Yesterday was a triggering massacre; Trump runs rings around TROs; Zelensky tries to out-troll the President; EU counter-summit 2.0 fails; NYC 15-min city falls; kingly rhetoric; big teases; more.
They. Are. Scared. This is profound weakness. They will never get it. They've harbored hate so long that it came for them. They're seeing red, so they only see what's in front of them, instead of taking the 30k ft. view.
Trump and his wrecking crew has a method of operating which the Russians call "razvedka boyem" --reconnaissance through battle.
You push and you see what happens and then you change your position.
Its astonishing they can't get it. But then again none of them have had to negotiate in their entire lives. It's so blatantly obvious to those with negotiating experience.
I was in a convenience store in St. Petersburg, FL and the store owner wasn't busy and we got to talking. He explained to me how it works. I am using his words so don't jump to the false conclusion that I am racist. "Black girls get pregnant young often before they finish high school and live on welfare (without a hubby). They figure out how to work the system. They are not usually great moms and the kids grow up to be another strain on the system".
I knew one black guy we called Big Black who claimed to have fathered 17 children throughout the US and Canada but only lived with his wife and one child. He came to me one day after his latest impregnation of another woman and asked "I don't know how it happened, I pulled out". I replied "Don't you know about the preshot?".
That was that convenience store owners experience. Perhaps he lives in a predominately black area and that is what he has for reference.
But in truth, any welfare parent will teach their child to be exactly as they are by example. Unless a child has a very strong desire to do better, they do what they know. Simply giving people money for doing nothing does not encourage anyone to better themselves. People need a hand UP not a hand OUT. IMO.
The truth is, they have figured out if they have a baby, the government will give them their own apartment (Section 8), and food stamps. They see it as a ticket out. Mama is thrilled to have one less kid in the house, so everyone wins...but taxpayers and the child. The blacks have just been playing the game longer.
Sadly, basic facts are not racist. Having grown up in the Detroit suburbs, I knew several black girls who had babies in high school. A few of them turned out to be good, caring mothers and their kids turned out okay. I will add that here in Tennessee the mentality transcends race. I've also noticed a lot of young white girls of the middle Tennessee variety with young kids.
My son is loving it since they've closed the schools because road salt and snow plows don't exist here. It's okay as long as you don;t have to drive anywhere. I walk outside and it feels like I'm back in Michigan.
if traditional marriage isnt working for these young people then society has an interest in TEACHING THESE YOUNG WOMEN useful skills so they can make a living and support their kids. But we need to get in there and figure out WHY they arent able to marry and make it work.
Sadly, it's cultural. Thomas Sowell wrote some great stuff about the true impact of affirmative action and our culture - particularly since Johnson's 'Great Society' experiment - that is designed to promote government dependence as a means of social control.
there needs to be a well thought out answer to this. like somehow move away from paying young girls of whatever race to have babies, and towards adoption. and of COURSE FREE AND EASILY AVAILABLE BIRTH CONTROL and (sorry, not sorry) Free abortion up to 3 months. needs to be administered by a compassionate women's organization, preferably coming from some churches. with COMMON SENSE.
Sorry, but if you talk to any abortion workers you will find out abortion IS used as birth control. What you won’t find out is how abortion affects the girls years later. You can get condoms pretty much anywhere, and they’re cheap. But you have to use them for them to work.
really it needs to be in coordination with some REWARDS. teaching these girls some useful and well remunerated skills to support their babies, and the Black Men's community needs to step up and start supporting their women... if the community decides they want them to stay home. the kids need to be raised by grandma or an auntie who needs to be paid something reasonable... there is a whole community and culture that needs to be empowered to deal with this problem. ideally it would come out of the Black churches from our Common Sense community
as an early track to the final road out of this hell, you may be correct.
I would modify that a bit:
-- Only the "pill" for birth control; not abortion via pill or otherwise
-- Abortion up to 6 weeks and ONLY after counseling by "right to Life" advocate groups(seeing ultrasound of their baby and hearing the heartbeat; hearing from a woman who is dealing with the psychological after effects of abortion; hearing from a woman saved from or NOT aborted and her life story; hearing from a woman raised in a foster home after being adopted). If the woman hears and sees ALL this, still demands an abortion, hey, it is ON HER. Let her go and deal with it.
-- in case of incest or rape: VERY special case requries very special treatment. I have no answer for that one!
Then, after all this has transpired for a decade or two re-route the train to a more highly restricted lane to abortion. . .
What about tying tubes until they are old enough to be responsible adults. If they never are, they go play all they want without killing another human being.
"But then again none of them have had to negotiate in their entire lives. It's so blatantly obvious to those with negotiating experience."
Exactly. Just as we're seeing with the incompetents running Europe, they have NO management skills. They're ONLY politicians. No skills dealing with real people, only with each other (as they divvy up the real people's pies).
I'm hopeful that there are future GOP leaders who are watching and learning from Trump HOW to BE negotiators and managers, not merely how to be vote-getters.
Trump is creating a whole new paradigm. I only hope we have folks smart enough to recognize it, so we never return to the old.
The creators of Monty Python could not have made this stuff up, although they came close in their "It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them!" sketch.
Its really going to be funny when all these gleaming heads figure out that the world is one massive crime scene.
Our entire system of governance/politics, across the world, has not suffered any consequences for so long that they've become total imbeciles - they're totally unaware of it
Western civilizations leaders are terrorists. Change my mind. Basically what we're seeing is what happens when empires are in decline, deliberately done by design by the overlords:
We get weak, corrupt, venal, not particularly intelligent rulers - and did I mention corrupt?
Basically Caligula without the charisma - or Nero without the musical talent.
El Gato Malo wrote a compelling piece in Substack a couple of days ago on this general subject. I'm sure you and probably everyone reading this knows of it, but I'll link to it just the same.
Agree in principle, but I’m not sure what the Europeans can actually do now if Putin already knows that the US will not support them. This may have been the problem when Biden was so gung-ho and overriding Macron etc. Maybe the US had Kompromat on a lot of those leaders?
This is what I’ve been saying to all of the “oh the people orchestrating all of the leftists’ actions are so cunning and have anticipated our every move so we can never win” laments. Some of the puppet masters may indeed be cunning but they’re also full of pride and hubris. AND they have to rely on minions who are not smart, unethical and also greedy. Which is not a winning combination, in the end.
Right, lately it occurred to me that Trump is good at the rope-a-dope strategy of triggering the left so they walk into his traps because he has a lot of experience in the NY commercial real estate market.
The last 4 years were the rope-a-dope. They thought it looked like he was against the ropes, covered up and taking withering blows that will lead to his ultimate defeat. Like Ali, he came off the ropes and cleaned their clock. Now we're watching the return pummeling.
And the BEST thing to do is strike while the enemy is confused or weak. I do now see that the Trump team all seem to be very familiar with the warrior tactics of Sun Tzu.
I follow Kaitlyn Bennet on YT on her Liberty Hangout channel. She does those "man on the street" interviews. This one was actually quite good. She found an "old school" democrat and they had a good conversation. It's funny his reaction to the rapid lib protestors. Worth a 9 min watch.
Spent the majority of my career in sales. What was obvious from the start is those with no ability to effectively negotiate learn early on to simply tell the prospect what they want to hear, in other words lie. Hence the saying "if it sounds to good to be true"....unfortunately what also becomes obvious is the tactic of lying...works on a high percentage of folks. At least until the lie falls apart which is usually downstream from the sale. We are now downstream from the liberal lies and they don't have anything left to sell.
“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.”
President Trump has definitely got both eyes open. He’s not perfect, but we stand a greater chance with him now, than anytime in the last 100+ years or so. Our foes remain blinded by their pride, arrogance and greed. This is our moment. Have faith in God. “Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.”
As a Town Meeting Member and as a Selectwoman in my former small town, I fought like HELL to force the town to "rebate" excess "free cash" at the end of each fiscal year. Excess free cash, for those not up on municipal finances, is another word for SURPLUS, or more precisely, "what the town overcharged and over-collected in real estate taxes during the prior budget year and which clearly was not needed in the budget, because it wasn't spent." The bureaucrats used the "surplus" as their slush fund for their pet projects that would NOT have passed in the budget (due to the frivolous nature of the pet projects) at the annual Town Meeting. In my former town, it ranged from $5 million to $12 million each fiscal year. Believe me when I tell you, the collective gasp from every bureaucrat agency in town, and (shockingly, to me) a large minority of residents, was like I was demanding their firstborn. They are ALL pigs at the trough. There is definitely something pathologically and psychologically satisfying to them, that they live vicariously through spending other people's money. They don't need to purchase or build it for their own use or ownership, but they get this addictive "high" in spending the money. It's another form of insanity.
It's that 'use it or lose it' stress. I worked at a zoo in research, we had a zero based budget each year, and each year in Nov our lab manager was shopping for anything we could possibly spend it all on so the next year we wouldnt have a budget reduction. He said it reaked havoc on his personal finances since hed look for the more expensive options at work but then go home and be willy-nilly about grocery costs and stuff. Sometimes there was up to $70k he'd try to spend down. Never occured to him maybe we shouldnt get it...
Yes , that’s the inefficiency of the government. I am probably a drop in the bucket but I reported it to DOGE as one of the systems of waste. Yearly grants should be needs based and not fixed amounts. You spend what you need and the rest goes back if you overestimated. You need more money next year, you are not penalized and can receive it. It never made sense to me that the government couldn’t understand or deal with that yearly expenses on research will never be the same.
I remember MANY years ago that is you did not spend your allocated budget that the next fiscal year you would be given less... this was from our very own government!
Not just special education. All of education "had" to spend out the money before the next allocation. Otherwise, the next allocation would be for less money than the current one.
@Sarah- I was talking to my MIL once about my father's and stepmother's things and how she'd never get in the way of anything we want whenver ever Dad died. She leaned over the table and said "Honey, death changes people." That resonated with me. Now, Dad died in 2001 and stepmother is now 97 and the best stepmother anyone in life could ever have. She has never denied us anything. I haven't wanted anything (scratch that. One thing and it mysteriously disappeared. Just a small statue my grandmother used to have in her house) but I'll tell you this: 2 of my 4 siblings have become monsters and stepmother isn't even dead yet. She has a book of requests from us kids and other family members. My one sister asked for a couple of small momentos, one brother hasn't asked for anything (he lives his life with his head buried in the sand), my husband recently asked her for Dad's turntable and some LP records of crooners from the 60s and 70s, I asked for nothing but she is giving me an opal bracelet because we share a birthday. The other two siblings? The one who lives in state has been clearing out the house for years, much of it my grandmother's things. I showed up once for a visit (NY to FL so it was obviously planned) and there were BOXES of Gramma's things on the kitchen table they were loading into their van. I mentioned it'd be nice if the rest of us could get a chance to see what's there. They hastily left for home. The other brother? You should see how thick my stepmother's notes are of what all he wants. He just filled up a POD from her house (she's had to move in with a family member 3 hours away from her home) and had it delivered to his place in the NE. Death (and money) most certainly DOES change people. Or does it simply bring out what was already there?
AnneR. Many years ago I worked for a county govt. At the end of the fiscal year if your dept had money left in its budget, you were urged to spend on anything - just spend it - all of it or you next years budget would be reduced by the amount you did not spend. It was then that I assumed all govt worked the same way.
and impose a mandatory audit procedure to stop this unconscionable abuse - $2 billion to Stacy Abrams for a newly formed environmental "start-up" with no track record - surely someone can be prosecuted and sent to jail for that
I love AMD! I don’t know if I’ve actually finished a single article yet, though, since they’re so long. But I keep going back to the ones on DMSO and the one on hypermobility. So interesting and well researched!
So sorry! Gardasil precipitated so many autoimmune diseases (not as many as the Covid shots, but still…) and I hope that shot gets canned too. The potential benefits are waaaay overstated.
I suspect ALL vaccines cause autoimmune diseases, especially when you consider the goal of a vaccine: to stimulate the immune system to attack a certain foreign invader. How do they know how much a given vaccine will stimulate any particular person’s immune system? Every body is different. They have no clue. Just as you and I probably have no clue what and how many dormant damaged genes our bodies harbor. For instance, the yellow fever vaccine is contraindicated for people who either have rheumatoid arthritis or have a family history of it. But how would you know definitively if you have a family history of it if no one in your generation or the previous generation or two had ever been diagnosed with it ? That’s what happened to me. Delta Airlines gave me an ultimatum: take the YF vaccine, or you won’t work for us. I had no family history of RA, but within 2 weeks my thumbs blew up like big red balloons, and over the next 4 years I lost all or most of the cartilage in numerous joints throughout my body, including hands, knees, hips, sacroiliac joints, and my entire spine.
If your mental state is solid, I’ll add that the full HepB shot is still given to premature newborns regardless of weight. The hospitals are paid based on % of newborns jabbed. That knowledge was almost enough to send me right off the deep end. They’re so fragile that there is plausible deniability. From 2016: “Loss of confidence in vaccines following media reports of infant deaths after hepatitis B vaccination in China.” Int J Epidemiol. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27174834/
I’m so sorry for your daughter, and you! Gardasil is a nasty, nasty vaccine. 😖 Have you ever seen any of the “Vaxxed” documentaries? I’ll never forget all the kids in Vaxxed II whose lives were completely ruined by Gardasil. Big Pharma bosses should be in PRISON.
No I haven’t, but thanks for the suggestion. Although, maybe I should wait for more winning…my sanity was hanging on by a thread during the C debacle. Just kidding, but there were a whole lot of WTH moments. Waking up from the conventional medicine paradigm was indeed painful.
I’d much rather they take an oath to The Great Physician, Yeshua, whose name literally means “YHWH is salvation,” as opposed to a false god, Apollo, whose name literally means “the destroyer.” Talk about playing around with Ouija boards… 😳
Confirmed two genders. He will be walking a fine line, and I think that there’s a lot more “behind the scenes” strategy for this topic, in order to get the necessary buy-in from the populace. Lots of willfully blind folks out there!
A sovereign wealth fund is a good idea.....just not in the context in which Trump rolled it out - something to the effect of if the government buys a bunch of toxic and deadly vaccines for its people, we should get some of the cut!
States need to create their own banks. North Dakota is a constant example of how successful this is. Cut the head off the snake (leave the federal reserve) and the debt based slave system we are currently on and return to a gold standard.
A sovereign wealth fund might be a good idea but if run by the government will eventually be just more of the “I’m from the government & i’m here to help” disaster school. The current admin (& perhaps the next) will surely manage it brilliantly but what happens when the pendulum swings (& it always eventually does) or you get a squishier, less scrupulous MAGA in charge?
Isn’t that what happened w/ Social Security? Was supposed to be untouchable & simply garner massive profits for retirees. It wasn’t long before the funds were raided for more short term, politically expedient projects w/ IOUs left where the wealth used to be. Of course now we know the REAL reason or at least a co-reason it’s almost bankrupt: paying millions of dead people for DECADES.
Perhaps any "surplus" could go directly to Social Security to replenish what has been raided. That way, taxpayers do benefit from the surplus (especially since it is/was money that came out of their income stream in the first place to be held for them until needed in retirement/disablement)
Aren't there a couple of states that have issued gold-backed "dollars" that are literally just that? They have a thin layer of gold imprinted on the bill. Heard about it on the QuiteFrankly Podcast a few years ago.
They have added a few more states, can’t remember which ones at the moment. I have some from 3 states and they are very attractive - value has gone up nicely in the 4 years since purchase.
They are probably very busy over at Ft Knox painting wooden blocks (or lead blocks) gold to make the vault full again. I suspect that the real gold long ago left the building.
Just as important if not more than the presence of the physical gold, is the paper trail of who actually owns it and how many times has the same block of gold been sold to different entities - not from buyer to buyer, but in the Brooklyn bridge type of way.
I felt like a kid in school that found out there was an upcoming field trip...YES! Wouldn't it be awesome to load up a bunch of buses and join the DOGE bois at Ft Knox? My only problem would be that my dear old mother, an ultra-Dhimmicrat, would prolly refuse to sign my permission slip. 😫
If the gold IS gone, isn’t that what backs the Federal (not Federal) Reserve (NOT a reserve) Bank ( NOT a bank) which would mean that the FRB AND the IRS would instantly be dissolved since those powers are supposedly backed by the gold?
Money is a fiction. Another rabbit hole. Heck, our whole "reality" is a fiction, which many are now awakening to.
Some oligarch of the early 20c (even before we went off the gold standard) is at least rumored to have said something along the lines of: If Americans understood how finance really works there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. All classes of "lessers" have been played for thousands of years. That might (might) be coming to an end, related closely or consequentially to the Trump administration. Buckle up.
“What if those funds were invested and professionally managed for profit and revenue?”
Yeah, like Social Security and the Highway Trust Fund. Sounds like a great idea!
No. Nothing like that seems to be explicitly in the purview of the federal government. The money needs to be taken away from Washington. Far, far away.
How about stop taking our money in the first place? Then they wouldn’t be magnanimously giving it back to us. How about the money stays in peoples pocket. No aid to planned parenthood, Ukraine, etc, etc unless you or I write a check directly if we place such great belief in whatever cause? How about going back to the roots of gov only performing Constitutionally created acts?
We need to remind anyone crying about loss of funding to USAID and others that they can certainly opt to send funds directly to these organizations to offset what the gov removes.
Exactly. It's past the time to stop funding, aiding and abetting the destruction of our Constitutional Republic. And we want our money back from all of them.
Pay down the debt first. Maybe an initial rebate of $100 per taxpayer when they file to save paperwork cost. That initial rebate is a token to show what could happen with Trump's rebate program once the debt is under control.
Here is the problem with giving everyone $5000. Is it for taxpayers or everyone? If it's only going to taxpayers, you can be sure there will be plenty of people complaining that they didn't get a check. I think $5000 is too much. Maybe give taxpayers $1000 as an act of good faith but you will still hear the non-taxpayers complaining. I would prefer that the government keep it all and use it to pay down the debt. You need to reduce costs and expenses and show the American people that it can be done. Also, I don't want to hear all of the whiners who didn't get a check. You shouldn't get one if you don't pay taxes.
Yes, TAXPAYERS should be the recipients EXCLUSIVELY. My childhood friend up on Bainbridge Island (WA) who has lived in gubmint-subsidized housing for most of her adult life, drawing disability SSI because she is...too depressed? I dunno ...anyway, she sees Trump's administration as the 4th Reich. And of course, you know what that makes Trump...🙄🙄🙄 BUT SHE SHOULD NEVER EVER get a rebate!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I absolutely agree. I'm on SSI due to a medical disability, but by no means do I think that I am entitled to $5K of the taxpayers money. I'm just grateful that my small stipend doesn't get taxed. 😅
🥰 Not trying to bash anyone in your situation...but it galls me when my ultra lib pal continues to tell me the work the DOGE boys are doing is so wrong...but she has hardly ever held a job her whole life. 😢
I didn't think you were bashing anyone at all! I'm with you, I think there are people on welfare and SSI that shouldn't be. For my part, I'd give anything to be able to work, I have an advanced degree that I'm too exhausted to use. Have been working with alternative health practitioners for over 10 years trying to get better (after the Allopathic doctors blew me off), but 50% better than bedridden still isn't enough to hold down even a part-time job, sadly. Obviously, I still feel guilty about having to be on the dole. But I'm grateful to have it, so I'm not a complete burden on my family.
Tax credits let people earn money by filing tax returns, even when they pay no taxes. Not sure that makes sense; they’re already surviving on our tax dollars.
I'm not sure what you mean...if you don't pay any income taxes, you cannot file an income tax return. Please clarify what you mean by "not paying any taxes"?
Of course you can. If anything was withheld and you don't "owe" it, you'll file a return to get that back. If you have very low income but you worked, you'll file to get Earned Income Credit.
Note I'm not endorsing this; just saying that's what happens.
For 2021 you could get $3600 for each child under 6 or $3000 for a child between 6 and 17 even if you had no income, did not work, paid no social security taxes. Truth. Sorry, I didn’t realize that you now have to claim earned income. Idk when that changed.
Wow, what State is that in? Here in Texas, you can only claim child tax credits IF you actually pay taxes. Welfare and non-taxable income do not count.
A $5000 tax credit may make more sense. $5000 in cash to every taxpayer would send inflation soaring. Plus the credit would target those who overpaid their taxes.
No, sorry. Lit the savings pile up, when you can total the trillions collecting by the Feds this year in taxes, eliminate the irs, and federal income tax. Done.
IMHO, the federal govt giving everyone $5k is a terrible idea and will just raise inflation even further. Plus, You know they would give it to people who didn’t pay taxes.
Personally, I think everyone who paid actual taxes the last 5 years should get a $5k tax deduction for the next 5 (20?) years. Don’t give it to the deadbeats, that would just add insult to injury.
AcCording to people like Edward Doud, the economy will take a hit by Trumps many corrective actions. So Trumps idea would actually help to keep the economy stimulated.
“ Whatever the final number is remember while it’s fraud and we need to stop it of course….a lot of that fraud recycles into the economy as consumption.
Everything @DOGE discovers and shuts down will have a short term effect on GDP. Reducing government expenditures has an immediate impact on GDP before Trump’s other initiatives can take hold.
IMHO they are not doing a good job of signaling this and will be blamed for the valley in economic growth.”
No. We seize the assets of these criminals, liquidate them, and again split the proceeds. Refunds weekly for the next 20 years to all American taxpayers.
It will only be as good as the people running it. And when Democrats take over again, you know the fraud and corruption that reeks out of them will infect this fund. I don’t see how you can protect that money from greedy politicians.
I would be more excited about doing away with these income/property taxes. The gov't has had how many years to manage our social security monies and look how well that went for the people whose money is in that fund.
So this wealth fund would be what?? Social Security 2.0? I can take care of my own money, health and what I eat very well on my own thank you.
Maybe. It just gripes me to see how much money has been stolen from hard-working American citizens and used for illegals and bureaucrats. The Boston Tea Party was about less taxation than what we suffer now! The rich get richer and the rest of us work harder and learn to do without.
Taxes are basically un-American. All this is making it really hard for me to want to get my taxes done this year and then pay in more to Uncle Sam!
Our job is to make sure the Dems never return again. If we can be super successful over the next 4 years and fix our voting systems to prevent all the fraud, they won’t be able to return.
Then you’d be thinking the Republicans in DC are any better. They’re not. Right now the right people are in, and they have given us breathing room. But we need to get rid of as much governmental control, (that includes money), as possible. Then clean house in the GOP as well as the Democrats.
What about if the govt just opened an actual account for each citizen at their birth? Put $10000 in it (or whatever amount) and then it's the individuals to do with as they see fit. It could be used for anything, education, retirement, property.. And its out of the govt's hands. Dems cant steal it like they have w SS.
Could surplus from one year be used to cut taxes the next. Maybe for every $5000 you pay in federal tax you get $100 rebate or such? IDK but I suspect the faster the money is removed from government hands and given to. Citizens, the better. Just like SSA, if we were allowed to invest that money ourselves, I suspect at least 30-40% of us would be better off.
It hit me yesterday, it seems I've been wrong in my estimations of the leaders of the EU & European countries. For the last couple of years as we witnessed what appeared to be their incompetence and malfeasance I concluded they were buffoons and criminals, but I now see the brilliance of their actions.
They have realized for years Russian President Putin has his eyes on Europe, waiting for the right time to invade. So to create their own defenses, with much assistance from US leaders, Europe has been transformed from a stable, attractive place, into a basket-case overrun with wimpy men, manly (sort-of) women and millions of third world escapees.
What a clever way of making sure Putin loses all interest in invading Europe, who would want it now? All this time I thought they were idiots.
The EU leaders are grifting sacks of doo-doo who are self-indulgent, narcissistic, low information, functionally atheistic and morally bankrupt. And they actually believe the Woke Marxist crap which they continually spout. Whether this was so as to what they believe, or not ... I had long wondered about. But it is true, and this is why they the EU clown leaders where so dismayed by what they heard come out of J. D. Vance's mouth during the MSE event. And they, the EU 'leaders' at that event, were like first or second graders finding out for the first time, horrors of horrors, that there is no Santa Clause.
It is an absurdity to think that Russia would want to invade Europe and have to deal with all the problems of a sinking, bankrupt and totally Woke civilization. Someone who thinks a Russian invasion of Europe is possible does not know Russian culture and history.
On they contrary, the Iron Curtain/Warsaw countries would have never have happened except Germany made the colossal Napoleonic Mistake of invading Russian territory in 1941. Russia with some 12 or 13 time zones has enough on its hands to run and keep safe from the predators as it is. Putin and the Russian leaders well-know this.
I agree with everything except the Marxist point. Marxist are ideologues, the EU people worship themselves. They think they are responsible for the power they have been allowed to wield. However they have over played their hand and the wolf is on their trail.
I say that most of the Western policy assumptions are Marxist standard practice and have been for a long time. All of the Agenda 21/30 stuff is based on the assumption of 'the collective' with the 'dictatorship of the proletarian' (the ruler class) in charge. And it has basically been a one party (all but in name only) rule. It was so in the United States, and such realization give birth to the name 'the Uni-Party'. Only in the United States, Trump upset the apple cart of political conformity.
You say that it just about 'them' the ruling class. But I also say that every system has it organizing principles. You say they rule out of worship of themselves (true). But I further add that they have to have 'a story' to sell the people, and that the story is based upon ideological fairy tales. I say, for just one example, that identity politic is pure Marxism (Mao-ism, and the Soviets had their version). And I further say I could expand this line of thought many time over.
So, I a lot agree with you, but go further. You say is true, but there is more to the story.
I have a question. At least since WWII (and certainly since JFK's assassination), the US has been ruled by "professional (lifetime) politicians and professional bureaucrats". Apparently this is true of all of the West. So how is it that the USG has been taken over by a bunch of outsiders with Trump the chief outsider? The scope of this bloodless "coup", for lack of a better word, is breathtaking.
My mind told me something was up when Vance was picked as the VP. What - not a political insider??? What's going on here. And it was all up hill from there right up to yesterday when Patel was voted for FBI Director BY MCCONNELL! Seriously? This isn't a revolution. This is a complete rout of the entire political organization of America. LITERALLY... the USG Executive Branch is entirely in the hands of political outsiders who aren't even politicians or bureaucrats. They are all "ordinary" working class, successful Americans.
And now I see their sights being turned on the international geo-political order which may be the primary purpose for their existence to begin with... at least in terms of the unstated power that is backing Trump behind the scenes. Americans will benefit from this simply by way of circumstance. But I can't get over the massive scope of this coup that is routing the powers that have ruled the West for the last 500 years. I'm gonna need a LOT more popcorn!
It appears (and I use that word advisedly) to me that there is a revolt inside the international order against the Apex Money Elite as represented by the British Crown/City of London, the Rothschild family/BIS and the Vatican. Even the current Pope (who is a walking obscenity) appears to be on his death bed and will have to be replaced. It further appears that there is going to be a complete geo-political realignment where the US becomes a friendly trading partner with the BRICS as lead by Russia. Heck - the US may join the BRICS as one big free-trade zone. Could this be the ultimate purpose of the threats of massive tariffs? To achieve the exact opposite effect? The same strategy is working domestically to achieve the MAGA goals.
Man is always ruled by a ruling class of some description or another. That is axiomatic. Even the American Independence movement, based in Calvinistic Christianity from the Reformation, was organized by and run by the Colonial elite, and not by back-woods frontiersmen, lowly farmers and tradesmen.
And also, things have an organic life of their own, even growing mass discontent.
Trump has a background, especially if one looks at the family history. He may not have been in with the elite party of Great Destroyers, but he was 'of class' all along. And people at the upper level are always in association with other upper-level types. And out of associations, conversations, business connectivity ... 'understanding' organically evolve.
This Trump thing is not just Trump and the outward forms, outward figures of Trump-ism. The landscape on this has been evolving ever since 1992. 911 was probably a tripwire which pushed 'understanding' along in a significant way. But so was 2008/2009 and all the events surrounding Covid Fake-demic. The final straws were somewhat Afganistan, but more so the Ukraine and the weaponization of everything including SWIFT (international payments system in USD).
So, the simple answer is that things happen once the smarter upper part of the ruling elites comes to feel threatened existentially in the wallets and their physical lives by the terrorism of the Legion of the Dummies. And in the Collective West, the clown dummies were the insane Woke ruling class, the exact people like to whom Vance spoke out his Munich speech.
It just gets to a point where the smart ruling elite can't take it any more, and they get together and do something radical themselves, like launch a counter-revolution to oust the insanity, the terror, the total dysfunctional system. In my lifetime, and before 2025, my best example is the Beria Moment when Marshall Zhukov marched his soldiers into a Politburo and arrested Beria. And then things were okay for awhile until Putin had to restore order again and save Russia from taking the Federation over from subversion from within.
One cannot entirely get to how this all works by reason alone. And that is because life is organic and has a life of its own. Put another way, life is like a giant Symphony, complete with its movements, themes, cadences and phrasing. And things within things.
Well, that went a long way to bring everything into focus! Especially, "It just gets to a point where the smart ruling elite can't take it any more, and they get together and do something radical themselves..." That seems to be confirmed.
I'm just guessing of course, but it does seem to me that the counter-revolution is going to take their assault all the way to the Apex money elite. It will be interesting to see what that results in as I described.
Russia has no reason to "invade" Europe, except when there are hostile forces massing on its borders. It's stupid to believe. The communists wanted to spread communism as a dogma of marxist-leninist orthodoxy and ideas or plans for invasions were to establish the "proletariat of the masses" which was an inevitable outcome of history according to the marxist-leninists. Russia no longer has that religion and hasn't for the last 30 years. Yet, Russia is a boogeyman that "justifies" trillions of dollars to be ostensibly used for "defense" but which is grifted. That gravy train is very important. Now, these cretins are screaming and crying, literally, because they are getting cut off. How oxymoronic it is to declare that they need to fear the boogeyman Russians invading while these same liars and grifters allow the unchecked actual and very real invasion of their countries by third world leeches that hate them. Finally, history shows how Europe (France, Germany, US and Britain) fairs when they invade Russia: graves of those failed efforts over the last 200 years are still being unearthed.
They cling to their ability to frighten the easily frightened. The boy who cried wolf was eventually eaten by the wolf, their line is starting to fall on deaf ears; and Trump is the wolf!
This “dividend” sounds a lot like the setup for a UBI. Why not just tax people less and let us keep more of our money from the outset? Spend that “dividend” running what the government actually needs to run. If we keep our money from the outset, the government can’t attach strings.
And no one’s talking about it, but this administration seems to be doing that a lot. Exhibit A: Tennessee’s recent “school choice” decision.
Truly, ask any long time home school mom how she feels about the “school choice” and “voucher” nonsense Trump just helped push through in TN and has *vowed to take national* and she will tell you it’s a bait and switch… what the government funds the government runs. I would rather eat my property tax than get it back with strings attached (ie “mandatory” curriculum filled with SEL and testing requirements that test a child’s ability to parrot, not to learn). We want the government to stay out of our lives, not control more and more of it. As an aside, we’re a retired military family. We really do know what it means to have the government control your paycheck and your pension and it’s not all butterflies and ice cream cones. Y’all, please be cautious about this. 🙏Take the wins, but eyes wide open.
As a “retired” homeschool mom (my kiddos are grown and married) I agree wholeheartedly with your concerns. Keep the government out of our homes. To those who don’t homeschool, it sounds so great - “Oh look, you’ll get money back ! Isn’t that great!” No, it’s not great, it’s a Trojan horse. I wanted my children to be curious, to know that Truth is real, and grow up to be adults who ask questions. That would not be impossible if they were sent to a public institution, but it would’ve been a highly unlikely outcome.
I’d rather not have to pay it than “get it back.” I hate how it’s always framed as “government money” when the government has no money—it’s all from taxpayers.
"Speaking as a litigator, try as hard as you like, but it is literally impossible to “defy” the “spirit” of an order—because a court doesn’t issue a “spirit.” It issues orders. Not spirits. Parties aren’t required to hold séances asking spirits what the judge really meant. ‘Spirit of the Injunction, speak to us!’"
Oh Jeff, I can't even finish the rest of today's column because I am laughing so hard I can't see through my tears. Please stop being so darn sarcastically funny!! (Just kidding--keep it up).
If you haven't covered alliteration yet, there is a veritable armory full in Jeff's writing. If you'll allow me, I'd like to articulate my appreciation and admiration for this honorable mention (at least) from Jeff's article yesterday: "Now their credibility is cracked, their legal strategy is lifeless, their narrative is nullified, and they’re clueless about who to chase next." https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pharmakeia-wednesday-february-19
Fortunately, many people within HHS have also been waiting for someone like him so he has allies within the organization who want to do good for the people
They. Are. Scared. This is profound weakness. They will never get it. They've harbored hate so long that it came for them. They're seeing red, so they only see what's in front of them, instead of taking the 30k ft. view.
Trump and his wrecking crew has a method of operating which the Russians call "razvedka boyem" --reconnaissance through battle.
You push and you see what happens and then you change your position.
Its astonishing they can't get it. But then again none of them have had to negotiate in their entire lives. It's so blatantly obvious to those with negotiating experience.
Excellent points. I like how Trump demonstrating how to be an alpha. It's contagious.
Courage and hope is growing.
This is our time to make long lasting systemic changes in our government and our society!
Yeah. Masculinity is making a come back.
Thank goodness. The alpha in me can not abide pussy's.
And that's exactly what happens when you don't allow boys to be boys.
Some of this is caused by boys not having present fathers (in both senses of present).
I was in a convenience store in St. Petersburg, FL and the store owner wasn't busy and we got to talking. He explained to me how it works. I am using his words so don't jump to the false conclusion that I am racist. "Black girls get pregnant young often before they finish high school and live on welfare (without a hubby). They figure out how to work the system. They are not usually great moms and the kids grow up to be another strain on the system".
I knew one black guy we called Big Black who claimed to have fathered 17 children throughout the US and Canada but only lived with his wife and one child. He came to me one day after his latest impregnation of another woman and asked "I don't know how it happened, I pulled out". I replied "Don't you know about the preshot?".
You get more of whatever you pay for. If you pay black girls to have babies, they will have more babies.
so only poor black girls have figured out this scam? doubtful.
That was that convenience store owners experience. Perhaps he lives in a predominately black area and that is what he has for reference.
But in truth, any welfare parent will teach their child to be exactly as they are by example. Unless a child has a very strong desire to do better, they do what they know. Simply giving people money for doing nothing does not encourage anyone to better themselves. People need a hand UP not a hand OUT. IMO.
Oh poor white rural girls have figured it out too, as I’m sure have others! (I’m just speaking about the ones I have direct knowledge of).
The truth is, they have figured out if they have a baby, the government will give them their own apartment (Section 8), and food stamps. They see it as a ticket out. Mama is thrilled to have one less kid in the house, so everyone wins...but taxpayers and the child. The blacks have just been playing the game longer.
Show me where I said "only".
Hillbillies do the same thing.
Sadly, basic facts are not racist. Having grown up in the Detroit suburbs, I knew several black girls who had babies in high school. A few of them turned out to be good, caring mothers and their kids turned out okay. I will add that here in Tennessee the mentality transcends race. I've also noticed a lot of young white girls of the middle Tennessee variety with young kids.
you're in Tennesee? how's it going w the weather onslaught?
My son is loving it since they've closed the schools because road salt and snow plows don't exist here. It's okay as long as you don;t have to drive anywhere. I walk outside and it feels like I'm back in Michigan.
if traditional marriage isnt working for these young people then society has an interest in TEACHING THESE YOUNG WOMEN useful skills so they can make a living and support their kids. But we need to get in there and figure out WHY they arent able to marry and make it work.
Sadly, it's cultural. Thomas Sowell wrote some great stuff about the true impact of affirmative action and our culture - particularly since Johnson's 'Great Society' experiment - that is designed to promote government dependence as a means of social control.
there needs to be a well thought out answer to this. like somehow move away from paying young girls of whatever race to have babies, and towards adoption. and of COURSE FREE AND EASILY AVAILABLE BIRTH CONTROL and (sorry, not sorry) Free abortion up to 3 months. needs to be administered by a compassionate women's organization, preferably coming from some churches. with COMMON SENSE.
Sorry, but if you talk to any abortion workers you will find out abortion IS used as birth control. What you won’t find out is how abortion affects the girls years later. You can get condoms pretty much anywhere, and they’re cheap. But you have to use them for them to work.
It require people to be responsible which is the opposite of what those milking the system are.
really it needs to be in coordination with some REWARDS. teaching these girls some useful and well remunerated skills to support their babies, and the Black Men's community needs to step up and start supporting their women... if the community decides they want them to stay home. the kids need to be raised by grandma or an auntie who needs to be paid something reasonable... there is a whole community and culture that needs to be empowered to deal with this problem. ideally it would come out of the Black churches from our Common Sense community
You're a monster.
It is becoming more clear that moderation leads to more murder.
Time to go back to treating it like what it is: homicide.
as an early track to the final road out of this hell, you may be correct.
I would modify that a bit:
-- Only the "pill" for birth control; not abortion via pill or otherwise
-- Abortion up to 6 weeks and ONLY after counseling by "right to Life" advocate groups(seeing ultrasound of their baby and hearing the heartbeat; hearing from a woman who is dealing with the psychological after effects of abortion; hearing from a woman saved from or NOT aborted and her life story; hearing from a woman raised in a foster home after being adopted). If the woman hears and sees ALL this, still demands an abortion, hey, it is ON HER. Let her go and deal with it.
-- in case of incest or rape: VERY special case requries very special treatment. I have no answer for that one!
Then, after all this has transpired for a decade or two re-route the train to a more highly restricted lane to abortion. . .
What about tying tubes until they are old enough to be responsible adults. If they never are, they go play all they want without killing another human being.
@Willing- oh, yes.
Interesting.
Never heard that one before. If so, it appears racist on their part!--against their own darker versions.
Female here.
We need Alphas.
Betas have their place but we need Alphas!
"But then again none of them have had to negotiate in their entire lives. It's so blatantly obvious to those with negotiating experience."
Exactly. Just as we're seeing with the incompetents running Europe, they have NO management skills. They're ONLY politicians. No skills dealing with real people, only with each other (as they divvy up the real people's pies).
I'm hopeful that there are future GOP leaders who are watching and learning from Trump HOW to BE negotiators and managers, not merely how to be vote-getters.
Trump is creating a whole new paradigm. I only hope we have folks smart enough to recognize it, so we never return to the old.
The creators of Monty Python could not have made this stuff up, although they came close in their "It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them!" sketch.
Its really going to be funny when all these gleaming heads figure out that the world is one massive crime scene.
Our entire system of governance/politics, across the world, has not suffered any consequences for so long that they've become total imbeciles - they're totally unaware of it
Western civilizations leaders are terrorists. Change my mind. Basically what we're seeing is what happens when empires are in decline, deliberately done by design by the overlords:
We get weak, corrupt, venal, not particularly intelligent rulers - and did I mention corrupt?
Basically Caligula without the charisma - or Nero without the musical talent.
El Gato Malo wrote a compelling piece in Substack a couple of days ago on this general subject. I'm sure you and probably everyone reading this knows of it, but I'll link to it just the same.
Appropriately titled "the global crime scene" ~ https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-global-crime-scene
Oh yeah. I dont miss any articles from gato or Jeff, whether i comment or not....or don't get around to reading it for a couple days.
Probably my two favorites as well as Chris Bray and eugyppius
Bay of Pigs betrayal by CIA 4/61
Operation Northwoods cancelled by JFK - 3/62
JFK assassinated 11/63
Monty Python also nailed it with their "Silly Party" sketch.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
Agree in principle, but I’m not sure what the Europeans can actually do now if Putin already knows that the US will not support them. This may have been the problem when Biden was so gung-ho and overriding Macron etc. Maybe the US had Kompromat on a lot of those leaders?
I understand their fear though. They thought they had it all figured out. They had all the plans and answers. They didn’t believe they could lose.
They were wrong. Our diligence is required.
This 100%. Hubris and hate is a powerful potion.
And it was their downfall. Always is.
The Bible tells us so, even 😁
This is what I’ve been saying to all of the “oh the people orchestrating all of the leftists’ actions are so cunning and have anticipated our every move so we can never win” laments. Some of the puppet masters may indeed be cunning but they’re also full of pride and hubris. AND they have to rely on minions who are not smart, unethical and also greedy. Which is not a winning combination, in the end.
https://x.com/nowpammsy/status/1892333319175417912?s=57
I don’t think anyone is downfallen until there is prison time.
Yes. There must be justice.
Hubris always carries the risk of awakening nemesis.
Ryan, you're gonna' like this one:
https://x.com/nowpammsy/status/1892333319175417912?s=57
LOLOLOL. Thx i needed that!
They lived in fairyland, or unicornland, or some bizarre place in their heads.
Talk about magical thinking.
Right, lately it occurred to me that Trump is good at the rope-a-dope strategy of triggering the left so they walk into his traps because he has a lot of experience in the NY commercial real estate market.
Exactly. They fall for it every time. It's like road runner ground hog day. Every. Day.
Its really funny if you think about it.
Aaaaand here comes the anvil crashing down again! 😁😆😂
The last 4 years were the rope-a-dope. They thought it looked like he was against the ropes, covered up and taking withering blows that will lead to his ultimate defeat. Like Ali, he came off the ropes and cleaned their clock. Now we're watching the return pummeling.
And the BEST thing to do is strike while the enemy is confused or weak. I do now see that the Trump team all seem to be very familiar with the warrior tactics of Sun Tzu.
Yes. And ain't it fun to watch!
I follow Kaitlyn Bennet on YT on her Liberty Hangout channel. She does those "man on the street" interviews. This one was actually quite good. She found an "old school" democrat and they had a good conversation. It's funny his reaction to the rapid lib protestors. Worth a 9 min watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_RPIeNOKLs
Spent the majority of my career in sales. What was obvious from the start is those with no ability to effectively negotiate learn early on to simply tell the prospect what they want to hear, in other words lie. Hence the saying "if it sounds to good to be true"....unfortunately what also becomes obvious is the tactic of lying...works on a high percentage of folks. At least until the lie falls apart which is usually downstream from the sale. We are now downstream from the liberal lies and they don't have anything left to sell.
“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.”
President Trump has definitely got both eyes open. He’s not perfect, but we stand a greater chance with him now, than anytime in the last 100+ years or so. Our foes remain blinded by their pride, arrogance and greed. This is our moment. Have faith in God. “Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.”
Eph 6:13
Yup. Exactly
I’m reminded of a phrase that went around in the Reddit and Chan boards, when Trump first appeared as a political figure. “A very stable genius.”
As a Town Meeting Member and as a Selectwoman in my former small town, I fought like HELL to force the town to "rebate" excess "free cash" at the end of each fiscal year. Excess free cash, for those not up on municipal finances, is another word for SURPLUS, or more precisely, "what the town overcharged and over-collected in real estate taxes during the prior budget year and which clearly was not needed in the budget, because it wasn't spent." The bureaucrats used the "surplus" as their slush fund for their pet projects that would NOT have passed in the budget (due to the frivolous nature of the pet projects) at the annual Town Meeting. In my former town, it ranged from $5 million to $12 million each fiscal year. Believe me when I tell you, the collective gasp from every bureaucrat agency in town, and (shockingly, to me) a large minority of residents, was like I was demanding their firstborn. They are ALL pigs at the trough. There is definitely something pathologically and psychologically satisfying to them, that they live vicariously through spending other people's money. They don't need to purchase or build it for their own use or ownership, but they get this addictive "high" in spending the money. It's another form of insanity.
I have always found that if you give any group, club, church, government especially, extra or surplus cash, they will find a way to spend it.
It's that 'use it or lose it' stress. I worked at a zoo in research, we had a zero based budget each year, and each year in Nov our lab manager was shopping for anything we could possibly spend it all on so the next year we wouldnt have a budget reduction. He said it reaked havoc on his personal finances since hed look for the more expensive options at work but then go home and be willy-nilly about grocery costs and stuff. Sometimes there was up to $70k he'd try to spend down. Never occured to him maybe we shouldnt get it...
It's the same in hospital budgeting!
Yes , that’s the inefficiency of the government. I am probably a drop in the bucket but I reported it to DOGE as one of the systems of waste. Yearly grants should be needs based and not fixed amounts. You spend what you need and the rest goes back if you overestimated. You need more money next year, you are not penalized and can receive it. It never made sense to me that the government couldn’t understand or deal with that yearly expenses on research will never be the same.
I remember MANY years ago that is you did not spend your allocated budget that the next fiscal year you would be given less... this was from our very own government!
Exactly… Giving it back?! Unheard of!
I lived that every October for all the time I was with the federal courts .
Scientific grants as well.
I think our Military budgets the same, the month of September(before fiscal Oct 1st) is Buy whether or not needed.
Not just special education. All of education "had" to spend out the money before the next allocation. Otherwise, the next allocation would be for less money than the current one.
I think “ spending other people‘s money” deserves an acronym: SOPM.
Or OINK
Squandering Quantities Unnaccountably Every End of Era
SQUEEE
Or "sop 'em". I like. 😄
This⬆️
I would love to play a game of Monopoly with Trump. I bet he would win every game hands down.
Or Catan
TMI, lol.
Ann,
I wish Florida would rebate its surplus to Floridians.
Maybe in reduced or zero property tax🤔🤞
Take it to a vote of the people. That’s what the Oregon did. They voted in a Refund to the people for any surpluses each year.
I’ve never seen a rebate in OR. When did it start? What’s it called? I’d sure like a rebate on my horrendous RE taxes.
It’s absolutely astounding how money can change people for the worse.
@Sarah- I was talking to my MIL once about my father's and stepmother's things and how she'd never get in the way of anything we want whenver ever Dad died. She leaned over the table and said "Honey, death changes people." That resonated with me. Now, Dad died in 2001 and stepmother is now 97 and the best stepmother anyone in life could ever have. She has never denied us anything. I haven't wanted anything (scratch that. One thing and it mysteriously disappeared. Just a small statue my grandmother used to have in her house) but I'll tell you this: 2 of my 4 siblings have become monsters and stepmother isn't even dead yet. She has a book of requests from us kids and other family members. My one sister asked for a couple of small momentos, one brother hasn't asked for anything (he lives his life with his head buried in the sand), my husband recently asked her for Dad's turntable and some LP records of crooners from the 60s and 70s, I asked for nothing but she is giving me an opal bracelet because we share a birthday. The other two siblings? The one who lives in state has been clearing out the house for years, much of it my grandmother's things. I showed up once for a visit (NY to FL so it was obviously planned) and there were BOXES of Gramma's things on the kitchen table they were loading into their van. I mentioned it'd be nice if the rest of us could get a chance to see what's there. They hastily left for home. The other brother? You should see how thick my stepmother's notes are of what all he wants. He just filled up a POD from her house (she's had to move in with a family member 3 hours away from her home) and had it delivered to his place in the NE. Death (and money) most certainly DOES change people. Or does it simply bring out what was already there?
A reliable source shared how one family member showed up with a truck during the funeral and cleared out possessions they wanted.
@Peace- that's intolerable
AnneR. Many years ago I worked for a county govt. At the end of the fiscal year if your dept had money left in its budget, you were urged to spend on anything - just spend it - all of it or you next years budget would be reduced by the amount you did not spend. It was then that I assumed all govt worked the same way.
The best sovereign wealth fund we can create is with health, above all else.
Health is wealth.
Reduce toxic wireless radiation, pesticides, and eliminate vaccines.
"Reduce toxic wireless radiation, pesticides, and eliminate vaccines."
and FREE DONUTS FOR EVERYONE !! haha (just kidding)
and impose a mandatory audit procedure to stop this unconscionable abuse - $2 billion to Stacy Abrams for a newly formed environmental "start-up" with no track record - surely someone can be prosecuted and sent to jail for that
Likely traceable to Warnock and Ossoff….our two GA senators that had the runoff elections stolen for them to put them in their seats in 2020.
Yeah, are those Abrams payments on behalf of the cell tower 5G teams?
THIS!!!!!!
Absolutely true!
RFK gets me teary-eyed every time he speaks. This is a physicians dream come true if the physician believes in the Hippocratic oath
I have so many autoimmune issues.. very excited to see him in! Hope for the younger generations.
Rosalind - something you might find interesting re autoimmune issues:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-treats-incurable-autoimmune
I have been using for about 4 years. I am so much better
Dr. Linda - how have you used DMSO to gain such great improvements?
Amandha Vollmer’s book “Healing with DMSO” is worth reading on all the ways to use it.
I love AMD! I don’t know if I’ve actually finished a single article yet, though, since they’re so long. But I keep going back to the ones on DMSO and the one on hypermobility. So interesting and well researched!
I have recently started this and am finding no result, thus far (about 6 mos).
Iodine supplementation is also worth reading about . https://www.lugolsnaturals.com/pages/iodine-101
In liquid form it is not expensive . (the pills are )
You dilute it first, 1 or 2 tsp to a glass of water.
How is the flavor of 1 or 2 tsp of dmso in a glass of water?!
It tastes like pulverized rubber bands, ugh. I just hold my nose and take big gulps.
I am praying for you right now dear friend. May The Lord Jesus Christ comfort you and hold you close in your pain. By His stripes we are healed.
God bless you.
I'm praying for you,too, Roseland.
So sorry! Gardasil precipitated so many autoimmune diseases (not as many as the Covid shots, but still…) and I hope that shot gets canned too. The potential benefits are waaaay overstated.
I suspect ALL vaccines cause autoimmune diseases, especially when you consider the goal of a vaccine: to stimulate the immune system to attack a certain foreign invader. How do they know how much a given vaccine will stimulate any particular person’s immune system? Every body is different. They have no clue. Just as you and I probably have no clue what and how many dormant damaged genes our bodies harbor. For instance, the yellow fever vaccine is contraindicated for people who either have rheumatoid arthritis or have a family history of it. But how would you know definitively if you have a family history of it if no one in your generation or the previous generation or two had ever been diagnosed with it ? That’s what happened to me. Delta Airlines gave me an ultimatum: take the YF vaccine, or you won’t work for us. I had no family history of RA, but within 2 weeks my thumbs blew up like big red balloons, and over the next 4 years I lost all or most of the cartilage in numerous joints throughout my body, including hands, knees, hips, sacroiliac joints, and my entire spine.
And, the vaxxes aren't dosed by body weight. Why would that be okay?
If your mental state is solid, I’ll add that the full HepB shot is still given to premature newborns regardless of weight. The hospitals are paid based on % of newborns jabbed. That knowledge was almost enough to send me right off the deep end. They’re so fragile that there is plausible deniability. From 2016: “Loss of confidence in vaccines following media reports of infant deaths after hepatitis B vaccination in China.” Int J Epidemiol. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27174834/
These reports don’t get published in the USA.
So sorry! You are right, of course! Just more familiar with Gardasil; daughter developed Raynaud’s shortly after the shots.
I’m so sorry for your daughter, and you! Gardasil is a nasty, nasty vaccine. 😖 Have you ever seen any of the “Vaxxed” documentaries? I’ll never forget all the kids in Vaxxed II whose lives were completely ruined by Gardasil. Big Pharma bosses should be in PRISON.
No I haven’t, but thanks for the suggestion. Although, maybe I should wait for more winning…my sanity was hanging on by a thread during the C debacle. Just kidding, but there were a whole lot of WTH moments. Waking up from the conventional medicine paradigm was indeed painful.
A lot of doctors don’t seem to believe in the hippo Democratic oath, but RFK does!!!
I’d much rather they take an oath to The Great Physician, Yeshua, whose name literally means “YHWH is salvation,” as opposed to a false god, Apollo, whose name literally means “the destroyer.” Talk about playing around with Ouija boards… 😳
Has he announced any action yet? It seems that,, unlike the other leaders, he hasn’t come right out of the block with any big changes.
Confirmed two genders. He will be walking a fine line, and I think that there’s a lot more “behind the scenes” strategy for this topic, in order to get the necessary buy-in from the populace. Lots of willfully blind folks out there!
A sovereign wealth fund is a good idea.....just not in the context in which Trump rolled it out - something to the effect of if the government buys a bunch of toxic and deadly vaccines for its people, we should get some of the cut!
States need to create their own banks. North Dakota is a constant example of how successful this is. Cut the head off the snake (leave the federal reserve) and the debt based slave system we are currently on and return to a gold standard.
A sovereign wealth fund might be a good idea but if run by the government will eventually be just more of the “I’m from the government & i’m here to help” disaster school. The current admin (& perhaps the next) will surely manage it brilliantly but what happens when the pendulum swings (& it always eventually does) or you get a squishier, less scrupulous MAGA in charge?
Isn’t that what happened w/ Social Security? Was supposed to be untouchable & simply garner massive profits for retirees. It wasn’t long before the funds were raided for more short term, politically expedient projects w/ IOUs left where the wealth used to be. Of course now we know the REAL reason or at least a co-reason it’s almost bankrupt: paying millions of dead people for DECADES.
Agree
Perhaps any "surplus" could go directly to Social Security to replenish what has been raided. That way, taxpayers do benefit from the surplus (especially since it is/was money that came out of their income stream in the first place to be held for them until needed in retirement/disablement)
As happy as I am right now, I keep worrying about that darn pendulum.
Imagine the cut we should be getting from the $500 million that the government invested in the dangerous mRNA bird flu genetic injection.
It'd be about $1.50 for each of us.
A whole $1.25 each! X 330,000,000
Hey it’s better than letting the government have it! 😆
Aren't there a couple of states that have issued gold-backed "dollars" that are literally just that? They have a thin layer of gold imprinted on the bill. Heard about it on the QuiteFrankly Podcast a few years ago.
Yes - Utah, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and South Dakota issue them.
They have added a few more states, can’t remember which ones at the moment. I have some from 3 states and they are very attractive - value has gone up nicely in the 4 years since purchase.
My eldest son has been buying those. Would love to see one.
So, does a gold-backed dollar cost a dollar to buy?!
Does N. Dakota use the Valaurum?
They are probably very busy over at Ft Knox painting wooden blocks (or lead blocks) gold to make the vault full again. I suspect that the real gold long ago left the building.
Just as important if not more than the presence of the physical gold, is the paper trail of who actually owns it and how many times has the same block of gold been sold to different entities - not from buyer to buyer, but in the Brooklyn bridge type of way.
Calling Doge! And let's not forget looking into how "public servant" become so wealthy.
I think it goes something like : " ok.... One for you, Five for me ...... One for you, FIve for me "
Its probably on a time share with the Bank of England
Good one!!!
I totally agree! They’ve been guarding an empty building for decades IMHO
I wonder how the media narrative will be if the Gold is Gone? “Trump’s Heist, Elon Provides Cover” or “Putin Took It”
Or maybe “climate change” or “racism”. 🙄 (Caused by Trump’s policies, of course.)
I know that China bought a lot of gold in the last couple years. I sure hope that’s not where it went.
I was thinking the same. I’m sure there’s video.
I felt like a kid in school that found out there was an upcoming field trip...YES! Wouldn't it be awesome to load up a bunch of buses and join the DOGE bois at Ft Knox? My only problem would be that my dear old mother, an ultra-Dhimmicrat, would prolly refuse to sign my permission slip. 😫
If the gold IS gone, isn’t that what backs the Federal (not Federal) Reserve (NOT a reserve) Bank ( NOT a bank) which would mean that the FRB AND the IRS would instantly be dissolved since those powers are supposedly backed by the gold?
Didn't Nixon remove the link between the dollar and gold?
Yup. Every USD is backed by nothing except the full faith and credit of the US government. Let that sink in. Nothing = we have a fiat currency.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/federal-reserve-note.asp - though I take exception to the last statement in the video.
Money is a fiction. Another rabbit hole. Heck, our whole "reality" is a fiction, which many are now awakening to.
Some oligarch of the early 20c (even before we went off the gold standard) is at least rumored to have said something along the lines of: If Americans understood how finance really works there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. All classes of "lessers" have been played for thousands of years. That might (might) be coming to an end, related closely or consequentially to the Trump administration. Buckle up.
Literal "gold-bricking." Wow
“What if those funds were invested and professionally managed for profit and revenue?”
Yeah, like Social Security and the Highway Trust Fund. Sounds like a great idea!
No. Nothing like that seems to be explicitly in the purview of the federal government. The money needs to be taken away from Washington. Far, far away.
How about stop taking our money in the first place? Then they wouldn’t be magnanimously giving it back to us. How about the money stays in peoples pocket. No aid to planned parenthood, Ukraine, etc, etc unless you or I write a check directly if we place such great belief in whatever cause? How about going back to the roots of gov only performing Constitutionally created acts?
There's a great meme showing downtown NYC in 1912 with soaring skyscrapers and busy streets with commerce.
All done before the 1913 introduction of the federal income tax.
A federal income tax was unneeded then and is unneeded now.
We need to remind anyone crying about loss of funding to USAID and others that they can certainly opt to send funds directly to these organizations to offset what the gov removes.
When gov quits stealing my $, I can expand my contributions..
Exactly. It's past the time to stop funding, aiding and abetting the destruction of our Constitutional Republic. And we want our money back from all of them.
Yes!!!
I want my Social Security money back first! I don't feel comfortable how they are messing with it now.
Pay down the debt first. Maybe an initial rebate of $100 per taxpayer when they file to save paperwork cost. That initial rebate is a token to show what could happen with Trump's rebate program once the debt is under control.
Here is the problem with giving everyone $5000. Is it for taxpayers or everyone? If it's only going to taxpayers, you can be sure there will be plenty of people complaining that they didn't get a check. I think $5000 is too much. Maybe give taxpayers $1000 as an act of good faith but you will still hear the non-taxpayers complaining. I would prefer that the government keep it all and use it to pay down the debt. You need to reduce costs and expenses and show the American people that it can be done. Also, I don't want to hear all of the whiners who didn't get a check. You shouldn't get one if you don't pay taxes.
Yes, TAXPAYERS should be the recipients EXCLUSIVELY. My childhood friend up on Bainbridge Island (WA) who has lived in gubmint-subsidized housing for most of her adult life, drawing disability SSI because she is...too depressed? I dunno ...anyway, she sees Trump's administration as the 4th Reich. And of course, you know what that makes Trump...🙄🙄🙄 BUT SHE SHOULD NEVER EVER get a rebate!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I miss Bainbridge so much. Sigh
Apparently the Island is so popular now, the gridlock from the Ferry traffic is horrendous. Pave Paradise....put up a parking lot. 😥
I absolutely agree. I'm on SSI due to a medical disability, but by no means do I think that I am entitled to $5K of the taxpayers money. I'm just grateful that my small stipend doesn't get taxed. 😅
🥰 Not trying to bash anyone in your situation...but it galls me when my ultra lib pal continues to tell me the work the DOGE boys are doing is so wrong...but she has hardly ever held a job her whole life. 😢
I didn't think you were bashing anyone at all! I'm with you, I think there are people on welfare and SSI that shouldn't be. For my part, I'd give anything to be able to work, I have an advanced degree that I'm too exhausted to use. Have been working with alternative health practitioners for over 10 years trying to get better (after the Allopathic doctors blew me off), but 50% better than bedridden still isn't enough to hold down even a part-time job, sadly. Obviously, I still feel guilty about having to be on the dole. But I'm grateful to have it, so I'm not a complete burden on my family.
Praying earnestly for your healing ...😇🙏🏼🕊️🙌🏼
Musk tweeted that he never stated an amount. Just to clarify.
The reason they're floating this idea is to insure people keep paying their taxes in spite of the Doge findings. With more to come.
Also, wouldn’t giving all that money be inflationary?
There are 330 million Americans! $1 each would be a third of a billion!
Taxpayers, not Americans.
Tax credits let people earn money by filing tax returns, even when they pay no taxes. Not sure that makes sense; they’re already surviving on our tax dollars.
I'm not sure what you mean...if you don't pay any income taxes, you cannot file an income tax return. Please clarify what you mean by "not paying any taxes"?
Of course you can. If anything was withheld and you don't "owe" it, you'll file a return to get that back. If you have very low income but you worked, you'll file to get Earned Income Credit.
Note I'm not endorsing this; just saying that's what happens.
For 2021 you could get $3600 for each child under 6 or $3000 for a child between 6 and 17 even if you had no income, did not work, paid no social security taxes. Truth. Sorry, I didn’t realize that you now have to claim earned income. Idk when that changed.
Wow, what State is that in? Here in Texas, you can only claim child tax credits IF you actually pay taxes. Welfare and non-taxable income do not count.
I’m also not certain if it’s an offset on earned income, or a “you tried, here’s some money.”
Darn. We've got 5 kiddos (legal) and pictured a brand new van after that 35k hits our bank account.
Or another piece of property.
Or starting a business.
Or .... so much!
ummmm.... your kiddos don't pay taxes.
Per household, I think.
taxed of course!
Bad idea and with the look of buying the people's favor. And really, displays a bad opinion of the people's moral fiber on the part of the government.
Pay down the debt, and restructure. Thanks Catherine.
Key terms: American taxpayers.
A $5000 tax credit may make more sense. $5000 in cash to every taxpayer would send inflation soaring. Plus the credit would target those who overpaid their taxes.
Better yet. Abolish the irs!
Gosh, with a Flat Tax, we wouldn't need an IRS.
Make it so!
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No, sorry. Lit the savings pile up, when you can total the trillions collecting by the Feds this year in taxes, eliminate the irs, and federal income tax. Done.
I say how about no rebate, no check, and just do away with income tax.
I say do away with the IRS and give us our stolen money back.
IMHO, the federal govt giving everyone $5k is a terrible idea and will just raise inflation even further. Plus, You know they would give it to people who didn’t pay taxes.
Personally, I think everyone who paid actual taxes the last 5 years should get a $5k tax deduction for the next 5 (20?) years. Don’t give it to the deadbeats, that would just add insult to injury.
AcCording to people like Edward Doud, the economy will take a hit by Trumps many corrective actions. So Trumps idea would actually help to keep the economy stimulated.
“ Whatever the final number is remember while it’s fraud and we need to stop it of course….a lot of that fraud recycles into the economy as consumption.
Everything @DOGE discovers and shuts down will have a short term effect on GDP. Reducing government expenditures has an immediate impact on GDP before Trump’s other initiatives can take hold.
IMHO they are not doing a good job of signaling this and will be blamed for the valley in economic growth.”
Edward Dowd on X
No. We seize the assets of these criminals, liquidate them, and again split the proceeds. Refunds weekly for the next 20 years to all American taxpayers.
I’m cautiously excited about the wealth fund.
It will only be as good as the people running it. And when Democrats take over again, you know the fraud and corruption that reeks out of them will infect this fund. I don’t see how you can protect that money from greedy politicians.
I would be more excited about doing away with these income/property taxes. The gov't has had how many years to manage our social security monies and look how well that went for the people whose money is in that fund.
So this wealth fund would be what?? Social Security 2.0? I can take care of my own money, health and what I eat very well on my own thank you.
I think its a Trump herring, get everyone talking about it, realise how it could be abused, then bring in tax changes without opposition
Maybe. It just gripes me to see how much money has been stolen from hard-working American citizens and used for illegals and bureaucrats. The Boston Tea Party was about less taxation than what we suffer now! The rich get richer and the rest of us work harder and learn to do without.
Taxes are basically un-American. All this is making it really hard for me to want to get my taxes done this year and then pay in more to Uncle Sam!
I hope. Property and income, first to gooooooooo!
I agree.
Local and state property and income taxes are just mini cash cows in Oregon.
Our job is to make sure the Dems never return again. If we can be super successful over the next 4 years and fix our voting systems to prevent all the fraud, they won’t be able to return.
Then you’d be thinking the Republicans in DC are any better. They’re not. Right now the right people are in, and they have given us breathing room. But we need to get rid of as much governmental control, (that includes money), as possible. Then clean house in the GOP as well as the Democrats.
What about if the govt just opened an actual account for each citizen at their birth? Put $10000 in it (or whatever amount) and then it's the individuals to do with as they see fit. It could be used for anything, education, retirement, property.. And its out of the govt's hands. Dems cant steal it like they have w SS.
Could surplus from one year be used to cut taxes the next. Maybe for every $5000 you pay in federal tax you get $100 rebate or such? IDK but I suspect the faster the money is removed from government hands and given to. Citizens, the better. Just like SSA, if we were allowed to invest that money ourselves, I suspect at least 30-40% of us would be better off.
It hit me yesterday, it seems I've been wrong in my estimations of the leaders of the EU & European countries. For the last couple of years as we witnessed what appeared to be their incompetence and malfeasance I concluded they were buffoons and criminals, but I now see the brilliance of their actions.
They have realized for years Russian President Putin has his eyes on Europe, waiting for the right time to invade. So to create their own defenses, with much assistance from US leaders, Europe has been transformed from a stable, attractive place, into a basket-case overrun with wimpy men, manly (sort-of) women and millions of third world escapees.
What a clever way of making sure Putin loses all interest in invading Europe, who would want it now? All this time I thought they were idiots.
No. That just makes the takeover easy. Then use Soviet tactics to control the pansies.
The EU leaders are grifting sacks of doo-doo who are self-indulgent, narcissistic, low information, functionally atheistic and morally bankrupt. And they actually believe the Woke Marxist crap which they continually spout. Whether this was so as to what they believe, or not ... I had long wondered about. But it is true, and this is why they the EU clown leaders where so dismayed by what they heard come out of J. D. Vance's mouth during the MSE event. And they, the EU 'leaders' at that event, were like first or second graders finding out for the first time, horrors of horrors, that there is no Santa Clause.
It is an absurdity to think that Russia would want to invade Europe and have to deal with all the problems of a sinking, bankrupt and totally Woke civilization. Someone who thinks a Russian invasion of Europe is possible does not know Russian culture and history.
On they contrary, the Iron Curtain/Warsaw countries would have never have happened except Germany made the colossal Napoleonic Mistake of invading Russian territory in 1941. Russia with some 12 or 13 time zones has enough on its hands to run and keep safe from the predators as it is. Putin and the Russian leaders well-know this.
I agree with everything except the Marxist point. Marxist are ideologues, the EU people worship themselves. They think they are responsible for the power they have been allowed to wield. However they have over played their hand and the wolf is on their trail.
Well then, we differ.
I say that most of the Western policy assumptions are Marxist standard practice and have been for a long time. All of the Agenda 21/30 stuff is based on the assumption of 'the collective' with the 'dictatorship of the proletarian' (the ruler class) in charge. And it has basically been a one party (all but in name only) rule. It was so in the United States, and such realization give birth to the name 'the Uni-Party'. Only in the United States, Trump upset the apple cart of political conformity.
You say that it just about 'them' the ruling class. But I also say that every system has it organizing principles. You say they rule out of worship of themselves (true). But I further add that they have to have 'a story' to sell the people, and that the story is based upon ideological fairy tales. I say, for just one example, that identity politic is pure Marxism (Mao-ism, and the Soviets had their version). And I further say I could expand this line of thought many time over.
So, I a lot agree with you, but go further. You say is true, but there is more to the story.
I have a question. At least since WWII (and certainly since JFK's assassination), the US has been ruled by "professional (lifetime) politicians and professional bureaucrats". Apparently this is true of all of the West. So how is it that the USG has been taken over by a bunch of outsiders with Trump the chief outsider? The scope of this bloodless "coup", for lack of a better word, is breathtaking.
My mind told me something was up when Vance was picked as the VP. What - not a political insider??? What's going on here. And it was all up hill from there right up to yesterday when Patel was voted for FBI Director BY MCCONNELL! Seriously? This isn't a revolution. This is a complete rout of the entire political organization of America. LITERALLY... the USG Executive Branch is entirely in the hands of political outsiders who aren't even politicians or bureaucrats. They are all "ordinary" working class, successful Americans.
And now I see their sights being turned on the international geo-political order which may be the primary purpose for their existence to begin with... at least in terms of the unstated power that is backing Trump behind the scenes. Americans will benefit from this simply by way of circumstance. But I can't get over the massive scope of this coup that is routing the powers that have ruled the West for the last 500 years. I'm gonna need a LOT more popcorn!
It appears (and I use that word advisedly) to me that there is a revolt inside the international order against the Apex Money Elite as represented by the British Crown/City of London, the Rothschild family/BIS and the Vatican. Even the current Pope (who is a walking obscenity) appears to be on his death bed and will have to be replaced. It further appears that there is going to be a complete geo-political realignment where the US becomes a friendly trading partner with the BRICS as lead by Russia. Heck - the US may join the BRICS as one big free-trade zone. Could this be the ultimate purpose of the threats of massive tariffs? To achieve the exact opposite effect? The same strategy is working domestically to achieve the MAGA goals.
Man is always ruled by a ruling class of some description or another. That is axiomatic. Even the American Independence movement, based in Calvinistic Christianity from the Reformation, was organized by and run by the Colonial elite, and not by back-woods frontiersmen, lowly farmers and tradesmen.
And also, things have an organic life of their own, even growing mass discontent.
Trump has a background, especially if one looks at the family history. He may not have been in with the elite party of Great Destroyers, but he was 'of class' all along. And people at the upper level are always in association with other upper-level types. And out of associations, conversations, business connectivity ... 'understanding' organically evolve.
This Trump thing is not just Trump and the outward forms, outward figures of Trump-ism. The landscape on this has been evolving ever since 1992. 911 was probably a tripwire which pushed 'understanding' along in a significant way. But so was 2008/2009 and all the events surrounding Covid Fake-demic. The final straws were somewhat Afganistan, but more so the Ukraine and the weaponization of everything including SWIFT (international payments system in USD).
So, the simple answer is that things happen once the smarter upper part of the ruling elites comes to feel threatened existentially in the wallets and their physical lives by the terrorism of the Legion of the Dummies. And in the Collective West, the clown dummies were the insane Woke ruling class, the exact people like to whom Vance spoke out his Munich speech.
It just gets to a point where the smart ruling elite can't take it any more, and they get together and do something radical themselves, like launch a counter-revolution to oust the insanity, the terror, the total dysfunctional system. In my lifetime, and before 2025, my best example is the Beria Moment when Marshall Zhukov marched his soldiers into a Politburo and arrested Beria. And then things were okay for awhile until Putin had to restore order again and save Russia from taking the Federation over from subversion from within.
One cannot entirely get to how this all works by reason alone. And that is because life is organic and has a life of its own. Put another way, life is like a giant Symphony, complete with its movements, themes, cadences and phrasing. And things within things.
Well, that went a long way to bring everything into focus! Especially, "It just gets to a point where the smart ruling elite can't take it any more, and they get together and do something radical themselves..." That seems to be confirmed.
I'm just guessing of course, but it does seem to me that the counter-revolution is going to take their assault all the way to the Apex money elite. It will be interesting to see what that results in as I described.
Don' throw me in that briar patch, B'rer Rabbit. PLEASE
LOL
Russia has no reason to "invade" Europe, except when there are hostile forces massing on its borders. It's stupid to believe. The communists wanted to spread communism as a dogma of marxist-leninist orthodoxy and ideas or plans for invasions were to establish the "proletariat of the masses" which was an inevitable outcome of history according to the marxist-leninists. Russia no longer has that religion and hasn't for the last 30 years. Yet, Russia is a boogeyman that "justifies" trillions of dollars to be ostensibly used for "defense" but which is grifted. That gravy train is very important. Now, these cretins are screaming and crying, literally, because they are getting cut off. How oxymoronic it is to declare that they need to fear the boogeyman Russians invading while these same liars and grifters allow the unchecked actual and very real invasion of their countries by third world leeches that hate them. Finally, history shows how Europe (France, Germany, US and Britain) fairs when they invade Russia: graves of those failed efforts over the last 200 years are still being unearthed.
They cling to their ability to frighten the easily frightened. The boy who cried wolf was eventually eaten by the wolf, their line is starting to fall on deaf ears; and Trump is the wolf!
A live-streamed tour of the Fort Knox gold vaults, eh?
Another name for this might be, Geraldo Visits Al Capone's Tomb Redux.
Love the concept, but I don’t think it will EVER happen.
I thought the same thing! It will similarly be empty.
Hawaii loves Alaska's dividend because a lot of Alaskans finance their annual winter pilgrimage there through the program.
Haha. Alaskan here. So true😆
This “dividend” sounds a lot like the setup for a UBI. Why not just tax people less and let us keep more of our money from the outset? Spend that “dividend” running what the government actually needs to run. If we keep our money from the outset, the government can’t attach strings.
And no one’s talking about it, but this administration seems to be doing that a lot. Exhibit A: Tennessee’s recent “school choice” decision.
Truly, ask any long time home school mom how she feels about the “school choice” and “voucher” nonsense Trump just helped push through in TN and has *vowed to take national* and she will tell you it’s a bait and switch… what the government funds the government runs. I would rather eat my property tax than get it back with strings attached (ie “mandatory” curriculum filled with SEL and testing requirements that test a child’s ability to parrot, not to learn). We want the government to stay out of our lives, not control more and more of it. As an aside, we’re a retired military family. We really do know what it means to have the government control your paycheck and your pension and it’s not all butterflies and ice cream cones. Y’all, please be cautious about this. 🙏Take the wins, but eyes wide open.
As a “retired” homeschool mom (my kiddos are grown and married) I agree wholeheartedly with your concerns. Keep the government out of our homes. To those who don’t homeschool, it sounds so great - “Oh look, you’ll get money back ! Isn’t that great!” No, it’s not great, it’s a Trojan horse. I wanted my children to be curious, to know that Truth is real, and grow up to be adults who ask questions. That would not be impossible if they were sent to a public institution, but it would’ve been a highly unlikely outcome.
I’d rather not have to pay it than “get it back.” I hate how it’s always framed as “government money” when the government has no money—it’s all from taxpayers.
Very logical, RunningLogic!
I have heard this from several home school families.
"Spirit of The Injunction" ....
Who ya gonna call?!
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Lol
"Speaking as a litigator, try as hard as you like, but it is literally impossible to “defy” the “spirit” of an order—because a court doesn’t issue a “spirit.” It issues orders. Not spirits. Parties aren’t required to hold séances asking spirits what the judge really meant. ‘Spirit of the Injunction, speak to us!’"
Oh Jeff, I can't even finish the rest of today's column because I am laughing so hard I can't see through my tears. Please stop being so darn sarcastically funny!! (Just kidding--keep it up).
Right??? 🤣😆 It’s such a treat to read every morning! 😁
His imagery is spectacular as well.
I’m planning on using his similes and metaphors as examples when we study those in homeschool English class 😁
If you haven't covered alliteration yet, there is a veritable armory full in Jeff's writing. If you'll allow me, I'd like to articulate my appreciation and admiration for this honorable mention (at least) from Jeff's article yesterday: "Now their credibility is cracked, their legal strategy is lifeless, their narrative is nullified, and they’re clueless about who to chase next." https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pharmakeia-wednesday-february-19
Very true, he is also a master of alliteration!
couldn't think of better examples!
Fortunately, many people within HHS have also been waiting for someone like him so he has allies within the organization who want to do good for the people