Gold and silver hit records and Trump repricing plan rolls; MN cools as Homan takes over; polls back mass deportations; GOP locks historic midterm convention; UK experiments with 15-minute cities.
I suspect gold will be revalued to 10,000 an ounce. And I expect silver to climb to at least 500. Trump's plan is to replace the illegal central bank slavery system with a new system based on no debt, currency backed by gold, and no illegal "income tax". The Federal Reserve will be obsolete.
@Florida- having had a business and dealing with the IRS and NYS (NY State), I can attest to the fact that the IRS was much, MUCH nicer to work with than NYS.
I could only dream, no more tax theft, my metals could set me up for a nice bonus gift. Combine this and stop the Trillions in fraud by the Pols and NGOs that would truly be the Golden Age of America
bigger tax refunds?? So what, the feds are giving back some of the $ they extorted from us?
Stop the socialism tax scheme the lets lower income skate and puts all burden on upper and middle income Americans. No unconstitutional income tax or for now, Flat tax rate.
They inflate the currency so that we move into higher brackets with no real growth of buying power.
28% tax on gold silver conversion to fiat? Anyone tired of being robbed?
If I could get rid of my property taxes, I would not worry about If I will be able to stay in my mortgage free home in the future as taxes can increase 15-20 % and we are just supposed to keep absorbing it. ( And lived my whole life with the "if you can't afford to pay for it, I will forego it" mentality) Rape, even gang rape is legal in Massachusetts. The tax everything they can think of.
remember the movie Conspiracy Theory in 1997? Mel Gibson suggest doing something, and his counterpart said "That's illegal In Massachusetts ". "Gibson responded. "everything is illegal in Massachusetts". My how times change
And oddly the TRULY illegal stuff that I suspect is happening, like in MN, is happening here as well. All the "sanctuary and right to shelter" states. And even more odd, is I volunteer helping a large, legal immigrant family and have been doing so for 4 years to help them navigate life here, after Bidens brilliant plans in 2020. I am learning a lot too.
but, but, but, the DEBT! What is Trump's plan there? Given the size of the problems Trump has shown himself willing to tackle, why hasn't he tackled the Debt? In fact, he's added to it just like all his predecessors.
To do something dramatic about it, he'll need leverage. What can he do? What leverage is possible?
To me its obvious that this is something he can only tackle after winning the midterms and assuming he retains the House and Senate. Then he can do painful things. And no matter how bold or brilliant his idea for the Debt, it will involve pain. How could it not?
The risk: the pain is too much for swing voters and does nothing to pull anyone from the Left toward the center (not that its possible to do that anyway). And "too much pain" means we lose it all in 2028.
Which brings me to what has to be Trump's endgame: how can he make permanent anything that he's done? It has to be Congress and he has to nuke the RINOs, the filibuster, the corruption, etc.
Did Project 2025 discuss any of this endgame plan?
Btw, weren't we supposed to hear from SCOTUS by now on tariffs?
I wonder if SCOTUS has been watching the political winds, or the economic winds, before deciding the issue?
If tariffs are really as outstanding as Trump's team says (I've read the other side claim that all the costs of tariffs have been borne by consumers), it would be a crime for SCOTUS to scuttle them.
"The Debt is not real. It is owed almost exclusively to the owners of the FED. Illegal interest charged for the privilege" of them printing "our" money. Screw Their debt.
The debt, that number the press loves to throw around, that ridiculous number, has already been mostly taken care of. How much has our economy improved since November last? 38 T? Getting close. That’s the truth if the matter everyone fails to mention, every time.
I think gold at 20,000 is a bit more likely... but I also doubt that any US gold reserves are left, at least nor multi-times encumbered... so gold-backed dollar is unlikely... and when China and Russia finally reveal their massive gold holdings... jeeze... dollar collapse...
$500 silver sounds about right... some think it may get REALLY crazy and go to one-to-one with gold...
Historically silver has not been so exponentially less than gold, so there is some chatter out there that silver may approach more of a historical comparison value to gold. Sorry I can’t quote exact numbers off the top of head, but keep watching silver!
Time will tell. Unfortunately, it is looking like if we did move to a system backed by metals, that it would be tied to a digital stablecoin as that legislation is being passed through congress, which is really a horrible way to do it for many obvious reasons. But people in power like their power over us....
“You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross. God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead. Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.” — Peter, Acts 10:38-43 NAS95
Thank you, Julie Ann. I’m getting there. Yesterday was the first day I didn’t feel like I would croak if I didn’t take a nap. 😀 Now I just wait to hear when we do the actual treatment. They will probably push it out a little while because I am allergic to the contrast dye, so it takes awhile for my body to calm down after having it.
As for the passage, it’s one of those I know I have read multiple times, but this time it struck me how packed it is with glorious details about our Savior.
Tri, this is hilarious! Hard to pick a favorite, but it might be this one: Chuck Norris doesn't dial the wrong number, you pick up the wrong phone. LOL!!!
If I get to the point where I go to AI for philosophical or spiritual advice, or even a "conversation," I will put my phone on the ground and step on it. Hard.
I disagree. It is surprising how thoughtful the tool can be but discretion must be applied! It also is capable of error and maybe outright lying. I use the tools I need that are available to me and sometimes it is AI. ChatGPT has reasonably answered some theological questions of mine
Reference tools are awesome. A dictionary, a thesaurus, Strong's Concordance and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are all reference tools.
They do not have conversations with you where they try to give you whatever you seem to want. AI is designed to flatter you, to feed you responses to what you ask that are acceptable to you, to develop a rapport with you and provide a companionable interaction.
It lies. It "hallucinates." It gives you demonstrably false info. We tested the paid subscription Chat GPT repeatedly in my office and the results included completely fabricated error filled material, for which it actually apologized like a person who simply made a mistake.
Having devotions with it as though it's talking with you and channeling Thomas Aquinas is (choosing my words carefully) not wise.
When it is used as a devotional guide, you are outsourcing your ability to read and discuss spirtual source material from known authors with reputable real humans and instead accepting a synthesis of who knows what material from software designed to cater to your perceived desires and programmed by demonstrably ungodly people. Again, this is not wise.
For reference points it has uses. Using it as a spiritual resource (“having a devotional with it") is not a good idea. It is specifically designed to feed you what you want when you ask it philosophical questions, and that's extremely dangerous spiritually.
Wow…all that wisdom from AI? It’s both scary and intriguing…. Having had to study forgiveness and such, Biblically, this is so spot on…again, wow…I don’t want to use AI…it is so uncertain to me…yet what you shared today is filled with wisdom…🙏🏻
GPT lied to you. The Psalms is full of prayers and plans for the destruction and desolation of one's enemies, and comfort for knowing that the faithful will win in the end because of that vengeance. E.g. Psalm 35, among numerous others.
If you listen to that teaching liar, you will find you lack trustworthy advisors elsewhere in your life over time, per the scriptures. Imagine what one's children would do upon digging after some parental lecture to realize that they received vapid AI balogna instead of ancient wisdom. They would never trust a lecture again. Likewise for anyone else.
Proverbs 29:12: “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked".
I love that, Laura. The word “trillion” is now being casually tossed around and most people probably don’t even think about it. Thanks for the helpful example.
No the debt has not been erased. We’ve had a month or so where the deficit was reduced. I doubt the debt will ever be erased. What needs to happen is a significant reduction so debt as % of GDP is reduced. But the way Demtoids and RINOS like to spend spent hold your breath.
Who ever heard of the word "trillions" being used to describe government spending or debt levels ~ 50 years ago? Now we hear too big to fail banks have quadrillions in derivatives.
Wow. I will use that for my Grands, who toss around billion and trillion in regards to how much they trade (or something) in Roblox and some other game. They don’t think it is a lot. 😂
Thank you, Laura. We were at an airport with the kids a few years ago and they were playing Roblox. A man took my husband aside and warned him about the ‘people’ on they were playing against may be pedos. He said we should review all the names the kids were playing with and if they didn’t know the person in real life, they had to delete them. We told their Mom and she and we do it regularly AND we told the kids WHY. (10 & 11)
Disruptive technologies always cause some unemployment and the worker affected have to shift around, maybe learn new skills or even go into other industries. There is nothing new here and even the hype is the same. People adjust and it all works out over time.
Something the trump admin is all in on, but hardly anyone of his devoted flock will question or criticize, regardless of the huge implications it poses.
I'd be interested to know how that conversation between Trump and Walz went. Regardless, I'll bet when Walz hung up the phone he was fully onboard with the "we better start kissing Trump's butt" part of the program. Trump's hilarious: "I just had a great conversation with Tim Walz...." 🤣
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Trump undoubtedly said something like, "we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice, but it's going to happen." He has a lot of leverage which people seem to forget. Plus he has shown us over and over he always has a plan in mind and is never just reacting.
I'm a big believer in "trust the plan" (double arrows) "always chimp". In other words, we trust that PDJT has a big picture plan, and it's in the best interests of Americans. On the other hand, RINOs, neocons, hedge fund billionaires, and other assorted subversives are continuously lobbying him, and it's important we do the same. He can't just hear from the bad guys.
But there is a big difference between making our voices heard and hysteria. The last few days have shown just how many people supposedly on the right are at best hysterical effeminates ruled entirely by their emotions. You have the libertarian crowd (Joe Rogan, Martyr Made, various "pastors") saying something like, "I voted for immigration enforcement but not this". But what exactly is the administration supposed to do, wish enforcement into existence? Weak, delusional men at best.
Then on the other side you have people demanding PDJT invoke the Insurrection Act and have the military storm Minnesota (Sean Davis, various "influencers" like Nick Sorter). These people are just as bad as the weaklings but in the other direction, unable to control their emotions, thus demanding Trump "do something!" The idea that there is a big picture strategy at play here is completely foreign to them. There is also a very real possibility that spineless congressional Republicans will turn on Trump if they think he's losing the public.
We are surrounded by poofters who never learned to reason, think critically, look at the big picture, and evaluate a plan. They are children entirely driven by their emotions who react to every unpleasant instance with manic hysteria. They have the maturity of a teenager, how do these people raise children and hold jobs? Not very well I suspect. Most probably don't have much money either.
Or they could be deliberate chaos agents. Probably some of both. But it is truly shocking to realize how many adults cannot control their emotions.
I think for people on the ground in a city like MSP where they have been inundated by thousands of federal agents, it is not a great way to live. I have a lot of contacts there and having your neighborhoods invaded with federal agents is not a fun way to live, even if you support them. Then add in the tragedies of people being killed, animosity between both "sides" and it creates a horrible environment. Naked Emperor had a little blurb about the situation, which I appreciated:
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I am concerned. Concerned that many of us are regressing back to the depths of Covid polarity. Perhaps even further. We are shown a grey picture and half who view it are convinced it is black, the other half convinced it is white. There is no nuance, no trying to understand the other side, just that if you see the picture differently to me then you are a ‘Gestapo Nazi’ or a ‘liberal retard.’ If you try to look at things objectively then you get called both names.
Covid was a horrible time. I had hoped those days had passed. I had hoped that the people vilified for their stances on masks, lockdowns and vaccine mandates would think that they would never allow themselves to be that person in reverse. I had hoped that the ‘critical thinkers’ were able to see ALL things objectively. But it turns out many of those people were just following the crowd on the other side - merely opposed to things that their team was against.
And so it comes to ICE and the tragic deaths that keep and will keep on happening.
If you truly are a critical thinker - and by God we need those more than ever right now - you are able to hold multiple views without being contradictory.
You can think that mass immigration doesn’t benefit your country and that illegal immigrants should be deported whilst simultaneously condemning how ICE do things.
You can support ICE and simultaneously think that they are being inadequately trained to deal with aggressive and provocative agitators. Or that they shouldn’t be masked up, anonymous and militarised.
You can hate what ICE is doing but also see that hard-left agitators are jumping on the bandwagon to worsen situations.
If you were anti guns before, you don’t have to suddenly think that protesting with a gun is fine - just because the protests are against ICE. If you were pro guns previously, you don’t have to U-turn and think that because Alex Pretti had one, he signed his own death warrant.
You may support ICE but you should still champion people’s right to protest them (legally). Obviously, anybody planning on taking it one step further and attacking officers should be adequately dealt with but if you support the removal of legal protest then next time it will be yours that is stopped. It will be an anti-lockdowner that will be shot.
We are in classic Problem-Reaction-Solution territory and the solution will soon be revealed.
A part of the machine is trying to ignite small civil wars throughout the US. I’m still trying to work out for what purpose but it is clear that ideological forces on both sides are deliberately trying to make people angry and hate each other. Perhaps this is to try and destroy Trump in the mid-terms. Maybe that’s why he has refused to comment this time - he can see that factions within his own administration are working against him. But perhaps trouble is being provoked for an even more sinister reason.
Partisan Americans are being goaded into a trap. Stay nuanced, stay critical and objectively analyse everything. It is more important than ever before.
funny that all the chaos is only happening where local police have been told not to co-operate and politicians stoke the anti ICE fires - it's really the fraud that Waltz et al are trying to deflect most likely because they are deeply involved - follow the money
Its quite possible, but until we have actual proof that is just speculation. People seem to be forgetting that protests are huge and likely have both inorganic and completely organic elements to them.
also possible the the protests that are "huge" are completely INorganic and artificially generated by paying one group of easily disturbed libtards while the leaders, not being paid, come from the Dem. party.
Walz could be, by proxy, organizing these protests to use them as a bargaining chip in his own criminal investigation. He'll call them off once he makes a deal with the feds that reduces his participation in the fraud to misdemeanor level. He may have difficulty calling off the dogs that he unleashed, though. But without the financial backing, many will leave. A few arrests with long term sentences wouldn't hurt, either. Soros' Project Syndicate was funding the mass illegal immigration to destroy the US middle class and usher in a socialist/communist fantasy. Biden apparently was on board. It's not mass immigration that is the problem. It's mass ILLEGAL immigration.
I’d prefer my city inundated with ice agents ( really, that many?) than thousands of walkabout zombies, being paid to be there, and agitate. I can tell you it still won’t happen in Florida. Even with our constant warmth,there aren’t hundreds showing up to violently engage ice. Hmm. Wonder why.
I was thinking about this Sunday. I innocently took a needlework class over zoom. To my mind, needlework should be innocuous, right? The class was taught out of a Portland, OR shop. The class started with the shop owner saying something like “thank you for being patient with us, it’s been a rough couple of weeks, especially this week.” I thought “oh no I hope no one is gravely ill or something bad happened at the shop.” Silly me, she was talking about the events in MN. Seriously?! In the dang needlework class, which btw, I paid money to be in?! Then, being on zoom, the zoom folks could talk amongst themselves and I had to hear about several of the leftist talking points, fortunately briefly. But most involved people talking about being scared because Trump is in charge. Scared to travel, scared of what comes next, etc, etc.
Anyway, all that is to say that I realized Sunday evening that we have reached the point in this country that no matter which party is in charge, half the country is going to be afraid. Unfortunately, I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
Great response. Always break down what is happening. Another example. People mad as hell about ICE wearing masks. They are wearing them for the SAME reason most of the protesters are. To keep themselves and their families safe by not being recognized and doxxed.
Great comment. Especially pointing out that the leftists aren’t the only emotional and reactive ones. Patience and dogged perseverance are what we need more than knee-jerk reactiveness.
20/20 hindsight Dept: maybe Trump and Homan should have said last January, "It took a long time to get 15+ million illegals into the country. Getting them out won't be easy and won't happen overnight. It will also be messy because we can't use the same processes for entering the country legally, processes that focus on one person's situation. We will be doing this by the thousands at a time. That's the only way to quickly get to millions. And part of "messy" will be innocent casualties. It's unavoidable. But if you're looking for someone to blame, blame those who got us here, especially the last Administration that broke the camel's back."
OK, that's too long winded. Trump is a better communicator. But you get the gist.
And to all the howls such a statement would get: we all know Trump would find a perfectly civil, rational response. Something like, "...and your wife's ugly, too."
There’s nothing over reactive to wanting violent felons removed. My understanding is the MN is refusing to turn even incarcerated violent criminals over to ICE. HOW PATIENT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE? This is just ridiculous
There are definitely more efficient ways to remove illegals which aren't currently being utilized (e-Verify is a start, and punishing employers using illegals would encourage self-deportation). Biden let in anywhere from 8-10 million illegals during his term often flying them to the interior of the country. Planes fly both ways. The deportation methods currently in use are time-consuming and fraught with risk. Democrats, however, don't care. They are not going to let their imported voter base go without a fight. And squishy Rs seem to have some incentive to keep illegals here too.
Jeff C, it’s called Emotional Quotient. I have learned that the EQ is more important than the IQ. Many, many people are walking around with low EQs, which means that their emotional age is between 3 and 12. This causes them to react emotionally which never solves any problem & adds fuel to the fire. People with a high EQ (emotional adults) respond to situations which takes a higher level of awareness (consciousness). It involves not only logic but intuition, gut feeling, CREATIVITY. Critical thinking involves all of these skills. This is how problems are solved. In these tumultuous times, I try to observe, not absorb.
It’s taken many decades for me to realize this about myself and consciously guard against emotional reactions.
I worked with therapeutic foster kids for several years. In training for that, I learned about ‘Attachment Disorder’ and how devastating it is to emotional development.
Studies indicate that in order to develop trust needed for social/emotional development, infants need a consistent primary caregiver (we used to call that a mother) for at least the first two years of life.
In today’s world, where maternity leave is 8 weeks (for the lucky ones) and the baby then circulates through daycare(s) and available relatives and friends who may fill in; is it any wonder we have lost, angry generations of people, lashing out at any perceived target?
We have harmed ourselves greatly with the Feminist Revolution. And unfortunately that’s only one part of the destructive movements employed against us.
***** I would like to give you 10 stars for this because I couldn't agree more. *****
I am beginning to think there is something in the water (estrogen?) and that's why this emotional reaction takes over the moment things don't quite go the way they wanted it to go.
Will Minneapolis mobs who listened to and believed in Walz and Frey as their leaders now turn on them as traitors? You can never tell how mobs might react when someone pulls the rug out from under them.
Hopefully the useless idiots will realize and blame their own leaders, but the other ones are probably getting paid too much to back down. How on earth these people think it’s right to defend and protect criminals and literal child molesters not to mention how their own money is being wasted. Yeowza Get a clue Karen!
They were willing to start a civil war over this. That is deeply concerning.
We don't know what the government has on these guys, but it looks like they could have a lot more legal charges hanging over their heads than we realize.
Jeff mentioned something about "felony murder." That Signal group in which they were discussing strategy etc., the Lt. Gov. telling people what to do - it was "organized" and it was for obstruction of the federal govt. Those two things make it an insurrection, because it is an "organized" group acting against a legitimate govt. by its own citizens. It is just as much an insurrection as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1700's aka the "Whiskey Insurrection." We've already that if you just call something an "insurrection" even when it's not, you can get some serious prison time. But apparently in the law, if you are involved in a conspiracy, like in that Signal group, which was "used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability" (per Andy Ngo at https://www.ngocomment.com/p/i-got-inside-the-signal-chats-used ), in that case, if someone dies as a result - everyone in that group can be charged with "felony murder" according to Chad Mizelle, Acting General Counsel for DHS, quoted in a recent post by President Trump which was reposted by Malone yesterday. And what's interesting, there are allegations that both the Lt. Gov. and Gov. Walz were in the Signal group under assumed names as leaders of the group, helping to plan and organize the obstructions. So actually, if Pres. Trump connected some dots for Walz, and Walz realized he could perhaps be on the hook for murder... he may have decided he would prefer to cooperate. Because just from public statements on video, without their secret participation on the Signal group, they may already be sufficiently involved in the conspiracy / insurrection perhaps to be charged. So, better understanding his situation, he may have been quite happy to change his position. What he's already done is done, but if he is turning a corner on this, maybe he could be left out of possible federal prosecution. The "felony murder" possibility seems like maybe kind of a big deal.
Thanks for these additional insights. Maybe he is happy to exchange corruption charges for felony murder. I hope he does get charged with at least something in the end, since it seems like he was benefiting greatly from all of the fraud going on in Minnesota.
It's hard to have any faith in federal charges given the blatant jury nullification taking place in blue jurisdictions (see recent outcomes in CA, for example, where juries refused to convict those charged with assaulting federal LEOs).
Could be... but Trump is already being excoriated for his giving Israel/Mossad a pass on their Epstein extortion Operations... and their 911 attacks... and their JFK assassination...
lol! I want to live in Sheriff Wayne's county 🙋🏼♀️. The ICE agents in Minneapolis need as many of his Big Beautiful Dogs as they can get their hands on.
I’m betting Walz caved because now that 2 people died he realized the genie he let out of the bottle had passed into true insurrection territory and it would eventually land in his lap. Maybe I’m giving him too much credit, though.
I think Trump offered to pull the border patrol head that was there (can’t remember his name) and pull Noem away (why do I have such a visceral dislike for her, maybe the dog thing) so Walz could save face and say he got some concessions from Trump, but meanwhile they’ll still be rounding up illegals.
I am constantly surprised by whom Trump picked for cabinet positions. Rubio for SofS seemed a trade off for not picking him VP, but Marco is seeming to excel at his job. Hegeseth has undergone fire as a tv personality, but look at what he has done with the military. Outstanding. I have many of the same opinions of Noem as you all, but if she is in this position, Trump had a purpose in mind for her. As I have said so often; LTMW.
Yes! But I did hear someone being interviewed by Tucker right after the cabinet positions were announced, saying the Bessent pick was the Homerun pick by Trump!
Not only insurrection - but when there is a conspiracy and someone dies as a result, every person in that conspiracy can be charged with "felony murder." You don't have to pull the trigger yourself. Chad Mizelle, Acting General Counsel for DHS explained this in a recent post by President Trump which was reposted by Malone yesterday. It seems quite possible that several govt officials in Minnesota may have said or done things that could give the appearance of being participants in a conspiracy and if so - once the dots have been connected for them, they would want to distance themselves from the conspiracy to obstruct, and actually to hope for no further deaths. What has already transpired, possibly could lead to charges of felony murder for those in the group but perhaps if the temperature is adjusted and things go better, no more deaths, who knows whether they would find sufficient evidence to prosecute. But the President himself has publicly posted a comment related to "felony murder" quoting Mizelle, so it's out there, and others have reposted. If Walz has noticed this or it came up in the conversation - he may have decided to protect himself as much as possible in light of two deaths already. Btw, I have read that the organization ICE Watch specifically encourages their trainees to try to provoke ICE into doing regrettable actions which should video recorded and made to go viral. ICE Watch has done that with the 2 deaths. Glenn Beck has some info on this also - about the funding for one thing, that these insurrectionist groups are paid by some of the George Soros organizations, the Ford Foundation, and others. First amendment covers people expressing their opnions publicly, but the obstructing, and being a "paid protestor" is something else. Many probably do have an emotional connection to "helping the immigrants" even though these are criminals, but still, the active obstructing, and the organizational structure with division of labor - some entering ICE license numbers into a data base, some chasing ICE and obstructing, some keeping them awake at night - being sleep deprived can lead to faulty decision making - and so on - and then they are paid for it - I saw a protestor on video saying she was being paid to do what she was doing - hard for me to think of this as anything other than a conspiracy and an insurrection, a real one, even though many of the protestors don't understand it this way. But billionaire funding sources, they know. And they don't care who dies. Maybe now Walz cares.
I think the absolute trashing of the Hilton on Sunday night may have been a turning point too, in terms of optics. Even for those sympathetic to the, ahem, "protestors" that act of destruction crossed a line.
Noem is a joke and is way in over her head. She was busy decorating her mansion (as she openly advertised on social media) while the devastating floods hit texas that killed many people. Apparently interior decorating was more important than her own citizens.
I share your visceral dislike of Noem. Plus, can she leave the hair extensions at home? Sorry, that's super catty.
I like Greg Bovino. He's a badass and he was out there on the front line, with his face for all to see, but I understand they want a softer image on the operation. Apparently the higher ups in ICE were frustrated with the messaging coming from Noem and Bovino after the Pretti shooting.
Listened to a Walz radio broadcast and he didn’t really sound repentant. He sounded like he was standing behind “some” of his rhetoric and he would still call a spade, a spade, or rather a Nazi, a Nazi. He did relinquish that he and the President had a good conversation.
T. I. Hobgoblin - Great clip! Our Florida sheriff is exactly like that too - no nonsense and to the point. It’s well understood that actions have consequences and we don’t have a whole lot of problems here as a result. It’s not rocket science.
It seems that New Jersey may need an intervention next.
''Hernando Garcia-Morales, 40, of Palisades Park, faces multiple charges in connection with a Jan. 7 motor vehicle incident on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike, the New Jersey State Police said.
The third-grade children were traveling back to Yeshivat Noam Jewish day school in Paramus after a class trip to the Liberty Science Center when a large rock smashed through the bus window, the school previously told Fox News Digital.
An 8-year-old girl suffered a skull fracture after being struck by the rock and was forced to have surgery, officials said.
Garcia-Morales was arrested on Jan. 9 by New Jersey Turnpike State Police for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and possession of a weapon. The Bogota Police Department also charged him with aggravated assault, criminal trespassing defiant, criminal trespassing peering, and criminal mischief damage property.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday that U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has issued an arrest detainer against Hernando Garcia-Morales, claiming he is a criminal illegal immigrant from Mexico.
DHS told Fox News Digital that Garcia-Morales has a history of violence and is in the country illegally, but said he has not been deported because of New Jersey’s sanctuary immigration policies.''
Due to the poor performance of the GOP-controlled Congress in codifying Trump’s EOs into laws, I am hoping the Republican convention is used to primary those Republicans who are actively working to undermine the MAGA agenda. Namely the Republicans who crossed the aisle to extend Obamacare for another three years, the ones who are fighting the securing of the vote by requiring an ID, and the ones who voted for the automobile kill switch.
Polls show only 50% of Republicans intend to vote in 2026. With the pathetic performance of this sad group of Congressional Republicans who won’t even vote for their own causes, why should the Party rank & file? The convention can whip up enthusiastic support if the surrender monkeys are sent packing.
I was really surprised that my RINO Senator reversed his position on Trump going into Venezuela (I had written him a scathing message excoriating him for his initial position and I’d like to think I and others who may have reacted similarly, helped change his stance). And yesterday I just read that he wants to be added as a cosponsor to the SAVE Act?? I don’t know what is going on but something seems to have shifted.
Everyone needs to call Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, and lean on him to pass The Save Act (photo I.D. Required for voting) and to end the fake filibuster that is holding Republican legislation by requiring 60 votes to pass.
Call him everyday! You’ll just be filling up his voice mailbox, and that gets attention!
NOTHING is more important than the midterms. Nothing. AND the Dems now *know* if they throw big enough tantrum, laws they don’t like won’t be enforced.
Ok here’s my thought. I think gerrymandering is terrible for the American people. I actually think it disenfranchises many people of both parties and I don’t know why it’s legal. It makes it very difficult for a party to lose a seat, even if the person running for that seat has a massive problem or a change in their beliefs that alienates many of their voters.
Also, it makes congress even closer in terms of numbers, like it is now, which enables them to entrench, be less cooperative, and ultimately do nothing because they don’t have the votes to pass the stupid zombie filibuster. We already have a do-NOTHING congress and IMHO this makes it so much worse.
Please someone explain what I’m missing and why gerrymandering is a good thing. I understand why it’s done in terms of political power, party politics, etc. I just think it’s terrible for the American people.
Gerrymandering is a case of the parties choosing their voters in advance of voters being able to choose their elected officials. It was bound to happen. Partisan gerrymandering is considered constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 2019 that federal courts cannot review such claims because courts have no authority to decide if gerrymandering for partisan reasons is excessive, which effectively then allows it. I get that, because if courts could make those decisions, the courts would be permanently dragged into politics, thus violating the separation of powers principle and since voting is a state issue rather than a federal one. But SCOTUS did decide that racial gerrymandering is illegal (due to the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and civil rights laws. Thus, drawing maps for political advantage remains allowed at the federal level, though it may be challenged under specific state constitutions and some states have outlawed partisan gerrymandering.
Michigan got a constitutional amendment passed in 2020 to redistrict Congressional seats via a “bipartisan” committee put into place by the governor’s office. What could go wrong with that? Everything. The bipartisan committee was chosen by the blue team. Whole Congressional districts were upended. Many reliable Red districts had several blue cities added. The U.P. Of Michigan was split into two districts, that’s it. From a former state rep, the committee seemed to have no idea what went into establishing new Congressional districts. They fell way behind on scheduling and rushed to cram it down the voters throats by 2022. It has been a disaster.
Well, we could just create districts mechanically, the way many counties are configured, squares, 6 miles on a side. Divide them into precincts containing 3000 (or pick your number designed for effective one day voting without long lines). Periodically the precincts would be rearranged, increased or decreased to maintain the max effective voters. Do this starting at one corner of the district and building to opposite corner. This could create wildly varying ratios of parties, but they couldn't claim partisan, or racial imbalance. Will neger happen, of course...
"Isn't that the way every dictator got started? Hitler controlled the 'German Brown Shirts'. The Brown Shirts were causing all sorts of civil upheavals. Hitler promised to stop the Brown Shirts and quickly put in power."
Comparing Trump to Hitler is lazy and historically illiterate. Hitler seized power by destroying institutions, silencing opposition, and ruling through violence. Trump 1.0 governed inside the Constitution, faced relentless resistance, lost an election, and left office. Trump 2.0 is moving fast—but tis doing so through the electoral process , the courts, legislation, and executive authority that already exists. You can oppose his policies without cheapening history or trivializing REAL dictators. When everything is “Hitler,” nothing is.
Hitler was a great leader... but the victors and zionists wrote the history of WWII... mostly BIG lies... FDR and Churchill were the corrupt maggots... and Ike had his own massive death camps where POWs were murdered...
IMHO Hitler was controlled by demonic forces and was destroyed by them. Trump has been selected by God and is being empowered and protected by Him to destroy the princes of evil worldwide opening an additional window of grace for “whosoever will” to recognize their need for a savior and accept Jesus Christ as their sovereign King !🙏
It may be different this year due to outside forces, but ordinarily if you are planning on getting a big tax refund, it’s because you’re an idiot that allows the government to use YOUR money for free before you beg to have it returned through a “refund”. Ideally, your tax forms should show zero or even a small owing, which if you’re smart you mail in on April 15 with a postmark applied in front of you.
That is so infuriating and ridiculous 😡 At least allow a certain percentage as a margin of error. But ideally, scrap the whole income tax and the authoritarian bureaucratic mess that is the IRS with it!!
Several years ago, we changed ours to take out a smaller amount, even if we have to pay in at the end of the year. Well, guess what we got fined for under guessing our tax income! No, I’m not joking.
I live in britain. Have done so for the past 28 years. I have witnessed things going from bad to worse. And I agree with your take Jeff on 15 minute cities. Although when I returned to the USA, the other day, immigration handed me an “A1 “written in pink on my customs card, which meant I had to go through another layer of homeland security, in a cordoned off area. Not sure why I was targeted, but it was unpleasant as a law abiding citizen to be detained. One has to ask what the US gov’t is up to. I am a 75 year old, retired RN, with rheumatoid arthritis. Hardly a threat to our country. A disappointing experience.
I had the exact same thing happen in London. Not only did I get pulled out of line but had to go in a room where they took my passport and went through some process, which I don’t know what it was, for about 20 min. They finally gave it back without telling me why I had been singled out. I’m not exactly excited to go back to the UK again.
My experience was not as bad it was a regular TSA agent but I was randomly selected and had to have a full pat down. I specifically wear soft clothing. Slip on shoes. Sport bra nothing metal. No jewelry. No belt. Nothing. The female agent spent her sweet time and I was so uncomfortable. My sister who was traveling with me was getting pissed and started to react. It was ridiculous and embarrassing. I recall my sister (Air Force ) saying ‘racial profiling is used because it works. She is not your problem.’ Ha! I thought if she gets me strip search I was gonna be pissed. It all ended and I was mostly fine.
" If your only source is useless corporate media, you are drowning in a bathtub of lukewarm misinformation." I'm SO stealing that line!! I have a neighbor who tells me stuff she gets of the TV news, who is then stunned when I explain the reality of the story to her. She will be hearing that line :D
I suspect gold will be revalued to 10,000 an ounce. And I expect silver to climb to at least 500. Trump's plan is to replace the illegal central bank slavery system with a new system based on no debt, currency backed by gold, and no illegal "income tax". The Federal Reserve will be obsolete.
From your lips to God’s ears. Imagine a world without the IRS… it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of hell-pfull bureaucrats….
Amen to that!! 🙏
@Florida- having had a business and dealing with the IRS and NYS (NY State), I can attest to the fact that the IRS was much, MUCH nicer to work with than NYS.
Same here. How about that 10,000 “ fee” for having the honor of paying nys tax as a business?
I could only dream, no more tax theft, my metals could set me up for a nice bonus gift. Combine this and stop the Trillions in fraud by the Pols and NGOs that would truly be the Golden Age of America
bigger tax refunds?? So what, the feds are giving back some of the $ they extorted from us?
Stop the socialism tax scheme the lets lower income skate and puts all burden on upper and middle income Americans. No unconstitutional income tax or for now, Flat tax rate.
They inflate the currency so that we move into higher brackets with no real growth of buying power.
28% tax on gold silver conversion to fiat? Anyone tired of being robbed?
US Gold reserves have not been Physically audited since 1953. What they call audits are fake paper audits. I'd be amazed if it was all still there.
I think you are right Michael Miller! I will have to see in person or on a non-AI film to believe it. I think it is all gone.
Wow, I think I had this dream once. Wouldn’t it be grand if the Fed went away?
I don’t know Dave… It sounds good, but I have a feeling that central digital bank will be somewhere in that mix and we aren’t going to like it 🫤
Possible, we shall see.
We can hope not…
not in this country. not. gonna. happen
END THE FED! And replace the property tax with the uniform states sales tax!
If I could get rid of my property taxes, I would not worry about If I will be able to stay in my mortgage free home in the future as taxes can increase 15-20 % and we are just supposed to keep absorbing it. ( And lived my whole life with the "if you can't afford to pay for it, I will forego it" mentality) Rape, even gang rape is legal in Massachusetts. The tax everything they can think of.
remember the movie Conspiracy Theory in 1997? Mel Gibson suggest doing something, and his counterpart said "That's illegal In Massachusetts ". "Gibson responded. "everything is illegal in Massachusetts". My how times change
And oddly the TRULY illegal stuff that I suspect is happening, like in MN, is happening here as well. All the "sanctuary and right to shelter" states. And even more odd, is I volunteer helping a large, legal immigrant family and have been doing so for 4 years to help them navigate life here, after Bidens brilliant plans in 2020. I am learning a lot too.
Michigan is right behind you!
Praying for the Robert's Family!
Yes!
but, but, but, the DEBT! What is Trump's plan there? Given the size of the problems Trump has shown himself willing to tackle, why hasn't he tackled the Debt? In fact, he's added to it just like all his predecessors.
To do something dramatic about it, he'll need leverage. What can he do? What leverage is possible?
To me its obvious that this is something he can only tackle after winning the midterms and assuming he retains the House and Senate. Then he can do painful things. And no matter how bold or brilliant his idea for the Debt, it will involve pain. How could it not?
The risk: the pain is too much for swing voters and does nothing to pull anyone from the Left toward the center (not that its possible to do that anyway). And "too much pain" means we lose it all in 2028.
Which brings me to what has to be Trump's endgame: how can he make permanent anything that he's done? It has to be Congress and he has to nuke the RINOs, the filibuster, the corruption, etc.
Did Project 2025 discuss any of this endgame plan?
Tariffs play a big part.
Agree.
Btw, weren't we supposed to hear from SCOTUS by now on tariffs?
I wonder if SCOTUS has been watching the political winds, or the economic winds, before deciding the issue?
If tariffs are really as outstanding as Trump's team says (I've read the other side claim that all the costs of tariffs have been borne by consumers), it would be a crime for SCOTUS to scuttle them.
Not against a $40 Trillion debt monster... with $2 Trillion annual additions to it...
Hard to imagine the debt monster NOT causing some major pain at some point... a Trump default? maybe...
"The Debt is not real. It is owed almost exclusively to the owners of the FED. Illegal interest charged for the privilege" of them printing "our" money. Screw Their debt.
The debt, that number the press loves to throw around, that ridiculous number, has already been mostly taken care of. How much has our economy improved since November last? 38 T? Getting close. That’s the truth if the matter everyone fails to mention, every time.
What are you talking about - it's mostly been taken care of??
He's tackling the debt by debasing the dollar and working to lower the interest rate. I think he's just hoping that growth with outpace inflation.
That just gave me the tingles
We can fight like hell to make this a reality.
Please, please be right! 🤞
I love your positive expectation. It all turns to flatulence if the dems take the midterms and we start to look a lot like not-so-great Britain.
I hope you are right.
And not a moment too soon!
On that note, seems all the states that don’t have state income tax are doing just fine.
I think gold at 20,000 is a bit more likely... but I also doubt that any US gold reserves are left, at least nor multi-times encumbered... so gold-backed dollar is unlikely... and when China and Russia finally reveal their massive gold holdings... jeeze... dollar collapse...
$500 silver sounds about right... some think it may get REALLY crazy and go to one-to-one with gold...
Historically silver has not been so exponentially less than gold, so there is some chatter out there that silver may approach more of a historical comparison value to gold. Sorry I can’t quote exact numbers off the top of head, but keep watching silver!
Yes.
The way they may become equal in price is if/when the crooked Comex is forced to close and cash settle all futures contracts... (soon, IMHO)...
AND... if the rumored "discoveries" of massive amounts of previously "unknown" gold, holdings or in-ground... are found to be legit...
Time will tell. Unfortunately, it is looking like if we did move to a system backed by metals, that it would be tied to a digital stablecoin as that legislation is being passed through congress, which is really a horrible way to do it for many obvious reasons. But people in power like their power over us....
Dave, I've been hoping for a return to the Au standard for decades. May it come about! (and happy to have been prescient should that be so....)
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“You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross. God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead. Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.” — Peter, Acts 10:38-43 NAS95
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Jesus the One and ONLY Savior! HAllelujah
Amen.
Janice, I love your book so much. It speaks to me everyday. 🤍
Thank you for blessing me with these words, Brenda. Praise God for the effectiveness of His word.
I love this, Janice. What a faithful witness for our Lord and Savior you are! I hope you’re well on your way in recovering.
Thank you, Julie Ann. I’m getting there. Yesterday was the first day I didn’t feel like I would croak if I didn’t take a nap. 😀 Now I just wait to hear when we do the actual treatment. They will probably push it out a little while because I am allergic to the contrast dye, so it takes awhile for my body to calm down after having it.
As for the passage, it’s one of those I know I have read multiple times, but this time it struck me how packed it is with glorious details about our Savior.
I pray more people come to understand the significance of Scripture for all human souls.
Amen. Every person has to decide what they're going to do with Jesus. The answer is of eternal value.
Thank you Janice …..Praise God🙏✝️
Trump Norris?
While learning CPR Chuck Norris actually brought the practice dummy to life.
Chuck Norris threw a grenade and killed 50 people, then it exploded.
Chuck norris went skydiving and his parachute failed to open, so he took it back the next day for a refund
Chuck Norris protects his body guards.
Chuck Norris can sit at the corner of a round table
Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life.
Chuck Norris doesn't tell lies. He changes facts.
Chuck Norris doesn't dial the wrong number, you pick up the wrong phone
Before going to bed, the Boogeyman always checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris has a grizzly bear carpet in his room. The bear isn't dead it is just afriad to move.
What every sports player should say after winning? "First of all, I would like to thank Chuck Norris for not competing."
A cop once pulled Chuck Norris over...Luckily, the cop left only with a warning.
Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.
Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
Once, Chuck Norris reached the point of no return…. …..and returned.
Chuck Norris once stared into the abyss... ...and it looked away.
Chuck Norris was once bitten by a cobra snake. After 3 long days of suffering, the snake died
Chuck Norris was petting a tiger. Suddenly the tiger began to utter a soft growl. The trainer said, "get up slowly and back away." So, the tiger did.
Chuck Norris called 911
And asked if they needed help.
Chuck Norris caught AIDS and the prognosis is not good. Anyone wanting to say goodbye to the virus should visit the hospital tonight.
Chuck Norris uses a stunt double
….for crying scenes
Chuck Norris once kicked a pregnant horse in the chin ...And giraffes were born
Chuck Norris doesn’t pay attention, attention pays Chuck Norris
When Chuck Norris was born, The doctor said “Congratulations! You have two healthy parents.”
When Chuck Norris was a kid, his parents slept in his bed when they were scared
Chuck Norris hit the longest home run in MLB history...He also caught that ball
Did you hear about the fight between Chuck Norris and Superman? The loser had to wear their underwear on the outside
Chuck Norris Once Picked A Apple from a Orange Tree. He made lemonade from it.
Chuck Norris went to court once.
The judge turned to him and opened with, "Your Honor, may I speak freely?”
Chuck Norris once heard that nothing can kill him, so he tracked down nothing and killed it
Chuck Norris plays a very important role in star wars. He's the force.
I fear the day will come when Chuck Norris is no longer with us……that will be the day everyone dies except Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris skipped school two days in a row...Those days are now Saturday and Sunday.
Chuck Norris once stepped on a crack, it apologized and fixed his mom's back.
The only game Chuck Norris has ever lost was Russian Roulette. He’s lost a few times, actually.
Tri, this is hilarious! Hard to pick a favorite, but it might be this one: Chuck Norris doesn't dial the wrong number, you pick up the wrong phone. LOL!!!
Chuck Norris picked up a missed call.
Chuck Norris could kill two stones with one bird.
Someone once asked Chuck Norris how many pushups he could do.
He replied:
All of them.
Bruce Lee say, hell no! I kicked that round eyes ass.😅
Do you know why there are so many Chuck Norris jokes, but not many Bruce Lee ones?
Because Bruce Lee is no joke
I enjoyed the jokes. I enjoy Chuck Norris, as well.
Chuck Norris was born in a log cabin that he built with his own 2 hands.
😂
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Chuck Norris was in a knife fight. The knife lost.
When Chuck Norris does a pushup,
he pushes the earth down.
. . . a good summary.
Afraid of Chuck Norris, the Dark sleeps with a night-light.
My favorite
Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer. Too bad he's never cried.
Comedy Gold for the ages!
When Chuck Norris was born he drove his mother home from the hospital.
Love these!
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he had two missed calls from Chuck Norris….
🤣😂🤣😂
Chuck Norris does not have near death experiences , Death has near Chuck Norris experiences.
Love it!!!
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door
I had a great devotion with ChatGPT today. This is the most relevant
Why does forgiveness hurt so much?
This question is quieter than “why doesn’t God erase evil,” but it’s more personal. Most people don’t ask it until they’ve been wounded.
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1. Because forgiveness always involves absorbing a debt
When someone harms you, something is taken:
• dignity
• safety
• trust
• time
• innocence
• peace
That loss is real. Forgiveness does not pretend it isn’t.
If you forgive, one of two things must happen:
• you make them pay, or
• you carry the cost
Forgiveness means choosing the second.
That’s why it hurts.
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2. Forgiveness is not excusing — it’s bearing
A common misunderstanding is:
“If I forgive, I’m saying what happened didn’t matter.”
Biblically and psychologically, the opposite is true.
You only forgive what deeply matters.
Forgiveness says:
• This was wrong
• It damaged me
• Justice is deserved
• But I will not become an executioner
That inner restraint is painful.
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3. Forgiveness interrupts the cycle of violence — at a cost
Evil naturally wants to replicate:
• harm → retaliation → escalation
• wound → bitterness → further harm
Forgiveness breaks the chain—but the breaking point is inside the forgiver.
You feel:
• anger with nowhere to go
• grief without restitution
• justice delayed
• vulnerability without guarantee
That emotional weight has to land somewhere.
In forgiveness, it lands on you.
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4. This is why forgiveness feels like a small death
People often say:
• “I lost something and never got it back”
• “I forgave, but I was never the same”
• “Something died in me”
That’s not poetic exaggeration.
Forgiveness involves the death of:
• fantasies of revenge
• imagined apologies
• alternate pasts
• the version of the relationship you hoped for
Death hurts—even when it’s necessary.
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5. Why God doesn’t command cheap forgiveness
Notice something important in Scripture:
God never says, “Just forgive and move on, it’s no big deal.”
Instead:
• lament is allowed
• anger is voiced
• justice is named
• wounds are acknowledged
The Psalms are full of people forgiving slowly, honestly, painfully.
Biblical forgiveness is not denial—it’s transformation through truth.
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6. Why the cross reframes forgiveness (not trivializes it)
This is where sacrifice comes back in.
Christianity does not say:
“God forgives because sin isn’t serious.”
It says:
“God forgives by absorbing the cost Himself.”
That’s why forgiveness hurts:
You are doing—on a human scale—what God is portrayed as doing cosmically.
You are choosing:
• to carry pain
• to refuse vengeance
• to leave judgment to God
• to remain open rather than hardened
That’s not weakness.
That’s costly strength.
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7. Why unforgiveness hurts too (but differently)
This part is uncomfortable, but honest.
Unforgiveness feels powerful at first:
• righteous
• protective
• justified
But over time it:
• freezes you in the moment of harm
• lets the offender live rent-free in your inner world
• slowly reshapes your identity around the wound
Forgiveness hurts up front.
Unforgiveness hurts over time.
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8. What forgiveness is not
Just to be crystal clear:
Forgiveness is not:
• reconciliation (that requires trust)
• forgetting
• excusing
• allowing continued harm
• removing consequences
You can forgive and still:
• set boundaries
• seek justice
• walk away
• name the truth
Jesus forgives and confronts.
Those are not opposites.
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Where this leaves us
Forgiveness hurts because:
• evil creates real debt
• someone must pay it
• and love chooses to bear it rather than pass it on
That’s why sacrifice made sense.
That’s why the cross makes sense.
That’s why forgiveness feels like crucifixion on a small, human scale.
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Next in order is:
3. Why does love require loss?
When you’re ready, we’ll go there.
This is powerful! I hate it when forgiveness is commanded flippantly. It’s a death, of sorts.
Forgiveness involves accepting the loss of what was rightfully owed you.
It’s a decision to allow God to use what happened for his own greater plan. And he will!
You will become what would have been impossible without the grace & power of God - but it requires faith & humility.
Forgiveness is obedience once we have skin in the game.
Christ’s death & resurrection is the pattern.
Amen 🙏
Chat GPT providing guidance.....sigh
If I get to the point where I go to AI for philosophical or spiritual advice, or even a "conversation," I will put my phone on the ground and step on it. Hard.
But that's just me.
That's me too!
I disagree. It is surprising how thoughtful the tool can be but discretion must be applied! It also is capable of error and maybe outright lying. I use the tools I need that are available to me and sometimes it is AI. ChatGPT has reasonably answered some theological questions of mine
Reference tools are awesome. A dictionary, a thesaurus, Strong's Concordance and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are all reference tools.
They do not have conversations with you where they try to give you whatever you seem to want. AI is designed to flatter you, to feed you responses to what you ask that are acceptable to you, to develop a rapport with you and provide a companionable interaction.
It lies. It "hallucinates." It gives you demonstrably false info. We tested the paid subscription Chat GPT repeatedly in my office and the results included completely fabricated error filled material, for which it actually apologized like a person who simply made a mistake.
Having devotions with it as though it's talking with you and channeling Thomas Aquinas is (choosing my words carefully) not wise.
When it is used as a devotional guide, you are outsourcing your ability to read and discuss spirtual source material from known authors with reputable real humans and instead accepting a synthesis of who knows what material from software designed to cater to your perceived desires and programmed by demonstrably ungodly people. Again, this is not wise.
Well I like it if I am feeling the need for quick reference not used often at all
For reference points it has uses. Using it as a spiritual resource (“having a devotional with it") is not a good idea. It is specifically designed to feed you what you want when you ask it philosophical questions, and that's extremely dangerous spiritually.
Forgiveness only works because God has promised vengeance for every wrong. Every debt will be paid in full; by the guilty party or by Christ.
Wow…all that wisdom from AI? It’s both scary and intriguing…. Having had to study forgiveness and such, Biblically, this is so spot on…again, wow…I don’t want to use AI…it is so uncertain to me…yet what you shared today is filled with wisdom…🙏🏻
GPT lied to you. The Psalms is full of prayers and plans for the destruction and desolation of one's enemies, and comfort for knowing that the faithful will win in the end because of that vengeance. E.g. Psalm 35, among numerous others.
If you listen to that teaching liar, you will find you lack trustworthy advisors elsewhere in your life over time, per the scriptures. Imagine what one's children would do upon digging after some parental lecture to realize that they received vapid AI balogna instead of ancient wisdom. They would never trust a lecture again. Likewise for anyone else.
Proverbs 29:12: “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked".
This is one of the deepest, insightful things I have ever read about forgiveness. Thank you for sharing 💜
Might I suggest that instead of dropping all this text, that is TL;dnr, you provide a topic statement and a link for those who might really benefit.
Thank you for sharing
THIS! Thank you.
To get an idea of millions vs. billions vs. trillions:
1 million seconds is
11.5 days
1 billion seconds is
31.5 years.
1 trillion seconds is
31,710 years
I love that, Laura. The word “trillion” is now being casually tossed around and most people probably don’t even think about it. Thanks for the helpful example.
And our debt is $39 trillion so how much would gold and silver be worth to wipe that debt out?
That debt has pretty much been wiped out. The value of our economy has increased by how much since last November?
No the debt has not been erased. We’ve had a month or so where the deficit was reduced. I doubt the debt will ever be erased. What needs to happen is a significant reduction so debt as % of GDP is reduced. But the way Demtoids and RINOS like to spend spent hold your breath.
Alan is clearly living in fantasy land.
Yeah I wasn’t sure how to react to his comment because it was so silly.
You would probably like the children’s book called “How Much is a Million?” By David Schwartz
I need to find my copy and read it again. My son loved it. Great gift idea, too.
Who ever heard of the word "trillions" being used to describe government spending or debt levels ~ 50 years ago? Now we hear too big to fail banks have quadrillions in derivatives.
Wow
Thanks Laura - this was very meaningful and insightful!
Wow. I will use that for my Grands, who toss around billion and trillion in regards to how much they trade (or something) in Roblox and some other game. They don’t think it is a lot. 😂
Sherry - just an FYI. You might want to read about Roblox. It’s a haven for pedos. They target 8-14 year olds. Jeff wrote about this:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-bridge-to-1963-tuesday-october?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts
Thank you, Laura. We were at an airport with the kids a few years ago and they were playing Roblox. A man took my husband aside and warned him about the ‘people’ on they were playing against may be pedos. He said we should review all the names the kids were playing with and if they didn’t know the person in real life, they had to delete them. We told their Mom and she and we do it regularly AND we told the kids WHY. (10 & 11)
Sherry - I am so very relieved to hear this!
Wow - I’m first? No way! I’ll just use this time to say hi to everyone and talk about how AI and unemployment go hand in hand: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/ai-and-unemployment-the-tech-leaders
My husband’s job will become obsolete. So glad we are only a few years from retirement. 😖
Far more many jobs will be affected.
Oh absolutely!
Disruptive technologies always cause some unemployment and the worker affected have to shift around, maybe learn new skills or even go into other industries. There is nothing new here and even the hype is the same. People adjust and it all works out over time.
UncleWiggy, I came across this yesterday
https://x.com/i/status/2015182480064893118
Howdy!
Something the trump admin is all in on, but hardly anyone of his devoted flock will question or criticize, regardless of the huge implications it poses.
Hello!
Well done!
I'd be interested to know how that conversation between Trump and Walz went. Regardless, I'll bet when Walz hung up the phone he was fully onboard with the "we better start kissing Trump's butt" part of the program. Trump's hilarious: "I just had a great conversation with Tim Walz...." 🤣
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Trump undoubtedly said something like, "we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice, but it's going to happen." He has a lot of leverage which people seem to forget. Plus he has shown us over and over he always has a plan in mind and is never just reacting.
I'm a big believer in "trust the plan" (double arrows) "always chimp". In other words, we trust that PDJT has a big picture plan, and it's in the best interests of Americans. On the other hand, RINOs, neocons, hedge fund billionaires, and other assorted subversives are continuously lobbying him, and it's important we do the same. He can't just hear from the bad guys.
But there is a big difference between making our voices heard and hysteria. The last few days have shown just how many people supposedly on the right are at best hysterical effeminates ruled entirely by their emotions. You have the libertarian crowd (Joe Rogan, Martyr Made, various "pastors") saying something like, "I voted for immigration enforcement but not this". But what exactly is the administration supposed to do, wish enforcement into existence? Weak, delusional men at best.
Then on the other side you have people demanding PDJT invoke the Insurrection Act and have the military storm Minnesota (Sean Davis, various "influencers" like Nick Sorter). These people are just as bad as the weaklings but in the other direction, unable to control their emotions, thus demanding Trump "do something!" The idea that there is a big picture strategy at play here is completely foreign to them. There is also a very real possibility that spineless congressional Republicans will turn on Trump if they think he's losing the public.
We are surrounded by poofters who never learned to reason, think critically, look at the big picture, and evaluate a plan. They are children entirely driven by their emotions who react to every unpleasant instance with manic hysteria. They have the maturity of a teenager, how do these people raise children and hold jobs? Not very well I suspect. Most probably don't have much money either.
Or they could be deliberate chaos agents. Probably some of both. But it is truly shocking to realize how many adults cannot control their emotions.
I think for people on the ground in a city like MSP where they have been inundated by thousands of federal agents, it is not a great way to live. I have a lot of contacts there and having your neighborhoods invaded with federal agents is not a fun way to live, even if you support them. Then add in the tragedies of people being killed, animosity between both "sides" and it creates a horrible environment. Naked Emperor had a little blurb about the situation, which I appreciated:
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I am concerned. Concerned that many of us are regressing back to the depths of Covid polarity. Perhaps even further. We are shown a grey picture and half who view it are convinced it is black, the other half convinced it is white. There is no nuance, no trying to understand the other side, just that if you see the picture differently to me then you are a ‘Gestapo Nazi’ or a ‘liberal retard.’ If you try to look at things objectively then you get called both names.
Covid was a horrible time. I had hoped those days had passed. I had hoped that the people vilified for their stances on masks, lockdowns and vaccine mandates would think that they would never allow themselves to be that person in reverse. I had hoped that the ‘critical thinkers’ were able to see ALL things objectively. But it turns out many of those people were just following the crowd on the other side - merely opposed to things that their team was against.
And so it comes to ICE and the tragic deaths that keep and will keep on happening.
If you truly are a critical thinker - and by God we need those more than ever right now - you are able to hold multiple views without being contradictory.
You can think that mass immigration doesn’t benefit your country and that illegal immigrants should be deported whilst simultaneously condemning how ICE do things.
You can support ICE and simultaneously think that they are being inadequately trained to deal with aggressive and provocative agitators. Or that they shouldn’t be masked up, anonymous and militarised.
You can hate what ICE is doing but also see that hard-left agitators are jumping on the bandwagon to worsen situations.
If you were anti guns before, you don’t have to suddenly think that protesting with a gun is fine - just because the protests are against ICE. If you were pro guns previously, you don’t have to U-turn and think that because Alex Pretti had one, he signed his own death warrant.
You may support ICE but you should still champion people’s right to protest them (legally). Obviously, anybody planning on taking it one step further and attacking officers should be adequately dealt with but if you support the removal of legal protest then next time it will be yours that is stopped. It will be an anti-lockdowner that will be shot.
We are in classic Problem-Reaction-Solution territory and the solution will soon be revealed.
A part of the machine is trying to ignite small civil wars throughout the US. I’m still trying to work out for what purpose but it is clear that ideological forces on both sides are deliberately trying to make people angry and hate each other. Perhaps this is to try and destroy Trump in the mid-terms. Maybe that’s why he has refused to comment this time - he can see that factions within his own administration are working against him. But perhaps trouble is being provoked for an even more sinister reason.
Partisan Americans are being goaded into a trap. Stay nuanced, stay critical and objectively analyse everything. It is more important than ever before.
funny that all the chaos is only happening where local police have been told not to co-operate and politicians stoke the anti ICE fires - it's really the fraud that Waltz et al are trying to deflect most likely because they are deeply involved - follow the money
Its quite possible, but until we have actual proof that is just speculation. People seem to be forgetting that protests are huge and likely have both inorganic and completely organic elements to them.
also possible the the protests that are "huge" are completely INorganic and artificially generated by paying one group of easily disturbed libtards while the leaders, not being paid, come from the Dem. party.
THEIR pay is Trump losing.
Walz could be, by proxy, organizing these protests to use them as a bargaining chip in his own criminal investigation. He'll call them off once he makes a deal with the feds that reduces his participation in the fraud to misdemeanor level. He may have difficulty calling off the dogs that he unleashed, though. But without the financial backing, many will leave. A few arrests with long term sentences wouldn't hurt, either. Soros' Project Syndicate was funding the mass illegal immigration to destroy the US middle class and usher in a socialist/communist fantasy. Biden apparently was on board. It's not mass immigration that is the problem. It's mass ILLEGAL immigration.
I’d prefer my city inundated with ice agents ( really, that many?) than thousands of walkabout zombies, being paid to be there, and agitate. I can tell you it still won’t happen in Florida. Even with our constant warmth,there aren’t hundreds showing up to violently engage ice. Hmm. Wonder why.
I understand your question is rhetorical but can't help saying:
Here's why:
Desantis and https://tinyurl.com/4k4txmpy
I was thinking about this Sunday. I innocently took a needlework class over zoom. To my mind, needlework should be innocuous, right? The class was taught out of a Portland, OR shop. The class started with the shop owner saying something like “thank you for being patient with us, it’s been a rough couple of weeks, especially this week.” I thought “oh no I hope no one is gravely ill or something bad happened at the shop.” Silly me, she was talking about the events in MN. Seriously?! In the dang needlework class, which btw, I paid money to be in?! Then, being on zoom, the zoom folks could talk amongst themselves and I had to hear about several of the leftist talking points, fortunately briefly. But most involved people talking about being scared because Trump is in charge. Scared to travel, scared of what comes next, etc, etc.
Anyway, all that is to say that I realized Sunday evening that we have reached the point in this country that no matter which party is in charge, half the country is going to be afraid. Unfortunately, I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
Ohhh Johnny😍Getting some sophisticated writing help from your handlers, huh? A much more subtle approach than your usual simple minded Orange Man Bad.
Sorry you can only see things from your tribe's viewpoint. An obvious weakness but oblivious to it, you are.
I think people can and do critically think but also exhausted and want it over with. I can see many of the points but want it over also.
Trust me…there’s method to Johnny O’s Trump hating, manipulating madness.
Great response. Always break down what is happening. Another example. People mad as hell about ICE wearing masks. They are wearing them for the SAME reason most of the protesters are. To keep themselves and their families safe by not being recognized and doxxed.
Great comment. Especially pointing out that the leftists aren’t the only emotional and reactive ones. Patience and dogged perseverance are what we need more than knee-jerk reactiveness.
20/20 hindsight Dept: maybe Trump and Homan should have said last January, "It took a long time to get 15+ million illegals into the country. Getting them out won't be easy and won't happen overnight. It will also be messy because we can't use the same processes for entering the country legally, processes that focus on one person's situation. We will be doing this by the thousands at a time. That's the only way to quickly get to millions. And part of "messy" will be innocent casualties. It's unavoidable. But if you're looking for someone to blame, blame those who got us here, especially the last Administration that broke the camel's back."
OK, that's too long winded. Trump is a better communicator. But you get the gist.
And to all the howls such a statement would get: we all know Trump would find a perfectly civil, rational response. Something like, "...and your wife's ugly, too."
There’s nothing over reactive to wanting violent felons removed. My understanding is the MN is refusing to turn even incarcerated violent criminals over to ICE. HOW PATIENT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE? This is just ridiculous
Early on Homan addressed the innocent casualties by saying the entire family could be deported. Problem solved.
There are definitely more efficient ways to remove illegals which aren't currently being utilized (e-Verify is a start, and punishing employers using illegals would encourage self-deportation). Biden let in anywhere from 8-10 million illegals during his term often flying them to the interior of the country. Planes fly both ways. The deportation methods currently in use are time-consuming and fraught with risk. Democrats, however, don't care. They are not going to let their imported voter base go without a fight. And squishy Rs seem to have some incentive to keep illegals here too.
Jeff C, it’s called Emotional Quotient. I have learned that the EQ is more important than the IQ. Many, many people are walking around with low EQs, which means that their emotional age is between 3 and 12. This causes them to react emotionally which never solves any problem & adds fuel to the fire. People with a high EQ (emotional adults) respond to situations which takes a higher level of awareness (consciousness). It involves not only logic but intuition, gut feeling, CREATIVITY. Critical thinking involves all of these skills. This is how problems are solved. In these tumultuous times, I try to observe, not absorb.
It’s taken many decades for me to realize this about myself and consciously guard against emotional reactions.
I worked with therapeutic foster kids for several years. In training for that, I learned about ‘Attachment Disorder’ and how devastating it is to emotional development.
Studies indicate that in order to develop trust needed for social/emotional development, infants need a consistent primary caregiver (we used to call that a mother) for at least the first two years of life.
In today’s world, where maternity leave is 8 weeks (for the lucky ones) and the baby then circulates through daycare(s) and available relatives and friends who may fill in; is it any wonder we have lost, angry generations of people, lashing out at any perceived target?
We have harmed ourselves greatly with the Feminist Revolution. And unfortunately that’s only one part of the destructive movements employed against us.
‘Poofters” 😁
Saucy word, that. Love it. See also “wankers”
"Rule #1: No poofters! Rule #2: No poofters! Rule #3... " - Monty Python
Wankers = vernacular for Bankers.
Ted Lasso
***** I would like to give you 10 stars for this because I couldn't agree more. *****
I am beginning to think there is something in the water (estrogen?) and that's why this emotional reaction takes over the moment things don't quite go the way they wanted it to go.
Will Minneapolis mobs who listened to and believed in Walz and Frey as their leaders now turn on them as traitors? You can never tell how mobs might react when someone pulls the rug out from under them.
Hopefully the useless idiots will realize and blame their own leaders, but the other ones are probably getting paid too much to back down. How on earth these people think it’s right to defend and protect criminals and literal child molesters not to mention how their own money is being wasted. Yeowza Get a clue Karen!
I'm guessing Walz and Frey have seen that there isn't a lot of option for them.
Of course, maybe Trump offered no prosecution for their participation in fraud/voting illegalities. That'd be a pretty big carrot.
They were willing to start a civil war over this. That is deeply concerning.
We don't know what the government has on these guys, but it looks like they could have a lot more legal charges hanging over their heads than we realize.
Jeff mentioned something about "felony murder." That Signal group in which they were discussing strategy etc., the Lt. Gov. telling people what to do - it was "organized" and it was for obstruction of the federal govt. Those two things make it an insurrection, because it is an "organized" group acting against a legitimate govt. by its own citizens. It is just as much an insurrection as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1700's aka the "Whiskey Insurrection." We've already that if you just call something an "insurrection" even when it's not, you can get some serious prison time. But apparently in the law, if you are involved in a conspiracy, like in that Signal group, which was "used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability" (per Andy Ngo at https://www.ngocomment.com/p/i-got-inside-the-signal-chats-used ), in that case, if someone dies as a result - everyone in that group can be charged with "felony murder" according to Chad Mizelle, Acting General Counsel for DHS, quoted in a recent post by President Trump which was reposted by Malone yesterday. And what's interesting, there are allegations that both the Lt. Gov. and Gov. Walz were in the Signal group under assumed names as leaders of the group, helping to plan and organize the obstructions. So actually, if Pres. Trump connected some dots for Walz, and Walz realized he could perhaps be on the hook for murder... he may have decided he would prefer to cooperate. Because just from public statements on video, without their secret participation on the Signal group, they may already be sufficiently involved in the conspiracy / insurrection perhaps to be charged. So, better understanding his situation, he may have been quite happy to change his position. What he's already done is done, but if he is turning a corner on this, maybe he could be left out of possible federal prosecution. The "felony murder" possibility seems like maybe kind of a big deal.
Thanks for these additional insights. Maybe he is happy to exchange corruption charges for felony murder. I hope he does get charged with at least something in the end, since it seems like he was benefiting greatly from all of the fraud going on in Minnesota.
I can hear the phone call: "OK Tim, you can cooperate or you can go down for felony murder. Which is it?"
Yep! I believe Trump connected some dots for the crazies, who were in so much rage and fear that they were blind to possible consequences.
It's hard to have any faith in federal charges given the blatant jury nullification taking place in blue jurisdictions (see recent outcomes in CA, for example, where juries refused to convict those charged with assaulting federal LEOs).
Like massive fraud and misappropriation of Federal Taxpayer money. Long prison visit on the horizon.
I'm sure he had him squirming.
I doubt "no prosecution" but maybe just teased the possibility of a pardon - but who knows. We'll see.
Could be... but Trump is already being excoriated for his giving Israel/Mossad a pass on their Epstein extortion Operations... and their 911 attacks... and their JFK assassination...
It's quite possible Trump recited a few facts about Somali daycare and maybe even played a recording he'd found laying around.
lol! I want to live in Sheriff Wayne's county 🙋🏼♀️. The ICE agents in Minneapolis need as many of his Big Beautiful Dogs as they can get their hands on.
We've got some great sheriff's. Never at a loss for making the least ambiguous declarations. FAFO rules here.
I’m betting Walz caved because now that 2 people died he realized the genie he let out of the bottle had passed into true insurrection territory and it would eventually land in his lap. Maybe I’m giving him too much credit, though.
I think Trump offered to pull the border patrol head that was there (can’t remember his name) and pull Noem away (why do I have such a visceral dislike for her, maybe the dog thing) so Walz could save face and say he got some concessions from Trump, but meanwhile they’ll still be rounding up illegals.
Just my opinion.
I think it was because the Signal group was infiltrated and outed. Lt governor involved is pretty messy. Not organic but organized.
Great point! I forgot about the signal chat.
The citizen journalist Cam Higby who infiltrated the Signal chat posted what he found in this thread: https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093523733733474?s=20
This is a special forces guy who worked in counterinsurgency response to what he saw in the Signal chat: https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540?s=20
Apparently they didn't learn from Hegseth's mistake re signal
Lt governor and a few other people close to Walz also, apparently.
This guy might not be directly tied to Walz but could be.
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2015233311937864109
This chick definitely is- Amanda Koehler.
https://t.me/inmagnaexcitatio/185650
And there is another one named Whitson. In addition to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
I am constantly surprised by whom Trump picked for cabinet positions. Rubio for SofS seemed a trade off for not picking him VP, but Marco is seeming to excel at his job. Hegeseth has undergone fire as a tv personality, but look at what he has done with the military. Outstanding. I have many of the same opinions of Noem as you all, but if she is in this position, Trump had a purpose in mind for her. As I have said so often; LTMW.
Bessent is Best of All
Yes! But I did hear someone being interviewed by Tucker right after the cabinet positions were announced, saying the Bessent pick was the Homerun pick by Trump!
Not only insurrection - but when there is a conspiracy and someone dies as a result, every person in that conspiracy can be charged with "felony murder." You don't have to pull the trigger yourself. Chad Mizelle, Acting General Counsel for DHS explained this in a recent post by President Trump which was reposted by Malone yesterday. It seems quite possible that several govt officials in Minnesota may have said or done things that could give the appearance of being participants in a conspiracy and if so - once the dots have been connected for them, they would want to distance themselves from the conspiracy to obstruct, and actually to hope for no further deaths. What has already transpired, possibly could lead to charges of felony murder for those in the group but perhaps if the temperature is adjusted and things go better, no more deaths, who knows whether they would find sufficient evidence to prosecute. But the President himself has publicly posted a comment related to "felony murder" quoting Mizelle, so it's out there, and others have reposted. If Walz has noticed this or it came up in the conversation - he may have decided to protect himself as much as possible in light of two deaths already. Btw, I have read that the organization ICE Watch specifically encourages their trainees to try to provoke ICE into doing regrettable actions which should video recorded and made to go viral. ICE Watch has done that with the 2 deaths. Glenn Beck has some info on this also - about the funding for one thing, that these insurrectionist groups are paid by some of the George Soros organizations, the Ford Foundation, and others. First amendment covers people expressing their opnions publicly, but the obstructing, and being a "paid protestor" is something else. Many probably do have an emotional connection to "helping the immigrants" even though these are criminals, but still, the active obstructing, and the organizational structure with division of labor - some entering ICE license numbers into a data base, some chasing ICE and obstructing, some keeping them awake at night - being sleep deprived can lead to faulty decision making - and so on - and then they are paid for it - I saw a protestor on video saying she was being paid to do what she was doing - hard for me to think of this as anything other than a conspiracy and an insurrection, a real one, even though many of the protestors don't understand it this way. But billionaire funding sources, they know. And they don't care who dies. Maybe now Walz cares.
I think the absolute trashing of the Hilton on Sunday night may have been a turning point too, in terms of optics. Even for those sympathetic to the, ahem, "protestors" that act of destruction crossed a line.
Do you have a link? I'd like to share it.
Mrs. RW
In addition, he has that whole Somali thing coming for him. Heh heh heh.
Regarding Noem, I think she crossed that line that separates a naturally pretty woman from a glamour shot poser?
Noem is a joke and is way in over her head. She was busy decorating her mansion (as she openly advertised on social media) while the devastating floods hit texas that killed many people. Apparently interior decorating was more important than her own citizens.
Vain, yes, but not evil...
Like Erika Kirk.
Seriously?
Evil is a lot of things and that’s not one of them
You are uninformed.
Most are. Do some research.
Yes. This.
I share your visceral dislike of Noem. Plus, can she leave the hair extensions at home? Sorry, that's super catty.
I like Greg Bovino. He's a badass and he was out there on the front line, with his face for all to see, but I understand they want a softer image on the operation. Apparently the higher ups in ICE were frustrated with the messaging coming from Noem and Bovino after the Pretti shooting.
Listened to a Walz radio broadcast and he didn’t really sound repentant. He sounded like he was standing behind “some” of his rhetoric and he would still call a spade, a spade, or rather a Nazi, a Nazi. He did relinquish that he and the President had a good conversation.
Dear God, he has a radio show??
No, he was a guest on some MN radio broadcast.
Oh, so I can come in off the ledge?
Definitely!
This may be part of the reason they caved: https://open.substack.com/pub/tierneyrealnewsnetwork/p/democrats-are-trapped?r=x4jy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
Good informational link.
T. I. Hobgoblin - Great clip! Our Florida sheriff is exactly like that too - no nonsense and to the point. It’s well understood that actions have consequences and we don’t have a whole lot of problems here as a result. It’s not rocket science.
Good stuff, and well thought out. My state needs some thawing, and not just from the freezing temps! ❄️ ☃️ ❄️
"one of our Big Beautiful Dogs" ;-)
They know all Walz's personal fraud, and where he's hidden it overseas. They have the receipts.
As the vice squeezed, I suspect Trump dangled pardons for all their dirty deeds if they would stop pushing their citizens to jump in the meat grinder.
Maybe they made a deal on Ilhan Omar? I'd take the win on taking her down and sending her packing!
It seems that New Jersey may need an intervention next.
''Hernando Garcia-Morales, 40, of Palisades Park, faces multiple charges in connection with a Jan. 7 motor vehicle incident on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike, the New Jersey State Police said.
The third-grade children were traveling back to Yeshivat Noam Jewish day school in Paramus after a class trip to the Liberty Science Center when a large rock smashed through the bus window, the school previously told Fox News Digital.
An 8-year-old girl suffered a skull fracture after being struck by the rock and was forced to have surgery, officials said.
Garcia-Morales was arrested on Jan. 9 by New Jersey Turnpike State Police for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and possession of a weapon. The Bogota Police Department also charged him with aggravated assault, criminal trespassing defiant, criminal trespassing peering, and criminal mischief damage property.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday that U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has issued an arrest detainer against Hernando Garcia-Morales, claiming he is a criminal illegal immigrant from Mexico.
DHS told Fox News Digital that Garcia-Morales has a history of violence and is in the country illegally, but said he has not been deported because of New Jersey’s sanctuary immigration policies.''
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-says-illegal-immigrant-accused-throwing-rock-new-jersey-school-bus-injuring-young-girl
Mrs. RW
The audio seems to be out of sync. Is this actually what he said?
Bravo, is so.
Due to the poor performance of the GOP-controlled Congress in codifying Trump’s EOs into laws, I am hoping the Republican convention is used to primary those Republicans who are actively working to undermine the MAGA agenda. Namely the Republicans who crossed the aisle to extend Obamacare for another three years, the ones who are fighting the securing of the vote by requiring an ID, and the ones who voted for the automobile kill switch.
Polls show only 50% of Republicans intend to vote in 2026. With the pathetic performance of this sad group of Congressional Republicans who won’t even vote for their own causes, why should the Party rank & file? The convention can whip up enthusiastic support if the surrender monkeys are sent packing.
I was really surprised that my RINO Senator reversed his position on Trump going into Venezuela (I had written him a scathing message excoriating him for his initial position and I’d like to think I and others who may have reacted similarly, helped change his stance). And yesterday I just read that he wants to be added as a cosponsor to the SAVE Act?? I don’t know what is going on but something seems to have shifted.
Who is your RINO Senator?
💯🙏🏼
Everyone needs to call Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, and lean on him to pass The Save Act (photo I.D. Required for voting) and to end the fake filibuster that is holding Republican legislation by requiring 60 votes to pass.
Call him everyday! You’ll just be filling up his voice mailbox, and that gets attention!
(866) 850-3855
(202) 224-2321
I can’t believe Congress sitting on their thumbs.
NOTHING is more important than the midterms. Nothing. AND the Dems now *know* if they throw big enough tantrum, laws they don’t like won’t be enforced.
Ok here’s my thought. I think gerrymandering is terrible for the American people. I actually think it disenfranchises many people of both parties and I don’t know why it’s legal. It makes it very difficult for a party to lose a seat, even if the person running for that seat has a massive problem or a change in their beliefs that alienates many of their voters.
Also, it makes congress even closer in terms of numbers, like it is now, which enables them to entrench, be less cooperative, and ultimately do nothing because they don’t have the votes to pass the stupid zombie filibuster. We already have a do-NOTHING congress and IMHO this makes it so much worse.
Please someone explain what I’m missing and why gerrymandering is a good thing. I understand why it’s done in terms of political power, party politics, etc. I just think it’s terrible for the American people.
Let ME draw up the map. Call it, "Jeffreymandering."
You’d probably do a bang-up job.
Gerrymandering is a case of the parties choosing their voters in advance of voters being able to choose their elected officials. It was bound to happen. Partisan gerrymandering is considered constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 2019 that federal courts cannot review such claims because courts have no authority to decide if gerrymandering for partisan reasons is excessive, which effectively then allows it. I get that, because if courts could make those decisions, the courts would be permanently dragged into politics, thus violating the separation of powers principle and since voting is a state issue rather than a federal one. But SCOTUS did decide that racial gerrymandering is illegal (due to the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and civil rights laws. Thus, drawing maps for political advantage remains allowed at the federal level, though it may be challenged under specific state constitutions and some states have outlawed partisan gerrymandering.
Michigan got a constitutional amendment passed in 2020 to redistrict Congressional seats via a “bipartisan” committee put into place by the governor’s office. What could go wrong with that? Everything. The bipartisan committee was chosen by the blue team. Whole Congressional districts were upended. Many reliable Red districts had several blue cities added. The U.P. Of Michigan was split into two districts, that’s it. From a former state rep, the committee seemed to have no idea what went into establishing new Congressional districts. They fell way behind on scheduling and rushed to cram it down the voters throats by 2022. It has been a disaster.
This is the crux… I don’t know of an impartial way to create voting districts.
Well, we could just create districts mechanically, the way many counties are configured, squares, 6 miles on a side. Divide them into precincts containing 3000 (or pick your number designed for effective one day voting without long lines). Periodically the precincts would be rearranged, increased or decreased to maintain the max effective voters. Do this starting at one corner of the district and building to opposite corner. This could create wildly varying ratios of parties, but they couldn't claim partisan, or racial imbalance. Will neger happen, of course...
Oh so it’s a Republican thing? I see, that’s not a biased point of view at all… 🙄
It's a race between Americans realizing that life is getting better under the current administration and the midterms.
That's why he's moving so fast.
"Isn't that the way every dictator got started? Hitler controlled the 'German Brown Shirts'. The Brown Shirts were causing all sorts of civil upheavals. Hitler promised to stop the Brown Shirts and quickly put in power."
Bill Cooper 1991
Comparing Trump to Hitler is lazy and historically illiterate. Hitler seized power by destroying institutions, silencing opposition, and ruling through violence. Trump 1.0 governed inside the Constitution, faced relentless resistance, lost an election, and left office. Trump 2.0 is moving fast—but tis doing so through the electoral process , the courts, legislation, and executive authority that already exists. You can oppose his policies without cheapening history or trivializing REAL dictators. When everything is “Hitler,” nothing is.
Hitler was a great leader... but the victors and zionists wrote the history of WWII... mostly BIG lies... FDR and Churchill were the corrupt maggots... and Ike had his own massive death camps where POWs were murdered...
https://www.unz.com/runz/why-everything-you-know-about-world-war-ii-is-wrong/
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BreakingTheSpell-Kollerstrom.pdf
IMHO Hitler was controlled by demonic forces and was destroyed by them. Trump has been selected by God and is being empowered and protected by Him to destroy the princes of evil worldwide opening an additional window of grace for “whosoever will” to recognize their need for a savior and accept Jesus Christ as their sovereign King !🙏
Nonsense.
New name for the useless corporate media:
TDS News
All anti-Trump, all the time
It may be different this year due to outside forces, but ordinarily if you are planning on getting a big tax refund, it’s because you’re an idiot that allows the government to use YOUR money for free before you beg to have it returned through a “refund”. Ideally, your tax forms should show zero or even a small owing, which if you’re smart you mail in on April 15 with a postmark applied in front of you.
My hub always plays the owe just a bit game…does NOT want to give the gov’t a free loan!!
Did you get fined for not guessing your correct taxable income? Because we did, and it wasn’t even that much less.
That is so infuriating and ridiculous 😡 At least allow a certain percentage as a margin of error. But ideally, scrap the whole income tax and the authoritarian bureaucratic mess that is the IRS with it!!
Lord willing, that will soon come to pass!
He makes sure to stay above the 90% threshold of taxes owed. If you fall below that - you get dinged.
Yup, but no need to call them, "idiots."
Morons? Stupid? Ignorant?
Unenlightened?
Several years ago, we changed ours to take out a smaller amount, even if we have to pay in at the end of the year. Well, guess what we got fined for under guessing our tax income! No, I’m not joking.
Pay as you go, you need 90% of your tax obligation paid by the end of the tax year.
Anyone who knows how to pray in this country has been praying for Minneapolis. God answered!
Trump gave Tiny Tim enough rope to get into serious trouble and then offered a small carrot and a very large stick. Now, on with the show! TAW
I live in britain. Have done so for the past 28 years. I have witnessed things going from bad to worse. And I agree with your take Jeff on 15 minute cities. Although when I returned to the USA, the other day, immigration handed me an “A1 “written in pink on my customs card, which meant I had to go through another layer of homeland security, in a cordoned off area. Not sure why I was targeted, but it was unpleasant as a law abiding citizen to be detained. One has to ask what the US gov’t is up to. I am a 75 year old, retired RN, with rheumatoid arthritis. Hardly a threat to our country. A disappointing experience.
Illegal immigration. It’s why we can’t have nice things. Hopefully if we get this under control, we can loosen things up for law abiding folks :).
I had the exact same thing happen in London. Not only did I get pulled out of line but had to go in a room where they took my passport and went through some process, which I don’t know what it was, for about 20 min. They finally gave it back without telling me why I had been singled out. I’m not exactly excited to go back to the UK again.
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My experience was not as bad it was a regular TSA agent but I was randomly selected and had to have a full pat down. I specifically wear soft clothing. Slip on shoes. Sport bra nothing metal. No jewelry. No belt. Nothing. The female agent spent her sweet time and I was so uncomfortable. My sister who was traveling with me was getting pissed and started to react. It was ridiculous and embarrassing. I recall my sister (Air Force ) saying ‘racial profiling is used because it works. She is not your problem.’ Ha! I thought if she gets me strip search I was gonna be pissed. It all ended and I was mostly fine.
That is awful and another reason I haven't flown in 10 years.
" If your only source is useless corporate media, you are drowning in a bathtub of lukewarm misinformation." I'm SO stealing that line!! I have a neighbor who tells me stuff she gets of the TV news, who is then stunned when I explain the reality of the story to her. She will be hearing that line :D