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RunningLogic's avatar

Can we take away Ilhan Omar’s citizenship and deport her already???

TDawg's avatar

I’m not buying her little “rounding error.” Someone helped her move the money and change the books.

RunningLogic's avatar

Yeah that explanation is so suspect, if anyone truly believes her, I have some oceanfront property in Death Valley to sell them.

AM Schimberg's avatar

I have a Learing Center in MN to sell ya! 😄

Torrance Stephens's avatar

I was "learing" in the boys room.

Long live Brownsville Station.

Susan Seas's avatar

I have a bridge for sale and it collects Tolls! 😂

John Baker's avatar

It STILL doesn’t make any sense. How could they only be worth less than say $100,000? They think we’re all stupid.

GG's avatar

How do you move money after the fact and make it look like it moved before the fact? That would be quite a feat. Transaction records and bank statements can’t be changed retroactively. I hope they fry her. I can’t decide if I want her deported or imprisoned.

Donna Oliphint's avatar

I’ll take “Deported” for $100–after they find and take back that $30M accounting error.

Michelle D's avatar

Both? Serve time, then deportation?

PapayaSF's avatar

She seems like low-hanging fruit for the DOJ. Indict her for financial and immigration crimes while saying “No one is above the law,” and let Democrats scream about it. A perfect Trump troll move before the midterms.

Torrance Stephens's avatar

She leared math at the learing center.

Silent scorn's avatar

If she’s lying, Rep James Comer will find it. He comes from the banking community and excels at digging thru financial records.

TDawg's avatar

I’m for both. To a super max in El Salvador. Or GITMO.

Robird's avatar

Not looking at original documents, only the disclosures filed. Like most congress people, looking in any great detail is not possible. As long as there is no whistle blower that survives character and actual assassination ( ala HRC) the secrets remain buried.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Prison please with no benefits

Alan Devincentis's avatar

Yeah, apparently thinking they would be able to keep what they stole, by declaring magic beans, and now they have to show they don’t really have it. Because it’s been washed, dried, put away for the proper guests inthe villa.

Dena's avatar

A good forensic accounting analysis should reveal the truth.

AM Schimberg's avatar

Data Republican is up for the task!

Torrance Stephens's avatar

Ilhan IS one of the most sociopathic people in congress.

LC's avatar

Arrogant and no shame.

Jackson74's avatar

This Omar story is unbelievable. Thanks for including it today’s roundup.

Interested in “the rest of the story” when it comes to light.

Julie's avatar

Suitcase filled with cash heading to Somalia..

Patti's avatar

Yessss! So sick of the corruption around her dark little soul

RunningLogic's avatar

Plus she’s so nauseatingly self righteous 😝🤮

SMT's avatar

If she can use that excuse, everyone can. F her. We’re all very busy working our asses off, and aren’t accountants. But WE’RE all expected to be adults and get our taxes pretty close.

Carrie's avatar

We’re all waaaay more busy than she is. Being a congressman is not a difficult job. They seem to be on vacation more than they work. The only thing that makes it difficult is keeping track of your complex lies.

Peter GL's avatar

and then they close the government and leave!

RunningLogic's avatar

Plus all the staffers they face working for them 😡

NAB's avatar

And to think how my husband frets every year when we are making sure I paid just the right amount in federal and state taxes for my very small amount of independent review work I do (we are talking about a revenue of less than $5000). It's just galling that people like this ingrate gets away with such a BS story.

Roger Beal's avatar

Deport her to where? Even Somalia has standards.

Teresa Thibodeaux's avatar

She’s a war criminal in Somalia. I definitely think we should send her there.

Debbie's avatar

If she returns to Somalia she wouldn’t a second with the lifestyle she has in MN. Her religion would give her the required discipline if you know what I mean. She supports everything that goes against her religion.

Dawn Ceylong's avatar

It’s NOT a religion. At best pseudo. But really it’s demonic cult and political terrorist organization trying to hide behind the western world’s innate respect for religion

Roger Beal's avatar

True. Plus the western world's willingness to grant tax exemptions to most any group who identify as "religious".

Suzy Cue's avatar

No. We’ve spent enough of our tax dollars on her thieving ass. Somalia.

CStone's avatar

The dark side of the moon.

RunningLogic's avatar

That’s the only appropriate side!

Delightful Designs's avatar

100% agree. No suit or provisions. Well she's a congresscritter, let's give her a perk, one granola bar.

RunningLogic's avatar

How about bacon jerky 😑

Delightful Designs's avatar

It's a more complete protein, sounds like a good thing for her!

Does she keep to the dietary laws? She flaunts most of the rules of Islam.

Dorota's avatar

Let her go down in the ocean and look for those aliens Burchet is talking about.

She likes all these bright colors.

Yellow submarine.

Sharon's avatar

Very, very funny.

Taiga Rohrer's avatar

Jeff, you made a mistake on Omar's lawyer statement "it is very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals like accountants", you misspelled "leared"...

JudyC's avatar

OMG, I’m dying!

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

Yes! Straight into federal prison... Gitmo would be my choice.

RJ Rambler's avatar

I want our money back!!!

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I dont want that stinking lying loser deported, I want her locked up in prison for 20 years and then deported.

RunningLogic's avatar

I’d settle for any kind of decent punishment for her tbh. It’s long past time. But I do want her citizenship to be revoked at some point.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

She's corrupt, a liar, and a cheat. She got caught, she needs to do time so all the other criminals understand we really are a Rule of Law country, in spite of their efforts to undermine it. There's a lot of folks who need jail time...

Dorota's avatar

Before midterm

kittynana's avatar

@Dan- Haven't we paid enough for her keeping? Get rid of her.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I don't want her to walk freely anywhere in the world, making use of the money she has grifted from us.

Porge's avatar

Agree, deporting would be letting her off easy.

Ray Bob's avatar

Speaking just for me, I would like to see her and her husband both, given a complimentary ,One Way helicopter ride over the Gulf of America.

CStone's avatar

And drop them off in Somalia when the tour is over

Ray Bob's avatar

I was thinking more along the lines of, dropping them off from about 500 ft above the Gulf of America.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

No, don’t pollute my beaches with their rotten souls!!

CStone's avatar

That’ll work too!!

RJ Rambler's avatar

I want our money back!!!

Lynne Ferreira's avatar

And yet the leftist loons and congress will believe her mistake and she will remain right where she is, annoying and stealing from us.

Torrance Stephens's avatar

Not soon enough. Her pops was a warlord. Ilhan Omar’s father, Nur Omar Muhammad, was a high ranking military commander in the Siad Barre Regime as it carried out the genocide of the Isaaq people in northern Somalia — now Somaliland.

Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Freebird's avatar
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Excellent thought! And while we’re taking her citizenship, let’s take back the stolen money! Except of course that much has been spent or is parked in a bank account overseas.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Oh yes, AMEN to that!

LC's avatar

Criminal activities should nullify new comers' US citizenship status.

Lisa's avatar

Honestly, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that Omar has been working for the so-called "white hats" all along or flipped, sometime after Obama took over for Soros in "the system", especially since Obama experienced "failure to launch" in that endeavor.

I say this because the entire thing as been a "comedy of errors" that is just too obvious, not to consider. The same goes for the "bartender" in NY.

Susan Seas's avatar

I also would not be surprised. It’s just too crazy to be real. 😆

James Goodrich's avatar

All of us as do all countries go through times of darkness. It is in these times, when things aren’t going well, people of faith pray.

During Covid when Joe Biden was president, it seemed we were in the darkest of times, certainly the darkest that I could ever remember. Everyday I would pray that Americans would wake up, stand up, and stop our government from taking away peoples liberties and freedoms. I’d pray that I wasn’t alone. For years it stayed dark. It seemed as though things were not changing.

In times of war, we pray that our soldiers stay safe. That in the darkness of war America will be successful and quickly obtain its goals.

In the Book of Genesis it begins by telling us how God created everything. The world was in darkness, (“darkness was over the face of the deep,” Genesis 1:2) before God created light. Therefore the first day begins in darkness and ends with light. You would think the first day would start with the sunrise but it doesn’t, it starts in the dark. While some may say this is the setting of a 24 hour day others suggest that in the Bibles view light and hope follow darkness.

It’s incredible that in the darkness, if we didn’t know what time it was, things wouldn’t seem to really change. It could be any time of night, there is no sign that change is taking place. But at 12 midnight, at that one instance, when nothing seems any different, it goes from pm to am, a new day begins. On purpose God chose to start a new day in the dark. It’s symbolic of how He works in our lives. He gives us a promise. He says we’ve come into a new day and light will follow.

The moment we pray the tide of the battle turns. The darkness doesn’t mean things haven’t changed. Darkness is not a sign that God is not working, that he didn’t hear our prayer. We have to walk by faith and not by sight. You may not see it but when you prayed you left the pm and came into the am. It’s a new day, the light is on its way. We all have to live by faith. No matter what we’ve been through, if we have faith and we pray, it may not be immediate, but eventually the light of day will shine on you, and you will find your peace. Keep your faith! Happy Saturday!

J.Goodrich

LMWC's avatar

Thank you for this much needed dose of goodness. After spending weeks embroiled in snowballing solar complex startups across the rural farmlands, and knowing the Federal government allowed all of this through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, worth 1.3 trillion, (how was this voted through?), and knowing also what this is doing to the farmlands across the Nation, I needed to read this.

And after yet reading again how the pillagers in our Government continue to literally get away with murder, over and over again, a good dollop of hope and peace is much appreciated.

RJ Rambler's avatar

Illinois gov taxing and murdering.

Roger Beal's avatar

God's thoughts and timing are not man's thoughts and timing. God is not a cosmic bellhop.

Lori's avatar

cosmic bellhop!

PatrioticMama's avatar

That was absolutely beautiful and a poignant reminder of God's faithfulness to us through the darkness into the light. You had me in tears!

RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you for the uplifting message of hope!

Conservative Contrarian's avatar

One slight correction. From what I understand, according the Jewish Sabbath, it actually begins as Friday's darkness begins, not at what we call midnight; every "day" begins as darkness begins.

James Goodrich's avatar

I do know that, but my point still stands, and that is the new day starts in the dark.

Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I do not disagree in any shape, form or fashion! It is contrary to what many of us grew up thinking tho. 🤠

James Goodrich's avatar

CC I agree with you, you are right. And I put midnight for the reason you said, most of us consider 12 midnight the start of a new day. When I right some of these posts I do some research so as not to make mistakes, sometimes I read quit a bit. I did read exactly what you are saying.

David A's avatar
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For me the day cannot start in the night. My "new day" starts with my coffee.

Lisa Runquist's avatar

You are correct. Shabbat Shalom!

RJ Rambler's avatar

Thank you!! I needed that picture! ❤️

James Goodrich's avatar

I know and you are correct.

Keith Christensen's avatar

Having been a CPA preparing tax returns and financial disclosures for 40+ years i take umbrage at Omar's denigration of accountants, generic classification notwithstanding. Can anyone tell me a good lawyer I could hire to sue her, access some of her $95K of ill-gotten wealth, and restore the good name of my profession?

Mpup's avatar

Thank you and: "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20 Be....in the Word

Christine's avatar

Happy Saturday! I really like your above analogy. Seems pretty spot on. 🌞

Temcol's avatar

J this is beautiful thank you very much.

Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

Excellent thoughts I saved them to remember

Donna's avatar

Thank you. That was a very lovely and timely message Mr Goodrich!

Tom's avatar

Thank you for this!

Pray from a position of victory, and give thanks that the battle is already won!

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

James: thank you for writing that, it was a gentle reminder of how well the Lord blesses us🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me [Paul], in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

— 2 Timothy 1:13-14 NSB95

✝️✝️✝️

Teresa Thibodeaux's avatar

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

Teresa Thibodeaux's avatar

It posted before I finished. But, I thought as I read it, what/who are my treasures. And realized my thoughts went immediately to my parents, (still alive 91 & 89), and my husband (76 with Vietnam caused PTSD) which amazed me - if I was simply thinking when asked, I’d have said my grandchildren. God does make us wake up and smell that coffee sometimes. 💞

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

When it comes right down to it, our treasures are not things. They're people and God's intangible gifts such as faith, peace, and truth. May God bless your husband with healing.

Teresa Thibodeaux's avatar

Thank you Janice, he is doing so very well. God really does answer prayers.

RJ Rambler's avatar

I needed to hear this.

RJ Rambler's avatar

🙌🏼❤️

Juju's avatar

God’s truth is the treasure within. It’s worth more than everything else. Without it we can’t hope to properly take care of the people in our lives. Jesus Christ is the Way, The Truth, and The Life. He is what has been entrusted to each of us and the rewards are great for those who cherish Him

RJ Rambler's avatar

Sound. Reason. Critical thinking. Be wise. JUDGE. TEST EVERY SPIRIT of light against the sWord of The Spirit.

Susan Seas's avatar

Oh my! Have I seriously never noticed sWord!!!! 😳 Thank you for your attention to this 😆

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Now we need the greedy oil companies and gas stations to follow the pricing. Notice how upon the news bombs were dropping, the gas stations raised their prices 25 cents to $1 almost immediately? Even when the gas in the tanks under the pavement was already priced? Now that the price per barrel has come down to almost where it was pre bombs, the price at the pump goes down by pennies, if at all.

RunningLogic's avatar

Ours went down 50-60 cents in the last week.

Jake's avatar

$3.29 at Walmart yesterday. If the strait is open for business, I bet it'll drop below $3.00 next week.

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Well, we in Idaho get screwed constantly.

Dena's avatar

We travel between WA & ID frequently- gas in ID is typically $1.20 per gallon cheaper than WA. Of course WA tacks on all kinds of “climate change” scammer taxes.

Kitkat's avatar

Check out prices in Commiefornia. 😭.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

They get what they deserve.

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Well that’s different there.

Jean V's avatar

Not like we do in Washington state.

EK MtnTime's avatar

Same in rural CO.

Dr Linda's avatar

I am very weary of corporate greed.

Bard Joseph's avatar

And not paying war taxes.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

I'm on the road a bit and buy a lot of gas.

I've noticed how retail gas prices are automatically pegged to the Comex price for gas at the moment.

When a retail gas station fills its holding tanks with fuel, they pay a certain wholesale price. Then, they mark it up for retail sales.

At purchase time the fuel was paid for at a set value. What does that have to do with the Comex?

Aside for political reward, What does the Department of Energy do?

I would love to get work there..... to do nothing and get paid.

Senate & Congress are too busy socializing with Lobbie$. Ask penniless Ilhan.

JudyC's avatar
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I knew someone years ago who owned a gas station. He “explained” to me, in the simplest terms, that the price of gas at the pump is what it would cost him to replace what was being sold.

biff33's avatar

He is right.

The value of anything -- not just gas -- is not what you paid for it, but what it will cost to replace it.

JudyC's avatar

I heard this when I worked retail many years ago, as well.

Dreamom3's avatar

Gas stations make minimal profit on selling gasoline. It is an extremely competitive market. They make all their money from the goods inside the store.

Fred Jewett's avatar

When I worked at a gas station as a student 50 years ago the markup on gas was 15% at the station where I worked.

CK's avatar

50 years ago, lol. Yeah nothing has changed in 50 years. There were a lot of full service gas stations 50 years ago too.

Juliann's avatar

That mark-up included state

And local taxes-right?

Beth's avatar

Unfair criticism. Many gas stations are small businesses. Even if part of a chain.

If they buy the gas at a high price, they need to sell it before they get the lower price. And they don't have a crystal ball to see what it will be next week. Their margins aren't all that big. They're in the same boat we are.

I've always known Trump would bring it back down, so I bite the bullet and spend less money on other things so I can fill up my truck. But I don't take it out on that gas station. It's not their fault.

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Yet they don’t seem to sell their stock at the lower price when they bought it at the lower price. Why is that!

Juliann's avatar

I believe that the gas distributor sets the selling price. The store makes almost nothing. Add to that, state and local taxes and it’s a profit of maybe 3 to 5 cents per gallon sold.

Nancy Sliwa's avatar

Well, we, the American gas consumers, are now competing with world-wide demand for American oil. Market prices are based on supply vs. demand. Some bump in price is to be expected. Of course, every other reliable oil supplier in the world is also experiencing a bump in demand. But it should even out over time, and our pump prices will reflect that. Also, each gas station owner has to buy his next batch of gas with the proceeds of the sale of his LAST tank of gas. He can’t do that unless he changes his prices daily according to market prices. These are small business-people. Have a heart.

CStone's avatar

Greedy gas stations, indeed.

They make somewhere between 6-12 cents a gallon.

My,my,my how much greedier can they possibly get?

End snark

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

My my. Nothing in your comment about how proves skyrocket and then go down by pennies.

Bot

Juju's avatar

CStone is not a bot, of that I can assure you

Tom Bernard's avatar

I imagine the extremely corrupt oil corporations are squeezing every penny out of us before Trump informs them gas prices must be below $2.00 a gallon before the midterm show begins...

Juju's avatar

Local taxes, folks, they will never allow you to see the truth and the democrats want it that way. They use that to try to control the narratives.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

20c here, but not enough. Gainesville has way too many taxes.

Inisfad's avatar

Aside from your local and state taxes, I understand that gas stations price their gas according to the futures market, so they price in accordance with what they expect to pay for their next shipment. Of course, local taxes will interfere with prices going down, etc.

Mary Pat FitzGibbons's avatar

They always do that. Needs to stop. And Jeff said USA has 50% of the world's oil. So why did our prices go wild??

biff33's avatar
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Oil is a world market with a world price, as Nancy explained above.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

I am SO with you on this. Time to ask the station every time we fill up. The clerk will shrug his its shoulders, but the manager will hear about it if enough ask.

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

Thoughts:

1. If a doctor is tied to a large corporate practice, I know they will have the "flowchart" telling them what they can prescribe provided to them by the practice owners, who are in bed with the insurance companies. Doctors 'sold the souls' of future doctors by so many of them selling their practices to join groups.

2. Don't assume all AI's are equal. Test them by asking questions about covid treatments, ivermectin, etc. See where they fall. It will tell you what training data they are using. Personally I use Grok first.

3. AI will be helpful especially for areas that doctors received little or no training in like nutrition and supplementation.

4. We are 15 months into Trump 2.0. Can anyone explain why Ilhan is still walking around free? The Justice department can't find someone to review the info the PRIVATE world has already gathered and move forward on a number of fronts? Tax evasion, immigration fraud, etc? Seems a 'bone' is ever thrown our way every 5 years or so. Maybe we could get Justice employees to learn how to use Grok to speed things up?

RJ Rambler's avatar

Interestingly enough and contrary to the impatient Never Trumpers, of which I was one because of Bret Hume but thankfully trusted my hubby not "Fox" entertaining news, Trump's TEAM recognizes and works with legal boundaries better than ANYONE EVER BEFORE!

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

It's not like they have to go dust finger prints or force DNA checks for many whose corruption we've known for YEARS. The info is there, but the desire to really get it done is politically dulled. Mueller and Durham showed how the game is played. To not even have one high-level perp walk by now is beyond disappointing. The clock is running out again.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

There are bigger fish to fry right now, like OVOMIT, killary, scumwell and pencil neck, only to mention a few of so many... but that little stinker is going to fry too. LTMW.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Agreed ... The Administration's handle on legalities is staggering.

Also ... I wasn't pro-Trump until a VERY important friend began to disabuse me

NAB's avatar
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I thought Bret was now more supportive of Trump. Is he still a declared "Never Trumper?"

Juju's avatar
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I was wondering the same thing. I watch Fox evening news programs every day, and whenever Brit is on he always presented pro-Trump analyses. I never would have known he was a never Trumper. I’ve not heard him talk like that. Even when he spoke of caution it was never highly critical of what Trump was doing. He actually helped me understand a lot of it … 🤔

Margot Wooster's avatar

Excellent points. Regarding #3, I can see how this could be extremely helpful. There are SO MANY supplements and “natural” remedies being promoted for all our ills and infirmities, it is impossible to know which ones would be best. And almost all of them are pretty expensive. I could spend a fortune on trial and error!

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

Yes, as someone who takes supplements, I know the lure of reading a new article about a particular thing like hyalauronic acid, DMSO, quercetin, CoQ-10, liposomal vitamin C, Reishi extract, citocholine, etc. and want to add it to my routine. I was up to 15 a day. Mind you, my diet wasn't the best. I decided to address my diet more, reducing sugar, eating better sourced eggs, grassfed beef, wild fish, and avoiding heavily sprayed fruits and veggies and ones with the 'approved' coatings to 'retain freshness'. I still do some supplements that focus on cutting inflamation and are brain beneficial. The trick now is getting to a good therapeutic dose. (Ex. with Omega 3's, the bennies kick in when you get to 1.5 grams daily each of DHA and EPA.) And if you notice, the supplement sellers (a lot more content creators advertising for them) try to keep a bottle at $20-$50 a month depending on what they are selling. Big Pharma has some interests there too. If they can't get you on a lifetime pharma prescription for revenue, they want to get you on the other side with a lot of monthly subscriber supplements.

Richard Whitney's avatar

They are now stealing krill from the mouths of whales and other sea creatures in Antarctica, in order to put it into pills and sell it to Americans and other unhealthy humans.

Whales are competing with trawlers and losing.

You can get omega 3 from purslane for free. Why steal from the mouths of whales and penguins?

Mrs. RW

Erin Montgomery's avatar

I just read a holistic farming report on purslane. Very interesting !!

Free in Florida's avatar

There’s an excellent site for checking the purity etc. of supplements - SuppCo.

- I use it all the time & have found it beneficial. The ratings are easy to read & quite helpful.

Also, if you want to check out Dr. Louisa Nicola’s podcasts, she’s done lots of study on Alzheimer’s and other dementia and says that research has shown that just 1 g of DHA and EPA has shown to make a positive difference in mental acuity in older patients. 2 g would be optimum so your 1.5 sounds pretty good. I looked around to try to find something other than the huge horse sized pills for fish oil and found just regular cod liver oil is really easy & doesn’t taste bad. The best I found is Nordic Naturals cod liver oil & it is rated well. 2 teaspoons will give you that 1 g amount. This particular podcast on the subject is worth the time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrME-CczKo

Juju's avatar

I use ConsumerLab .com

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Having worked in the vitamin industry I can give some further insight to omega 3's

99% of all brands sell a largely inert product which is revealed by three terms you usually find on the package:

"Pharmaceutical Grade"

"Molecularly Distilled"

"Purified"

(Buried) studies show that high heat processing strips the active constituents of their electrical charge ... making the oil largely inert and unable to be absorbed.

What to look for?

"Extra Virgin / Wild Caught" (typically from Cod or Alaska Salmon)

The industry 'says' that potency is what matters ... namely, quantity over absorption.

They also say that unprocessed oil has mercury in it. True ... but for comparison, you would need to take New Chapter's wild Alaskan salmon oil every day for seven years to consume as much mercury as found in ONE tuna fish sandwich.

The other thing they say

Silent scorn's avatar

Thank you for the info!

Jane Tracy's avatar

I just saw an ad yesterday for Fatty 15. It apparently is a new discovery that provides all the omega 3s that the body needs daily.

Lori's avatar

Isn't Dr. Drew advertising that?

Susan Seas's avatar

Yes I am Leary that big pHARMa is now getting in the selling supplements market.

Juju's avatar

Remember in 2020-2021 they tried to take NAC off the market? Because of its potential to help Covid? They were claiming it was needed in formulations of medicine and needed to be regulated, and other lies. The argument against them was that you could do the same thing for vitamin C. We use a LOT of NAC to treat spectrum symptoms for 3-4 family members. Amazon immediately quit selling it at that time like the little robotic, brainwashed, sycophants they are. Pharma was trying to corner the market with it. Thankfully Walmart kept selling it during that time while it was being debated and I switched our monthly purchase to them.

Lisa's avatar

The Mormons control the "pHARMa" arm of "the system".

RJ Rambler's avatar

So there's real food and real chemical process and then there's what they package it in so you can stand to swallow it. Check those ingredients too. 🫪

Susan Seas's avatar

Have been using Standard Process. Supposed to be good supplements.

Mary Pat FitzGibbons's avatar

Doctors and AI. It's about time. You are right, corporations have flowcharts telling them what to do and in what order. Doctors do not want to hear from knowledgeable patients. Frankly they don't have time. Their schedules are packed very tightly. Over the years of my practice, I got very tired of being a "fringe" nurse with a lot of alternative information. Also, the Covid debacle put me over the edge. I have very little trust in a medical system that I may need.

As a case manager in an internal medicine office, the "difficult patients" were often funneled to me. In addition to being an accomplished RN for 50 years, I also have a holistic Energy Healing Practice. I would do the coaching. Sometimes people would decide to do what was recommended and sometimes we'd find a 3rd option that worked well.

AI is biased. I have not tried Grok. ChatGPT is. ChatGPT is good for other things and I use it regularly. I have been using Mike Adams Brighteon.AI. He claims to have worked very hard to find all the health and medical information. It's good but there are still alternatives that are left out. This is a process. Hopefully more options will become available

Maybe it's time for Doctors to learn and become coaches of health.

Susan Seas's avatar

A friend was told by his Dr Well your 60 now so time to put you on statins. He said is my cholesterol high? Doctor replied no he left and never went back to see that doctor.

Juju's avatar

I was a victim of said flowcharts. Then I became the difficult patient coming armed with better knowledge.

95% of the doctors I see today are disrespectful to and dismissive of me.

I went to a new doctor three months ago, young but open-minded. She listened to my history and understood the kind of care I wished to engage with. We started with two blood tests, one was to see where my calcium levels were and if that might be causing a symptom I was having, especially given I have osteo. I was told I could go to Quest across the hall and that the clinic would send me a link to their patient portal to see my results.

Three months later and I still haven’t gotten a link or heard back from them with any results. I called late last week to complain that I needed to see the results. The nurse simply went down a short flowchart declarative list: “your cholesterol is high you will need a statin” and “your vitamin D is too high so stop supplementing” but she gave me NO numbers for anything and didn’t say a thing about Calcium. I told her I was low carb and our cholesterol is higher and that high cholesterol in general is not a bad thing, and she failed to tell me what my triglycerides were, which is the true indicator. I told her I had severe osteoporosis and had to take extra calcium supplementation, which requires extra vitamin D. I asked her why it was so difficult to see the actual results myself because that information obviously is not reliable in their hands. It took me over 10 minutes of arguing to get her to agree to MAIL! me my results. She NEVER gave me the option of the portal I KNOW they have.

Needless to say this is not the clinic for me, regardless the young doctor’s open-mindedness. The nurses control more than they do.

JBell's avatar

Don't forget drug interactions. My doctor never tells me these things, he waits to the pharmacist to mention it when filled. Making me call the office afterward to ask if the doctor was aware!

Melissa S's avatar

I firmly believe that if RFKjr would require doctors to be given pop quizzes regarding drug interactions and side effects of the drugs they prescribe, the failure rate would be near 100%. Pharmacists have far more knowledge in this regard.

Lori's avatar

I ask for informed consent while I am still in the exam room and won't let my doc off the hook until I get answers.

Juju's avatar

Also supplements can interfere with accurate results of blood tests. I stop all my supplements 5-7 days before any test. Like B7 will completely corrupt a proper PTH result and requires it not be in your system at least 7 days prior to the test. When I search Ai for each of my supplements and what blood tests they might interfere with, it’s most of them. 😆 Just play it safe and try to live without them a week before any test. Good rule of thumb. It’s always a rough week for me because I notice acutely the benefits of many of my supplements.

RJ Rambler's avatar

'a bone to throw' THIS IS THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT which also includes dental!! You have to throw an insurance payout to EVERY EXPERT in the 'house' before they can treat your life taking DIS EASE! And don't ask questions because they DO have the power to kill you even if they don't think they are trying to. 😩 God is the only true Good to exist. Thank Him that we do not have eternal life in this sin festering planet.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

It be racist/misogynist/Islamophobic

CHop's avatar

This explains why RFK was deleting bias or poor studies and a government employee was secretly saving them as exposed by James O'Keefe. AI responses could change reality and make or break certain companies as it could quickly shift the public in a certain direction.

Ayn's avatar

Yes, AI's are not all equal! We do need a good strategy for assessing them as consumers... Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a quick report on the (apocalyptic) consequences of using Doomerism as a marketing tool:

https://aynsrants.substack.com/p/marketing-mythos-and-mania

Roger Beal's avatar

With all this TAW going on, whatever will Tucker and Candace find to rant about now?

SD Scott's avatar

Hopefully they’ve lost most of their audiences. I hope it was worth it.

M Adams's avatar

Yeah, what the heck happened to those two ??

mspring's avatar

"What the heck ..." sure wish i knew, while i always figured Candace was a crackpot, when Tucker first started his podcast, i was excited and learned a ton about many useful things the legacy media wouldn't touch. I particularly liked how he would ask a question, then let the interviewee completely develop an answer, so unlike any other media (or Congress!!). Then he shifted and i lost interest. Guess i should check in once in a while to see if he's reverted...

Free in Florida's avatar

Mispring, no need to bother. He’s gone completely wacko. Who knows what drives him? I’m beginning to think that the demon which he says attacked him and left scars is a true story.

Jane Tracy's avatar

Charlie Kirk’s assignation!

EK MtnTime's avatar

My sentiments exactly. They are now completely unwatchable.

tom altman's avatar

The question remains: is Trump's job to Americans, or to Bebe? I am waiting to see what is in this "peace accord" for the predator class. Trust but verify.

CStone's avatar
3hEdited

There’s always one Jew-hater in the crowd. You’re first today. Who sent you? Your overlord Candace or Tucker? Or was it the Popester?

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Yep! The question only "remains" because the clown asked it, not because it is a legit question.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I'll help answer the question. You are a douchebag, Tom. That you believe that our Great American President, who will work with anyone (China, EU, Ukraine, etc etc etc) when it is in America's best interests, is owned by "bebe" is the proof. GFY, Tom.

Silent scorn's avatar

No, that question does not remain. Trump is not under the control of Israel, Bibi, or any of the other stuff being thrown at us. Fake and misleading information.

Juju's avatar

Trump’s job is to Americans, but often Israel will benefit too. Who cares so long as America is strengthened? The biggest shoot yourself in the foot is to turn against any action that might benefit Israel. 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️

UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

Yea MAGA loves more FISA and a total winner with the new vax jab happy CDC director pick!

Jacquijacq's avatar

Oh my a Canadian ranking in the USA 🤣

Roger Beal's avatar

And a government health mandate, no less.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

I wonder if all those folks clamouring for arrests, etc., understand that FISA is the exact tool which will allow this to happen ... and quickly.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Both Tucker and Candace are victims of their formatory years.

Tucker was born into privilege which he doth protest loudly.

Candace got gob smacked by rapid celebrity.

God's not into privilege and He's not into celebrity. Both conditions almost always warp our perceptions.

Carrie's avatar

As a surgeon, I am all in on more informed and skeptical patients! One of my most uncomfortable types of conversations has been when patients say, “whatever you say doctor”. Especially when some decisions for surgery are complex and nuanced, I want them to understand the risks/benefits, pros/cons.

Stacy's avatar

Just had this convo over coffee with my surgeon husband (I’m a CRNA). He is still skeptical due to the majority of patients being low information level humans. At least in his rural area. He had a patient ask him to refer her to a lipoma specialist. 😂 I agree with you and Jeff that AI is very helpful to increase disease knowledge.

The healthcare limitations in our area are more influenced by the increasing corporate takeover of practices and rural hospitals. The executives are ruining healthcare from the suboptimal levels things were at before their acquisition. Profits over quality. I don’t know how we untangle from these behemoth hospital systems corporatizing healthcare.

Carrie's avatar

😂😂😂maybe we could attend a lipoma conference instead of a trauma conference.

Lori's avatar

He could send that patient to Dr. Pimple Popper!

Bard Joseph's avatar

I know so many who regret their surgery.

Medical establishment ranks 3rd in the cause of death.

Free in Florida's avatar

Carrie, I’d love you as a surgeon. You’re my kind of physician. When Jeff said -

“….Instead of being passive recipients, which was true for the entire lifetimes of anyone reading this post, patients are arriving at appointments as active participants in their own healthcare….”

that in no way describes my approach to my health - and never has. I research Everything because I figure no one cares more about my health than I do. Even my fabulous dentist calls me “The Questionator” and at my recent yearly checkup with my pcp she said, “Let’s do your questions first before we get to the bloodwork or we won’t have time to finish.” I absolutely appreciate people like you who actually Want informed patients who just want to get the best information they can for long term good health (and then double check it. Heh.)

And, no, I did not take the covid jab.

CStone's avatar

You are very a rare specimen .

NAB's avatar

As someone who works in med-mal law it is refreshing to hear this from a surgeon. My goodness, so much suffering could be avoided by patients understanding the complexities and nuance of surgical procedures. I'm not saying that have to have detailed knowledge of every step involved in a proposed procedure (i.e. there is no need to know what trocar is or to define sharp v. blunt resection), but understanding that the many risks listed on the consent form DO really happen to REAL people - and can sometimes be life-altering - is important.

Dr Linda's avatar

“You can’t simultaneously demand he stop the war and then refuse to credit him when he does.”

Yes, they can. They see nothing wrong or inconsistent with that behavior.

Alan Devincentis's avatar

And their stupid sycophants buy every spewed drop of lies. I see good results, and I see the “ papers” correcting, but I don’t see the idiots, I’m sorry, the victims of tds changing their ways, ever.

Kelly's avatar

Exactly what I was thinking. Swalwell should have been investigated years ago with his bedroom spy, but they just ignored it. They just ignore what they dont want to know about.

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

They just ignore what they don’t want US to know about. FIFY

RJ Rambler's avatar

Insanity. Or is it mental abuse.

Dr Linda's avatar

I don’t know. I questioned my own comment. Maybe both?

Valoree Dowell's avatar

Having just paid MN taxes, I have one question: did Omar pay taxes on the $30mm? If not, I’m filing an amended return to correct all my discrepancies.

Alan Devincentis's avatar

If you are just a silly white American, dont. Youll be audited immediately. If you were brown, different story.

Valerie's avatar

Good question. I bet if I work a little I can find a lot of ‘discrepancies’ too. Sigh, these people are horrible human beings.

Debbie's avatar

She should have paid a LOT in taxes!

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I paid 24% to the feds on a 65k legal settlement with my corrupt county, yep, $17,775.

John infinity N's's avatar

So globalist rags like the NYT and WSJ are now on Trumps side. Makes me suspicious.

RunningLogic's avatar

Trying to save face, I imagine.

Bard Joseph's avatar

There is only one side.

Bard Joseph's avatar

All parties on the same team.

Maybe AI can be used to cut through all of the lies around Iranian negotiations, which Iran has called out, while we are prepared to sacrifice our young soldiers again. All wars are bankers wars.

How's that budget deficit looking MAGA?

John infinity N's's avatar

When a single Trump tweet, true or not, can make the markets go wild, and the war footage is all a mashup of 2 second clips of military aircraft and ships and looks like a Navy recruiting commercial, I’m wondering if this whole Iran war isn’t just AI generated.

Debbie's avatar

That’s what we’ve been wondering for a while. There’s not a single image from what I have tired to find of any war at all……

John infinity N's's avatar

Me either. One might imagine the purpose is to make the masses believe we are always in war, real or not like in Orwell’s 1984. Im wondering if this is a psyop test like covid. Well meaning people under a psychosis spell rolled up their sleeves for a shot they later regretted. We need to remain vigilant with this Iran war and question everything. The same spirit of the covid spell can be used to usher in the Central Bank Digital Currency if the markets are de-stabilized enough, and people under the spell will gladly accept it. That’s why I’m a little skeptical of the Trump always wins, just let the man work mantra.

Erin Montgomery's avatar

Saw a report that Bessent recently had a conversation that digital banking is in the near future.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

Which Iran has called out

Lori's avatar

indeed, suspicious.

Roger Beal's avatar

Chatbots may prove to better medical diagnosticians than doctors, because chatbots do not have to hustle patients through at breakneck speed so as to maximize their hourly Medicare payments.

Susan Seas's avatar

I have noticed of the people I know who still go to Drs, not one leaves without at least 2 referrals to specialists or further testing. They help each other out with customers because their clients have diminished so much they are desperate and need repeat clients.

Roger Beal's avatar

That, and tests. Always tests.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Ilhan should be removed from Congress...

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Trump should declare her to be Queen of Somalia, put her on a transport flight and send her back home!

Polly Frost's avatar

I really feel for doctors — and not just because of AI. The way the medical establishment has everything regulated is going to take out doctors and what they can offer that AI doesn’t, which is the individual, personal relationship. A doctor’s career can be cancelled just because of stepping outside their medical domain and giving advice they’re not allowed to. What I hope is that AI takes down the medical-industrial-complex and we are allowed to have the relationship we should with the many excellent and caring frontline medical workers we have in this country. Patient, doctor and AI working together. Instead of being divided just so Big Pharm and Big Med can continue to make their billions off us.

Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

Best comment here today!!

Polly Frost's avatar

Thank you, Heidi!

Torrance Stephens's avatar

Boy oh boy how liberal heads exploded over the Iran news. They stand for nothing and hate America.

They hate the women of Iran too. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/me-too-but-not-when-it-comes-to-the

Bard Joseph's avatar

We've killed more Women of Iran. Go figure about hate.

Gaza?

Kelly's avatar

So you reference yourself?

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

You should read it. It was spot on.

Kelly's avatar

I don't click on links.

Torrance Stephens's avatar

Deservingly so, I think.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Paging Women of Iran.

Sounds like a Broadway Show.

Richard Whitney's avatar

Poor women of Iran, locked in their homes and forced to cover themselves completely.

Interesting how Americans still cling to that, even with YouTube available.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iranians-fear-sharpening-pressure-after-war-crackdown-2026-04-18/

Mrs. RW

Lori's avatar

Then the citizens need to stand up and go after the regime. Civil war if that is what it takes instead of pissing and moaning. Don't want to hear it. All they do is complain about the regime, then change it. It is up to them.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I just really wonder how many of the 90 million Iranians actually want to be free and how many are just evil camel humpers? A big part of the problem is they let their government disarm them, a lesson and a consequence we should understand well and never forget. "Our" government of uniparty and deep state criminals want the same for us. Luckily, right now, we have President Trump standing at the gate and he is fighting one helluva fight for us.

Torrance Stephens's avatar

Thanks for sharing that.

Christine's avatar

Good article! It's so sadly true.

Jan Hollerbach's avatar

I have such hope after your section on Omar! I never thought I could become a millionaire, but now I know I just need to hire the right accountant! Meantime, I think you made a spelling error. I believe her husband doesn’t own a winery but rather a whinery.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I think you also need a graduate degree from the Quality Learing Center...

Alan Davis's avatar

Good sunny Saturday morning from PNW!

steven t koenig's avatar

Raining in north Texas. We never say no to rain

shayne's avatar

Good morning, Alan. Sunny here too.