary that more people read scripture and understand it more deeply. Everything we need to know for the end times is in the Bible. We need to discern the Biblical signs of the times in order to Be Ready for what's coming.
The people are innocent, but the governments of those people is NOT innocent. If said government (Hamas, Taliban, etc) are not feeding the innocent people, and often even using them as human shields, then those governments must be removed. And if the innocent people can not or, in some cases, will not do it, then either the internal atrocities will continue, or someone from the outside must step in and try to do it for them. That, sadly, often means war, and it is and always has been an unfortunate result of wars that many innocent people die.
Perhaps an even more unfortunate result of wars is that the guilty government leaders don’t die. There seems to be some rule among governments of this world that it’s OK to kill the innocent people, but it’s not OK to kill the government leaders. So let’s try something different, instead of considering the killing of innocent people an unfortunate result of wars, let’s target the leaders of the evil governments
Executive Order 11905, issued on February 19, 1976. This order was signed by President Gerald Ford. I remembered hearing about this in high school. I thought what a bunch of crap. How many lives could be saved be eliminating the problem not the people.
"The Cult of Christian Fundamentalism was begun by the British East India Company's servant, Darby, which will be misused to strengthen the Zionist State of Israel with identifying with the myth of 'God's Chosen People' and by donating substantial amounts of money to what they mistakenly believe is a religious cause in the furtherance of Christianity."
Yeah, this verse has never made sense to me and the tortured explanations are amusing. It reminds me of the "camel through the eye of a needle" rationalizations where people claim it's just fine to worship mammon provided you check a bunch of legalistic boxes. Always looking for loopholes to trick God.
The long-term impacts of Darbyism have brought this country to its knees. America has been "blessing Israel" since 1948 and has American been blessed in return? The start of Americas downfall can be traced to almost exactly this time and sharply accelerated in the 1960's.
There’s no tricking God, like there’s no telling us that a 300 lb SNAP recipient is “going to starve.” A 300 pound human can fast for most of a year with only water and electrolytes and survive.
It's probably even earlier than that as Scofield and his resulting heretical Bible footnotes was pushed as early as the late 1890's by non-Christian Jewish Zionists.
You are right that the seeds were planted much earlier. But I'd argue that America's downfall didn't truly start until after WW2 coinciding with its support of the Israeli state.
When people finally realize that ALL religions are BS and written to act as means of control thats when things will get interesting. This isnt to say that there is no higher power, there is, it just isnt as how we've been taught to see it.
Albert Pike had promised his Masonic allies in Europe that they would have three world wars to consolidate the world power of the Canaanites. We have now seen two of those world wars, and, as promised, the first world war was to set up a Communist regime, the second world war was to raise it to the status of a world power, and the third world war is planned to destroy both Communism and Christianity in a great orgy of annihilation. This coming war is intended to be the final death knell of the people of Shem; after its conclusion the Canaanites will reign unchallenged throughout the world."
Yes, as much as I’d like to see the end of the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, I can’t help feel that it is a diversion ploy, so we don’t notice the genocide that’s taking place in Palestine. The big difference is we are not funding Nigeria to slaughter its Citizens. But we are funding Israel to genocide its neighbors and citizens. But somehow that’s OK.
The cult of British Israelites was begun before Darby, although Darby had way too much influence over their beliefs. I read that the Puritans that landed on the shores of America were British Israelites. Their beliefs spread throughout the country, eventually finding their way into places like Zion, Illinois founded by JA Dowie, and then infecting all of the Pentecostal churches in America, with men like CF Parham, AA Alan, TG Lake, O Roberts, W Branham, and other British Israelites taking the lead. While maybe not openly proclaiming to be British Israelites they believed they were nonetheless. Although the claim to be British Israelites kind of faded in the Christian churches of America, the Pentecostal churches were run by men who considered themselves to be British Israelites. The erroneous teachings of Darby were amplified when Scofield used those teachings as commentary in his Bible, a Bible which became one of the most popular books in the Christian church, especially in America.
…I think the Christian leaders of America are pro-Israel because of the teachings of the British Israelites, all the way back to the founding of America.
Regarding your reference of what heaping burning coals is supposed to mean, The Complete Jewish Bible says:
Proverbs 25:21-22
21“If someone who hates you is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22 For you will heap fiery coals [of shame] on his head, and ADONAI will reward you.
Would you share the origin of your definition? I have never heard that explanation before.
I found it in a book titled; “Strange Scriptures that Perplex the Western Mind” by Barbara M. Bowen, published by Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,Michigan, copyright 1944
She writes that the scriptures have much to say about forgiving our enemies, but to us “heaping coals of fire on their heads” sounds like vengeance, not forgiveness. She explains “that in the Bible lands almost everything is carried on the head- water jars, baskets of fruit or any other article. In many homes, the only fire they have is kept in a brazier which they use for simple cooking as well as for warmth. They plan to always keep it burning. If it should go out, some member of the family will take the brazier to a neighbor’s house to borrow fire. Then she will lift the brazier to her head and start for home. If her neighbor is a generous woman, She will heap the brazier full of coals. To feed an enemy and give him drink, was like heaping the empty brazier with live coals, which meant food, warmth, and almost life itself to the person or home, needing it, and was the symbol of finest generosity”
… which is why it is written that the Lord will reward you
That’s how I’ve always understood it too. That the act of giving even though this person treats you poorly would feel shameful and they would see Gods love in your act and possibly have a heart change.
Incidentally, D.S., beware of Bibles that add words in order to infect your way of thinking. The words in brackets [of shame] were put there in order to get you to think the way they want you to
My source is a Syrian Arab very in tune with the lifestyle of the Bedouin. He was a writer, editor, and translator known for his empathetic novels in Arabic, who has lived for decades in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco.
I’ve never heard it taught that way. I just looked through all of the Bible studies I could find on that verse and it’s always taught as giving to your enemy is to show Gods love and the desired effect is the heaping coals that would lead them to repent.
Biblically Burning coals symbolizes judgment and spiritual purification.
I’m so curious who teaches it this way.
Just be clear I don’t condone bombing people either.
Sadly, Lisa, the Bible studies that you’ve been reading have been written by Christian men like those five televangelists that I talked about in my original comment about ‘coals of fire’. These five were Christian men you may be familiar with; Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson’s son Gordon, Oral Robert’s son Richard, TD Jakes, and Billy Graham’s son, Franklin. All of these men, within two weeks after the explosive demolition of the three structural steel skyscrapers in the city of New York, went on national television interviews, throwing the weight of their Christianity behind the idea of dropping fire on the heads of innocent people in Afghanistan for what happened in New York. They did so knowing full well that Afghanistan didn’t have anything to do with what happened in New York, that the people of Afghanistan were simply innocent people that had never done anything to America, but they were OK with bombing them, with no thought of feeding them or giving them something to drink. They too thought that God was telling them to heap coals of fire on the heads of these people as judgement.
However, you think about it that simply doesn’t make any sense. How do you equate bombing people with feeding them or giving them drink? And to your reference to the symbolism of burning coals as judgement or spiritual purification, we’re not talking about symbols here. When God said feed them, he was talking about real food, when he said give them drink, he was talking about real drink, not symbols. When God was talking about burning coals on his head, He was talking about doing him a favor, and again I say, that’s why it is written that the Lord would reward you,
…God is certainly not gonna reward anyone for bombing innocent people.
The Bible verse as I understand it doesn’t mean that you literally heap coals on someone’s head. It’s a metaphor (as is much of the New Testament) to mean your act of kindness would help the other see Jesus in your actions because instead of retaliation you fed them and gave them water. Thus planting the seeds which is why this would please God.
I too have a big problem with religious leaders that compared the act of bombing people to heaping coals to justify it. In my opinion this is heresy and needs to be called out. No religious leaders in my circle would agree there is any correlation between heaping coals and bombing people. It’s the opposite. Acts of kindness NOT physical aggression.
After thinking about it, Lisa, I have to agree it could be used as a metaphor in today’s world. The use of it in the New Testament is actually a quote from proverbs chapter 25 verse 21 or two I think. Heaping coals of fire on someone’s head was an actual practice, a reality in the Ancient world, maybe even practiced today in some places in Africa, I don’t know. So in proverbs, it was probably referring to the actual practice,
Actually, Lisa, it does mean, literally, heaping coals of fire on their head. As I explained in a previous reply;
I found it in a book titled; “Strange Scriptures that Perplex the Western Mind” by Barbara M. Bowen, published by Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,Michigan, copyright 1944
She writes that the scriptures have much to say about forgiving our enemies, but to us “heaping coals of fire on their heads” sounds like vengeance, not forgiveness. She explains “that in the Bible lands almost everything is carried on the head- water jars, baskets of fruit or any other article. In many homes, the only fire they have is kept in a brazier which they use for simple cooking as well as for warmth. They plan to always keep it burning. If it should go out, some member of the family will take the brazier to a neighbor’s house to borrow fire. Then she will lift the brazier to her head and start for home. If her neighbor is a generous woman, She will heap the brazier full of coals. To feed an enemy and give him drink, was like heaping the empty brazier with live coals, which meant food, warmth, and almost life itself to the person or home, needing it, and was the symbol of finest generosity”
… which is why it is written that the Lord will reward you”
So you are right, there is no correlation between dropping bombs on people’s heads and heaping coals of fire on their heads.
Other European countries were not far behind. Belgium. France. Spain. Netherlands. Britain just had faster ships, and were willing to go to the far places of the earth, while the others took a fancy to Africa and parts of the East.
"Thus the Drug Trust, while maintaining the Stalinist Communist Government in Russia, simultaneously maintained a Communist back up regime in the United States, the Trotskyite Movement, in case the Stalinist regime should fall."
Starvation is part of the program. Dont be antisemantic.
"The United States will be flooded by people of alien cultures, who will eventually overwhelm White America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for...
At least 4 billion 'useless eaters' shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics...and starvation.
Rival factions and groups such as Arabs and Jews......shall have differences magnified and allowed to wage wars of extermination against each other under the eyes if NATO and UN observers.
2% only. Most are Eastern European which means Nordic with a little Chinese genetics. Ashkenazi. That’s why so many of these “Semites” are pale; so many with blue eyes and light hair.
Fun fact: only 10% were Jewish orthodox enough to actually follow their biblical law and not take the COVID jab.
For what it’s worth, I did not have the SNAP issue in mind when I chose these verses. I came across them in my Bible journaling the night before and felt led to share.
Sometimes though when even His own enemy-like-behaving people insisted on rejecting their Messiah, He chose not to turn the other cheek or to give food and water. Instead, by using the Roman Army in AD 70, he heaped burning coals upon their intransigent heads collectively. And thereby cancelling Political, Economic, National, Geographic and Spiritual Israel forever.
Surprised no one is talking about the Tucker Carlson – Nick Fuentes dust up. For those not tuned in, Tucker had Nick Fuentes on as a guest in a wide ranging interview. Fuentes, who is no fan of Israel or Jewish behavior in general, has a huge following online in the millions.
All the usual suspects in Conservative Inc. are lined up demanding Tucker be excommunicated from society for “platforming” Fuentes (which is absurd as Fuentes already has a huge platform). In the least surprising development of all time, these are the *exact* same people who were Never Trump in 2016, demanded Trump’s banishment after 2020, and pushed DeSantis over Trump in the 2024 primaries. They are dominated by globalists, ethnic Jews, and Christian Zionists.
What we love about Tucker is that he will pretty much talk to anyone and hear them out, but he has zero patience for moralizing scolds and those demanding others be silenced. His guests have run the gamut and include all sorts of people I would consider kooks and oddballs, but he lets them talk. That’s fine when it’s a homosexual homeless derelict saying he had an affair with Obama (who Tucker had on) but it’s apparently beyond the pale when it’s a guy criticizing Israeli militarism, Jewish ethnic supremacy, the predatory usury system, and globalism.
Fuentes is a nutball on some stuff IMO, and he is pretty dark in other areas that make me wonder about demonic influence in his life. But the fact that Tucker’s interview created outrage with Conservative Inc, when other interviews didn’t, tells us exactly who we aren’t allowed to criticize. And as it’s been pithily stated, who you cannot criticize is who rules you.
There is now an all-out operation underway to take Tucker out. It’s led by Conservative Inc and Jewish billionaires, the same people pressuring Charlie Kirk right before his murder regarding his waning support for Israel. They are calling Tucker an antisemite (which today means criticizing Israel or any Jewish person), a paid Qatari mouthpiece, a bad Christian, a pagan, “woke right” (lol), and even claiming he’s had a mental break down. It’s a classic coordinated psy-op.
Fortunately it’s pretty obviously failing as Conservative Inc is a spent force ever since it was unmasked and discredited by Trump. They are flailing about in sputtering rage (example: Mark Levin), throwing everything against the wall hoping something will stick, but nothing is. Plus the Right loves Tucker *specifically because* he won’t bow to pressure, unlike virtually every other public figure. But you should be aware what’s happening, as Tucker is one of a very small group of high-profile individuals that dares to tell the truth and deviate from the approved narrative.
Full disclosure, I wrote this ahead of time as I was curious if people had thoughts on it.
I thought it was a stimulating interview that gave me perspectives on all sides. I like that Tucker lets people speak. I didnt really know much about Fuentes beforehand, and I didn’t sense demonic influence in him at all. I think most opinions of that sort are planted by others and not based on any reality.
When people try so hard to paint someone as evil or an “anti-Semite”, that’s a red flag in and of itself.
It's not even accurate either. A semite is a person who has middle eastern DNA. It has noting to do with religion. A peer reviewed genetic study by a Johns Hopkins geneticist (Jewish) about a dozen years ago showed 80 % of Palestinians had semitic blood, but less the 2 1/2 % of Jews did. Internet has done a pretty good job of scrubbing that.
The whole Zionist/Dispensationalist idea that modern day Israel are the Jews of Jesus' day returning to "their" land is bogus. The Israelis are Northern European people of Turkamen origin (Step people), and an amalgamation of Zionism and Marxism salted with atheism, and who despised practicing Jews who likewise were also of Turkamen origin. These could not possibly be the Hebrew tribes returning to the Levant. As Malachi prophesied, the Jews of Jesus' day were burnt as chaff in the furnace of His Judgement in 70AD and left "without root or branch" because of their rejection of the Messiah when He came to His own.
Very interesting, rolandttg. I’ve been wondering for some time if the availability of checking your DNA on sites like Ancestry and others is going to translate into redefining races and origins, and/or putting a percentage number on it? What percent Senegalese, North African, Native American, Levant, Jewish, Icelandic, etc ancestry clears the bar to make claims, or are we not going to have those conversations?
Not in that interview, but he's said things that make me wonder about demons. He used to make callers to his show pledge to "murder, rape, and steal in the name of Nick Fuentes" or something like that, I don't remember the exact pledge. But it gave me that very unsettling sense I get when people are pushing sin.
He later brushed it off as a dark humor, and maybe it was. But some people are just a little too willing to say or do things that have ugly spiritual undertones.
No. The Fuentes MO is to spout one evil thing after another, and then (when needed) to act as if it was sarcasm, irony, dark humor, whatever. The pledge is entirely telling, and serious at bottom. There is a piece by Chris Brunet called "The Top 50 Nick Fuentes Pedophile Scandals" (sbstck) that demonstrates this.
You're right that Childers should be talking about the Tucker/Fuentes affair--it's only the biggest political event since the assassination of Kirk, but wrong to suggest he should be siding with the two of them against "Conservative Inc." The proper approach for dissidents is expressed in my latest "Unsure on Carlson; 100% Condemn Fuentes." https://dissidentcon.substack.com/p/unsure-on-carlson-100-condemn-fuentes We Covidvax dissidents need to face that A.) Tucker hasn't been helping us (ask Tom Haviland), and B.) with this disaster it's no longer clear that we would benefit from his making a belated decision to try.
I never said "he should be siding with the TWO of them" and you trying to put those words in my mouth shows disingenuous bad faith on your part. I said the exact opposite and that I thought Fuentes had demons. I had read the Brunet piece previously and know the history. (Brunet has his own issues BTW.)
My comment was specifically about the attempt to make Tucker persona non grata for defying Con Inc. and having Fuentes on. We are allowed to hear people out and draw our own conclusions. Period.
You obviously have an axe to grind that prevents you from making an honest argument which is why you mischaracterized my comments. You are no different from the Jewish extremists, you just can't stand Tucker for a different reason.
So tired of all the lies on here. People are utterly incapable of making an honest argument.
You did say Fuentes had demons. I liked that, since horribly, it is quite likely true. (No-one who really reads the Brunet peice will think otherwise.) I confess that my use of "siding with" is vague here, and thus likely unfair. Over at my stack, I say one and all should--regardless of how they come to judge Tucker's decision to have him on, one way or the other,--"condemn Fuentes 100%." Are you willing to say you do? If you are, we can talk about the degree of badness/carelessness my comment may be guilty of if we still wish... ...but if you can't, I don't know what to say.
Exactly! Though scratch the word "some" before "other big names." Face reality about our "conservative," "new-right," and "Trump-supporting" media/alt-media leaders. At this point, there merely remains some doubt about Bannon and his crew, a few persons at Blaze News, and Eric Metaxas; the only one I have no doubts about is Emerald Robinson.
ALL the rest are Suppressors. This a key fact regardless of what RFK Jr can do to counter it. Visit my stack to further consider the implications.
This point particularly jumps out: "...But the fact that Tucker’s interview created outrage with Conservative Inc, when other interviews didn’t, tells us exactly who we aren’t allowed to criticize. And as it’s been pithily stated, who you cannot criticize is who rules you."
When it comes to any issue that affects Israel, the Zionist Israel lobby rules and dictates how the USG behaves. Literally every Congressman has been bought and paid for by the lobby.
The American taxpayer has been enslaved to the dictates of Zionism in Israel. This has to end. Americans should not be hostage to ANY foreign power!
I watched the whole thing and found Tucker's body language to be interesting. He constantly covered his chest with his arms and leaned backward, while Fuentes leaned forward with his arms and hands stretched towards Tucker while gesticulating. Tucker really looked like he felt threatened
through nearly the whole interview. But at least he had the cajones to invite him on, and it appears they definitely agree on one thing, and that is too many people in positions of power in this country do not want to allow ANY criticism of Israel or those who support it.
Good for you for noticing the body language! It provides so many clues as it comprises more of communication than tone of voice and words combined. That’s one of my main complaints against virtual Dr visits.
I always smile when someone is on the hot seat and saying yes, or something of similar meaning, while repeatedly nodding their head no.
I’m only about half way thru the interview and I am not seeing Tucker feeling threatened. I don’t see him leaning backwards. His arms are crossed but more midriff. That’s kinda how he sits always when I watch!!?
I’m impressed he stands up for himself. I think Nick uses his hands while he speaks nothing new.
Most republican youth are at least skeptical of our unquestioning support for Israel, especially as millennials and younger struggle to afford day to day necessities and a dim outlook in career prosperity.
Why JD Vance is acting like Charlie Kirk. Desantis jockeying to put Turning Point in all Florida schools. No autopsy or burial sites will lead to questioning by the youth.
Totally agree, Jeff C! Those who want to silence Tucker are showing their allegiance to a foreign entity, not the US & the 1st Amendment. People may vehemently disagree with someone but that someone is protected by the right to free speech.
It’s also important to distinguish between the Jewish people (religion, culture) & Zionists (political, financial, intelligence). I live in a Jewish community, had lunch last week with a Jewish friend who vehemently detests what Netanyahu is doing, as do many Jewish people.
We have a right & an obligation to openly question the behavior of governments, ours & ones we support. Our government works for us, something we often forget.
Jews of the Democrat persuasion relate to Netanyahu as if he is Trump. Same nonsense including incessant investigations and a trial that’s been going on over nothing for ten years. So, your “friend” is not representative of the Jewish people or even everyone in Israel. If they held elections tomorrow over there Netanyahu would be re-elected. Don’t kid yourself. As for distinguishing between what you sneer at re: Zionism versus Judaism you unfortunately know little about either. The return to Zion which is the modern land of Israel is a prime religious theme of the Jewish religion. Trying to distinguish is just another easy anti- Jewish trope. And not correct. Sorry, but there it is.
I am neither a NeverTrumper, or any of the other names you have called people who believe Tucker Carlson has gone round the bend. He was a sort of country club antisemite for years on Fox, toned it down when he went solo and now that he’s aligned with Qatari money is a given up to be a full blown rabid antisemite same as Candace Owens. He is not “just asking questions”. He’s enabling and platforming Holocaust deniers and nodding sagely and giving his trademark maniacal laugh at everything they say. Not a psyop. He’s always been anti-Israel gratuitously in a passive aggressive sort of way. Now, rabid antisemite. He goes way beyond simple “criticism”. Nick Fuentes is the modern version of David duke. A clown. Who cares. Tucker is something else. Too bad really. He had some other great moments particularly in the campaign but recently his platforming of antisemites - approvingly - and his disgusting speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial about the guys sitting around eating hummus conspiring for killing Jesus - what do you think that is? Even the Catholic Church gave that trope up years ago. Sorry Jeff. You have a blind spot here. Respect for Christianity does not have to be accompanied by antisemitic tropes. Where do you think Christianity came from? Not to mention we both have a common enemy these days which we should remember. And yes, I am Jewish and wildly disappointed at what I am reading here from you and some of your subscribers. 80 years after the Holocaust and 120 after my family fled pogroms what I read here is horrifying.
First off I'm not Jeff Childers, he posts under the name "Jeff Childers". I have been using "Jeff C" on Substack since the very early days, well before the start of Coffee and Covid. Anyone who has been around here for a while knows that.
Your willingness to automatically jump to conclusions and assume I am him, without even bothering to check and see, is really pretty indicative of your mindset. You are driven by emotion rather than critical thought. Otherwise you wouldn't have fired off an angry diatribe based on a false premise.
Anything you don't like isn't antisemitism. I know the media has brainwashed you for sixty years to think that your tribe is special and beyond criticism, but it isn't. And while I have sympathy for your family's experience during WW2, those awful experiences aren't exclusive to your ethnicity. Eighty (80!!) million souls were killed in WW2, not just Jews.
Millions of Orthodox Christians were killed in the 1930's in the Holodomor in Ukraine by the Bolsheviks. BTW, Jewish radicals were far overrepresented in ranks of the Bolsheviks, so lets not pretend one side is guilt-free. Ethnic tribes have been killing each other since time began. And though it may still seem to you like yesterday, the Holocaust was eighty years ago. There's probably not a soul alive in the world today that had anything to do with it so stop with the collective guilt. We are over it.
Last off Christianity is not an "offshoot" of Judaism but the *fulfillment* of Judaism so please don't lecture me on Christianity. The Jews were chosen for a *purpose*, that is to bring Christ to the world, and we are grateful for that. But that purpose has been fulfilled, the Jews of today don't have "magic blood" or anything else that will save them other than accepting Christ. We are done with non-Christians telling us how we must behave or defining our salvation. We are also done with them telling us who we are allowed to like and who we must hate.
I know this sounds harsh, but the truth is harsh. For far too long Christians have been manipulated through collective guilt and fed a false Christianity by people who reject Christ. That is over. We proudly state "Christ is King" and pray for the salvation of souls of all people regardless of their ethnicity. But we are no longer going to prop up or support an ethnostate built on the premise of ethnic superiority, or be intimidated to do so via emotional manipulation. If you want to do that then go for it, but we are done.
My pastor said something a few weeks ago that really stuck with me. We were studying John 1:17, "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
Grace and truth. He summed it up as, "truth without grace is harsh, but grace without truth is heresy". Heresy, not just a sin but actual heresy.
I know that I'm too harsh at times and it comes from arrogance and pride. I'm working on balancing that. But just being "nice" all the time results in heretical beliefs that directly contradict the Gospel. It's a big reason the church is in such a miserable state.
Mary Sholl writes that Tucker Carlson is “aligned with Qatari money”.
Leaving aside what “aligned with” money might actually mean (?!) let’s assume she means he is paid by Qatar to speak as a “full blown rabid antisemite”. Which she also writes.
Carlson has repeatedly denied he’s paid by Qatar.
Does anyone know if there’s any proof that he is?
It’s irritating that SO many people online fling allegations around as ‘fact’ on SO many topics.
Mike Benz has a good approach - he cites many sources supporting what he says.
Not everyone can do that, I know, but just publicly accusing people of things with no proof is wrong.
This Catholic agrees with you, but the "Jeff C" that wrote the above comment isn't Jeff Childers. I was a bit confused by that and had to go double check. I never cared for Carlson (or Owens) and I now feel vindicated. I commented on another Substack that I believe Trump and Vance are doing the good cop/bad cop routine as a distraction for the antisemites like Carlson.
Yeah, some faceless commenter on a website is a threat to me. You overestimate your importance.
You called Tucker an antisemite and implied you spoke for Catholics. I asked you to define the word and you dodged the question because you can't define it in objective terms without sounding ridiculous.
Thanks, I had no idea who Fuentes is, and what the ruckus was about, even after watching clips of the interview, but yeah let idea's compete on their own merit don't shut them down.
Ithink it’s fine Tucker interviewed Fuentes. I do think Fuentes is a fed, though. He should have been banned online for a multitude of offenses and yet, he never was. He glows.
Yeah, there is something really off about him, not sure if he's a fed but he gives me the willies.
i wasn't defending him but Tucker's right to interview him (as you note). But the fact that so many people tell us he isn't allowed to even talk to the guy, and doing so is the unpardonable sin, is really quite remarkable.
IMO, a lot of people look at Fuentes and find him reprehensible, and knee-jerk react into saying "therefore, deplatform him". But we all know that doesn't work; it only invites the question "why are they silencing him, are they hiding something?". The correct answer is to let him speak, and if he's as bad as they think he is, it will become obvious to everyone.
There are many people pointing out that they gave up on Fuentes when he went along with the "official" nonsense narrative on the Kirk event. That was the tell.
Tucker Carlson won't talk to me about Barack Obama's use of a stolen Social Security number for the past forty years, even though I have the receipts. Everything Obama signed or did in the White House for eight years was illegal because he violated Federal Law and was/is a felon.
I read Zerohedge regularly and sometimes dive the depths of their comments. If one wasn't armed with knowledge of surveys, one might think (based on the comments there) that 80% of conservatives in the US want all Jews expelled from the US, if not worse. (It's probably no more than 10 to 15% of conservatives).
Those are real "anti-Semites". (I prefer to say anti Jewish). People who don't like the influence Israel exerts over many members of congress, don't like how much money the US is giving Israel, and don't necessarily like the government of Israel are also called "anti-Semites" - probably by people who DO want the money to keep flowing.
Tucker Carlson is in this second group - he wants Israel to be treated as any other allied nation, and he wants AIPAC to be designated as a foreign lobbying group, since it is a foreign lobbying group.
Fuentes has called Hitler “cool”. I suggest you do listen to what he has said on his shows and what he pushes. His “chill” tone during Tucker was not, imo, a good representation of what he puts out regularly. From what I know anti-semitic means, I believe he is certainly anti-semitic.
Since close of WW2, warmongers have been using “WW2 tropes” to manufacture consent and get their way. As in calling the enemy ‘a Hitler’ and warning domestic detractors not to be a ‘Chamberlain’.
Tucker, and everyone else who state that they “hate” Cristian Zionists either ignore or “interpret “ away God’s clear statement in Genesis 17:7 where He said his Covenant with the Jewish People, His people, would be an EVERLASTING covenant. They might need to check Genesis 12:13 where God says he will curse those who curse his people and bless those who bless them. Replacement theology is a non-starter for those with academic rigor in the study of the Bible. IMO.
Craig you really need to look a bit more deeply into this. First of it's not "replacement theology" as that term was invented as deliberate disparagement of historical Christianity. It's a marketing term meant to belittle people who disagree with Christian Zionism. The fact that you throw it around so cavalierly tells me either you don't know the history or you aren't acting in good faith.
Second, no one is being "replaced". Historical Christianity (that is before John Nelson Darby invented Dispensationalism in the early 1800's) teaches that Christ and the church are the new Israel. The death and resurrection of Christ ended the Old Covenant, it was fulfilled, not replaced. It is finished as Christ said on the cross. In the New Covenant of Christ we (that is the church) are the new Israel, not some ethnic tribe that happens to call themselves Israel. Paul is crystal clear on this in his letters.
Third, that Genesis passage you mention (12:3 not 12:13) is probably the most out of context passage quoted from the Bible. God is speaking of Abraham's seed (singular) not seeds. Paul makes perfectly clear in his letters that Abraham's seed is Christ, and the promises God made in the Old Covenant extend to those who follow Christ (the NEW Israel). As Christians those promises apply to you and me, not some ethnic clan that rejects Christ. This could not be more clearly stated in the NT.
The Dispensational belief system you are following was invented two hundred years ago and is completely at odds with historical Christianity. None of the church fathers taught it. They all believed that Christ and the Church are the new Israel. Paul didn't teach Dispensationalism, nor did Augustine, John Chrysostom, Aquinas, Luther, Knox, or Spurgeon. It is a modern creation that gained popularity with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and nearly all branches of historical Protestantism reject it. It only became popular in the US a hundred years ago mainly with "holy roller" type churches. It grew from there but is still primarily a US-only phenomena. Christians in other countries don't idolize the modern state of Israel and think we are off our rocker.
We (you, me and all those who follow Christ) are the new Israel and God's promises extend to us. Do you really think those promises from 5000 years ago extend to a country invented in 1948, populated with an Eastern European clan that completely reject Christ? Again they proudly and defiantly REJECT Christ, that is, Abraham's seed. How can that make any sense? Why did no branch of Christianity, or the great fathers of the church teach it? And if Abraham's seed supposedly is the modern Jewish ethnic clan, then what qualifies for those promises? Pure Jewish blood? 1/2 blood? 1/4? A single drop? A single molecule? It's ridiculous and doesn't make any sense, along with being idolatrous.
I was once a Dispensationalist and bought into all this stuff. I had no idea it was a modern invention concocted in the 1800's by stringing together a bunch of unrelated Bible verses. I suspect you probably don't either. I urge you to look more deeply into it as Dispensationalism leads people away from Christ and leads to idolatrous behavior towards a foreign country/clan.
Again, well done. Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme! I think they can ignore the on-going genocide in Gaza only so long before their brains start to short out.
Tucker gave me an amazing education last year leading up to the election and I will continue to support TCN just in gratitude for that. I think he's doing good work in bringing certain people and issues to the forefront that we all need to consider.
I wasn't aware of the whole Nick Fuentes dustup till now so it's helpful that he highlighted it.
Pray for the Christians of Nigeria. The Armenian Christians of artsakh were ethnically cleansed by Azerbaijan with assistance from turkey. Crickets from MSM. New Jersey and Virginia - vote Tuesday it’s close!
Plus the Holodomor in Ukraine in the 1930's when millions of Orthodox Christians were deliberately killed by the Bolsheviks.
Funny thing is we didn't learn about any of these in school, sent on field trips to a "Museum of Tolerance" built for these martyrs (because they don't exist), or lectured about "collective guilt" constantly by the media and pop culture.
It really is amazing isn't it? One of the reasons Churchill supported Zionism is that he realized many (if not most) Jews instinctively gravitated toward radicalism and he thought Zionism would be less destructive than Bolshevism.
Probably true in hindsight but good grief what a devils' bargain.
One of the benefits (curses?) of being terminally online is understanding the nuance of comments like this when they probably fly right over the heads of most people.
The African continent has been well aware of this for years. In addition to massacring Christians, the Nigerians also kidnap children from neighboring countries for ritualistic sacrifice. This was commonly known when I was working in Liberia. The Liberians, a largely Christian country, have nothing but contempt for Nigeria.
Makes me wonder what Nigeria would be like today had Biafra’s war of succession been successful.
Nigeria’s population is about the size of Russia’s; how weak / ineffective is the central government if it allows Muslims to kill over 100,000 Christian’s. How crazy / racist is it for the situation to be virtually ignored by western services?
So much “news” about the ballroom, so little about dead Christians in Nigeria.
Perhaps the US/ Trump should start by giving 100,000 AR-15s to adult Nigerian Christians, and ask the IDF to train them.
That happened because US-backed prime minister Pashinyan told Azerbaijan that Nagorno-Karabakh was legally part of Azerbaijan. He threw them under the bus. Of course the msm said nothing. The US supported it.
No prayers for the Palestinians of Gaza, which are still being ethnically cleansed (mass-murdered) and lands stolen, by Zionist Israel, with the full support and funding of Trump?
Crickets from Trump or his team... or Jeff... selective "christianity"... eh?
Jews, especially the talmudic Zio-pig version... tend to be forced to move, as societies find again and again that they are a corrupt metastatic cancer.
Hitler and 100+ other countries found this out and expelled, or tried to expel, all jews.
The Voice of the Martyrs is a charity that helps Christians in foreign countries. They will send a quarterly newsletter for free, sign up in their website. It is eye opening how many Christians around the world are truly persecuted for their faith.
“The battle is over SNAP’s “emergency fund,” which has several billion dollars in it— still less than one month’s funding.” Anyone else reading this and shaking your head over the ridiculousness of this sentence?
Just as the S in SNAP is supplemental, SS is supposed to be supplement as well but the minute anyone talks about touching it, we get the flood of stories of 'people living off SS' It's ~21-25% of the total yearly budget, and yet is untouchable. Because recipients VOTE. Every politician is scared of the retirees.
Donna, old people on Social Security paid into it when they were working. SS is not supplemental, it’s old age insurance that was purchased by the seniors when they were young workers. Social Security does NOT give food stamps to seniors.
SNAP is given to able-bodied freeloaders and illegals who don’t want to work. Make them work.
Just saying, the last statement I got from SS says "Social Security is not meant to be your only source of income in retirement...On average, SS will replace about 40% of your annual pre-retirement earnings"
Re: the 'I paid into it' argument. It's not a savings account, it's a ponzi scheme that is going to collapse under it's own weight. Too many ignored the out of control spending in Congress for too many years and never forced them to live within their means, and instead clamored for more and bigger government solutions that have left us $38 trillion in debt with no end in sight. 65% of my property taxes go to the school district and my kids graduated over a decade ago. But still 'paying into it' with nothing to show for it. I am 60 & hubby is 62 and have lived our entire working life putting money away for retirement with zero allocation in that budget for SS. We still live in our paid off starter home, and put that money into savings and retirement instead of a bigger house. If we get it, it will be a bonus, and hammered this into our kids' heads from the time they were in elementary school - if you get a dollar, you spend some, save some and give some. Told them over and over SS will not be there for you so if you want to retire, it's on you to save for it.
Well, and 'long ago' most jobs came with a pension. Both my mom and mother in law (both in their 80's) still get a check from their husband's pension fund and my MIL also had a pension buyout in the 90's she converted to an IRA. Hubby and I had pensions at our first jobs out of college that converted to 401K's in the early 90's and have never had one since. Pensions are now extremely rare for anyone not in a union or gov't job. Too many either didn't contribute, didn't have the option, or raided their 401Ks in a financial pinch and now stuck if they are too old/too sick/unable to work. I'm 60 and don't know anyone my age counting on a pension unless they work for the gov or a union.
Why…. Not everyone in the list is guilty. It would be a total witch hunt with a guilty label with no chance of justice in the eyes of the public. We are not the courts .. yes we can judge but we need to have proof of guilt beyond a name on a list.
We "musicians" have a saying about rap: "Just because it has a beat, doesn't make it music." It's something....just not music. Subwoofing automobiles are confounding and most excruciating. To each is own, but keep it to yourself. 2nd hand brain beatings aren't my cup of coffee.
Did anyone else notice that the emergence of P Diddy as a rap kingmaker (1991-ish) coincides with the hateful rhetoric towards women in that genre? I’m convinced that Diddy is a bisexual psychopath who really hates women and promoted that misogyny through his rap “artists.” I also find it interesting that the genre has fallen away with his incarceration and USAID funding demise. Maybe Diddy really is a CIA asset after all?
Also, Jay-Z is just as dirty. I found it hypocritical that Kendrick Lamarr was calling out Drake for Drake's lust for young women during that football halftime show when Jay-Z was the one who hired Kendrick Lamar for the gig in the first place.
I saw a music video (within past 4 years) of Beyoncé and Jay-Z riding around in a limo, making all these Illuminati hand signs. I was like “WTF? I guess all those rumors are true!”
Diddy's rise began in earnest after the death of Biggie and Tupac. The rumors are that those two were dispatched because they were beginning to make amends and looking at who the real enemy was (hint: see eye aaaaaa may have been involved).
When rap became popular, I began to pray that either I would become deaf, or rap would fizzle, before it became grocery store "music"! Looks like my hearing might be safe!
Rappers Delight by the SugarHill Gang was a fun rap song. I think it was back in the early 80s. No vulgarity, no sexual content. Just a funny rap song with a great beat.
Most rap from the 1980s was fun and upbeat. It was the CIA that altered it into Gangsta rap in the 1990s where they rapped about shooting police. Then the Rodney King and OJ Simpson incidents occurred and suddenly there was this nationwide sharp divide between black and white.
The popular music many people love is still music from the 60s, 70s and 80s, even much younger people. You could almost say that the musical decline started with rap and ever since then, it's gotten harder for artsy types to develop musical intuition and ability. Though rhyme and beat are two components essential to songs that rap has by the spadeful. It just lacks melodiousness. If you developed your musical taste prior to the 90s or in the absence of rap, consider yourself lucky.
I know a young man who does this and performs to very large concert festivals all over the world. Dub-step is what part of the genre is called. As someone said, mind-numbing and non melodic.
The idea of someone braying at me about violent sex with a woman, or the reciting of societal injustices to a nervous system damaging sub bass does not even suggest "music".
Rap "music" is intolerable. What I find especially annoying is Hollywood using it as background music for movies. Unless you're watching the movie at home, there's no way to block it. We should continue to spread the rumor that it causes cancer, Alzheimer's, premature baldness, unsightly rashes, and vaccine cravings.
My teenage kids shared with us at dinner this week that a TPUSA chapter called the Charlie Kirk Club was started by some kids at their school: Berkeley High. I’m looking forward to finding out more. Apparently the first meeting was highly attended by a mix of kids in support and in opposition.
The student who is attempting to start one here in Kansas got the major run around from the administration at the HS. One brave teacher volunteered to sponsor them and also got grief from other lefty teachers. The librarian refused to get Charlie Kirk 's books for him through interlibrary loan - because she deemed them to be "misinformation"! An assistant at the HS library suggested he check out the book "Gender Queer"! Our public schools are rot infested.
Discrimination, and there are laws against that. I thought librarians advocated for ’all’ information/educational material (sarcasm). Isn’t that their ‘platform’ when advocating for the woke/gender-exception information; they do not regard ‘that’ as ‘misinformation’. - sorry for the heavy sarcasm -
Our local TPUSA field rep has said that prior to Charlie's death, they were planning to re brand HS clubs as "Club America" so I presume the Charlie Kirk club is a similar thing? Anyway, it's encouraging that 6 new clubs have formed in our area since Charlie's death, and 2 are local HS in my town who are known to have left leaning administrations. So happy these seeds are being planted!!
This kind of situation is where DeSantis said he would consider having officials intervene (and not force schools to start chapters as some people have insisted). If a student wants to start a chapter, then why are school staff doing everything they can to prevent that? And why only for Turning Point?
Yes, it's infuriating. They tried to start a TPUSA chapter at the 3rd HS (that has yet to form one this year) in my town in 2022. At the initial meeting, student protesters showed up, trashed the room, overturned tables and broke some furniture. but nothing really happened to them. The school requires a faculty sponsor for all clubs and the teacher got cold feet and backed off, which killed the club. And yet, there is a Gay-Straight Alliance, Black Student Union, a Social Justice club and so on.
I know! Wokesville! My kids reassure me that BHS (3,500 kids) has diversity of viewpoints. Not so evident among the staff on back to school night though.
I am heartened to see you 'cover' the genocide of Christians in Nigeria - I have been praying for our brothers and sisters in that country to get relief from the slaughter and slavery - and it appears President Trump is the 'agent of answering' those prayers! I am also THRILLED the Pres. Trump created TRUTH SOCIAL so he could have a censoring-FREE platform from which to proclaim his Trumpic Truths!! That initiative was indeed a stroke of genius.
To this statement, J. C., "It is undeniable that, over the years, USAID did in fact pay for the production of a lot of poor-quality rap music. One cannot help but wonder about the curious timing of the end of USAID and Rap’s sudden and unexpected disappearance from Billboard’s Top 40. I’m only asking the question. You decide." ABSOLUTELY "rap" was a snoops agency 'tool' to disrupt our culture and those of countries around the globe that are "targets" for our perverted 'intelligence' agencies' activities. Another reason to REJOICE to see 'rap' removed from the Top 100 music industry scoring system! Some of my younger friends tried to convert me to at least LISTEN to 'rap' decades ago - I honestly tried--but after about 30 seconds...I HAD to cease the torture to my brain (and soul!!).
Next we’ll have a federal judge ruling that they are the actual head of the executive branch 🙄🙄🙄 Since that’s what they’re apparently trying to make themselves 🙄
No one is going hungry in the USA. Get a job and you will never go hungry. Use food pantries all over the USA. Churches, lodges, all kinds of organisations distribute food all over the place. A loaf of bread can be made for pennies.get a job. Stop all entitlement programs for able bodied people. Give the disabled more!
Did you see the picture of the woman who testified in Congress on behalf of SNAP beneficiaries? She was extraordinarily fat; said she'd starve without SNAP AND she's an employee of a school district somewhere. SMH
I think it might be good to reduce the cash subsidies, and instead set up government "soup kitchens". Make needy people go in and have a healthy meal if they need help. Have two kinds of cards - one for a smaller amount of cash, and one for entry to a government soup kitchen.
I say this as a lazy/low energy person myself - very few of us want to buy the basic ingredients and spend 30 to 45 minutes cooking, then 20 minutes cleaning up.
I cook in bulk and freeze. Crock pot, pressure cooker. Or if I am grilling I will do a dozen burgers and a few brats. We have a smoker and a couple of months ago over a weekend I smoked 20 pork chops, 3 slabs of ribs, 21 pieces of chicken, a pork butt and a turkey breast. Freeze into meal portions. Still eating it. Heat up some meat, make a salad and nuke a baked potato and it's quick and easy. I cook, hubby cleans. Unless it's chili, that's his thing.
Of course, you are being frugal with your time and resources, Donna, but I suspect many SNAP recipients don’t have those capabilities. I admire your preparedness and getting much great home-cooking done in advance, to which I aspire myself, but the people on SNAP probably don’t usually, key word, have the resources and foresight.
But they can LEARN. Necessity is the mother of invention. The big picture of SNAP and the panoply of 'safety net' programs is that it has created generations of people for whom ambition, upward mobility and innovation is squashed by the fear of the benefits cliff. My parents and grandparents ethic was forged in the Great Depression when there was no safety net. My parents wouldn't have taken a dime from the gov even if we did qualify in my younger years; times were tough in the construction industries in the 70's. 1001 ways to "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without". Some nights we had pancakes for dinner, but we never went hungry. Along the way we've lost that ability as a society and instead make excuses for people for whom learned helplessness somehow makes them the object of pity/victims.
A women's group I belong to supports, raises money and donates staples and clothing to a program that is like a boot camp for low income single moms that moves them to self-sufficiency within 2 years, with some as-needed support for 3 more years. They are taught to cook with ingredients (no prepared foods), budget, save, get training for jobs with upward mobility, etc. -- in other words, 'life skills' and HOPE that they CAN escape their circumstances. The program takes no gov funding and thus has the freedom to structure their programs as they see fit and is faith based. This is how the community responded before Great Society and until we return to the roots of caring for people instead of handing the responsibility to the gov, our society will continue to decline.
Donna, no question. You make perfect sense. No argument here. I wish there was an easy way to turn this dependency around. I concur with your clear, pointed understanding.
Like you, we grew up with struggles: 14 children, WWII era, no government subsidies. It’s become too easy, almost criminal. My empathy certainly has limits, too.
Yes, and it's not that I am "uncaring" as I get told trying to make the argument against the massive expansion of the welfare state. There are people living on the edge who just need help to get them through a pinch, or those left indigent through no fault of their own. But it shouldn't be a lifestyle. Hubby and I donate generously (but carefully) to a number of local support organizations that lean more into the hand up model than the hand out model.
Crockpot meals are easy and can be very cheap. They also don’t require a stove or an oven. I don’t see why people can’t cook their own food. But a soup kitchen supplement for people who are disabled for example or maybe can’t cook easily for some reason might be a good idea.
There’s the attack on personal dignity (in which many of us here freely imbibe) BUT surely many down and out, hard-done-by citizens should not be shamed by dragging a few little ones off to a soup kitchen daily. I wouldn’t like to see that. For the homeless, single, capable adults this would work. Surely not young families.
Yes. It's been going on for a lot more than 10 years, but it certainly might be getting worse now. A lot of the murders are basically over territory, and population pressures drive that.
Florida voted years ago to exit daylight savings time but it must be approved by Congress. Congress says they are too busy to approve it. Another Catch 22.
We live in the country with animals to care for. Especially in the winter the later there is light, the better. Other wise I don't have a problem with Standard but I bet in Summer when it gets dark around 8, lots of people won't be very happy.
Either way, pick one and stick with it, but congress is made up of cowards and they know no matter which they picked, 50% +/- will not like their pick.
Argh! I meant keep savings time lol. I want to stay where we are right at this very minute. Do not change the clocks. Thank you for the correction lol.
At least "standard time" has an objective basis. At noon the sun is (approximately) directly overhead. So let's keep it year-round. Let institutions and farmers alter their schedules as needed to take advantage of daylight.
He's a tab bit busy taking down the US narco state, weapons dealing, child trafficking, MK Ultra slave trade network and the deep staters who bully and overtake countries worldwide. I'm sure he'll get to Daylight savings time as soon a businesses figure out this penny (or pennyless) situation.
I don’t think this issue will ever be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction because some people focus on the evenings and others on mornings and there are different effects depending on where in the time zone you are located. Here on the edge of eastern time, permanent daylight savings time would make sunrise extremely late in the winter, like 9am. If we had permanent standard time, sunrise would be super early but it would get dark relatively early until late spring. I don’t know. I don’t see any solution without significant downsides.
Here's my plan to CUT SNAP TAKERS by at least 50% - 90%-
Make the SNAP dollars be redeemable ONLY for SINGLE INGREDIENT food (not counting preservatives) so: Flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, all fresh produce (and single ingredient frozen and canned produce), meat, poultry, fish, etc.
The OBESITY RATE of LOW INCOME people would PLUMMET as would also the number of people who use SNAP!!
Then you'd get real hungry or real skinny real quick! 😂
I suspect if people were genuinely hungry, or food insecure 🙄 to use the left's bs faux term, they'd learn how to cook and bake from scratch 'right quick', as they say here in the south.
I would just add that if any of those single-ingredient foods come in a bag, box, or can, they don’t qualify. No frozen broccoli - go pick up a stalk and cut it up yourself!
I read years ago that’s more like what food assistance was. On X there are many examples of insane things that are shown as SNAP eligible on Amazon —lobster, caviar, edible underwear?!?!?!
It would have been in the 1950s, probably. I recall someone complaining about government paying farmers not to grow crops. There was a suggestion for them to grow the crops and give the food to the poor, like they had done before.
Though being represented by an ass is wholly appropriate, or perhaps more accurately - magnificently on point, it’s time to ditch the democrat donkey symbol for an even more befitting image. Stegosaurus had one of the lowest brain-to-body mass ratios of any known dinosaur. Need I say more? Work it up. Have something on my desk by Monday morning. Throw a beard on it, purple hair and perhaps a dime store tutu....something that will send a clear message of confusion and ambiguity that captures the party's legion of twisted ideologies..
As a side note: The four year reign of terror ushered in by the previous administration's mishmash of America hating con artists and racketeers seemed to last a freaking eternity. On the other hand, doesn't it feel like Trump’s will be ending way too soon?
I am very impressed with Vance so as sad as I will be to see Trump leave the White House, I feel positive about the future. I expect Trump to stay involved until the Lord calls him home though using social media. The midterms will tell the story.
Mean Tweets Forever.
Mean tweets and world peace. Remember that one ?
That's good. I will be using that phrase. A lot.
That may take an iron rod.
Though I would have preferred Charlie Kirk to play a prominent role in the Vance WH.
In a way Chix, he will.
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CK, even at his young age became an example and mentor for many older and professional people, Chix.. JD Vance was one of those impacted by Charlies drive for knowledge and unshakable love for Christ. The spiritual crosses the boundaries of life and death, closeness or distance. A piece of Charlie lives within many and his impact will continue for years. His book will be available soon, another way his impact will live on.
For to me to live is Christ, to die is gain.
From things I've seen, he DID play a strong role....behind the scenes. He was very close to JD and others.
Yes he was!
I’m more impressed with Rubio than I am with Vance.
Rubio has performed admirably.
I like them both - a team perhaps???
Rich Baris & Robert Barnes have an eye-opening take on Rubio.
Any links, please?
I think these guys get into the topic - Barnes refers to “Narco” Rubio:
https://rumble.com/v70yvoo-alex-jones-and-robert-barnes-todd-blanche-has-been-caught-red-handed.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=8e5dea3b-f750-4c18-9333-0724bd0211f1
Barnes always knows the backstory.
Thank you…very interesting!
It’s toward the latter part of this one:
https://rumble.com/v70v1l6-early-in-person-voting-and-poll-sneak-peeks-inside-the-numbers.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
why are you insulting the poor Stegosaurus? Haven't they suffered enough, being extinct and all? Must they be associated with demoncrats?
Oooh…..I hadn’t thought about the EXTINCT part!!!!
I change my vote to YES!!!
Taking one for the team 😆
you should have stopped at "...it's time to ditch the democrat"...and add an "s" at the end.
yes…that too. 😁
How's this? https://chatgpt.com/s/m_69064fe3d71c8191afb84380bf485367
A tiny red dot.
Tetragametic chimera: goat, snake, jackal, ghoul.
I’m sure their voters would think the Stegosaurus as being cool, while the ass jokes just write themselves. And AOC truly does look and acts like a jackass……
I hope not! President Trump is the best for America. MAGA🇺🇸
Stegosaurus, like the Covid "virus", are simply accepted as a facts.
Limitations of Biology to include a hearts capability, pressure differentials,
and many other physiological issues suggest that enormous dinosaurs did not exist.
The Field Museum claims to have skeletal remains however they prefer to present
complosites of the "real" bones... That is a hint.
Like the "virus" and Sasquatch, Steggie has been sighted but never captured.
DJT and others are suggesting '28... however it feels.
We are so easily hoodwinked.
Dems have self destructed, let them continue.
I thought they had actual bones and petrified remains, even with foliage in their mouths, somewhere in Nebraska?
They find one bone and create an entire mythology around it.
that is the story
the greater the lie, the easier it is to get "us" to believe and reiterate
but worse, the better educated (indoctrinated) we are the more we
parrot the lies
I always wondered about this…
Wonder is right next to asking a better question...
Create a file folder (We have been lied to)
Before long it turns into a small library.
I would suggest the mascot of a blindfolded donkey and a rainbow serpent procreating together.
Who is rainbow? Is that AOC?
Lgbtqwxyz
Yeah I understand that. I should have asked, who is the rainbow horse these days. Ass still seems appropriate. Maybe we should just start depicting a rainbow ass.
Sorry…..I didn’t detect the sarcasm…..I do love your idea!
Ewwwww gross 🤮
Or NOT procreating. Rainbow surgeries & furry frens.
Anyone who knows how smart and sensible donkeys actually are realizes they never should have been used as a symbol for Democrats!
Maggots come to mind….but then I degrade the maggot.
smart has degenerated into pure evil at this late date
Dems denegrate the Donkey...
Seems to be flying by! A year since ELECTION DAY ….. & only 3 more years of daily “winning.” He needs 8 minimum to straighten out ALL the disasters of O’Biden.
This stack article makes a good point for using the DoDo bird as the democrat mascot.
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/dodo-democrat-extinction
Personally, I agree that the donkey is wholly appropriate and still on point.
Meanwhile, why are these federal judges and politicians still being paid?
It seems that they should not be receiving their paychecks now either.
Not to mention all of that NGO money laundering still going on.
Only services for the people are affected, and never any cutoffs for the politicians.
Why not divert a few billion of slush funds headed for Ukraine to SNAP and Gaza instead, and divert foreign aid to domestic aid in general?
Ah yes, we already know the answer to that question, don't we?
Because whatever the "Dems" have devolved into want civil war and worse
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If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
For you will heap burning coals on his head,
And the LORD will reward you.
— Proverbs 25:21-22
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...if any man would not work, neither should he eat.
II Thessalonians 3:10
If one in seven Californians are on SNAP, that sounds like a lot of freeloading, which is unbiblical.
My dad had a saying for this verse, “No worky, no eaty!”
He was right.
A classic Dad-ism. :)
I have a mug with "no coffee, no workee."
Just to clarify for those who do not know the Bible: This verse applies to those brothers and sisters in Christ who are capable but choose not work. There are far more verses about helping the poor, needy and hungry.
A vast majority of those are freeloaders in a lit of ways. It was directed to the disciples to appoint people within the CHURCH to help those truly orphans and truly widows. Families were to take care of family members. You give a hand out to help in an emergency. Not create a lifestyle for generations. And never would the Bible endorse or excuse the fraud, abuse, etc within the food stamp handout. Most of the people who get food stamps also get other government handouts. If they can spend their money on fancy cars, jewelry, extreme nails and hair, the latest phones, games, and ipads..they can buy food. If you are able, work. Cook at home. Stop buying fully prepared food, snacks, candy, soft drinks, fast foods...cook regular meals. Grow your own veggies..if you have a flower pot and some soil, you an grow veggies. Stop living beyond your means. In our area there is always food being given away. The same people show up at every free give away. Friends in the black community talk of those give away supplies being taken to stores like Walmart to get a refund. Food stamp people have a cash back option to buy drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. So much fraud in this program. It was for temporary help only. Not forever.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, the federal government of the United States does not have any business being involved in the health, welfare or education of individual citizens of the United States. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the federal government is authorized to take money from Peter and give it to Paul. The words “education,” "health," "health care," or "medical care" are not found anywhere in the text of the Constitution, so it seems to me that none of these things are any business of our bloated federal government and the phrase “general welfare of the United States” does not apply to individual citizens of the United States,
… if it did, the constitution should specifically say so, since this is a legal document and words are extremely important
You're 100% right. Sadly though the Const. committed obvious SUICIDE right up front in its astounding Article VI (not Amendment VI) paragraph 3, and the final clause of the sentence, when it kicked God and Scripture forever out of the philosophical heart of the nation. It was an Enlightenment-induced fantasy perpetrated by the mainly deistic non-Christian signers. Namely and famously Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Washington and Franklin. Encouraged in addition by Jefferson, John Adams and Sam Adams.
I’m thinking, richard, that the final clause of paragraph 3 may just have been a reaction to the horror inflicted upon the citizens of Europe by the governments of Europe’s marriage with the Catholic/Christian Church. These men were very familiar with the evil that was perpetrated upon the citizens of Europe by that marriage and were looking to avoid it here in the United States. I wouldn’t say that that was kicking God and scripture forever out of the philosophical heart of the citizens of this nation.There is no place in American politics where any of men’s religions should rule over the citizens of this country
… religions that have a history of torturing and murdering people that disagree with them
The separation of Church and State does NOT kick God out. This amendment was a direct hit on England’s STATE RELIGION. Therefore, United States prohibits a Federal, mandated religion. Personally, I would like to see prohibition of any religion the runs counter to our Judeo Christian founding. If Muslim countries can prohibit Christian religions, we should be able to prohibit Muslim religions. There is no agreement in the philosophy of Muslim with Christian or Jewish faiths.
Although I belong to the band of Christians (belief in Old and New Testament) I have issues with every established Christian religion. I’m not well versed in True Jewish Reling (im rather fed up with Jewish as a culture practitioners) so will leave “Judeo” in my statement. My point is a CULTURE of mixed religions that share a basic belief in a higher power and “Do unto others” old fashioned morality is the country I was born into. The government should have no authority to dictate what branch of Christian based religion I practice.
JD🎯
Full of fraud. The same people go in the food pantry lines multiple times, and they also get food stamps. They resell a lot of their benefits. Food stamps ought to be completely abolished, they are too fraudulent..
Yes. Most Americans that I know are generous to help others. But, many of us are tired of those who feel entitled, game the system and boast about it.
Of course. It wears on a person.
Here is why helping certain people wears on you, and accomplishes nothing. It depletes you, and wastes your time and energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fs9NYRKLI
Are you serving God or man?
Matthew 26:11 The poor will always be among us. And my momma always said “Poor is as Poor does”! I’ve seen plenty of examples of that in my lifetime, to include Christians.
Americans are too nice. We are wrong to encourage the free loaders.. You can’t have a sadist without a masochist.
Lots of money to be made by exploiting the poor!!
God made man to work, all men to do what they can, to occupy diligently, for their own provision and to help others who God has caused to test our service and humility until such time as He would change or heal. ALL are required to give account for how we spent our time and talents.
The Bible also tells Christians to help the needy, not the government.
Absolutely! As we should.
I just saw your statement, Jamie, and I’m wondering how many of these well fed people on food stamps are so-called brothers and sisters in Christ. And I’m thinking if just 50% of them were Christians we’re talking about over 20 million people. I’m assuming a large proportion of them are in fact capable of working, but due to the government’s involvement in welfare they don’t have to work.
…And they can still eat, contrary to what the Bible says.
As we know Jeremiah, the label “Christian” does not always mean follower of Christ. That aside, I’m 100% sure at least a fraction of those who choose not to work are saved. In my opinion, we must be in the trenches helping them and guiding them to the solution. I cannot affect the masses, but I can affect those in front of me and do. We as followers of Christ need to stop complaining and start doing. Equipping people to take care of themselves. Many are so stuck that just taking the time to pull them out of the muck will set them up for success. Not all are lazy, some are lost and so overwhelmed they cannot see a way out. For the willing souls we should be there to help them out. If each of us help just one person, think of the difference we could make. To be clear I do live like this all to the glory of God, but very very few people do it along side me.
You have a very good outlook on life Jamie, and your role in it, working alongside Jesus. And we do certainly know that the label Christian does not always describe a follower of Christ. In fact, I would say that it very seldom does.
… I will say, though, it applies to the very very few people that are working alongside you
It comes from personal experience stuck in the muck myself. I was so cynical about people that needed assistance that I refused help (Pride) when I truly had no choice and God miraculously helped me anyways by sending help. I will forever be grateful that He didn’t give up on me. 🥹
Yes . Judt yo clarify .
Trump's policy is that able bodied people age 18 to 40 must work in order to eat. Work only 20 hours a week or volunteer 20 hours not 40 hours.
People who are not able to work will receive benefits.
Trump's plan thus follows st Paul and Jesus teachings.
Any man means any man. So you believe an able body unbeliever can choose not to work and get on SNAP?
I just realized I did not answer your question on my personal opinion. No I do not think an able bodied person should be on SNAP if they choose not to work. If they are able bodied and bust their butt working and cannot get food, we should help them out of poverty.
What do you-all think in this context about all the jobs that are being eliminated at every turn - and more to come as robots and AI take over?
In our weakness Christ is our strength. He will use this and it will separate the “wheat from the chaff” those who lean into the Lord will find favor and those around them should help them in finding a new direction. Jesus didn’t say it would be easy, He said He would carry the burden. I have never seen the faithful forsaken. The road may be hard, but we get back up and keep walking towards Him.
I was specific for a reason. I stated what that verse referenced, because that is the context that verse was in. It gets very murky when we judge those we do not know. Personally I use the gift of discernment given by God. If He tells me to give, I give, whether I think a person deserves it or not and even when I don’t have an abundance myself.
and none about the government doing the job. It is always an individual or local responsibility.
Unfortunately the cost of living in California is so high that a lot of folks who are working full time actually qualify for SNAP. The employment requirement is going to make things interesting here … my son with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science can’t even get hired at Target, even though they have jobs posted all the time. 🤷🏼♀️
I have single moms here in FL that work full time and still need help for their kids food. Disabled adults that do what they can and need help. This is where God’s people need to step in and fill the gap.
I agree. It is God‘s people that should be helping l, not the government. That is what the Bible commands.
Churches. Food banks. Neighbors. The government calls it a benefit but they take it a way as a chip. Not a fan of welfare but I do see the benefit in acute issues.
He must be straight & white then.
Yes, he is. I’ve been tempted to us AI to remake his LinkedIn profile photo into someone who would have the name “Patel” just so he could find a job in the tech sector.
It’s California, can’t he just “identify as” a Patel? 🤔
Tempting!
I would love to see Jeff do a deep dive into the H1B corruption taking place. This is a guy I follow on X who reports on this, it seems like every day it’s a different company. This was about Capitol One. I had no idea about this and it’s so depressing. This has to stop! https://x.com/realmattforney/status/1981061595858907566
60 Minutes had an episode on this as it relates to what the University of Ca system is doing….specifically UCSF.
Our own government is doing this….sickening.
Woah! How does this country survive with all this corruption?
That’s because white men cannot get a job anywhere. If you’re white, you’re eliminated from the job pool.
It seems to me that it may be time to consider moving to another lower cost state. I think Oklahoma is still offering a 10k bonus to people in certain fields who move to the state and live/work for a certain period of time. Tulsa and its greater metro area is actually quite nice. It reminds me a lot of the Sacramento area. Check it out.
My 35 year old nephew grew up in Northern California. About 5 years ago he moved to Oklahoma and he absolutely loves it there, loves the people there.
My experience has been the same, CMCM. People in OK are kinder, as a general rule. Drivers are definitely more courteous and follow the rules I have noticed. Neighbors look out for each other more willingly it seems, in OK. The electric company did an in person wellness check because they had noticed no usage for a month. In CA we only get notified in the mail that we used more electricity than average even though nobody was home for a month! Very strange. This could also be based on town size however, as I live in a fairly metropolitan area in CA, and a mostly rural area in OK.
Love Oklahoma
Me too, Patti. I live there part time and love it. It’s relatively undiscovered, but that is gradually changing.
I’ve only visited but absolutely love it
So much for BHO telling everyone to learn to code. Unfortunately for many incl your son, Ai are taking those jobs.
Yes. Whatever isn’t taken by AI is shipped overseas or filled via H1B hires. The number of unemployed STEM grads in the US gets higher all the time. It breaks my heart when he’s applying for jobs and there’s thousands of applicants.
Agreed
Remember that the requirements include volunteering as well as working in a paid position. There’s always a way if you’re committed to getting your desired results, CeeMcG. See my comment about relocating as well. It’s worth considering.
My son is willing to relocate, he’s been looking pretty much all over the country. Thanks!
ICE IS HIRING!
I understand your concern as my son is in a similar situation, having graduated with a mechanical engineering degree about a year ago. He got a job in his field after looking for a long time, but was laid off due to lack of work. Then he cobbled together a few part time jobs and then recently got a temporary contract job. He also has had his real estate license, but the market this year is the worst in his four years of having his license, unfortunately. He co-owns an auto body shop with two friends as well, but it’s new and doesn’t generate much income yet. Fortunately, he’s made some fairly lucrative investments over the past several years which has helped supplement his income but it’s a shame he’s had to deplete his nest egg. They’ll figure it out. It’s definitely not as easy as it was when we graduated to find work in your field. Seems like you have to be resourceful and do several things at once. It will get better. Glad he has cast a wide net for jobs.
Wow, I would have thought mechanical engineering would fare slightly better! I’m so sorry, thank goodness your son is resourceful. Someone recently suggested a union apprenticeship for my son (basically construction work) but he’s not a big kid or very physical, so that wouldn’t work. He can’t even get hired at Kohl’s or Target for seasonal work. It’s ridiculous!
Good morning Janice, this quote is a good one and I would like to throw a couple of my pennies out there.
“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink;…”
In the latter part of the month of September back in 2001, I witnessed televised network news interviews with five of the leading Christian televangelists in America, every one of whom was fully in favor of bombing their perceived enemy, instead of feeding them or giving them something to drink, apparently believing that bombing them was a fulfillment of this part of the verse; “for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Actually, heaping burning coals on his head, was not a reference to dropping bombs on him, but instead to the ancient custom of sharing your household fire with someone whose fire had gone out. They carried the coals in a pan on their head, so when you heaped those coals on his head, you were actually helping him get his fire started, which was a favor. A favor which perhaps equates to sharing the gospel with someone that lacks that fire.
… and yet still today Christians think that bombing innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq was doing a service to God
It is truly necessary that more people read scripture and understand it more deeply. Everything we need to know for the end times is in the Bible. We need to discern the Biblical signs of the times in order to Be Ready for what's coming.
The people are innocent, but the governments of those people is NOT innocent. If said government (Hamas, Taliban, etc) are not feeding the innocent people, and often even using them as human shields, then those governments must be removed. And if the innocent people can not or, in some cases, will not do it, then either the internal atrocities will continue, or someone from the outside must step in and try to do it for them. That, sadly, often means war, and it is and always has been an unfortunate result of wars that many innocent people die.
Hamas and Taliban created by US taxpayer money.
compliments of Obama and Biden I would say
Perhaps an even more unfortunate result of wars is that the guilty government leaders don’t die. There seems to be some rule among governments of this world that it’s OK to kill the innocent people, but it’s not OK to kill the government leaders. So let’s try something different, instead of considering the killing of innocent people an unfortunate result of wars, let’s target the leaders of the evil governments
… and let the innocent people live in peace
Executive Order 11905, issued on February 19, 1976. This order was signed by President Gerald Ford. I remembered hearing about this in high school. I thought what a bunch of crap. How many lives could be saved be eliminating the problem not the people.
Must be in the other bible.
"The Cult of Christian Fundamentalism was begun by the British East India Company's servant, Darby, which will be misused to strengthen the Zionist State of Israel with identifying with the myth of 'God's Chosen People' and by donating substantial amounts of money to what they mistakenly believe is a religious cause in the furtherance of Christianity."
John Coleman
The Committee of the 300
The other Bible, haha.
Yeah, this verse has never made sense to me and the tortured explanations are amusing. It reminds me of the "camel through the eye of a needle" rationalizations where people claim it's just fine to worship mammon provided you check a bunch of legalistic boxes. Always looking for loopholes to trick God.
The long-term impacts of Darbyism have brought this country to its knees. America has been "blessing Israel" since 1948 and has American been blessed in return? The start of Americas downfall can be traced to almost exactly this time and sharply accelerated in the 1960's.
There’s no tricking God, like there’s no telling us that a 300 lb SNAP recipient is “going to starve.” A 300 pound human can fast for most of a year with only water and electrolytes and survive.
1920s and the Federal Reserve Act
It's probably even earlier than that as Scofield and his resulting heretical Bible footnotes was pushed as early as the late 1890's by non-Christian Jewish Zionists.
You are right that the seeds were planted much earlier. But I'd argue that America's downfall didn't truly start until after WW2 coinciding with its support of the Israeli state.
When people finally realize that ALL religions are BS and written to act as means of control thats when things will get interesting. This isnt to say that there is no higher power, there is, it just isnt as how we've been taught to see it.
https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/the-never-before-told-true-history
I totally agree with that, and I'm glad you mentioned this!
It is very important to understand.
1913, but yes
Albert Pike had promised his Masonic allies in Europe that they would have three world wars to consolidate the world power of the Canaanites. We have now seen two of those world wars, and, as promised, the first world war was to set up a Communist regime, the second world war was to raise it to the status of a world power, and the third world war is planned to destroy both Communism and Christianity in a great orgy of annihilation. This coming war is intended to be the final death knell of the people of Shem; after its conclusion the Canaanites will reign unchallenged throughout the world."
Eustace Mullins
The Curse of Canaan
Yes, as much as I’d like to see the end of the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, I can’t help feel that it is a diversion ploy, so we don’t notice the genocide that’s taking place in Palestine. The big difference is we are not funding Nigeria to slaughter its Citizens. But we are funding Israel to genocide its neighbors and citizens. But somehow that’s OK.
The cult of British Israelites was begun before Darby, although Darby had way too much influence over their beliefs. I read that the Puritans that landed on the shores of America were British Israelites. Their beliefs spread throughout the country, eventually finding their way into places like Zion, Illinois founded by JA Dowie, and then infecting all of the Pentecostal churches in America, with men like CF Parham, AA Alan, TG Lake, O Roberts, W Branham, and other British Israelites taking the lead. While maybe not openly proclaiming to be British Israelites they believed they were nonetheless. Although the claim to be British Israelites kind of faded in the Christian churches of America, the Pentecostal churches were run by men who considered themselves to be British Israelites. The erroneous teachings of Darby were amplified when Scofield used those teachings as commentary in his Bible, a Bible which became one of the most popular books in the Christian church, especially in America.
…I think the Christian leaders of America are pro-Israel because of the teachings of the British Israelites, all the way back to the founding of America.
Interesting summary. Mormons were part of the secret society of Freemasons.
Utah is perfect location for Kirk event. Most senior police are quiet.
Yes, there’s reporting that TurningPoing USA is heavily infiltrated by Mormons
Jeremiah,,
Regarding your reference of what heaping burning coals is supposed to mean, The Complete Jewish Bible says:
Proverbs 25:21-22
21“If someone who hates you is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22 For you will heap fiery coals [of shame] on his head, and ADONAI will reward you.
Would you share the origin of your definition? I have never heard that explanation before.
Hi D.S.
I found it in a book titled; “Strange Scriptures that Perplex the Western Mind” by Barbara M. Bowen, published by Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,Michigan, copyright 1944
She writes that the scriptures have much to say about forgiving our enemies, but to us “heaping coals of fire on their heads” sounds like vengeance, not forgiveness. She explains “that in the Bible lands almost everything is carried on the head- water jars, baskets of fruit or any other article. In many homes, the only fire they have is kept in a brazier which they use for simple cooking as well as for warmth. They plan to always keep it burning. If it should go out, some member of the family will take the brazier to a neighbor’s house to borrow fire. Then she will lift the brazier to her head and start for home. If her neighbor is a generous woman, She will heap the brazier full of coals. To feed an enemy and give him drink, was like heaping the empty brazier with live coals, which meant food, warmth, and almost life itself to the person or home, needing it, and was the symbol of finest generosity”
… which is why it is written that the Lord will reward you
That’s how I’ve always understood it too. That the act of giving even though this person treats you poorly would feel shameful and they would see Gods love in your act and possibly have a heart change.
Incidentally, D.S., beware of Bibles that add words in order to infect your way of thinking. The words in brackets [of shame] were put there in order to get you to think the way they want you to
… and it worked, didn’t it?
My source is a Syrian Arab very in tune with the lifestyle of the Bedouin. He was a writer, editor, and translator known for his empathetic novels in Arabic, who has lived for decades in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco.
Thanks for clarifying the burning coals part, I always wondered about that. Was getting flashbacks to Katie Porter and her mashed potatoes … 🥔
You’re welcome, and your flashback is humorous
I’ve never heard it taught that way. I just looked through all of the Bible studies I could find on that verse and it’s always taught as giving to your enemy is to show Gods love and the desired effect is the heaping coals that would lead them to repent.
Biblically Burning coals symbolizes judgment and spiritual purification.
I’m so curious who teaches it this way.
Just be clear I don’t condone bombing people either.
Sadly, Lisa, the Bible studies that you’ve been reading have been written by Christian men like those five televangelists that I talked about in my original comment about ‘coals of fire’. These five were Christian men you may be familiar with; Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson’s son Gordon, Oral Robert’s son Richard, TD Jakes, and Billy Graham’s son, Franklin. All of these men, within two weeks after the explosive demolition of the three structural steel skyscrapers in the city of New York, went on national television interviews, throwing the weight of their Christianity behind the idea of dropping fire on the heads of innocent people in Afghanistan for what happened in New York. They did so knowing full well that Afghanistan didn’t have anything to do with what happened in New York, that the people of Afghanistan were simply innocent people that had never done anything to America, but they were OK with bombing them, with no thought of feeding them or giving them something to drink. They too thought that God was telling them to heap coals of fire on the heads of these people as judgement.
However, you think about it that simply doesn’t make any sense. How do you equate bombing people with feeding them or giving them drink? And to your reference to the symbolism of burning coals as judgement or spiritual purification, we’re not talking about symbols here. When God said feed them, he was talking about real food, when he said give them drink, he was talking about real drink, not symbols. When God was talking about burning coals on his head, He was talking about doing him a favor, and again I say, that’s why it is written that the Lord would reward you,
…God is certainly not gonna reward anyone for bombing innocent people.
The Bible verse as I understand it doesn’t mean that you literally heap coals on someone’s head. It’s a metaphor (as is much of the New Testament) to mean your act of kindness would help the other see Jesus in your actions because instead of retaliation you fed them and gave them water. Thus planting the seeds which is why this would please God.
I too have a big problem with religious leaders that compared the act of bombing people to heaping coals to justify it. In my opinion this is heresy and needs to be called out. No religious leaders in my circle would agree there is any correlation between heaping coals and bombing people. It’s the opposite. Acts of kindness NOT physical aggression.
After thinking about it, Lisa, I have to agree it could be used as a metaphor in today’s world. The use of it in the New Testament is actually a quote from proverbs chapter 25 verse 21 or two I think. Heaping coals of fire on someone’s head was an actual practice, a reality in the Ancient world, maybe even practiced today in some places in Africa, I don’t know. So in proverbs, it was probably referring to the actual practice,
…but in Romans, it’s probably used as a metaphor.
Actually, Lisa, it does mean, literally, heaping coals of fire on their head. As I explained in a previous reply;
I found it in a book titled; “Strange Scriptures that Perplex the Western Mind” by Barbara M. Bowen, published by Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,Michigan, copyright 1944
She writes that the scriptures have much to say about forgiving our enemies, but to us “heaping coals of fire on their heads” sounds like vengeance, not forgiveness. She explains “that in the Bible lands almost everything is carried on the head- water jars, baskets of fruit or any other article. In many homes, the only fire they have is kept in a brazier which they use for simple cooking as well as for warmth. They plan to always keep it burning. If it should go out, some member of the family will take the brazier to a neighbor’s house to borrow fire. Then she will lift the brazier to her head and start for home. If her neighbor is a generous woman, She will heap the brazier full of coals. To feed an enemy and give him drink, was like heaping the empty brazier with live coals, which meant food, warmth, and almost life itself to the person or home, needing it, and was the symbol of finest generosity”
… which is why it is written that the Lord will reward you”
So you are right, there is no correlation between dropping bombs on people’s heads and heaping coals of fire on their heads.
And Gaza and Syria.
Happy to see the proper cultural understanding of “coals on the head.”!
Apparently that doesn't apply to Gaza. Oh... I forgot. The Talmud supercedes the Tora./S/
Well- Israel is feeding the Gazans and giving them water (even tho they prefer to use the pipes as rocket launchers), so are you chiding God?
Food trucks in Gaza are stolen by mercenaries receiving US tax money. No SNAP there.
It seems to be ever thus in nations run by terrorists and cartels.
That's no way to talk about Wall St. and London
/S/... Very appropriate Bard.
Or is it?
Pirates all.
British Empire was built on drugs and terror.
And the legacy continues.
Other European countries were not far behind. Belgium. France. Spain. Netherlands. Britain just had faster ships, and were willing to go to the far places of the earth, while the others took a fancy to Africa and parts of the East.
"Thus the Drug Trust, while maintaining the Stalinist Communist Government in Russia, simultaneously maintained a Communist back up regime in the United States, the Trotskyite Movement, in case the Stalinist regime should fall."
Eustace Mullins
Murder By Injection.
History of the planet.
Starvation is part of the program. Dont be antisemantic.
"The United States will be flooded by people of alien cultures, who will eventually overwhelm White America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for...
At least 4 billion 'useless eaters' shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics...and starvation.
Rival factions and groups such as Arabs and Jews......shall have differences magnified and allowed to wage wars of extermination against each other under the eyes if NATO and UN observers.
The Story of the Committee of 300
John Coleman, 1992
And now we see it in real time. "Winter is coming" and with that comes famine.
Then I guess Trumper ain’t play’n ball with the 300.
Right in their pocket.
Right, they are doing such good work after razing Gaza to the ground... /S/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-unleashes-wave-attacks-across-gaza-latest-truce-violation
No just ignorantly and antisemite - ally chiding Jews.
Very few are, “of the tribes.”
2% only. Most are Eastern European which means Nordic with a little Chinese genetics. Ashkenazi. That’s why so many of these “Semites” are pale; so many with blue eyes and light hair.
Fun fact: only 10% were Jewish orthodox enough to actually follow their biblical law and not take the COVID jab.
Rabbi Michoel Green walked the walk.
Netanyahu has nothing Godly about him.
Lord, when did we see you hungry?
That is true! Christ, however, doesn’t advocate for lawlessness. If he did, there would’ve been no 10 Commandments for the Israelites.
For what it’s worth, I did not have the SNAP issue in mind when I chose these verses. I came across them in my Bible journaling the night before and felt led to share.
I have never listened to a rap song fully either!
Sometimes though when even His own enemy-like-behaving people insisted on rejecting their Messiah, He chose not to turn the other cheek or to give food and water. Instead, by using the Roman Army in AD 70, he heaped burning coals upon their intransigent heads collectively. And thereby cancelling Political, Economic, National, Geographic and Spiritual Israel forever.
Surprised no one is talking about the Tucker Carlson – Nick Fuentes dust up. For those not tuned in, Tucker had Nick Fuentes on as a guest in a wide ranging interview. Fuentes, who is no fan of Israel or Jewish behavior in general, has a huge following online in the millions.
All the usual suspects in Conservative Inc. are lined up demanding Tucker be excommunicated from society for “platforming” Fuentes (which is absurd as Fuentes already has a huge platform). In the least surprising development of all time, these are the *exact* same people who were Never Trump in 2016, demanded Trump’s banishment after 2020, and pushed DeSantis over Trump in the 2024 primaries. They are dominated by globalists, ethnic Jews, and Christian Zionists.
What we love about Tucker is that he will pretty much talk to anyone and hear them out, but he has zero patience for moralizing scolds and those demanding others be silenced. His guests have run the gamut and include all sorts of people I would consider kooks and oddballs, but he lets them talk. That’s fine when it’s a homosexual homeless derelict saying he had an affair with Obama (who Tucker had on) but it’s apparently beyond the pale when it’s a guy criticizing Israeli militarism, Jewish ethnic supremacy, the predatory usury system, and globalism.
Fuentes is a nutball on some stuff IMO, and he is pretty dark in other areas that make me wonder about demonic influence in his life. But the fact that Tucker’s interview created outrage with Conservative Inc, when other interviews didn’t, tells us exactly who we aren’t allowed to criticize. And as it’s been pithily stated, who you cannot criticize is who rules you.
There is now an all-out operation underway to take Tucker out. It’s led by Conservative Inc and Jewish billionaires, the same people pressuring Charlie Kirk right before his murder regarding his waning support for Israel. They are calling Tucker an antisemite (which today means criticizing Israel or any Jewish person), a paid Qatari mouthpiece, a bad Christian, a pagan, “woke right” (lol), and even claiming he’s had a mental break down. It’s a classic coordinated psy-op.
Fortunately it’s pretty obviously failing as Conservative Inc is a spent force ever since it was unmasked and discredited by Trump. They are flailing about in sputtering rage (example: Mark Levin), throwing everything against the wall hoping something will stick, but nothing is. Plus the Right loves Tucker *specifically because* he won’t bow to pressure, unlike virtually every other public figure. But you should be aware what’s happening, as Tucker is one of a very small group of high-profile individuals that dares to tell the truth and deviate from the approved narrative.
Full disclosure, I wrote this ahead of time as I was curious if people had thoughts on it.
I thought it was a stimulating interview that gave me perspectives on all sides. I like that Tucker lets people speak. I didnt really know much about Fuentes beforehand, and I didn’t sense demonic influence in him at all. I think most opinions of that sort are planted by others and not based on any reality.
When people try so hard to paint someone as evil or an “anti-Semite”, that’s a red flag in and of itself.
"When people try so hard to paint someone as evil or an “anti-Semite”, that’s a red flag in and of itself."
Exactly right. "Anti-Semite" has become the slander of choice now that the Woke Leftist label of "Racist" has lost it's punch.
Or anti vax or election denier.
Same logic - right?
It's not even accurate either. A semite is a person who has middle eastern DNA. It has noting to do with religion. A peer reviewed genetic study by a Johns Hopkins geneticist (Jewish) about a dozen years ago showed 80 % of Palestinians had semitic blood, but less the 2 1/2 % of Jews did. Internet has done a pretty good job of scrubbing that.
The whole Zionist/Dispensationalist idea that modern day Israel are the Jews of Jesus' day returning to "their" land is bogus. The Israelis are Northern European people of Turkamen origin (Step people), and an amalgamation of Zionism and Marxism salted with atheism, and who despised practicing Jews who likewise were also of Turkamen origin. These could not possibly be the Hebrew tribes returning to the Levant. As Malachi prophesied, the Jews of Jesus' day were burnt as chaff in the furnace of His Judgement in 70AD and left "without root or branch" because of their rejection of the Messiah when He came to His own.
Yes. The Khazarians, the Ukraine, hence the furvor to keep on fighting for the homeland (Ukraine)
Very interesting, rolandttg. I’ve been wondering for some time if the availability of checking your DNA on sites like Ancestry and others is going to translate into redefining races and origins, and/or putting a percentage number on it? What percent Senegalese, North African, Native American, Levant, Jewish, Icelandic, etc ancestry clears the bar to make claims, or are we not going to have those conversations?
Jews are mostly not genetically Semitic.
Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews.
Zionism is a national political ideology, not a religion.
Therefore, being anti-Zionist cannot be anti-Semitic.
They are 2 very different things, but the Zionists try to conflate them.
It's part of their disguise, that doesn't work any more.
If it fits wear it.
Not in that interview, but he's said things that make me wonder about demons. He used to make callers to his show pledge to "murder, rape, and steal in the name of Nick Fuentes" or something like that, I don't remember the exact pledge. But it gave me that very unsettling sense I get when people are pushing sin.
He later brushed it off as a dark humor, and maybe it was. But some people are just a little too willing to say or do things that have ugly spiritual undertones.
No. The Fuentes MO is to spout one evil thing after another, and then (when needed) to act as if it was sarcasm, irony, dark humor, whatever. The pledge is entirely telling, and serious at bottom. There is a piece by Chris Brunet called "The Top 50 Nick Fuentes Pedophile Scandals" (sbstck) that demonstrates this.
You're right that Childers should be talking about the Tucker/Fuentes affair--it's only the biggest political event since the assassination of Kirk, but wrong to suggest he should be siding with the two of them against "Conservative Inc." The proper approach for dissidents is expressed in my latest "Unsure on Carlson; 100% Condemn Fuentes." https://dissidentcon.substack.com/p/unsure-on-carlson-100-condemn-fuentes We Covidvax dissidents need to face that A.) Tucker hasn't been helping us (ask Tom Haviland), and B.) with this disaster it's no longer clear that we would benefit from his making a belated decision to try.
I never said "he should be siding with the TWO of them" and you trying to put those words in my mouth shows disingenuous bad faith on your part. I said the exact opposite and that I thought Fuentes had demons. I had read the Brunet piece previously and know the history. (Brunet has his own issues BTW.)
My comment was specifically about the attempt to make Tucker persona non grata for defying Con Inc. and having Fuentes on. We are allowed to hear people out and draw our own conclusions. Period.
You obviously have an axe to grind that prevents you from making an honest argument which is why you mischaracterized my comments. You are no different from the Jewish extremists, you just can't stand Tucker for a different reason.
So tired of all the lies on here. People are utterly incapable of making an honest argument.
You did say Fuentes had demons. I liked that, since horribly, it is quite likely true. (No-one who really reads the Brunet peice will think otherwise.) I confess that my use of "siding with" is vague here, and thus likely unfair. Over at my stack, I say one and all should--regardless of how they come to judge Tucker's decision to have him on, one way or the other,--"condemn Fuentes 100%." Are you willing to say you do? If you are, we can talk about the degree of badness/carelessness my comment may be guilty of if we still wish... ...but if you can't, I don't know what to say.
The topic you are referring to is assiduously avoided in this Substack.
Maybe Jeff is right in not wanting to “go there” as the readership here is heavily CZ.
We are heavily Christian. We are NOT heavily CZ. That’s a fallacy and a broad brush stroke for political purposes
Jeff C - it appears as though Tucker (amongst some other big names) will talk to anyone but Tom Haviland on the subject of the embalmer clots:
https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/tucker-glenn-megyn-and-joe
Or Dr Shiva.
Sick of the info war!
Exactly! Though scratch the word "some" before "other big names." Face reality about our "conservative," "new-right," and "Trump-supporting" media/alt-media leaders. At this point, there merely remains some doubt about Bannon and his crew, a few persons at Blaze News, and Eric Metaxas; the only one I have no doubts about is Emerald Robinson.
ALL the rest are Suppressors. This a key fact regardless of what RFK Jr can do to counter it. Visit my stack to further consider the implications.
Excellent post JeffC, thank you for saying this.
This point particularly jumps out: "...But the fact that Tucker’s interview created outrage with Conservative Inc, when other interviews didn’t, tells us exactly who we aren’t allowed to criticize. And as it’s been pithily stated, who you cannot criticize is who rules you."
When it comes to any issue that affects Israel, the Zionist Israel lobby rules and dictates how the USG behaves. Literally every Congressman has been bought and paid for by the lobby.
The American taxpayer has been enslaved to the dictates of Zionism in Israel. This has to end. Americans should not be hostage to ANY foreign power!
Take away the religious deduction; its a shield for so many “charities” that funnel those untaxed dollars to undermine our elections.
I don’t mind them donating, just not tax-free.
I watched the whole thing and found Tucker's body language to be interesting. He constantly covered his chest with his arms and leaned backward, while Fuentes leaned forward with his arms and hands stretched towards Tucker while gesticulating. Tucker really looked like he felt threatened
through nearly the whole interview. But at least he had the cajones to invite him on, and it appears they definitely agree on one thing, and that is too many people in positions of power in this country do not want to allow ANY criticism of Israel or those who support it.
Good for you for noticing the body language! It provides so many clues as it comprises more of communication than tone of voice and words combined. That’s one of my main complaints against virtual Dr visits.
I always smile when someone is on the hot seat and saying yes, or something of similar meaning, while repeatedly nodding their head no.
Maybe he was protecting his heart chakra. He is sensitive.
I’m only about half way thru the interview and I am not seeing Tucker feeling threatened. I don’t see him leaning backwards. His arms are crossed but more midriff. That’s kinda how he sits always when I watch!!?
I’m impressed he stands up for himself. I think Nick uses his hands while he speaks nothing new.
I finished. I felt like it was a moderate interview. Nothing odd. Thanks for the referral
Most republican youth are at least skeptical of our unquestioning support for Israel, especially as millennials and younger struggle to afford day to day necessities and a dim outlook in career prosperity.
Why JD Vance is acting like Charlie Kirk. Desantis jockeying to put Turning Point in all Florida schools. No autopsy or burial sites will lead to questioning by the youth.
Totally agree, Jeff C! Those who want to silence Tucker are showing their allegiance to a foreign entity, not the US & the 1st Amendment. People may vehemently disagree with someone but that someone is protected by the right to free speech.
It’s also important to distinguish between the Jewish people (religion, culture) & Zionists (political, financial, intelligence). I live in a Jewish community, had lunch last week with a Jewish friend who vehemently detests what Netanyahu is doing, as do many Jewish people.
We have a right & an obligation to openly question the behavior of governments, ours & ones we support. Our government works for us, something we often forget.
Jews of the Democrat persuasion relate to Netanyahu as if he is Trump. Same nonsense including incessant investigations and a trial that’s been going on over nothing for ten years. So, your “friend” is not representative of the Jewish people or even everyone in Israel. If they held elections tomorrow over there Netanyahu would be re-elected. Don’t kid yourself. As for distinguishing between what you sneer at re: Zionism versus Judaism you unfortunately know little about either. The return to Zion which is the modern land of Israel is a prime religious theme of the Jewish religion. Trying to distinguish is just another easy anti- Jewish trope. And not correct. Sorry, but there it is.
I am neither a NeverTrumper, or any of the other names you have called people who believe Tucker Carlson has gone round the bend. He was a sort of country club antisemite for years on Fox, toned it down when he went solo and now that he’s aligned with Qatari money is a given up to be a full blown rabid antisemite same as Candace Owens. He is not “just asking questions”. He’s enabling and platforming Holocaust deniers and nodding sagely and giving his trademark maniacal laugh at everything they say. Not a psyop. He’s always been anti-Israel gratuitously in a passive aggressive sort of way. Now, rabid antisemite. He goes way beyond simple “criticism”. Nick Fuentes is the modern version of David duke. A clown. Who cares. Tucker is something else. Too bad really. He had some other great moments particularly in the campaign but recently his platforming of antisemites - approvingly - and his disgusting speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial about the guys sitting around eating hummus conspiring for killing Jesus - what do you think that is? Even the Catholic Church gave that trope up years ago. Sorry Jeff. You have a blind spot here. Respect for Christianity does not have to be accompanied by antisemitic tropes. Where do you think Christianity came from? Not to mention we both have a common enemy these days which we should remember. And yes, I am Jewish and wildly disappointed at what I am reading here from you and some of your subscribers. 80 years after the Holocaust and 120 after my family fled pogroms what I read here is horrifying.
First off I'm not Jeff Childers, he posts under the name "Jeff Childers". I have been using "Jeff C" on Substack since the very early days, well before the start of Coffee and Covid. Anyone who has been around here for a while knows that.
Your willingness to automatically jump to conclusions and assume I am him, without even bothering to check and see, is really pretty indicative of your mindset. You are driven by emotion rather than critical thought. Otherwise you wouldn't have fired off an angry diatribe based on a false premise.
Anything you don't like isn't antisemitism. I know the media has brainwashed you for sixty years to think that your tribe is special and beyond criticism, but it isn't. And while I have sympathy for your family's experience during WW2, those awful experiences aren't exclusive to your ethnicity. Eighty (80!!) million souls were killed in WW2, not just Jews.
Millions of Orthodox Christians were killed in the 1930's in the Holodomor in Ukraine by the Bolsheviks. BTW, Jewish radicals were far overrepresented in ranks of the Bolsheviks, so lets not pretend one side is guilt-free. Ethnic tribes have been killing each other since time began. And though it may still seem to you like yesterday, the Holocaust was eighty years ago. There's probably not a soul alive in the world today that had anything to do with it so stop with the collective guilt. We are over it.
Last off Christianity is not an "offshoot" of Judaism but the *fulfillment* of Judaism so please don't lecture me on Christianity. The Jews were chosen for a *purpose*, that is to bring Christ to the world, and we are grateful for that. But that purpose has been fulfilled, the Jews of today don't have "magic blood" or anything else that will save them other than accepting Christ. We are done with non-Christians telling us how we must behave or defining our salvation. We are also done with them telling us who we are allowed to like and who we must hate.
I know this sounds harsh, but the truth is harsh. For far too long Christians have been manipulated through collective guilt and fed a false Christianity by people who reject Christ. That is over. We proudly state "Christ is King" and pray for the salvation of souls of all people regardless of their ethnicity. But we are no longer going to prop up or support an ethnostate built on the premise of ethnic superiority, or be intimidated to do so via emotional manipulation. If you want to do that then go for it, but we are done.
The lady will hopefully look at your well written expose as “tough love”.
Great work!!
I hope so and thanks.
My pastor said something a few weeks ago that really stuck with me. We were studying John 1:17, "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
Grace and truth. He summed it up as, "truth without grace is harsh, but grace without truth is heresy". Heresy, not just a sin but actual heresy.
I know that I'm too harsh at times and it comes from arrogance and pride. I'm working on balancing that. But just being "nice" all the time results in heretical beliefs that directly contradict the Gospel. It's a big reason the church is in such a miserable state.
I agree, and the truth, Jesus said, sets us free.
👏👏👏
PS: Did anyone listen to the CO Norm Finkelstein interview yesterday?
Well said Jeff.
Mary Sholl writes that Tucker Carlson is “aligned with Qatari money”.
Leaving aside what “aligned with” money might actually mean (?!) let’s assume she means he is paid by Qatar to speak as a “full blown rabid antisemite”. Which she also writes.
Carlson has repeatedly denied he’s paid by Qatar.
Does anyone know if there’s any proof that he is?
It’s irritating that SO many people online fling allegations around as ‘fact’ on SO many topics.
Mike Benz has a good approach - he cites many sources supporting what he says.
Not everyone can do that, I know, but just publicly accusing people of things with no proof is wrong.
This Catholic agrees with you, but the "Jeff C" that wrote the above comment isn't Jeff Childers. I was a bit confused by that and had to go double check. I never cared for Carlson (or Owens) and I now feel vindicated. I commented on another Substack that I believe Trump and Vance are doing the good cop/bad cop routine as a distraction for the antisemites like Carlson.
Please define antisemite in specific terms since you like to throw it around and call people names. Let's hear it, what does it mean?
Good luck with that request.
I wasn't even commenting on you, but I see I'm a threat to whatever you're babbling.
Yeah, some faceless commenter on a website is a threat to me. You overestimate your importance.
You called Tucker an antisemite and implied you spoke for Catholics. I asked you to define the word and you dodged the question because you can't define it in objective terms without sounding ridiculous.
Look in the mirror.
Thanks, I had no idea who Fuentes is, and what the ruckus was about, even after watching clips of the interview, but yeah let idea's compete on their own merit don't shut them down.
Ithink it’s fine Tucker interviewed Fuentes. I do think Fuentes is a fed, though. He should have been banned online for a multitude of offenses and yet, he never was. He glows.
Yeah, there is something really off about him, not sure if he's a fed but he gives me the willies.
i wasn't defending him but Tucker's right to interview him (as you note). But the fact that so many people tell us he isn't allowed to even talk to the guy, and doing so is the unpardonable sin, is really quite remarkable.
IMO, a lot of people look at Fuentes and find him reprehensible, and knee-jerk react into saying "therefore, deplatform him". But we all know that doesn't work; it only invites the question "why are they silencing him, are they hiding something?". The correct answer is to let him speak, and if he's as bad as they think he is, it will become obvious to everyone.
Fuentes reminds me of a goy Shapiro.
Same type of zeal and similar mannerisms which I hate to admit but they trigger me.
I'm with you on this, for sure.
There are many people pointing out that they gave up on Fuentes when he went along with the "official" nonsense narrative on the Kirk event. That was the tell.
Controlled opposition, limited hangout.
I agree Charlotte. I’ve always thought Fuentes was a fed.
Tucker Carlson won't talk to me about Barack Obama's use of a stolen Social Security number for the past forty years, even though I have the receipts. Everything Obama signed or did in the White House for eight years was illegal because he violated Federal Law and was/is a felon.
Prayers might be a good thing for Tucker and others who dare to share their opinions, prayers and discernment actually.
I read Zerohedge regularly and sometimes dive the depths of their comments. If one wasn't armed with knowledge of surveys, one might think (based on the comments there) that 80% of conservatives in the US want all Jews expelled from the US, if not worse. (It's probably no more than 10 to 15% of conservatives).
Those are real "anti-Semites". (I prefer to say anti Jewish). People who don't like the influence Israel exerts over many members of congress, don't like how much money the US is giving Israel, and don't necessarily like the government of Israel are also called "anti-Semites" - probably by people who DO want the money to keep flowing.
Tucker Carlson is in this second group - he wants Israel to be treated as any other allied nation, and he wants AIPAC to be designated as a foreign lobbying group, since it is a foreign lobbying group.
Fuentes has called Hitler “cool”. I suggest you do listen to what he has said on his shows and what he pushes. His “chill” tone during Tucker was not, imo, a good representation of what he puts out regularly. From what I know anti-semitic means, I believe he is certainly anti-semitic.
Greatest Story Never Told - check it out.
The info war has been going on a long time.
A lot of what you've learned about WW2 is false and fake.
You do know that, right?
WADR, how do you know what I’ve learned about ww2? The assumption I am not educated as much as you think you are is interesting.
Since close of WW2, warmongers have been using “WW2 tropes” to manufacture consent and get their way. As in calling the enemy ‘a Hitler’ and warning domestic detractors not to be a ‘Chamberlain’.
Tucker, and everyone else who state that they “hate” Cristian Zionists either ignore or “interpret “ away God’s clear statement in Genesis 17:7 where He said his Covenant with the Jewish People, His people, would be an EVERLASTING covenant. They might need to check Genesis 12:13 where God says he will curse those who curse his people and bless those who bless them. Replacement theology is a non-starter for those with academic rigor in the study of the Bible. IMO.
Craig you really need to look a bit more deeply into this. First of it's not "replacement theology" as that term was invented as deliberate disparagement of historical Christianity. It's a marketing term meant to belittle people who disagree with Christian Zionism. The fact that you throw it around so cavalierly tells me either you don't know the history or you aren't acting in good faith.
Second, no one is being "replaced". Historical Christianity (that is before John Nelson Darby invented Dispensationalism in the early 1800's) teaches that Christ and the church are the new Israel. The death and resurrection of Christ ended the Old Covenant, it was fulfilled, not replaced. It is finished as Christ said on the cross. In the New Covenant of Christ we (that is the church) are the new Israel, not some ethnic tribe that happens to call themselves Israel. Paul is crystal clear on this in his letters.
Third, that Genesis passage you mention (12:3 not 12:13) is probably the most out of context passage quoted from the Bible. God is speaking of Abraham's seed (singular) not seeds. Paul makes perfectly clear in his letters that Abraham's seed is Christ, and the promises God made in the Old Covenant extend to those who follow Christ (the NEW Israel). As Christians those promises apply to you and me, not some ethnic clan that rejects Christ. This could not be more clearly stated in the NT.
The Dispensational belief system you are following was invented two hundred years ago and is completely at odds with historical Christianity. None of the church fathers taught it. They all believed that Christ and the Church are the new Israel. Paul didn't teach Dispensationalism, nor did Augustine, John Chrysostom, Aquinas, Luther, Knox, or Spurgeon. It is a modern creation that gained popularity with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and nearly all branches of historical Protestantism reject it. It only became popular in the US a hundred years ago mainly with "holy roller" type churches. It grew from there but is still primarily a US-only phenomena. Christians in other countries don't idolize the modern state of Israel and think we are off our rocker.
We (you, me and all those who follow Christ) are the new Israel and God's promises extend to us. Do you really think those promises from 5000 years ago extend to a country invented in 1948, populated with an Eastern European clan that completely reject Christ? Again they proudly and defiantly REJECT Christ, that is, Abraham's seed. How can that make any sense? Why did no branch of Christianity, or the great fathers of the church teach it? And if Abraham's seed supposedly is the modern Jewish ethnic clan, then what qualifies for those promises? Pure Jewish blood? 1/2 blood? 1/4? A single drop? A single molecule? It's ridiculous and doesn't make any sense, along with being idolatrous.
I was once a Dispensationalist and bought into all this stuff. I had no idea it was a modern invention concocted in the 1800's by stringing together a bunch of unrelated Bible verses. I suspect you probably don't either. I urge you to look more deeply into it as Dispensationalism leads people away from Christ and leads to idolatrous behavior towards a foreign country/clan.
Again, well done. Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme! I think they can ignore the on-going genocide in Gaza only so long before their brains start to short out.
Tucker gave me an amazing education last year leading up to the election and I will continue to support TCN just in gratitude for that. I think he's doing good work in bringing certain people and issues to the forefront that we all need to consider.
I wasn't aware of the whole Nick Fuentes dustup till now so it's helpful that he highlighted it.
Any interviewer can interview any interviewee he chooses.
It’s called FREE SPEECH.
We MUST have the right to debate, talk & listen freely.
Look at France - the French state banned the entire platform Rumble years ago because it had content giving the Russian view of the war with Ukraine.
Look at the UK - 1000s arrested each year for writing opinions on X.
We MUST continue to resist the movement towards censorship & ‘cancellation’.
Pray for the Christians of Nigeria. The Armenian Christians of artsakh were ethnically cleansed by Azerbaijan with assistance from turkey. Crickets from MSM. New Jersey and Virginia - vote Tuesday it’s close!
The genocide of Armenian Christians was one of the worst events in history.
Plus the Holodomor in Ukraine in the 1930's when millions of Orthodox Christians were deliberately killed by the Bolsheviks.
Funny thing is we didn't learn about any of these in school, sent on field trips to a "Museum of Tolerance" built for these martyrs (because they don't exist), or lectured about "collective guilt" constantly by the media and pop culture.
And... (((who))) were the Bolsheviks?
And WHO are the Bolsheviks now?
We should keep our focus right here in America. Nominally Christian, White America is next on the "hit list". Winter is coming.
It really is amazing isn't it? One of the reasons Churchill supported Zionism is that he realized many (if not most) Jews instinctively gravitated toward radicalism and he thought Zionism would be less destructive than Bolshevism.
Probably true in hindsight but good grief what a devils' bargain.
One of the benefits (curses?) of being terminally online is understanding the nuance of comments like this when they probably fly right over the heads of most people.
The African continent has been well aware of this for years. In addition to massacring Christians, the Nigerians also kidnap children from neighboring countries for ritualistic sacrifice. This was commonly known when I was working in Liberia. The Liberians, a largely Christian country, have nothing but contempt for Nigeria.
Makes me wonder what Nigeria would be like today had Biafra’s war of succession been successful.
Nigeria’s population is about the size of Russia’s; how weak / ineffective is the central government if it allows Muslims to kill over 100,000 Christian’s. How crazy / racist is it for the situation to be virtually ignored by western services?
So much “news” about the ballroom, so little about dead Christians in Nigeria.
Perhaps the US/ Trump should start by giving 100,000 AR-15s to adult Nigerian Christians, and ask the IDF to train them.
I love the image of Christian defending themselves with guns!!’
That happened because US-backed prime minister Pashinyan told Azerbaijan that Nagorno-Karabakh was legally part of Azerbaijan. He threw them under the bus. Of course the msm said nothing. The US supported it.
Mrs. RW
No prayers for the Palestinians of Gaza, which are still being ethnically cleansed (mass-murdered) and lands stolen, by Zionist Israel, with the full support and funding of Trump?
Crickets from Trump or his team... or Jeff... selective "christianity"... eh?
maybe Because when Christians are being prosecuted or worse in an area they tend to move, whereas Muslims and Jews tend to double down?
How can Gazans move if they're in a prison?
You meant to say "persecuted"?
Jews, especially the talmudic Zio-pig version... tend to be forced to move, as societies find again and again that they are a corrupt metastatic cancer.
Hitler and 100+ other countries found this out and expelled, or tried to expel, all jews.
I wish WE would too.
Stupid autocorrect!
The Voice of the Martyrs is a charity that helps Christians in foreign countries. They will send a quarterly newsletter for free, sign up in their website. It is eye opening how many Christians around the world are truly persecuted for their faith.
“The battle is over SNAP’s “emergency fund,” which has several billion dollars in it— still less than one month’s funding.” Anyone else reading this and shaking your head over the ridiculousness of this sentence?
But I was also glad to read about the new rules for SNAP in the OBBB. I didn’t know that
SS is running out of money, and Rand Paul says we should retire at 70.
But somehow welfare and money foreign aid money never runs out.
Don’t forget the endless wars. For democracy.
Just as the S in SNAP is supplemental, SS is supposed to be supplement as well but the minute anyone talks about touching it, we get the flood of stories of 'people living off SS' It's ~21-25% of the total yearly budget, and yet is untouchable. Because recipients VOTE. Every politician is scared of the retirees.
Donna, old people on Social Security paid into it when they were working. SS is not supplemental, it’s old age insurance that was purchased by the seniors when they were young workers. Social Security does NOT give food stamps to seniors.
SNAP is given to able-bodied freeloaders and illegals who don’t want to work. Make them work.
Just saying, the last statement I got from SS says "Social Security is not meant to be your only source of income in retirement...On average, SS will replace about 40% of your annual pre-retirement earnings"
Re: the 'I paid into it' argument. It's not a savings account, it's a ponzi scheme that is going to collapse under it's own weight. Too many ignored the out of control spending in Congress for too many years and never forced them to live within their means, and instead clamored for more and bigger government solutions that have left us $38 trillion in debt with no end in sight. 65% of my property taxes go to the school district and my kids graduated over a decade ago. But still 'paying into it' with nothing to show for it. I am 60 & hubby is 62 and have lived our entire working life putting money away for retirement with zero allocation in that budget for SS. We still live in our paid off starter home, and put that money into savings and retirement instead of a bigger house. If we get it, it will be a bonus, and hammered this into our kids' heads from the time they were in elementary school - if you get a dollar, you spend some, save some and give some. Told them over and over SS will not be there for you so if you want to retire, it's on you to save for it.
You’re correct, Donna. But that’s not what they said long ago. Only now they’re saying it’s supplemental.
More and more, government seems to be our enemy.
Well, and 'long ago' most jobs came with a pension. Both my mom and mother in law (both in their 80's) still get a check from their husband's pension fund and my MIL also had a pension buyout in the 90's she converted to an IRA. Hubby and I had pensions at our first jobs out of college that converted to 401K's in the early 90's and have never had one since. Pensions are now extremely rare for anyone not in a union or gov't job. Too many either didn't contribute, didn't have the option, or raided their 401Ks in a financial pinch and now stuck if they are too old/too sick/unable to work. I'm 60 and don't know anyone my age counting on a pension unless they work for the gov or a union.
SO TRUE
Many billions of OUR taxpayer cash funneled to the corrupt pigs of Israel and Ukraine is "ridiculous" too...
Oh yes I did. Wow.
This...yet the MSM is reporting it as if a tsunami is heading for the west coast.
Why doesn’t some judge just order the Democrats to vote for the CR and reopen the government? KOr do judges only usurp President Trump’s powers?
Bingo... you win the prize! Only Trump!!!
He’s not a king, just expected to fix everything.
More like a handyman then.
Whipping post.
Or wizard.
Then they would unleash the Epstein files.
Why…. Not everyone in the list is guilty. It would be a total witch hunt with a guilty label with no chance of justice in the eyes of the public. We are not the courts .. yes we can judge but we need to have proof of guilt beyond a name on a list.
How about video footage? Plenty of that.
Pitty poor Andrew who was stripped of titles and home because of association with Epstein, unlike our politicians
Not like Charles is some puritan: just had a different procurer.
There are a dozen females who can testify in court.
The only one not on the Epstein list is President Trump.
You have a copy?
We "musicians" have a saying about rap: "Just because it has a beat, doesn't make it music." It's something....just not music. Subwoofing automobiles are confounding and most excruciating. To each is own, but keep it to yourself. 2nd hand brain beatings aren't my cup of coffee.
Did anyone else notice that the emergence of P Diddy as a rap kingmaker (1991-ish) coincides with the hateful rhetoric towards women in that genre? I’m convinced that Diddy is a bisexual psychopath who really hates women and promoted that misogyny through his rap “artists.” I also find it interesting that the genre has fallen away with his incarceration and USAID funding demise. Maybe Diddy really is a CIA asset after all?
Also, Jay-Z is just as dirty. I found it hypocritical that Kendrick Lamarr was calling out Drake for Drake's lust for young women during that football halftime show when Jay-Z was the one who hired Kendrick Lamar for the gig in the first place.
I saw a music video (within past 4 years) of Beyoncé and Jay-Z riding around in a limo, making all these Illuminati hand signs. I was like “WTF? I guess all those rumors are true!”
Assuredly. Agent of cultural degradation.
Diddy's rise began in earnest after the death of Biggie and Tupac. The rumors are that those two were dispatched because they were beginning to make amends and looking at who the real enemy was (hint: see eye aaaaaa may have been involved).
Probably why this admin went after him.
I always heard "Can't spell 'crap' without 'rap'".
(There are some rap songs I like, but they aren't anything similar to the crap that's been mainstream).
Same.
When rap became popular, I began to pray that either I would become deaf, or rap would fizzle, before it became grocery store "music"! Looks like my hearing might be safe!
Rap sends my eyeballs all a twitter. It's mind numbing.
Rappers Delight by the SugarHill Gang was a fun rap song. I think it was back in the early 80s. No vulgarity, no sexual content. Just a funny rap song with a great beat.
Sounds like a singular event from the genre.
You really should listen to it. I call it light rap, to me not really rap but great rhyming. I laugh each time I hear it.
Agree! There are some interesting ones I like a lot; for me is just that the other, say 80 percent or so, is beyond negative.
Agreed. And many are so crude.
Did you ever see John Julian's Trudeau's Paradise "rap" music vid?
Much of it can only be appreciated by dissident Canuckistanians tho... Alas. 😂
https://youtu.be/QOjl2O5L8xE
Well I just watched it. Too funny! There were some things I did not understand as you mentioned but still worth the watch! Thanks.
Most rap from the 1980s was fun and upbeat. It was the CIA that altered it into Gangsta rap in the 1990s where they rapped about shooting police. Then the Rodney King and OJ Simpson incidents occurred and suddenly there was this nationwide sharp divide between black and white.
The popular music many people love is still music from the 60s, 70s and 80s, even much younger people. You could almost say that the musical decline started with rap and ever since then, it's gotten harder for artsy types to develop musical intuition and ability. Though rhyme and beat are two components essential to songs that rap has by the spadeful. It just lacks melodiousness. If you developed your musical taste prior to the 90s or in the absence of rap, consider yourself lucky.
That’s what I dislike the most apart from the crude lyrics—the lack of melody and harmony. Just the beat and rhymes aren’t enough for me.
Absolutely.
I met a young man who was looking forward to a career writing "beats." Just the beats, no lyrics, no melody.
I know a young man who does this and performs to very large concert festivals all over the world. Dub-step is what part of the genre is called. As someone said, mind-numbing and non melodic.
I didn't know what it was. Interesting. That's a very specific talent. Perhaps they're bringing back something I'd forgotten about: beatniks.
The idea of someone braying at me about violent sex with a woman, or the reciting of societal injustices to a nervous system damaging sub bass does not even suggest "music".
Such a vividly appropriate use of the word "braying." :D
Thank you!
It’s MK ultra programming.
Rap "music" is intolerable. What I find especially annoying is Hollywood using it as background music for movies. Unless you're watching the movie at home, there's no way to block it. We should continue to spread the rumor that it causes cancer, Alzheimer's, premature baldness, unsightly rashes, and vaccine cravings.
Well, it obviously completely obliterates better judgment.
Seems to.
It’s not music. And the messages are mostly dark and violent. What a horrible influence on young people. Glad to read it is on the decline.
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Couldn’t have said it better!
The beat of the music never matches the beat of the singing and it always led me to feel confused not soothed as other music does
What singing? It's Spoken Word with a backbeat.
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It unleashes a certain drubbing upon my noggin. It's disorienting and painful.
My teenage kids shared with us at dinner this week that a TPUSA chapter called the Charlie Kirk Club was started by some kids at their school: Berkeley High. I’m looking forward to finding out more. Apparently the first meeting was highly attended by a mix of kids in support and in opposition.
The student who is attempting to start one here in Kansas got the major run around from the administration at the HS. One brave teacher volunteered to sponsor them and also got grief from other lefty teachers. The librarian refused to get Charlie Kirk 's books for him through interlibrary loan - because she deemed them to be "misinformation"! An assistant at the HS library suggested he check out the book "Gender Queer"! Our public schools are rot infested.
Very brave!
Shut 'em all down. Private schools and home schools can do a better job.
Was this in Johnson or Douglas counties?
Cowley county, South central
WOW
Revealing.
Discrimination, and there are laws against that. I thought librarians advocated for ’all’ information/educational material (sarcasm). Isn’t that their ‘platform’ when advocating for the woke/gender-exception information; they do not regard ‘that’ as ‘misinformation’. - sorry for the heavy sarcasm -
Our local TPUSA field rep has said that prior to Charlie's death, they were planning to re brand HS clubs as "Club America" so I presume the Charlie Kirk club is a similar thing? Anyway, it's encouraging that 6 new clubs have formed in our area since Charlie's death, and 2 are local HS in my town who are known to have left leaning administrations. So happy these seeds are being planted!!
There’s a TPUsA event at Cal in about few weeks. We are going. Will see how tumultuous it gets.
This kind of situation is where DeSantis said he would consider having officials intervene (and not force schools to start chapters as some people have insisted). If a student wants to start a chapter, then why are school staff doing everything they can to prevent that? And why only for Turning Point?
Yes, it's infuriating. They tried to start a TPUSA chapter at the 3rd HS (that has yet to form one this year) in my town in 2022. At the initial meeting, student protesters showed up, trashed the room, overturned tables and broke some furniture. but nothing really happened to them. The school requires a faculty sponsor for all clubs and the teacher got cold feet and backed off, which killed the club. And yet, there is a Gay-Straight Alliance, Black Student Union, a Social Justice club and so on.
Yup that’s exactly what I expect from these completely intolerant people 😡
In Berzerkeley? Wow. Good luck.
I know! Wokesville! My kids reassure me that BHS (3,500 kids) has diversity of viewpoints. Not so evident among the staff on back to school night though.
Whatever gets them into dialogue.
I am heartened to see you 'cover' the genocide of Christians in Nigeria - I have been praying for our brothers and sisters in that country to get relief from the slaughter and slavery - and it appears President Trump is the 'agent of answering' those prayers! I am also THRILLED the Pres. Trump created TRUTH SOCIAL so he could have a censoring-FREE platform from which to proclaim his Trumpic Truths!! That initiative was indeed a stroke of genius.
To this statement, J. C., "It is undeniable that, over the years, USAID did in fact pay for the production of a lot of poor-quality rap music. One cannot help but wonder about the curious timing of the end of USAID and Rap’s sudden and unexpected disappearance from Billboard’s Top 40. I’m only asking the question. You decide." ABSOLUTELY "rap" was a snoops agency 'tool' to disrupt our culture and those of countries around the globe that are "targets" for our perverted 'intelligence' agencies' activities. Another reason to REJOICE to see 'rap' removed from the Top 100 music industry scoring system! Some of my younger friends tried to convert me to at least LISTEN to 'rap' decades ago - I honestly tried--but after about 30 seconds...I HAD to cease the torture to my brain (and soul!!).
JEHOVAH JIREH, my fellow C & C 'army' friends!!
One of the best things Trump has done is cut out the middleman, the MSM and tells us directly! 💥
Printing press 2.0 - and just as earth shaking.
Next we’ll have a federal judge ruling that they are the actual head of the executive branch 🙄🙄🙄 Since that’s what they’re apparently trying to make themselves 🙄
I am waiting impatiently for a federal judge to order members of Congress to do something, or cease doing something. Should be wonderful to witness.
Who are the REAL kings?
In plain sight behind the bench.
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Novel legal theory. (In other words, insurrection.)
No one is going hungry in the USA. Get a job and you will never go hungry. Use food pantries all over the USA. Churches, lodges, all kinds of organisations distribute food all over the place. A loaf of bread can be made for pennies.get a job. Stop all entitlement programs for able bodied people. Give the disabled more!
All the EBT people on TikTok are young and fat.
Not one senior citizen or obviously disabled person.
Did you see the picture of the woman who testified in Congress on behalf of SNAP beneficiaries? She was extraordinarily fat; said she'd starve without SNAP AND she's an employee of a school district somewhere. SMH
I saw that...she was huge.
Agreed. That was a head shaker and an extremely stupid choice.
Or . . . a choice that feeds a narrative.
Universal basic income is coming. It will be sold as a good thing.
My biological father was a car salesman. He wasn’t a trustworthy person. I need to always remember that. I forget at times.
Universal basic income sounds dangerous.
It’s a really dumb idea. Someone else’s money will be used to pay for it.
I’d bet that she was testifying on behalf of the Dems. LOL
I’ll bet she was the thinnest one they could find.
LOL
Except that she-devil in the red hoodie...
Wasn't even Halloween.
Around town and in the gym and stores, I almost never see anyone who's underweight. I wonder why?
Yep. I've watched a couple of FB videos of women yelling about their SNAP's. Seriously, they could use a few weeks of fasting.
And proper fasting, at that. Not the avoiding of food for the sake of self-righteousness, but the reliance on Christ for one's provision!
I think it might be good to reduce the cash subsidies, and instead set up government "soup kitchens". Make needy people go in and have a healthy meal if they need help. Have two kinds of cards - one for a smaller amount of cash, and one for entry to a government soup kitchen.
I say this as a lazy/low energy person myself - very few of us want to buy the basic ingredients and spend 30 to 45 minutes cooking, then 20 minutes cleaning up.
I cook in bulk and freeze. Crock pot, pressure cooker. Or if I am grilling I will do a dozen burgers and a few brats. We have a smoker and a couple of months ago over a weekend I smoked 20 pork chops, 3 slabs of ribs, 21 pieces of chicken, a pork butt and a turkey breast. Freeze into meal portions. Still eating it. Heat up some meat, make a salad and nuke a baked potato and it's quick and easy. I cook, hubby cleans. Unless it's chili, that's his thing.
Of course, you are being frugal with your time and resources, Donna, but I suspect many SNAP recipients don’t have those capabilities. I admire your preparedness and getting much great home-cooking done in advance, to which I aspire myself, but the people on SNAP probably don’t usually, key word, have the resources and foresight.
But they can LEARN. Necessity is the mother of invention. The big picture of SNAP and the panoply of 'safety net' programs is that it has created generations of people for whom ambition, upward mobility and innovation is squashed by the fear of the benefits cliff. My parents and grandparents ethic was forged in the Great Depression when there was no safety net. My parents wouldn't have taken a dime from the gov even if we did qualify in my younger years; times were tough in the construction industries in the 70's. 1001 ways to "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without". Some nights we had pancakes for dinner, but we never went hungry. Along the way we've lost that ability as a society and instead make excuses for people for whom learned helplessness somehow makes them the object of pity/victims.
A women's group I belong to supports, raises money and donates staples and clothing to a program that is like a boot camp for low income single moms that moves them to self-sufficiency within 2 years, with some as-needed support for 3 more years. They are taught to cook with ingredients (no prepared foods), budget, save, get training for jobs with upward mobility, etc. -- in other words, 'life skills' and HOPE that they CAN escape their circumstances. The program takes no gov funding and thus has the freedom to structure their programs as they see fit and is faith based. This is how the community responded before Great Society and until we return to the roots of caring for people instead of handing the responsibility to the gov, our society will continue to decline.
Donna, no question. You make perfect sense. No argument here. I wish there was an easy way to turn this dependency around. I concur with your clear, pointed understanding.
Like you, we grew up with struggles: 14 children, WWII era, no government subsidies. It’s become too easy, almost criminal. My empathy certainly has limits, too.
Yes, and it's not that I am "uncaring" as I get told trying to make the argument against the massive expansion of the welfare state. There are people living on the edge who just need help to get them through a pinch, or those left indigent through no fault of their own. But it shouldn't be a lifestyle. Hubby and I donate generously (but carefully) to a number of local support organizations that lean more into the hand up model than the hand out model.
Crockpot meals are easy and can be very cheap. They also don’t require a stove or an oven. I don’t see why people can’t cook their own food. But a soup kitchen supplement for people who are disabled for example or maybe can’t cook easily for some reason might be a good idea.
There’s the attack on personal dignity (in which many of us here freely imbibe) BUT surely many down and out, hard-done-by citizens should not be shamed by dragging a few little ones off to a soup kitchen daily. I wouldn’t like to see that. For the homeless, single, capable adults this would work. Surely not young families.
Exactly!
Rap "music" gone from the Big Billboard Chart? This truly is All Saints Day!
I wish rap, with its impossible-to-understand lyrics, would be replaced by Sad Little Man and other ditties by 5 Times August. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCrWICwn38
"Howard Johnson is right!"
‘Rap music” is an oxymoron. Always has been.
I'm very glad to see we are talking about the genocide of Christians in Nigeria.
Yes. It's been going on for a lot more than 10 years, but it certainly might be getting worse now. A lot of the murders are basically over territory, and population pressures drive that.
It’s tough to enjoy your coffee when you realize your tax money has been floating crap rap music since probably the year 2000.
I was hoping Trump would sign an EO keeping Daylight Savings Time year round. What's the prob Mr Prez???
Florida voted years ago to exit daylight savings time but it must be approved by Congress. Congress says they are too busy to approve it. Another Catch 22.
Washington, Oregon and California are also waiting.
CA did as well, in 2018. Not sure why they can't follow through with voters wishes.
Standard..keep STANDARD! Ok. I’ll stop yelling now.
Correction: keep daylight savings time! Conservative contrarian corrected me. I want things to stay as they are right this very minute.
We live in the country with animals to care for. Especially in the winter the later there is light, the better. Other wise I don't have a problem with Standard but I bet in Summer when it gets dark around 8, lots of people won't be very happy.
Either way, pick one and stick with it, but congress is made up of cowards and they know no matter which they picked, 50% +/- will not like their pick.
Argh! I meant keep savings time lol. I want to stay where we are right at this very minute. Do not change the clocks. Thank you for the correction lol.
At least "standard time" has an objective basis. At noon the sun is (approximately) directly overhead. So let's keep it year-round. Let institutions and farmers alter their schedules as needed to take advantage of daylight.
More proof great minds think alike!!! ⛳️
As do the tiny ones in Congress.
He's a tab bit busy taking down the US narco state, weapons dealing, child trafficking, MK Ultra slave trade network and the deep staters who bully and overtake countries worldwide. I'm sure he'll get to Daylight savings time as soon a businesses figure out this penny (or pennyless) situation.
Keep standard time. A lot of people / families have to get up early. Please.
I don’t think this issue will ever be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction because some people focus on the evenings and others on mornings and there are different effects depending on where in the time zone you are located. Here on the edge of eastern time, permanent daylight savings time would make sunrise extremely late in the winter, like 9am. If we had permanent standard time, sunrise would be super early but it would get dark relatively early until late spring. I don’t know. I don’t see any solution without significant downsides.
Nooooooooo!
Wishing the same
Or just move to Arizona!!!
Here's my plan to CUT SNAP TAKERS by at least 50% - 90%-
Make the SNAP dollars be redeemable ONLY for SINGLE INGREDIENT food (not counting preservatives) so: Flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, all fresh produce (and single ingredient frozen and canned produce), meat, poultry, fish, etc.
The OBESITY RATE of LOW INCOME people would PLUMMET as would also the number of people who use SNAP!!
You're welcome!
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Broccoli.
Brussels sprouts.
Cauliflower.
Other raw non-gmo vegetables.
Eggs.
Decent olive oil or real butter.
Clean fresh or canned fish or meats.
If I couldn't live on these things, perhaps I should work for the things I "want."
Then you'd get real hungry or real skinny real quick! 😂
I suspect if people were genuinely hungry, or food insecure 🙄 to use the left's bs faux term, they'd learn how to cook and bake from scratch 'right quick', as they say here in the south.
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I would just add that if any of those single-ingredient foods come in a bag, box, or can, they don’t qualify. No frozen broccoli - go pick up a stalk and cut it up yourself!
I read years ago that’s more like what food assistance was. On X there are many examples of insane things that are shown as SNAP eligible on Amazon —lobster, caviar, edible underwear?!?!?!
Brilliant! Send that idea to everyone in Congress.
Didn't the government at one time make food available instead of stamps? It was a way of helping farmers and welfare recipients.
That I don't know. Perhaps.
I do recall something about cheese. 🤔🥴
It would have been in the 1950s, probably. I recall someone complaining about government paying farmers not to grow crops. There was a suggestion for them to grow the crops and give the food to the poor, like they had done before.
Yes, I recall some of that too.
What are you...crazy? That could never happen in America!
Never say never! 😊
All kidding aside, I think the Administration *did* already eliminate SODA from eligibility. Now to eliminate all the rest of the crap!
There's a lot to eliminate.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step grasshopper. 😊
They’ve been working on restricting what can be purchased with food stamps in Indiana.