War unfolds as expected; woke Pixar bombed; NYT accidentally redpills women; Trump ends Africa’s bloodiest war—media shrugs; Minnesota Murders get weirder. Clues pile up—straight to Walz’s door; more.
SO many professors are idiots. Some are great, as I was a teacher at the CC level for nearly three decades, but, meng, there were a lot of dim ones out there.
As I told a young female employee (two kids not quite of school age) of the same company I work for: In 5 years, nobody is going to remember one thing you did here. In 50 years, your kids will still be grateful for the time and energy you invested in them.
That is so true. Young women are missing out by believing the “You can get your career going and have your family later” line. I’m so glad that they are awakening to life’s main joys, marriage, children,the possibility of grandbabies and a real legacy.
Have the family and mold the career around it to fit your needs. It can be done.
I did it. Married in 1972, at 21, just 6 days after receiving the bachelor's degree. Spent the next two years getting an M.A.T. Taught school for the following three years while husband was completing his own graduate work and then job-hunting. Resigned my post as soon as he found a position, and moved directly into building-a-family mode. Didn't return to teaching (with a part-time post and subbing) until 2000, when eldest was a college senior, second child a high school senior, youngest in 7th grade. Took the following year off to home-school that youngest. From then became a full-time teacher (2002-2021).
Marrying & having a family while in your 20’s, not 30’s, is a smart start. You’ll be a younger grandparent & still able to use your skills in the workforce, after the kids have grown, while relatively young.
Besides the joy of your parents being grandparents while they can still get around! We're in our 70s and are welcoming out 4th grandchild in August, two other daughters still "waiting for the right time." Would have given anything to be grandparents sooner!
How perceptive you are! Yes, exactly. I just loved my discipline, my students, and looked forward eagerly to Monday mornings, to be able to present to my students the things I had created for them over the weekend. But the air grew increasingly toxic as the Covid cum Floyd stercus built up. By mid-July '20, with district responding to a community Karen's exposure of a teacher's very reasoned essay on "Which lives matter?" on her own FB page, with "These are not the opinions (or was it position?) of the District". Put her on "administrative leave". And she was out. Out. [ She later sued the district, don't know the outcome.] That was the spark, for me. I asked my financial advisor (who knew full well how much I loved my position), "How much longer do I need to teach?" His answer, "You don't even have to go back this September." But I wasn't quite that ready, and struggled through the fall semester, counting the days, holding on until the final day of semester Jan. 26, '21--solely for the sake of my students, because I really wanted to quit on the first day of Christmas vacation. With all of the admin's push to "get tested, so you know you're safe", and the vaxxes being announced, I could see where they were headed.
Well done. I was feeling burnt out by the time I pulled the pin, but facing what you did would have definitely finished me off! I fear for the republic and the good teachers we left behind and the students who will be damaged by these insane policies.
I was blessed, in my last two years in middle school (my final year and a half were spent at high school) to be assigned coverage duty during my duty period. The things I saw, the lack of structure in some of the classrooms, the students who were perfectly respectful to me when in my classroom, being disrespectul to me when I was covering in another teacher's classroom. And other distressing things. Retarded children being "taught" math with calculators, and having no idea whatsoever of what they were doing with those instruments. I could have cried at the abuse of those particular children. [I taught my own little ones arithmetic with colored milk caps....seemed to me that that was what these children might have needed].
I'm glad there are people who want that sort of life.. I never did and have no regrets. I've had an amazing life....and many, many people are alive today because of me and the others like me.
And, I haven't been alone in this journey. My male partner of 41 years has been a great companion. I can wear 3" heels or combat boots. The picket fence life is a good base for societ, but I would have gone out of my mind.
But women should have the option. For a long time, stay-at-home moms have been belittled. Before that, for the most part, women could only get low paying jobs. I don’t think there should be a push for one or the other, but support for the choice.
In the late 1800s, having an 8th grade diploma was rare and very valuable. If you ever get the chance, see if you can find the test someone took in order to get that diploma. I doubt very many people who graduate from high school, and even college, would pass it.
I have indeed seen some of those exams from the 19th Century. Tough! And explains why “mere high school graduates” (like my maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, at end of 19th, beginning of 20th) were able to be schoolteachers.
Well the 'one income' argument is a little nuanced. My mom stayed home in the 70's and 80's and we lived in a 900 sq ft ranch house with a big yard and garden where we spent summers tending the garden, canning and freezing. Clothes were hand me downs from older cousins. Vacations were rare as was going out to eat. Oh there were struggles but feel like a I had a decent childhood. Homes today are twice as big, people expect that having the latest tech gadgets, Starbucks, annual vacations and regularly going out to eat is their birthright. I inherited my parents thrifty ways and was able to stay home and then work part time (with a lot of my income going to pay daycare but it kept my skills current) until mine were older elementary by clipping coupons, cooking & making coffee at home and thrifting - kids grow out of clothes so fast. Hubby had skills and we DIY'd and fixed stuff vs replacing. But we did manage an annual vacation and a few luxuries here and there. I do 'get' that some really can't afford it - wages haven't kept up but planning, thriftiness, and sacrifice does seem to be a dying art. A lot of my friends' kids whine about not being able to stay home and or buy a house but they go on cruises, have lots of tattoos and toys and go out to eat all the time. Mine have yet to have kids but have one of each - a thrifty one (who bought a house with his wife) and a spender (who complains a lot).
It generally boils down to finances. Also, women got into non-traditional jobs during wars. Then, they were supposed to go back to the kitchen. I was one of the first females in my chosen career and the only woman in the world doing another job. It was tough. Had to really be competent. There is still that fight in those jobs, and truthfully, most women in them are not that good. So, it's tough either way.
Oh, yes. Pretty much every single war, too. During the Civil War, women started to be hired in secretarial positions. These were traditionally very well paid as only men would be hired for them. So, the men who weren’t fighting in the war fought to keep women out of these positions because they knew the pay would plummet. Unsurprisingly, it did and secretaries still aren’t paid what they should. The same thing happened during WWII.
Ah yes, the mommy wars. Mine were born in 93 and 95. By the time mine were preschoolers I discovered online bulletin boards that then transitioned to chat groups, iVillage was one of them. Didn't chime in much but watched women bash each other - SAHM bashed the working moms and working moms bashed the SAHM's. In between there were some good discussions so I stayed but never fit in as I worked full time after my first was born, but then quit to stay home after my second was born, but found myself climbing the walls. Joined some mom/play groups but found I had little in common with the moms. Ended up splitting the difference and working part time for some adult interaction and my kids went to a home daycare a couple of days a week where they got along with the other kids. I know some moms today who did work FT whose have great relationships with their well adjusted grown kids and some who stayed home whose kids are a mess and they don't get along - and everything in between. Point is, every family/mom/kid is different but I don't get the tendency to bash other's choices.
It was a way (and potentially still is) a way to keep women divided. I think men should have the choice, too, without being ridiculed. A guy I swim with is. He is an engineer, but his wife makes more money. They wanted one of them to stay home, so they decided it would be him. He’s a great guy, even keel, and loves his kids.
Being a parent is probably the most important job someone can have if they choose it.
I have a friend who did have a career with her degree in Early Childhood Education. At 30 she married, had two children and started an at-home daycare. When both were in school, she went back to work outside the home.
Their two kids are smart, courteous, college educated, have good careers in their chosen fields and are just wonderful people.
Not by choice, I was/am an older parent and was the child care center director of a large hospital program. I had two children - 17 months apart. They were just down the hall every day and as the director I was engaged and led every aspect of our curriculum, hiring, everything. My husband worked for the probation department in a very large city so we both took 3 month FMLA's so our children spent the first 6 months at home with us. When our youngest headed to kindergarten, I retired and spent the rest of their years volunteering for just about everything. I'm blessed that it worked out for us. I had a 25 year career and then raised my children. It's definitely not going to be great being an older grandparent, but my pickleball, long walks, pilates reformer and mostly healthy lifestyle helps.
Gone? I can’t imagine my adult kids and their kids being gone. We gather as a large family several times a month. Kids, in-laws, grandkids, everyone gets along. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Her husband has a big job. They live in a million dollar house. I suspect some family money (not wanting to downplay their material achievements, though). She is a very sweet young woman who has bought the lie that, for a woman, fulfillment is born of tax slavery. I very much doubt that they need the money, but culturally their perceived worth as human beings seems tied to their material prosperity. Great grandfather would be proud.
Setting aside all the obvious "smoking guns" (which are myriad, for sure!) that spell CIA operative, or other federal government spook, one other thing SCREAMS "Fed" to me (as a retired Federal law enforcement officer): Vance Boelter's haircut. Just a hunch.
This was a particularly wonderful article, Jeff, and that's saying a lot, considering ALL of your articles are top-notch - in my opinion, you are, by far, the smartest, most thoughtful and simultaneously entertaining, thinker/writer in our era.
The Routh guy nearly got away but for a local cop?, this guy was seen hiding in a field by a nosy woman? Assassination of this type puts Legislators and everyone in this system on notice that they're ALWAYS under threat by the DeepState and controlling overlord system. White, Crazy, "Christian" guy narrative in this instance is as flimsy as anything they've ever come up with. These church and school shooter types and now the political assassins are a curious group; the blending of sociopathic attention seeking manifesto killers with the fringers groomed by DeepState handlers for purposeful policy pushes or outright hits makes some of Alex Jones's speculations on who sets up the operations and activates the killers seem perfectly reasonable.
Federal agents tend to be VERY clean cut - they can't help themselves, even if they are undercover. The only exception are deep cover AFT or DEA agents who will maintain their haircuts, tattoos, and attire very much like drug dealers, or bikers, or whomever they are infiltrating...
A complex, multi domain, multi time zone operation was conducted by the NCA and the Military Forces of the United States of America. From all accounts, it was a complete success and the American people and in fact the world, are in a safer place today. Thank you @POTUS, @SecDef, @SecState
and the Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, Navy who took part in the precise operation. JOB DAMN WELL DONE. I'm proud to be an American this morning.
And finally, re: "Elio" Abominable, evil hollywood in their never ending despicable gas lighting of America and the world and in trying to create ever more manginas. Dog aint gonna hunt!
"The World Order sets up countless groups to promote any type of idea, and then sets up other groups to fanatically oppose them, but the masters have no dedication to anything except slavery."
Seems like all we do is "wack-a-mole" bombings. The world is our wack-a-mole game. And you would think we would be "safer" but again, safer than what? My "hot take" is that conflicts like this are endless and don't worry, there will be another threat to supplant this one, and we will "need" to bomb them as well.
Think about it just a little Jimmy. The mullahs and the indoctrinated, angry, evil fools around them have been chanting death to the great satan (that would be us) for at least 40 years. They've done that while several feckless "Presidents" have stood by and watched (or in some cases, obummer and resident autopen cabbage funded them) while Iran continued it's nuclear program. Are you waiting for them to deploy a nuke and then ask why we did not connect the dots. We are talking about nuclear weapons which can destroy a city in one blast. Cmon man, get real.
Oh, one other thing, do you think literally thousands of America hating Iranians did not infiltrate into the country while autopen left the doors wide open - intentionally?
Evil persists in the world, yes, there will be more threats, that does not mean we simply wring our hands and walk away and say we tried.
Serious question, do you live in Portland? If not, where?
I really appreciate that there was no leaks and it was a well thought mission. It tells me that President Trump has loyal American loving people around him and he is not going to play games. Anyone who threatens us will be dealt with.
So, all of those nuclear facilities are just for peaceful energy? They don't really have facilities 300 ft underground enriching uranium at 60%? Commercial grade enrichment is about 3%. They haven't said they dont want a nuke, in fact they insist they will do whatever they want. You've got your head so far in the sand that you wont see daylight until the sand is melted into glass.
In terms of the war analysis, this is one of the more credible scenarios that I've seen. Very thoughtful and actually possible.
That being said, I do see problems with Trump's behavior. He denied knowing that Israel was going to strike Iran, then seemingly admitted it when he addressed the public. So he lied to the public when he didn't need to. Plus... "two week cooling period" and then bombs them two days later. To me, that means you can't trust what he says. Once again, he didn't have to proclaim a waiting period. He lied deliberately.
What do you think the rest of the world is thinking? Are they looking at Trump's behavior and deciding he can't be trusted in negotiations? Do they think the US can no longer be trusted? Do they think Trump is simply a blackmailed tool of Israel?
Spoken by a man (?) with no concept for operational security and deception required to succeed while minimizing friendly losses.
I think the rest of the world is saying, Yes, a bunch of lunatics can no longer deploy nuclear weapons and we are safer - in spite of the nonsense they might be spewing publicly.
Trump is a quick study, gifted or blessed, shibumi. He has learned to think like a ME leader. The Quran teaches that lying to the infidel is perfectly fine, often a speech will be given in english for western media consumption then the 'same' speech will be given in native tongue saying something completely different.
Our government is (was) filled with America and Trump haters that couldn't wait to leak intel like a synthetic sponge. Remember JCOS Milley calling Chyna saying don't worry, I'll let you know before Trump does anything. Why he and dozens others aren't 'relaxing' in club GITMO is beyond me.
When Amazon tells me I have 30 days to return a purchase, that doesn’t mean I can’t return it prior to the 30th day. I can return it on Day 1. Or Day 3. Or Day 7… 🙄
Thanks Dan. Really worth seeing. And I think Trump is right. You either have it or you don't. And wisdom is doing what you can do well, and no matter how modest it is. Do that and then one can be rather happy in life.
On the other hand, beating to death the dead horse one was never meant to ride? Do that and you will surely taste misery.
Thank you, Janice. I love this psalm, particularly this verse: "I was brought low, and He saved me." Jesus saved me. Amazing grace to those who deserve only wrath.
Dr. Paul Thomas studied 3,324 children and found unvaccinated kids had FEWER doctor visits and BETTER health outcomes.... but they revoked his license.
He found vaxxed kids were several times higher than unvaxxed to have these disorders:
Fever, Ear Pain, Otitis Media (Ear Infections), Conjunctivitis, Allergic Rhinitis (Hay Fever), Sinusitis, Anemia, Eczema , Gastroenteritis, etc.
Yup - Vigilant Fox and Midwestern Doctor. Both very interesting reads. It was also telling that the doctors who released their (pretty much anecdotal) findings were excommunicated. :(
Not saying it's not valid data - just that to most scientists, looking at only one practice might be "interesting" but not really "conclusive". There could be other environmental factors contributing to those findings. Now if you start having all practices do those checks and see similar findings, that's a more reliable source.
Of course, that won't happen because if you don't measure it, it's not happening and you don't have to take action or acknowledge actual harms. :(
It’s unfortunate that review of the data gathered over years and reported in the study didn’t lead to more studies in more practices all over the world, but that won’t happen because the Powers That Be have indicated no intellectual curiosity. Instead what a researcher gets is excommunicated and the study buried.
I’m pleased that this doctor, having nothing left to lose, became his own advocate and at least in the curious realm, we know about him and his study. Kudos to anyone with a voice reporting on this.
Anecdotal is a go-to play for the “experts.” Observing 3,324 children over many years is hardly anecdotal - its a treasure trove of data. Likely far more than any vaxx “safety” study or “trial.” The findings are easily proven to be statistically significant, have a well defined and regulated control group, with observations in a structured setting over many years. You can’t get any better science than that.
He did not mandate it. He trusted the people who were considered SMEs. Biden mandated it. I never could understand why people lined up to get it. It was an experimental gene therapy that had not been tested. Why would anyone line up for something experimental?
Trump said " take the vaccine When it's been tested". It's not been tested, and it's not a vaccine. Trump didn't mandate the shot.
He did back "warp speed". Two results came out of warp speed. Biden mandated the shot, while the other treatment [ boosting killer "T" cells] was buried. See Tucker Carlson Network interview with Dr Patrick Soon Shiong.
Everything he does says that he cares. You can go back 30 years and he is saying the same thing. He loves America and loves us. I use to watch him on the Appentist because he was so cool and was kind to everyone even when he was firing them.
Trump is surrounded by season combat Veterans who have been boots in the ground many times. They are Patriots. He will not find better people than them. I am grateful they are will to sacrifice to Make America Safe Again!
@neener--are you having the same issues with the Comments Section as I have had lately? Some days, I can only get the first two comments and that's it. Even when there's a box that supposedly leads you to a hundred or more replies. (Never does) But sometimes if you wait for awhile and check back hours later, you can see the huge pile of comments at last. I must say those days when I'm locked out, I get lots more done in the morning!! 🙄
That has happened to me as well. Sometimes if I close the substack app and come back in it is resolved. I believe it is a substack bug - something related to memory management in the substack program code possibly.
This just happened to me. Went down the rabbit hole opened by the link that Based Florida man posted. Then came back here, and voila`- now all are visible! So totally weird and unexplainable. Any coders out there have any ideas as to why this happens? A "virus" in the algorithm?
I am so excited by the shift of young women toward conservatism, MAHA (which I believe conceptually is a family focused and biblical principle), and a more traditional femininity. Our culture is so thirsty - parched - for moms to come home and invest themselves into the most valuable asset we have - our children. Paired with the idea of AI destroying government schools and (hopefully) big Pharma/Big “Health” being laid waste - we need these mamas to come nourish their families, not just when their kids are little bit as grandmas too! And women who don’t have kids (yet or for other reasons) can always choose to nurture in the ways available - as aunties or mentors or friends. But moms - in the home on some way - are non-negotiable for a healthy society.
Amen. It takes both mom and dad to raise kids well. I can't imagine not have my husband at my side the past 30+ years raising five kids. It is absolutely inconceivable to me.
Agreed! My husband makes all my homemaking and investing in our kids possible and he is 100% invested alongside me! So thankful for quality men and fathers 💕
Absolutely. I believe it was Lyndon Johnson who destroyed the black families (who were moving up the scale) by only giving benefits to women who were not living with a man. Kicked the dads out and destroyed the culture.
My comment wasn’t meant in any way to denigrate the crucial role men and dads play in families 😊 but I agree with Free in Florida - in our C&C family, I hope that is a given! But also, the need for young men and dads was well and insightfully addressed in the Saturday (I believe it was) post on the shift of young men rightward.
Yes I didn’t think it was your intention 🙂 but I just thought it was worth reiterating the point that dads matter, and that the best case scenario is to have both parents who are invested in bringing up their children.
Thank you Susanna. Underestimating the value of full-time Mom's - also known as stay at home Mom's - has unfortunately been the norm for some time now. Thank you also to the Dad's working to make this happen.
Sadly for those conservation women between 30-50 it feels too late. That generation has completely lost trust in others. The divorce rate must be near 60+% among processing Christians. Narcissism and fear of same reigns. Too many Doug Wilson type conservative worshippers. Too many trained in porn and bdsm.
The porn and bdsm are no insignificant problem, you are dead on target. And yes in the church. I have a beautiful 24 year old daughter, Christian, conservative, who has run up against this problem repeatedly, even since high school. It really makes me angry, and whenever I've tried to raise the issue (in ladies Bible study) I get deer-in-the-headlights stares. It isn't just the young women who need to change. And the Doug Wilsonesque "muscularity" May be appealing to a lot of angry young Christian men, but that also isn't the way. Ugh!!!
Look him up. Utah. Author of Run Sally Run. Calls himself Reformed something. Christians love his cultural push back but to what end? Prideful MAN, imo.
I applaud young women making the choice of home and family first, if that is what fulfills them. There is one rub. Families are having such a hard time getting by, and very few of them can afford their own home. And this is often with two incomes. If a family can simplify and reduce costs and pull it off, that’s great. But I don’t know if everyone will be able to do that.
It’s going to take a major cultural overhaul but I think Trump sees the need to revamp our economy until it supports a parent being able to stay at home with kids - we can’t keep outsourcing our parenting to the government if we want to change our future.
We are a one income family and always have been (and my parents were too) and we were able to buy a house. (Although we couldn’t right now - it’s so bad!) We budget and are very careful with our money but we also have five kids so it’s not like we don’t have expenses. We just live within our means and are looking for ways to get our next (hopefully bigger) house on more land - we might need to buy a fixer upper, or just land and build overtime, ourselves. It can be done but it’s not the instant gratification model our culture has become accustomed to.
But still agree that prices are out of control right now and need to come down.
I actually have a college degree. And even if I didn’t I could work hard at an outside job or a work-from-home business (like I do at homemaking now); I’m also part of an amazing extended family on both sides who would come alongside to biblically help me, plus my husband and I have life insurance to help cushion the blow of either of us or both of us died. When you work as a team, across generations, consistently, you add layers of protection that negates the necessity for government aid.
There will always be some exceptions but a society should be built on the ideal, not the exceptions.
It’s also completely false to posit that a stay at home mom doesn’t have work experience. A well applied SAHM has incredible organizing and time management skills, research skills, often medical knowledge (in my case lots of alternative medicine knowledge), cooking and cleaning skills, crafting, teaching, people skills, childcare skills and so much more. It would be fairly simple to monetize any of these skill sets.
Families do this every day by making wise choices.
We know families who lived in RVs so they could save for a down payment for a house. Or built their own, piece by piece, while living in a mobile home they bought used for $10,000 and fixed up. Fancy? No. Functional? Yes.
Excuses won’t change anything.
And we need change in our hearts, homes and communities.
Lynne, I think what Susanna was trying to share with us all is a different way to approach the ‘problem’ of loosing a spouse. She is preparing for the future for her family by the purchase of life insurance not only for her DH but for herself as well. That way if something unexpected were to happen the money provided from the insurance would be enough to cover all the necessities for the family while things get sorted out. If you are truly interested in financial peace might I recommend searching Dave Ramsey on YouTube. I’ve been a fan of his for about 6 years and have managed to pay off 2 cars, student loans and my home mortgage in that short amount of time. As well as cash flowing several big ticket home improvement projects. I think being financially prepared is all about having a game plan in place. (And yes I was laid off for part of 2020 with minimal unemployment) There is hope.
Do we need new cars, 4,000 sq. foot houses, twenty extracurricular activities per kid, new wardrobes each school year, cable subscriptions, five expensive, unhealthy pets, a yard service, a pool service, expensive vacations, eating out multiple times a week…etc, etc.
I posit: no. (And our family of seven lives and thrive without all these things.)
The fact that some women don’t want to live with respect and honor under their husband’s level of provision is a different issue than “he doesn’t make enough for us to survive.”
Not saying your daughters don’t want to, just saying our society has the wrong mentality about our lifestyles and their cost.
You save so much money by staying home, making your own meals, your family is then healthier, happier so fewer medical expenses, you can pursue learning together at home so fewer school and extracurricular fees, you can hone in on the relationships you chose rather than the ones you’re thrown into by dint of massive time invested in work and school…
So many positives to moms coming home. The wage loss is so irrelevant compared to the incredible personal, emotional, spiritual, mental and physical wealth you gain from being your husband’s wife and your kids’ mom, first and only.
On another note, our economic powerhouses (Big Everything) purposely incentivize and promote two income households because of course it makes them more money to have two major consumers per household rather than a team that essentially acts as one consumer. It’s not by accident people feel like they couldn’t survive on one income. They’ve been conditioned to believe that and “need” what is not needed, for their entire lives.
Well expressed, Susanna. I'm my experience, I've seen more working moms do so to have more "stuff" and to keep up with the Joneses, than I have seen work to just survive.
With its coverage of the Boelter story, the New York Times has provided conclusive proof that what it does has no relationship whatsoever to news or journalism. "Here is what you're gonna think, regardless of reality, and you are going to like it."
Lydia, your remarkably succinct summary of the NYT mission could be just as easily applied to Disney (and God only knows how many other organizations including the public schools). Make America Great Again requires that first the aforementioned toilet desperately needs to be flushed.
This whole Iran situation - if you listen to the Trump admin directly from their own lips and pair that with actual basic facts we can know about the strikes (like timing, Israeli strikes and posturing beforehand) - it does appear this is a very coordinated (and incredibly complex) maneuver between massive geo-political powers (beyond just Iran). I hope we get to see the whole story someday because it feels like world changing history is being written and I think it’s going to be for the better.
Along the way the DoD go to test the “bunker buster” on a real hardened target and I’m sure will use the results to improve upon its lethality. And God bless the warriors who carried all this out… for the life of me I cannot imagine what it would be like to spend 30+ hours confined to the cockpit of a B-2 Spirit. “Wake up buddy, it’s time to refuel again!”
I was thinking the same thing. The longest flight u had was 16 1/2 hours … granted it was in a helicopter but I was exhausted after a total of 20 hour work day… with the pre and post stuff. 36 hours - WOW!
The problem with youth is naivety. Their advantage is their ability to more readily question things. Of course, some older people don't seem to age well either.
Totally understand and agree. Thus I home schooled. Youth today don't get an even chance. The system is rigged against them. But there may be a rubber band effect when the younger generation figures out the game is rigged... I hope.
Yes, ALL wars, are bankers wars. And the bankers fund both sides of every war. They get their principle and interest back from the winning side, and they get the funds for "reconstruction from "foreign aid", from the losing side.
Your coverage of the Boelter story is like reading a best seller that you can’t put down. I nominate YOU to continue covering the story as it’s already grabbed me by the tentacles and won’t let me go. Since no one is reporting on it I do insist that you take the responsibility to uncover the truth and keep us informed. It’s your patriotic duty. 😁
Thanks for the latest example of the totally worthless, one-sided, incurious press. Their actions regarding the Minnesota murderer simply amplifies the obvious: they are interested only in furthering a leftist narrative that weakens the republic.
I don’t know that this is a boycott, as much as it is just disinterest. You boycott when you choose to forgo something you want in order to make a statement. In this instance, Disney failed to make a movie worth paying matinee prices to go see.
A friend who graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Film from a major university once told me that the only good movies ever made were in Black & White.
Hollywood has been a seething pit of evil for decades. A friend who worked in the industry speaks of the pedophilia, and how Hollywood is always about making a film that is supposed to soften the minds of the masses to prepare them to accept what's coming. They said there was a reason Sen Joe McCarthy went after so many of them. And since Joe was stopped, the communist influence got even worse. Friend was there a couple of decades ago, and said it was so bad, they had to get completely away from it. "Go to Hollywood with stars in your eyes, and realize it is all part of the plan."
Foreigns are fun. I don't recognize the actors or the settings. Less action, more intrigue and dialogue. Plus, I hear a different language and read the subtitles! Have fun!
Hollywood has been a seething pit of evil for decades. A friend who worked in the industry speaks of the pedophilia, and how Hollywood is always about making a film that is supposed to soften the minds of the masses to prepare them to accept what's coming. They said there was a reason Sen Joe McCarthy went after so many of them. And since Joe was stopped, the communist influence got even worse. Friend was there a couple of decades ago, and said it was so bad, they had to get completely away from it. "Go to Hollywood with stars in your eyes, and realize it is all part of the plan."
I actually paid to see that one on the big screen twice. I haven't paid to see a movie since. I did go see Sound of Freedom with my son but not sure if that was before or after Maverick. Both great movies.
Speaking of cursive. . . I passed by a sign the other day announcing a student's fifth grade "graduation." The pre-printed sign was written partly in cursive but our local public elementary schools no longer teach cursive. How does the irony escape so many??
Re: that MN assassin story - Am I the only one who immediately wondered if "Security and Fishing Detail" business was code for "Handling Problems with Cement Shoes"? Just me?
The most blatant thing that stands out to me is the name of his "security" company.
'Praetorian' reeks of cloak and dagger, does it not?
Another highly suspicious event not mentioned by the MSM is the burglary of the victim's house shortly AFTER their murders. Was that a clean up operation? Apparently so.
The one video I saw of him allegedly preaching in the Congo made me think his actions were so over the top, people in the Congo would never think CIA or another operative would act that crazy.As always, someone needs to #followTheMoney
ERRATA (?)
— Times story linked fixed (I think they moved it)
They did move it, but everyone can read it for free here: https://archive.ph/2rEhs
Thank you!
I am sick of these dunderheads.
Note: Professor at Georgetown University says he hopes Iran strikes a US base
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1936979501361070118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1936979501361070118%7Ctwgr%5Ee976ab27c259893c57cd5da0c91a752b30f5053c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Fgeorgetown-prof-hopes-iran-symbolically-strikes-america-n2414612
SO many professors are idiots. Some are great, as I was a teacher at the CC level for nearly three decades, but, meng, there were a lot of dim ones out there.
Dunderhead is not the word I would use for that so called professor.
Ok. How about Douchebag??
Ma'am, my mom, she said always be nice in the company of fool, I love her, I know you understand.
But you are not in the company of fools on this blog??? Your mom is a sweet lady:}
Done.
From a friend sent a couple hours ago from a relative of his:
"My {relative} is in Doha, Qatar [...] Iran just launched a missile attack in the USA military base in Doha.
As I told a young female employee (two kids not quite of school age) of the same company I work for: In 5 years, nobody is going to remember one thing you did here. In 50 years, your kids will still be grateful for the time and energy you invested in them.
That is so true. Young women are missing out by believing the “You can get your career going and have your family later” line. I’m so glad that they are awakening to life’s main joys, marriage, children,the possibility of grandbabies and a real legacy.
Have the family and mold the career around it to fit your needs. It can be done.
I did it. Married in 1972, at 21, just 6 days after receiving the bachelor's degree. Spent the next two years getting an M.A.T. Taught school for the following three years while husband was completing his own graduate work and then job-hunting. Resigned my post as soon as he found a position, and moved directly into building-a-family mode. Didn't return to teaching (with a part-time post and subbing) until 2000, when eldest was a college senior, second child a high school senior, youngest in 7th grade. Took the following year off to home-school that youngest. From then became a full-time teacher (2002-2021).
Marrying & having a family while in your 20’s, not 30’s, is a smart start. You’ll be a younger grandparent & still able to use your skills in the workforce, after the kids have grown, while relatively young.
In the late 80s a woman told me that was her plan after college. I thought it sounded crazy. Now I realize it was smart planning.
Not if your children wait till high 30s.
4 daughters 30 to 40, two under 3 grandkids.
Pop Pop is already pooped.
Besides the joy of your parents being grandparents while they can still get around! We're in our 70s and are welcoming out 4th grandchild in August, two other daughters still "waiting for the right time." Would have given anything to be grandparents sooner!
Well done. Looks like you bailed due to the covidiocy? As a teacher, I accidentally dodged that bullet by retiring in 2017. Phew!
How perceptive you are! Yes, exactly. I just loved my discipline, my students, and looked forward eagerly to Monday mornings, to be able to present to my students the things I had created for them over the weekend. But the air grew increasingly toxic as the Covid cum Floyd stercus built up. By mid-July '20, with district responding to a community Karen's exposure of a teacher's very reasoned essay on "Which lives matter?" on her own FB page, with "These are not the opinions (or was it position?) of the District". Put her on "administrative leave". And she was out. Out. [ She later sued the district, don't know the outcome.] That was the spark, for me. I asked my financial advisor (who knew full well how much I loved my position), "How much longer do I need to teach?" His answer, "You don't even have to go back this September." But I wasn't quite that ready, and struggled through the fall semester, counting the days, holding on until the final day of semester Jan. 26, '21--solely for the sake of my students, because I really wanted to quit on the first day of Christmas vacation. With all of the admin's push to "get tested, so you know you're safe", and the vaxxes being announced, I could see where they were headed.
Well done. I was feeling burnt out by the time I pulled the pin, but facing what you did would have definitely finished me off! I fear for the republic and the good teachers we left behind and the students who will be damaged by these insane policies.
I was blessed, in my last two years in middle school (my final year and a half were spent at high school) to be assigned coverage duty during my duty period. The things I saw, the lack of structure in some of the classrooms, the students who were perfectly respectful to me when in my classroom, being disrespectul to me when I was covering in another teacher's classroom. And other distressing things. Retarded children being "taught" math with calculators, and having no idea whatsoever of what they were doing with those instruments. I could have cried at the abuse of those particular children. [I taught my own little ones arithmetic with colored milk caps....seemed to me that that was what these children might have needed].
👏👏👏👏 for your common sense, which today is too often in extremely short supply.
VVV - Thanks for sharing your experience. You did everything the right way.
Thank you very very much, Dave!
I'm glad there are people who want that sort of life.. I never did and have no regrets. I've had an amazing life....and many, many people are alive today because of me and the others like me.
And, I haven't been alone in this journey. My male partner of 41 years has been a great companion. I can wear 3" heels or combat boots. The picket fence life is a good base for societ, but I would have gone out of my mind.
But women should have the option. For a long time, stay-at-home moms have been belittled. Before that, for the most part, women could only get low paying jobs. I don’t think there should be a push for one or the other, but support for the choice.
Have to say that my grandmother, b. 1884, taught high school Latin and English 1906-1911.
My maternal grandmother seemed to have always worked, while raising two girls.
My Gram raised 5 children while writing/publishing The Farmer's Friend newspaper with my Grandpa. That would have been in the 40s/50s.
In the late 1800s, having an 8th grade diploma was rare and very valuable. If you ever get the chance, see if you can find the test someone took in order to get that diploma. I doubt very many people who graduate from high school, and even college, would pass it.
I have indeed seen some of those exams from the 19th Century. Tough! And explains why “mere high school graduates” (like my maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, at end of 19th, beginning of 20th) were able to be schoolteachers.
My widowed grandmother ran a boarding house.
And what is best for the child(ren.) That seems to not enter into the conversation very often.
As C. Wilson said, people often want children, but they can’t necessarily afford to live on one income.
Well the 'one income' argument is a little nuanced. My mom stayed home in the 70's and 80's and we lived in a 900 sq ft ranch house with a big yard and garden where we spent summers tending the garden, canning and freezing. Clothes were hand me downs from older cousins. Vacations were rare as was going out to eat. Oh there were struggles but feel like a I had a decent childhood. Homes today are twice as big, people expect that having the latest tech gadgets, Starbucks, annual vacations and regularly going out to eat is their birthright. I inherited my parents thrifty ways and was able to stay home and then work part time (with a lot of my income going to pay daycare but it kept my skills current) until mine were older elementary by clipping coupons, cooking & making coffee at home and thrifting - kids grow out of clothes so fast. Hubby had skills and we DIY'd and fixed stuff vs replacing. But we did manage an annual vacation and a few luxuries here and there. I do 'get' that some really can't afford it - wages haven't kept up but planning, thriftiness, and sacrifice does seem to be a dying art. A lot of my friends' kids whine about not being able to stay home and or buy a house but they go on cruises, have lots of tattoos and toys and go out to eat all the time. Mine have yet to have kids but have one of each - a thrifty one (who bought a house with his wife) and a spender (who complains a lot).
It generally boils down to finances. Also, women got into non-traditional jobs during wars. Then, they were supposed to go back to the kitchen. I was one of the first females in my chosen career and the only woman in the world doing another job. It was tough. Had to really be competent. There is still that fight in those jobs, and truthfully, most women in them are not that good. So, it's tough either way.
Oh, yes. Pretty much every single war, too. During the Civil War, women started to be hired in secretarial positions. These were traditionally very well paid as only men would be hired for them. So, the men who weren’t fighting in the war fought to keep women out of these positions because they knew the pay would plummet. Unsurprisingly, it did and secretaries still aren’t paid what they should. The same thing happened during WWII.
Curious....are you a doctor? Specialized?
Ah yes, the mommy wars. Mine were born in 93 and 95. By the time mine were preschoolers I discovered online bulletin boards that then transitioned to chat groups, iVillage was one of them. Didn't chime in much but watched women bash each other - SAHM bashed the working moms and working moms bashed the SAHM's. In between there were some good discussions so I stayed but never fit in as I worked full time after my first was born, but then quit to stay home after my second was born, but found myself climbing the walls. Joined some mom/play groups but found I had little in common with the moms. Ended up splitting the difference and working part time for some adult interaction and my kids went to a home daycare a couple of days a week where they got along with the other kids. I know some moms today who did work FT whose have great relationships with their well adjusted grown kids and some who stayed home whose kids are a mess and they don't get along - and everything in between. Point is, every family/mom/kid is different but I don't get the tendency to bash other's choices.
It was a way (and potentially still is) a way to keep women divided. I think men should have the choice, too, without being ridiculed. A guy I swim with is. He is an engineer, but his wife makes more money. They wanted one of them to stay home, so they decided it would be him. He’s a great guy, even keel, and loves his kids.
Being a parent is probably the most important job someone can have if they choose it.
Agreed - race wars, mommy wars, haves vs the have nots, etc. Sad.
My point exactly. Look at what you have done for your son and the world. Congratualtions. You and your wife are a good team.
I have a friend who did have a career with her degree in Early Childhood Education. At 30 she married, had two children and started an at-home daycare. When both were in school, she went back to work outside the home.
Their two kids are smart, courteous, college educated, have good careers in their chosen fields and are just wonderful people.
I think she and her husband did life well.
Not by choice, I was/am an older parent and was the child care center director of a large hospital program. I had two children - 17 months apart. They were just down the hall every day and as the director I was engaged and led every aspect of our curriculum, hiring, everything. My husband worked for the probation department in a very large city so we both took 3 month FMLA's so our children spent the first 6 months at home with us. When our youngest headed to kindergarten, I retired and spent the rest of their years volunteering for just about everything. I'm blessed that it worked out for us. I had a 25 year career and then raised my children. It's definitely not going to be great being an older grandparent, but my pickleball, long walks, pilates reformer and mostly healthy lifestyle helps.
Agree - totally.
It's so true, before you know it the kids are grown & gone.
But your positive influence can reverberate through even to your grand children, and their children, if you play your cards right.
If you're lucky, they're grown and gone.
Gone? I can’t imagine my adult kids and their kids being gone. We gather as a large family several times a month. Kids, in-laws, grandkids, everyone gets along. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The GONE part is not all that great really. Even though they are doing well, I miss them when they’re not around.
Thank you for this. Underestimating the value of full-time Mom's AKA stay at home Mom's has been the norm for quite awhile now.
That is a great point.
I think God is speaking to me through you. THANKS! And God bless you.
Yes!
I hope you’re right! 😃
Lon, was that the young woman's motivation for working - to have whatever she did there be remembered? Or did she need the income? Or...?
Her husband has a big job. They live in a million dollar house. I suspect some family money (not wanting to downplay their material achievements, though). She is a very sweet young woman who has bought the lie that, for a woman, fulfillment is born of tax slavery. I very much doubt that they need the money, but culturally their perceived worth as human beings seems tied to their material prosperity. Great grandfather would be proud.
Setting aside all the obvious "smoking guns" (which are myriad, for sure!) that spell CIA operative, or other federal government spook, one other thing SCREAMS "Fed" to me (as a retired Federal law enforcement officer): Vance Boelter's haircut. Just a hunch.
This was a particularly wonderful article, Jeff, and that's saying a lot, considering ALL of your articles are top-notch - in my opinion, you are, by far, the smartest, most thoughtful and simultaneously entertaining, thinker/writer in our era.
Every single day I think to myself, “this is Jeff’s best article.” Then I laugh as every article can’t be the best. He is that good though.
The Routh guy nearly got away but for a local cop?, this guy was seen hiding in a field by a nosy woman? Assassination of this type puts Legislators and everyone in this system on notice that they're ALWAYS under threat by the DeepState and controlling overlord system. White, Crazy, "Christian" guy narrative in this instance is as flimsy as anything they've ever come up with. These church and school shooter types and now the political assassins are a curious group; the blending of sociopathic attention seeking manifesto killers with the fringers groomed by DeepState handlers for purposeful policy pushes or outright hits makes some of Alex Jones's speculations on who sets up the operations and activates the killers seem perfectly reasonable.
Totally agree with you.
Thanks again Jeff for keeping sanity around us plus great entertainment.
Absolutely agree. Great writing by an awesome mind.
Yep - that ain't a normal haircut.
AnnR - I concur wholeheartedly.
Can you elaborate more on the haircut hunch? Thanks
Military haircut.
Federal agents tend to be VERY clean cut - they can't help themselves, even if they are undercover. The only exception are deep cover AFT or DEA agents who will maintain their haircuts, tattoos, and attire very much like drug dealers, or bikers, or whomever they are infiltrating...
Thanks for your reply AnnR.
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
Yes, our God is compassionate.
The LORD preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.
Return to your rest, O my soul,
For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
For You have rescued my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
My feet from stumbling.
I shall walk before the LORD
In the land of the living.
— Psalm 116:5-9 NAS
An early interview of our great President by Roger Ailes. Worth your time to watch and see what God created for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GloA_c72cSs
re: "War Update"
My post on X yesterday morning:
A complex, multi domain, multi time zone operation was conducted by the NCA and the Military Forces of the United States of America. From all accounts, it was a complete success and the American people and in fact the world, are in a safer place today. Thank you @POTUS, @SecDef, @SecState
and the Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, Navy who took part in the precise operation. JOB DAMN WELL DONE. I'm proud to be an American this morning.
@CNN
@maddow
@MSNBC
@nytimes
@washingtonpost
@NBCNews
@ABC
@CBSNews
And, to my knowledge, no leaks!
That’s because the dems were not privy to the plan
Amen.
A critically important point Juliann. Thank you.
And finally, re: "Elio" Abominable, evil hollywood in their never ending despicable gas lighting of America and the world and in trying to create ever more manginas. Dog aint gonna hunt!
"The World Order sets up countless groups to promote any type of idea, and then sets up other groups to fanatically oppose them, but the masters have no dedication to anything except slavery."
The World Order
Eustace Mullins
1992
Yep: Red ants vs. Black ants. It's who's shak'in the box that's the threat.
Same ole same ole.
Later Jay
The game perfected in WW l with the creation of the Federal Reserve.
Are we in a safer place today, though?
Seems like all we do is "wack-a-mole" bombings. The world is our wack-a-mole game. And you would think we would be "safer" but again, safer than what? My "hot take" is that conflicts like this are endless and don't worry, there will be another threat to supplant this one, and we will "need" to bomb them as well.
Think about it just a little Jimmy. The mullahs and the indoctrinated, angry, evil fools around them have been chanting death to the great satan (that would be us) for at least 40 years. They've done that while several feckless "Presidents" have stood by and watched (or in some cases, obummer and resident autopen cabbage funded them) while Iran continued it's nuclear program. Are you waiting for them to deploy a nuke and then ask why we did not connect the dots. We are talking about nuclear weapons which can destroy a city in one blast. Cmon man, get real.
Oh, one other thing, do you think literally thousands of America hating Iranians did not infiltrate into the country while autopen left the doors wide open - intentionally?
Evil persists in the world, yes, there will be more threats, that does not mean we simply wring our hands and walk away and say we tried.
Serious question, do you live in Portland? If not, where?
I really appreciate that there was no leaks and it was a well thought mission. It tells me that President Trump has loyal American loving people around him and he is not going to play games. Anyone who threatens us will be dealt with.
And our brave bankers on the Federal Reserve Board.
All wars are bankers wars.
This was not a war, it was a single, precise operation conducted to prevent a potential world ending nuclear exchange.
Exactly. Iran isn't/wasn't run by the central bankster kabbal. Not buying the nuclear WMD scenario.
Yes, and therefore the very reason they are targeted.
Later Jay
https://youtu.be/0dJJqB8xCN0?si=Ta2_J2XCELpEuf6f
Yep. Just like Libya, etc.https://youtu.be/0dJJqB8xCN0?si=Ta2_J2XCELpEuf6f
So, all of those nuclear facilities are just for peaceful energy? They don't really have facilities 300 ft underground enriching uranium at 60%? Commercial grade enrichment is about 3%. They haven't said they dont want a nuke, in fact they insist they will do whatever they want. You've got your head so far in the sand that you wont see daylight until the sand is melted into glass.
You've got your eyes so sanded with the mainstream narrative, sir.
Wag.The.Dog.
Where's the proof that those nukes exist? There are none. I guess you still believe planes crashed and collapsed the twin towers, too.
In terms of the war analysis, this is one of the more credible scenarios that I've seen. Very thoughtful and actually possible.
That being said, I do see problems with Trump's behavior. He denied knowing that Israel was going to strike Iran, then seemingly admitted it when he addressed the public. So he lied to the public when he didn't need to. Plus... "two week cooling period" and then bombs them two days later. To me, that means you can't trust what he says. Once again, he didn't have to proclaim a waiting period. He lied deliberately.
What do you think the rest of the world is thinking? Are they looking at Trump's behavior and deciding he can't be trusted in negotiations? Do they think the US can no longer be trusted? Do they think Trump is simply a blackmailed tool of Israel?
Spoken by a man (?) with no concept for operational security and deception required to succeed while minimizing friendly losses.
I think the rest of the world is saying, Yes, a bunch of lunatics can no longer deploy nuclear weapons and we are safer - in spite of the nonsense they might be spewing publicly.
Trump is a quick study, gifted or blessed, shibumi. He has learned to think like a ME leader. The Quran teaches that lying to the infidel is perfectly fine, often a speech will be given in english for western media consumption then the 'same' speech will be given in native tongue saying something completely different.
Our government is (was) filled with America and Trump haters that couldn't wait to leak intel like a synthetic sponge. Remember JCOS Milley calling Chyna saying don't worry, I'll let you know before Trump does anything. Why he and dozens others aren't 'relaxing' in club GITMO is beyond me.
Well said, SPH.
Hopefully their 'staycations' are still coming. There are many prosecutions DOJ is working on.
When Amazon tells me I have 30 days to return a purchase, that doesn’t mean I can’t return it prior to the 30th day. I can return it on Day 1. Or Day 3. Or Day 7… 🙄
Thanks Dan. Really worth seeing. And I think Trump is right. You either have it or you don't. And wisdom is doing what you can do well, and no matter how modest it is. Do that and then one can be rather happy in life.
On the other hand, beating to death the dead horse one was never meant to ride? Do that and you will surely taste misery.
I agree, you have it or you don't, there is very definitely a genetic component, you can see it in all great leaders.
I also think it takes God decades to build someone with the knowledge, experience, wisdom and the will to do what is necessary.
God made him for this moment. I have a close friend that I say the same about who is involved… too much knowledge to let him retire at this moment.
Thank you!
Thank you, Janice. I love this psalm, particularly this verse: "I was brought low, and He saved me." Jesus saved me. Amazing grace to those who deserve only wrath.
Amen! I am reminded of an entry in my upcoming devotional book:
My Jesus set me free from bondage to sin, and because He broke my chains, my soul is liberated and my heart sings freedom's anthem of amazing grace.
Amen and Amen 🙏
Another great post by Vigilant Fox. https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1936891535393697871
Dr. Paul Thomas studied 3,324 children and found unvaccinated kids had FEWER doctor visits and BETTER health outcomes.... but they revoked his license.
He found vaxxed kids were several times higher than unvaxxed to have these disorders:
Fever, Ear Pain, Otitis Media (Ear Infections), Conjunctivitis, Allergic Rhinitis (Hay Fever), Sinusitis, Anemia, Eczema , Gastroenteritis, etc.
Also, for ADHD – 0 cases in unvaccinated group
Yup - Vigilant Fox and Midwestern Doctor. Both very interesting reads. It was also telling that the doctors who released their (pretty much anecdotal) findings were excommunicated. :(
At what point do "anecdotes" become "data"?
Mrs. "the Knife"
Not saying it's not valid data - just that to most scientists, looking at only one practice might be "interesting" but not really "conclusive". There could be other environmental factors contributing to those findings. Now if you start having all practices do those checks and see similar findings, that's a more reliable source.
Of course, that won't happen because if you don't measure it, it's not happening and you don't have to take action or acknowledge actual harms. :(
One can learn a lot by enough anecdotal data if one is curious….
The problem is they refused to look at any data and deny any connection even when it’s obvious.
It’s unfortunate that review of the data gathered over years and reported in the study didn’t lead to more studies in more practices all over the world, but that won’t happen because the Powers That Be have indicated no intellectual curiosity. Instead what a researcher gets is excommunicated and the study buried.
I’m pleased that this doctor, having nothing left to lose, became his own advocate and at least in the curious realm, we know about him and his study. Kudos to anyone with a voice reporting on this.
Personally I'm fond of anecdotes. They almost always lead to something interesting.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Exactly! Anecdotes are data points. They are also food for case studies.
Anecdotal is a go-to play for the “experts.” Observing 3,324 children over many years is hardly anecdotal - its a treasure trove of data. Likely far more than any vaxx “safety” study or “trial.” The findings are easily proven to be statistically significant, have a well defined and regulated control group, with observations in a structured setting over many years. You can’t get any better science than that.
I find myself reading Vigilant Fox a lot. Great stuff!
Trump's vax, he has never repudiated it nor told the world he was sorry for the myocarditis and this.
He did not mandate it. He trusted the people who were considered SMEs. Biden mandated it. I never could understand why people lined up to get it. It was an experimental gene therapy that had not been tested. Why would anyone line up for something experimental?
People who took it need to apologize to themselves for not performing their own due diligence and electing to be lemmings.
I think Trump lauds the process more than the product. After all, he’s the “We got it done early and under budget” guy.
He also never advocated mandatory vaccination. He’s not that guy - it goes against what he believes in: choice.
Trump said " take the vaccine When it's been tested". It's not been tested, and it's not a vaccine. Trump didn't mandate the shot.
He did back "warp speed". Two results came out of warp speed. Biden mandated the shot, while the other treatment [ boosting killer "T" cells] was buried. See Tucker Carlson Network interview with Dr Patrick Soon Shiong.
You are making him sound like he cared. He pushed it to try to make himself look good.
Everything he does says that he cares. You can go back 30 years and he is saying the same thing. He loves America and loves us. I use to watch him on the Appentist because he was so cool and was kind to everyone even when he was firing them.
Yes he may care, but he his being played by others more adept at the game. And then Trump picks bad advisors. That's on him alone.
Trump is surrounded by season combat Veterans who have been boots in the ground many times. They are Patriots. He will not find better people than them. I am grateful they are will to sacrifice to Make America Safe Again!
Listen to the Dr Soon Shiong interview to be informed.
Can you see more than the first 2 comments, plus mine maybe?
@neener--are you having the same issues with the Comments Section as I have had lately? Some days, I can only get the first two comments and that's it. Even when there's a box that supposedly leads you to a hundred or more replies. (Never does) But sometimes if you wait for awhile and check back hours later, you can see the huge pile of comments at last. I must say those days when I'm locked out, I get lots more done in the morning!! 🙄
That has happened to me as well. Sometimes if I close the substack app and come back in it is resolved. I believe it is a substack bug - something related to memory management in the substack program code possibly.
This just happened to me. Went down the rabbit hole opened by the link that Based Florida man posted. Then came back here, and voila`- now all are visible! So totally weird and unexplainable. Any coders out there have any ideas as to why this happens? A "virus" in the algorithm?
I'll use another browser (normally Brave, but also Waterfox) when sites go wonky.
I generally use Brave. Will also try Waterfox. Thanks for the tip!
I am so excited by the shift of young women toward conservatism, MAHA (which I believe conceptually is a family focused and biblical principle), and a more traditional femininity. Our culture is so thirsty - parched - for moms to come home and invest themselves into the most valuable asset we have - our children. Paired with the idea of AI destroying government schools and (hopefully) big Pharma/Big “Health” being laid waste - we need these mamas to come nourish their families, not just when their kids are little bit as grandmas too! And women who don’t have kids (yet or for other reasons) can always choose to nurture in the ways available - as aunties or mentors or friends. But moms - in the home on some way - are non-negotiable for a healthy society.
I agree. I am encouraged by this apparent shift. But I just felt I should add that dads need to be there in some way too!
Amen. It takes both mom and dad to raise kids well. I can't imagine not have my husband at my side the past 30+ years raising five kids. It is absolutely inconceivable to me.
Agreed! My husband makes all my homemaking and investing in our kids possible and he is 100% invested alongside me! So thankful for quality men and fathers 💕
Completely agree!!
Absolutely. I believe it was Lyndon Johnson who destroyed the black families (who were moving up the scale) by only giving benefits to women who were not living with a man. Kicked the dads out and destroyed the culture.
Ah yes, the fruits of "The Great Society" project of LBJ are what we live with today. Another nefarious plot produced by Democrats.
LBJ was a nasty man.
A dad or two wouldn't hurt the cause.
I think in our common sense group, that’s a given, RunningLogic! 😊
I would hope so but just thought it was worth articulating anyway 🙂
Absolutely. Never a bad thing!
My comment wasn’t meant in any way to denigrate the crucial role men and dads play in families 😊 but I agree with Free in Florida - in our C&C family, I hope that is a given! But also, the need for young men and dads was well and insightfully addressed in the Saturday (I believe it was) post on the shift of young men rightward.
Yes I didn’t think it was your intention 🙂 but I just thought it was worth reiterating the point that dads matter, and that the best case scenario is to have both parents who are invested in bringing up their children.
Definitely! A society that values and supports this nuclear family ideal will usually do well.
Thank you Susanna. Underestimating the value of full-time Mom's - also known as stay at home Mom's - has unfortunately been the norm for some time now. Thank you also to the Dad's working to make this happen.
Sadly for those conservation women between 30-50 it feels too late. That generation has completely lost trust in others. The divorce rate must be near 60+% among processing Christians. Narcissism and fear of same reigns. Too many Doug Wilson type conservative worshippers. Too many trained in porn and bdsm.
The porn and bdsm are no insignificant problem, you are dead on target. And yes in the church. I have a beautiful 24 year old daughter, Christian, conservative, who has run up against this problem repeatedly, even since high school. It really makes me angry, and whenever I've tried to raise the issue (in ladies Bible study) I get deer-in-the-headlights stares. It isn't just the young women who need to change. And the Doug Wilsonesque "muscularity" May be appealing to a lot of angry young Christian men, but that also isn't the way. Ugh!!!
For the uninitiated, who is Doug Wilson?
Thanks for asking.
Look him up. Utah. Author of Run Sally Run. Calls himself Reformed something. Christians love his cultural push back but to what end? Prideful MAN, imo.
Do you mean Ride Sally Ride?
😛 My bad. Thanks.
I've seen him on Wade Stott's YouTube channel but never watched the interview. I love Wade Stott, though.
I applaud young women making the choice of home and family first, if that is what fulfills them. There is one rub. Families are having such a hard time getting by, and very few of them can afford their own home. And this is often with two incomes. If a family can simplify and reduce costs and pull it off, that’s great. But I don’t know if everyone will be able to do that.
It’s going to take a major cultural overhaul but I think Trump sees the need to revamp our economy until it supports a parent being able to stay at home with kids - we can’t keep outsourcing our parenting to the government if we want to change our future.
We are a one income family and always have been (and my parents were too) and we were able to buy a house. (Although we couldn’t right now - it’s so bad!) We budget and are very careful with our money but we also have five kids so it’s not like we don’t have expenses. We just live within our means and are looking for ways to get our next (hopefully bigger) house on more land - we might need to buy a fixer upper, or just land and build overtime, ourselves. It can be done but it’s not the instant gratification model our culture has become accustomed to.
But still agree that prices are out of control right now and need to come down.
Mass deportations will lower housing demand.
Keep on deporting criminals, MAGA!
I actually have a college degree. And even if I didn’t I could work hard at an outside job or a work-from-home business (like I do at homemaking now); I’m also part of an amazing extended family on both sides who would come alongside to biblically help me, plus my husband and I have life insurance to help cushion the blow of either of us or both of us died. When you work as a team, across generations, consistently, you add layers of protection that negates the necessity for government aid.
There will always be some exceptions but a society should be built on the ideal, not the exceptions.
It’s also completely false to posit that a stay at home mom doesn’t have work experience. A well applied SAHM has incredible organizing and time management skills, research skills, often medical knowledge (in my case lots of alternative medicine knowledge), cooking and cleaning skills, crafting, teaching, people skills, childcare skills and so much more. It would be fairly simple to monetize any of these skill sets.
You’re being defeatist.
Families do this every day by making wise choices.
We know families who lived in RVs so they could save for a down payment for a house. Or built their own, piece by piece, while living in a mobile home they bought used for $10,000 and fixed up. Fancy? No. Functional? Yes.
Excuses won’t change anything.
And we need change in our hearts, homes and communities.
One must be willing to sacrifice.
Lynne, I think what Susanna was trying to share with us all is a different way to approach the ‘problem’ of loosing a spouse. She is preparing for the future for her family by the purchase of life insurance not only for her DH but for herself as well. That way if something unexpected were to happen the money provided from the insurance would be enough to cover all the necessities for the family while things get sorted out. If you are truly interested in financial peace might I recommend searching Dave Ramsey on YouTube. I’ve been a fan of his for about 6 years and have managed to pay off 2 cars, student loans and my home mortgage in that short amount of time. As well as cash flowing several big ticket home improvement projects. I think being financially prepared is all about having a game plan in place. (And yes I was laid off for part of 2020 with minimal unemployment) There is hope.
It requires a mindset shift.
What is actually necessary to survive and thrive?
Do we need new cars, 4,000 sq. foot houses, twenty extracurricular activities per kid, new wardrobes each school year, cable subscriptions, five expensive, unhealthy pets, a yard service, a pool service, expensive vacations, eating out multiple times a week…etc, etc.
I posit: no. (And our family of seven lives and thrive without all these things.)
The fact that some women don’t want to live with respect and honor under their husband’s level of provision is a different issue than “he doesn’t make enough for us to survive.”
Not saying your daughters don’t want to, just saying our society has the wrong mentality about our lifestyles and their cost.
You save so much money by staying home, making your own meals, your family is then healthier, happier so fewer medical expenses, you can pursue learning together at home so fewer school and extracurricular fees, you can hone in on the relationships you chose rather than the ones you’re thrown into by dint of massive time invested in work and school…
So many positives to moms coming home. The wage loss is so irrelevant compared to the incredible personal, emotional, spiritual, mental and physical wealth you gain from being your husband’s wife and your kids’ mom, first and only.
On another note, our economic powerhouses (Big Everything) purposely incentivize and promote two income households because of course it makes them more money to have two major consumers per household rather than a team that essentially acts as one consumer. It’s not by accident people feel like they couldn’t survive on one income. They’ve been conditioned to believe that and “need” what is not needed, for their entire lives.
We can break the cycle.
Well expressed, Susanna. I'm my experience, I've seen more working moms do so to have more "stuff" and to keep up with the Joneses, than I have seen work to just survive.
With its coverage of the Boelter story, the New York Times has provided conclusive proof that what it does has no relationship whatsoever to news or journalism. "Here is what you're gonna think, regardless of reality, and you are going to like it."
This week Candace Owens claimed the NYT is a cia paper and was designed to be so. 🤔
Many sources say the CIA controls all of MSM. Totally credible IMHO.
That's also true of the Washington ComPost, and it was documented somewhere too.
I think Bezos even indirectly admitted that.
Lydia, your remarkably succinct summary of the NYT mission could be just as easily applied to Disney (and God only knows how many other organizations including the public schools). Make America Great Again requires that first the aforementioned toilet desperately needs to be flushed.
This whole Iran situation - if you listen to the Trump admin directly from their own lips and pair that with actual basic facts we can know about the strikes (like timing, Israeli strikes and posturing beforehand) - it does appear this is a very coordinated (and incredibly complex) maneuver between massive geo-political powers (beyond just Iran). I hope we get to see the whole story someday because it feels like world changing history is being written and I think it’s going to be for the better.
Along the way the DoD go to test the “bunker buster” on a real hardened target and I’m sure will use the results to improve upon its lethality. And God bless the warriors who carried all this out… for the life of me I cannot imagine what it would be like to spend 30+ hours confined to the cockpit of a B-2 Spirit. “Wake up buddy, it’s time to refuel again!”
I did see a picture showing a toilet on the B2 and even a place for food.
I was thinking the same thing. The longest flight u had was 16 1/2 hours … granted it was in a helicopter but I was exhausted after a total of 20 hour work day… with the pre and post stuff. 36 hours - WOW!
I agree. Definitely seems like a lot going on behind the scenes and I’m so curious to find out.
All wars are bankers wars.
Uncertainty creates opportunities for investment.
In the final analysis, all wars are about money.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/war-is-a-racket-as-is-civil-unrest/
Armstrong is gutsy honest.
When the economy is tanking, go to war. The young buy into the jingoism and die.
The problem with youth is naivety. Their advantage is their ability to more readily question things. Of course, some older people don't seem to age well either.
The Educational system was corrupted by the Rockefellers, reinforced by their mass media.
Kids dont get a chance when teachers come from the same world. I was a teacher.
Totally understand and agree. Thus I home schooled. Youth today don't get an even chance. The system is rigged against them. But there may be a rubber band effect when the younger generation figures out the game is rigged... I hope.
Yes, ALL wars, are bankers wars. And the bankers fund both sides of every war. They get their principle and interest back from the winning side, and they get the funds for "reconstruction from "foreign aid", from the losing side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDc1xeZJ9X8
We funded the Bolsheviks in Russia to save the revolution for the bankers.
Indeed we did. And things have not changed.
https://substack.com/@crazy55oldman/note/c-128382461?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=u16ew good stuff here
There has been an uncharacteristic level of silence from most countries.
Lawrence of Arabia?
Your coverage of the Boelter story is like reading a best seller that you can’t put down. I nominate YOU to continue covering the story as it’s already grabbed me by the tentacles and won’t let me go. Since no one is reporting on it I do insist that you take the responsibility to uncover the truth and keep us informed. It’s your patriotic duty. 😁
Except if we were reading that as a novel, some parts would be unbelievable.
Thanks for the latest example of the totally worthless, one-sided, incurious press. Their actions regarding the Minnesota murderer simply amplifies the obvious: they are interested only in furthering a leftist narrative that weakens the republic.
Thank you so much, Jeff, for yesterday's stack. It was very generous of you. Cheers.
DITTO!!!
Disney should be renamed DIEsney. Glad audiences are boycotting them. They are full of DEI commissars who seek to push subversive messages onto our kids: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/disney-stories-matter-dei-reimagined-agitprop
I don’t know that this is a boycott, as much as it is just disinterest. You boycott when you choose to forgo something you want in order to make a statement. In this instance, Disney failed to make a movie worth paying matinee prices to go see.
Disney world had their worst June attendance in history … true about the movie - who wants to see that?? but I do believe a D boycott is in action.
I agree about Disney as a whole being boycotted. I am sad because I love Disney World but I won’t give them my money.
I know 😭 Maybe it can be recreated and become the world’s happiest place again. Right now the thought of it makes me want to 🤮
I hope so! I would love to be able to share the magic with my grandkids someday.
Universal is booming in Orlando … they didn’t get into the alphabet soup stuff.
Is that maybe because it is Alphabet people month?
A friend who graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Film from a major university once told me that the only good movies ever made were in Black & White.
Exceptions= Gone with the Wind, Sound of Music,
Especially film noir...and "Casablanca."
Yes!
Hollywood has been a seething pit of evil for decades. A friend who worked in the industry speaks of the pedophilia, and how Hollywood is always about making a film that is supposed to soften the minds of the masses to prepare them to accept what's coming. They said there was a reason Sen Joe McCarthy went after so many of them. And since Joe was stopped, the communist influence got even worse. Friend was there a couple of decades ago, and said it was so bad, they had to get completely away from it. "Go to Hollywood with stars in your eyes, and realize it is all part of the plan."
I largely watch foreign films. Luckily Toronto (where I live) has a wonderful cinema (TIFF) with 5 screens where they regularly show them.
Foreigns are fun. I don't recognize the actors or the settings. Less action, more intrigue and dialogue. Plus, I hear a different language and read the subtitles! Have fun!
Hollywood has been a seething pit of evil for decades. A friend who worked in the industry speaks of the pedophilia, and how Hollywood is always about making a film that is supposed to soften the minds of the masses to prepare them to accept what's coming. They said there was a reason Sen Joe McCarthy went after so many of them. And since Joe was stopped, the communist influence got even worse. Friend was there a couple of decades ago, and said it was so bad, they had to get completely away from it. "Go to Hollywood with stars in your eyes, and realize it is all part of the plan."
And their movies are all sh*t now or remakes or femakes... There must be some new German or Grimm fairytales that have not been made into movies yet!
Remember when there were no movie “franchises”?
Yes but I did like Top Gun: Maverick
I actually paid to see that one on the big screen twice. I haven't paid to see a movie since. I did go see Sound of Freedom with my son but not sure if that was before or after Maverick. Both great movies.
I just saw a clip where they showed parts of top gun Maverick, and parts of the current news. Very very interesting.
The Marx Brothers? Abbott & Costello? Ma and Pa Kettle? Francis The Talking Mule?
I stand corrected.
The word "franchise" wasn't attached to movies until the 80s or 90s? Anyway, I hope all your film viewing is rewarding and enjoyable.
Difficult to read = can’t read cursive.
hahaha... I tell my kids cursive is the new secret code
We can use it to communicate if we end up in a FEMA camp.
Speaking of cursive. . . I passed by a sign the other day announcing a student's fifth grade "graduation." The pre-printed sign was written partly in cursive but our local public elementary schools no longer teach cursive. How does the irony escape so many??
I'm hoping it'll keep us out!
I use shorthand, now that’s a secret code 😂😂
😂 🎯
Yup.
Good morning! Thank you Jeff for all you do!
—“The Ayatollah just declared himself a non-binary camel!”
🤣🤣🤣
This is the only one I kind of want to be true 😁😆
Old cigarette joke:
"All men who try Camels...eventually go back to women."
Re: that MN assassin story - Am I the only one who immediately wondered if "Security and Fishing Detail" business was code for "Handling Problems with Cement Shoes"? Just me?
Sleeping with the fishes… ? 🤨
Luca Brasi!
Jimmy H.
The Meadowlands?
The most blatant thing that stands out to me is the name of his "security" company.
'Praetorian' reeks of cloak and dagger, does it not?
Another highly suspicious event not mentioned by the MSM is the burglary of the victim's house shortly AFTER their murders. Was that a clean up operation? Apparently so.
The one video I saw of him allegedly preaching in the Congo made me think his actions were so over the top, people in the Congo would never think CIA or another operative would act that crazy.As always, someone needs to #followTheMoney
Full service as well, with his working in a morgue and all...
My first thought was "Shovels and Cheese"