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I’m laughing so hard at how you describe Mike Johnson’s demeanor 🤣🤣 You nail it so well, Jeff! I have a smile a mile wide on my face just from your first paragraphs and had to come grin and laugh before I finish reading. Hilarious. He might have tapped the podium. Lololol I love C&C 😂 You really bring some of the best joy to my day, and wrapped in the news that is quite the feat!
Same here! How Jeff can deliver such momentous “news” in such a sunny manner is beyond me. I never fail to laugh at his descriptions. With all the doom and gloom we are constantly barraged with, it’s so refreshing. Thank you, Jeff! “A day without Coffee & COVID is a day without sunshine”!
The default nowadays should always be that Congress Critters HAVE NOT read bills they vote on. They stopped writing them decades ago and who knows when they stopped reading them. They delegated all regulations to bureaucrats half a century ago. They are nothing but figure heads who spend every minute of every day of every year (election year or not) 100% clinging desperately to their seat. Now they’re taking a vacation. We don’t despise them enough.
GOP Senators very quiet. Nary a peep out of them. Likely focused on being first in line for escort around those annoying TSA lines. Hopping on flights home to spend a joyous Easter out of the swamp.
I heard that Sen Mike Lee (UT) said the all should return to DC and pass the bill the House sent to the Senate. Not many but there are few decent GOP Senators.
I was amused by that too, as well as by "Iran’s navy is deployed to an artificial reef assignment." Interesting wording there :D REALLY GLAD I'm getting better about keeping my drinks out of my mouth when I'm reading C&C!
Gah! I’ve no such luck. He always gets me with a mouthful of coffee. I’ve been known to snort it a time or two and end in a coughing fit. 😂 Today was one zinger after another. He was smokin
I drink tea, and have learned to make it habit to take a sip facing the WINDOW, before returning my eyes to the screen... For quite a while there my keyboard was having a lot of bad mornings.
I read it at work so I have to be careful about weird noises coming out of my office or coffee going up my nose. But I’ll take the extra pre-wrinkle-creating smiles anytime!! 🤣😅😁
That was my favorite line too, and all the other little comments from those in the C & C family who can't get their coffee to tumble down their throat while reading Jeff. I stick to tea and never have a problem! Ha
Such a good visual. I pictured my German great grandmother with the large bosom and always in a belted pastel colored floral dress. She didn’t tuck into anything though, she was very ladylike. 😉
Be extra careful if you are up there in years… lately I’ve almost drowned myself… drinking isn’t as easy as it used to be. I’m serious here! Not joking.
03/28/26: I truly didn't know that Johnson had it in him.
Q: What happens down the road after the Europeans have wasted all their time happily censoring their internet and throwing their citizens in jail for "hate speech" --- only to be sandbagged when they finally run out of / no longer afford to pay for the electrical power necessary to keep the Internet going so they can continue to perpetuate their Stalinist regimes that censor and prosecute their own citizens?
I am curious about the same thing. The Europeans have had a holier than thou attitude for decades and decades. How hard will it be for them to finally make the changes, and how long will it take them?
I remember them sneering at Trump in his first Administration..
Europeans are very much like the state of California. The difference between California people and the passengers on the Titanic….the passengers on the Titanic didn’t vote to hit the iceberg.
03/28/26: The analogy is flawed because all significant elections in California are rigged, with tens of thousands of non-existent voters "voting" for D-Antifa. Maybe the Bingo Nights on the Titanic were rigged, but that's about the extent of it.
03/28/26: Too hard. They won't. They're the latest edition of the Japanese soldiers who hid in the pacific island hills until the mid-60s before finally "surrendering." Oh did they EVER sneer at Trump. And now they wonder why they're in the dire straits that they're in. Screw 'em. Pull the plug on the whole damn lot of them and let the Hungarians and the Poles run things for a while.
😂 One thing I have come to realize is, to get the most out of C&C you cannot skim and speed read your way through. You must read it slow enough to savor every word.
And if you don’t come to the comment section afterwards with a celebratory heart, a smile on your face, ready to bathe in optimism, there’s something deeply wrong with you.
I often get sidetracked slapping down saboteurs or doomers, but I always arrive with my feet squarely planted in hope and a big smile on my face.
I will second that and raise a true ‘Come to Jesus’ request. A personal, transforming life with Him awaits you. Get it now and start really living. Just ask Jesus into your heart. He will gladly step in where you are and will never leave you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are advised not to delay. Luke 12:20 reminds us: "You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?"
Don't assume you will live to repent and receive Christ "later", for "later" may never arrive.
So very true. A recent example which hit our family hard…our grandson went on a spring break trip with six other young men from their Christian college track team. They were traveling in two separate vehicles, my grandson in a car with two other young men, who stopped to get gas in Kansas City. The other car with four young men went ahead and was involved in a head on collision. The 22 year old driver was killed instantly, and another was seriously injured and is still in ICU. We are praying hard for young Noah to make a full recovery.
These young men sought out a church to attend while they were on spring break so that says a lot about their faith commitment. Matthew, the one who died was a Pastors son. We take consolation in their saving faith, and yet we grieve.
As you said, anyone can be taken in an instant! Even a healthy, bright 22 year old young man! He was a sprinter on the track team; he has now finished the race of life and won eternity.
😢 Thank you for providing names. We will be sure to pray for them this weekend. ❤️ Where two or more are gathered I will hear their prayers.
It’s wonderful to hear about the faith of all those boys.
Any moment could be our last. We need to be ready now right where we are in our present circumstances. I often feel I was more ready at age 29 early in our marriage when immersing myself in God’s word than I am today. Gotta do something about that … no time to lose
May Matthew rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him. May our Lord hold Noah in His loving arms, touch him and heal him, if it be His will. May the families of these young men be comforted.
Amen. Now is the time to choose. Choose Him, and He covers us with grace. Choose anything less, and “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10:31
Jesus wants you to trust in Him! He wants to shower you with His graces. If you surrender yourself to Him, your life will change. If you start to worry about something just surrender yourself to Jesus and let Him take care of it. The anxiety will leave you and you will feel free. Surrender prayer: “O Jesus, I surrender myself to You, take care of everything!”
Since I discovered this prayer years ago, it has changed my life. Try it.
You need to read my post somewhere below about supposed Christians trying to take-over Substack groups for control. By showing us all how "godly" they are. It's a manipulation. Just as in extremist religious cults.
This is a general news site. I am one of those moderate Christians who does not use my faith to gain status. I recommend you do the same.
the writer of C&C, Jeff Childers, is a Christian! Would you ask him to cease and desist?!
Thank God for the First Amendment - I for one am in total agreement with these wonderful posts extoling and exalting the LORD!
Our nation and world (mankind)'s problem is they want the blessings that cine only from God the Creator without surrendering their hearts, lives, and will to Him.
Mankind's heart is deceitful - we see evidence of how deceitful every day!
Which btw - is why we have this daily C&C blog to read and respond with encouragement and truth!
I am a Christian too, my friend. An authentic one. With humility. Not someone who plays faux-Christian to a nauseating degree on social media sites, for control and attention.
This comment forum is full of them! Very much like extremist religious cults who proclaim how Christian they are, which covers their actual immorality. I have worked with them through cultic studies. Unfortunately I have met them again on this C&C site. It's a very recognizable type. Nothing to do with Christ at all.
The pontification by supposed Christians on this site is enough to turn others off Christianity. It is certainly not my idea of Christian humility. It is more like a daily game here of virtue-signaling. And then crushing anyone who does not suck-up to you. I find it all shameful and phony.
I am a Christian too. I believe in sharing the Good News of Jesus, but I come here to read the news. Jeff is a professional, knowledgeable, and talented attorney and writer. C&C my favorite analysis roundup. Yes, as a Christian, Jeff has talent on loan from God, but I come here for his commentary, analysis and humor!
I am a moderate Christian, Lea, who comes here for news too. But the phony preachers here are ruining it for many of us.
They are very much like Marjoe, the charismatic con-artist who spent decades on the Evangelical Circuit conning people through Christian pretense. Marjoe certainly has a lot of keen understudies here! Who fool me no more than he would have,
They need to give it a rest. Take their tricks and move along.
Haha! There is no such thing as a moderate Christian. You are a demon. These posts obviously offend you.
Jesus said: I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Many “moderate” Christians are actually self-deceived and are not Christians at all. Rather they take the name of Christ for all that he can give them and nothing about how they can love and serve Christ. If all you do is think God get me thru this or help me get this job or heal me etc then you are very much self deceived. Repent and believe.
My sons used to get soooo mad at me when they were younger, especially my oldest, because I always knew when he was lying no matter how convincing he was or how I couldn’t possibly know the truth of a matter. Yet somehow I did. It was my gut being led by the Holy Spirit. I was overwhelmed by the feeling that something wasn’t right. I explained that God reveals things to his children when there’s no other way they could know, so long as they are listening. And he especially works in the hearts of parents who love their children. Over the years my older son has come clean with us faster and faster each time knowing he can’t fool God, and therefore can’t fool the Holy Spirit within me. I hate that most of the time when I can’t possibly know something is false that I have a slight pang of doubt that I might be wrong - and I don’t want to make that kind of mistake with them - but there hasn’t been a single time in 27 years that my gut was wrong, that my children were telling the truth and I was convinced they weren’t. Not once. We all marvel at the power of God in that way. It was an incredible witness for my children growing up. Not me, but God’s voice within me.
Today is Palm Shabbat-the day Israel was told to choose the lamb before Passover- which this year, is Wednesday (the ‘day’ begins at sundown Tuesday and ends at sundown Wednesday.)
They were told that in those 4 days, they were to examine/watch the lamb.
Today would have been the day that Yeshua, the Lamb of God, walked into Jerusalem, 4 days before He was to be sacrificed. And He was watched/examined, by the people, the Pharisees, the Sadducee’s, by Pontius Pilate and the Roman soldiers.
At some point in the wee hours of the night Wednesday, He was arrested, tried 4 times, and by daylight had been found guilty, was beaten to a pulp, hung on the cross.
By 3 pm he was dead. Right before sundown Wednesday He was placed in the tomb. For 3 days and 3 nights.
He arose on the day we call Sunday, which the Father calls the 6th day.
This year the days do fall in the same pattern for Passover ( and the Lord’s Supper - at the beginning of the 14th Nisan - ) as the year of Christ’s death. He did die late in the afternoon ( about 3) on a Wednesday.
Which means He rose from the dead exactly three days later on the late afternoon of the following weekly Sabbath. (In between there was the annual Sabbath on the Thursday- the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread. Remember they had to hasten to bury Him before the ( annual) Sabbath, elsewhere described as a ‘high’ day. Christ said the only sign that would be given that He was Who He said He was that He would be in grave the same time as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish. Three days and three nights. By Biblical definition a ‘day’ is 12 hours, a ‘night’ is 12 hours. 72 hours in total. Not the insipid two nights and one day the main stream churches tout.
Archaeological evidence of the original Passover. Seems the mummy of pharaoh's firstborn has been identified. Scoffers will scoff, and the faithful don't need physical evidence, but this is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOf8dZAD3OY
Yes, it's so clear when you look at the Hebrew days and nights.I first heard this from Chuck Missler, so good the thinking is being made known more broadly! Thank you, Murray.
Jesus died on Friday afternoon about 3 pm, according to the Scripture. He rose "early on the first day". Three days were involved - Friday, Saturday (the Sabbath) and Sunday. Sunday was counted to start at sunset on Saturday evening. Scripture is true. It doesn't have to measure an exact number of hours. Manmade calculations don't matter, only the word of God!
He has been reminding me how much I need His forgiveness.
Thank you for reminding me how much I needed Him. Because sometimes I have a hard time separating the fact that many of those who given themselves over to demonic entities are still human, as they act just like the entities they have given their bodies to.
But I do not apologize for hating those entities that hate Him. It’s written about in the Psalms of David. And there are loud entities who are enemies of all that is good and righteous in the world. Those who kill, steal and destroy.
I will fall and falter and fail again.
I’ll bet I’m better at faltering and failing than you are.
So thank you.
Please continue to remind me of my failures. You’re very good at it.
He was crucified, He lives, and He offers our nation a lifeline after decades of impurity in mind, body, and soul: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
I know what you meant to say, still I must clarify: Jesus' sacrifice will NEVER, EVER, EVER have been in vain...
Because even IF only ONE person turned to Him in repentance, acknowledged their sinful state, and called out for forgiveness, Jesus would have accomplished what no other blood sacrifice could have attempted to do...
Rather, let us turn to Him because His Perfect, Spotless, Father-accepted Sacrifice has demonstrated His Unending, Selfless LOVE for all of us, His Creation...
Let's turn to Him because He LOVES us AND we accept His love, and love Him back and look forward to spending Eternity in His Kingdom!
Let's turn to Him, bc the alternative of His Kingdom, is someone else's' kingdom.... and our will being done, not His
Crucified for our sins. His blood on the Cross, our sins nailed to it. He paid the price. It is finished. Thank God for the Cross! Thank God for His mercy! Amen!
I think Christians know this already. Supposedly reminding them is just virtue-signaling on your part. As if you are the parent reminding the naughty kids how "good" YOU are.
I recommend to you developing more Christian humility. Rather than using Christianity for power.
If they think this virtue-signaling act here is going to convince unbelievers, they are sadly mistaken. It is quite nauseating, actually. They are all attemptng to draw attention to how good they think they are themselves. Hardly humble Christians. More like the con-artist "preachers" of the Revival Circuit.
This comment forum reads like every cliche of pompous faux-Christianity I have ever encountered.
Try some Christian humility, instead of the chronic virtue-signaling here. This is more like a song-and-dance show with everyone singing, "Look at how good and holy I am!!" Continual self-congratulations is very off-putting, especially when there is no obvious reason for the congratulations.
If I was not a moderate Christian already, the stuff I read here would make me head for the hills and stay far away from anything described as "Christianity". Christ was quiet and humble. And kind to others. Not a phony song-and-dance con-artist looking for self-aggrandizement, as I see here. Or viciously insulting people like CStone does, whenever they do not agree with them.
This comment forum seems to be about faux-Christian show-offs, with the habits of internet trolls.
I notice this site is full of the very extremist evangelical herd (of sheep-people), who claim that anyone who disagrees with them, or crosses them just a small bit...is Satanic.
Uh-huh....glad you do not live in my neighborhood or I would double-lock my doors. You're obviously disturbed. Do you do witch-hunts too? That's the usual next step for deluded extremists.
How convenient for you that you can label as evil anything that does not suit you. What a self-serving con-game you and your sort are playing. You are nothing but scammers.
From my experience here, there are some very unbalanced persons amongst you. Jeff Childers lets you stay and spout your nonsense only because it is a good business move for him if you are also paying subscribers. How many of you are there? Ka-ching! $$$
The anti-Christ spirit - by Biblical definition - opposes Christ Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, opposes Him being proclaimed. That is what you are so busy doing. You don't want us to talk about Jesus, about Who He is, or what He has done. Do you not even recognize yourself? A crusader against anyone who stands for Jesus.
You are clearly operating in the anti-Christ spirit, and in a spirit of witchcraft as well. Witchcraft has three main ways of working: manipulation, intimidation, and dominance. You are trying to control (dominate) those who raise the banner of Jesus, to get us to back down. That is the spirit of witchcraft, working with the anti-Christ spirit. So you are actually exhibiting at least two ungodly spirits. "You will know them by their fruits." Your fruit is the fruit of the devil, the accuser of the brethren.
Jesus said to "judge rightly". The spirit of this world is obviously strong in you. You also show disdain for the professing believers. Yet we are called to love our fellow believers. On top of that, God Himself, Jesus, calls us to testify. We will testify of His Truth, His glory, His mercy, His grace, for we believers know how far we fell before we turned to Him.
You declare yourself to be Christian. There are false messiahs, false prophets, and false Christians. If you really are a follower of the Lord, the Living God, then prove it! Tell us Who Jesus is. Tell us His lineage. You have not been speaking like a Christian, but speaking like the devil. At best, you are misguided and don't even know you are doing the devil's bidding. May the One True God bring you to revelation and repentance. May He bless you, and may you not turn from it!
You obviously have an emotional disorder. And you take it out on the C&C readers here.
Good "Christian"? You're as phony as a $2 bill. You remind me of the descriptions of Jim Jones in the various memoirs of Jonestown, and his religious cult.
Jesus’s sacrifice is never in vain but I get your point. His atonement for sins is perfectly powerful and totally efficacious for those to whom the Spirit applies it by grace. Praise the Lord, it is full and free to all who believe!
God is using you in such a profound way to gather True Believers as well as awakening those that believe that they alone have power! Well done Good and Faithful Servant! Wishing you a Blessed Easter Season, may the Resurrection Power that He proclaimed for us descend like the dove of Peace over us and keep us growing ever fervent in our heart to carry HIS legacy until He calls us HOME! 🙏🏻📿🕊️
"DHS said TSA workers should start receiving their paychecks as early as this Monday."
I'm flying tomorrow morning (7:40am boarding time flight that I would normally plan to get to the airport for at 6:30am to be through security with an hour before boarding; I've now scheduled my Uber pickup to get me to the airport at 4:30am).
I'm flying again on Wednesday.
So, one flight *before* the TSA paychecks should start flowing, and one flight *after*.
I shall report back the differences I see, on Thursday. (Different airports, of course, so maybe an apples & oranges thing). [Edit: also, Sunday is usually one of the busiest air travel days in the US, and Wednesday is one of the slowest, so probably not comparable.)
And…given that 500 employees quit how long will it take to restaff TSA to its normal numbers after the pay starts. It can’t be instantaneous, but ICE is still there to help … best of luck to you both before and after! I wish you short and fast lines.
Meanwhile, the acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration testified before Congress this week that travelers at U.S. airports are currently enduring the highest wait times ever recorded. So who do we believe, CNN or the TSA itself? I'll go with TSA on this one.
The reporting IS confusing. The experience we have seen is in the last 2 weeks: we’ve had many visitors from Chicago to Florida, different days, times and airlines. None had any delays. None of them. Last ones were yesterday.
Friends who went to Puerto Rico however posted on Facebook that they had a 2 1/2 hour security line.
I think she saying it’s hard to know what to believe. Not trust worthy reporting so you go by what real people you know are reporting. Atlanta airport is notoriously painful. Long lines even with TSA precheck
Then perhaps they should come to San Juan because that's not the case here, at least not this morning anyway.
I got to the airport at 4:38am and I have never seen so many people at this airport, regardless of time of day.
The line for TSA pre-check, not even general boarding, extended to a part of the airport I didn't even know existed.
ICE officers were visible throughout the terminal, and at the security bag conveyors.
The pre-check line moved surprisingly quickly, though. I was through security in 35 minutes. (In all my dozens of previous flights out of this airport it's never taken me more than five minutes through the pre-check line and often there's been no line at all, just me)
Anyway, don't let anyone kid you, not even CNN, that lines no longer exist. They do. Maybe not everywhere, but not nowhere, either.
TSA should never have been a unionized government job. Can we fly safely without TSA? Yes, instead of treating every passenger as a criminal, professionals can spot potential threats and casually question them to decide, threat: yes or no. Call it stereotyping if you like, we all do it every day. And it works.
Agree. I worked 17 yrs for major airline at midsize airport in the south. Supv. for half of that and responsible for coordinating with FAA and security checkpoint. 1986-2003
It was a joke when TSA came to being. One big grift. For example, my station mgr and an another supv retired from the airlines and got a cush govt job with TSA, doing basically the same thing. Nothing. Don't get me started on continuous searches at the gate! Thank the Lord that was 23 years ago. I got out as soon as I could and haven't looked back. I mentioned similar this week so apologies if your reading this again.
However as I’ve been thinking this assumes the quitting was spread evenly across America, (probably not,) and there’s an airport in every city making it spread far and wide. There’s not. This impacted the major airports more than others. It’s why we see one large airport with no long waits while another has lines practically wrapping around parking lots. Maybe the former lost one or two employees but the latter lost 15-20. The impact is not going to be evenly spread.
That’s assuming it’s all evenly spread. Most likely it’s pocketed. It’s why we see one large airport having no long lines or increased wait time while another is practically brought to its knees. One probably only lost 1-2 agents, while the other could have lost 20-30.
My GSD service dog always needs a his own ESA after going through security at Sea-Tac. They never fail to pat me down, search my suitcase and wand him ( the dog) within an inch of his life. Or in the case of a Nov trip to CA, within a nanometer of his balls… Then the TSA agent questioned his legitimacy as a service dog because he lifted his lip at her after she ran her wand through his undercarriage for five minutes before I suggested that she get a different wand because the first one wouldn’t stop beeping. She soon discovered that her wand was faulty, not that his dangling bits had illicit materials in them. All of this was happening while another supposed service dog was growling and barking at him from one line over. When we were finally through that nightmare, I bought him a burger before we got on the plane and told him he could have a beer when we got to our hotel because people would look at him Funny if I poured him a beer in the airport… he’s only four.
Yes, those were the other two! The grow up and graduate part, and the other part of that sentence but I can't remember right now. I just know it got me laughing twice, then the support animal one was the third.
We flew on the 14th and 21st and had shockingly short TSA wait times…shutdown was in-progress but I don’t think ICE had been deployed yet (or at least wasn’t at our airports)….just saying that not all airports are equally impacted (MSP and Boston-Logan) - best of luck to you!
Agreed. Houston never seemed to be good, my local SJU had horrific videos early last week (the airport set up dozens of tents outside to shield the 5-hour-long lines from sun AND rain), and other airports were tolerable or normal.
I suspect it depends on whether it's one of the 13 airports where ICE was deployed (Unwoke in Idaho seems to think ICE went to every airport...), although even that doesn't necessarily mean anything, because they WERE deployed to SJU and we still had 5-hour lines and outdoor tents set up.
I'm curious to see what the place looks like tomorrow morning, whether the tents are still there.
Two weeks ago my wife had a flight to Miami and her Uber driver cancelled on her because he didn't want to go to the airport; she said (at least that day) SJU and MIA seemed fine, and both on the return a few days later. But she flew on a Thursday and a Monday, both not typical high-travel days for US airports.
You wrote, "Even CNN was forced to report the long hellish lines are gone."
No qualifications whatsoever. Just that the long hellish lines are gone.
So even though ice was only deployed to 13 airports, your implication was that long hellish lines are gone at *all* airports. Including all of those 13. And I have firsthand proof that that's not true at at least one of those 13.
If I have no idea what you think, then it's because you don't express yourself well.
I've been going to Asheville from SWFL a number of times this year to be with my daughter-in-law for chemo treatments. I've had the opportunity to travel Allegiant Air and not had any problems. I leave Wednesday for another visit. I'm going early so I can be there for my grand daughter's 3 rd birthday. Allegiant has limited flights, so I was looking at regular carriers. I would have to change in Atlanta. I decided to stay a bit longer to ensure safe and swift passage.
I have a friend who is a flight attendant on Delta. Several years ago, she cautioned all her friends with the following advice. That was, if you are within 7 hours of your destination, drive. When you choose to fly, get a direct flight, even if you have to drive some distance. And if not, be prepared to wait and know the possibility of being canceled and rescheduled.
Having said that, and with the shtshow Southwest has turned into lately, I try to book nonstops now whenever feasible and affordable (and almost everything SWA is a connecting flightZ).
I'm flying SJU to ORF tomorrow then ORF to BOS on Wednesday, both nonstops (thankfully JBU has new service in ORF, where my son, DIL, and 2 grands live; daughter, SIL, and grand live in southern ME, hence BOS).
The total cost of those two JBU nonstops was one-THIRD the total cost if I'd flown SWA, and, SWA's flights had connections through BWI.
So two-thirds cheaper AND both nonstops on JBU. And none of the chaos SWA has become.
Yeah, I/we've driven from Virginia Beach to southern Maine, and to Long Island, and to Rochester. Well over 7 hours to each. But for a variety of reasons flying wasn't an option each time.
I drove Chesapeake to Savannah, and then Savannah to Miami last June. Both drives were 7 hours. I almost certainly would've flown, if I could've flown nonstop. Maybe even with a connection, or split the difference and fly direct (one stop, no plane change), I'd have to think about that one.
But I was moving a car from Philly to Miami, so I had no choice. Plus, I like driving, so I didn't mind much.
We flew Delta until recently because their service was better compared to the alternatives... We're flying TPA to LAS non-stop on Southwest after Easter to visit our daughter, SIL, and three grands. There were zero non-stops on other airlines and Southwest has a sale going so it was no more expensive than our one stop flights to LAS in early April and early November on Delta in which both flights had enormous delays that put us into LAS the next day! I'm willing to try SW which we used to fly all of the time 7 yrs ago. We'll be there a week and will return on a non-stop, too. Something we have not found for the last 7 years!
Once or twice when I have flown from San Juan to either Boston or Manchester I don't recall which I connected through Tampa on Southwest and it was a direct flight which was nice because although there was a stopover, there was no plane change. You don't see direct flights much anymore, they're either nonstop or connecting. For the foreseeable future, however, I will avoid Southwest unless they are the cheaper option and it has to be cheaper by a lot to justify sticking my toe in that chaotic operation these days. My nonstop to Norfolk and then nonstop from Norfolk to Boston on jetBlue was 1/3 the cost of flying to Norfolk and then to Boston on Southwest with connections through Baltimore. I'm not even using my Southwest credit card for the time being because I don't want to earn miles that I don't want to use.
I flew from Asheville to Minneapolis and back this week and the TSA lines were 5-10 minute larks. My only delays were a hour-long wait for a car in MPLS and an hour take-off delay for maintenance - resulting in a mised flight and now a midnight arrival.
Funny story about the car shortage: The rental company announced to those waiting that an EV was available. There wasn't a single taker!
I wondered if the time was the reason at BOS. I know here at SJU it's "busy" at 4:30am but that's only because that's when the TSA line opens in the jetBlue terminal (or 4am, I forget). Probably by 5:30am it looks normal here.
It depends on the airport. Charlotte's TSA wait is only 20 minutes because most of their flights are connecting flights. If you are flying out of NYC, Atlanta or TX you may still be in trouble.
I actually used a Groupon back in 2012 (here in PR they're "Gustazos") and piloted a Cessna 172 for 30 minutes, including taxi, takeoff, and landing, here in PR, after about an hour of classroom time. Omar Sharif (no kidding) was my instructor and co-pilot's name.
I got to the airport at 4:38am for a flight that boards at 7:40 AM. I have never seen so many people at this airport, regardless of time of day.
The line for TSA pre-check extended to a part of the airport I didn't even know existed. I think I might've been standing in the Dominican Republic for a short time.
Airport personnel, not ICE and not TSA, kept the lines organized and assisted passengers with making sure they were in the correct line. ICE officers were visible in the terminal, though.
The pre-check line move surprisingly quickly. I was through security in 35 minutes. So assuming that timing holds, I could've slept for another hour and a half and still gotten through security an hour before my boarding time.
Anyway, the experience was better than I anticipated when Uber pulled up to the airport, but don't let anyone kid you that lines no longer exist. They do. Maybe not everywhere, but not nowhere, either.
Edit: arrived in Norfolk at 11:45am. They have two terminals, B is the busier one, with more airlines than A. The B terminal security line - not just PreCheck, but all of TSA security - had maybe 5 passengers in the area.
Today, SJU was a madhouse at 4:30am. More people by a LOT than I've ever seen in the airport, including Christmas travel. Granted, it's Sunday (along with Friday the busiest days of the week ordinarily) and I'm sure it was the end of school break for a lot of people (and PR is a spring break destination), so today would probably have been busy anyway. Just not as ridiculous as today. The precheck line went to a part of the airport I didn't know existed, and still took just 35 minutes to get through.
In ORF, there was nobody in the TSA area. Maybe 5 passengers total, maybe less than that, at 11:45am.
I’ve been on 3 flights since the TSA issue began and haven’t had a single delay or any long lines. I’ll be in another flight on Monday and hopefully it will be the same as it’s always been.
Same as my wife, she's been on 4 flights (San Juan and Miami) earlier this month and late Feb and found no resistance (flying on Thursdays and Mondays, so, not peak days ordinarily).
I flew Feb 18 and 25 and both times the airport waits were normal (both were Wednesdays, typical slow days, so there's that).
Iran is letting ships pass if they pay a tariff. I don't know why Americans don't pay attention to that. We should understand the concept of charging for commerce.
Speaking of tariffs. Jeff alerted that EU parliament was to vote this past Thurs. on ratifying purchase of $750B in USA gas/oil. The deal made in July 2025 but EU slow walked due to ‘Greenland’ mean tweets.
They parliament voted to approve it, but now goes to each country for final. And, a provision to suspend it if US raises tariffs any further.
“The EU assembly voted by 417 to 154, and 71 abstentions, in favour of the legislation.
The text will need to be signed off by all of the bloc's 27 member states before it is implemented, with a concluding vote expected in April or May.
On Thursday, lawmakers moved to strengthen its safeguards, including a provision to suspend the agreement if the US imposes additional tariffs above 15% or introduces new duties on EU goods. Another would halt the deal if the US threatened the EU's territorial sovereignty.”
I guess ‘Greenland’ = the EU’s territorial sovereignty?
That’s a very good question. In 2025, US pumped out 1.3 million barrels per day, which is nearly 5B barrels annually. At $70 per barrel, that’s $350B per year in available sales. At $90 per barrel, that goes up to $450B in annual sales. The EU deal for $750B is over 3 years, so that would be approx. $250B in annual consumption from US. I’d say US has to increase production further, or oil prices remain elevated (maybe combo of both).
It's not the same thing, the result is the same but if Lloyds of London closed the Strait, then only Llodys of London can open it again. Iran doesn't need to do anything except give a perception of danger and the insurance will do the rest
That's why we will be insuring the ships, not Lloyds. This may end up being the biggest plus from the Iran war. Lloyds will have competition and we will have another huge source of funding for other things like tax relief.
You could be right but I don't think so. If, and that's still an if, the US underwrites ships passing through the Strait that will just encourange Iran to fire everything they have at those ships. It sounds like a recipie for the costs to dramatically escalate for the US
I am beyond disgusted by the senatewhores taking yet another two week vacation. Even if they had passed the SAVE Act and DHS funding, which they didn’t do of course, there is still a crapload of stuff they need to do but never will.
I think those miserable pukes have been on vacation more days so far this year than they theoretically have been “working”. And then they will have the effing nerve to whine how they only have so many legislative days so they’ll kick the can down the road yet once again.
We the people should bring them to their knees. We pay their salaries and glorious benes that we don't have. The payor is the sayor and time to give them a taste of the medicine they force on us.
Term Limits…Term Limits…Term Limits. Desperately needed; but strongly skeptic that it will ever happen. Why would all the corrupt legislators vote themselves out of office and give up their gravy train?
Dear GOP candidates, please read the post by Unwoke, then you will see why all email requests for donations are trashed without opening. You have lost my confidence, it will take twice as long to regain it. A good start would be passing the SAVE AMERICA act.
Sadly I have to agree with this. Even if he were playing a strategy, he wasted way too much time on the SAVE act and that will cost us. So it’s a poor strategy he chose and he needs to be replaced with such poor judgement - catering to the machine rather than the people.
I keep wondering if Trump is asking him to slow-walk the Save act until the Last. Possible. Moment. If it passes too early, the dems will figure out a way to circumvent it. Regardless, I trust it's all in God's hands. It will work out the way it's supposed to.
Lo the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evil doers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of hosts. But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with the healing rays.
1 “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, ” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
Malachi 4:1-2 (NIV) Hahaha... I think we are all looking forward to the days when we can frolic like well fed calves...
I have decided recently to stay off X and eschew most news until late in the day, just to get caught up. It has done wonders for my equilibrium and productivity. Summaries like this are just what the doctor ordered (the doctor is a psychiatrist) :-)
The Jeff Childers pro Trump spin machine continues. There’s no master plan here, this Iran adventure is a disaster. None of us voted for war with Iran, although many conservatives seem to have twisted themselves in pretzels to support it. We specifically voted for lower gas prices and focus on our economy in America first. I loved you during Covid and I thank you for all you did then Jeff, but man this is just a propaganda blog at this point.
It is fine to disagree with what Jeff articulates. It is true however that such comments are "contradictions" not debate, and not engaging in any meaningful way.
Zionists are Nazis, did you miss what you all did in Gaza? Go move to Israel if you're so proud. Go join the war effort. Oh wait, you creeps only believe in other people fighting your battles.
After Iran launched two 4000km missiles ( after swearing maximum range of 2000 km) do you realize they were a couple years away from hitting USA? I didn’t want a war, but national security is key to republicans vs useless broken negotiations by democrats.
OK, I have a question. Given that then why have we not already destroyed North Korea who has nukes and has missiles? Or is there something wrong with the logic?
Please make a spreadsheet, with 2 columns. On one side, name who Iran "exports" terror to. In the other column, list the MANY countries Israel exports terror to. (Don't forget about the terror exported to the US, when false flag- Israel tried to sink the USS Liberty, so the blame could be placed on Egypt. If it sunk, the US would have likely bombed Egypt into the stone ages, yet Zionist LBJ basically covered it up. Israel IS the terrorist state. The biblical "great deception", in real time. Rev 2:9
North Korea is far more reasonable than Iran and has curtailed their behavior due to external inputs. They take input from the US and China seriously. Iran has been inimical since the late 1970's.
There will be a fourth Temple, placed on, cover your eyes kool, Zion, the name God gave to Jerusalem. Yes, the world needs to experience the third Temple first, a bad idea, which may be very close at hand. If you see the third Temple, you have a very hard decision to make. Choose wisely, good luck.
It's not enough that Iran might have, or even did have, a nuclear weapon. There needed to be a imminent threat of them using it against us to justify going to war and putting American troops on the ground. Go back and listen to Rubio in his own words. That is NOT why we went to war.
Trump may have found a way to leverage this "conflict" to serve his agenda, but the end doesn't justify the means.
The imminence argument is BS. Too late is a half-step from imminent, thus those who use this argument have no argument. You are willing to risk the death of millions of Americans, I and most Americans who understand the danger are not.
I could stick this comment in any number of places in this string, so I'll just stick it here. For anyone with a modicum of rationality, I challenge you to think about these questions. For those emotionally captured by the propaganda, skip it:
Let me ask you this. Even if Iran had nukes and even if they had missiles that could reach the US, how much is that a threat to a country like the US that has the capability to instantly turn the entire country into a radioactive crater? Now Israel has nukes (and no one complains) and has had them for many years. Currently, Israel appears to be losing the missile war with Iran as their "Iron Dome" is failing. How much longer until Israel feels so cornered that she launches nukes on Iran? Given Israel's aggressive expansionist policy of pursuing The Greater Israel Empire, if you were a neighbor of Israel, how fearful would you be of Israel? Wouldn't you want a nuclear deterrent? By attacking Iran with Israel, all we have done is to convince the Shia Iranian people that this is indeed an "end-times" war of extinction.
As for "threats" - hmmm, how much of that is propaganda? Especially given our NeoCon's and Israel's massive influence in the US media and Gov't... Fact: Iran has not launched an aggressive or expansionist war against a neighbor in over 200 years. In the last 200 years, how many times has the USG invaded another country around the planet? How did this war start? Who invaded whom?
The American people have no idea who the Persians are. They are a proud people and they are fighters. In spite of all the USG/Zionist bullshit about the slaughter of 30,000 or was it 36,000 protesters, the Persians have not risen up in rebellion against their Gov't. As I said above, with the US/Israeli attack, they are now convinced that we mean to kill them all. If we commit to an escalating ground war such as we did in Vietnam (under similar propaganda lies), our children will come home in body bags by the tens of thousands. A ground war in Persia, the size of Alaska, cannot be won and will only be a killing field for our soldiers who will be fighting a war that ONLY benefits Netanyahu's dreams of a Greater Israeli Empire. Do you really want to sacrifice your children to Israel?!!!
Excellent post PolPhi. The masses appear to be brainwashed and the chasms, between the citizens, is real. Israel annexed the US, long ago, including the politicians and press. The leaders are mostly Eastern European Ashkenazi Canaanites, who have no respect or concern for the "goy".
So, I guess we take your conclusion is "This "war" is not going to end well". Is it OK if I regurgitate this in a few weeks time and ask if you've come to your senses?
Right now, in that part of the world, there is mutually assured destruction, the same stand-off situation that prevented Russia from starting a nuclear war. North Korea knows it would be gone in two hours. So why should we bother? Your sad, little attempt at some kind of equivalency is an illogical failure. North Korea simply isn't significant enough for us to take out at this point.
Because they have fully armed intercontinental ballistic weapons spread all over the country. We wouldn’t get them all, and U.S. cities would likely be incinerated. That’s why.
So apparently you have no idea where OUR nukes are. Their country would be obliterated before their missiles got anywhere near "US cities." Geography is our friend.
The Norks are on the Trumpsters list but further down the line. Norks have no source of energy except China and they give anything away for free. They will soon have a shortage of fertilizer and fuel. Looks like another famine in their future.
After Iran launched two missiles? That would be after the US attacked them, their leaders, their children, their gas field, and their infrastructure.
But you are using what they did after in order to justify what we did first?
That's rich.
I note that many of the people who supported the attack on Iran did so because they thought that Iran already has missiles capable of reaching the US. They breathlessly insisted that we had to kill them before they killed us.
Now we are told that they "might" in a couple of years.
Maybe you don't realize the change in propaganda, but I do.
Fun fact: Iran had already set up shop in Venezuela under Maduro to build those 4,000-5,000 kilometer range Ballistic Missiles -which were going to be nuclear capable- seeing as they had enriched their uranium to 70% in Iran. International Atomic watchdog groups said they were within weeks of enriching enough uranium for 11 nuclear bombs…which the Ayatollah intended to lob at Israel, and quite likely the USA. How stupid would be it be to allow the largest terrorist organization on earth, which had already been blackmailing the world for decades, to have a nuclear weapon.
I'm not entirely sure why you threw 'their children' into that mix, or 'their gas field' (which was actually Israel, NOT the U.S.) it appears that you haven't been following this turmoil from the start.
The Eastern European Zionists, who no are more indigenous to that land than an Irishman, have a defining supremacy complex. There are countless Rabbis,/Rebs saying, on line, exactly what this lunatic is saying. They are Canaanites and Edomites, not Jews. Rev 2:9
There is a lot of info coming out that these missiles were actually launched by Israeli subs...false flag stuff. Iran has always denied these attacks on Diego Garcia. They have acknowledged everything else they have done....so there's that.
Iran denied launching those missiles, and I don't think the government has offered us proof of where they came from. Israel false flag, perhaps. Or, it could be Iran. Iran has no interest in starting WWIII. This wouldn't even be happening had they not been bombed by the zionists. When was the last time Iran invaded another country?
I think it's been a couple of hundred years since Iran invaded another country, but the last time they were invaded was in the 80s, when Iraq, under US orders, invaded them. Half a million men died on each side.
Americans, who prefer to nurture their pretend grievances and oppression, don't even realize that happened, but the Iranians know better.
Iran has no interest in WW3? Of course not; they use proxies Houtis, Hamas, Al Shabab etc to do their killing. You write well but your facts and supporting statements are just dumb!!
Gary, do you not realize all the terrorist proxies the US supports in the region? Are you unaware of who we helped put into power in Syria? Are you unaware of all the despots in the region the US arms and gives money to? Bahrain is killing people for releasing footage showing damage from the war.
It is hard to believe the US is all noble when you look at the whole picture. The US has killed, maimed, and displaced MILLIONS of innocent civilians in the gulf region in the past few decades. Nobody can light a candle to that. Why do "they" hate us? Gee, I wonder.
We didn’t vote for open borders either. Nor did we vote for massive federal deficits. Iran has killed thousands of Americans through its proxies, and many tens of thousands of its own people, often women who are tortured first for not wearing a hijab. They have 60% enriched plutonium and have sworn to use it against the U.S. and Israel. They will add other countries to the list later. And it’s not “Iran.” It’s the IRGC, a bunch of fanatical Barbary pirates who control at least a third of that once great nation’s economy. The IRGC has funded wars and unrest in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon and Gaza. They have assassinated dissidents around the world. Meanwhile, they buy mansions in the UK, Switzerland, Mallorca, etc and vacation in Dubai. No one wants war, and the outcome in this case is indeed uncertain, but the benefits with regime change could be huge for the entire world. IMO, the benefits outweigh the costs, at least so far. We’ll see what happens.
Ah yes, in every war, the "enemy" is always vilified and portrayed as monsters. The propaganda is often made up out of whole cloth. Given that the US is the largest "consumer" of child trafficking on the planet and kills over a million of it's own citizens each year via abortion of babies (not war propaganda), maybe the USG regime deserves to be destroyed if you're applying the same standard.
Abortions Killed Over 1.1 Million American Babies in 2025
Abortions killed at least 1,126,000 American babies in 2025, a report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute revealed this week.
The estimate marks a slight increase from 2024, but remains far below the all-time high of over 1.6 million in 1990. The study did not include abortions provided outside of brick-and-mortar clinics and telehealth, meaning the findings are really “an underestimate of the total number of abortions nationally.”
The year-to-year increase was in part due to the rising popularity of telehealth abortions. The study found their total number rose from 72,000 in 2024 to 91,000 in 2025. The highly creepy practice involves killing an unborn child through remote care, rather than visiting an in-person clinic.
Charlie Kirk went viral in 2025 for saying abortion is worse than the Holocaust. He was right.
I remember that one. It was at least a year ago if not longer. Maybe last summer? I’ve been reading him since early 2024. I think I may have replied because I was aghast at learning about all of it for the first time through his Substack.
Well, that depends. How much of what you referenced is actually true and how much is propaganda? Nearly all the "news" we get from either side in a war is actually propaganda. There is always a long list of "excuses" for initiating an invasion of some country.
I'll add a minor clarification to your accurate and factual comment, Sea S. Iran wants war, they want chaos, whatever it will take to bring the boy out of the well and become the Mahdi, the twelfth Imam. Radical Muslims will gladly die for this cause, mothers will sacrifice their children, Iran lowered the draft age to 12 years, to fight the great and minor Satans of United States and Israel.
Excellent addition. SPH. What you have laid out is essential to understanding the IRGC/Caliphate perspective. But not one in 1,000 Americans has any understanding of what you laid out. Shi’a Islam has declared war on the West, and they will not stop without our complete destruction. It’s understandably hard for coddled Western citizens to get their minds around, but that changes nothing. Today, we have the ability to beat back this threat. But time is on their side as Muslims and Leftists combine to undermine the entire notion of freedom within our own societies. Our grandchildren will hold us accountable, and we’d better get it right.
See Doug Ross’s comment above and read his article. (Although I suspect you’re just here to make noise and not to LEARN anything…it’s worth a shot.) And, BTW, according to a recent CNN poll - like only a few days ago - 100% of Republicans support his efforts in Iran. So.
From Doug’s article:
“America is energy self-sufficient. China is not, and every unit of energy it imports now moves through chokepoints the U.S. Navy now controls. Iran was China’s last overland bypass — and it’s gone. Russia is next: a post-war Iran reopening under U.S. influence undercuts Russian crude on price, and Ukraine is already destroying Russian energy infrastructure. The message to Moscow is simple: two regimes fell in three months, and you’re next unless you sign a deal. Then comes the final negotiation with China, where the U.S. holds every card — energy, currency, and compute.
The nation that controls all three will likely build superintelligent AI first. That is the real prize.”
Did you not read the article or did you just not comprehend it? It’s not time for the Strait to reopen. Archimedes said “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the world.” He forgot to mention time. A lever, a place to stand and time.
If you really think that the USA will control Hormuz then please place a bet on Polymarket for when the first USA navy ship sails through it.
Ain't happening anytime soon. How long do you think it'll take? Weeks, months, years?
When a USA navy ship sails through Hormuz and doesn't get fired on then you control it. When 100 tankers a day transit the strait then you control it. Until then ...
My gut feeling Michelle is that you must be young. I lived through the CIA and the Shah, the 444 day hostage crisis, the Marine base bombing, the USS Cole, the Death to America chants, the assistance Iran gave to Osama Bin Laden, and those kidnapping and beheadings on social media not to include the 1988 massacre of 30,000 of it's owncitizens. So don't cry me a river about Iran or this blog.
Much of the assistance Iran gave to vintage Islamist terrorists such as Bin Laden was funded by our very own closet Islamist President Obama ... using taxpayer dollars no less.
Young? Or not real like a number of others here. Always naysaying. Always trying to tear things down and propagandize against America. They are likely Chinese bots. Definitely anarchists and commies.
Trump is taking care of some festering cancers in the world before it’s too late. It’s not always going to be pretty, or fast. And there is always the possibility of failure.
I voted for what you voted for— America first and lower gas prices, among other things. I also voted for anything but Kamala and the cabbage. Honestly, a true Cabbage in Chief, as in, an honest to goodness head of cabbage, a vegetable —would’ve better served us.
Sometimes, when an opportunity presents itself/other nefarious issues present themselves, you have to pivot.
I am all in, and firmly believe this war will remain short, and that it is well planned, (I mean, there are videos from the ‘80s of DJT discussing Iran and the oil island. Surely he has had time to think it through, plan, pivot…) I can’t imagine being against a war with a country who regularly chants, “Death to America!”, who calls for all women to wear burkas, and who hangs teenage girls by a crane, for the “crime” of wearing eyeshadow. I can’t imagine being against a war wherein the country in question has repeatedly lied abt nucs, AND lied about capping weapon capability to 2000 km, then bombed a country 2400 km away. A bomb on the doorstep of a place where “it couldn’t reach” is cold,
HARD evidence that they lied abt capping distance. If they can bomb at 2400 kg, they can bomb dang near everyone. And if they have loads of enriched uranium which they are not supposed to have, what do you suppose they plan to do with it? Blow up more of their own preteen girls who rebel from marrying ancient men? Their leaders are (were) crazy terrorists who clearly do whatever the hell they please, and tell the powers that be whatever they want to hear, truth be damned. THAT is a thing that needs dealing with. It isn’t like we can afford to just wait and hope they become honest. If we wait, and they don’t become honest, we are nuked. They HATE us. They despise anyone not of their “religion”. They marry 9 year olds for God’s sake. Again, they do what they please, in all discernible areas.
Letting a proven lying country who despises us continue enriching uranium while calling for death to America is foolish.
So, yeah, we pivoted away from President Trump’s promise of
no new wars.
I say, thank GOD. I’d hate to hear, “Well, we now know they have all this enriched uranium even though they promised not to. And we think they haven’t capped their weapons at 2000 kg like they said, which puts a lot more people in their path of destruction than we realized. It proves they lie and stuff, but, gosh, I just can’t go back on my campaign promise, no matter how
much new info I receive. So, y’all try really hard not to chap the Ayatollah, ok? No eyeshadow on lady reporters!”
And no, I am not twisted into a pretzel. I can pivot when presented with new information. Pivoting doesn’t require twisting.
Even if he did say that, (I think he did) he always made it clear he would bomb Iran if they rejected diplomacy. That means he never saw Iran as a new war but an old war needing to be ended.
The only people who hyper-fixate on his “no new wars” promise are those who wish to use it to smear him and pull his support apart. Because even if I thought he’d never instigate a new conflict of any kind, I voted for him for other reasons too. Not just that one issue. It’s not a deal breaker for me the way the doomers are making it out to be. “He lied! He’s not trustworthy!” All drama and untrue
In order to believe that this is 'a disaster' and not a necessary effort, you would need to believe that Iran would not succeed in obtaining a nuclear ICBM capability, nor the decision to use it... Understanding the motivation of the Iranian leadership over the last 47 years means appreciating the fact that they see the world as a religious conflict, not a political conflict -- and would certainly is their weaponry as such...
Every 'world leader' over the last thirty years has bemoaned the Iranian ambitions, and said that something needed to be done about it... But little other than bribery was done, so Iran just kept plugging away at obtaining the one thing they felt they needed...
I believe the President Trump DOES have a master plan -- not because I know what it is but because too many things happen is the correct sequences to maximize the results for the US...
You sound like someone that waits to see what happens... Such people are very uncomfortable with people who are action oriented, such as President Trump... Perhaps that is your issue... But it is very dangerous in geopolitics to just sit back and wait to see what happend -- just look at the Germans specifically... I traveled there for work 2012-2023, and watched the place slowly crumble, then faster... But I would see it from my US perspective, while they sat there unaware of the risks from their European (and historically stoic German) perspectives... When I talk to my German friends now, they are all too aware of the issues (mostly because Trump holds the mirror up to them directly) but they know they are at risk of becoming irrelevant...
When I want to prove the point to them, I send the picture of the German delegation at the UN laughing at President Trump during his speech at the UN about energy independence... Who is laughing now...???
We didn’t have to twist ourselves into a pretzel at all to support it, but then we all have common sense. Jeff is anything BUT propaganda. He’s the opposite actually, fighting the very propaganda that you have swallowed.
If you listened a few days ago to Tucker Carlson's discussion with a former *interim* prime minister of Israel, the gist of the discussion boils down to - Israel has no plan but they will obliterate any thing or anyone who gives them the slightest opposition. RIP Charlie Kirk.
I had subscribed to Tucker Carlson’s channel. I recently canceled it. Tucker has truly gone insane and yes, lost his way. He is not the man he used to be.
Actually, I think the insane people are the one's who voted for Trump and cheered him on when he ran for over a decade on no new wars and excoriated the neocon idiots for the Middle East misadventures. You all are now cheering for exactly that.
Barely, and not for long. Pretty much everything will be going up in price in the near future, and it may be that way for the foreseeable future because Trojan Horse Trump is dismantling the country to rebuild it with his tech goon oligarchs. The strait being closed is going to cause big disruptions in the food supply, and we just learned a lot of global helium passes through there, which is needed for a lot of microchip manufacturing. TAW TAW TAW or something. Clowns.
💯. Explain to me "energy independence" Almost zero of the shale products stays here to refine. We have maybe 3 refineries that can do it! 60% of our crude comes from Canada, 15% from Mexico and the balance made up from SA countries. This hasbara is so laughable,simply on its face. It will take several years to tool up our refineries to process. The Venezuela crude, only LA refineries can process but they are full of crude from Canada..
The straight, again LMFAO from this hasbara. Our carriers: Our largest, out of action reportedly for a year due to a "laundry room fire". The Lincoln cannot get within 1000KM of the coast to avoid also having a "laundry room fire". So the hasbara is now, we the US taxpayers are going to underwrite the ships! Now we the tax payers can pay for the losses when they inevitably occur because we have zero control over the straight! What is conveniently left out is; ships are moving! Ships are going through every single day that have been approved from Iran. Remember the master 5d chess player HAD TO remove all sanctions on Iranian and Russian oil to attempt to manipulate the markets so the dear leader won't look bad. This is so laughable it's not even funny. You cannot make this shit show up. Although Jeff is trying very hard for his handlers to do so. So we are playing 100d chess..Iran and Russia are making huge amounts of Rubles and Yuan selling their products while the planned destruction of the petro dollar is happening in real time. Explain to me how this is winning again?
I respect the hell out of Jeff and what he does on the daily. Creating a blog 7 days per week. However, it appears most of his followers love an echo chamber. All of his Trump gushes are easily disproven by FACTS on the ground. What I'm afraid of is, we are getting ready to sacrifice our sons and daughters to create as the Professor Pappe states: a rally around the flag moment when they get slaughtered in this next series of miscalculations. Almost all of you should listen to that voice in your head that is telling you this is wrong. Spend a little time outside of your echo chamber, maybe you can find alternative theories to what's happening. Instead of worshipping a clearly deranged lunatic that we can all witness is panicking, instead of winning. It's been named the Persian Gulf for 3000 years! If you think these folks, during an existential threat are going to lay down, ask our brave soldiers from last night what they think now that we have reportedly lost 12 bases completely. We cannot even protect our bases but we're going to control the straight...Wake up folks!
I had to look "hasbara" up. It is not a term I use or have ever heard of. We are 100% self sufficient in terms of oil production and the only bottleneck is refining. Which is about to change in Brownsville and Trenton, ND. In the next 2-5 years. Oil producers don't like permitting refineries because more supply equals a lower price. This is the DeBeers model of constraining supply to increase pricing. I know oil. Not just because I am a mineral owner, but because I largely consume every topic related to oil.
Most of what you have written is factually incorrect. But I can't waste all day responding to each meritless allegation.
In summary Aaron, please do better research. Also please do not ridicule readers with your opinions. Most of us follow the Mark Twain methodology and are aware of it.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
What did I get wrong? You validated my point on refining! It's an enormous bottleneck and as you validated.... it's several years away. What happens in the near term? I also have vast experience in the oil patch. I also am a mineral owner! I have a rig right now, less than a mile from my house! I 💯 agree with you on the Debeers model. Kicked into over drive the last time they lied us into the middle east. All the wells around me on the Utica shale were drilled mid 2000s, then shut in. Most likely waiting for this occurrence. I also spent 15 years working in refineries, chemical plants, ASUs. Facilities utilizing fractional distillation. Probably not as well read as you but understand it well. Matter of fact, the largest ASU in the world, which was a huge supplier of helium is picking up the ashes from all our winning!
It's unfortunate you didn't know what hasbara is. I'm afraid most on here don't...Because thats all we get these days. I appreciate you helping prove my point succinctly with your experience. You appear to have gotten angry I cannot be hypnotised by the dear leader but you helped tremendously, proving my point this isnt some near term 5d chess move. We cannot protect our bases, 100 million dollar boondoggle aircrafts and apparently our ships as we sit 1000 KM from the coast of Iran. But we'll win the battle of the straight? I also take the Mark Twain approach:
Easier to fool someone than admit they've been fooled. Appreciate the response.
Net exporter is a real number. There are always factors in production, crude quality etc. Our foreign imports are far more secure then many nations enjoy. I think there is a plan here to not allow Iran to have control of the straight. Who will, well clearly that is being worked on and moving towards a joint international effort. Trump likely wants the oil revenue to go to the people of Iran, just as the US forced the British to allow that with the Sha, until Carter.
Read or listen to something else than Faux news...Not a fan of NY times but they laid it out pretty well the other day. Also last night. All of our early warning radars have been knocked out. Most on first day! This right here is the problem of you all living in an Echo Chamber. This has been admitted from our ministry of truth; that you all appear to now believe in again. Mostly smaller bases but again admitted that we evacuated Iraq, Irbil, a few in Jordan, UAE, Bahrain. Just spend 10 minutes out of your bubble and alternative theories are there. I don't know for 100 certainty either but I sure as hell don't believe our lying government either. All I'm attempting is to educate the sleeping and overcome your biases.
Shale oil, produced from tight oil formations via hydraulic fracturing, is chemically similar to light crude oil. Because of this, it does not require specialized refineries; instead, it is blended with conventional crude and processed in existing refineries. Historically, the U.S. had oil shale refining in the 19th century, but by the 1860s, shale refineries largely converted to petroleum feedstock due to cost efficiency. Today, shale oil contributes significantly to U.S. crude supply, particularly from regions like the Permian Basin, Bakken, and Eagle Ford, but it is refined in the same facilities as conventional crude.
And we have approximately 131 active oil refineries in spread out over 30 states. That is from Statista. Not sure where your stats came from.
Wilkerson is so real and heartfelt when speaking truth about power. his genuine concern about this debacle comforts me in its honesty and humility. thanks for link.
I don’t see it so much as propaganda but another viewpoint that we’re not getting elsewhere. It’s refreshing actually. If you just want confirmation bias perhaps you should go elsewhere.
I think Kennedy was talking about C&C just being another viewpoint, not propaganda, and if the OP just wanted more confirmation bias of the leftist narrative they should go elsewhere.
Hard to keep track with all the replies but that’s what I think they meant.
The Trumpster has just endorsed Ken Paxton over Cornyn whose a buddy of Thune. Jeff you mentioned a little while back about the Trumpsters plans to remake the Senate. Is this a planned move towards this plan??
"There was a reason why John Thune scheduled the vote while the nation was asleep - so they could skip town before voters woke up and discovered what they had done.
And here's the real kick in the pants - Republican senators left for yet another vacation without doing anything about the Save America Act.
There's no polite way to say this - but Senate Republicans are sabotaging the midterm elections and President Trump's agenda."
Yup. Been doing that for a long time. Two party system = two wings of the same bird.
Only way to fix is rebuild from bottom up, IOW, local local local. Many years of vigilance and long hours in front of us, if republic is to be our way.
I like a world of plenty—plenty of gas to drive a car, plenty of fertilizer to plant food, and airports that are clean, efficient and safe. I liked the world when monarch meant butterflies (whoops the chemtrails killed them) and we have monarch programming. I liked the world when words had meanings like peace really meant peace and I’ve always liked Europe. Oh well, I’m way too old for this world.
And the whole West Coast and the South East Coast and the upper N Midwest... We've been taken in by demonic gov schooling and hated of all things Holy.
Meanwhile on the West Coast, we seem to be handing over all the power to the predators.... A liberal judge lets a killer off on probation and it's the mountain lions who have all the leverage.
Thanks for sharing your link. As a former graveyard cop in semi-rural America, I've actually witnessed coyotes running across roadways with pets clenched in their jaws. A few times.
Thank you for your service... Sad to report that here in my neighborhood, we'd often see the evidence of that in the morning: little maroon droplets on the cement.
The speed of AI development (and its hunger - for energy and something else…it seems almost parasitic) is horrifying. And yet, we’re here. I think Jeff’s right that nationally the choice is “find a way to use it or lost it” but personally and relationally we’ll need to be building a resistance to it.
EXACTLY!!! Resist! Do not comply! Refuse to engage with AI. We cannot feed all of our water and our power to the machines. Didn’t anybody watch the Terminator movies?
And no mention of The First Lady, The Trannie and The Robot in the White House? Let robots teach your kids! Wake the hell up, people.
The digital prison is nearly complete. Window closing.
I’m laughing so hard at how you describe Mike Johnson’s demeanor 🤣🤣 You nail it so well, Jeff! I have a smile a mile wide on my face just from your first paragraphs and had to come grin and laugh before I finish reading. Hilarious. He might have tapped the podium. Lololol I love C&C 😂 You really bring some of the best joy to my day, and wrapped in the news that is quite the feat!
Same here! How Jeff can deliver such momentous “news” in such a sunny manner is beyond me. I never fail to laugh at his descriptions. With all the doom and gloom we are constantly barraged with, it’s so refreshing. Thank you, Jeff! “A day without Coffee & COVID is a day without sunshine”!
Maybe he got caught a bit red faced like most podcasters and reporters on Friday believing that Senators even read the bill.
The default nowadays should always be that Congress Critters HAVE NOT read bills they vote on. They stopped writing them decades ago and who knows when they stopped reading them. They delegated all regulations to bureaucrats half a century ago. They are nothing but figure heads who spend every minute of every day of every year (election year or not) 100% clinging desperately to their seat. Now they’re taking a vacation. We don’t despise them enough.
Excellent points. Why did we allow it to get this way? Shame on voters!
GOP Senators very quiet. Nary a peep out of them. Likely focused on being first in line for escort around those annoying TSA lines. Hopping on flights home to spend a joyous Easter out of the swamp.
I heard that Sen Mike Lee (UT) said the all should return to DC and pass the bill the House sent to the Senate. Not many but there are few decent GOP Senators.
I was amused by that too, as well as by "Iran’s navy is deployed to an artificial reef assignment." Interesting wording there :D REALLY GLAD I'm getting better about keeping my drinks out of my mouth when I'm reading C&C!
Gah! I’ve no such luck. He always gets me with a mouthful of coffee. I’ve been known to snort it a time or two and end in a coughing fit. 😂 Today was one zinger after another. He was smokin
I drink tea, and have learned to make it habit to take a sip facing the WINDOW, before returning my eyes to the screen... For quite a while there my keyboard was having a lot of bad mornings.
Jeff is AWESOME !!
Oh great now I’m chortling and spitting reading your replies 🤣🤣🤣
I read it at work so I have to be careful about weird noises coming out of my office or coffee going up my nose. But I’ll take the extra pre-wrinkle-creating smiles anytime!! 🤣😅😁
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Delightful LOL (See what I did there😉)
To sustain Jeff’s theory about Trump plan to destroy The Old World economic/political system.
The fastest way to get up to what we are witnessing today.
prometheanaction.com
Loved ‘The fat German lady has sung, left the opera, and is home tucking into a bratwurst.’
That was my favorite line too, and all the other little comments from those in the C & C family who can't get their coffee to tumble down their throat while reading Jeff. I stick to tea and never have a problem! Ha
Such a good visual. I pictured my German great grandmother with the large bosom and always in a belted pastel colored floral dress. She didn’t tuck into anything though, she was very ladylike. 😉
Probably smacking on a Weißwürst….
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Be extra careful if you are up there in years… lately I’ve almost drowned myself… drinking isn’t as easy as it used to be. I’m serious here! Not joking.
Todays piece dovetails nicely with this video: https://youtu.be/rwjwYW2T7Gw
She has an amazing voice! I didnt finish listening yet, but I am now following her on X. Thanks for sharing!
Her voice and cadence sound as if she is giving a 60 minutes documentary.
yes they are the BEST these women.
Love PrometheanAction. They bring the receipts!
Yes! Too good!!😆
"The...Europeans dragged their wooden-shoed feet" did it for me! 🤣
Hahahahaha that one was excellent
03/28/26: I truly didn't know that Johnson had it in him.
Q: What happens down the road after the Europeans have wasted all their time happily censoring their internet and throwing their citizens in jail for "hate speech" --- only to be sandbagged when they finally run out of / no longer afford to pay for the electrical power necessary to keep the Internet going so they can continue to perpetuate their Stalinist regimes that censor and prosecute their own citizens?
I am curious about the same thing. The Europeans have had a holier than thou attitude for decades and decades. How hard will it be for them to finally make the changes, and how long will it take them?
I remember them sneering at Trump in his first Administration..
Europeans are very much like the state of California. The difference between California people and the passengers on the Titanic….the passengers on the Titanic didn’t vote to hit the iceberg.
03/28/26: The analogy is flawed because all significant elections in California are rigged, with tens of thousands of non-existent voters "voting" for D-Antifa. Maybe the Bingo Nights on the Titanic were rigged, but that's about the extent of it.
03/28/26: Too hard. They won't. They're the latest edition of the Japanese soldiers who hid in the pacific island hills until the mid-60s before finally "surrendering." Oh did they EVER sneer at Trump. And now they wonder why they're in the dire straits that they're in. Screw 'em. Pull the plug on the whole damn lot of them and let the Hungarians and the Poles run things for a while.
Brilliant insight
YES, YES AND YES‼️🤣❤️
😂 One thing I have come to realize is, to get the most out of C&C you cannot skim and speed read your way through. You must read it slow enough to savor every word.
Yes!!! Savor - Perfect word!
And if you don’t come to the comment section afterwards with a celebratory heart, a smile on your face, ready to bathe in optimism, there’s something deeply wrong with you.
I often get sidetracked slapping down saboteurs or doomers, but I always arrive with my feet squarely planted in hope and a big smile on my face.
. . . yep, and we all like that about you Juju.
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Juju, if I didn't really smile and laugh out loud when I read Jeff's description of Mike Johnson, I sure did when I read your comments. LOL.
….support animals that need support animals had me in the Kleenex box! Hilarious!
🤣 yes!
me too Juju. I HAD to read that to my wife out loud.
Coffee and Covid. . . yeah man.
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Ditto, Juju!
Good morning C&C. Holy Week is approaching. Jesus died for our sins. Let us turn to God and repent so that Jesus’s sacrifice was not in vain.
I will second that and raise a true ‘Come to Jesus’ request. A personal, transforming life with Him awaits you. Get it now and start really living. Just ask Jesus into your heart. He will gladly step in where you are and will never leave you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are advised not to delay. Luke 12:20 reminds us: "You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?"
Don't assume you will live to repent and receive Christ "later", for "later" may never arrive.
So very true. A recent example which hit our family hard…our grandson went on a spring break trip with six other young men from their Christian college track team. They were traveling in two separate vehicles, my grandson in a car with two other young men, who stopped to get gas in Kansas City. The other car with four young men went ahead and was involved in a head on collision. The 22 year old driver was killed instantly, and another was seriously injured and is still in ICU. We are praying hard for young Noah to make a full recovery.
These young men sought out a church to attend while they were on spring break so that says a lot about their faith commitment. Matthew, the one who died was a Pastors son. We take consolation in their saving faith, and yet we grieve.
As you said, anyone can be taken in an instant! Even a healthy, bright 22 year old young man! He was a sprinter on the track team; he has now finished the race of life and won eternity.
We shall pray this Holy Week for Noah's recovery, and for comfort for the deceased driver's family. Thank you for sharing this tragic story.
😢 Thank you for providing names. We will be sure to pray for them this weekend. ❤️ Where two or more are gathered I will hear their prayers.
It’s wonderful to hear about the faith of all those boys.
Any moment could be our last. We need to be ready now right where we are in our present circumstances. I often feel I was more ready at age 29 early in our marriage when immersing myself in God’s word than I am today. Gotta do something about that … no time to lose
Praying for those young men and their families 🙏
May Matthew rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him. May our Lord hold Noah in His loving arms, touch him and heal him, if it be His will. May the families of these young men be comforted.
Amen. Now is the time to choose. Choose Him, and He covers us with grace. Choose anything less, and “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10:31
Jesus wants you to trust in Him! He wants to shower you with His graces. If you surrender yourself to Him, your life will change. If you start to worry about something just surrender yourself to Jesus and let Him take care of it. The anxiety will leave you and you will feel free. Surrender prayer: “O Jesus, I surrender myself to You, take care of everything!”
Since I discovered this prayer years ago, it has changed my life. Try it.
https://focus.org/posts/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/
You need to read my post somewhere below about supposed Christians trying to take-over Substack groups for control. By showing us all how "godly" they are. It's a manipulation. Just as in extremist religious cults.
This is a general news site. I am one of those moderate Christians who does not use my faith to gain status. I recommend you do the same.
Sorry A -
the writer of C&C, Jeff Childers, is a Christian! Would you ask him to cease and desist?!
Thank God for the First Amendment - I for one am in total agreement with these wonderful posts extoling and exalting the LORD!
Our nation and world (mankind)'s problem is they want the blessings that cine only from God the Creator without surrendering their hearts, lives, and will to Him.
Mankind's heart is deceitful - we see evidence of how deceitful every day!
Which btw - is why we have this daily C&C blog to read and respond with encouragement and truth!
Have a lovely "moderate" day!
Jesus loves you - "ALL IN!"
I am a Christian too, my friend. An authentic one. With humility. Not someone who plays faux-Christian to a nauseating degree on social media sites, for control and attention.
This comment forum is full of them! Very much like extremist religious cults who proclaim how Christian they are, which covers their actual immorality. I have worked with them through cultic studies. Unfortunately I have met them again on this C&C site. It's a very recognizable type. Nothing to do with Christ at all.
The pontification by supposed Christians on this site is enough to turn others off Christianity. It is certainly not my idea of Christian humility. It is more like a daily game here of virtue-signaling. And then crushing anyone who does not suck-up to you. I find it all shameful and phony.
You are worse than the WOKE!
I am a Christian too. I believe in sharing the Good News of Jesus, but I come here to read the news. Jeff is a professional, knowledgeable, and talented attorney and writer. C&C my favorite analysis roundup. Yes, as a Christian, Jeff has talent on loan from God, but I come here for his commentary, analysis and humor!
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I am a moderate Christian, Lea, who comes here for news too. But the phony preachers here are ruining it for many of us.
They are very much like Marjoe, the charismatic con-artist who spent decades on the Evangelical Circuit conning people through Christian pretense. Marjoe certainly has a lot of keen understudies here! Who fool me no more than he would have,
They need to give it a rest. Take their tricks and move along.
Haha! There is no such thing as a moderate Christian. You are a demon. These posts obviously offend you.
Jesus said: I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:15-16
Many “moderate” Christians are actually self-deceived and are not Christians at all. Rather they take the name of Christ for all that he can give them and nothing about how they can love and serve Christ. If all you do is think God get me thru this or help me get this job or heal me etc then you are very much self deceived. Repent and believe.
Holy AI at work in your heart
Great analogy. Holy Ai. So true.
My sons used to get soooo mad at me when they were younger, especially my oldest, because I always knew when he was lying no matter how convincing he was or how I couldn’t possibly know the truth of a matter. Yet somehow I did. It was my gut being led by the Holy Spirit. I was overwhelmed by the feeling that something wasn’t right. I explained that God reveals things to his children when there’s no other way they could know, so long as they are listening. And he especially works in the hearts of parents who love their children. Over the years my older son has come clean with us faster and faster each time knowing he can’t fool God, and therefore can’t fool the Holy Spirit within me. I hate that most of the time when I can’t possibly know something is false that I have a slight pang of doubt that I might be wrong - and I don’t want to make that kind of mistake with them - but there hasn’t been a single time in 27 years that my gut was wrong, that my children were telling the truth and I was convinced they weren’t. Not once. We all marvel at the power of God in that way. It was an incredible witness for my children growing up. Not me, but God’s voice within me.
That's true!
How does the Holy Spirit have you discerning cooking 160 little girls in a TRIPLE-TAP in your name and on your dime, Will?
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Today is Palm Shabbat-the day Israel was told to choose the lamb before Passover- which this year, is Wednesday (the ‘day’ begins at sundown Tuesday and ends at sundown Wednesday.)
They were told that in those 4 days, they were to examine/watch the lamb.
Today would have been the day that Yeshua, the Lamb of God, walked into Jerusalem, 4 days before He was to be sacrificed. And He was watched/examined, by the people, the Pharisees, the Sadducee’s, by Pontius Pilate and the Roman soldiers.
At some point in the wee hours of the night Wednesday, He was arrested, tried 4 times, and by daylight had been found guilty, was beaten to a pulp, hung on the cross.
By 3 pm he was dead. Right before sundown Wednesday He was placed in the tomb. For 3 days and 3 nights.
He arose on the day we call Sunday, which the Father calls the 6th day.
Resurrection Day!
“Oh death, where is your sting?”
He indeed died on Passover on a Wednesday!🤜🏾🤛🏾
This year the days do fall in the same pattern for Passover ( and the Lord’s Supper - at the beginning of the 14th Nisan - ) as the year of Christ’s death. He did die late in the afternoon ( about 3) on a Wednesday.
Which means He rose from the dead exactly three days later on the late afternoon of the following weekly Sabbath. (In between there was the annual Sabbath on the Thursday- the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread. Remember they had to hasten to bury Him before the ( annual) Sabbath, elsewhere described as a ‘high’ day. Christ said the only sign that would be given that He was Who He said He was that He would be in grave the same time as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish. Three days and three nights. By Biblical definition a ‘day’ is 12 hours, a ‘night’ is 12 hours. 72 hours in total. Not the insipid two nights and one day the main stream churches tout.
Ahhhhh!! I have always wondered how they figured He rose on the 3rd day! Thanks for that explanation!
Archaeological evidence of the original Passover. Seems the mummy of pharaoh's firstborn has been identified. Scoffers will scoff, and the faithful don't need physical evidence, but this is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOf8dZAD3OY
Yes, it's so clear when you look at the Hebrew days and nights.I first heard this from Chuck Missler, so good the thinking is being made known more broadly! Thank you, Murray.
Jesus died on Friday afternoon about 3 pm, according to the Scripture. He rose "early on the first day". Three days were involved - Friday, Saturday (the Sabbath) and Sunday. Sunday was counted to start at sunset on Saturday evening. Scripture is true. It doesn't have to measure an exact number of hours. Manmade calculations don't matter, only the word of God!
Yes. It moves every few years. Sometimes the church has their bunny day two weeks/or days before or after He’s even been crucified. But this year……..
I have heard that your behaviour against anyone you disagree with is far from Christian, CStone.
Maybe it's time for you to stop finger-wagging and preaching to others. Live it yourself first.
You’re right.
I am very flawed.
I’m very human.
He has been reminding me how much I need His forgiveness.
Thank you for reminding me how much I needed Him. Because sometimes I have a hard time separating the fact that many of those who given themselves over to demonic entities are still human, as they act just like the entities they have given their bodies to.
But I do not apologize for hating those entities that hate Him. It’s written about in the Psalms of David. And there are loud entities who are enemies of all that is good and righteous in the world. Those who kill, steal and destroy.
I will fall and falter and fail again.
I’ll bet I’m better at faltering and failing than you are.
So thank you.
Please continue to remind me of my failures. You’re very good at it.
I recommend that you stop insulting others on this comment forum for disagreeing with you.
And you might lose that phony pity-party of yours too.
Who ever told you that THIS kind of behaviour reflects Christianity? Sounds more like self-puffery and attention-seeking to me.
The delightful part is, Normal is not coming back...JESUS IS!!
He was crucified, He lives, and He offers our nation a lifeline after decades of impurity in mind, body, and soul: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Karmy,
I know what you meant to say, still I must clarify: Jesus' sacrifice will NEVER, EVER, EVER have been in vain...
Because even IF only ONE person turned to Him in repentance, acknowledged their sinful state, and called out for forgiveness, Jesus would have accomplished what no other blood sacrifice could have attempted to do...
Rather, let us turn to Him because His Perfect, Spotless, Father-accepted Sacrifice has demonstrated His Unending, Selfless LOVE for all of us, His Creation...
Let's turn to Him because He LOVES us AND we accept His love, and love Him back and look forward to spending Eternity in His Kingdom!
Let's turn to Him, bc the alternative of His Kingdom, is someone else's' kingdom.... and our will being done, not His
Crucified for our sins. His blood on the Cross, our sins nailed to it. He paid the price. It is finished. Thank God for the Cross! Thank God for His mercy! Amen!
I think Christians know this already. Supposedly reminding them is just virtue-signaling on your part. As if you are the parent reminding the naughty kids how "good" YOU are.
I recommend to you developing more Christian humility. Rather than using Christianity for power.
They dont share for the believers, but the unbelievers.
If they think this virtue-signaling act here is going to convince unbelievers, they are sadly mistaken. It is quite nauseating, actually. They are all attemptng to draw attention to how good they think they are themselves. Hardly humble Christians. More like the con-artist "preachers" of the Revival Circuit.
This comment forum reads like every cliche of pompous faux-Christianity I have ever encountered.
Try some Christian humility, instead of the chronic virtue-signaling here. This is more like a song-and-dance show with everyone singing, "Look at how good and holy I am!!" Continual self-congratulations is very off-putting, especially when there is no obvious reason for the congratulations.
If I was not a moderate Christian already, the stuff I read here would make me head for the hills and stay far away from anything described as "Christianity". Christ was quiet and humble. And kind to others. Not a phony song-and-dance con-artist looking for self-aggrandizement, as I see here. Or viciously insulting people like CStone does, whenever they do not agree with them.
This comment forum seems to be about faux-Christian show-offs, with the habits of internet trolls.
Begone satan! Your demons have no power here.
I recommend you get deliverance for your anti-Christ spirit. It is NOT from the eternal Lord.
I notice this site is full of the very extremist evangelical herd (of sheep-people), who claim that anyone who disagrees with them, or crosses them just a small bit...is Satanic.
Uh-huh....glad you do not live in my neighborhood or I would double-lock my doors. You're obviously disturbed. Do you do witch-hunts too? That's the usual next step for deluded extremists.
How convenient for you that you can label as evil anything that does not suit you. What a self-serving con-game you and your sort are playing. You are nothing but scammers.
From my experience here, there are some very unbalanced persons amongst you. Jeff Childers lets you stay and spout your nonsense only because it is a good business move for him if you are also paying subscribers. How many of you are there? Ka-ching! $$$
The anti-Christ spirit - by Biblical definition - opposes Christ Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, opposes Him being proclaimed. That is what you are so busy doing. You don't want us to talk about Jesus, about Who He is, or what He has done. Do you not even recognize yourself? A crusader against anyone who stands for Jesus.
You are clearly operating in the anti-Christ spirit, and in a spirit of witchcraft as well. Witchcraft has three main ways of working: manipulation, intimidation, and dominance. You are trying to control (dominate) those who raise the banner of Jesus, to get us to back down. That is the spirit of witchcraft, working with the anti-Christ spirit. So you are actually exhibiting at least two ungodly spirits. "You will know them by their fruits." Your fruit is the fruit of the devil, the accuser of the brethren.
Jesus said to "judge rightly". The spirit of this world is obviously strong in you. You also show disdain for the professing believers. Yet we are called to love our fellow believers. On top of that, God Himself, Jesus, calls us to testify. We will testify of His Truth, His glory, His mercy, His grace, for we believers know how far we fell before we turned to Him.
You declare yourself to be Christian. There are false messiahs, false prophets, and false Christians. If you really are a follower of the Lord, the Living God, then prove it! Tell us Who Jesus is. Tell us His lineage. You have not been speaking like a Christian, but speaking like the devil. At best, you are misguided and don't even know you are doing the devil's bidding. May the One True God bring you to revelation and repentance. May He bless you, and may you not turn from it!
Ahhhhhh.
I was right.
You hate Christians.
Ahhh...I was RIGHT!
You obviously have an emotional disorder. And you take it out on the C&C readers here.
Good "Christian"? You're as phony as a $2 bill. You remind me of the descriptions of Jim Jones in the various memoirs of Jonestown, and his religious cult.
Jesus’s sacrifice is never in vain but I get your point. His atonement for sins is perfectly powerful and totally efficacious for those to whom the Spirit applies it by grace. Praise the Lord, it is full and free to all who believe!
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Thus says Yahweh,
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And you will find rest for your souls.”
— Jeremiah 6:16 LSB
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Wish I could “Like” your thoughtful responses by a gazillion, Janice! 🥰
In my journaling through Jeremiah, that verse leapt out last night.
God is using you in such a profound way to gather True Believers as well as awakening those that believe that they alone have power! Well done Good and Faithful Servant! Wishing you a Blessed Easter Season, may the Resurrection Power that He proclaimed for us descend like the dove of Peace over us and keep us growing ever fervent in our heart to carry HIS legacy until He calls us HOME! 🙏🏻📿🕊️
Amen, and thank you!
I feel that today with my new arch supports.
Born again.
After your semicolon:
; But they said, We will not walk therein."
"DHS said TSA workers should start receiving their paychecks as early as this Monday."
I'm flying tomorrow morning (7:40am boarding time flight that I would normally plan to get to the airport for at 6:30am to be through security with an hour before boarding; I've now scheduled my Uber pickup to get me to the airport at 4:30am).
I'm flying again on Wednesday.
So, one flight *before* the TSA paychecks should start flowing, and one flight *after*.
I shall report back the differences I see, on Thursday. (Different airports, of course, so maybe an apples & oranges thing). [Edit: also, Sunday is usually one of the busiest air travel days in the US, and Wednesday is one of the slowest, so probably not comparable.)
And…given that 500 employees quit how long will it take to restaff TSA to its normal numbers after the pay starts. It can’t be instantaneous, but ICE is still there to help … best of luck to you both before and after! I wish you short and fast lines.
Even CNN was forced to report the long hellish lines are gone.
Meanwhile, the acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration testified before Congress this week that travelers at U.S. airports are currently enduring the highest wait times ever recorded. So who do we believe, CNN or the TSA itself? I'll go with TSA on this one.
The reporting IS confusing. The experience we have seen is in the last 2 weeks: we’ve had many visitors from Chicago to Florida, different days, times and airlines. None had any delays. None of them. Last ones were yesterday.
Friends who went to Puerto Rico however posted on Facebook that they had a 2 1/2 hour security line.
Was that testimony before or after ICE was deployed?
But Fox kept reporting it. Much hand-wringing. Very strange.
03/28/26: Fox-Pravda. Knifed Trump in the back on election night 2020. We will not forget.
In some places, yes. In other places, no. You speak as if ALL airports are back to normal with no extended times in line.
I think she saying it’s hard to know what to believe. Not trust worthy reporting so you go by what real people you know are reporting. Atlanta airport is notoriously painful. Long lines even with TSA precheck
And other folks speak as though hellishly long lines exist in every airport.
Then perhaps they should come to San Juan because that's not the case here, at least not this morning anyway.
I got to the airport at 4:38am and I have never seen so many people at this airport, regardless of time of day.
The line for TSA pre-check, not even general boarding, extended to a part of the airport I didn't even know existed.
ICE officers were visible throughout the terminal, and at the security bag conveyors.
The pre-check line moved surprisingly quickly, though. I was through security in 35 minutes. (In all my dozens of previous flights out of this airport it's never taken me more than five minutes through the pre-check line and often there's been no line at all, just me)
Anyway, don't let anyone kid you, not even CNN, that lines no longer exist. They do. Maybe not everywhere, but not nowhere, either.
What is PR normally like? While it’s theoretically part of America, it’s actually Spanish.
TSA should never have been a unionized government job. Can we fly safely without TSA? Yes, instead of treating every passenger as a criminal, professionals can spot potential threats and casually question them to decide, threat: yes or no. Call it stereotyping if you like, we all do it every day. And it works.
Agree. I worked 17 yrs for major airline at midsize airport in the south. Supv. for half of that and responsible for coordinating with FAA and security checkpoint. 1986-2003
It was a joke when TSA came to being. One big grift. For example, my station mgr and an another supv retired from the airlines and got a cush govt job with TSA, doing basically the same thing. Nothing. Don't get me started on continuous searches at the gate! Thank the Lord that was 23 years ago. I got out as soon as I could and haven't looked back. I mentioned similar this week so apologies if your reading this again.
Thats how israel does it. Or did.
Democrats might rethink that after TSA agents all hate getting jerked around on their paychecks every year or two…
500 across all America. Perspective.
True …
However as I’ve been thinking this assumes the quitting was spread evenly across America, (probably not,) and there’s an airport in every city making it spread far and wide. There’s not. This impacted the major airports more than others. It’s why we see one large airport with no long waits while another has lines practically wrapping around parking lots. Maybe the former lost one or two employees but the latter lost 15-20. The impact is not going to be evenly spread.
They could lose thousands and then they’d operate somewhere in the efficient range.
10 per state. Less than 1 per airport. How many call in sick on any regular day? Hopefully, some dead wood was culled.
That’s assuming it’s all evenly spread. Most likely it’s pocketed. It’s why we see one large airport having no long lines or increased wait time while another is practically brought to its knees. One probably only lost 1-2 agents, while the other could have lost 20-30.
Hopefully you don't find any support animals that need support animals 😂 epic JC quip
My GSD service dog always needs a his own ESA after going through security at Sea-Tac. They never fail to pat me down, search my suitcase and wand him ( the dog) within an inch of his life. Or in the case of a Nov trip to CA, within a nanometer of his balls… Then the TSA agent questioned his legitimacy as a service dog because he lifted his lip at her after she ran her wand through his undercarriage for five minutes before I suggested that she get a different wand because the first one wouldn’t stop beeping. She soon discovered that her wand was faulty, not that his dangling bits had illicit materials in them. All of this was happening while another supposed service dog was growling and barking at him from one line over. When we were finally through that nightmare, I bought him a burger before we got on the plane and told him he could have a beer when we got to our hotel because people would look at him Funny if I poured him a beer in the airport… he’s only four.
Awesome dog mom! 🤣Seriously.. get that pup a beer!
Well... he is of legal drinking age....in dog years....yes?
Yeah, that was one of three lines today that had me laugh out loud literally.
That and the watching your kids grow up and graduate while waiting in line at the airport 😆
I wish -sort of-that would happen, then the college tuition nightmare would be over
Yes, those were the other two! The grow up and graduate part, and the other part of that sentence but I can't remember right now. I just know it got me laughing twice, then the support animal one was the third.
We flew on the 14th and 21st and had shockingly short TSA wait times…shutdown was in-progress but I don’t think ICE had been deployed yet (or at least wasn’t at our airports)….just saying that not all airports are equally impacted (MSP and Boston-Logan) - best of luck to you!
Agreed. Houston never seemed to be good, my local SJU had horrific videos early last week (the airport set up dozens of tents outside to shield the 5-hour-long lines from sun AND rain), and other airports were tolerable or normal.
I suspect it depends on whether it's one of the 13 airports where ICE was deployed (Unwoke in Idaho seems to think ICE went to every airport...), although even that doesn't necessarily mean anything, because they WERE deployed to SJU and we still had 5-hour lines and outdoor tents set up.
I'm curious to see what the place looks like tomorrow morning, whether the tents are still there.
Two weeks ago my wife had a flight to Miami and her Uber driver cancelled on her because he didn't want to go to the airport; she said (at least that day) SJU and MIA seemed fine, and both on the return a few days later. But she flew on a Thursday and a Monday, both not typical high-travel days for US airports.
You have no idea what I think sport.
You wrote, "Even CNN was forced to report the long hellish lines are gone."
No qualifications whatsoever. Just that the long hellish lines are gone.
So even though ice was only deployed to 13 airports, your implication was that long hellish lines are gone at *all* airports. Including all of those 13. And I have firsthand proof that that's not true at at least one of those 13.
If I have no idea what you think, then it's because you don't express yourself well.
Agreed, we flew 19th and 27th to and from DFW with absolutely no queuing.
Pick your airport (and/or place of residence, carefully!)
I've been going to Asheville from SWFL a number of times this year to be with my daughter-in-law for chemo treatments. I've had the opportunity to travel Allegiant Air and not had any problems. I leave Wednesday for another visit. I'm going early so I can be there for my grand daughter's 3 rd birthday. Allegiant has limited flights, so I was looking at regular carriers. I would have to change in Atlanta. I decided to stay a bit longer to ensure safe and swift passage.
I have a friend who is a flight attendant on Delta. Several years ago, she cautioned all her friends with the following advice. That was, if you are within 7 hours of your destination, drive. When you choose to fly, get a direct flight, even if you have to drive some distance. And if not, be prepared to wait and know the possibility of being canceled and rescheduled.
Just offering... Travel well folks.
Mary Pat - i believe your friend's advice having experienced all of that too many times! Hubs and I only fly now if it's an absolute necessity!
As for driving, I live on an island, so... ;-)
Having said that, and with the shtshow Southwest has turned into lately, I try to book nonstops now whenever feasible and affordable (and almost everything SWA is a connecting flightZ).
I'm flying SJU to ORF tomorrow then ORF to BOS on Wednesday, both nonstops (thankfully JBU has new service in ORF, where my son, DIL, and 2 grands live; daughter, SIL, and grand live in southern ME, hence BOS).
The total cost of those two JBU nonstops was one-THIRD the total cost if I'd flown SWA, and, SWA's flights had connections through BWI.
So two-thirds cheaper AND both nonstops on JBU. And none of the chaos SWA has become.
Yeah and also way more than 7 hours from your destination so definitely a case for flying instead of driving even without the island part 🙂
I hope everything goes smoothly! Keep us updated on your experience!
Yeah, I/we've driven from Virginia Beach to southern Maine, and to Long Island, and to Rochester. Well over 7 hours to each. But for a variety of reasons flying wasn't an option each time.
I drove Chesapeake to Savannah, and then Savannah to Miami last June. Both drives were 7 hours. I almost certainly would've flown, if I could've flown nonstop. Maybe even with a connection, or split the difference and fly direct (one stop, no plane change), I'd have to think about that one.
But I was moving a car from Philly to Miami, so I had no choice. Plus, I like driving, so I didn't mind much.
We flew Delta until recently because their service was better compared to the alternatives... We're flying TPA to LAS non-stop on Southwest after Easter to visit our daughter, SIL, and three grands. There were zero non-stops on other airlines and Southwest has a sale going so it was no more expensive than our one stop flights to LAS in early April and early November on Delta in which both flights had enormous delays that put us into LAS the next day! I'm willing to try SW which we used to fly all of the time 7 yrs ago. We'll be there a week and will return on a non-stop, too. Something we have not found for the last 7 years!
Once or twice when I have flown from San Juan to either Boston or Manchester I don't recall which I connected through Tampa on Southwest and it was a direct flight which was nice because although there was a stopover, there was no plane change. You don't see direct flights much anymore, they're either nonstop or connecting. For the foreseeable future, however, I will avoid Southwest unless they are the cheaper option and it has to be cheaper by a lot to justify sticking my toe in that chaotic operation these days. My nonstop to Norfolk and then nonstop from Norfolk to Boston on jetBlue was 1/3 the cost of flying to Norfolk and then to Boston on Southwest with connections through Baltimore. I'm not even using my Southwest credit card for the time being because I don't want to earn miles that I don't want to use.
I agree with your friend’s advice!
We are at TPA on the way to LGA. Two people ahead of us at TSA Pre-check. It took 4 minutes to get through security.
Watch, tomorrow I'll have a 4 minute wait, but I'm getting there 3 hours early, so I'll probably fall asleep in the terminal and miss my flight.
🤣🤣 too funny
That would be the ultimate irony! 😆
I flew from Asheville to Minneapolis and back this week and the TSA lines were 5-10 minute larks. My only delays were a hour-long wait for a car in MPLS and an hour take-off delay for maintenance - resulting in a mised flight and now a midnight arrival.
Funny story about the car shortage: The rental company announced to those waiting that an EV was available. There wasn't a single taker!
03/28/26: The verdict was unanimous: "We didn't bring any back-up Triple-A batteries with us. Do you have any pogo sticks?"
If you're flying to DFW, we don't have any problems here. You can whisk in and out in good time.
Not knowing Texas, I found it odd that IAH was awful and DFW was fine (based on the reports I saw for the past week or two).
Good luck!
Probably fine as long as it's not one of the Houston flights.
I flew this past Tuesday as well as yesterday (Friday). No difference from past trips.
Boston/Logan had a hellacious line yesterday at 5am. That's one of my usual airports, though I won't be flying it for at least the next few months.
Instead...I'll be flying Newark end of April!
For Logan at 5 am, believe it or not, that's usually quite busy.
But if it was over 45 minutes to an hour, then yes. That's unusual.
My flight last Tuesday was 9:30am
I wondered if the time was the reason at BOS. I know here at SJU it's "busy" at 4:30am but that's only because that's when the TSA line opens in the jetBlue terminal (or 4am, I forget). Probably by 5:30am it looks normal here.
It depends on the airport. Charlotte's TSA wait is only 20 minutes because most of their flights are connecting flights. If you are flying out of NYC, Atlanta or TX you may still be in trouble.
Safe and swift travels
03/28/6: Only way out now is to learn how to fly your own plane and own your own airport.
I actually used a Groupon back in 2012 (here in PR they're "Gustazos") and piloted a Cessna 172 for 30 minutes, including taxi, takeoff, and landing, here in PR, after about an hour of classroom time. Omar Sharif (no kidding) was my instructor and co-pilot's name.
Oh, fun! And that is hilarious about the instructor’s name! I’d have been humming the theme to Dr Zhivago the whole time 😆
03/28/26: While keeping an eye on the Canadian Assisted-Suicide Program that made a pit stop at LaGuardia Airport this week.
Which airport are you flying out of tomorrow?
SJU (San Juan PR).
Good luck! Hope you have shorter than expected wait times!
Best of luck to you. 🤞🏻
First update.
I got to the airport at 4:38am for a flight that boards at 7:40 AM. I have never seen so many people at this airport, regardless of time of day.
The line for TSA pre-check extended to a part of the airport I didn't even know existed. I think I might've been standing in the Dominican Republic for a short time.
Airport personnel, not ICE and not TSA, kept the lines organized and assisted passengers with making sure they were in the correct line. ICE officers were visible in the terminal, though.
The pre-check line move surprisingly quickly. I was through security in 35 minutes. So assuming that timing holds, I could've slept for another hour and a half and still gotten through security an hour before my boarding time.
Anyway, the experience was better than I anticipated when Uber pulled up to the airport, but don't let anyone kid you that lines no longer exist. They do. Maybe not everywhere, but not nowhere, either.
Edit: arrived in Norfolk at 11:45am. They have two terminals, B is the busier one, with more airlines than A. The B terminal security line - not just PreCheck, but all of TSA security - had maybe 5 passengers in the area.
It will be interesting just the same.
I'll post the result on Thursday.
Today, SJU was a madhouse at 4:30am. More people by a LOT than I've ever seen in the airport, including Christmas travel. Granted, it's Sunday (along with Friday the busiest days of the week ordinarily) and I'm sure it was the end of school break for a lot of people (and PR is a spring break destination), so today would probably have been busy anyway. Just not as ridiculous as today. The precheck line went to a part of the airport I didn't know existed, and still took just 35 minutes to get through.
In ORF, there was nobody in the TSA area. Maybe 5 passengers total, maybe less than that, at 11:45am.
I’ve been on 3 flights since the TSA issue began and haven’t had a single delay or any long lines. I’ll be in another flight on Monday and hopefully it will be the same as it’s always been.
Same as my wife, she's been on 4 flights (San Juan and Miami) earlier this month and late Feb and found no resistance (flying on Thursdays and Mondays, so, not peak days ordinarily).
I flew Feb 18 and 25 and both times the airport waits were normal (both were Wednesdays, typical slow days, so there's that).
Iran didn't close the Strait of Hormuz, Lloyds of London did
Iran is letting ships pass if they pay a tariff. I don't know why Americans don't pay attention to that. We should understand the concept of charging for commerce.
Mrs. RW
Speaking of tariffs. Jeff alerted that EU parliament was to vote this past Thurs. on ratifying purchase of $750B in USA gas/oil. The deal made in July 2025 but EU slow walked due to ‘Greenland’ mean tweets.
They parliament voted to approve it, but now goes to each country for final. And, a provision to suspend it if US raises tariffs any further.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33l4e6vdrvo
“The EU assembly voted by 417 to 154, and 71 abstentions, in favour of the legislation.
The text will need to be signed off by all of the bloc's 27 member states before it is implemented, with a concluding vote expected in April or May.
On Thursday, lawmakers moved to strengthen its safeguards, including a provision to suspend the agreement if the US imposes additional tariffs above 15% or introduces new duties on EU goods. Another would halt the deal if the US threatened the EU's territorial sovereignty.”
I guess ‘Greenland’ = the EU’s territorial sovereignty?
Technically, yes, it is. But does the US have $750 billion in oil and gas to sell?
Mrs. RW
That’s a very good question. In 2025, US pumped out 1.3 million barrels per day, which is nearly 5B barrels annually. At $70 per barrel, that’s $350B per year in available sales. At $90 per barrel, that goes up to $450B in annual sales. The EU deal for $750B is over 3 years, so that would be approx. $250B in annual consumption from US. I’d say US has to increase production further, or oil prices remain elevated (maybe combo of both).
Sorry EU guys - someone came and bought the oil already - hope you find what you are looking for somewhere else... hahaha
I hear Germany is going to start doing that again on the Rhine…
Really, so The Lloyds of London are blowing up tankers?
as long as Iran still has drones and rockets that could sink a tanker they will not take the risk - would you
Same thing.
It's not the same thing, the result is the same but if Lloyds of London closed the Strait, then only Llodys of London can open it again. Iran doesn't need to do anything except give a perception of danger and the insurance will do the rest
That's why we will be insuring the ships, not Lloyds. This may end up being the biggest plus from the Iran war. Lloyds will have competition and we will have another huge source of funding for other things like tax relief.
Yes, insurance is an enormous profit center which we would be able to exploit.
BINGO
You could be right but I don't think so. If, and that's still an if, the US underwrites ships passing through the Strait that will just encourange Iran to fire everything they have at those ships. It sounds like a recipie for the costs to dramatically escalate for the US
Insurance doesn't stop bombs and missiles.
You are correct! But threats and coercion go a Helluva long way!!
I am beyond disgusted by the senatewhores taking yet another two week vacation. Even if they had passed the SAVE Act and DHS funding, which they didn’t do of course, there is still a crapload of stuff they need to do but never will.
I think those miserable pukes have been on vacation more days so far this year than they theoretically have been “working”. And then they will have the effing nerve to whine how they only have so many legislative days so they’ll kick the can down the road yet once again.
I loathe them with the heat of a thousand suns.
Congressmen have enormous incentives to do the wrong thing.
Maybe Trump has a plan to reel them in. Term limits, insider trading, and full disclosure of sexual misconduct are low hanging fruit.
Knowing Trump, he has a plan to bring this mafia to its knees
We the people should bring them to their knees. We pay their salaries and glorious benes that we don't have. The payor is the sayor and time to give them a taste of the medicine they force on us.
Term Limits…Term Limits…Term Limits. Desperately needed; but strongly skeptic that it will ever happen. Why would all the corrupt legislators vote themselves out of office and give up their gravy train?
Let's see what the midterms bring. I think Trump has something up his sleeve regarding Congress and also regarding trad-media
I hope he has a plan for this. Not so sure
Annnnd, they all get to fly home bypassing TSA while you wait in line.
No anymore. The airlines cut out their 'special little benefits' while they have not funded TSA. The airlines ought to keep it that way!
Amen on cutting special benefits for all congressmen and women. Let them live like we the people who pay their salaries and cushy lifestyle.
I think it’s only Delta-?
Yet they are still bypassing TSA.
That was only one airline... and it was a temporary change.
Dear GOP candidates, please read the post by Unwoke, then you will see why all email requests for donations are trashed without opening. You have lost my confidence, it will take twice as long to regain it. A good start would be passing the SAVE AMERICA act.
Thune must be removed.
Sadly I have to agree with this. Even if he were playing a strategy, he wasted way too much time on the SAVE act and that will cost us. So it’s a poor strategy he chose and he needs to be replaced with such poor judgement - catering to the machine rather than the people.
I keep wondering if Trump is asking him to slow-walk the Save act until the Last. Possible. Moment. If it passes too early, the dems will figure out a way to circumvent it. Regardless, I trust it's all in God's hands. It will work out the way it's supposed to.
Hmm interesting. What would it look like last minute? Too late to help with midterms … is he thinking ahead to 2028 specifically?
We need to vote them OUT. Our only recourse. But, as Rush would say, “low information voters.”…
FYI, it's a THREE WEEK vacation. You can't expect them to have a "normal" length of vacation. I mean, they're all that!
/sarc off
Sorry to bring you that bad news.
Scumbags, a Thune is a traitor.
As Datarepublican (small r) said (paraphrased from faulty memory), "you will break the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't break them to win one."
Lo the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evil doers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of hosts. But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with the healing rays.
Malachi 3:19–20
... or the SON of justice.
Or...
1 “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, ” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
Malachi 4:1-2 (NIV) Hahaha... I think we are all looking forward to the days when we can frolic like well fed calves...
I have decided recently to stay off X and eschew most news until late in the day, just to get caught up. It has done wonders for my equilibrium and productivity. Summaries like this are just what the doctor ordered (the doctor is a psychiatrist) :-)
I would suggest that your best psychiatrist, to keep you on the straight and narrow, is right here! Congratulations on finding the sane route.
The Jeff Childers pro Trump spin machine continues. There’s no master plan here, this Iran adventure is a disaster. None of us voted for war with Iran, although many conservatives seem to have twisted themselves in pretzels to support it. We specifically voted for lower gas prices and focus on our economy in America first. I loved you during Covid and I thank you for all you did then Jeff, but man this is just a propaganda blog at this point.
See ya. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
It is fine to disagree with what Jeff articulates. It is true however that such comments are "contradictions" not debate, and not engaging in any meaningful way.
"See ya. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
You are why Substack needs down votes like Zerohedge. Go volunteer and die in Iran for the Zionists then. Go ahead. Talk is cheap.
Is that you Mohammed?
Ok groyper
Zionists are Nazis, did you miss what you all did in Gaza? Go move to Israel if you're so proud. Go join the war effort. Oh wait, you creeps only believe in other people fighting your battles.
You zionists are such lovely people:
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/an-israeli-leaked-1000-hours-of-interrogation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=192361206&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1NzUyMTAsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE5MjM2MTIwNiwiaWF0IjoxNzc0NjcxNzg3LCJleHAiOjE3NzcyNjM3ODcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNTc3NDIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.n0BqTBRC9yZalu97QpzifDnn-azUF7iXeIm5T5oz4MI&r=cbu2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Then volunteer and go get maimed or die for your cause.
I just blocked Michelle.
"I just blocked Michelle"
Ugh, being 'anti-war' in 2026 is like being anti-vaxx in 2020.
haha
crazy ain't it?
Me too
How about don't let the door hit ya where President Trump effectively split ya!
Your upside down flag reflects your kind words.
After Iran launched two 4000km missiles ( after swearing maximum range of 2000 km) do you realize they were a couple years away from hitting USA? I didn’t want a war, but national security is key to republicans vs useless broken negotiations by democrats.
I didn’t want a war, but national security ......
OK, I have a question. Given that then why have we not already destroyed North Korea who has nukes and has missiles? Or is there something wrong with the logic?
Does North Korea export terror like Iran does? No, they keep it to themselves in order to enslave their people.
Please make a spreadsheet, with 2 columns. On one side, name who Iran "exports" terror to. In the other column, list the MANY countries Israel exports terror to. (Don't forget about the terror exported to the US, when false flag- Israel tried to sink the USS Liberty, so the blame could be placed on Egypt. If it sunk, the US would have likely bombed Egypt into the stone ages, yet Zionist LBJ basically covered it up. Israel IS the terrorist state. The biblical "great deception", in real time. Rev 2:9
North Korea is far more reasonable than Iran and has curtailed their behavior due to external inputs. They take input from the US and China seriously. Iran has been inimical since the late 1970's.
It seems like Iran isn't "reasonable" because a 2 nuclear armed powers are bombing the shit out of them.
Yes, N. Korea isn't a part of the greater Israel plan.... maybe, unless they decide to build a 4th temple.
LOL
There will be a fourth Temple, placed on, cover your eyes kool, Zion, the name God gave to Jerusalem. Yes, the world needs to experience the third Temple first, a bad idea, which may be very close at hand. If you see the third Temple, you have a very hard decision to make. Choose wisely, good luck.
Thank you!!!
It's not enough that Iran might have, or even did have, a nuclear weapon. There needed to be a imminent threat of them using it against us to justify going to war and putting American troops on the ground. Go back and listen to Rubio in his own words. That is NOT why we went to war.
Trump may have found a way to leverage this "conflict" to serve his agenda, but the end doesn't justify the means.
The imminence argument is BS. Too late is a half-step from imminent, thus those who use this argument have no argument. You are willing to risk the death of millions of Americans, I and most Americans who understand the danger are not.
I could stick this comment in any number of places in this string, so I'll just stick it here. For anyone with a modicum of rationality, I challenge you to think about these questions. For those emotionally captured by the propaganda, skip it:
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Let me ask you this. Even if Iran had nukes and even if they had missiles that could reach the US, how much is that a threat to a country like the US that has the capability to instantly turn the entire country into a radioactive crater? Now Israel has nukes (and no one complains) and has had them for many years. Currently, Israel appears to be losing the missile war with Iran as their "Iron Dome" is failing. How much longer until Israel feels so cornered that she launches nukes on Iran? Given Israel's aggressive expansionist policy of pursuing The Greater Israel Empire, if you were a neighbor of Israel, how fearful would you be of Israel? Wouldn't you want a nuclear deterrent? By attacking Iran with Israel, all we have done is to convince the Shia Iranian people that this is indeed an "end-times" war of extinction.
As for "threats" - hmmm, how much of that is propaganda? Especially given our NeoCon's and Israel's massive influence in the US media and Gov't... Fact: Iran has not launched an aggressive or expansionist war against a neighbor in over 200 years. In the last 200 years, how many times has the USG invaded another country around the planet? How did this war start? Who invaded whom?
The American people have no idea who the Persians are. They are a proud people and they are fighters. In spite of all the USG/Zionist bullshit about the slaughter of 30,000 or was it 36,000 protesters, the Persians have not risen up in rebellion against their Gov't. As I said above, with the US/Israeli attack, they are now convinced that we mean to kill them all. If we commit to an escalating ground war such as we did in Vietnam (under similar propaganda lies), our children will come home in body bags by the tens of thousands. A ground war in Persia, the size of Alaska, cannot be won and will only be a killing field for our soldiers who will be fighting a war that ONLY benefits Netanyahu's dreams of a Greater Israeli Empire. Do you really want to sacrifice your children to Israel?!!!
This war is not going to end well.
For a deeper look....
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/iran/armageddon-iran-war-why-peace-is-impossible/
Excellent post PolPhi. The masses appear to be brainwashed and the chasms, between the citizens, is real. Israel annexed the US, long ago, including the politicians and press. The leaders are mostly Eastern European Ashkenazi Canaanites, who have no respect or concern for the "goy".
This rabbi represents the opinion of MANY rabbis.
https://youtube.com/shorts/fL-zaZwX_Uk?si=PZ-QOx07GFHP963f
So, I guess we take your conclusion is "This "war" is not going to end well". Is it OK if I regurgitate this in a few weeks time and ask if you've come to your senses?
Right now, in that part of the world, there is mutually assured destruction, the same stand-off situation that prevented Russia from starting a nuclear war. North Korea knows it would be gone in two hours. So why should we bother? Your sad, little attempt at some kind of equivalency is an illogical failure. North Korea simply isn't significant enough for us to take out at this point.
Because they have fully armed intercontinental ballistic weapons spread all over the country. We wouldn’t get them all, and U.S. cities would likely be incinerated. That’s why.
So apparently you have no idea where OUR nukes are. Their country would be obliterated before their missiles got anywhere near "US cities." Geography is our friend.
The Norks are on the Trumpsters list but further down the line. Norks have no source of energy except China and they give anything away for free. They will soon have a shortage of fertilizer and fuel. Looks like another famine in their future.
Not part of Greater Israel and the Board of Piece (of the action).
What is the proof those missiles came from Iran?
Satellite imagery suggests that they were from Israeli subs,,,false flag type stuff
What is the proof they came from somewhere else?
That's not really how the burden of proof works. If they came from Iran, it should be really easy to prove, no?
After Iran launched two missiles? That would be after the US attacked them, their leaders, their children, their gas field, and their infrastructure.
But you are using what they did after in order to justify what we did first?
That's rich.
I note that many of the people who supported the attack on Iran did so because they thought that Iran already has missiles capable of reaching the US. They breathlessly insisted that we had to kill them before they killed us.
Now we are told that they "might" in a couple of years.
Maybe you don't realize the change in propaganda, but I do.
Mrs. RW
Fun fact: Iran had already set up shop in Venezuela under Maduro to build those 4,000-5,000 kilometer range Ballistic Missiles -which were going to be nuclear capable- seeing as they had enriched their uranium to 70% in Iran. International Atomic watchdog groups said they were within weeks of enriching enough uranium for 11 nuclear bombs…which the Ayatollah intended to lob at Israel, and quite likely the USA. How stupid would be it be to allow the largest terrorist organization on earth, which had already been blackmailing the world for decades, to have a nuclear weapon.
It is not a couple of years, it was two weeks per Iran negotiaters.
I was responding to Gary Dix. You might want to reread his comment before making up your own alternative facts.
Mrs. RW
I'm not entirely sure why you threw 'their children' into that mix, or 'their gas field' (which was actually Israel, NOT the U.S.) it appears that you haven't been following this turmoil from the start.
On the first day, the US blew up a school full of little girls, and then bombed a gym where teenaged girls were playing basketball, killing dozens.
That is why I "threw in" killing their children.
As for the gas field, are you making a claim that the US and Israel are waging separate wars on Iran?
I think they are partners in crime, and whatever crimes they commit are on both of them.
Mrs. RW
While the Israel propaganda machines convince everyone that every aggression is by any state, other than Israel, here's the real story:
https://youtube.com/shorts/fL-zaZwX_Uk?si=PZ-QOx07GFHP963f
The Eastern European Zionists, who no are more indigenous to that land than an Irishman, have a defining supremacy complex. There are countless Rabbis,/Rebs saying, on line, exactly what this lunatic is saying. They are Canaanites and Edomites, not Jews. Rev 2:9
What is national security?
Created to keep information from the people.
Dont feel insecure. Its Holy Week.
There is a lot of info coming out that these missiles were actually launched by Israeli subs...false flag stuff. Iran has always denied these attacks on Diego Garcia. They have acknowledged everything else they have done....so there's that.
Info or misinformation? Dig deeper for the truth.
Iran denied launching those missiles, and I don't think the government has offered us proof of where they came from. Israel false flag, perhaps. Or, it could be Iran. Iran has no interest in starting WWIII. This wouldn't even be happening had they not been bombed by the zionists. When was the last time Iran invaded another country?
I think it's been a couple of hundred years since Iran invaded another country, but the last time they were invaded was in the 80s, when Iraq, under US orders, invaded them. Half a million men died on each side.
Americans, who prefer to nurture their pretend grievances and oppression, don't even realize that happened, but the Iranians know better.
Mrs. RW
Iran has no interest in WW3? Of course not; they use proxies Houtis, Hamas, Al Shabab etc to do their killing. You write well but your facts and supporting statements are just dumb!!
Gary, do you not realize all the terrorist proxies the US supports in the region? Are you unaware of who we helped put into power in Syria? Are you unaware of all the despots in the region the US arms and gives money to? Bahrain is killing people for releasing footage showing damage from the war.
It is hard to believe the US is all noble when you look at the whole picture. The US has killed, maimed, and displaced MILLIONS of innocent civilians in the gulf region in the past few decades. Nobody can light a candle to that. Why do "they" hate us? Gee, I wonder.
Possible Chinese missile tech
We didn’t vote for open borders either. Nor did we vote for massive federal deficits. Iran has killed thousands of Americans through its proxies, and many tens of thousands of its own people, often women who are tortured first for not wearing a hijab. They have 60% enriched plutonium and have sworn to use it against the U.S. and Israel. They will add other countries to the list later. And it’s not “Iran.” It’s the IRGC, a bunch of fanatical Barbary pirates who control at least a third of that once great nation’s economy. The IRGC has funded wars and unrest in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon and Gaza. They have assassinated dissidents around the world. Meanwhile, they buy mansions in the UK, Switzerland, Mallorca, etc and vacation in Dubai. No one wants war, and the outcome in this case is indeed uncertain, but the benefits with regime change could be huge for the entire world. IMO, the benefits outweigh the costs, at least so far. We’ll see what happens.
Sea S - Iran also has written ped0philia into it’s law.
Since 1982, it’s been legal for Iranian men to marry girls aged 9 and over. In practice, they apparently also take younger girls as «wives».
It is reported that over 750,000 little girls currently live this nightmare.
Add this to the systematic abuse of human rights & the recent massacre and I for one don’t care who destroys that regime. The sooner the better.
Ah yes, in every war, the "enemy" is always vilified and portrayed as monsters. The propaganda is often made up out of whole cloth. Given that the US is the largest "consumer" of child trafficking on the planet and kills over a million of it's own citizens each year via abortion of babies (not war propaganda), maybe the USG regime deserves to be destroyed if you're applying the same standard.
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Abortions Killed Over 1.1 Million American Babies in 2025
Abortions killed at least 1,126,000 American babies in 2025, a report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute revealed this week.
The estimate marks a slight increase from 2024, but remains far below the all-time high of over 1.6 million in 1990. The study did not include abortions provided outside of brick-and-mortar clinics and telehealth, meaning the findings are really “an underestimate of the total number of abortions nationally.”
The year-to-year increase was in part due to the rising popularity of telehealth abortions. The study found their total number rose from 72,000 in 2024 to 91,000 in 2025. The highly creepy practice involves killing an unborn child through remote care, rather than visiting an in-person clinic.
Charlie Kirk went viral in 2025 for saying abortion is worse than the Holocaust. He was right.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2026/03/26/report-1-1m-unborn-babies-killed-abortions-2025-telehealth-abortions-skyrocketed/
Sounds like they're just talking about "physical" damage, not mental. It's sick and aberrant behavior.
I remember that one. It was at least a year ago if not longer. Maybe last summer? I’ve been reading him since early 2024. I think I may have replied because I was aghast at learning about all of it for the first time through his Substack.
Sometimes death by stoning sounds too lenient!!
Well, that depends. How much of what you referenced is actually true and how much is propaganda? Nearly all the "news" we get from either side in a war is actually propaganda. There is always a long list of "excuses" for initiating an invasion of some country.
It’s all true and easily searchable, Phil. But I agree it’s a fair question to challenge assumptions.
And then there is AI which adds a whole nuther layer of deception.
I'll add a minor clarification to your accurate and factual comment, Sea S. Iran wants war, they want chaos, whatever it will take to bring the boy out of the well and become the Mahdi, the twelfth Imam. Radical Muslims will gladly die for this cause, mothers will sacrifice their children, Iran lowered the draft age to 12 years, to fight the great and minor Satans of United States and Israel.
Excellent addition. SPH. What you have laid out is essential to understanding the IRGC/Caliphate perspective. But not one in 1,000 Americans has any understanding of what you laid out. Shi’a Islam has declared war on the West, and they will not stop without our complete destruction. It’s understandably hard for coddled Western citizens to get their minds around, but that changes nothing. Today, we have the ability to beat back this threat. But time is on their side as Muslims and Leftists combine to undermine the entire notion of freedom within our own societies. Our grandchildren will hold us accountable, and we’d better get it right.
No way to talk about the Trotskyites.
See Doug Ross’s comment above and read his article. (Although I suspect you’re just here to make noise and not to LEARN anything…it’s worth a shot.) And, BTW, according to a recent CNN poll - like only a few days ago - 100% of Republicans support his efforts in Iran. So.
From Doug’s article:
“America is energy self-sufficient. China is not, and every unit of energy it imports now moves through chokepoints the U.S. Navy now controls. Iran was China’s last overland bypass — and it’s gone. Russia is next: a post-war Iran reopening under U.S. influence undercuts Russian crude on price, and Ukraine is already destroying Russian energy infrastructure. The message to Moscow is simple: two regimes fell in three months, and you’re next unless you sign a deal. Then comes the final negotiation with China, where the U.S. holds every card — energy, currency, and compute.
The nation that controls all three will likely build superintelligent AI first. That is the real prize.”
"chokepoints the U.S. Navy now controls" - ROTFLMAO.
YOU CONTROL NOTHING ABOUT HORMUZ.
If you control it why are 100 tankers a day not transiting it?
Did you not read the article or did you just not comprehend it? It’s not time for the Strait to reopen. Archimedes said “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the world.” He forgot to mention time. A lever, a place to stand and time.
Tim, do you have a second or third cousin named Charlotte Cze… by chance?
Go back and read Jeff's post again. You seem to have missed his point.
Good grief you fall for everything don't you?
Missed the point? LMAO. No I didn't.
If you really think that the USA will control Hormuz then please place a bet on Polymarket for when the first USA navy ship sails through it.
Ain't happening anytime soon. How long do you think it'll take? Weeks, months, years?
When a USA navy ship sails through Hormuz and doesn't get fired on then you control it. When 100 tankers a day transit the strait then you control it. Until then ...
Apparently, you didn't even read the article. Fully explained above.
Maritime insurance.
Thank you Idaho!!
Helium and Fertilizer in the Gulf needed by all for AI chips and food.
Both will control the people.
My gut feeling Michelle is that you must be young. I lived through the CIA and the Shah, the 444 day hostage crisis, the Marine base bombing, the USS Cole, the Death to America chants, the assistance Iran gave to Osama Bin Laden, and those kidnapping and beheadings on social media not to include the 1988 massacre of 30,000 of it's owncitizens. So don't cry me a river about Iran or this blog.
Much of the assistance Iran gave to vintage Islamist terrorists such as Bin Laden was funded by our very own closet Islamist President Obama ... using taxpayer dollars no less.
Young? Or not real like a number of others here. Always naysaying. Always trying to tear things down and propagandize against America. They are likely Chinese bots. Definitely anarchists and commies.
Johnny-O - did you change your handle?!?!? 😂
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Trump is taking care of some festering cancers in the world before it’s too late. It’s not always going to be pretty, or fast. And there is always the possibility of failure.
There will be bumps in the road.
I voted for what you voted for— America first and lower gas prices, among other things. I also voted for anything but Kamala and the cabbage. Honestly, a true Cabbage in Chief, as in, an honest to goodness head of cabbage, a vegetable —would’ve better served us.
Sometimes, when an opportunity presents itself/other nefarious issues present themselves, you have to pivot.
I am all in, and firmly believe this war will remain short, and that it is well planned, (I mean, there are videos from the ‘80s of DJT discussing Iran and the oil island. Surely he has had time to think it through, plan, pivot…) I can’t imagine being against a war with a country who regularly chants, “Death to America!”, who calls for all women to wear burkas, and who hangs teenage girls by a crane, for the “crime” of wearing eyeshadow. I can’t imagine being against a war wherein the country in question has repeatedly lied abt nucs, AND lied about capping weapon capability to 2000 km, then bombed a country 2400 km away. A bomb on the doorstep of a place where “it couldn’t reach” is cold,
HARD evidence that they lied abt capping distance. If they can bomb at 2400 kg, they can bomb dang near everyone. And if they have loads of enriched uranium which they are not supposed to have, what do you suppose they plan to do with it? Blow up more of their own preteen girls who rebel from marrying ancient men? Their leaders are (were) crazy terrorists who clearly do whatever the hell they please, and tell the powers that be whatever they want to hear, truth be damned. THAT is a thing that needs dealing with. It isn’t like we can afford to just wait and hope they become honest. If we wait, and they don’t become honest, we are nuked. They HATE us. They despise anyone not of their “religion”. They marry 9 year olds for God’s sake. Again, they do what they please, in all discernible areas.
Letting a proven lying country who despises us continue enriching uranium while calling for death to America is foolish.
So, yeah, we pivoted away from President Trump’s promise of
no new wars.
I say, thank GOD. I’d hate to hear, “Well, we now know they have all this enriched uranium even though they promised not to. And we think they haven’t capped their weapons at 2000 kg like they said, which puts a lot more people in their path of destruction than we realized. It proves they lie and stuff, but, gosh, I just can’t go back on my campaign promise, no matter how
much new info I receive. So, y’all try really hard not to chap the Ayatollah, ok? No eyeshadow on lady reporters!”
And no, I am not twisted into a pretzel. I can pivot when presented with new information. Pivoting doesn’t require twisting.
Even if he did say that, (I think he did) he always made it clear he would bomb Iran if they rejected diplomacy. That means he never saw Iran as a new war but an old war needing to be ended.
The only people who hyper-fixate on his “no new wars” promise are those who wish to use it to smear him and pull his support apart. Because even if I thought he’d never instigate a new conflict of any kind, I voted for him for other reasons too. Not just that one issue. It’s not a deal breaker for me the way the doomers are making it out to be. “He lied! He’s not trustworthy!” All drama and untrue
In order to believe that this is 'a disaster' and not a necessary effort, you would need to believe that Iran would not succeed in obtaining a nuclear ICBM capability, nor the decision to use it... Understanding the motivation of the Iranian leadership over the last 47 years means appreciating the fact that they see the world as a religious conflict, not a political conflict -- and would certainly is their weaponry as such...
Every 'world leader' over the last thirty years has bemoaned the Iranian ambitions, and said that something needed to be done about it... But little other than bribery was done, so Iran just kept plugging away at obtaining the one thing they felt they needed...
I believe the President Trump DOES have a master plan -- not because I know what it is but because too many things happen is the correct sequences to maximize the results for the US...
You sound like someone that waits to see what happens... Such people are very uncomfortable with people who are action oriented, such as President Trump... Perhaps that is your issue... But it is very dangerous in geopolitics to just sit back and wait to see what happend -- just look at the Germans specifically... I traveled there for work 2012-2023, and watched the place slowly crumble, then faster... But I would see it from my US perspective, while they sat there unaware of the risks from their European (and historically stoic German) perspectives... When I talk to my German friends now, they are all too aware of the issues (mostly because Trump holds the mirror up to them directly) but they know they are at risk of becoming irrelevant...
When I want to prove the point to them, I send the picture of the German delegation at the UN laughing at President Trump during his speech at the UN about energy independence... Who is laughing now...???
We didn’t have to twist ourselves into a pretzel at all to support it, but then we all have common sense. Jeff is anything BUT propaganda. He’s the opposite actually, fighting the very propaganda that you have swallowed.
Enjoy your dramatic exit!
If you listened a few days ago to Tucker Carlson's discussion with a former *interim* prime minister of Israel, the gist of the discussion boils down to - Israel has no plan but they will obliterate any thing or anyone who gives them the slightest opposition. RIP Charlie Kirk.
They come right out and say it.
I had subscribed to Tucker Carlson’s channel. I recently canceled it. Tucker has truly gone insane and yes, lost his way. He is not the man he used to be.
Actually, I think the insane people are the one's who voted for Trump and cheered him on when he ran for over a decade on no new wars and excoriated the neocon idiots for the Middle East misadventures. You all are now cheering for exactly that.
Same here. They asked why I was cancelling, I told them that Tucker has gone crazy and I wont support him any longer.
I do realize that for many, unless sunshine and lollipops are showered upon you, facing reality is tough going.
You skipped the part about what an Israeli said, but yes, it is all TC's fault. Not a rational POV, IMO.
Gas prices are still lower than under Biden. Quit complaining.
Barely, and not for long. Pretty much everything will be going up in price in the near future, and it may be that way for the foreseeable future because Trojan Horse Trump is dismantling the country to rebuild it with his tech goon oligarchs. The strait being closed is going to cause big disruptions in the food supply, and we just learned a lot of global helium passes through there, which is needed for a lot of microchip manufacturing. TAW TAW TAW or something. Clowns.
💯. Explain to me "energy independence" Almost zero of the shale products stays here to refine. We have maybe 3 refineries that can do it! 60% of our crude comes from Canada, 15% from Mexico and the balance made up from SA countries. This hasbara is so laughable,simply on its face. It will take several years to tool up our refineries to process. The Venezuela crude, only LA refineries can process but they are full of crude from Canada..
The straight, again LMFAO from this hasbara. Our carriers: Our largest, out of action reportedly for a year due to a "laundry room fire". The Lincoln cannot get within 1000KM of the coast to avoid also having a "laundry room fire". So the hasbara is now, we the US taxpayers are going to underwrite the ships! Now we the tax payers can pay for the losses when they inevitably occur because we have zero control over the straight! What is conveniently left out is; ships are moving! Ships are going through every single day that have been approved from Iran. Remember the master 5d chess player HAD TO remove all sanctions on Iranian and Russian oil to attempt to manipulate the markets so the dear leader won't look bad. This is so laughable it's not even funny. You cannot make this shit show up. Although Jeff is trying very hard for his handlers to do so. So we are playing 100d chess..Iran and Russia are making huge amounts of Rubles and Yuan selling their products while the planned destruction of the petro dollar is happening in real time. Explain to me how this is winning again?
I respect the hell out of Jeff and what he does on the daily. Creating a blog 7 days per week. However, it appears most of his followers love an echo chamber. All of his Trump gushes are easily disproven by FACTS on the ground. What I'm afraid of is, we are getting ready to sacrifice our sons and daughters to create as the Professor Pappe states: a rally around the flag moment when they get slaughtered in this next series of miscalculations. Almost all of you should listen to that voice in your head that is telling you this is wrong. Spend a little time outside of your echo chamber, maybe you can find alternative theories to what's happening. Instead of worshipping a clearly deranged lunatic that we can all witness is panicking, instead of winning. It's been named the Persian Gulf for 3000 years! If you think these folks, during an existential threat are going to lay down, ask our brave soldiers from last night what they think now that we have reportedly lost 12 bases completely. We cannot even protect our bases but we're going to control the straight...Wake up folks!
I had to look "hasbara" up. It is not a term I use or have ever heard of. We are 100% self sufficient in terms of oil production and the only bottleneck is refining. Which is about to change in Brownsville and Trenton, ND. In the next 2-5 years. Oil producers don't like permitting refineries because more supply equals a lower price. This is the DeBeers model of constraining supply to increase pricing. I know oil. Not just because I am a mineral owner, but because I largely consume every topic related to oil.
Most of what you have written is factually incorrect. But I can't waste all day responding to each meritless allegation.
In summary Aaron, please do better research. Also please do not ridicule readers with your opinions. Most of us follow the Mark Twain methodology and are aware of it.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
What did I get wrong? You validated my point on refining! It's an enormous bottleneck and as you validated.... it's several years away. What happens in the near term? I also have vast experience in the oil patch. I also am a mineral owner! I have a rig right now, less than a mile from my house! I 💯 agree with you on the Debeers model. Kicked into over drive the last time they lied us into the middle east. All the wells around me on the Utica shale were drilled mid 2000s, then shut in. Most likely waiting for this occurrence. I also spent 15 years working in refineries, chemical plants, ASUs. Facilities utilizing fractional distillation. Probably not as well read as you but understand it well. Matter of fact, the largest ASU in the world, which was a huge supplier of helium is picking up the ashes from all our winning!
It's unfortunate you didn't know what hasbara is. I'm afraid most on here don't...Because thats all we get these days. I appreciate you helping prove my point succinctly with your experience. You appear to have gotten angry I cannot be hypnotised by the dear leader but you helped tremendously, proving my point this isnt some near term 5d chess move. We cannot protect our bases, 100 million dollar boondoggle aircrafts and apparently our ships as we sit 1000 KM from the coast of Iran. But we'll win the battle of the straight? I also take the Mark Twain approach:
Easier to fool someone than admit they've been fooled. Appreciate the response.
strait
Hasbara, in English CIA? Sure glad to know only Israel practices public narrative control, whew!
Net exporter is a real number. There are always factors in production, crude quality etc. Our foreign imports are far more secure then many nations enjoy. I think there is a plan here to not allow Iran to have control of the straight. Who will, well clearly that is being worked on and moving towards a joint international effort. Trump likely wants the oil revenue to go to the people of Iran, just as the US forced the British to allow that with the Sha, until Carter.
Oh and what 12 bases have we lost completely?
Read or listen to something else than Faux news...Not a fan of NY times but they laid it out pretty well the other day. Also last night. All of our early warning radars have been knocked out. Most on first day! This right here is the problem of you all living in an Echo Chamber. This has been admitted from our ministry of truth; that you all appear to now believe in again. Mostly smaller bases but again admitted that we evacuated Iraq, Irbil, a few in Jordan, UAE, Bahrain. Just spend 10 minutes out of your bubble and alternative theories are there. I don't know for 100 certainty either but I sure as hell don't believe our lying government either. All I'm attempting is to educate the sleeping and overcome your biases.
Research. Cupcake.
Shah.
From Wikipedia: Shale Oil Processing
Shale oil, produced from tight oil formations via hydraulic fracturing, is chemically similar to light crude oil. Because of this, it does not require specialized refineries; instead, it is blended with conventional crude and processed in existing refineries. Historically, the U.S. had oil shale refining in the 19th century, but by the 1860s, shale refineries largely converted to petroleum feedstock due to cost efficiency. Today, shale oil contributes significantly to U.S. crude supply, particularly from regions like the Permian Basin, Bakken, and Eagle Ford, but it is refined in the same facilities as conventional crude.
And we have approximately 131 active oil refineries in spread out over 30 states. That is from Statista. Not sure where your stats came from.
Israeli has clamped down hard on any truthy photos of the destruction in Tel Aviv. But some videos have leaked through. So much winning.
Well west, how do you explain this?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/27/israel-iran-war-propaganda-disinformation/
Courtesy of Citizen Free Press 3-28-'26. https://citizenfreepress.com/
Never mind, there are scales over your eyes and you cannot discern truth.
Shabbat Shalom...
Timely interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/netanyahus-war/
Really! Everyone might ought to hear him....
Thx. Will check it out.
Wilkerson is so real and heartfelt when speaking truth about power. his genuine concern about this debacle comforts me in its honesty and humility. thanks for link.
I don’t see it so much as propaganda but another viewpoint that we’re not getting elsewhere. It’s refreshing actually. If you just want confirmation bias perhaps you should go elsewhere.
I think Kennedy was talking about C&C just being another viewpoint, not propaganda, and if the OP just wanted more confirmation bias of the leftist narrative they should go elsewhere.
Hard to keep track with all the replies but that’s what I think they meant.
Jeff, if able would you please comment on the rift going on with Thune?
It’s hard not to argue he is undermining Trump at every opportunity.
Not allowing the “recess” for the second or third time so Trump can do recess appointments is now blatantly obvious
It sure seems that if the conservative movement (sans factions)could act as a team for just 10 minutes or so this Republic could be saved
The Dems never are divided or splinter…ever
The Trumpster has just endorsed Ken Paxton over Cornyn whose a buddy of Thune. Jeff you mentioned a little while back about the Trumpsters plans to remake the Senate. Is this a planned move towards this plan??
Thune is part of McConnell’s hive. He would not be in his position without The Turtle.
All a show. New popcorn needed. Welcome to the polycrisis.
Can someone please pull a Nancy Guthrie on Thune?
I was just asking what the heck happened to Nancy Guthrie - did it ever end? Did the find her? The msm just dead stopped reporting on it….
No, she is still missing. I can't seem to shake that the family is somehow involved. Thought that early on. I pray I am wrong.
I thought the same. Too much insider info needed to pull that off.
I hope our "insanely smart President or an incredibly lucky one" can figure out how to keep the Senate from tanking his domestic agenda.
Thune is doing a bang-up job of demoralizing the Republican base while blaming Democrats.
https://x.com/toddstarnes/status/2037524458441785719?s=20
"There was a reason why John Thune scheduled the vote while the nation was asleep - so they could skip town before voters woke up and discovered what they had done.
And here's the real kick in the pants - Republican senators left for yet another vacation without doing anything about the Save America Act.
There's no polite way to say this - but Senate Republicans are sabotaging the midterm elections and President Trump's agenda."
It sure looks like the majority are trying to do just that.
Yup. Been doing that for a long time. Two party system = two wings of the same bird.
Only way to fix is rebuild from bottom up, IOW, local local local. Many years of vigilance and long hours in front of us, if republic is to be our way.
I like a world of plenty—plenty of gas to drive a car, plenty of fertilizer to plant food, and airports that are clean, efficient and safe. I liked the world when monarch meant butterflies (whoops the chemtrails killed them) and we have monarch programming. I liked the world when words had meanings like peace really meant peace and I’ve always liked Europe. Oh well, I’m way too old for this world.
I think Europe may have changed from what you remember. I know it has for me.
Yes, for sure! It’s been a downward trend since they opened their borders. Re-read OPENED THEIR BOARDERS. Learn from history or repeat it!
And the whole West Coast and the South East Coast and the upper N Midwest... We've been taken in by demonic gov schooling and hated of all things Holy.
I've heard it is a mess and this is going back over 10 years.
I like that kapoore…. 💥
When gay meant happy and rainbow was a promise. Boy meant XY and girl meant XX. It's science. Yes, how things have changed...
Meanwhile on the West Coast, we seem to be handing over all the power to the predators.... A liberal judge lets a killer off on probation and it's the mountain lions who have all the leverage.
https://aynsrants.substack.com/p/do-they-want-to-eat-us
Thanks for sharing your link. As a former graveyard cop in semi-rural America, I've actually witnessed coyotes running across roadways with pets clenched in their jaws. A few times.
Thank you for your service... Sad to report that here in my neighborhood, we'd often see the evidence of that in the morning: little maroon droplets on the cement.
happening daily.
The speed of AI development (and its hunger - for energy and something else…it seems almost parasitic) is horrifying. And yet, we’re here. I think Jeff’s right that nationally the choice is “find a way to use it or lost it” but personally and relationally we’ll need to be building a resistance to it.
Now that oil and fertilizer have been cut off from the Gulf, I think we're going to find out that humans need food more than they need AI.
I think that it's fun to watch the cute videos that AI produces, but I know that my rulers have more devious plans to use it against us.
Mrs. RW
Could anyone survive off grid?
Yes!
EXACTLY!!! Resist! Do not comply! Refuse to engage with AI. We cannot feed all of our water and our power to the machines. Didn’t anybody watch the Terminator movies?
And no mention of The First Lady, The Trannie and The Robot in the White House? Let robots teach your kids! Wake the hell up, people.
The digital prison is nearly complete. Window closing.
Such an excellent take on Europe Jeff!
‘It doesn’t even know where the ticket counter is, because it is hidden somewhere behind a windmill farm.’
🤣🤣🤣”The fat German lady has sung, left the opera, and is home tucking into a bratwurst. Oh my goodness—I can’t even… pure Jeff gold!
Right??? 🤣🤣🤣