House votes to "ditch the switch"; I build the master list of everything Trump 2.0 has delivered (bookmark it); Speaker Johnson sounds the alarm on the mini-Mamdanis; and 67 experts strike out. Again.
Bless your heart! You need some hens. I got 4 and they’re mostly terrific. Hennifer Anniston has to sleep in the shower at night which is hilarious because we don’t have that kind of house, looking at it, but otherwise, the whole thing has been fun. They’re marvelous leftover-eaters.
KC , I remember we share the pleasure of feeding our 4 hens (also one mean rooster here) blueberries,but,I don’t remember why your one hen sleeps in the shower? 😄 just curious..TY
I raise my own eggs, organic feed and free ranged. Mine probably still cost me $5 a dozen, even with my free labor. It comes with a lot of entertainment and garden fertilizer though, so totally worth it.
Here in AZ too. Everyone should remember the extreme egg prices were created by brandon and his autopen admin when they unnecessarily killed millions of chickens over hyped up bird flu. Hmmm, just liked they killed millions of us with the pLandemic... but people, especially people who lie and run PSYOPS have short memories. ALL OF THE HIGH PRICES BELONG TO BRANDON/AUTOPEN from things like this and massive unnecessary inflationary spending.
In answer to your last statement, Trump is being attacked with false accusations (misogynist, racist etc) because they can't find anything real to attack him with
Fabulous list. (1 minor edit: he can't OFFICIALLY 'abolish' Dept of Education. He has dismantled, eliminated functions or transferred them to other agencies - HHS, legal stuff to DOJ0
Same in Canada. Remember the Ostriches? Ya, that got blasted everywhere which opened everyone's eyes to the CFIA murdering gazillions of chickens, turkeys, ducks, cattle, pigs and everything else not BUGS or CLONED MEAT!
The irrefutable evidence has been there since the 2020 election - it was deeply black-holed for 4 years by the cabbage/autopen administration and the state and local governments around the country who took or maintained their control through election manipulation. And they used a packed, deeply corrupt judiciary to squash all of it. People lost their lives, and their wealth and their liberty trying to fight it.
They can go from about 2 dollars (could even be less but I don’t buy the cheapest eggs so don’t pay as much attention to those prices) to about 12 here depending on if they’re conventional, organic, free range, heritage breeds or whatever.
Recently at Tops Markets, if you use a coupon out of their paper ad, bacon: buy 2 get 3 free! It worked out to less than $2 lb. Eggs: $1.29 this week. Butter and cheese prices have dropped as well.
The price of Kirkland kleenex we buy has come down almost $2!!!
There’s a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company, a recent purchaser of a Mustang model wants his tariff money reimbursed, since Ford got reimbursed a LOT of money by our Treasury as a result of being sued by FMC
. Wonder if same thing will be done to Costco for same reason? We members ought to get a break since they sued the feds to get reimbursement for cost of tariffs (they said).
Have been warning at least a thousand health seekers, about the consequeces of glyphosate, for decades. Organic for the win... If one resides in England, Fair Trade even better. It is sprayed as a dessicant, on mostly animal fodder crops. They are not "food"...
Truth S., Glyphosate is sprayed on cereal grains, made into flour that we humans consume. Incidentally, we also eat the animals who eat those sprayed crops.
Johnny, I realize I’m wasting electrons with you, but I’m dragging my feet before starting an unpleasant project, so here goes: Do you have children? Probably not, but many, many others do, and all around the world. And parents care deeply about the future for their kids. At the top of that list of “future destroyers” is (or damn well should be) a nuclear armed Iran. I won’t debate whether or not “they have a right”. That’s BS. They have shown for 50 years what they stand for and what they’re willing to do. Taking Iran down is an unpleasant task that has been pushed off from administration to administration for far too long. A nuclear war in the Middle East was a distinct possibility, even likely, if those fanatics were allowed to continue. They don’t see things the way Westerners do. So Johnny, put your having to pay an extra dollar or so for a gallon of gas, and for a limited time, into the context of a safer future for the world’s children and try to understand why I can’t find a small enough violin for you.
Sorry to break the bad news, but the war is far more complicated than slightly elevated gas prices, which have been held in check by selling our precious reserves to critical levels to stablize the global market - not our own markets. Gas is about to get much more expensive, as is everything else that depends on diesel, which is just about everything. So much winning.
Now, can we talk about the fertilizer shortages, helium shortages, and other things coming down the line. If you are so concerned about children, you may want to stop the oncoming famine.
Johnny-O, 'they' the great herds never zero in on the structural imbalances. And 'they' never stop to think where the inflation is going. 'They', the Dumb Crowd, point us towards things like the Stock Market and bleat out how wonderful our world is. 'They' never stop to think that the stock market' in general equities is, for example, the greatest Inflation Sponge ever conjured up in the history of Mankind. And as to such things, the herd has a poor record on assessing values, either moral or economic. The herd will always in the end be fleeced or turned into shoe leather depending upon whether 'they' are bleat-ers or moo-ers. Which is almost to say, whether they are Democrats or Republicans ... an identity of sorts.
Today, we read of Johnson extolling the republic, the one which has not existed at least conservatively for the entirety of my lifetime. But are we anymore of a republic today than when Baby Bush and the Rubber Stamp Congress gave us the Patriot Act? Or are we even more of a consolidating Techno-Tyranny and about to become still yet more so what with Flock Cameras and rampant unchecked digitalization, including the fake money?
And so lists of improvements such as were served up today, though not well-considered nor pulled apart in a careful deliberation, do count. But shouldn't there be a larger picture against which all things are rendered into account?
There is also the China factor. The Chinese economy has been releasing their oil reserves and has had a net decrease in consumption because their economy is not doing so great. Why would China do this??? They really cant afford high gas prices. These manipulations can only go on for so long. Now that diesel is exploded, the sh*t is really going to hit the fan. Did i vote for Trump? yes. Am i glad he beat Harris? yes but he has lost his marbles with this Iran conflict. The Isreal fist attitude of both sides of the aisle and Trump breaking his campaign promises is what is going to be a loss in the midterms. I hope I am wrong but we will see.
I agree completely, as a former trump voter as well. But, man was I fooled. Remember how many times we were promised the Ukraine war would be ended on day one, but instead, we keep funneling money and weapons to the coke head penis piano man dictator?
Do you understand National Security? Ending the threat from Iran would be his greatest accomplishment. Root for the truthful side. This list didn't mention the Panama Canal or Greenland efforts under National Security. Why do voters forget or just don't understand that Foreign Policy, National Security, and Defense are the number one job of a President? We are lucky to have one who understands it is not a popularity contest.
You also have to consider your state and local taxes. I live in Virginia, where the Richmond and NOVA legislators ruin everything. They have driven up taxes on just about everything so it's difficult to see the improvements that are being made on a national level. It's intentional. We live in a more rural area where crossing the border between counties can mean almost .09 cents a gallon. So, local, local, local (as Jeff always says.)
While they have come down from $13/ dozen to about $11 for the pasture raised, free to roam ,etc eggs I like to buy, they’re not back to the $8/ dozen that they were before the price hike. This is in CA, of course! When I’m in OK, we get a dozen from a friend’s chickens and we make her take $5, because she normally sells them for $3!
Very important post Jeff C. Two thoughts, the resistance to Trump has been incredible! And I mean on every issue you brought up. Oh, and reforming the EPA is an added bonus.
Really good point, this wasn’t all accomplished within a typical, functioning government - which would still be amazing. But it was done literally against all odds and with every bit of lawfare humanly possible thrown at him. Sure we can cheer the winner of a marathon, but how much more amazing is his win when we see the track was doused with mud, alligators, and they threw straps around his shoulders to pull him back?
Hello, Juju...your comment about the track brought horse racing to my mind; I remembered that the horses that were winners were handicapped purposefully and legally in the races to make the odds such that great sums could be won by lesser horses since the odds were stacked. That is what has happened to President Trump. He has been saddled with great weights in his race(s). Those who have a stake in the race do not want him to win and have put all that lawfare + attempted assassination + reputational smearing....all kinds of weight on him hoping that another contender in the race will outrun him. However, to no avail as President Trump has the heart of a Secretariat. I think our Heavenly Father has chosen him to lead at such a time as this time because of his great heart. The man will not stop and is winning great lengths even now for anyone who has eyes to see. Just saying.
1960 Eisenhower warned the American people about the military industrial complex. JFK refused to invade Cuba after Castro took over, JFK refused to commit US air to the Bay of Pigs invasion and he had people looking at VietNam to see if it wasn't really a civil war.
JFK was murdered in 1963 and a businessman/politician replaced him, less than a year later we are deep in Viet Nam, the dollars were flowing...
re: "At worst, it’s an organized demoralization campaign."
Its a PSYOP campaign which has been going on for sometime now. The effort to convince us nothing good is happening and we shouldn't show up. Many of us have seen it here in the comments section. And Jeff just gave us a full magazine of Tomahawk missiles to respond with. Thanks Jeff, I will launch liberally (NPI). Oh, Whitehouse.gov also posts a similar list of accomplishments by our great President and his team. Ignore the PSYOP, support our President and make that worthless rino Thune and his rotten corrupt set of uniparty senators do their damned jobs. Get rid of bullshit silent filibuster and pass SAVE AMERICA ACT.
I am amazed that Rumble is allowing Rogan's interview of Rupert Lowe to stream. He is describing his efforts to save Britain, illegals and his efforts to restore the culture. They are living with the path we had been on and are further down that road. The UK has an "institution of voting by post" (mail). That same corruption is there too. He states that mail in voting is the only thing keeping Labour Party in office (sound familiar?) and it must change. It's a good listen, and watching Rogan march right by inches in real time as he hears what's really going on is fun.
Mail in voting was imposed on us, against our will, without our consent. It has one purpose and it is not to make voting easier. It is to manipulate elections to keep lunatics in power over us. Period. Full STOP!
Until it ends we will not have verifiable, certifiable elections and we will remain under their boot.
Why are you surprised Rumble would carry it? They are supposed to be a free speech platform. I’d bet YouTube would demonetize it and not promote it, but not Rumble.
No more trust but verify, now verify and conditionally trust. Even on the better ones like substack, you can find shadow banning and other throttling. Sometimes it's personal bias that bleeds in, sometimes bowing to pressure, and plenty of "oops the automation did it".
Preferably in a body bag like graham who was just as bad, and a better con man - both globalist RINOs. I suspect McConnell is dead too, or just on heart lung machine (and using AI for fake phone conversations) to keep him “alive” while the cretins can figure out how best to use his death for their gain, at our expense, and to keep the uniparty in power.
If it were only that simple. Don’t forget, back in 2025 Rick Scott was the first nominee and that failed. Then John Cornyn. Thank heavens that failed! So Thune was the comprise who is obviously compromised. I’m sure he made all kinds of backroom deals with the dems to get their vote. No republican with a backbone will receive a dem’s vote or a RINOS for that matter. We’re in a never ending stalemate until we get a 60 seat majority or the dems (communists) take over, remove the filibuster and end the country as we know it.
Perhaps you would like to present the truth, the facts, and not just the allegation? Is he under investigation or being prosecuted and found guilty of Medicare fraud?
But FTR, I think Scott couldn't do any worse than thune and probably a lot better. For one thing, he supports ending the Senate Filibuster to pass key legislative priorities and election security and government funding. Thune, being the uniparty shitbird that he, is wont end it and wont pass the SAVE America Act Why? Because he wants to keep the do nothing Senate procedures firmly in place and so he can stay in power.
Who is to say it would necessarily be Rick Scott anyhow? I personally would prefer Mike Lee and Im not even Mormon/LDS! lol
"Rick Scott was never prosecuted or convicted of any crimes related to Medicare fraud. However, he was the CEO of Columbia/HCA when the company was investigated by the federal government and ultimately pleaded guilty to 14 felonies, paying a record $1.7 billion in fines for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.Here are the key details of the investigation and its outcome:The Investigation: In the late 1990s, the FBI, IRS, and Department of Health and Human Services launched a massive multi-agency investigation into Columbia/HCA's billing practices, which included allegations of illegal kickbacks to doctors and upcoding diagnoses to maximize reimbursements.Scott's Departure: Amid the investigation and the serving of federal search warrants in 1997, Scott's board of directors pressured him to resign as Chairman and CEO. He was never indicted or charged, though he did invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 75 times during a related 2000 civil deposition.Company Convictions: In 2000 and 2003, Columbia/HCA (which subsequently changed its name to HCA) pleaded guilty to 14 corporate felonies and agreed to pay $1.7 billion in criminal and civil penalties.Public Perception: While the government's case was settled civilly with the corporation rather than criminally against individuals, public opinion and political opponents frequently debate his level of personal knowledge and responsibility for the actions of his company. For more community perspectives and debate on his culpability.For further details regarding the scope of the DOJ probe and the penalties assessed, you can read the Department of Justice Press Release on the Columbia/HCA Case."
Someone is always saying the economy is in the dumps. I just don’t see it in reality. My wife and I are making more money than two years before and things cost less than two years before. Plus, we’re saving more.
The people saying probably live in WA state. Because of our lefty government run by King County, we’ve seen little to none of the economic improvements seen in red states.
Can't believe that Slotkin actually said that democrats would have a very hard time winning any election if the SAVE act is passed - hope every republican candidate broadcasts that non-stop
We can all get serious and run our own interventions called INITIATIVES at County level to restore elections at each county. Contrary to popular belief, the States only control elections, if we - the people who actually own elections - let them
There is going to be a big flush of new R blood in the Senate next year. And I hope very much, Trump-aligned. There are 10 Senate Republicans guaranteed to leave the Senate before any votes are cast in November due to death, illness or age-retirement.
Term limits are easy to talk about being a need, but Congress will never cut its own throat. The reality is that we ALREADY have term limits. It’s the vote. The people just need to exercise it more and not be lazy.
The bigger problem in some red states is democrats in republican clothing. Democrats rarely win here so they claim to be republicans and low-information voters don’t know the difference.
Jeff is trying to herd people back into the big party political tent. Can't have too many people straying off the reservation. Remember who your masters are! Be thankful for them! Praise them!
As another poster noted, most of these are Tier 2 issues. The big issues: war, spending, freedom, corruption (Epstein) are not being adequately addressed, or are going in the exact opposite way as they were campaigned on.
And granted it is way more complex than what today's scrabbling would have it. For example, housing percentage changes are presently sluggish. And so, is that a good or bad sign? And how would anyone know, because we have not had 'a normal' economy in decades that is free market driven in a limited government context for decades and decades. Not in my conscious adult life. And I still say, the last nail went into the coffin with the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers. Once the Deep State operatives at the CIA (not to leave out LBJ and the political class) were untouchable then the descent into chaos was already written. And I have often heard it said of World War II that in winning the war America lost everythingl. The rear view mirror is pretty clear on that. The only thing about rear view mirrors is that if one spends too much time gazing into them, one tends to run into brick wall and telephone poles.
Thanks for your comments today. And by the way, exactly when does cheer leading become just another tawdry exercise in propaganda? I don't think the line betwixt is entirely clear at all times. And I do continue to read here due to a certain degree of value added content.
Thanks Dave. I'm having a hard time sticking around here. People are obnoxious and ironically the exact opposite of curious and critical thinkers that they claim to be/think that they are. Trump can do no wrong, and if you question that you obviously hate America!
You may have noticed a thin presence lately from this quarter, and as an oblique register in accord with your voicings.
I for one don't think everything is honky-dory in MAGA Land. I see that same foreign policy mistakes being made (with different colorings) with Iran as were made with Ukraine with sanctioning and SWIFT. I see tens or hundreds of billions being spent with no gains other than Iran proving that she cannot be defeated easily (if at all) by the US military. And I see that the Israeli military is not what it once was. And what about a foreign country postage stamp size running US policy through its home grown domestic traitorous proxy lobby and a prostrate rubber stamp Congress? I see outlandish buffoonery emanating from the chief executive's office. And this is all tip of the iceberg stuff. Clearly, all is not well in MAGA-Land, reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
As I learned many moons ago from the great late Richard Russell (Dow Theory Letters), the good things take care of themselves and don't need dwelling on. It is the bad things that need tending, and if they are not addressed they will sink a company.
I add this which the truth of the matter. The US is in trouble and it is structural and it is 'politically insolvent' as well.
Nobody in the national news ever ever ever reports California prices when they are giving the lowered gas prices. California is always about $1.50+ more than anywhere else, but I see it sounds like Washington is just as bad as California. So they need to report the higher prices too and make a few comments about why they are so much higher. And YES, it is entirely because of California’s crazy environmentalist control, and the Democrat super majority in California that causes the prices to be high. And no one should forget that Gavin Newsom, and people who think like him want to take over the government. So anywhere that you have lower gas prices that won’t last if these people get into office in large enough numbers nationally.
You are painted into a corner with the high gas taxes and the Leftist government. It's better even in Commie run Colorado. Western Slope is under $4/gal.
And don't forget that the WA gas tax automatically goes up every July 1st from now on, no voting on it. Do you have a tribal gas station within a reasonable distance? There is a tribal gas station just off I-5 in Fife. It is too far away for regular fill-ups, but if we are headed down I-5 we stop and fill up. We went to the coast for the weekend and paid $4.69/gallon at The Warrior (not making that name up) gas station.
Imagine how much more could have been done if the last 4 or 5 months had been spent on going even more hard-core on domestic MAGA stuff (aka 95% of what needs to be done) instead of working for the deep state and Israel to overthrown Iran
And don't feed me the nonsense about 'they were building nukes'
Those are deep state claims - remember the deep state is our enemy. They want nothing more than to end MAGA.
Kinda my point. All we get when we control the Senate are RINOs, although McConnell was somewhat decent a decade ago, and weaklings. The leaders that constituents want would never be elected because they would be effective.
I wrote my senator, Dickie Durb, about the time switching and to please start a bill toward stopping it. His canned response was to give me a short-ish civics lesson in how bills are created, the process, etc. In essence, patting me on the head and sending me away. Or maybe he flipped me off with so many words?
This effort to switch to DST only is brought to you by Microsoft, where many of their customers still cling to Windows 10 (or Win 7 like me) and who will not get a patch for stopping time changes. So this will incentivize upgrades just to get that fixed, should it pass.
Since you specify your time zone, it's not always easy to disable the switching of time shifts.
At least they're not trying to compromise and keep it 1/2 hour off and messing with the rest of the world.
By the way, your book 'My Jesus' eventually arrived after a 'failed' Amazon.ca delivery :-) I am looking forward to following it through. Printed on my birthday this year - so another bonus. God bless you my sister!
Thank you Janice for another timely reminder of whose we are, and what we've been created for: clay vessels where God pours His Majesty, Honor and Glory. We are God's Masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do the works He assigned for us from creation. We've been given the RIGHT to call ourselves Children of the Most High God. Oh how great His love is for us ... Blessings to you all!
It’s what I do. I’m a diehard KJV fan, knowing very well some issues with translating. I enjoy catching up on latest understanding of words from Hebrew and Greek, then going back to KJV to read with fresh understanding.
I LOVE using the interlinear Bible! Going back and forth between that and the KJV and then my own personal favorite, the ESV. Such a rich understanding when I do that.
I have found, though, that the core meaning rarely gets lost in other trusted translations. But I would never say it’s “nitpicking” to criticize them. Thirty five years ago I loved the NIV. I still have my copies from then and they do NOT match what is being published today at all. They have changed so many words in it from then. God’s words and meaning do NOT change ever, and certainly not in a mere 30 years, yet somehow they did with the NIV. It’s not nitpicking to say so either. The gender ideology, the manipulation of the spirit of the Bible in respect to genders and roles, in the teaching roles too, has been completely whitewashed in newer versions of the NIV. I used to still compare with that version up until about 5-6 years ago when I started noticing that almost every time I was feeling led astray. I have permanently dropped using it, and that makes me sad because it helped grow our faith long ago when we needed it. But they dropped the ball. When a translation project caves to political correctness they are no longer being guided by God’s hand.
So now I stick to the original Hebrew and Arabic, the KJV, and ESV. I will look at American Standard on occasion too. I haven’t seen enough to concern me over its differences yet. I enjoy verses by Janet and always have the to power to go to what I believe is the best available source/translation, and be thankful for her guiding me to it in her own way. ❤️
Permanent daylight savings time was tried from 1974 to 1975. It was so universally hated that the current system was adopted to replace it. Permanent standard time is the way
🤞🏻🤞🏻Say it louder for the people who don’t pay attention to history or how our bodies work. STANDARD time is the only way that this will work. Oh yeah…and we already have states who have chosen that route.
Whether someone likes it or not will depend on where you live in a time zone and whether you are a morning person or a night person. As a teacher, I don't care what they pick, just make it happen permanently. The switching is awful and unhealthy.
Another thing I like about my state of Arizona. We stay the same, with the exception of the Navajo Nation in the NE corner of the state. I've even heard the switching twice a year brings on more health problems.
I agree. Since the beginning we kept time with the sun and its position. Our sundials show the correct time represented in nature. It seems weird if our clocks aren’t going to match the sundials. I prefer the switching to DST to be accommodating to our farmers for their season. But if it has to stop I prefer we stick to standard time and not mess with it anymore one way or another.
You don’t have to like that it gets darker in the evening for a period of weeks, but it just is what it is based on where our country sits. You learn to live accordingly.
I’d feel better if our time was just in sync with nature rather than force something different on everybody.
Your solar Noon could be close to my solar 11:00 or 1:00 depending on which edge of the "time zone" you and I live.
So if (like me) you live in the far-east part of the zone, which should really be one zone further east, but they zig-zag the line, then you're not too happy with it being pitch-black at 4:30pm...not just for days, but for pretty much 2 full months.
So I'd love to see a distribution of populations and where they fall within their timezone. That might answer why so many people would love to see Day Light as the standard. Who knows.
Bottom line, though...one way or another, we need to stop the switching!
Not this person! I agree with Jeff, 100%. I’d prefer permanent DST to switching back and forth! I despise the change of clocks that upset sleep and mood. Depression sets in when we see darkness approaching at 4 pm in the evenings. And on the east coast, when my children were in school, they’d be getting off the school bus, late afternoon around 4pm, as darkness set in.
Which is worse, coming home as darkness falls, or being woken up when it's still dark? Kids need their proper sleep without being yanked from their warm beds in winter.
Jeff said that a poll found a slight majority prefer DST, and said "they are wrong"... but like me, he's happy to see the time not change every spring and fall, but he does not prefer DST himself.
They actually did think of the children when DS time began, that was one of the key considerations, children, waiting for the bus in the dark. That was back when children were not all driven to school.
It would be no different from now. A full-time workday is longer than a school day, and whether that’s before school or after, parents have to figure it out. Those parents standing at the bus stop looking at their cell phones were probably “doing work”.
If this law passes and enough parents are worried, they will.
In Seattle where I raised my kids, voters actually voted to stay on DST, but it was never implemented - because “kids would be standing at the bus stop in the dark”. The next day I drove past a bus stop in the daylight and saw about 8 kids and six parents (on their cell phones, of course) standing there. 🙄
I definitely would prefer that morning light too (reaches for full spectrum light in anticipation of losing this argument)... I noticed NO ONE that I've seen has mentioned even a hint about SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder is already bad enough in winter, but then to put off sunlight for an additional hour - permanently - is an awful idea.
But you know what? I think we are on the losing end of this fight and I'd rather have either one as a permanent fixture than to be jumping back and forth forever. But I do think keeping standard time forever is the better way to go.
Good point. Instead of complaining, try adjusting your day accordingly if that is possible. People in Nordic countries live in daylight and darkness extremes for a lot of the year and are some of the happiest, productive people on the planet.
When those hours of sunlight hit, matters. Whether fewer or more, and I am well acquainted with the tilt of the earth and its effect on hours of sunlight, there is literally NO point in making SAD worse when it could be better, or at least no worse than it already was.
And if you think that having first sunlight an hour later is immaterial, then....you are quite wrong. People with SAD hold their breath, almost literally, waiting for the sun to come up. Forcing a longer wait does, indeed, make a difference.
Funny you mention that. I lived in Arizona for 2.5 years, and that is the ONLY thing in Arizona I miss. (I was sad about literally everything else).
I am an early riser and it was fun to watch the dog walkers as early as 4-4:30 up and out in the summer, both to save themselves from the heat and also for the doggies' paws.
Now, back in DFW I stand at the window and stare at the horizon for a hope.....
Yes, Joanie---Arizona does NOT go on Daylight Savings Time! Here in the desert, where daytime temperatures routinely reach 105 degrees in the summer, the LAST thing we need is another hour of daylight! I also don't like the hour of more darkness in the morning. So since Arizona does not switch, Arizonans have been blessed with not having to adjust back and forth. I recommend it, but for STANDARD TIME.
Yes, I love that we have 12 months of standard time in AZ, year after year. It was implemented in 1968 by Governor Jack Williams. I probably don't need to say this but yes, Williams was a Republican.
If we didn't know we could change the time numbers, whatever "time" the sun comes up and goes down would be "just the way it is". We should look at it that way. We are in the west side of eastern time zone, so naturally get longer evenings, but fundamentally we will get used to anything, it's only an hour anyway!
It really doesn't bother me either way. My body easily adjusts. But for all those I know whom it does impact, I am on side of quitting the changes twice a year.
AZ has always been on standard time all the time (we've never changed the clocks back and forth.) Believe me, NOBODY in Arizona wants more daylight in late day in summer, at our hottest!
I have no opinion on DST or ST. I am just happy not to make the switch twice a year.
I used to work graveyard shift and nothing is worse than making it to 3am and watching the clocks shift back to 2am. Two places I worked refused to pay the extra hour, to boot.
I don't understand why people are content with having kids run over to make their point.
The easiest thing to do would be to start school an hour later.
Problem solved, and the rest of society can enjoy the benefits of no switching without killing kids to make a point.
And I remember talking with a patient about this subject and I said something about how supposedly it was "For the farmers", but this is no longer a farming country. Fewer than 1% of the population are now farmers. He gave me a weird look, and I asked "Are you a farmer?" Well, of course he was. Embarrassing. But he actually agreed that he hated the shift also.
💯AGREE! I have to say I hope it doesn't pass in the senate. Unlike Jeff, I would rather put up with changing clocks twice a year than have to do a whole year of daylight savings. "Standard Time is considered to be more in sync with natural light cycles, promoting better health and well-being" - AI. What it really comes down to, I think, is the morning people versus the night owls. If you took a poIl, I bet you a dollar that the people that want the Daylight Savings are all night owls, and the people that prefer standard time are all morning people. "Morning people tend to live longer and healthier lives compared to night owls, as studies have linked being a night owl to increased risks of depression, obesity, and other health issues" - also AI. So.
At present, we are only on ST for four months of the year. From March to November, it’s DST. If we could stop switching the clocks twice a year, people would hardly notice the change either way. Let’s say we switch to DST and everyone hates it. We’re that much closer to getting permanent ST. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.
I have a list of my own that I'd been meaning to make. Years ago, I'd reflected on the totally unlikely great people who had stepped forth to make the Revolution happen, and despaired of ever having such a large number of gifted people show up now. And then -- 2016 happened. Here's my (no doubt incomplete) list.....a few are gone already, but they showed up nonetheless. Thanks to God who sent them:
Yeah, even though he has gone all whacko on us, at the beginning, he sure had some pivotal moments in moving truth etc forward. Now on the black list, but I feel the early contributions warranted his inclusion.
Disagree. Tucker has plenty of content out there for people to listen to in its entirety. Tucker has been targeted and framed by a number of groups, one being the Zionist crowd because he pointed out the incredible atrocities done in Gaza by our 'ally'. Anyone who has watched his full episodes, especially a couple I provide links to below, know he is sound in his thinking and genuine. You may disagree with a conclusion on an issue, but for someone like Tucker who is fully in the public, he deserves the benefit of the doubt by people giving him a true listen on a topic. And he shouldn't be blasted for interviewing controversial people. We saw the covid scam and what happened when people were deprived of the input of legit doctors getting on national shows. I question anyone who says they agree with someone 100% of the time. And when someone is criticized heavily by people I know don't have America's interests first, ex. Israel-first types, my radar goes up. We've seen prior people like Dan Bongino, and influencers like Catturd, go off the rails, defending Trump no matter what. That isn't thinking.
2. Was God wrong in denying entry to the Promised Land to men from the first census apart from Joshua and Caleb? “Your corpses will fall in this wilderness, all who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me… Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.” (Numbers 14:29–30, NASB)
3. How about when God allowed the Northern Kingdom to fall to the Assyrians around 722 BC?
4. Or when the Southern Kingdom fell to the Babylonians in 597/586BC? Temple was destroyed.
5. Or when Alexander the Great conquered in 332 BC?
6. Or when Rome took control in 63 BC, and in 70 AD when the 2nd Temple was destroyed?
The point is, it can never be "Israel right or wrong" for America, and not even the people in Israel who may not be Christian, but are trying to follow the faith (apart from animal sacrifice since no temple now) as handed down from Moses and the prophets (not the Talmud).
There were plenty of 'local guys' during the time periods mentioned above. God rightly used Israel's neighbors to bring about repentance, and often to clear aside the generations that obstinately stood against His commandments. That is more than clear. No reason God wouldn't do that in this current time. Too many in Israeli leadership think joining up with the U.S. will protect them this time, and allow them to rebuild the Israeli kingdom. God won't be mocked.
God's covenant has expanded to all people who want to accept Him and follow Him. That is when blessing will come. It won't come by the point of the sword subjugating/killing Gazans or others who happen to be neighbors. People who don't follow God will do horrific things. I personally don't think there is some just golden ratio of how many Gazans must die for each Israeli. If there were, that ratio long since got blown away. 'Disproportionate' understates what is going on.
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Hosea 14:1-4 "Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall! Take words with you and return to the Lord... 'I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.'"
Isaiah 55:6-7 "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
Ezekiel 18:30-32 "'Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit... For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!'"
We live not for this world, but for the next. Any man trying to make their heaven on earth is going to fail. I've been to Israel. It is a special place for the prophets who once walked there (and Jesus, Mary, and the Apostles). But it too will pass away, because God has something better for us. For now, we need to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength. And love our neighbors, which first means calling to repentance. But that was so unpopular, even prophets were executed, like Zechariah and Uriah, and in today's world they are targeted by influencers, media, politicians, lobbyists, and power brokers.
Tucker, like you, is entitled to his own opinion. I’m really tired of people throwing others under the bus totally if they say something you disagree with. We really need to get back to learning how to debate respectfully and offer proofs. Our entire society seems to run on pure emotion these days and it’s exhausting.
I’ll add Vinay Prasad, MD, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, Marty Makary, MD, Scott Bessent, Victor Davis Hanson, Bill O’Reilly, Joe Rogan to your excellent list, Ruth.
I’m not sure why,, you would think after decades and decades of communist leftist turning their backs on America, Americans, police and American Soldiers sent overseas, that I could understand how individuals here hate America, Americans police and especially American Soldiers, but I still have a hard time swallowing their dismissal of the murder of the American young. Some just at their jobs, some enjoying a night out, some just standing cheering on runners at a marathon, and some sent overseas wearing an American uniform. To me one murdered American deserves a relentless response. But to them it’s what we all deserve, they’ve been brainwashed probably in a college they didn’t pay for.
It’s incredible how most of these people that hate the country they live in, America, never hated all the benefits they have received by just being here. And you don’t need to live in America to enjoy it’s never ending benefits, the world has benefited immensely from America. In fact the world would be a much more treacherous place if not for America.
Funny how so many that love socialism move to states where there is no income tax. Sure it’s fine to send others kids off to fight in wars, protect the freedoms they benefit from, and then when these young treasures get killed or wounded they say they deserved it. You asshole they went there with the mindset they were protecting your ungrateful soul. It seems to me they’re all a bunch of disgusting hypocrites that I wish would vote with their feet and move to a country that they speak so highly of like Iran that mowed down 50,000 of their own unarmed citizens for protesting the insane dictatorship government which they have been forced to live under. Then after the thousands are killed including thousands of Americans they say what business is it of ours to dictate the government people are to live under. Or that we have no right to respond to the murder of Americans, or threats to America, I say you should move there.
Well today I hope they enjoy what this country has given to all of their treasonous asses and the world. Maybe they need to do a little self reflection of their own and appreciate what people like my father and my brother John gave their ungrateful asses. Have a nice relaxing day. Enjoy the government check I’m sure you get.
Good one!! Some of us just have to learn the hard way. Full Informed consent doesn't even help these people. I (taxpayer) just don't want to have to pay for it while you learn your damn lesson !!
A quick answer is the most used textbook in the U.S. for so long was by Howard Zinn. No fan of America. We have generations indoctrinated in commie thought. Colonialism always 'bad'. Christian values removed from the classroom. People clueless about their own faith. We are harvesting those bad fruits now.
Where was this textbook used? I had never heard of zinn until I was an adult. It sure is interesting how many think that are schools teach kids to be radical antiwar communists and trannies. Quit believing the nonsense.
You need to learn your history before going to "pooh pooh" mode. His books were used across the country in public schools as primary or secondary material in the 1980's and 1990's, and that thinking went to college and is a main reason so many public schools and colleges are infested with socialistic and communistic thought now, since 'educators' were 'educated' in his thoughts. That's just the plain fact. I saw them in that era myself. It was one of the reasons many parents chose to go the home-schooling route.
So you are ignorant in the true sense of the word, or covering for something.
Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" sold over 4 million copies and was runner up in 1980 for the National Book award. It was widely used in high-schools and colleges. In 2007 they published a two-volume set aimed at the 10-14 year olds too.
Were you teaching in Metro areas in the early 1980's?
As government studies (DARPA and others) have found out, you don't need to actually convince directly a majority of the population on anything to have a profound effect. You just need to convince the strategically located areas. We just went through the largest psyop in history with Covid. People farmed out their thinking to others not qualified, and with hidden agendas. Now we have 80% of adults running around with mRNA in their blood. I don't know how many times I heard "Oh, that's an anecdote" as a defense for refusing to face reality of the last 5 years, as we were going through each year.
I don't know what area you are in now. I'm commenting on the 1980's and 1990's especially, and having read all the major 'right-leaning' publications of that time, and compendiums of opinion writers in the Conservative Chronicle (anyone remember that), and following commentariat like Thomas Sowell and Dennis Prager (who both talked about Zinn more than once and his influence via the lefty history books he got into main northeast USA highschools), this isn't just an 'anecdote.
Society has shown the fruits of his efforts.
This is like telling people about Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" and people pooh-poohing, who never took the time to actually read the book.
It's all evidence. What people do with it is on them.
I make it a point to always read Goodrich’s comments for a myriad of reasons and always appreciate his insights. If too long for you, why post your complaint? Just scroll past.
Clown. Iran didn't kill 50k protesters. Utter nonsense. A few thousand, which is of course horrible, but you are just being a useful idiot spreading propaganda.
If you feel so sorry for them perhaps you wouldn't be cheerleading the US bombing them and taking out critical infrastructure, and in the end will kill far more than their government did. There simply aren't enough minutes in the day to kill 50k people in the course of a few days. Try thinking a little bit with common sense.
Your right Johnny zero they didn’t kill 50,000, they’ve killed hundreds of thousands you idiot. Horrible right, a couple thousand. As long as you get your check you don’t care. How much do you get?
They killed 600 violent rioters, who were paid to go out and disrupt and murder, by the US, in order to provoke the uprising Trump and the US/Israel were so sure would happen.
The violent rioters killed 2,400 people, stabbing, machetes, burning alive, running over. They burned police states, mosques, and other public buildings. Altogether then, there were 3,000 people killed.
But the people didn't take to the streets the way the US told them to.
Doh.
Then the US propaganda machine told us that they killed 30,000, because 3,000 didn't sound impressive enough, but James has casually added 20,000 to the total, to make it more impressive to Americans, who are pretty jaded about mass murder.
So then the US and Israel attacked them directly, killing their leaders and 168 schoolchildren, just on the first day. Then the people took to the streets, but not to support the return of the shah, to support the government that was fighting back to protect them from the bombs.
Agree. Classic rally around the flag reaction when people go and bomb the crap out of their country and kill their leader. John Quincy Adams greatly stated 'we do not go looking for monsters abroad'. We have enough monsters in our own borders.
It's the problem with the belief in air warfare--it promises to be a low risk way to defeat the enemy. Except it doesn't work; it didn't put England on its knees (nor Germany, for that matter), and it certainly didn't work in Viet Nam. Originally air support was envisaged as support for ground troops, but some genius (Bomber Harris, Curtis LeMay?) decided it had to be something on its own. It's an effective way to randomly destroy a lot of stuff, and it certainly makes the aero industry a lot of money.
It also kills and wounds a lot of people, approx. 4,000 in Iran, for instance.
But no, it doesn't make them come out in the streets to overthrow their government, the way our rulers believe. Unless they don't believe that, and are simply making blood sacrifices. That would explain the 168 little children on the first day. Child sacrifice is a tradition.
Security forces in Iran killed thousands of protesters during the mass uprisings, with estimates varying widely. The Iranian government reported 3,117 deaths, while UN experts state over 5,000 were killed. Independent human rights organizations and medical groups estimate the true death toll is significantly higher, ranging between 7,000 and 36,000.
Very few "liked" Jesus either. He preached the polar opposite to the popular notions. So please don't use that claptrap to try to get a gotcha on someone!
OH my feelings are so hurt that clowns like yourself don't like me. This is the comment you needed to post? Really? How insecure one must be to tell a random online poster that nobody likes them. Pretty easy to see right through that. Now I just feel sorry for you, which is much better than feeling annoyed at your supreme ignorance.
You need to look at the history of human violence if you think 50 k dead in a few days is impossible. And perhaps you can articulate how you know the reports are false. Further explain why the Arab world has supported both the US and Israel in Iran.
It's another Psyop. We only see what what the govt wants us to see. the only way to get real news is on live feeds of independent journalists. They didn't kill 50k. But the govt wants us to believe that...that way we can get in line and back the war.
We need to think the opposite of what we are being told. Time to wake up.
No agenda except for people to ask more questions and not drink the cool aid. The R and D want us to keep fighting while the elite keep making money off of the rest of us.
If that happened, ACTUAL EVIDENCE would have been broadcast wide and large to the west. The government that constantly lies (our own and Israel's) saying something happened isn't ACTUAL EVIDENCE.
There is substantial evidence from multiple independent sources, leaked documents, eyewitness accounts, and opposition figures indicating that Iranian security forces killed thousands of their own civilians during the suppression of nationwide protests in late 2025–early 2026 (often called the 2025–2026 Iran protests or "Crimson Winter.. Leaked official documents: Iran International reported reviewing IRGC Intelligence Organization documents provided to the Supreme National Security Council. These listed over 33,000 killed by one date and more than 36,500 by January 24–25, 2026, across ~400 cities—primarily in the two-day crackdown. This is described as the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history. Many consider this an underestimate. You see the world through colored Johnn O hate Israel glasses. Iran is a dark age jihad regime that is an enemy to the world, having threatened international commerce some 40 times. Also that is a short term view of this hate filled regime, as they have killed citizens since they gained power.
Leaked official documents: Iran International reported reviewing IRGC Intelligence Organization documents provided to the Supreme National Security Council. These listed over 33,000 killed by one date and more than 36,500 by January 24–25, 2026, across ~400 cities—primarily in the two-day crackdown. This is described as the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history.
Do you believe everything you read online? Again, if there were these massive events with 10s of thousands being killed in one day, it would be on video and distributed wide and far to help grease the zionist/US war machine.
How do you know this when the internet was shut down completely by the regime? How do you know these numbers are false? Does it matter the actual number? Isn't a few thousand abhorrent enough? Yes, the US military has killed more people in the middle east in the past 25 years than the mullahs killed in that uprising (which is only one uprising where they killed their own citizens, certainly not the only one). That is not in doubt (for me, anyway). But how does the difference in numbers absolve them of the US soldiers they and their proxies have killed? Sure, you can point to the coup in the 50's, that the CIA and Great Britain carried out to protect British oil companies, which was wrong and a mistake in my view. But it certainly doesn't absolve the current Iranian regime of the atrocities it has carried out. I choose to support my own country, no matter how flawed and messed up it is and has been. Now, I don't think Trump should have started the current war, I think it was mistake. But I can certainly see how different my life would have been had I not been born in this country, and I will be grateful for that no matter what. It's why I criticize the government, no matter which party is in power (and the two major parties are the problem, as they have worked together to prevent any other party from gaining any kind of power and influence). So again, what is your evidence? Because if it's just what regime itself has said, then I don't consider that evidence at all.
You already said that. I showed you numerous lines of evidence outside your limited false claim of Israel US sources. You have what is known as " confirmation bias."
This was alleged to happen over just a few days. It simply isn't physically possible, without actually dropping a large bomb/explosive on a massive crowd(s) of people. Had that happened, it would have been documented and spready widely across the globe. Use some friggin common sense.
Johnny my boy, if 1000 IRGC operatore each shot 50 people over the several days, it pretty much adds to 50k. Plus, the local militias got in on the act, so the load for IRGC was reduced. I don't think I'm wrong in saying that Iran's regime is a death cult, and their own populace is not protected. I can easily see a man with the gun and ammo and no compulsion against killing his fellow countryman taking out 50 people over several days when let loose to do do.
There is a reason why 95% of Iranians would like to get rid of the Islamic radicals that have been governing them for 47 years. Iranian civilians are actually cheering for President Trump and….you will personally like this….Israel and Netanyahu.
Inisfad is claiming the US and nuttyahoo have widespread support, which is completely inverse to reality, when the whole region sees the US and Israel as the biggest threats to security. That is a fact you simply can't invert (unless you are doing some wild mental gymnastics i guess).
Remember when our airship was shot down and the rescuers were being shot at by Iranian citizens? They sure do love us don't they?
It's okay to not realize you are being propagandized about Iran. That is the whole point. We are allies with leaders who are far worse, but let's not talk about that.
Interesting if Inisfad truly has seen Zionist-promo videos, because the videos of the Iranian people burning effigies of Trump and Baal disappear from YouTube almost as soon as they're posted.
Last time I checked bombing the shit out of people doesn't make them love you, but I guess I have never had the opportunity to be bombed, so maybe I would love the entity responsible for trying to kill me. Humans are weird after all.
I’m really not sure what the point is, to respond to you. Iran is a country of 90 million people. Five percent are Islamic radicals. Do the math….it’s a few million people…. It appears you have not been following this situation long, however, as you would have seen the civilian uprising at the beginning of the year. You continue to advertise that you form opinions without having done any research whatsoever, little Johnny-O.
How about we just ignore you as the transparent troll that you are? Arguing forever about the veracity of numbers quoted when it doesn't matter...that's a tell. Planting the obvious "I used to support Trump, but just can't anymore" BS seeds here and there = FUD Farmer.
Actually the mullahs did, 47 years ago. They have been fighting ever since. Trump decided it was time to resist. The mullahs benefit from war. Peace will have to be forced upon them.
YOu sound like a robot who has watched too much tv. I've never heard the 47 year gambit until recently when you were all programmed to repeat it ad naseum. Good job!
What country is responsible for the most death, destruction, injury, and displacement in the gulf region and middle east in the past 50 years? I'll give you a hint, it starts with "United"
Wow! Never heard the 47 year gambit? You must be super young! The mullahs started this in 1979 and held Americans hostage for more than a year then proceeded to take away their own people’s rights and turn it into an islamic prison.
At least you admit you never heard of Iran being under the thumb of Islamic radicals for 47 years. Indirectly, you’ve actually admitted you were just unaware of what was happening.
I honestly don't know the actual number who were murdered by the regime. Do you know for certain? I also don't believe the 50K number, but how would anyone know for sure? Or do you think the Iranian regime would never lie about such things? Honestly curious.
I asked my 2nd generation Persian friend here in USA if he believed there were 40K deaths in Iran during Jan protests. He has family in Tehran that he’s in regular contact with. His reply was ‘no’ it wasn’t that much but it was still ‘a lot’. Like 10k I asked? His reply ‘not sure but that 10K figure probably more accurate than 40K’. Nobody really knows but the Basij/IRGC did kill a fair amount of civilian protesters - is the right answer.
Yes, which is horrible, we can all agree on that. Ironically, the people who are most outspoken and "heartbroken" about it, are the ones clamoring for war, which will kill far more and spread far more misery to the civilian population. And, it is a war the US simply cannot win without a ground invasion, and we simply do not have the numbers to do that.
I don't even think we could win with a ground invasion. Iran is a huge country. This war is very unpopular among most of the US citizens and I dont think we have the stomach for a prolonged conflict, mass death and WW3
I don't see a ground invasion occurring. I also don’t see a Kharg island seizure happening, but I could be proven wrong on that. Kharg taking would result in some US military deaths. It might also bring on an Iran civil war. Civil war will result in another wave of refugees to the West. No good answers here.
I don't think the US is going to try to invade Kharg Island.
I think they're going to try to invade Sirik. That is why they destroyed the water supply for 20,000 people in June, and why they're bombing it now and killing fishermen in their boats.
They are trying to depopulate it so they can occupy it, the way they occupied 30% of Syria for over a decade.
I think that Iran will not put up with it the way Syria did, but we'll see.
My friend is in Iran. I posted this upthread, but in case you missed it.....
"Hello everyone, and thanks to all those who messaged me to ask about my wellbeing. I am writing this to tell you EVERYTHING YOU HEAR AND SEE ON YOUR MEDIA IS A LIE! I will tell you in nutshell what happened here from Tuesday to Friday.
Tuesday started with peaceful demonstrations for the unstable market. Wednesday, the marchers lines were infiltrated by violent groups, however, the security forces had strict order to not shoot, and in so many places they were sent UNARMED (remember Syria?)
Everything went spiral down fast and stormy on Thursday night, after the call of Reza P💩hlavi and his followers "take the streets, burn them down, kill, and have no mercy on their women and children".
Within hours streets were locked, unarmed security forces run down, dismembered, eyes gouched out, sodomised by foreign objects, BURNT ALIVE. Systematically huundreds of banks burned down, 4 hospitals burned, over 250 libraries burned, 186 ambulances burned and paramedics burned and mamed, fire trucks burned to ashes while trying to rescue residential buildings on fire, gas stations burned, schools, mosques, food stores, pharmacies, historic sites .... and then random fire opened up in the crowded areas on passer byes.
They took human shields of innocent people so security police couldn't stop them. They shot and killed women, children, nurses, street cleaners, defaced passer byes with sword, and bricks, beheaded ... horrors of Aleppi, Hamma, Mousul ... everything that they couldn't do in 12 days bombing.
Finally Friday all communications were cut off and announced anyone how stirs terror or attacks anything will be sh0t on the spot as enemy combatant. Saturday morning peace and order was restored but the country left in the blood of the innocent with monitory damage of billions of dollars. We watched all that LIVE on TV while you are hearing and seeing manipulated lies.
The official number of killed is 3110 I believe of whom about 2400 some are security forces and innocent people.''
I ran across an article from a week ago that explains why the people took to the streets to protest. Remember that at first, the government promised to respond to their demands, but then on Jan. 8th, the violent rioters were released.
"The liberal faction’s betrayal extends to the economic foundations of the Republic, and here the record is not ambiguous; it is a continuous, decades-long assault on the nation’s self-sufficiency. For more than thirty years, the reformist tendency has advocated the same neoliberal poison: mass privatization of state assets, the dismantling of subsidy networks that kept the working classes loyal, and the systematic transfer of national wealth into the hands of a comprador oligarchy. Khatami began the fire-sale. Rouhani accelerated it, stripping the social contract bare while his ministers stored their fortunes in Dubai, European countries, Canada, and the United States. And now Pezeshkian has delivered the terminal blow.
The so-called “economic surgery” is the language of shock therapy, and its specific mechanism is the abolition of the governmental exchange rate, the subsidized dollar price that allowed essential goods to enter the country without passing the full cost of sanctions onto the population. By moving this to the free market, the Pezeshkian government did not merely adjust a currency peg; it detonated the purchasing power of the nation overnight. Bread, medicine, fuel, and raw materials for domestic industry were instantly repriced at the black-market dollar rate. This is not economics; it is the Yeltsin model in Persian execution: the deliberate immiseration of the population under the guise of “modernization,” the reduction of a sovereign economy to a vassal market where only the dollar-denominated elite survives.
The consequences were immediate and catastrophic. Inflation exploded. The rial collapsed because the state voluntarily removed the floor beneath its own currency; sanctions were a secondary blow. The working class, the agricultural base, the industrial worker, those who had borne the weight of the resistance economy, were suddenly priced out of existence. This was the material tinder for the conflagration that followed.
And that conflagration was not spontaneous. It was engineered. The CIA and Mossad, operating through a network of satellite channels of which Iran International is merely the most visible example, had spent years preparing the narrative architecture. These channels do not broadcast news; they operate as psychological warfare battalions, pushing the “return of the Shah” fantasy, instructing urban populations in riot tactics, identifying targets for sabotage, and recruiting operatives for Mossad-connected rings inside the country. Billions of dollars were poured into this machinery: Starlink terminals were smuggled to coordinate armed insurrection, social media algorithms were weaponized to amplify despair, and the very inflation that the liberal government had created was blamed not on the neoliberal shock therapists in Tehran, but on the so called hardliners who refused to surrender.
The sequence is unmistakable. First, the liberal oligarch class implements the economic shock that destroys purchasing power. Second, the foreign-funded media apparatus channels the resulting rage into the streets. Third, armed elements, trained, equipped, and communicated via Starlink, escalate the riots into an attempted regime change. This is not policy failure; it is coordination. The liberal faction creates the economic conditions for destabilization, and its foreign partners exploit them. The reformist who cries for sanctions relief while his policies immiserate the population is the domestic facilitator of a transnational coup.
The oligarchs in Tehran ministries who park their wealth in Emirati and Saudi banks, the same banks financing the propaganda networks used to destabilize their own country, understand this perfectly. They are not victims of circumstance. They are beneficiaries of the chaos. The destruction of the subsidized exchange rate does not hurt them; their fortunes are indexed to the dollar. Their children study in London and Toronto. It is no coincidence that Azerbaijan, whose territory openly hosts Israeli intelligence operations, was spared completely, with no reprisal, no warning. Qatar and the UAE, despite their documented role in financing destabilization, were likewise spared even after the ceasefire violations rendered the MOU a dead letter. These omissions are not a strategy. They are class solidarity, the mutual protection of a transnational elite that has already chosen its side."
Interesting, thanks. Where was this article and who was the author? I feel like everything is propaganda these days, so I'm not sure if it will help knowing who wrote it and where it was published, but I'm wary of taking someone in a comments section word for things. No offense to you personally. I just think most of what we read on the internet is propaganda of one sort of another, not necessarily that the person who wrote is aware they are relating propaganda. I like Jeff's attitude and writing, but he's clearly a propagandist whether he realizes it or not.
Thanks for reading it. I didn't link to the article because so many people brag about having short attention spans- TLDR and all.
I don't know where I picked it up, but most likely not around here. I tend to click on links people post, and save them for later, and this was a week ago, so....I have no idea.
The official leftist line is "beware of Christian nationalism", and of course a Christian nationalist is anyone who says our rights and values come from God and the Bible.
My daughter's bedroom alarm clock is perpetually on DST because we cannot figure out how to change the time on it!! It would be a win for that poor alarm clock!
Mike Johnson's point on our rights coming from our creator is extremely important. Communism is just one iteration of the mindset that man's rights come from the state. This notion has a long history in Western philosophy with such important philosophers such as Hobbes. The atheist and pantheist hold similar views. If there is no absolute God than of course rights flow from the state. A doctor friend asks why I am obsessed with understanding Western philosophy. My response, understanding it is like understanding one's origins.
It annoys me when people believe that the government/state grants rights and powers. The government and state are other men and women in our communities, mere humans like you and me. Under communism there’s a division of these mere humans into you, and those who assume themselves to be higher, wiser, and more important than you. It’s like a lottery to see who gets to boss everyone else around. So we aren’t getting our rights from the state, we’re getting our rights from Chad and Karen who live next door to us with all the same flaws and sins that everyone else possesses. Nobody thinks the reality of communism all the way through.
I like our present format of government where rights come from God alone and cannot be taken away, and power comes from the people as they choose who will represent them on a cyclical basis.
Justice Thomas made a speech recently at UT Austin, for the 250th, where he stressed that very thing. We're lucky to have him. 34 years on the Supreme Court!
A law school professor (Black) new Justice Thomas before he was appointed. He told me that Thomas believed every word he said during his hearing. My professor, a lefty, respected him. His hearing was just a circus. What Anita Hills testified about was juvenile behavior that wasn't uncommon. They did the same to Kavanaugh. Meanwhile, Hunter really is a sexual deviant who exploited young women. But feminists? A yawn.
Imagine the increased global warming we will now experience with the US Congress irresponsibly voting to allow the sun to beat down on us an extra hour ALL YEAR LONG!
Good Wednesday morning! We are out fishing today so hopefully we will be blessed with some fish for dinner. And if not, we still enjoys God’s blessings and am grateful!
So jelly. I miss the days of my childhood camping where we were with families that knew how to fish and how to cook it over a campfire. The deliciousness will never leave my memory. For over 50 years now I have tried to learn how to replicate it, but because I’m not a fisherman I am left working with store bought, previously frozen, farm-raised fish. It is NOT the same. I remember bass (or some kind of bass) was the one that made my heart explode in a Wisconsin campground. ❤️❤️❤️ Please please catch one for me and prepare it lovingly and share how good it tasted.
Well Juju. Not a nibble! We were looking for walleyes or northerns but no luck today. Weatherwise it seemed to be good fishing weather overcast with some raindrops. We’ll try again tomorrow. We agree there’s nothing like fresh fish.
I, too have an indelible memory of fresh fish, (trout), pulled from the river, coated with salt, pepper and flour, and fried in butter on a Coleman camp stove on the river's edge... At that moment I understood to the depths of my soul, that "fresh" fish was not hyperbole, but an immutable law of nature.
🤦🏼♀️ However … it did make me wonder if there is a dry substance that when placed onto something else it creates a wet condition ? 🤔 But thinking like that only proves water is wet itself. 😆
Inflation cooling??? I just paid $27 for 2 sandwiches. Just because oil goes down during a lull in Iran war, does not change the reality. “Inflation” is not just the prices of a current collection of a few items the government assembles. Inflation is expansion of the money supply. It will not be possible to end that since we are now deep into the debt trap where annual interest on the debt is $1 Trillion a year. Can we be honest about this?
It is false that stores arbitrarily keep prices high. Look at computers, phones TVs. As economy of scale increases efficiency, prices fall, and any store that does not reduce will quickly go out of business. Look at gas stations. As oil goes down, competition forces them to reduce or lose all business. I look all the time and fill up at the cheapest station. But due to inflation, all prices continue to rise; labor, goods, rent, insurance, electric. The only way you can have a store is if they net more than the total cost of operation.
You are right. Just look at the feds money supply chart. Sandwiches are just an anecdote. The uniparty has continued to debauch your currency. Why would you advocate or excuse that. It is criminal theft that has led to the collapse of previous empires. We are not immune.
If you’re going “to be honest” about this then you must recognize that you’re blaming the wrong parties. Get rid of the fraud and you get rid of the debt. Period. This administration didn’t cause inflation, against all odds they are lowering it. Fraud allowed for decades prior caused it, and it exploded under Biden. Frankly it should have taken years and years to reverse the inflation and the debt, but somehow this amazingly gifted group of people on this administration are lowering it much sooner. The problem is you expect results in a time frame that is kinda impossible and when a president takes over and comes closer than anyone ever expected, especially the 67? experts? You want to put all the blame on him and the closest disputed expenditure you can grab, the Iran war.
You will never hear most here mention that Trump on track to outspend Bidumb's record deficit, and projected to leave office owning $15 trillion of the $45 trillion US debt. So much winning.
I live in VA and the Democrat legislature's "work" went into effect on July 1. Retail tax on gas in VA is 32.6 cents. They also added a whole sale tax which adds about .10 cents per gallon. (Virginia is in top ten of states with high gas tax.) That's just gas. But gas affects other things. It's intentional. The Democrat legislature spouts about high prices, but their policies cause them.
Dining prices are creeping up due to things like the increase in the minimum wage to $12.77, local restaurant sales tax increases, removal of the ability to use styrofoam plates, cups, bowls, containers or trays, and increase in prepared food tax. My 93 year old dad was shocked when we recently went to Cracker Barrel in Troutville, VA and ordered Fried Chicken with 2 sides, my Grilled Chicken Salad, 1 soda, 1 iced tea, and ended up paying $50 (including tip.)
Our price on eggs is lower that it was, but still high for pasture raised. Our town prohibits chickens, although the county we are in (yes - both and we get taxed by both) allows them, but the folks selling eggs charge as much as the stores. Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate the improvements being made by President Trump. You must stay on top of what is happening locally and blame your LOCAL politicians and STATE politicians for their blocks on the national improvements.
Excellent point, Garner. I think the same is happening in CA. Prices go up and never come down, and people blame the federal government when in reality it’s local and state governments to blame for most of the issues.
They're in it together, actually. One phenomena that started around 2005 or so was to accelerate federal payments to states for a kaleidoscope of programs. States seems to think that is "free" money, for some reason. The Feds do it so they can control states with the various caveats that always come with the funds.
I just looked at the "manipulated" numbers from the Fed and Bureau of Labor Statistics. They don't look good, and probably understate reality, too. I don't consider 3.5% a good inflation rate, although it is better than anything higher than it.
The sandwich shop is an anecdote we can all relate to. The problem is having a currency whose backing was removed. ( Nixon 1971) That means we now have Monopoly money that the government can (and does) print at will. The more they print, the less yours is worth. So the value they get to spend is actually stolen from you. It is a uniparty practice that is not slowing down under our beloved Trump. It will be our downfall as it has been for every empire that can’t resist the monetary cookie jar.
Why do we subject ourselves to all of the social & deep-state media PsyOps? Do yourself a favor and stop doomscrolling on X and Facebook. Stop arguing with the other side. Get your daily news fix of optimism here and move on. Go outside and garden or work. Pretend you are Amish for a least a few hours every day. The conflict is between the competing narratives in your mind. Just turn them off and get some peace.
Since the MSM went in the crapper, scrolling is the only way to get actual news and logical opinions. So why call it "doom"scrolling? Why not "truth"scrolling instead!
Thank you Jeff for reminding us how much good has come from this Administration & here’s to hoping tomorrow night’s speech is a banger!
Jeff didn’t mention that Trump brought down the price of eggs! That was a big deal two years ago, but now forgotten.
$2.77 for 18 eggs here!!
I just paid $1.47 for a dozen Jumbo eggs!
$5.75 US here in Canada all across BC. (Pushing $8 Can).
Bless your heart! You need some hens. I got 4 and they’re mostly terrific. Hennifer Anniston has to sleep in the shower at night which is hilarious because we don’t have that kind of house, looking at it, but otherwise, the whole thing has been fun. They’re marvelous leftover-eaters.
"Hennifer Anniston"!! I love it! Any more clever names?
Good suggestion. My condo association might object. I will run it past them.
KC , I remember we share the pleasure of feeding our 4 hens (also one mean rooster here) blueberries,but,I don’t remember why your one hen sleeps in the shower? 😄 just curious..TY
I raise my own eggs, organic feed and free ranged. Mine probably still cost me $5 a dozen, even with my free labor. It comes with a lot of entertainment and garden fertilizer though, so totally worth it.
And really delicious golden yolks!
Probably never going back to the 5 years ago price, but $2.00 for 18 is pretty common here in western CO.
Here in AZ too. Everyone should remember the extreme egg prices were created by brandon and his autopen admin when they unnecessarily killed millions of chickens over hyped up bird flu. Hmmm, just liked they killed millions of us with the pLandemic... but people, especially people who lie and run PSYOPS have short memories. ALL OF THE HIGH PRICES BELONG TO BRANDON/AUTOPEN from things like this and massive unnecessary inflationary spending.
A rather fantastic C&C. There are quite a few lists, the best of which are
easy to copy for the "when is something gonna happen" peeps. One list begets another
for the reasons mentioned. Here is another:
TRUMP ENDED THE PLANDEMIC WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST TEN YEARS.
TRUMP PREVENTED THE GREAT RESET WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO ENSLAVE ALL OF MANKIND.
TRUMP PREVENTED THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN UNDER HILLARY CLINTON.
TRUMP ARRESTED JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND ENDED HIS OPERATION TO SEXUALLY BLACKMAIL INFLUENTIAL LEADERS.
TRUMP ENDED MASS CENSORSHIP AND RESTORED FREE SPEECH.
TRUMP ARRESTED MULTIPLE HEADS OF GLOBAL DRUG CARTELS, AND ENDED THE WORLDS GREATEST DRUG OPERATIONS.
TRUMP REMOVED THE USA FROM THE WHO, EFFECTIVELY PREVENTING THEIR PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION.
TRUMP WILL ABOLISH THE UNITED NATIONS, AGAIN ENDING THE AGENDA FOR A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE MIND CONTROL OF THE NEWS MEDIA AND POPULARIZED THE TERM “FAKE NEWS MEDIA”.
TRUMP EMPOWERED THE RISE OF ALTERNATIVES NEWS MEDIA THAT COUNTERS THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM.
TRUMP EXPOSED ELECTION FRAUD AND IS BUSY MAKING ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD SAFE AGAIN.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE DEEP STATE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD AND IS BUSY ERADICATING IT.
TRUMP LAUNCHED A WORLDWIDE WAR AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.
TRUMP BROUGHT FAITH, PRAYER AND THE BIBLE BACK IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SOCIETY.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE DEEP CORRUPTION OF THE CIA, FBI AND DOJ.
TRUMP ENDED THE BRAINWASHING OF CHILDREN BY ABOLISHING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
TRUMP WILL RESTORE QUALITY EDUCATION BY OFFERING THE FREE AMERICAN ACADEMY TO THE YOUTH.
TRUMP DEFUNDED THE LGBTQ AND TRANSGENDER AGENDA AND IS RESTORING HEALTHY FAMILIES IN AMERICA.
TRUMP IS ENDING THE POISONING OF THE FOOD AND RESTORES HEALTHY NUTRITION.
TRUMP ENDED THE MASS INVASION OF ILLEGALS, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO DESTROY AMERICA.
TRUMP ENDED THE WORLDWIDE FUNDING OF THE DEEP STATE EVIL ACTIVITIES THROUGH USAID.
TRUMP ENDED MASSIVE THEFT OF TRILLIONS OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.
TRUMP IS GOING TO END TAXES AND WILL RESTORE WEALTH TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
TRUMP ENDED THE SATANIC RULE IN HOLLYWOOD AND APPOINTED GIBSON AND STALLONE AS HIS EYES IN HOLLYWOOD.
TRUMP EMPOWERED MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS WORLDWIDE TO OPPOSE THE DEEP STATE AND NEW WORLD ORDER.
TRUMP OPENLY CONFRONTS THE GLOBALISTS AT THE WEF AND PUTS AN END TO THEIR NEFARIOUS AGENDAS.
TRUMP ENDED THE CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EXCUSE FOR GLOBAL TYRANNY.
TRUMP ENDED THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE MANDATES AND REDUCED THE VACCINES FROM 70 TO 9.
AND THERE’S A THOUSAND OTHER THINGS TRUMP DID TO END THE RULE OF EVIL.
THAT IS WHY HE IS BEING ATTACKED SO VIOLENTLY WITH FALSE ACCUSATIONS.
EXCELLENT TT, thank you for taking the time to send it out!! Your last sentence is 100% spot on and why they are running PSYOPS all the time.
Copied and printed this list, too. Thanks!
In answer to your last statement, Trump is being attacked with false accusations (misogynist, racist etc) because they can't find anything real to attack him with
Fabulous list. (1 minor edit: he can't OFFICIALLY 'abolish' Dept of Education. He has dismantled, eliminated functions or transferred them to other agencies - HHS, legal stuff to DOJ0
Same in Canada. Remember the Ostriches? Ya, that got blasted everywhere which opened everyone's eyes to the CFIA murdering gazillions of chickens, turkeys, ducks, cattle, pigs and everything else not BUGS or CLONED MEAT!
Assholes.
Justice for P-Nut!
Ostrichs. Old People. What’s the difference? What the hell has happened to Canada?
I do remember the ostrich story. So heartbreaking. I was angry for weeks over it.
Canadians made a show of force, that clearly was inadequate.
The Brits are in a similar showdown scenario.
The fuse is lite, how long is unknown.
Huge, cancerous, stinking ones at that!
Thank you for the reminder, Dan! It’s important because we forget how we ended up in that mess.
You are welcome my wonderful Conservative Sister and Dentist - I'd let you do Dentistry on me, any day! And I don't like dentists!!! ;-)
23 hours and DJT address' the nation, Many astute Sub authors strongly suggest
he will introduce irrefutable evidence of widespread Dem election theft.
The Fake News is already trying to get ahead of this... by weak admissions
Any astute readers have info or well reasoned opinions???
The irrefutable evidence has been there since the 2020 election - it was deeply black-holed for 4 years by the cabbage/autopen administration and the state and local governments around the country who took or maintained their control through election manipulation. And they used a packed, deeply corrupt judiciary to squash all of it. People lost their lives, and their wealth and their liberty trying to fight it.
Biden covers that in chapter 20 of Promise Me America! LOL
what other food gives you as much high quality protein for as cheap. Eggs are great.
23 hours and DJT address' the nation, Many astute Sub authors strongly suggest
he will introduce irrefutable evidence of widespread Dem election theft.
The Fake News is already trying to get ahead of this... by weak admissions
Any astute readers have info or well reasoned opinions???
Ha! Some stores here in Newsoms CA eggs are still $8.99 a dozen with a “pretty box”.
They can go from about 2 dollars (could even be less but I don’t buy the cheapest eggs so don’t pay as much attention to those prices) to about 12 here depending on if they’re conventional, organic, free range, heritage breeds or whatever.
Heck, you may as will be in Canada!
Canada can have Southern California. Heck. North Korea can have ‘em.
You're such a deep-thinker, CS.
Exactly DQ, and more!
biodegradable pretty box of course
Not the eggs that are safe though.
Nancy, Yes - oddly, some don't seem to care about quality. Only money.
Just got 24 eggs at Costco for $2.89. But they’re not as cheap in my local stores.
It's amazing what happens when the government stops killing our chickens!
We have a dozen Large for 99 cents here.
When the government stops mandating massacring millions of hens, the price of eggs goes down.
And no outbreak of bird flu, either. Go figure.
Mrs. RW
Eggs were recently on sale here (NW Iowa) for something like 67 CENTS/dz.!!!
We get most of our eggs from a local farmer (yes, REAL, farm fresh eggs), so we've been doubly fortunate not to pay high prices for a lesser product.
everything is expensive on the blue west left coast, where the corruption is high.
The regular price of the bacon I buy at Costco has dropped nearly $3.00 since early April — and NOT on sale.
Recently at Tops Markets, if you use a coupon out of their paper ad, bacon: buy 2 get 3 free! It worked out to less than $2 lb. Eggs: $1.29 this week. Butter and cheese prices have dropped as well.
I’ve noticed that for quite a few items that I buy regularly.
The price of Kirkland kleenex we buy has come down almost $2!!!
There’s a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company, a recent purchaser of a Mustang model wants his tariff money reimbursed, since Ford got reimbursed a LOT of money by our Treasury as a result of being sued by FMC
. Wonder if same thing will be done to Costco for same reason? We members ought to get a break since they sued the feds to get reimbursement for cost of tariffs (they said).
Just paid .99 for jumbo, last week I paid .89 for a dozen.
A rather fantastic C&C. There are quite a few lists, the best of which are
easy to copy for the "when is something gonna happen" peeps. One list begets another
for the reasons mentioned. Here is another:
TRUMP ENDED THE PLANDEMIC WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST TEN YEARS.
TRUMP PREVENTED THE GREAT RESET WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO ENSLAVE ALL OF MANKIND.
TRUMP PREVENTED THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN UNDER HILLARY CLINTON.
TRUMP ARRESTED JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND ENDED HIS OPERATION TO SEXUALLY BLACKMAIL INFLUENTIAL LEADERS.
TRUMP ENDED MASS CENSORSHIP AND RESTORED FREE SPEECH.
TRUMP ARRESTED MULTIPLE HEADS OF GLOBAL DRUG CARTELS, AND ENDED THE WORLDS GREATEST DRUG OPERATIONS.
TRUMP REMOVED THE USA FROM THE WHO, EFFECTIVELY PREVENTING THEIR PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION.
TRUMP WILL ABOLISH THE UNITED NATIONS, AGAIN ENDING THE AGENDA FOR A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE MIND CONTROL OF THE NEWS MEDIA AND POPULARIZED THE TERM “FAKE NEWS MEDIA”.
TRUMP EMPOWERED THE RISE OF ALTERNATIVES NEWS MEDIA THAT COUNTERS THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM.
TRUMP EXPOSED ELECTION FRAUD AND IS BUSY MAKING ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD SAFE AGAIN.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE DEEP STATE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD AND IS BUSY ERADICATING IT.
TRUMP LAUNCHED A WORLDWIDE WAR AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.
TRUMP BROUGHT FAITH, PRAYER AND THE BIBLE BACK IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SOCIETY.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE DEEP CORRUPTION OF THE CIA, FBI AND DOJ.
TRUMP ENDED THE BRAINWASHING OF CHILDREN BY ABOLISHING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
TRUMP WILL RESTORE QUALITY EDUCATION BY OFFERING THE FREE AMERICAN ACADEMY TO THE YOUTH.
TRUMP DEFUNDED THE LGBTQ AND TRANSGENDER AGENDA AND IS RESTORING HEALTHY FAMILIES IN AMERICA.
TRUMP IS ENDING THE POISONING OF THE FOOD AND RESTORES HEALTHY NUTRITION.
TRUMP ENDED THE MASS INVASION OF ILLEGALS, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO DESTROY AMERICA.
TRUMP ENDED THE WORLDWIDE FUNDING OF THE DEEP STATE EVIL ACTIVITIES THROUGH USAID.
TRUMP ENDED MASSIVE THEFT OF TRILLIONS OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.
TRUMP IS GOING TO END TAXES AND WILL RESTORE WEALTH TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
TRUMP ENDED THE SATANIC RULE IN HOLLYWOOD AND APPOINTED GIBSON AND STALLONE AS HIS EYES IN HOLLYWOOD.
TRUMP EMPOWERED MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS WORLDWIDE TO OPPOSE THE DEEP STATE AND NEW WORLD ORDER.
TRUMP OPENLY CONFRONTS THE GLOBALISTS AT THE WEF AND PUTS AN END TO THEIR NEFARIOUS AGENDAS.
TRUMP ENDED THE CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EXCUSE FOR GLOBAL TYRANNY.
TRUMP ENDED THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE MANDATES AND REDUCED THE VACCINES FROM 70 TO 9.
AND THERE’S A THOUSAND OTHER THINGS TRUMP DID TO END THE RULE OF EVIL.
THAT IS WHY HE IS BEING ATTACKED SO VIOLENTLY WITH FALSE ACCUSATIONS.
That list is BS! Giving a politician credit for stuff he didn’t do is nuts.
Twas another list, clearly agencies were involved, He was the director and forged the course, credit where its due.
Go on....tell us how ANY of those things would have happened without Trump. Take your time.
Lol, they didn’t even happen with Trump.
simpleton reply, OINK
Truth, Er...Billions for Glyphosate? Not poisoning food?
Have been warning at least a thousand health seekers, about the consequeces of glyphosate, for decades. Organic for the win... If one resides in England, Fair Trade even better. It is sprayed as a dessicant, on mostly animal fodder crops. They are not "food"...
Truth S., Glyphosate is sprayed on cereal grains, made into flour that we humans consume. Incidentally, we also eat the animals who eat those sprayed crops.
Leo, acutely aware of the toxin and how it is used and on what.
That is why I emphasized ORGANIC. Most is animal fodder.
I DO not eat animals, for many decades... As mentiond have counseled thousands...
Gas is $4 where I live. It was $3. This is somehow a win? Upside down universe
Johnny, I realize I’m wasting electrons with you, but I’m dragging my feet before starting an unpleasant project, so here goes: Do you have children? Probably not, but many, many others do, and all around the world. And parents care deeply about the future for their kids. At the top of that list of “future destroyers” is (or damn well should be) a nuclear armed Iran. I won’t debate whether or not “they have a right”. That’s BS. They have shown for 50 years what they stand for and what they’re willing to do. Taking Iran down is an unpleasant task that has been pushed off from administration to administration for far too long. A nuclear war in the Middle East was a distinct possibility, even likely, if those fanatics were allowed to continue. They don’t see things the way Westerners do. So Johnny, put your having to pay an extra dollar or so for a gallon of gas, and for a limited time, into the context of a safer future for the world’s children and try to understand why I can’t find a small enough violin for you.
Sorry to break the bad news, but the war is far more complicated than slightly elevated gas prices, which have been held in check by selling our precious reserves to critical levels to stablize the global market - not our own markets. Gas is about to get much more expensive, as is everything else that depends on diesel, which is just about everything. So much winning.
Now, can we talk about the fertilizer shortages, helium shortages, and other things coming down the line. If you are so concerned about children, you may want to stop the oncoming famine.
Johnny-O, 'they' the great herds never zero in on the structural imbalances. And 'they' never stop to think where the inflation is going. 'They', the Dumb Crowd, point us towards things like the Stock Market and bleat out how wonderful our world is. 'They' never stop to think that the stock market' in general equities is, for example, the greatest Inflation Sponge ever conjured up in the history of Mankind. And as to such things, the herd has a poor record on assessing values, either moral or economic. The herd will always in the end be fleeced or turned into shoe leather depending upon whether 'they' are bleat-ers or moo-ers. Which is almost to say, whether they are Democrats or Republicans ... an identity of sorts.
Today, we read of Johnson extolling the republic, the one which has not existed at least conservatively for the entirety of my lifetime. But are we anymore of a republic today than when Baby Bush and the Rubber Stamp Congress gave us the Patriot Act? Or are we even more of a consolidating Techno-Tyranny and about to become still yet more so what with Flock Cameras and rampant unchecked digitalization, including the fake money?
And so lists of improvements such as were served up today, though not well-considered nor pulled apart in a careful deliberation, do count. But shouldn't there be a larger picture against which all things are rendered into account?
Daverkb, Taking into account "...a larger picture..." Aye, there's the rub.
There is also the China factor. The Chinese economy has been releasing their oil reserves and has had a net decrease in consumption because their economy is not doing so great. Why would China do this??? They really cant afford high gas prices. These manipulations can only go on for so long. Now that diesel is exploded, the sh*t is really going to hit the fan. Did i vote for Trump? yes. Am i glad he beat Harris? yes but he has lost his marbles with this Iran conflict. The Isreal fist attitude of both sides of the aisle and Trump breaking his campaign promises is what is going to be a loss in the midterms. I hope I am wrong but we will see.
I agree completely, as a former trump voter as well. But, man was I fooled. Remember how many times we were promised the Ukraine war would be ended on day one, but instead, we keep funneling money and weapons to the coke head penis piano man dictator?
Do you understand National Security? Ending the threat from Iran would be his greatest accomplishment. Root for the truthful side. This list didn't mention the Panama Canal or Greenland efforts under National Security. Why do voters forget or just don't understand that Foreign Policy, National Security, and Defense are the number one job of a President? We are lucky to have one who understands it is not a popularity contest.
You also have to consider your state and local taxes. I live in Virginia, where the Richmond and NOVA legislators ruin everything. They have driven up taxes on just about everything so it's difficult to see the improvements that are being made on a national level. It's intentional. We live in a more rural area where crossing the border between counties can mean almost .09 cents a gallon. So, local, local, local (as Jeff always says.)
While they have come down from $13/ dozen to about $11 for the pasture raised, free to roam ,etc eggs I like to buy, they’re not back to the $8/ dozen that they were before the price hike. This is in CA, of course! When I’m in OK, we get a dozen from a friend’s chickens and we make her take $5, because she normally sells them for $3!
feral chickens here, give em away, bright orange yolks
The eggs with bright orange yolks taste better, IMHO!
like any good accomplishment a Republican, but especially Trump, does, the media makes sure it is forgotten
But eggs have always been way TOO CHEAP - UNDERVALUED. As a kid, I gathered 1000's/day, til it was no longer affordable.
Very important post Jeff C. Two thoughts, the resistance to Trump has been incredible! And I mean on every issue you brought up. Oh, and reforming the EPA is an added bonus.
Really good point, this wasn’t all accomplished within a typical, functioning government - which would still be amazing. But it was done literally against all odds and with every bit of lawfare humanly possible thrown at him. Sure we can cheer the winner of a marathon, but how much more amazing is his win when we see the track was doused with mud, alligators, and they threw straps around his shoulders to pull him back?
Great post Juju; love the analogy!
EXCELLENT points, & so true!!!!
Hello, Juju...your comment about the track brought horse racing to my mind; I remembered that the horses that were winners were handicapped purposefully and legally in the races to make the odds such that great sums could be won by lesser horses since the odds were stacked. That is what has happened to President Trump. He has been saddled with great weights in his race(s). Those who have a stake in the race do not want him to win and have put all that lawfare + attempted assassination + reputational smearing....all kinds of weight on him hoping that another contender in the race will outrun him. However, to no avail as President Trump has the heart of a Secretariat. I think our Heavenly Father has chosen him to lead at such a time as this time because of his great heart. The man will not stop and is winning great lengths even now for anyone who has eyes to see. Just saying.
Like!!!
The resistance to Trump is because cabal that's been running things since 1963 has a LOT to lose! We're talking money and power! So much money...
You'd need to dig up what DOGE was reporting in the early days to see how much money, the cabal controls 98% of the press so it's not publized.
Coup of November 1963?
1960 Eisenhower warned the American people about the military industrial complex. JFK refused to invade Cuba after Castro took over, JFK refused to commit US air to the Bay of Pigs invasion and he had people looking at VietNam to see if it wasn't really a civil war.
JFK was murdered in 1963 and a businessman/politician replaced him, less than a year later we are deep in Viet Nam, the dollars were flowing...
Just in case you didn't realize it, you've posted to a comment that I think you meant for the whole readership. #donethat
re: "At worst, it’s an organized demoralization campaign."
Its a PSYOP campaign which has been going on for sometime now. The effort to convince us nothing good is happening and we shouldn't show up. Many of us have seen it here in the comments section. And Jeff just gave us a full magazine of Tomahawk missiles to respond with. Thanks Jeff, I will launch liberally (NPI). Oh, Whitehouse.gov also posts a similar list of accomplishments by our great President and his team. Ignore the PSYOP, support our President and make that worthless rino Thune and his rotten corrupt set of uniparty senators do their damned jobs. Get rid of bullshit silent filibuster and pass SAVE AMERICA ACT.
I am amazed that Rumble is allowing Rogan's interview of Rupert Lowe to stream. He is describing his efforts to save Britain, illegals and his efforts to restore the culture. They are living with the path we had been on and are further down that road. The UK has an "institution of voting by post" (mail). That same corruption is there too. He states that mail in voting is the only thing keeping Labour Party in office (sound familiar?) and it must change. It's a good listen, and watching Rogan march right by inches in real time as he hears what's really going on is fun.
Amen, Cecil.
Mail in voting was imposed on us, against our will, without our consent. It has one purpose and it is not to make voting easier. It is to manipulate elections to keep lunatics in power over us. Period. Full STOP!
Until it ends we will not have verifiable, certifiable elections and we will remain under their boot.
Why are you surprised Rumble would carry it? They are supposed to be a free speech platform. I’d bet YouTube would demonetize it and not promote it, but not Rumble.
No more trust but verify, now verify and conditionally trust. Even on the better ones like substack, you can find shadow banning and other throttling. Sometimes it's personal bias that bleeds in, sometimes bowing to pressure, and plenty of "oops the automation did it".
Thune definitely needs to go.
Preferably in a body bag like graham who was just as bad, and a better con man - both globalist RINOs. I suspect McConnell is dead too, or just on heart lung machine (and using AI for fake phone conversations) to keep him “alive” while the cretins can figure out how best to use his death for their gain, at our expense, and to keep the uniparty in power.
Right after McConnell! Maybe he can wheel him out!
If it were only that simple. Don’t forget, back in 2025 Rick Scott was the first nominee and that failed. Then John Cornyn. Thank heavens that failed! So Thune was the comprise who is obviously compromised. I’m sure he made all kinds of backroom deals with the dems to get their vote. No republican with a backbone will receive a dem’s vote or a RINOS for that matter. We’re in a never ending stalemate until we get a 60 seat majority or the dems (communists) take over, remove the filibuster and end the country as we know it.
Rick Scott is excellent at committing Medicare fraud…. You want him in leadership?
Perhaps you would like to present the truth, the facts, and not just the allegation? Is he under investigation or being prosecuted and found guilty of Medicare fraud?
But FTR, I think Scott couldn't do any worse than thune and probably a lot better. For one thing, he supports ending the Senate Filibuster to pass key legislative priorities and election security and government funding. Thune, being the uniparty shitbird that he, is wont end it and wont pass the SAVE America Act Why? Because he wants to keep the do nothing Senate procedures firmly in place and so he can stay in power.
Who is to say it would necessarily be Rick Scott anyhow? I personally would prefer Mike Lee and Im not even Mormon/LDS! lol
Here, I will do your work for you via AI:
"Rick Scott was never prosecuted or convicted of any crimes related to Medicare fraud. However, he was the CEO of Columbia/HCA when the company was investigated by the federal government and ultimately pleaded guilty to 14 felonies, paying a record $1.7 billion in fines for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.Here are the key details of the investigation and its outcome:The Investigation: In the late 1990s, the FBI, IRS, and Department of Health and Human Services launched a massive multi-agency investigation into Columbia/HCA's billing practices, which included allegations of illegal kickbacks to doctors and upcoding diagnoses to maximize reimbursements.Scott's Departure: Amid the investigation and the serving of federal search warrants in 1997, Scott's board of directors pressured him to resign as Chairman and CEO. He was never indicted or charged, though he did invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 75 times during a related 2000 civil deposition.Company Convictions: In 2000 and 2003, Columbia/HCA (which subsequently changed its name to HCA) pleaded guilty to 14 corporate felonies and agreed to pay $1.7 billion in criminal and civil penalties.Public Perception: While the government's case was settled civilly with the corporation rather than criminally against individuals, public opinion and political opponents frequently debate his level of personal knowledge and responsibility for the actions of his company. For more community perspectives and debate on his culpability.For further details regarding the scope of the DOJ probe and the penalties assessed, you can read the Department of Justice Press Release on the Columbia/HCA Case."
Someone is always saying the economy is in the dumps. I just don’t see it in reality. My wife and I are making more money than two years before and things cost less than two years before. Plus, we’re saving more.
Not enough people acknowledge those facts, James.
Not sure why.
Thanks for taking the time to tell truths everyone needs to talk about.
The people saying probably live in WA state. Because of our lefty government run by King County, we’ve seen little to none of the economic improvements seen in red states.
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the real question that is never asked - do you really think democrats would do better; ie, will they start mass deportations - what a laugh
I agree. The Democrats are only concerned with power, but the Democrats in Congress just want to get rich. We need term limits.
Clean elections would flush quite a few of them, even before reaching said limits - which they obviously realize.
Can't believe that Slotkin actually said that democrats would have a very hard time winning any election if the SAVE act is passed - hope every republican candidate broadcasts that non-stop
We can all get serious and run our own interventions called INITIATIVES at County level to restore elections at each county. Contrary to popular belief, the States only control elections, if we - the people who actually own elections - let them
There is going to be a big flush of new R blood in the Senate next year. And I hope very much, Trump-aligned. There are 10 Senate Republicans guaranteed to leave the Senate before any votes are cast in November due to death, illness or age-retirement.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/4646837/illness-death-turmoil-change-face-gop-senate/
We have term limits- it is called voting.
What we need is campaign finance reform...follow the money to the crimes and who gets to run with financial support or not?
Term limits are easy to talk about being a need, but Congress will never cut its own throat. The reality is that we ALREADY have term limits. It’s the vote. The people just need to exercise it more and not be lazy.
Right - communist or republican is the choice. Seems pretty easy choice.
Plenty of RINO's out there which need to go also. Won't miss Graham or McConnell one bit.
Democrats? Deportations? Not likely.
Good question. Always interesting to respond to their questions with a similar question back at them.
The bigger problem in some red states is democrats in republican clothing. Democrats rarely win here so they claim to be republicans and low-information voters don’t know the difference.
Their intent is to destroy the country and the Constitution which protects us, from evil like them.
“Perfect” is always the enemy of “good”. Why can’t people ever see this and be satisfied?
then they would have nothing to complain about
And make it funny when you ask them that question!
Jeff is trying to herd people back into the big party political tent. Can't have too many people straying off the reservation. Remember who your masters are! Be thankful for them! Praise them!
Perhaps you should copy and paste the list and keep it in your wallet or on your phone. You seem to ignore reality, which can be dangerous.
As another poster noted, most of these are Tier 2 issues. The big issues: war, spending, freedom, corruption (Epstein) are not being adequately addressed, or are going in the exact opposite way as they were campaigned on.
Heeeeeeere's Johnny-O-so-obviously the kind of FUD spreading troll being discussed in this article. Right on cue.
You're really grinding for your sheckels today, buddy, but looking pretty pathetic in doing so...I mean, even more than usual.
I would say pathetic is calling yourself "critical thinker" and blindly trusting the government. But you do you smarty.
RE-READ the LIST! ALL those things are there, and yes "being addressed".
Do your handlers pay well? Asking for a friend.
Johnny-O
No... you're just immune to evidence.
Go vote for people who promise one thing, and deliver the opposite.
I will end the Ukraine war on day one, as one example.
Let me know when free elections are held in the Ukraine. Little Fidel termed out 5/24 and canceled elections.
Ukrainian elections are up to the coke head dictator we keep funneling money to. Ask him.
Now you are showing your ignorance. Be better.
...maybe you need to re-read Jeff's list again...
Facts. Can’t let those sway you!
Again! You see it!
And granted it is way more complex than what today's scrabbling would have it. For example, housing percentage changes are presently sluggish. And so, is that a good or bad sign? And how would anyone know, because we have not had 'a normal' economy in decades that is free market driven in a limited government context for decades and decades. Not in my conscious adult life. And I still say, the last nail went into the coffin with the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers. Once the Deep State operatives at the CIA (not to leave out LBJ and the political class) were untouchable then the descent into chaos was already written. And I have often heard it said of World War II that in winning the war America lost everythingl. The rear view mirror is pretty clear on that. The only thing about rear view mirrors is that if one spends too much time gazing into them, one tends to run into brick wall and telephone poles.
Thanks for your comments today. And by the way, exactly when does cheer leading become just another tawdry exercise in propaganda? I don't think the line betwixt is entirely clear at all times. And I do continue to read here due to a certain degree of value added content.
Thanks Dave. I'm having a hard time sticking around here. People are obnoxious and ironically the exact opposite of curious and critical thinkers that they claim to be/think that they are. Trump can do no wrong, and if you question that you obviously hate America!
You may have noticed a thin presence lately from this quarter, and as an oblique register in accord with your voicings.
I for one don't think everything is honky-dory in MAGA Land. I see that same foreign policy mistakes being made (with different colorings) with Iran as were made with Ukraine with sanctioning and SWIFT. I see tens or hundreds of billions being spent with no gains other than Iran proving that she cannot be defeated easily (if at all) by the US military. And I see that the Israeli military is not what it once was. And what about a foreign country postage stamp size running US policy through its home grown domestic traitorous proxy lobby and a prostrate rubber stamp Congress? I see outlandish buffoonery emanating from the chief executive's office. And this is all tip of the iceberg stuff. Clearly, all is not well in MAGA-Land, reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
As I learned many moons ago from the great late Richard Russell (Dow Theory Letters), the good things take care of themselves and don't need dwelling on. It is the bad things that need tending, and if they are not addressed they will sink a company.
I add this which the truth of the matter. The US is in trouble and it is structural and it is 'politically insolvent' as well.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/inflation-declines-but-the-crisis-is-far-from-over
If I had to put it down to one aspect that under girds it all, it is that the US is "morally bankrupt."
Oh, and be sure to weigh in on DST. That's probably high on your list.
A rather fantastic C&C. There are quite a few lists, the best of which are
easy to copy for the "when is something gonna happen" peeps. One list begets another
for the reasons mentioned. Here is another:
TRUMP ENDED THE PLANDEMIC WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST TEN YEARS.
TRUMP PREVENTED THE GREAT RESET WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO ENSLAVE ALL OF MANKIND.
TRUMP PREVENTED THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN UNDER HILLARY CLINTON.
TRUMP ARRESTED JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND ENDED HIS OPERATION TO SEXUALLY BLACKMAIL INFLUENTIAL LEADERS.
TRUMP ENDED MASS CENSORSHIP AND RESTORED FREE SPEECH.
TRUMP ARRESTED MULTIPLE HEADS OF GLOBAL DRUG CARTELS, AND ENDED THE WORLDS GREATEST DRUG OPERATIONS.
TRUMP REMOVED THE USA FROM THE WHO, EFFECTIVELY PREVENTING THEIR PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION.
TRUMP WILL ABOLISH THE UNITED NATIONS, AGAIN ENDING THE AGENDA FOR A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE MIND CONTROL OF THE NEWS MEDIA AND POPULARIZED THE TERM “FAKE NEWS MEDIA”.
TRUMP EMPOWERED THE RISE OF ALTERNATIVES NEWS MEDIA THAT COUNTERS THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM.
TRUMP EXPOSED ELECTION FRAUD AND IS BUSY MAKING ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD SAFE AGAIN.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE DEEP STATE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD AND IS BUSY ERADICATING IT.
TRUMP LAUNCHED A WORLDWIDE WAR AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.
TRUMP BROUGHT FAITH, PRAYER AND THE BIBLE BACK IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SOCIETY.
TRUMP EXPOSED THE DEEP CORRUPTION OF THE CIA, FBI AND DOJ.
TRUMP ENDED THE BRAINWASHING OF CHILDREN BY ABOLISHING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
TRUMP WILL RESTORE QUALITY EDUCATION BY OFFERING THE FREE AMERICAN ACADEMY TO THE YOUTH.
TRUMP DEFUNDED THE LGBTQ AND TRANSGENDER AGENDA AND IS RESTORING HEALTHY FAMILIES IN AMERICA.
TRUMP IS ENDING THE POISONING OF THE FOOD AND RESTORES HEALTHY NUTRITION.
TRUMP ENDED THE MASS INVASION OF ILLEGALS, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO DESTROY AMERICA.
TRUMP ENDED THE WORLDWIDE FUNDING OF THE DEEP STATE EVIL ACTIVITIES THROUGH USAID.
TRUMP ENDED MASSIVE THEFT OF TRILLIONS OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.
TRUMP IS GOING TO END TAXES AND WILL RESTORE WEALTH TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
TRUMP ENDED THE SATANIC RULE IN HOLLYWOOD AND APPOINTED GIBSON AND STALLONE AS HIS EYES IN HOLLYWOOD.
TRUMP EMPOWERED MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS WORLDWIDE TO OPPOSE THE DEEP STATE AND NEW WORLD ORDER.
TRUMP OPENLY CONFRONTS THE GLOBALISTS AT THE WEF AND PUTS AN END TO THEIR NEFARIOUS AGENDAS.
TRUMP ENDED THE CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EXCUSE FOR GLOBAL TYRANNY.
TRUMP ENDED THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE MANDATES AND REDUCED THE VACCINES FROM 70 TO 9.
AND THERE’S A THOUSAND OTHER THINGS TRUMP DID TO END THE RULE OF EVIL.
THAT IS WHY HE IS BEING ATTACKED SO VIOLENTLY WITH FALSE ACCUSATIONS.
$5.55 a gallon here in Chelan Washington :(
Give me a break. That's because of local policies in delusional Washington, not because of Trump or his admin.
Ferguson 😒
Nobody in the national news ever ever ever reports California prices when they are giving the lowered gas prices. California is always about $1.50+ more than anywhere else, but I see it sounds like Washington is just as bad as California. So they need to report the higher prices too and make a few comments about why they are so much higher. And YES, it is entirely because of California’s crazy environmentalist control, and the Democrat super majority in California that causes the prices to be high. And no one should forget that Gavin Newsom, and people who think like him want to take over the government. So anywhere that you have lower gas prices that won’t last if these people get into office in large enough numbers nationally.
Excellent comment, CMCM!
You are painted into a corner with the high gas taxes and the Leftist government. It's better even in Commie run Colorado. Western Slope is under $4/gal.
Tuscon, AZ Today for Regular: $3.29 per gallon.
Oops. Tucson.
It would be less if we didn't a lot of our gas from California.
and even better here in Commie Minnesnowta! $3.79/gal
Subtract all the taxes your democrat officials tack on to see what your gas could be
And don't forget that the WA gas tax automatically goes up every July 1st from now on, no voting on it. Do you have a tribal gas station within a reasonable distance? There is a tribal gas station just off I-5 in Fife. It is too far away for regular fill-ups, but if we are headed down I-5 we stop and fill up. We went to the coast for the weekend and paid $4.69/gallon at The Warrior (not making that name up) gas station.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Edited for typos.
3.99 in Florida.
The LEFT coast price. . ,
Great post! Jeff missed a golden opportunity to reflect upon "the passage of time" and generate a few cackles. 😁
Imagine how much more could have been done if the last 4 or 5 months had been spent on going even more hard-core on domestic MAGA stuff (aka 95% of what needs to be done) instead of working for the deep state and Israel to overthrown Iran
And don't feed me the nonsense about 'they were building nukes'
Those are deep state claims - remember the deep state is our enemy. They want nothing more than to end MAGA.
MULISHLY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MULISHLY is in a mulish manner : stubbornly, obstinately.
Kinda my point. All we get when we control the Senate are RINOs, although McConnell was somewhat decent a decade ago, and weaklings. The leaders that constituents want would never be elected because they would be effective.
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Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I will dwell in them and walk among them;
And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord.
And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you.
And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
— 2 Corinthians 6:16 - 7:1 NAS95
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Here’s a poem I wrote some years ago regarding DST:
Daylight Savings Time
I feel like something is missing
What could it possibly be
Oh, it’s that hour of sleeping time
Someone stole from me
So please return it right away
I need it desperately
Because I can’t wait for half a year
To make up for yesterday.
— Janice Powell
I wrote my senator, Dickie Durb, about the time switching and to please start a bill toward stopping it. His canned response was to give me a short-ish civics lesson in how bills are created, the process, etc. In essence, patting me on the head and sending me away. Or maybe he flipped me off with so many words?
This effort to switch to DST only is brought to you by Microsoft, where many of their customers still cling to Windows 10 (or Win 7 like me) and who will not get a patch for stopping time changes. So this will incentivize upgrades just to get that fixed, should it pass.
Since you specify your time zone, it's not always easy to disable the switching of time shifts.
At least they're not trying to compromise and keep it 1/2 hour off and messing with the rest of the world.
Thanks for sharing Janice.
By the way, your book 'My Jesus' eventually arrived after a 'failed' Amazon.ca delivery :-) I am looking forward to following it through. Printed on my birthday this year - so another bonus. God bless you my sister!
Thanks for ordering it! And for the blessings!
Thank you Janice for another timely reminder of whose we are, and what we've been created for: clay vessels where God pours His Majesty, Honor and Glory. We are God's Masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do the works He assigned for us from creation. We've been given the RIGHT to call ourselves Children of the Most High God. Oh how great His love is for us ... Blessings to you all!
No thanks!
NAS95 is a corrupted version... just saying!
Well then look the same verse up in your preferred version and give thanks.
Exactly. So simple AND easy.
It’s what I do. I’m a diehard KJV fan, knowing very well some issues with translating. I enjoy catching up on latest understanding of words from Hebrew and Greek, then going back to KJV to read with fresh understanding.
I LOVE using the interlinear Bible! Going back and forth between that and the KJV and then my own personal favorite, the ESV. Such a rich understanding when I do that.
I have found, though, that the core meaning rarely gets lost in other trusted translations. But I would never say it’s “nitpicking” to criticize them. Thirty five years ago I loved the NIV. I still have my copies from then and they do NOT match what is being published today at all. They have changed so many words in it from then. God’s words and meaning do NOT change ever, and certainly not in a mere 30 years, yet somehow they did with the NIV. It’s not nitpicking to say so either. The gender ideology, the manipulation of the spirit of the Bible in respect to genders and roles, in the teaching roles too, has been completely whitewashed in newer versions of the NIV. I used to still compare with that version up until about 5-6 years ago when I started noticing that almost every time I was feeling led astray. I have permanently dropped using it, and that makes me sad because it helped grow our faith long ago when we needed it. But they dropped the ball. When a translation project caves to political correctness they are no longer being guided by God’s hand.
So now I stick to the original Hebrew and Arabic, the KJV, and ESV. I will look at American Standard on occasion too. I haven’t seen enough to concern me over its differences yet. I enjoy verses by Janet and always have the to power to go to what I believe is the best available source/translation, and be thankful for her guiding me to it in her own way. ❤️
I for one would much rather keep the extra daylight in the morning, where it belongs.
Also better for farmers, school kids, landscapers, and I'm sure many, many others.
I agree, but at this point I’ll settle for whatever just so we don’t have to move the clocks back and forth twice a year!
Permanent daylight savings time was tried from 1974 to 1975. It was so universally hated that the current system was adopted to replace it. Permanent standard time is the way
🤞🏻🤞🏻Say it louder for the people who don’t pay attention to history or how our bodies work. STANDARD time is the only way that this will work. Oh yeah…and we already have states who have chosen that route.
Congress knows how to mess up even when it tries to do the right thing. You're right; there's a reason standard time was originally adapted.
From your lips to God’s ears 😇
Yes I wanted standard time too. I want more sun in the morning
More sun in the afternoon -
More time to monkey around. ;-)
Absolutely!
Whether someone likes it or not will depend on where you live in a time zone and whether you are a morning person or a night person. As a teacher, I don't care what they pick, just make it happen permanently. The switching is awful and unhealthy.
Another thing I like about my state of Arizona. We stay the same, with the exception of the Navajo Nation in the NE corner of the state. I've even heard the switching twice a year brings on more health problems.
I was JUST about to post this! I'm now curious the population distribution within each time zone.
Over here in the Boston-area, I think we should be 1 time zone further east! THEN Standard Time makes more sense to me.
See the green map on the left side of the page:
https://guides.library.duke.edu/r-geospatial/CRS
I agree. Since the beginning we kept time with the sun and its position. Our sundials show the correct time represented in nature. It seems weird if our clocks aren’t going to match the sundials. I prefer the switching to DST to be accommodating to our farmers for their season. But if it has to stop I prefer we stick to standard time and not mess with it anymore one way or another.
You don’t have to like that it gets darker in the evening for a period of weeks, but it just is what it is based on where our country sits. You learn to live accordingly.
I’d feel better if our time was just in sync with nature rather than force something different on everybody.
Agreed. Clocktime "noon" should fairly closely match "solar noon".
Right, otherwise what's the point of "noon"?
Your solar Noon could be close to my solar 11:00 or 1:00 depending on which edge of the "time zone" you and I live.
So if (like me) you live in the far-east part of the zone, which should really be one zone further east, but they zig-zag the line, then you're not too happy with it being pitch-black at 4:30pm...not just for days, but for pretty much 2 full months.
So I'd love to see a distribution of populations and where they fall within their timezone. That might answer why so many people would love to see Day Light as the standard. Who knows.
Bottom line, though...one way or another, we need to stop the switching!
Not this person! I agree with Jeff, 100%. I’d prefer permanent DST to switching back and forth! I despise the change of clocks that upset sleep and mood. Depression sets in when we see darkness approaching at 4 pm in the evenings. And on the east coast, when my children were in school, they’d be getting off the school bus, late afternoon around 4pm, as darkness set in.
Which is worse, coming home as darkness falls, or being woken up when it's still dark? Kids need their proper sleep without being yanked from their warm beds in winter.
Jeff said that a poll found a slight majority prefer DST, and said "they are wrong"... but like me, he's happy to see the time not change every spring and fall, but he does not prefer DST himself.
Schools can always start later.
Indeed. Easy fix.
Won't someone please think about the children!
Mrs. RW
They actually did think of the children when DS time began, that was one of the key considerations, children, waiting for the bus in the dark. That was back when children were not all driven to school.
DST was started by Benjamin Franklin.
But if school were to start later, then parents would be late to work...or they would have to pay a caregiver to drive them to school...
It would be no different from now. A full-time workday is longer than a school day, and whether that’s before school or after, parents have to figure it out. Those parents standing at the bus stop looking at their cell phones were probably “doing work”.
But they don't.
If this law passes and enough parents are worried, they will.
In Seattle where I raised my kids, voters actually voted to stay on DST, but it was never implemented - because “kids would be standing at the bus stop in the dark”. The next day I drove past a bus stop in the daylight and saw about 8 kids and six parents (on their cell phones, of course) standing there. 🙄
It isn't coming home as darkness falls.
It's coming home in pitch black. The depression is real.
I don't know how those in Alaska do it!
Yes, it all depends on where we are vs the Equator. Bad enough here in southern BC!
You can’t practice sports in the dark! Just saying!
Im way more interested in all the amendments which are or will be added to the "bipartisan" bill and which will likely cost us billions.
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Pork. We need to make the national debt bigger than 40 trillion, it's essential.
According to the criminals who fill these bills with their damn pork it is.
Maybe Jeff can enlighten us on those at some point, Dan.
Now that farmers have electricity and headlights on tractors daylight doesn’t really come into play.
AMEN to that! Heck, if you watched Clarkson's farm, he has an unmanned robotractor that goes all night.
Natural light is always preferable for work especially in the great outdoors.
I definitely would prefer that morning light too (reaches for full spectrum light in anticipation of losing this argument)... I noticed NO ONE that I've seen has mentioned even a hint about SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder is already bad enough in winter, but then to put off sunlight for an additional hour - permanently - is an awful idea.
But you know what? I think we are on the losing end of this fight and I'd rather have either one as a permanent fixture than to be jumping back and forth forever. But I do think keeping standard time forever is the better way to go.
The light is the same no matter what the clock says.
Mrs. RW
Good point. Instead of complaining, try adjusting your day accordingly if that is possible. People in Nordic countries live in daylight and darkness extremes for a lot of the year and are some of the happiest, productive people on the planet.
Talk about missing the point! It's WHAT THE CLOCK SAYS that is the entire point of the bill.
There are fewer hours of sunlight in the winter, no matter what the clock says. Your point was about SAD.
Mrs. RW
When those hours of sunlight hit, matters. Whether fewer or more, and I am well acquainted with the tilt of the earth and its effect on hours of sunlight, there is literally NO point in making SAD worse when it could be better, or at least no worse than it already was.
And if you think that having first sunlight an hour later is immaterial, then....you are quite wrong. People with SAD hold their breath, almost literally, waiting for the sun to come up. Forcing a longer wait does, indeed, make a difference.
Grew up with SAD in Colorado. Moved to Arizona. I'm no longer SAD. 🙂
Funny you mention that. I lived in Arizona for 2.5 years, and that is the ONLY thing in Arizona I miss. (I was sad about literally everything else).
I am an early riser and it was fun to watch the dog walkers as early as 4-4:30 up and out in the summer, both to save themselves from the heat and also for the doggies' paws.
Now, back in DFW I stand at the window and stare at the horizon for a hope.....
I need the morning sun to wake me in the morning 🌄
Yes, Joanie---Arizona does NOT go on Daylight Savings Time! Here in the desert, where daytime temperatures routinely reach 105 degrees in the summer, the LAST thing we need is another hour of daylight! I also don't like the hour of more darkness in the morning. So since Arizona does not switch, Arizonans have been blessed with not having to adjust back and forth. I recommend it, but for STANDARD TIME.
Yes, I love that we have 12 months of standard time in AZ, year after year. It was implemented in 1968 by Governor Jack Williams. I probably don't need to say this but yes, Williams was a Republican.
If we didn't know we could change the time numbers, whatever "time" the sun comes up and goes down would be "just the way it is". We should look at it that way. We are in the west side of eastern time zone, so naturally get longer evenings, but fundamentally we will get used to anything, it's only an hour anyway!
True.
It really doesn't bother me either way. My body easily adjusts. But for all those I know whom it does impact, I am on side of quitting the changes twice a year.
AZ has always been on standard time all the time (we've never changed the clocks back and forth.) Believe me, NOBODY in Arizona wants more daylight in late day in summer, at our hottest!
If Bill Gates suceeds with his plan to block the sun, this will be a moot point anyway.
John, and Gates' plan to reflect the sun onto the dark part of Earth during what would naturally be dark night!
I have no opinion on DST or ST. I am just happy not to make the switch twice a year.
I used to work graveyard shift and nothing is worse than making it to 3am and watching the clocks shift back to 2am. Two places I worked refused to pay the extra hour, to boot.
I don't understand why people are content with having kids run over to make their point.
The easiest thing to do would be to start school an hour later.
Problem solved, and the rest of society can enjoy the benefits of no switching without killing kids to make a point.
And I remember talking with a patient about this subject and I said something about how supposedly it was "For the farmers", but this is no longer a farming country. Fewer than 1% of the population are now farmers. He gave me a weird look, and I asked "Are you a farmer?" Well, of course he was. Embarrassing. But he actually agreed that he hated the shift also.
Mrs. RW
💯AGREE! I have to say I hope it doesn't pass in the senate. Unlike Jeff, I would rather put up with changing clocks twice a year than have to do a whole year of daylight savings. "Standard Time is considered to be more in sync with natural light cycles, promoting better health and well-being" - AI. What it really comes down to, I think, is the morning people versus the night owls. If you took a poIl, I bet you a dollar that the people that want the Daylight Savings are all night owls, and the people that prefer standard time are all morning people. "Morning people tend to live longer and healthier lives compared to night owls, as studies have linked being a night owl to increased risks of depression, obesity, and other health issues" - also AI. So.
At present, we are only on ST for four months of the year. From March to November, it’s DST. If we could stop switching the clocks twice a year, people would hardly notice the change either way. Let’s say we switch to DST and everyone hates it. We’re that much closer to getting permanent ST. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.
So you are saying that having the current change twice each year is better than the imperfect no change, but number 1 hr ahead?
Yes, because I would rather have perfect for 6 months than imperfect for all 12 months. 😂
I’d like Congress to legislate that we have the number of daylight hours every month of the year. 😊
I have a list of my own that I'd been meaning to make. Years ago, I'd reflected on the totally unlikely great people who had stepped forth to make the Revolution happen, and despaired of ever having such a large number of gifted people show up now. And then -- 2016 happened. Here's my (no doubt incomplete) list.....a few are gone already, but they showed up nonetheless. Thanks to God who sent them:
President Trump
Elon Musk
RFK,Jr
J.D. Vance
Marco Rubio
Ron DeSantis
Pete Hegseth
Tulsi Gabbard
Rush Limbaugh
Charlie Kirk
Jeff Childers
Tucker Carlson
A Midwestern Doctor
Scott Presler
Nick Shirley
Spencer Pratt
Mike Rowe
Jessica Pounds
"Big Balls"
Mary Talley Bowden
Stephen Miller
Scott Bessent
Dinesh d’Souza
Edward Dowd
Robby Starbuck
Matthew Walsh
Add to your list:
Dr Vladimir Zelenko
Dr Peter McCullough
Dr Denise Sibley (TN dr instrumental in treating thousands of COVID pts and getting Ivermectin OTC in TN)
@Ruth. I do miss Rush and can imagine how much he would love everything Trump is doing.
True ... but those four years of Commander Mumbles in the Oval Office might have crushed him.
Oh I don’t think so. Rush would have crushed mumbles.
@Ruth- Tucker is on your list??? He should be on your black list.
Yeah, even though he has gone all whacko on us, at the beginning, he sure had some pivotal moments in moving truth etc forward. Now on the black list, but I feel the early contributions warranted his inclusion.
Disagree. Tucker has plenty of content out there for people to listen to in its entirety. Tucker has been targeted and framed by a number of groups, one being the Zionist crowd because he pointed out the incredible atrocities done in Gaza by our 'ally'. Anyone who has watched his full episodes, especially a couple I provide links to below, know he is sound in his thinking and genuine. You may disagree with a conclusion on an issue, but for someone like Tucker who is fully in the public, he deserves the benefit of the doubt by people giving him a true listen on a topic. And he shouldn't be blasted for interviewing controversial people. We saw the covid scam and what happened when people were deprived of the input of legit doctors getting on national shows. I question anyone who says they agree with someone 100% of the time. And when someone is criticized heavily by people I know don't have America's interests first, ex. Israel-first types, my radar goes up. We've seen prior people like Dan Bongino, and influencers like Catturd, go off the rails, defending Trump no matter what. That isn't thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7fESx_SGwQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of3ys0dmyYc
And for the local perspective
The Israel Guys https://youtu.be/nRGqWYtsC8k?is=7zKqwumUD5vuCfsI
Yishai Fleisher
https://youtu.be/RTgMCQ4oQ9g?is=jvM_ZPVhrj4NTHhi
Land of Israel Fellowdhip
https://youtu.be/nbHIinhHFOs?is=jB69JBmloHR1fmgK
Shalom Shalom
Amen and AMEN
Be Well, Be Blessed,
Phillip
A couple questions for you:
1. Are you Israel always, right or wrong?
2. Was God wrong in denying entry to the Promised Land to men from the first census apart from Joshua and Caleb? “Your corpses will fall in this wilderness, all who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me… Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.” (Numbers 14:29–30, NASB)
3. How about when God allowed the Northern Kingdom to fall to the Assyrians around 722 BC?
4. Or when the Southern Kingdom fell to the Babylonians in 597/586BC? Temple was destroyed.
5. Or when Alexander the Great conquered in 332 BC?
6. Or when Rome took control in 63 BC, and in 70 AD when the 2nd Temple was destroyed?
The point is, it can never be "Israel right or wrong" for America, and not even the people in Israel who may not be Christian, but are trying to follow the faith (apart from animal sacrifice since no temple now) as handed down from Moses and the prophets (not the Talmud).
There were plenty of 'local guys' during the time periods mentioned above. God rightly used Israel's neighbors to bring about repentance, and often to clear aside the generations that obstinately stood against His commandments. That is more than clear. No reason God wouldn't do that in this current time. Too many in Israeli leadership think joining up with the U.S. will protect them this time, and allow them to rebuild the Israeli kingdom. God won't be mocked.
God's covenant has expanded to all people who want to accept Him and follow Him. That is when blessing will come. It won't come by the point of the sword subjugating/killing Gazans or others who happen to be neighbors. People who don't follow God will do horrific things. I personally don't think there is some just golden ratio of how many Gazans must die for each Israeli. If there were, that ratio long since got blown away. 'Disproportionate' understates what is going on.
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Hosea 14:1-4 "Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall! Take words with you and return to the Lord... 'I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.'"
Isaiah 55:6-7 "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
Ezekiel 18:30-32 "'Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit... For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!'"
We live not for this world, but for the next. Any man trying to make their heaven on earth is going to fail. I've been to Israel. It is a special place for the prophets who once walked there (and Jesus, Mary, and the Apostles). But it too will pass away, because God has something better for us. For now, we need to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength. And love our neighbors, which first means calling to repentance. But that was so unpopular, even prophets were executed, like Zechariah and Uriah, and in today's world they are targeted by influencers, media, politicians, lobbyists, and power brokers.
Widen the aperture.
Interesting aperture response, I've widened mine, the examples were just a few local examples. And no "I don't agree with anyone 100% of the time".
Be Well, Be Blessed,
Phillip
Agree
Whatever and wherever they are now, both Tucker and Bill O'Reilly gave conservatives hope during the dark years...
True conservatives tuned in to Rush Limbaugh! He was the GOAT!
Tucker, like you, is entitled to his own opinion. I’m really tired of people throwing others under the bus totally if they say something you disagree with. We really need to get back to learning how to debate respectfully and offer proofs. Our entire society seems to run on pure emotion these days and it’s exhausting.
Yeah, who needs people questioning official narratives anyways? Glad to know we are back to official US deep state programming.
Jenna McCarthy? - I love that girl - so funny :-)
I read C&C for the actual uncurated news and optimism. I read Jennaside for some of that plus the snark. She is badass.
Great list, I would also add Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Seth Keshel, Tina Peters, David Clements, and Mike Lindell 🇺🇸❤️🥳
Glad you included Mary Talley Bowden. She’s a fighter who keeps reminding us of what’s important..
I’ll add Vinay Prasad, MD, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, Marty Makary, MD, Scott Bessent, Victor Davis Hanson, Bill O’Reilly, Joe Rogan to your excellent list, Ruth.
Add Data Republican (small r)
Sooo agree. Her real name is Jennica Pounds......I believe I have her there.
I’m not sure why,, you would think after decades and decades of communist leftist turning their backs on America, Americans, police and American Soldiers sent overseas, that I could understand how individuals here hate America, Americans police and especially American Soldiers, but I still have a hard time swallowing their dismissal of the murder of the American young. Some just at their jobs, some enjoying a night out, some just standing cheering on runners at a marathon, and some sent overseas wearing an American uniform. To me one murdered American deserves a relentless response. But to them it’s what we all deserve, they’ve been brainwashed probably in a college they didn’t pay for.
It’s incredible how most of these people that hate the country they live in, America, never hated all the benefits they have received by just being here. And you don’t need to live in America to enjoy it’s never ending benefits, the world has benefited immensely from America. In fact the world would be a much more treacherous place if not for America.
Funny how so many that love socialism move to states where there is no income tax. Sure it’s fine to send others kids off to fight in wars, protect the freedoms they benefit from, and then when these young treasures get killed or wounded they say they deserved it. You asshole they went there with the mindset they were protecting your ungrateful soul. It seems to me they’re all a bunch of disgusting hypocrites that I wish would vote with their feet and move to a country that they speak so highly of like Iran that mowed down 50,000 of their own unarmed citizens for protesting the insane dictatorship government which they have been forced to live under. Then after the thousands are killed including thousands of Americans they say what business is it of ours to dictate the government people are to live under. Or that we have no right to respond to the murder of Americans, or threats to America, I say you should move there.
Well today I hope they enjoy what this country has given to all of their treasonous asses and the world. Maybe they need to do a little self reflection of their own and appreciate what people like my father and my brother John gave their ungrateful asses. Have a nice relaxing day. Enjoy the government check I’m sure you get.
J.Goodrich
Speaking of people who hate this country and want to move elsewhere, I couldn’t help feeling a bit of Schadenfreude when I saw this 😬😆
https://notthebee.com/article/transgender-american-regrets-fleeing-to-the-netherlands-because-all-the-muslim-migrants-want-to-kill-him
That trans idiot deserves to be amongst the Muslims, but the 7500 native inhabitants did nothing to deserve it.
Agree.
Good one!! Some of us just have to learn the hard way. Full Informed consent doesn't even help these people. I (taxpayer) just don't want to have to pay for it while you learn your damn lesson !!
A quick answer is the most used textbook in the U.S. for so long was by Howard Zinn. No fan of America. We have generations indoctrinated in commie thought. Colonialism always 'bad'. Christian values removed from the classroom. People clueless about their own faith. We are harvesting those bad fruits now.
Where was this textbook used? I had never heard of zinn until I was an adult. It sure is interesting how many think that are schools teach kids to be radical antiwar communists and trannies. Quit believing the nonsense.
You need to learn your history before going to "pooh pooh" mode. His books were used across the country in public schools as primary or secondary material in the 1980's and 1990's, and that thinking went to college and is a main reason so many public schools and colleges are infested with socialistic and communistic thought now, since 'educators' were 'educated' in his thoughts. That's just the plain fact. I saw them in that era myself. It was one of the reasons many parents chose to go the home-schooling route.
So you are ignorant in the true sense of the word, or covering for something.
Where were they used? Certainly not where I went to school and certainly not where I teach. I think colleges would be more accurate.
Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" sold over 4 million copies and was runner up in 1980 for the National Book award. It was widely used in high-schools and colleges. In 2007 they published a two-volume set aimed at the 10-14 year olds too.
Were you teaching in Metro areas in the early 1980's?
As government studies (DARPA and others) have found out, you don't need to actually convince directly a majority of the population on anything to have a profound effect. You just need to convince the strategically located areas. We just went through the largest psyop in history with Covid. People farmed out their thinking to others not qualified, and with hidden agendas. Now we have 80% of adults running around with mRNA in their blood. I don't know how many times I heard "Oh, that's an anecdote" as a defense for refusing to face reality of the last 5 years, as we were going through each year.
I don't know what area you are in now. I'm commenting on the 1980's and 1990's especially, and having read all the major 'right-leaning' publications of that time, and compendiums of opinion writers in the Conservative Chronicle (anyone remember that), and following commentariat like Thomas Sowell and Dennis Prager (who both talked about Zinn more than once and his influence via the lefty history books he got into main northeast USA highschools), this isn't just an 'anecdote.
Society has shown the fruits of his efforts.
This is like telling people about Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" and people pooh-poohing, who never took the time to actually read the book.
It's all evidence. What people do with it is on them.
Sorry - not great with the pasting - read Debunking Howard Zinn by Mary Grabar….
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1621577732?lv=shuf&hvlocphy=91913&linkCode=df0&psc=1&hvnetw=o&hvadid=80058400531583&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvocijid=12776837823763817962-1621577732-&hvqmt=e&hvexpln=0&tag=bingshoppinga-20&hvtargid=pla-4583657883540840&channelId=69&ref_=asc_df_1621577732&plpRedirect=mhFallback
I suppose others here read your posts James, but they just too dang long!
Then why reply 🤣🤣🤣 Is it your way to bully and publicly shame someone so you can try to control their future posting?
Free speech. Deal with it, or leave if it exhausts you.
I guess you have a choice to read it or not…
Agreed.
Some posts are worth a minute or two to read
I make it a point to always read Goodrich’s comments for a myriad of reasons and always appreciate his insights. If too long for you, why post your complaint? Just scroll past.
Clown. Iran didn't kill 50k protesters. Utter nonsense. A few thousand, which is of course horrible, but you are just being a useful idiot spreading propaganda.
If you feel so sorry for them perhaps you wouldn't be cheerleading the US bombing them and taking out critical infrastructure, and in the end will kill far more than their government did. There simply aren't enough minutes in the day to kill 50k people in the course of a few days. Try thinking a little bit with common sense.
Your right Johnny zero they didn’t kill 50,000, they’ve killed hundreds of thousands you idiot. Horrible right, a couple thousand. As long as you get your check you don’t care. How much do you get?
They killed 600 violent rioters, who were paid to go out and disrupt and murder, by the US, in order to provoke the uprising Trump and the US/Israel were so sure would happen.
The violent rioters killed 2,400 people, stabbing, machetes, burning alive, running over. They burned police states, mosques, and other public buildings. Altogether then, there were 3,000 people killed.
But the people didn't take to the streets the way the US told them to.
Doh.
Then the US propaganda machine told us that they killed 30,000, because 3,000 didn't sound impressive enough, but James has casually added 20,000 to the total, to make it more impressive to Americans, who are pretty jaded about mass murder.
So then the US and Israel attacked them directly, killing their leaders and 168 schoolchildren, just on the first day. Then the people took to the streets, but not to support the return of the shah, to support the government that was fighting back to protect them from the bombs.
Doh.
Mrs. RW
Agree. Classic rally around the flag reaction when people go and bomb the crap out of their country and kill their leader. John Quincy Adams greatly stated 'we do not go looking for monsters abroad'. We have enough monsters in our own borders.
It's the problem with the belief in air warfare--it promises to be a low risk way to defeat the enemy. Except it doesn't work; it didn't put England on its knees (nor Germany, for that matter), and it certainly didn't work in Viet Nam. Originally air support was envisaged as support for ground troops, but some genius (Bomber Harris, Curtis LeMay?) decided it had to be something on its own. It's an effective way to randomly destroy a lot of stuff, and it certainly makes the aero industry a lot of money.
It also kills and wounds a lot of people, approx. 4,000 in Iran, for instance.
But no, it doesn't make them come out in the streets to overthrow their government, the way our rulers believe. Unless they don't believe that, and are simply making blood sacrifices. That would explain the 168 little children on the first day. Child sacrifice is a tradition.
Mrs. RW
Security forces in Iran killed thousands of protesters during the mass uprisings, with estimates varying widely. The Iranian government reported 3,117 deaths, while UN experts state over 5,000 were killed. Independent human rights organizations and medical groups estimate the true death toll is significantly higher, ranging between 7,000 and 36,000.
So why do you put out 50,000?
Mrs. RW
The Trump administration said up to 50,000 Iranians protesters were killed. Why did you say only 600?
Why are you fighting so hard to suggest that "just a few thousand" innocent citizens murdered by the IRGC is a nothingburger? You people...
Thank you Mrs RW!! Appreciate your clarity.
You are a clown. Your "views" are held by a very tiny small radical minority who are utterly brainwashed. Enjoy your propganda silo.
Good luck bombing people to peace.
Funny I’m in the minority you’re a joke and no one like you🤣🤣🤣
Very few "liked" Jesus either. He preached the polar opposite to the popular notions. So please don't use that claptrap to try to get a gotcha on someone!
OH my feelings are so hurt that clowns like yourself don't like me. This is the comment you needed to post? Really? How insecure one must be to tell a random online poster that nobody likes them. Pretty easy to see right through that. Now I just feel sorry for you, which is much better than feeling annoyed at your supreme ignorance.
nah, it's no sweat, Johnny-O-so-fake. Calling trolls out with their lame psyops is kinda fun.
You need to look at the history of human violence if you think 50 k dead in a few days is impossible. And perhaps you can articulate how you know the reports are false. Further explain why the Arab world has supported both the US and Israel in Iran.
It's another Psyop. We only see what what the govt wants us to see. the only way to get real news is on live feeds of independent journalists. They didn't kill 50k. But the govt wants us to believe that...that way we can get in line and back the war.
We need to think the opposite of what we are being told. Time to wake up.
I sited many non US and non Israel sources.
Clearly Matt. However, informational zombies never wake up.
yeah.....Matt's got it all figured out over here. I mean, you COULD be right, but you also clearly have an agenda.
No agenda except for people to ask more questions and not drink the cool aid. The R and D want us to keep fighting while the elite keep making money off of the rest of us.
If that happened, ACTUAL EVIDENCE would have been broadcast wide and large to the west. The government that constantly lies (our own and Israel's) saying something happened isn't ACTUAL EVIDENCE.
There is substantial evidence from multiple independent sources, leaked documents, eyewitness accounts, and opposition figures indicating that Iranian security forces killed thousands of their own civilians during the suppression of nationwide protests in late 2025–early 2026 (often called the 2025–2026 Iran protests or "Crimson Winter.. Leaked official documents: Iran International reported reviewing IRGC Intelligence Organization documents provided to the Supreme National Security Council. These listed over 33,000 killed by one date and more than 36,500 by January 24–25, 2026, across ~400 cities—primarily in the two-day crackdown. This is described as the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history. Many consider this an underestimate. You see the world through colored Johnn O hate Israel glasses. Iran is a dark age jihad regime that is an enemy to the world, having threatened international commerce some 40 times. Also that is a short term view of this hate filled regime, as they have killed citizens since they gained power.
Leaked official documents: Iran International reported reviewing IRGC Intelligence Organization documents provided to the Supreme National Security Council. These listed over 33,000 killed by one date and more than 36,500 by January 24–25, 2026, across ~400 cities—primarily in the two-day crackdown. This is described as the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history.
Do you believe everything you read online? Again, if there were these massive events with 10s of thousands being killed in one day, it would be on video and distributed wide and far to help grease the zionist/US war machine.
How do you know this when the internet was shut down completely by the regime? How do you know these numbers are false? Does it matter the actual number? Isn't a few thousand abhorrent enough? Yes, the US military has killed more people in the middle east in the past 25 years than the mullahs killed in that uprising (which is only one uprising where they killed their own citizens, certainly not the only one). That is not in doubt (for me, anyway). But how does the difference in numbers absolve them of the US soldiers they and their proxies have killed? Sure, you can point to the coup in the 50's, that the CIA and Great Britain carried out to protect British oil companies, which was wrong and a mistake in my view. But it certainly doesn't absolve the current Iranian regime of the atrocities it has carried out. I choose to support my own country, no matter how flawed and messed up it is and has been. Now, I don't think Trump should have started the current war, I think it was mistake. But I can certainly see how different my life would have been had I not been born in this country, and I will be grateful for that no matter what. It's why I criticize the government, no matter which party is in power (and the two major parties are the problem, as they have worked together to prevent any other party from gaining any kind of power and influence). So again, what is your evidence? Because if it's just what regime itself has said, then I don't consider that evidence at all.
You already said that. I showed you numerous lines of evidence outside your limited false claim of Israel US sources. You have what is known as " confirmation bias."
Iran International is paid for by Israel. It is not an impartial source.
Mrs. RW
Ri hard, wel ome to earth, where there are no impartial sources.
maybe he failed to notice they the Islamic government in Iran, shut down all the Internet access to their people
@Johnny- and the families of those many thousands of victims were forced to pay for the fucking bullets before the IRGC would release the bodies.
You mean like we are forced to pay taxes that pay for bombs killing those families as we speak?
They speak of dot connecting but cannot do it themselves!
@Johnny- the only 'family' being bombed is the IRGC
I'll take things that never happened for $600, Alex.
Mrs. RW
Further Johnny O, study Genocide, commonly known as Death by Goverment, which likely killed more then all the wars
This was alleged to happen over just a few days. It simply isn't physically possible, without actually dropping a large bomb/explosive on a massive crowd(s) of people. Had that happened, it would have been documented and spready widely across the globe. Use some friggin common sense.
What an inane comment. Of course it is easily physically possible.
The US and Israel bombed Iran for 40 days and nights. The death count from that attack is 4,000.
But you think that the Iranian government killed 50,000 protesters in 2 days. Remember that the protests were peaceful until Jan. 8th and 9th.
It is not physically possible. Even the violent rioters only managed to kill 2,600.
Mrs. RW
Not to mention that the Official Story is 30,000, not 50,000.
It is sheer fantasy to add 20,000 people to the Official Story and claim that is equally possible.
Mrs. RW
Johnny my boy, if 1000 IRGC operatore each shot 50 people over the several days, it pretty much adds to 50k. Plus, the local militias got in on the act, so the load for IRGC was reduced. I don't think I'm wrong in saying that Iran's regime is a death cult, and their own populace is not protected. I can easily see a man with the gun and ammo and no compulsion against killing his fellow countryman taking out 50 people over several days when let loose to do do.
There is a reason why 95% of Iranians would like to get rid of the Islamic radicals that have been governing them for 47 years. Iranian civilians are actually cheering for President Trump and….you will personally like this….Israel and Netanyahu.
That must be why people so quickly rose up in the streets (oh wait, that didn't happen) and millions of people attended the ayatollah's funeral.
You can save yourself time and quit posting such lunacy.
Millions used to turn out for speeches by Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Castro, Hitler so that must be the ultimate measure of a thing. Got it.
Inisfad is claiming the US and nuttyahoo have widespread support, which is completely inverse to reality, when the whole region sees the US and Israel as the biggest threats to security. That is a fact you simply can't invert (unless you are doing some wild mental gymnastics i guess).
Remember when our airship was shot down and the rescuers were being shot at by Iranian citizens? They sure do love us don't they?
It's okay to not realize you are being propagandized about Iran. That is the whole point. We are allies with leaders who are far worse, but let's not talk about that.
Inisfad has been sent here to represent the *all Israel all the time* propaganda.
"...cheering for President Trump"
Interesting if Inisfad truly has seen Zionist-promo videos, because the videos of the Iranian people burning effigies of Trump and Baal disappear from YouTube almost as soon as they're posted.
Last time I checked bombing the shit out of people doesn't make them love you, but I guess I have never had the opportunity to be bombed, so maybe I would love the entity responsible for trying to kill me. Humans are weird after all.
I’m really not sure what the point is, to respond to you. Iran is a country of 90 million people. Five percent are Islamic radicals. Do the math….it’s a few million people…. It appears you have not been following this situation long, however, as you would have seen the civilian uprising at the beginning of the year. You continue to advertise that you form opinions without having done any research whatsoever, little Johnny-O.
Please link me to the government website where you get all your dependable and verifiable data.
How about we just ignore you as the transparent troll that you are? Arguing forever about the veracity of numbers quoted when it doesn't matter...that's a tell. Planting the obvious "I used to support Trump, but just can't anymore" BS seeds here and there = FUD Farmer.
Good point. We all know the mullahs are mostly peaceful.
Who started this war? Oh yeah, the "good" guys.
Actually the mullahs did, 47 years ago. They have been fighting ever since. Trump decided it was time to resist. The mullahs benefit from war. Peace will have to be forced upon them.
YOu sound like a robot who has watched too much tv. I've never heard the 47 year gambit until recently when you were all programmed to repeat it ad naseum. Good job!
What country is responsible for the most death, destruction, injury, and displacement in the gulf region and middle east in the past 50 years? I'll give you a hint, it starts with "United"
Wow! Never heard the 47 year gambit? You must be super young! The mullahs started this in 1979 and held Americans hostage for more than a year then proceeded to take away their own people’s rights and turn it into an islamic prison.
At least you admit you never heard of Iran being under the thumb of Islamic radicals for 47 years. Indirectly, you’ve actually admitted you were just unaware of what was happening.
I honestly don't know the actual number who were murdered by the regime. Do you know for certain? I also don't believe the 50K number, but how would anyone know for sure? Or do you think the Iranian regime would never lie about such things? Honestly curious.
I asked my 2nd generation Persian friend here in USA if he believed there were 40K deaths in Iran during Jan protests. He has family in Tehran that he’s in regular contact with. His reply was ‘no’ it wasn’t that much but it was still ‘a lot’. Like 10k I asked? His reply ‘not sure but that 10K figure probably more accurate than 40K’. Nobody really knows but the Basij/IRGC did kill a fair amount of civilian protesters - is the right answer.
Yes, which is horrible, we can all agree on that. Ironically, the people who are most outspoken and "heartbroken" about it, are the ones clamoring for war, which will kill far more and spread far more misery to the civilian population. And, it is a war the US simply cannot win without a ground invasion, and we simply do not have the numbers to do that.
I don't even think we could win with a ground invasion. Iran is a huge country. This war is very unpopular among most of the US citizens and I dont think we have the stomach for a prolonged conflict, mass death and WW3
They also have about twice as many troops as do we. So yeah, not going to win a ground invasion on foreign soil.
I don't see a ground invasion occurring. I also don’t see a Kharg island seizure happening, but I could be proven wrong on that. Kharg taking would result in some US military deaths. It might also bring on an Iran civil war. Civil war will result in another wave of refugees to the West. No good answers here.
I don't think the US is going to try to invade Kharg Island.
I think they're going to try to invade Sirik. That is why they destroyed the water supply for 20,000 people in June, and why they're bombing it now and killing fishermen in their boats.
They are trying to depopulate it so they can occupy it, the way they occupied 30% of Syria for over a decade.
I think that Iran will not put up with it the way Syria did, but we'll see.
Mrs. RW
My friend is in Iran. I posted this upthread, but in case you missed it.....
"Hello everyone, and thanks to all those who messaged me to ask about my wellbeing. I am writing this to tell you EVERYTHING YOU HEAR AND SEE ON YOUR MEDIA IS A LIE! I will tell you in nutshell what happened here from Tuesday to Friday.
Tuesday started with peaceful demonstrations for the unstable market. Wednesday, the marchers lines were infiltrated by violent groups, however, the security forces had strict order to not shoot, and in so many places they were sent UNARMED (remember Syria?)
Everything went spiral down fast and stormy on Thursday night, after the call of Reza P💩hlavi and his followers "take the streets, burn them down, kill, and have no mercy on their women and children".
Within hours streets were locked, unarmed security forces run down, dismembered, eyes gouched out, sodomised by foreign objects, BURNT ALIVE. Systematically huundreds of banks burned down, 4 hospitals burned, over 250 libraries burned, 186 ambulances burned and paramedics burned and mamed, fire trucks burned to ashes while trying to rescue residential buildings on fire, gas stations burned, schools, mosques, food stores, pharmacies, historic sites .... and then random fire opened up in the crowded areas on passer byes.
They took human shields of innocent people so security police couldn't stop them. They shot and killed women, children, nurses, street cleaners, defaced passer byes with sword, and bricks, beheaded ... horrors of Aleppi, Hamma, Mousul ... everything that they couldn't do in 12 days bombing.
Finally Friday all communications were cut off and announced anyone how stirs terror or attacks anything will be sh0t on the spot as enemy combatant. Saturday morning peace and order was restored but the country left in the blood of the innocent with monitory damage of billions of dollars. We watched all that LIVE on TV while you are hearing and seeing manipulated lies.
The official number of killed is 3110 I believe of whom about 2400 some are security forces and innocent people.''
I ran across an article from a week ago that explains why the people took to the streets to protest. Remember that at first, the government promised to respond to their demands, but then on Jan. 8th, the violent rioters were released.
"The liberal faction’s betrayal extends to the economic foundations of the Republic, and here the record is not ambiguous; it is a continuous, decades-long assault on the nation’s self-sufficiency. For more than thirty years, the reformist tendency has advocated the same neoliberal poison: mass privatization of state assets, the dismantling of subsidy networks that kept the working classes loyal, and the systematic transfer of national wealth into the hands of a comprador oligarchy. Khatami began the fire-sale. Rouhani accelerated it, stripping the social contract bare while his ministers stored their fortunes in Dubai, European countries, Canada, and the United States. And now Pezeshkian has delivered the terminal blow.
The so-called “economic surgery” is the language of shock therapy, and its specific mechanism is the abolition of the governmental exchange rate, the subsidized dollar price that allowed essential goods to enter the country without passing the full cost of sanctions onto the population. By moving this to the free market, the Pezeshkian government did not merely adjust a currency peg; it detonated the purchasing power of the nation overnight. Bread, medicine, fuel, and raw materials for domestic industry were instantly repriced at the black-market dollar rate. This is not economics; it is the Yeltsin model in Persian execution: the deliberate immiseration of the population under the guise of “modernization,” the reduction of a sovereign economy to a vassal market where only the dollar-denominated elite survives.
The consequences were immediate and catastrophic. Inflation exploded. The rial collapsed because the state voluntarily removed the floor beneath its own currency; sanctions were a secondary blow. The working class, the agricultural base, the industrial worker, those who had borne the weight of the resistance economy, were suddenly priced out of existence. This was the material tinder for the conflagration that followed.
And that conflagration was not spontaneous. It was engineered. The CIA and Mossad, operating through a network of satellite channels of which Iran International is merely the most visible example, had spent years preparing the narrative architecture. These channels do not broadcast news; they operate as psychological warfare battalions, pushing the “return of the Shah” fantasy, instructing urban populations in riot tactics, identifying targets for sabotage, and recruiting operatives for Mossad-connected rings inside the country. Billions of dollars were poured into this machinery: Starlink terminals were smuggled to coordinate armed insurrection, social media algorithms were weaponized to amplify despair, and the very inflation that the liberal government had created was blamed not on the neoliberal shock therapists in Tehran, but on the so called hardliners who refused to surrender.
The sequence is unmistakable. First, the liberal oligarch class implements the economic shock that destroys purchasing power. Second, the foreign-funded media apparatus channels the resulting rage into the streets. Third, armed elements, trained, equipped, and communicated via Starlink, escalate the riots into an attempted regime change. This is not policy failure; it is coordination. The liberal faction creates the economic conditions for destabilization, and its foreign partners exploit them. The reformist who cries for sanctions relief while his policies immiserate the population is the domestic facilitator of a transnational coup.
The oligarchs in Tehran ministries who park their wealth in Emirati and Saudi banks, the same banks financing the propaganda networks used to destabilize their own country, understand this perfectly. They are not victims of circumstance. They are beneficiaries of the chaos. The destruction of the subsidized exchange rate does not hurt them; their fortunes are indexed to the dollar. Their children study in London and Toronto. It is no coincidence that Azerbaijan, whose territory openly hosts Israeli intelligence operations, was spared completely, with no reprisal, no warning. Qatar and the UAE, despite their documented role in financing destabilization, were likewise spared even after the ceasefire violations rendered the MOU a dead letter. These omissions are not a strategy. They are class solidarity, the mutual protection of a transnational elite that has already chosen its side."
Mrs. RW
Interesting, thanks. Where was this article and who was the author? I feel like everything is propaganda these days, so I'm not sure if it will help knowing who wrote it and where it was published, but I'm wary of taking someone in a comments section word for things. No offense to you personally. I just think most of what we read on the internet is propaganda of one sort of another, not necessarily that the person who wrote is aware they are relating propaganda. I like Jeff's attitude and writing, but he's clearly a propagandist whether he realizes it or not.
Thanks for reading it. I didn't link to the article because so many people brag about having short attention spans- TLDR and all.
I don't know where I picked it up, but most likely not around here. I tend to click on links people post, and save them for later, and this was a week ago, so....I have no idea.
https://www.multipolarpress.com/p/steel-over-paper-irans-civilizational-rebirth
Mrs RW
Wow, my hat's off to you and Mrs RW. I haven't had time to participate but it good to see a few folks that haven't lost their mind to the "Borg Hive".
The official leftist line is "beware of Christian nationalism", and of course a Christian nationalist is anyone who says our rights and values come from God and the Bible.
The voice of truth!
I am the guy that knew how to set the clock on a VCR. I could also make a calculator say "BOOBIES". Mad skills...
I remember my first digital watch, the kind with red LED numbers. I set it to beep at the top of every hour just to annoy my teachers,
Casio’s were legend…
My daughter's bedroom alarm clock is perpetually on DST because we cannot figure out how to change the time on it!! It would be a win for that poor alarm clock!
Congress has the power to solve a real problem :-)
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I could use your skills! Do you make house calls?
5318008, then rotate upside down.
That’s like revealing a magic trick!
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Gah! My coffee isn’t made yet 😫 My panic is palpable …. See yall in 20 minutes 🤣
Mine is long gone. LOL
Mine is telling me I need a trip to the little room 🤣
Mine is almost gone 😩
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Mike Johnson's point on our rights coming from our creator is extremely important. Communism is just one iteration of the mindset that man's rights come from the state. This notion has a long history in Western philosophy with such important philosophers such as Hobbes. The atheist and pantheist hold similar views. If there is no absolute God than of course rights flow from the state. A doctor friend asks why I am obsessed with understanding Western philosophy. My response, understanding it is like understanding one's origins.
It annoys me when people believe that the government/state grants rights and powers. The government and state are other men and women in our communities, mere humans like you and me. Under communism there’s a division of these mere humans into you, and those who assume themselves to be higher, wiser, and more important than you. It’s like a lottery to see who gets to boss everyone else around. So we aren’t getting our rights from the state, we’re getting our rights from Chad and Karen who live next door to us with all the same flaws and sins that everyone else possesses. Nobody thinks the reality of communism all the way through.
I like our present format of government where rights come from God alone and cannot be taken away, and power comes from the people as they choose who will represent them on a cyclical basis.
Justice Thomas made a speech recently at UT Austin, for the 250th, where he stressed that very thing. We're lucky to have him. 34 years on the Supreme Court!
A law school professor (Black) new Justice Thomas before he was appointed. He told me that Thomas believed every word he said during his hearing. My professor, a lefty, respected him. His hearing was just a circus. What Anita Hills testified about was juvenile behavior that wasn't uncommon. They did the same to Kavanaugh. Meanwhile, Hunter really is a sexual deviant who exploited young women. But feminists? A yawn.
I trust Mike Johnson as far as I can throw him.
Even so - can you acknowledge that his point on our rights coming from our creator is extremely important?
So, Susan, where do think our rights come from? I want to know if I should throw you, and how far.
God and the Constitution. In that order.
I agree! I’m recovering from suture removal in back so I would not have been able to throw you anyway ;)
Speedy recovery.
Imagine the increased global warming we will now experience with the US Congress irresponsibly voting to allow the sun to beat down on us an extra hour ALL YEAR LONG!
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I choose to believe you are jesting 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It could be something AOC would say.
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💯!!!
Like an "industrial sandwich press". JC
THE Ba*tards!!! Hahaha
Slight correction: “[Congress has] the diligent work ethic of a sedated sloth” 🦥 (not panda)?
Good call, Steve!
https://youtu.be/Aeij-oc-18s?feature=shared
Too busy stuffing their pockets with money; contributions and insider trading.
Good Wednesday morning! We are out fishing today so hopefully we will be blessed with some fish for dinner. And if not, we still enjoys God’s blessings and am grateful!
I wish you all a blessed day.
So jelly. I miss the days of my childhood camping where we were with families that knew how to fish and how to cook it over a campfire. The deliciousness will never leave my memory. For over 50 years now I have tried to learn how to replicate it, but because I’m not a fisherman I am left working with store bought, previously frozen, farm-raised fish. It is NOT the same. I remember bass (or some kind of bass) was the one that made my heart explode in a Wisconsin campground. ❤️❤️❤️ Please please catch one for me and prepare it lovingly and share how good it tasted.
Smallmouth bass cooked in smoking hot oil, iron skillet on a wood fire 👍🤸♂️
That’s it! Smallmouth Bass! Thank you. Knew there was an adjective before it. lol
Well Juju. Not a nibble! We were looking for walleyes or northerns but no luck today. Weatherwise it seemed to be good fishing weather overcast with some raindrops. We’ll try again tomorrow. We agree there’s nothing like fresh fish.
😫😫😭 *weeps in fresh fish flavor
I, too have an indelible memory of fresh fish, (trout), pulled from the river, coated with salt, pepper and flour, and fried in butter on a Coleman camp stove on the river's edge... At that moment I understood to the depths of my soul, that "fresh" fish was not hyperbole, but an immutable law of nature.
You are truly blessed
Thank you Richard but we are all truly blessed. Jesus loves us all. ☺️
Karmy: Thank you for bringing the Son shine, no matter what time it is. 🙏🏻
My high school junior just informed me that water is not wet. It makes things wet (or dry).
In high school chemistry class I learned if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
Haha - funny!
Ugh! And the sky is not blue, according to a past middle school teacher of my SIL. It just appears to be blue. 🙄
Tonya, same with "Up and Down" on a round ball floating thru the vast Universe.
Yes, exactly...water is a liquid (like mercury at room temperature), wetness is a condition.
Except mercury doesn't wet like water does.
I was told that “water is life” 😑
I love this!
With all the flooding going on, 50,000+ Americans would agree with that
Clarification: water is neither wet nor dry! It makes things wet.
🤦🏼♀️ However … it did make me wonder if there is a dry substance that when placed onto something else it creates a wet condition ? 🤔 But thinking like that only proves water is wet itself. 😆
Yes. A dry diaper on a baby.
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Inflation cooling??? I just paid $27 for 2 sandwiches. Just because oil goes down during a lull in Iran war, does not change the reality. “Inflation” is not just the prices of a current collection of a few items the government assembles. Inflation is expansion of the money supply. It will not be possible to end that since we are now deep into the debt trap where annual interest on the debt is $1 Trillion a year. Can we be honest about this?
Shops raise prices and they never go down. That is NOT the administration.
It is false that stores arbitrarily keep prices high. Look at computers, phones TVs. As economy of scale increases efficiency, prices fall, and any store that does not reduce will quickly go out of business. Look at gas stations. As oil goes down, competition forces them to reduce or lose all business. I look all the time and fill up at the cheapest station. But due to inflation, all prices continue to rise; labor, goods, rent, insurance, electric. The only way you can have a store is if they net more than the total cost of operation.
That comment reminded me of Biden's repeated assertion that inflation was caused by "greed". Economic ignorance...
We need to go back on the Gold Standard.
End the Fed
maybe make your sandwiches at home?
FYI- paying $27 for 2 sandwiches doesn't prove your point.
You are right. Just look at the feds money supply chart. Sandwiches are just an anecdote. The uniparty has continued to debauch your currency. Why would you advocate or excuse that. It is criminal theft that has led to the collapse of previous empires. We are not immune.
If you’re going “to be honest” about this then you must recognize that you’re blaming the wrong parties. Get rid of the fraud and you get rid of the debt. Period. This administration didn’t cause inflation, against all odds they are lowering it. Fraud allowed for decades prior caused it, and it exploded under Biden. Frankly it should have taken years and years to reverse the inflation and the debt, but somehow this amazingly gifted group of people on this administration are lowering it much sooner. The problem is you expect results in a time frame that is kinda impossible and when a president takes over and comes closer than anyone ever expected, especially the 67? experts? You want to put all the blame on him and the closest disputed expenditure you can grab, the Iran war.
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Why on earth would you part with $27 for 2 sandwiches??? Hahaha - I would rather skip a meal!
You will never hear most here mention that Trump on track to outspend Bidumb's record deficit, and projected to leave office owning $15 trillion of the $45 trillion US debt. So much winning.
while also increasing his net worth by 2B...some really great meme coins and well placed stock bets
I live in VA and the Democrat legislature's "work" went into effect on July 1. Retail tax on gas in VA is 32.6 cents. They also added a whole sale tax which adds about .10 cents per gallon. (Virginia is in top ten of states with high gas tax.) That's just gas. But gas affects other things. It's intentional. The Democrat legislature spouts about high prices, but their policies cause them.
Dining prices are creeping up due to things like the increase in the minimum wage to $12.77, local restaurant sales tax increases, removal of the ability to use styrofoam plates, cups, bowls, containers or trays, and increase in prepared food tax. My 93 year old dad was shocked when we recently went to Cracker Barrel in Troutville, VA and ordered Fried Chicken with 2 sides, my Grilled Chicken Salad, 1 soda, 1 iced tea, and ended up paying $50 (including tip.)
Our price on eggs is lower that it was, but still high for pasture raised. Our town prohibits chickens, although the county we are in (yes - both and we get taxed by both) allows them, but the folks selling eggs charge as much as the stores. Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate the improvements being made by President Trump. You must stay on top of what is happening locally and blame your LOCAL politicians and STATE politicians for their blocks on the national improvements.
Excellent point, Garner. I think the same is happening in CA. Prices go up and never come down, and people blame the federal government when in reality it’s local and state governments to blame for most of the issues.
They're in it together, actually. One phenomena that started around 2005 or so was to accelerate federal payments to states for a kaleidoscope of programs. States seems to think that is "free" money, for some reason. The Feds do it so they can control states with the various caveats that always come with the funds.
The inflation numbers a so manipulated just like the job reports. Leave out certain aspects of the actual economy to make your numbers look good.
I just looked at the "manipulated" numbers from the Fed and Bureau of Labor Statistics. They don't look good, and probably understate reality, too. I don't consider 3.5% a good inflation rate, although it is better than anything higher than it.
No they are real if if they are numbers trump like, fake news if not.
And my favorite Greek feta at Costco just went from $10 to $15. These aren't your droids.
Where is this sandwich shop charging usury pricing? I need to know so I can avoid it like the plague!
The sandwich shop is an anecdote we can all relate to. The problem is having a currency whose backing was removed. ( Nixon 1971) That means we now have Monopoly money that the government can (and does) print at will. The more they print, the less yours is worth. So the value they get to spend is actually stolen from you. It is a uniparty practice that is not slowing down under our beloved Trump. It will be our downfall as it has been for every empire that can’t resist the monetary cookie jar.
Kick the can down the road...
Don’t forget construction restarted and miles completed of the southern border wall!
Why do we subject ourselves to all of the social & deep-state media PsyOps? Do yourself a favor and stop doomscrolling on X and Facebook. Stop arguing with the other side. Get your daily news fix of optimism here and move on. Go outside and garden or work. Pretend you are Amish for a least a few hours every day. The conflict is between the competing narratives in your mind. Just turn them off and get some peace.
I don't ‘doomscroll’ …
Y’all's so lazy … Put ‘likes’ on everything useful, unfollow what's not, and CURATE y’all's feed.
Done and Done.
Since the MSM went in the crapper, scrolling is the only way to get actual news and logical opinions. So why call it "doom"scrolling? Why not "truth"scrolling instead!
Some truth to that, Roger!
Good morning, fam!
Thank you for being gracious, Jeff. Most appreciated.
Morning Todd