It's time for Act III; Pres. Trump's acceptance speech; Windows crashes world; long knives out for President Lettuce as old man resists; Secret Service appalled by criticism; great legal news; more.
Maybe but I am going with DEI as a reason. 😉 or wait! Climate change, Putin, #ABV. Goodness. The clown 🤡 world we live in. Sometimes it gets me down. Today I am going with amusement and passing the popcorn.
As a system and network admin, I've never trusted Windows for mission critical hosts, and I've always known about the flaws and vulnerabilities with centralized cloud systems. Notice that this did not affect Linux and Mac hosts, which is expected.
It's another example like the recent auto dealer centralized software fiasco.
That list is good, but I'll add to it.
1. CrowdStrike is now vulnerable to an incomprehensible number of potential lawsuits.
(and future failures)
2. The world is manifestly over-reliant on a single computer platform (Windows).
3. The argument for replacing cash with digital currencies is over.
4. Banks are next to suffer from something like this, so get the bulk of your cash out before then. The day is coming soon when no ATMs will be working.
"Notice that this did not affect Linux and Mac hosts, which is expected"
They are completely different operating systems which require different development teams to create the software for them. In this case, they borked a windows driver that runs in the highest privilege mode (needed bc what their software does).
There are a few problems, and neither are related to windows vs linux/mac (and I'm not a windows fanboy here, just a developer that has done this sort of work)
1.) most tech companies have very few windows devs these days bc all the cool kids are using macs. Companies allow this bc it has become part of their culture. So they are pumping out updates to the largest part of the install base with the smallest part of their dev team
2.) the trajectory we gotten on with almost daily software updates has gotten us exactly what you can expect to have happened
3.) most software companies now have very few resources in the way of testing teams bc the culture of software now is "we'll fix it in tomorrow's update"
gbrown, I think your #3 attitude has spread to almost everything these days. I am repeatedly shouting into the void, "How do these people make such crappy stuff and become millionnaires off of it?!" It's even spread to medicine, wherein Fauci, et al., made a crappy product in 2020 that made them possibly even billionaires, and they're either avoiding finding out the actual user experiences or they're ignoring them and just fielding more crappy products based on the same platform. Back in the day, there was such a thing as integrity and pride in one's work and work product.
As the wife of a senior software engineer who’s worked for several large companies, I can tell you, you are spot on! Minimal testing, no real “teams” anymore. They set these somewhat arbitrary deadlines and then RUSH to get it out. We can always fix it later 😒
My updates are all on manual. I wait a few months and see if the world blows up before I even think about installing them Same with my phone. My trust level has been at an all time low since the beginning of personal electronics and my Commodore 64.
♥I have been going to write a Substack about this very thing, all based upon a quote from Aristotle: "Innovating for the sake of innovating can actually diminish, if not destroy the very thing from which it originated." The Greeks disdained innovation for innovations sake and I 100% agree. Especially important to think of it in terms of NOW in our lives. It describes our digital world and how we can soon expect it to resemble nothing it was born as...It has morphed into a giant WEB of a monster which infests all aspects of most people's lives, unless you make a conscience decision to disentangle from this monstrosity.
Oh no, Sadie Jay! You would take us back to the age of dinosaurs at this glorious time when so many young, bright, and diverse innovators, unburdened by what has been, are changing the world?? Forward, not backwards! <sarc> <not sarc> “This is what the Lord says: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said,’ ‘We will not walk in it’” (Jeremiah 6:16). Let’s take a wild guess. What happened to those who said, “We will not walk in it”?
The educational publishing industry humble brags about “building airplanes while flying them.” As if that’s the badge of multi-tasking go-getters. It’s more like the badge of scatter-brained go-goners. Good to see that industry tanking. Defund the DOE.
Quick story Tardigrade: Many moons ago the fire department I worked for informed us we were transitioning (I hate that word now) from paper journals to record daily activities, filled out in black or red ink only, to computers. The old canard of easier faster save paper etc were used to promote the change. I resisted bigly, but knew computers were the future so asked a 'geek' on shift to teach me how to use the new box. Plus I had a young child at home and knew she was doomed to having to use the things. Sitting at the keyboard the geek said push this button Push these two buttons at the same time. Now push this. Now open this program, on it went. I knew I would need a 'cheat sheet' just to turn the dang thing on!
I was a daily listener to Rush Limbaugh, and he was an avid mac guy. So I visited a mac store. The sales person asked what I was looking for.,"I have no idea" I replied. Sales guy said okay, what can I show you? So off to a demonstration computer we went. My first question was "how difficult is this to turn on"? A little puzzled the sales person said 'push this button' which I did and the old CRT came to life. I asked "what do I push to make it work"? The sales guy still a bit puzzled asked 'what do you want to do'? I replied "like write something". He said 'click on this icon' (shown on the the screen) that opened the word processor. 'Now type your letter or whatever'. I didn't know how to type, still don't, but managed to make a couple of words on the screen. I asked "that it? No other buttons or combinations to push"? "nope' was the reply. Thus I was sold on the Apple 'what you see is what you get' simplicity. Deciding on a new (expensive) beige box and keyboard to a mac II VX (better than what Rush was using!) and a Sony CRT, (don't ask me why), I was now a computer owner. Deciding on a mac that day I have never looked back, and have chuckled over the years as friends and family with the 'other brand' have been plagued with security issues and crashes.
Same here! I got my first 128K Mac just a few months after it was released in 1984. I've had 30 Macs since then, never Windows. I've never had a problem with my Macs, never even a virus! My Windows user friends always used to tell me Apple was going out of business soon. Ha!
Remember when you could only buy them from Apple. I babysat for an eye surgeon who wrote an entire text on book retinas on an early edition Mac in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I couldn’t believe that little screen. Thought he was nuts.
"most (insert blue states' legislatures) software companies now have very few resources in the way of (insert Legislative staff in blue states) testing teams bc the culture of (insert legislation) software now is "we'll fix it in tomorrow's update." This problem is pervasive in Dem states where poor legislative agenda is never fixed throughout their legislative process even given enough time to do so. In CA we used to hear, "We'll just get it out of the policy committee and fix the issue(s) in Appropriations...blah, blah, blah." Complete incompetence or laziness are the reasons I can come up with.
That's all true for sure, and like you said more of the problem than simply the type of OS. The centralized cloud is much more of a problem than the OSes, plus all that you mentioned.
It's looking like the wheels are falling off the centralized networks next, then the engines start flaming out or blowing up, and the real sparks fly.
I think it is much more nefarious. I think what you state as the case is what they use as the "look here, not there" deployment of software intentionally deployed. Plausible deniability for a real attack.
This was a full scale test. Crowdstrike is not friendly software.
Has he discussed why he has made the 180 on Trump (I mean I KNOW, but has he addressed it publicly? From what I’ve read he was as bad as Liz Cheney - well, maybe not the devil herself.)
Fortunately--I'm on a LINUX host...but the banks I use and most of the medical centers in my part of PA were NOT!! Shameless and there are people "in the know" around the globe that are intimating this was INTENTIONAL on the part of "Clown"Strike to interfere with the transmission and audience' ability to view the Thursday evening broadcast of the RNC. Could be - but it didn't work out as "they" planned.
I also will NEVER upload ANY of my files to a "cloud" - the one experiment I ran with "cloud sources" blew up in my face royally. Thankfully--the files I lost were inconsequential! Would you believe I still have PAPER B.U. for all critical files!! YEPPIR--I'm "old school" and proud of it!!
I have several 1 and 2 TB hard drives for my personal storage, so I never use online storage either.
Although since hard drives also die eventually, I have duplicate drives since it's way too much for paper!
I basically have my own private data center server with several terabytes of storage for my music, video and data collections on. My own digital library.
Terabyte SSD drives are so cheap now! Relatively speaking.
Chances are high that Crowdstrike's "click this to say you agree with the thing you didn't read" license makes the customer liable for anything that might go wrong. Will be interesting to see if it goes to court whether that stands up or not.
I bank locally, two banks, and with a credit union. The larger local bank, which is listed on the stock exchange, went down. The smaller local bank and the credit union did not. I’m assuming they’re on a different system and plan to move out of the larger bank.
That supports my thought that small local banks and credit unions are not as centralized as the large ones. It's also another reason why anything centralized is bad. It's only good for the centralizers and hackers. Especially banks and governments!
I'm stashing some cash, and buying real assets with most of the rest, leaving only enough in my bank accounts to pay monthly bills and living expenses.
Not financial advice, just what I am doing.
(Real assets=gold, silver, food, real estate, cars, etc...)
and then to mock us 2 years ago, our children were put in visible cages, circles were drawn and we were dared to step outside them. but on the other hand, 500 tv channels.
and as you saw, people willingly walked into them, and took their children with them. The contempt with which the cabal hold the sheeple is not without cause.
I figure its just like being on the Titanic . I am pretty sure its gonna go all the way under............. but maybe if everyone else jumps then I'll be ok .
i am not FOR the depopulation plan . BUT i would say that as far back as 30 years ago I was thinking " damn, the amount of humans are multiplying like crazy ! " .
Of course, most people saw no danger in that . ( Do any of you ? )
Well.......... maybe "more the merrier" in some peoples thinking , however maybe 5 % are eating REAL food ( not processed or gmo or some list of 40 ingredients and additives with some fake flavoring . and SUGAR up the gazoo). And, though we speak of Love and God .......... when i walk through the valleys of civilization I just don't see it .
So , for my Sunday sermon i will shout out my WOES ... to what mankind has evolved into . ( i will not repeat George Carlin's opinion , but it does appear, to me at least, to be even worse then we he voiced it ) .
And in the spirit of "elections" , and "promises", I will watch the movie once again :
"Hope and Change : episode 2030" . Some organic popcorn, please ...........
Actually, you are not evil to think there are too many people. World population did jumped straight-up 8 fold after 1900s. So, we do have a problem. 8.1 Billion and going up.
I do hope globalists are reading this: We can all work together on a better solution!! For example, do educate young people about the current world population explosion, do tell people that computer driven machines are replacing human labor, .... Let's solve the problem by not having that many babies.
I say that about the keys to my gasoline guzzling car, but it certainly applies to my red meat too 😅 (coming from someone who lives in the land of Tesla, Prius and Rivian)
No need to rush out to the health food store. Crickets cost upward of $40 a pound, Trantula snacks even more. A fillet steak looks like a bargain in comparison.
Tell them if they don't ditch them, you'll take your business elsewhere. I was probably giving a local health food store ~$600 a year in business, until one day the owner and I got into a discussion on jab mandates . She was all for them. I never went back.
Back in the 1960s my father brought home a container of chocolate covered ants from the grocery store to gross us all out. I don't remember that they became a "thing." My own feeling is that we ordinary folk are more powerful than those hubristic oligarchs with their stupid plans for bugs and lab grown meat. We will beat them every time.
like cricket pee. It’s SO strong! We kept a bearded dragon— or some reptile— for a friend who was deployed for 18 mo. We had to buy ze bugs. Let me tell ya, the deployee couldn’t have come home soon enough for me!
The only
good thing abt the reptile in question was watching him ride around on the robo-vac like he was sailing the 7 seas.
This is hysterical! My grands got one of those critters… his crickets got loose. Their mom, who loved the little guy, was freaked out. Mealworms became his staple. 🤢
Taking a break from cleaning up this mess, it should be noted that the only ones affected by this disaster were PCs and servers that were left running overnight. The borked update got replaced shortly after it was released, and those that checked in later were not impacted. The fix is relatively trivial, though a huge PITA for remote users.
Wonder how much “open source” code they are using in their mission critical applications? How much REAL testing (beyond regression testing) are they doing?
Trumps speech, at least the first part, was amazing. The end got a little rambly. I LOVE that he’s talking about what he wants to do rather than just telling us why the other guy is bad. And that quote about Americans expecting better leadership gave me chills. Excellent.
You, and several other million women, me included! 😂 He has quite a fan club. I seldom disagree with him.
I haven’t had a chance to watch his entire speech from last night, only the clip Jeff posted today, but I’m looking forward to it.
I disagree with those who think he’d be a good VP, I want to see him as press secretary. Wouldn’t that be fun to watch him take down media stooges on a daily basis with his quick wit!
He may have a place in Trump's administration - but he is too valuable as a journalist. The stories he puts out there ! He is fine right where he is, I think.
Yeah, I kinda think he’s too much of a free spirit to take that job anyway. He seems to love his life away from Fox, being his own boss.
I’ve been so disappointed with people like Kaleigh McEnany, who I thought did a great job as Trump’s press secretary, but to work at Fox is anti Trump. They have a few people who come across as conservative, but I believe they’re very controlled, because Fox, as an organization, is not pro-Trump.
This is funny, was thinking about it earlier today as I watched his speech..... he's like a kid. A big kid - and yes, as Running Logic states - it's infectious as hell.
You sound so depressed. I didn’t think you ‘entities’ could get depressed. I have noticed that certain spiritual entities are happy when everything is chaotic, but depressed when people are filled either joy, have hope. You seem to bloom when you see chaos.
Why? I like it that he laughs all the time. I'm tired of being stressed and anxiety-ridden. He's so cheerful, but if you look around, there doesn't seem to be much to be cheerful about. How does he do it? What is his secret?
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22
Heard a discussion the other day about the cabal of evil “elites.” One comment was that they literally are in league with Satan, and are incapable of experiencing joy or gratitude. This rang true. Think of Soros, Hillary Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, all the Bidens, and on and on. Their eyes and faces show the truth of this.
Been reading a lot of ancient history, very intriguing material, especially with all the fairly recent archaeology finds and historical and religion revisions that may be ( should be ) required. Material on the ancient civilizations - Summerian / Annataki - address the differing influences and conflicts. Then, if you read background investigations on Epstein, Pizzagate, Child trafficking etc., you will better understand the historical satanic progression and those involved. Evil elites is an apt definition!
It’s amazing it’s been going on for so long but we mostly haven’t been aware if it, at least I haven’t, until the last eight years. President Trump pulled back the veil … his mere existence set them into a frenzy of hate and vitriol that exposed their slimy, satanic underbellies.
Watch many of his speeches and talks with the likes of Thomas Massie and John Rich. His Scottsdale speech in Wisconsin was great. He talks about his spiritual journey and his going to Maine to live. He’s definitely found something.
It's like he prayed after leaving the stage in Butler, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head” (Psalm 3:3). I hope he did.
I wondered about that--I only knew of his Vermont home. But a recent Ask TC made it seem that he was in Maine. There's been so much heavy news in last two mos I have not taken time to watch TCN
It is Maine, but way off the beaten path. If you go to Tucker Carlson.com, browse until you find the Scottsdale speech. He’s actually giving it in WI, but to a group who we all would call “salt of the earth”. He talks about Maine at length. I learned a lot about him through that speech.
GG I also believe Tucker exemplifies living with joy as a Christian. It is one of his gifts - you don’t see a lot of people able to laugh off absurdities.
Laughter really is the best medicine. Laughter produced serotonin which is produced by the body and does amazing things. It's a great research. We are fearfully and wonderfully made!!
I agree he is so cheeeful and its wonderful. The best part about the RNC was how hopeful and positive and joyful it was instead of non stop negative attack the left.
Here’s what I thought about President Trump’s speech.
1. How can he have such energy at this time of night? (I had had an unusually busy day and I was yawning my head off. I’m sure his day had been much busier.)
2. Because of the assassination attempt (Jill Biden and company meant it for evil, but God meant it for good (Genesis 50:20), I believe millions were watching, who had never heard Trump, raw and unfiltered, before. They now know how the media has lied. President Trump is far too brilliant to pass up the opportunity to reach them.
Rambling? Interesting that the ultra liberal Daily Beast used that same description.
Even in my tired and sleepy state, I judged it to be an outstanding, on target and incredibly purposeful speech.
When Trump walked stage left and embraced the mannequin with Comperatore's firefighter coat and helmet ... Both moving, and a display of true sincerity.
Now try to imagine Biden, Harris, or their handler, The Lightbringer, doing that.
I told my husband I don’t see another politician doing that. It was a bit odd but it WAS very sincere. I LOVE how the humanized Trump this round. Bravo to Lara Trump and co-campaign manager.
When did he do that exactly? Wanted to see it - I’m sure it’s powerful -I wasn’t able to watch the beginning last night and am trying to find it on the you-tube clip…….
My understanding is that he retired from that. Even if not, he was a Fire Chief. Just like I am a veteran. I may not serve any longer, but I am still a veteran.
We buried my fave uncle in Feb. He was a fire chief and a veteran. A bunch of guys from his fire dept. came to the funeral and one gave a speech.
The fire truck parked outside & they ran the siren for 3 min. while they did a special announcement they do when one of their own dies. It was very moving.
He had been retired for over a decade yet the dept. still chose to honor him this way.
There was a veteran ceremony-ette as well, and the folded flag was presented to my aunt and her grown kids.
His speech was exactly as long as it needed to be. Unbelievable the hyper criticism about nothing continues in some minds and always will as far as DJT is concerned.
Thanks, mommy. But no thanks! You are certainly entitled to your opinions and I’m certainly entitled to critique them. Can’t take the heat? Stay out of the kitchen!
Some false kind of nicety nice crap is why we’re in this absurd state of affairs. Mustn’t hurt any snowflake feelings…🤮
Just sad how the nastiness spews out of supposedly the conservative side. Thanks for the real life examples of how nasty and evil a person can be. Now, bye.
While it seems Tucker has seen the light [not necessarily from above] don't forget it wasn't long ago he was asking Hunter for a reference to get his son into an elite school. It's in the Laptop from hell.
Tucker has great ideas but has he even created a job like Trump in his business career? Maybe a couple of cameramen. So IMO Tucker is just where he needs to be, interviewing the right people to educate his viewers in what's happening behind the scenes and helping to make it make sense. That's his fortay.
And, if you order sweet tea in the south, it’s ‘sweetass tea’. I had never myself saying ‘sweetass’ until we moved to South Florida……I had to say it 3 times, as the waitress had no idea what I was saying. The third time I repeated it I heard it……..I was 26 years old and never realized. I was a pastor’s daughter. I had never said ‘ass’ in mah laf (my life). Now I’m in KY, so you can imagine my ackseyent naow. (Interpret is as you will)
Now, when we go back to Alabama, I hear people in restaurants calling it ‘sweetass tea’ again.
I hope not. Many of these effective people need to stay where they have proven themselves effective, please! Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Massie, Rand Paul....
That's the one reason I worry about JD as VP. The very popular gov. of Ohio, Mike DeWine, is likely to appoint Matt Dolan, who LOST the Republican primary fight to run against sitting US Senator Sherrod Brown. Given is from Ohio; he's my choice
I would be shocked if that happened considering he's extremely vocal about how much he hates DC (he spent 35 yrs there) and what a blessing it was when Fox fired him. He's now got his own show, his own network, and his own staff with all of it being done at his home far away from DC. He says he's never been happier.
Way to go, Florida man! Such enhancement to your credibility. Implying that DJT has no good ideas is very contrary to what Jeff Childers is saying and to logic. That’s your TDS talking.
One wonders how you tolerate reading Jeff anymore. Must be very painful.
When Trump finally got to policy and said “drill, baby drill” then said “close the border” and then “peace talk” I was jumping around screaming “finally, finally freaking finally!” Y’all that’s all he needs to do. Seriously just those 3 things would put this country back on track! He needs to just say that, forget about the current admin, because those 3 things are what the undecideds want and need to hear.
AND starve the 3 letter agency beast and cut spending. Every time I look at the national debt clock I get anxiety. Businesses are drowning in regulations, gov wastes more money than some small countries even spend, and all of this helps fuel inflation.
The problem with cutting funding is the executive branch (President) is not in control of that. The Pres can ask Congress for budget cuts but cannot make them real.
Win the House and Senate and the WH, and the tyranny of the 3 letter entities is history.
If you haven’t yet seen it, I encourage all to watch J Rogan’s interview of Tucker from several months ago. It’s long, but the end gave me chills. Tucker literally said we need someone willing to die for our country to get out of the mess we’re in. Seemed so prophetic.
To me the “not so good” part of his speech was still fine. It felt like the Trump we know. If the speech had completely changed from how we know him some might question if its the same person. He gave a remarkable speech esp without a prompter. And I actually love that he can think on his feet and come up with other thoughts. So for me the only part that dragged on was the relentless thanking and cheering for people. LOL Otherwise I loved it all.
I was at the convention. He had a teleprompter. There were 3 large screens along the wall opposite the stage. I could see 2 of them from where I was sitting in the arena. Of course he went off script - if you watch any of his rally speeches, it's easy to tell when he is reading from a teleprompter and when he's not. Most of the 1st part of his speech was from a teleprompter.
In Trumps speech he talks about his hand being bloodied… but there was no blood on his right hand when he raised it fisted to shout “fight, fight, fight”.
So you mean to tell me that the SS thought to wipe his hand off before having him stand up. Where did they get the wipes from and they got his hand that clean in that amount of time?A lot of things are not adding up & sure smells fishy. Trump also said blood was pouring from his ear in his speech. Really? Where was the blood on his shirt collar & jacket??
What makes me sad is all the people going along with the so called assasination. Tucker being one of them.
There are so many things that don’t make sense. Gun shots sound different in different videos, in all the videos there are things we cannot fully see, where are all the spectator videos, why wasn’t there more blood?, why didn’t more people fear for their lives?…so many questions!
Certainly there are many questions, but not the ones you brought up here.
Cartilage doesn’t have blood vessels. The only blood vessels in the external part of the ear are small capillaries to sustain the thin layer of skin. So a wound there won’t bleed too heavily. Small amounts that got on his hand could easily have been brushed off on a sleeve or trouser leg in the ~30 seconds before the “fight” gesture.
When one is bleeding from a gunshot wound, it tends to make an emotional impression, so a bit of hyperbole (“blood pouring”) is understandable. But if you want to fault his choice of verb as insufficiently clinical… OK, whatever.
Sound recordings will differ significantly based on the type and location of microphone, the acoustics of the surrounding area, and the medium used to record them. Digital formats will be affected by processing software. Cell phones are optimized for human speech at short distances, which has a much lower frequency and volume than a gunshot.
Spectator videos are available in abundance, but they're inevitably kind of redundant: everyone was looking towards President Trump speaking, not at the crowd or a seemingly-random building off to the side. People react differently to sudden and unexpected dangers (and have different reaction times), so you can't infer whether or how much they feared for their lives.
President Trump is incorrect about that. The pinna (the outer part of the ear) doesn't have a lot of blood vessels, so it doesn't bleed much. This is why pierced ears are a thing. The bullet in this instance thankfully only grazed or nicked the edge, causing some capillary bleeding at the point of impact and a little bit of blood spatter on his cheek. This is consistent with needing stitches (and a bandage). Reconstructive surgery, if any, would be very minor and can be done later.
The weapon was an AR-15, not an AK-47, but that doesn't really matter in this scenario. Bullets from either one will punch through a thin layer of cartilage (like the ear) and barely slow down. The main difference will be a slightly larger or smaller hole.
God forbid, but if you're going to get shot, this is about the best you could hope for. None of which makes the shooting any less terrible. President Trump was INCREDIBLY lucky. And I'm not going to fault him for overstating how much bleeding there was. And there are certainly questions that need answering. All I'm saying is the particular questions Gabriella asked are actually pretty easy to answer.
Plenty, but I’m not going to waste my time anymore typing them all out.
Any question can be easily answered doesn’t mean it’s right or true.
I want to believe the assisination wasn’t staged/planned but after what was done to the whole world during Con-vid, I believe anyone can and will lie to us. So far I’m seeing “they” will keep the chaos going continuously and keep people constantly confused and searching for answers.
You can believe whatever you want. I’m not here to convince anyone to change their minds.
I'm hoping Trump has a change of "heart" since his near brush with termination and dumps Vance and names Tucker VP. One can hope right? I have no doubt that Tucker would stand up and answer such a call to duty.
I dunno, Tucker already said he would not, in several different interviews. He really seems to despise politics. People who hate politics get eaten up by it and leave quickly (like the excellent former congressman Doug Collins of Georgia). There are people who thrive on politics (like Thomas Massie). You can’t force someone into a role they hate. Or at least it probably won’t go well. I hope Collins shows up again in Trump’s cabinet.
In truth, we may be better off with Tucker doing exactly what he is doing. That said, I would sure like to see someone with his grit and moral fiber at Trump's side. Just saying....
Tucker also said - I think at the Heritage event that took place alongside the convention - that every bad person he knows in DC was lined up to knife Vance. Which, he pointed out, says all you need to know about Trump choosing Vance. Tucker very strongly endorsed Vance.
(Tucker cracks me up. He's saying the quiet part out loud these days. At that same Heritage event he basically said it was time for men to stop being sissies. Like, if the school is going to groom, and essentially sexually assault your child, there needs to be a response to that.)
American males have been feminized. And real men who hate politics and are unafraid of conflict are the very men we need in office. Short of that, the revolution will eventually have to come from outside the political structure and that means real war.
He, who knows it all, has spoken again. What bunker have you been hiding in for what ‘you’ consider a decent amount of time before you go sniping at DJT again?
Well, while I support Trump, I will never refrain from asking questions. If Americans as a whole did a better job of asking questions, we might be more successful at holding our leaders' feet to the fire. If that's considered "sniping" then snipe on.
Phil ... take stock of the entire program of the convention. It's all circus acts, props, projected imagery, embedded messaging ... and maybe subtle or not depending upon the mind of the beholder. And as you know, all the Big Decisions are made before a convention even opens its doors. And maybe come to think of it, maybe Shakespeare should have said something like 'all the world's a stage and all the actors are orchestrators' and then just spiced it up with some juice words like 'storms, strutting about'... and my all time favorite, 'uttering up a bad breath of understanding' ... and left it at that!
Now that the whole show of the Selection Season is in high gear, it is IMPOSSIBLE to make any intelligent comment. Why? Because Selection Season is like Roman chariot racing where the spectators choose their favorites by color ... either Blue, Green, Red or White. With Selection Season 2024, just shuffle board the colors around a wee bit and the choice narrows some. And right now it is down to either Red, White and Blue or Green. That's all you get. No further discussion.
Aside from noticing that conventions are now reality show entertainments and nothing else, there is one more things. Conventions are now a little bit like Mr. Covid the Super-Soap Salesman, Safe and Effective. No one is allowed to question The Narrative being trotted out. Already Butler and an Everest of Inconsistencies, sorry ... too late! All discussion is now set in cement ... signed, sealed and delivered. The Super Photo Iconic of the Decade says it all. And no Renaissance painter could compose a better picture than that photo. Not even Leonardo's Last Supper exceeds. But wait! I just thought of one huge difference ... possibly? Leonardo's Last Supper has a vanishing point. In fact, the whole Last Supper is a tableau of personalities brilliantly conceived and set against the organizing principle of a central vanishing point. And now with that in mind, go see if you can find one in The Iconic Photo. *
* But wait and upon reconsideration ... if there is a vanishing point in The Perfect Picture, then it could quite possibly be hiding behind the conspicuously fluttering flag. After all, flags are known to hide a multitude of sins! (Myself? I can't quite entirely figure it out!)
Does not the weight of that cynicism cause you some extreme anguish? Oh, if you could just find the perfectly pure humans, for which you could have some appreciation. Alas and alack, this world cannot meet your exceedingly high standards and you will never be able to just live and enjoy. What a task of being an ultimate and extreme judge of human behavior you have assigned yourself.
Yours is a legitimate musing. And a lot to unpack here.
First, cynicism by inclination is wholly in they eye of the beholder. It is also quite possible therefore that the extreme ideologues, Woke and/or Marxist of all stripes, are also brimming full with cynicism too. I can't really say, but now that you mention it. Something to think on. To extend, if you employ the word cynicism with some extreme connotation, as in 'ultra extreme far rightist extreme cynic' ... then I plead not guilty. If the word cynic is employed by way common parlance, common literary usage, as in 'suspicious of just about everything I am seeing and hearing' these days ... then I plead guilty but with mitigating understandings surrounding and qualifying.
If the cynicism is cynicism at the things of the World and not a tainting of a Joy in Lord and all that entails, would not such a framing then substantially alter the color of things? Doesn't it tip the scales some, alter much by which yardstick of measure is used?
If the standard imputed to me is extreme, it is extreme proportionately by the measure of distance the standard is away from, distant from application of God's Law by habit of worldly praxis. Figuratively speaking, if the standard is Scripture ... it is only extreme because nobody is following it.
I have no expectation of my own cobbling. And so the world not meeting 'my expectation' is moot ... excepting that any expectation by daily habit should be obedience to Higher Law. And that was why the Two Tables were once featured in all the courtrooms in the federation on loosely called these Unite States. And please notice the word 'these'. It is used with intention.
First, I appreciate your moderation. By surface indications, one could easily jump the shark and go into full catapult launch. Second, it is a legitimate question and something everyone who is upset with mire of corruption sucking us down might have to deal with these days (how to have standard, whose standards ... and not to turn into an emotional shipwreck in the process. Also, and in short, how to be wise). In fact, getting sucked into a toxic cynicism which can only destroy the Joy in and the Peace of God, is something to be wholly avoided.
My quarrel with you lies in the word 'assigned'. I looked at that word and wondered immediately, "Had I gone through the wrong door. And somehow inadvertently wandered into Gender Assignment School ... by mistake?"
If as in Matthew 5, and if "... men shall revile you, and persecute you ... for my namesake ...", then it is wholly to be expected that Man will call such 'judgmental' and other such. It cannot be avoided and it is now on our doorstep.
Your see! There is a lot of sorting out to be done these days. Also, yours among the postings, I do most admire and appreciate. And this of yours today, especially.
"...Figuratively speaking, if the standard is Scripture ... it is only extreme because nobody is following it..."
And there it is! The Standard that divides men for which Christian men will always be accused of being extreme. Thus was He rejected by the world and we should expect no less. Holding that Standard up to our leaders is not to condemn but to say this is the goal to pursue and to hold them accountable to it. Thus does our Lord and King judge all of history.
That's it in a nut shell ... 'if the Standard is Scripture'.
Most 'Christians' in the West don't want to deal with Scripture nor the Law. They rather interpret Scripture away, and safely render it null and swept under the rug. That this is so ... is the Fall of the West. And this failing is the reason why we will not be 'saved' by carnival and circus performances. Or entertainments the equal to TV reality shows.
You and I will not, do not have a place at the Table of World. We will not drink the liquor of their blood nor eat the bread of their cravings. We are more apt to be ground down, spit upon, despised ... possibly executed. And about 'executed', why not? Because we are no greater than Christ our Lord and Master to whom are Slaves. And we have no exemption whatsoever which places us, elevates us greater than He who trod the earth, was slain and did arise from the dead.
Now, there are those who think one cannot have the standard of Scripture, that wholesome standard that is the Law which is the Ten Commandments, and still have have joy. Because the burden of that is too great. The do not say this out loud to themselves, but hide this away someplace in their hearts where they dare not look. Instead, they look for an easy way out, a pathway of deception ... like not being judgmental or judging at all ... or embracing a love which slays anything in its way, even the sinner himself. And I am not speaking to today's exchange, but in general, because I don't presume to know what is not given to me to know. But I do know that if God is real to a person, and if the promises eternal are real to a person, then one does not sweat earthy existence too much.
Thanks for writing. I am glad to hear it ... what you said. And another positively bright spot in the day.
Yes, Brevity is such a magnificent thing. Get them sentences down to five words or less! Lowest Common Denominator! And make it easy. Raze all to the ground ... and so much easier to see the Forest for the Trees, especially if there are no trees.
For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Indeed, he is not a felon, as those were trumped-up (ain't that a tickle?) charges. He IS an outlaw. So was Robin Hood, so was William Wallace. To break evil law makes one an outlaw.
I like using the word Trump’s enemies use against him. You're right, he’s not a felon, but the law declared him to be one anyway. Those who hate him can't see him as anything else, but I’m not sure they get the word “outlaw” and it’s reference to Robin Hood and William Wallace in the same way we do.
I haven't seen any for sale so I called a guy in town here who makes signs and he's making me one, actually two: one to wash and one to wear! He's also make a yard sign for us with the same sentiment on it.
As a fellow hillbilly, I am so excited to have one of our kind in the White House! Did you see his family with him on the stage? They have his back! Same as with DJT and his family last night.
Also: "Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel"
They were pulled by Cheatle for Jill. She ‘spontaneously’ decided to have an event (closed) and the agents he had always had were sent to guard her. See Naomi Wolf’s SubStack yesterday.
It appears that Jill could have been behind the attempt on the President’s life.
It’s really stupid to believe that Trump would allow 2 people to be seriously injured (by real bullets) and one to be killed (by a real bullet) for political advantage. Personally, I think that’s more in the camp of the deep state folks. Think of the risk he would be taking if someone leaked the plot! They would hang him for sure. And as many ways they have tried to end Trump’s chances of winning, he would be nuts to trust a stray bullet wouldn’t hit him!
"Rumors are circulating that the Trump assassination attempt was an inside job after the release of this angle. Pay attention to what the secret service agent does seconds before!"
"MSNBC talking heads, like Joy Reid, are telling viewers that Trump staged the attack against himself—resulting in 34% of Democrats believing this lie. She uses her platform to spread lies about the former president and incites violence by claiming that he will end democracy."
I’ve been to a Trump rally before and watched many others. If you’re talking about the Secret Service agent directing the photographers to another area, that’s not uncommon during these rallies. The press/photographers/Secret Service are always prowling about (and then sometimes to they are still as statues 🤷♀️). If it was an inside job and they wanted the photographers in place for an iconic photograph, why didn’t they just station them in the perfect position from the start, or ten minutes earlier, not *as* the gunshots rang out? Seems like a bit of a late positioning to me, if one is arguing it was staged.
I would so love to see the secret service agents assigned to Jill’s appearance scheduled at the same time (only shortly before) as Trumps rally and less than an hours drive away!!!
For that matter, how about Kamala’s SS agent lineup? Were they all tall?
I will offer this personal example of the potential consequences of DEI over merit: we recently had a young, female firefighter hired by our local FD. They did everything they could to facilitate success for her, but at the end of her probation year, she was fired. Why? Well, as a petite woman, she was simply unable to adequately and SAFELY perform the physical requirements of the job. According to one of her colleagues who participated in Academy with her, they almost literally dragged her across the finish line.
During training, she frequently experienced anxiety attacks. She also refused the counsel of her fellow firefighters to "start eating, lifting and putting on bulk" so as to be able to effectively "handle hose" and complete the very arduous tasks required of being firefighter which routinely, for those of you who don't know, requires performing tasks while wearing air tanks and other equipment weighing up to 60 pounds and "on air" which in and of itself is very challenging.
My husband was once at a scene at which a fellow firefighter fell through the floor of a burning building. Another firefighter basically one-armed the fallen man out of the basement pulling him to safety. There is absolutely NO WAY that young woman could have executed that save. My husband, during training - who is not a huge guy - had to heft a much heavier firefighter up a ladder in a "man down" rescue drill which required my husband to get under the other fire fighter and hoist him up on his shoulders and push him up the ladder. Again. There is NO way a petite woman could do this. These are the stakes.
And I would add that this is as much about protecting the woman's safety too. She would not only have jeopardized the safety of her fellow firefighters, but put herself at risk too.
Women who want to do these types of jobs need to take the exact same physical requirements tests that men do. No "easier" tests for them. If they can't pass the same physical requirements as men, they don't get in. Period.
This is simple truth, reality, and common sense. My Mom used to tell me “you can do anything you put your mind to”. And while i appreciated the optimism and encouragement, it is always tempered by truth. I could not ever become a singer for example because I’m terrible!
By pushing falsehoods that women can do any and all jobs men can do (or vice versa) we further the lies and also prevent people from discovering what they are truly great at.
I tell my children they can achieve anything they put their mind to - within reason. My string bean middle school aged son wants to play football. Sorry dear, your physique is not cut out for football! So he plays basketball and baseball instead :)
Yea, I’m a 5’2” female who never felt any desire to be a firefighter or such. I’m sorry, those women are trying to make up for some sort of inadequacy feelings or something instead of truly living their true purpose.
As a classic 60s feminist, my memory is we were fighting for *equality of opportunity*. Just for the chance to try out for jobs like that. No guarantee of getting them, which is crazy.
Yes. In the old days, it was common that "no women need apply", no matter if they were a powerlifting marathon runner. Equality is about giving everyone a chance to meet the standards, NOT about letting people in below standard. (Well, and also about not having "fake" standards that serve no purpose other than keeping certain people out.)
A female friend formerly worked as a firefighter. She trained relentlessly to do the ladder carry you described. It nearly killed her but she persevered, was hired, but eventually resigned. Maintaining the required upper body strength proved to be an impossibility.
I no longer have the strength to change a flat tire. I need my men. I’m 102 pound weakling ( autoimmune issues, resisting the slow kill program daily.)
I still think these "outages" are just setting us up for when the globalists shut it all down. Be prepared people. And where in the heck is Mitch McConnell??????
AJ has been saying for weeks that Biden will drop out of the race on 20 or 21 July.
I used to think he was kind of nutty talking about the Deep State.
But, I figured he saved my life when he had Dr. Francis Boyle on in February 2020 confirming my suspicions that covid was a bioweapon. Dr. Boyle was on again in December 2020 calling the covid shot "Frankenshots" and warning they were also a bioweapon.
On Covid, all one had to do was look at the SEC filings which clearly stated that mRNA was an experimental genetic therapy. Thanks, I'll pass on that! But beyond that, I just happened to pick up a Tom Clancy book Rainbow 6, published in 1998. I was at an airbnb and randomly pulled that off the shelf. The plot: bio terror plus a vaccine that kills! Chance?
First place. Second place, the footnotes. That's the string that leads to unraveling the lies. Just have to know what to question and where to dig deeper.
On your "random" book choice, as a coincidence denier I'd say someone just the other side of the veil - which is as close as your skin - has your best interests at heart. Way too many non-coincidences here - thus the "denier" characterization - to mention over the last 40+ years since more than half of my family of origin has made the shift to the other side. Many friends and extended family as well. Yet another instance of, nothing is as it seems. Reference quantum physics for preliminary verification.
He's at least 5 yrs ahead. I've been playing catch up for a decade.
Alex reads everything published by the regime, including the historical documents. He has so much info on his head, I'm surprised he doesn't jumble it all up a lot more often.
He is proof that, once you see the goals and the playbooks a few times, you know what's happening instantly.
For example, the strategic similarities between the ClA hit on JFK and their recent Trump attempt are remarkable. Cause a kill box to occur, create security lapses, have a patsy and a narrative, and take out the patsy. The tactical details differ, but the basics of the op are nearly identical.
Now figure in Alex's 39+ yrs of investigating these plots and plans...
It bothers me that Jones and others who repeat dire predictions over and over again call them into being, in a sense. I followed Jones in the run up to the 2016 election and backed off.when his hate and yelling became too much for me. He’s been correct about many things but I believe in the power of words to be extremely creative. By repeating something with so much emotion again and again and then thousands coming to believe and repeat, that’s powerful.
We will wake up and voila global digital currency and social credit score. Tuckers latest interview with the country singer about Revelation was eye opening for me.
The Blob is onto plan D to M, to retain power. Cyber outages, power grid outages, escalation in Ukraine(NATO)/ Russia(CCP), escalation between Israel/Iran, mid level terrorist attacks in America. Just trying to normalize Chaos. The goal is to install the new Blob Puppet without an Election.
My son, who has an American friend in Ukraine, which friend is married to a Ukrainian, said that the Ukraine constitution allows for elections to be put off in times of emergency. Convenient.
Candace Owen proposed that the plan was, after a successful hit on Trump last week, creating a huge mass psychosis event, like September 11, we would find out that “Iran did it” and the traumatized population would cry for war, or just be so easily led right into it.
Last person I am listening to is Candace Owens. She showed her true self (which I had a little feeling about her from the very beginning - and my gut instinct has never, ever been wrong) this year. She's just parroting views already out there.
Good rational for paper ballots… especially interested as a Washington State resident (at least we live on the East/more conservative side of the state).
This has been going on for decades. The fight against vaccines. Just certain people woke up. The choice, the individual choice, is still there and has been. Don’t take vaccines and become informed. The trajectory, even with Trump- is going in the right direction now- but it took this world crisis to get it there. So blaming Trump is asinine. The truth is this has been a fight we have been fighting for ages and many administrations.
Based Florida Man, meanwhile everyone on the Right including most anti-vaxxers, are now worshipping the one who is responsible for this weapon of mass destruction and still pushing it. None other than their new god, Trump. I don't get it! Mass Madness!
Kathleen Janoski, yes that was a tragic terrible thing Biden did. But that does not excuse Trump from his responsibility for Warp Speed and all it's horrible repercussions, and he is still pushing the vax. He is not stupid - He is controlled!
You do realize of course that the bioweapon covid, and the bioweapon covid shot, were created and funded by the US government and DoD long before Trump came into office.
And yes, it annoys me that he has not denounced Warp Speed, but I am more worried about those nutcases in DC getting us into WW3.
So in the hierarchy of worries, WW3 is at the top, and OWS is close to the bottom.
Kathleen Janoski, Trump still pushed the vax and went along with it, which tells me he is as controlled as Biden. Anyone who gets in the WH is controlled. And I agree with you that WW3 is at the top of concerns. I'm praying the controllers will allow Trump to stop it. We just don't know what is behind the curtain nor what lies ahead.
Nor has he acknowledged its terrible tragic widespread effects. He just shutup all of a sudden so people like you would forget the horrors of the vax. Do you really not know how the vax has changed the course of the human race in a very negative, irreversible way? The guy is partly responsible for mass worldwide murder and mass debilitating injuries. If he came out and reversed his stance and showed true remorse, that might be different. P. S. There are a lot of dead people now and seriously injured people who took the vax because Trump pushed it.
🤣When someone doesn't want to face the truth, they hurl insults at others. Ad hominen attack. Until the people wake up to the fact that they are being played by both sides, which is really one controller, a free world will not appear.
Yeah, I call ‘em like I see ‘em. You gonna pull this free world out of your ass, while sitting on the fence avoiding any danger by refusing to participate?
Spoiler alert; not gonna happen. The battle must be engaged.
I watched all the RNC nights for the first time ever using live stream to skip to long shots of people dancing. Last night was great. Hulk Hogan! So entertaining, the whole thing was well done.
We watched it all 4 nights as well - something we've never done (we've always watched the speeches by the candidate). We actually enjoyed it! Who'da thunk?
I’ve never watched the convention all the way through. But this year was so different than years past. There was a palpable outlook of hope and faith. Very special indeed.
I’ve come to believe he has a tough mean streak and is also sincere and compassionate for people. That combo is leadership. The way he describes threatening the Taliban leader to stop shooting our troops long distance resulted in 18 months of no US troop dying, he’s very serious yet still funny.
And the way he treats people who have experienced a terrible loss like the families of the dead servicemen and of the women and children murdered by illegals. He genuinely cares about them and feels their hurt right with them.
I’m going to wait and see on that. It’s possible he may never address it, but I also wonder if he learned his lesson from last time about his promises to drain the swamp, which gave them a heads up to prepare to counter his efforts. I hope it’s just that he’s keeping his cards close to his chest this time. But yes, I definitely would want to see him address that at some point soon.
I enjoy listening to President Trump, but I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s basically “speaking to the choir”. Since the majority of the choir hasn’t been told by media to be concerned about the collusion between pharma and our government, there’s no need to address the millions of lives being killed or injured by vaccines. That wouldn’t be prudent. Just keep the focus on “look over there” at the media approved “deaths of concern”….fentanyl and those murdered by illegal immigrants.
AngelaK, why do you think he's *changed* into a wonderful person, vs. he was always himself but you and others perhaps just couldn't see it? I was anti-Trump, almost never-Trump, back in 2016, until I voted for him because Hillary. Then I was thrilled, for the most part (and he too is human and so imperfect, esp. by my human standards). I learned to appreciate his sense of humor, his love of the average Joe and Jane, and his love of our country, even if he doesn't articulate things as well as many smooth talkers, and even though he seems not to have the grasp of the fundamentals of constitutionalism that I would prefer.
Oh, I agree with you. I did think he was a good and caring person the first time, but I think that his defensive adolescent side gave the media and haters more ammunition.
I think that some of my former dislike (and the reason I said morphed) was from his much younger days in NYC when I lived there. He was really full of himself for a while! 🤭
On the other hand, our gossip page of the NY Post did report that he didn't like the society parties Ivana wanted him to attend, because he wasn't really into that kind of sycophantic pretense. He liked real people like himself. So there was that side of him that I knew about as well.
My comment was meant like that of an old friend meeting up with someone they went to college with. and that person is now elderly.
People mature and change, and as they become more secure in themselves, they often become more down to earth and their best Attributes shine!
Indeed, Trump's best attributes of leadership are now on display!
Also, there is the aging factor.
My mom and other adults of my family all softened and sweetened as they got into their 70s.
So please take my comment in the positive spirit which it was offered.
Well, you had it over me, since I knew virtually nothing about Trump before he was inaugurated. To my shame, for the most part I believed what was said about him.
I’m similar. Never cared for him or watched his TV show. Recently saw him on Opera in the 80s saying almost exactly what he says now. It’s like he always said the same things but now it’s in context of being president. Now the audience is there. He isn’t speaking to pander to an audience. He speaks and the audience responds.
I loved Pastor Sowell's speech, which was also a testimony! Powerful stuff. Always refreshing to hear credit given to Jesus Christ, not just a vague reference to God.
I agree, and I absolutely loved the band. Sixwire killed it with great, uplifting "oldies" from the 70ys/80ys. They continuing playing song after song, to fill in when there were technical difficulties or speakers couldn't get up to the stage. It was like a giant happy party. :D
I'm sure the DNC will feature live music with songs past the 80s, since their base is much younger than that for the RNC. I noticed a majority of "older and wiser" heads on the floor of the RNC. 😉
That is mostly because young Republicans don't choose to join their county party and run for Chair and State Committeeman/woman or elected state office, so they aren't eligible to attend the RNC convention. It's the fault of young Republicans, not the older ones who put in the time and effort.
I'm glad folks enjoyed the reality show. The comment thread seems people have lost all ability for critical thinking (or to realize they are watching a reality show).
Whitney's (the writer) an incredible interviewee. Rattles off evil people and plans like a machine gun. She's got a 2-volume set out (supposedly a 3rd volume coming out) called "One Nation Under Blackmail" in which she shows connections and sordid affairs between LOTS of people around the world.
She's a walking encyclopedia of permanent state knowledge. Unfortunately, the people who really need to read her will not, and will continue to support the very people and policies they are supposedly against.
I was following Whitney before the pandemic. We all experienced 2 years of a dystopian nightmare, some worse than others. I was completely black-pilled and depressed for most of that time 2021-2023, and then I decided life is too short to live that way. I decided to focus on positives. For example, if Trump had been killed, the GOP nominee would be Nikki Haley, and the VP would probably have been someone like Marco Rubio. I'll take Trump and Vance over that combo any day of the week. I'm not so naïve to think they will be successful in any effort to reform our federal government in any meaningful way. But I am and have been excited this entire year at the prospect of the Dems losing and them being completely demoralized, fearful, shrieking and crying on Nov 6. It will be 10 times worse than it was in 2016, and it will be absolutely delicious.
Yep, I understand where you are coming from. My problem/frustration is with the many on these threads who can't look objectively at reality. Trump can do no wrong, he's a savior, etc. That is a recipe for disaster.
I was at the convention. The crowd went wild when Hulk ripped off his t-shirt. It was my favorite moment of the entire convention. My friend was standing next to our Secretary of State, and she had to move a few steps away from him because he was swinging his arms so much in joy. She thought he was going to accidentally whack her with his flailing arms.
"But Biden is acting like an elderly relative who can no longer be trusted to drive safely but refuses to hand over the car keys. It’s a problem."
🤣🤣 I immediately connected to this statement. I can laugh about it now but a few years back, my sisters & I were confronted with such a dilemma when we had to make the decision to take away our father's car keys (he had Alzheimer's) after he took a drive to the grocery store from his Michigan home but wound up in Wisconsin.
My MIL took a drive to her daughter’s house, got lost and ran out of gas in middle of road, fortunately back country road. They only found her because in onstar on the car when she didn’t show up to daughters house. Last time she ever drove.
It was. Thank our Lord an Appleton police officer located him, found my sister's name in his wallet, and took him to the hospital until we could get there to bring him back home.
It is, sadly. Texas has "Silver Alerts" for such cases (much like Amber alerts but for the elderly). We had tossed around the idea of taking his car keys away for quite awhile before this happened but it's one of those situations where there's no handbook to go by. His car symbolized freedom for him so it was a really hard decision. Plus...we knew we had a responsibility to protect other people too. It wasn't just about him.
Driving for Mom was also her freedom - her parents were legal immigrants and her mother never learned to drive - but she was determined to learn and always loved it. Though she was showing some confusion I had driven behind her just the week before and her driving was spot on. This was also during the covid freakout (2020) so in trying to keep her "safe" it was easier for some dementia to sneak in unnoticed. She is still kicking at 91 and living at home with caregivers and palliative care check ins.
We went through this a few years ago with my mom. There’s an app you can put on their phone that will locate where they are. Also there’s a book- Creating Moments of Joy- that was a game changer for our family. It helps you to help your loved one have a better life and it tells you what’s coming. I cannot recommend it enough, it was a game changer for our family. We were blessed to be able to keep her in her home of 50 years.
Thank you Emumundo! I may have to get that for my kids :) I have the book “I am dead, now what?” for them after I depart but what if I lose my marbles on the way?
CrowdStrike was hired by Hillary Clinton. They were the firm she contacted via Michael Sussman to run the Muh Russia scam against then-candidate Trump in 2016.
We could nueter them instantly if we just blocked them from voting as shareholders for all the stocks their customers hold in their fund accounts. All the power comes from the aggregated share holder voting.
Check your 401K's and IRA's and make sure you don't have any Blackrock or Vanguard funds. If you haven't looked lately, it's highly likely that you do.
Actually, thru its ETFs and other funds, Blackrock is biggest shareholder of lots of companies. I would check some examples but my broker's site seems to be crowdstruck at the moment.
If you look up almost every single large corporation, Blackrock is in the top 3 shareholders. I looked up about 5, and Vanguard and/or Blackrock were in the top 3 excepting one corporation.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a cross-dressing peanut butter sandwich. Welcome to Biden University. Re-writing normalcy since 2020.
Last night’s RNC was everything my family hoped it would be. We watched every minute of it including Trump’s speech that went until midnight, EST! As Melania so eloquently stated, “the winds of change have arrived”. So true that statement is - and boy does it feel GOOD!
Maybe ClownStrike recently placed all of their high tech gadgetry on a slightly pitched roof. Did they run this through security first?
Sloped rooftops....the scourge of our times and kryponite to the inept. Who knew?
Maybe but I am going with DEI as a reason. 😉 or wait! Climate change, Putin, #ABV. Goodness. The clown 🤡 world we live in. Sometimes it gets me down. Today I am going with amusement and passing the popcorn.
As a system and network admin, I've never trusted Windows for mission critical hosts, and I've always known about the flaws and vulnerabilities with centralized cloud systems. Notice that this did not affect Linux and Mac hosts, which is expected.
It's another example like the recent auto dealer centralized software fiasco.
That list is good, but I'll add to it.
1. CrowdStrike is now vulnerable to an incomprehensible number of potential lawsuits.
(and future failures)
2. The world is manifestly over-reliant on a single computer platform (Windows).
3. The argument for replacing cash with digital currencies is over.
4. Banks are next to suffer from something like this, so get the bulk of your cash out before then. The day is coming soon when no ATMs will be working.
They have TOLD us what this software is really for. It's right in the name.
CROWDSTRIKE.
Names are very important.
Evil tells us everything they’re doing. Then pass it off as a joke, mistake, or misunderstanding. Every time.
Sometimes they’re straightforward. Like the scam artist I
encountered, whose surname was Wilharm. A quick internet search revealed that he had harmed, many times.
But this name, Wiseman, on the other hand, is obviously ironic :
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/jupiter-florida-man/
Demons do telegraph. Another example: “Democracy dies in darkness.” Subtext, “We’re doing our best to make it so.”
I love your frequent play on words, Tom. I bet it drives your family crazy, eh? 😂
Thanks!
"Notice that this did not affect Linux and Mac hosts, which is expected"
They are completely different operating systems which require different development teams to create the software for them. In this case, they borked a windows driver that runs in the highest privilege mode (needed bc what their software does).
There are a few problems, and neither are related to windows vs linux/mac (and I'm not a windows fanboy here, just a developer that has done this sort of work)
1.) most tech companies have very few windows devs these days bc all the cool kids are using macs. Companies allow this bc it has become part of their culture. So they are pumping out updates to the largest part of the install base with the smallest part of their dev team
2.) the trajectory we gotten on with almost daily software updates has gotten us exactly what you can expect to have happened
3.) most software companies now have very few resources in the way of testing teams bc the culture of software now is "we'll fix it in tomorrow's update"
gbrown, I think your #3 attitude has spread to almost everything these days. I am repeatedly shouting into the void, "How do these people make such crappy stuff and become millionnaires off of it?!" It's even spread to medicine, wherein Fauci, et al., made a crappy product in 2020 that made them possibly even billionaires, and they're either avoiding finding out the actual user experiences or they're ignoring them and just fielding more crappy products based on the same platform. Back in the day, there was such a thing as integrity and pride in one's work and work product.
As the wife of a senior software engineer who’s worked for several large companies, I can tell you, you are spot on! Minimal testing, no real “teams” anymore. They set these somewhat arbitrary deadlines and then RUSH to get it out. We can always fix it later 😒
Yep, the new “sprint” thing. Get it done in 5 days for half the price. So progressive!
My updates are all on manual. I wait a few months and see if the world blows up before I even think about installing them Same with my phone. My trust level has been at an all time low since the beginning of personal electronics and my Commodore 64.
job security!😏
♥I have been going to write a Substack about this very thing, all based upon a quote from Aristotle: "Innovating for the sake of innovating can actually diminish, if not destroy the very thing from which it originated." The Greeks disdained innovation for innovations sake and I 100% agree. Especially important to think of it in terms of NOW in our lives. It describes our digital world and how we can soon expect it to resemble nothing it was born as...It has morphed into a giant WEB of a monster which infests all aspects of most people's lives, unless you make a conscience decision to disentangle from this monstrosity.
Oh no, Sadie Jay! You would take us back to the age of dinosaurs at this glorious time when so many young, bright, and diverse innovators, unburdened by what has been, are changing the world?? Forward, not backwards! <sarc> <not sarc> “This is what the Lord says: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said,’ ‘We will not walk in it’” (Jeremiah 6:16). Let’s take a wild guess. What happened to those who said, “We will not walk in it”?
Looking forward to that blog, SadieJay--I believe I subscribed to your Substack about 2 weeks ago!!
The educational publishing industry humble brags about “building airplanes while flying them.” As if that’s the badge of multi-tasking go-getters. It’s more like the badge of scatter-brained go-goners. Good to see that industry tanking. Defund the DOE.
I am so distrustful that I turn automatic update OFF.
me too....from the beginning.
'all the cool kids are using macs'
After 37 years, I'm finally cool. Sweet.
Quick story Tardigrade: Many moons ago the fire department I worked for informed us we were transitioning (I hate that word now) from paper journals to record daily activities, filled out in black or red ink only, to computers. The old canard of easier faster save paper etc were used to promote the change. I resisted bigly, but knew computers were the future so asked a 'geek' on shift to teach me how to use the new box. Plus I had a young child at home and knew she was doomed to having to use the things. Sitting at the keyboard the geek said push this button Push these two buttons at the same time. Now push this. Now open this program, on it went. I knew I would need a 'cheat sheet' just to turn the dang thing on!
I was a daily listener to Rush Limbaugh, and he was an avid mac guy. So I visited a mac store. The sales person asked what I was looking for.,"I have no idea" I replied. Sales guy said okay, what can I show you? So off to a demonstration computer we went. My first question was "how difficult is this to turn on"? A little puzzled the sales person said 'push this button' which I did and the old CRT came to life. I asked "what do I push to make it work"? The sales guy still a bit puzzled asked 'what do you want to do'? I replied "like write something". He said 'click on this icon' (shown on the the screen) that opened the word processor. 'Now type your letter or whatever'. I didn't know how to type, still don't, but managed to make a couple of words on the screen. I asked "that it? No other buttons or combinations to push"? "nope' was the reply. Thus I was sold on the Apple 'what you see is what you get' simplicity. Deciding on a new (expensive) beige box and keyboard to a mac II VX (better than what Rush was using!) and a Sony CRT, (don't ask me why), I was now a computer owner. Deciding on a mac that day I have never looked back, and have chuckled over the years as friends and family with the 'other brand' have been plagued with security issues and crashes.
Enjoy your mac Tardigarde.
Great story. And the rest is history as they say.
Same here! I got my first 128K Mac just a few months after it was released in 1984. I've had 30 Macs since then, never Windows. I've never had a problem with my Macs, never even a virus! My Windows user friends always used to tell me Apple was going out of business soon. Ha!
Remember when you could only buy them from Apple. I babysat for an eye surgeon who wrote an entire text on book retinas on an early edition Mac in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I couldn’t believe that little screen. Thought he was nuts.
"most (insert blue states' legislatures) software companies now have very few resources in the way of (insert Legislative staff in blue states) testing teams bc the culture of (insert legislation) software now is "we'll fix it in tomorrow's update." This problem is pervasive in Dem states where poor legislative agenda is never fixed throughout their legislative process even given enough time to do so. In CA we used to hear, "We'll just get it out of the policy committee and fix the issue(s) in Appropriations...blah, blah, blah." Complete incompetence or laziness are the reasons I can come up with.
Thanks for your insight!
That's all true for sure, and like you said more of the problem than simply the type of OS. The centralized cloud is much more of a problem than the OSes, plus all that you mentioned.
It's looking like the wheels are falling off the centralized networks next, then the engines start flaming out or blowing up, and the real sparks fly.
86: Then what teck/cloud alternatives are there?
None that are 100% reliable or trustworthy is the short answer to that.
I think it is much more nefarious. I think what you state as the case is what they use as the "look here, not there" deployment of software intentionally deployed. Plausible deniability for a real attack.
This was a full scale test. Crowdstrike is not friendly software.
I agree and so does this author.
https://open.substack.com/pub/veryslowthinking/p/hybrid-warfare-food-for-thought?r=nvngz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Nice to hear JD Vance talk about trustbusting.
Has he discussed why he has made the 180 on Trump (I mean I KNOW, but has he addressed it publicly? From what I’ve read he was as bad as Liz Cheney - well, maybe not the devil herself.)
I believe he has. When he did would be telling.
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I agree. It’s always been highly disturbing that 911 call centers, healthcare organizations, and world financial markets run on Windows.
Well how about this 911 outage just a few hours ago?
https://downdetector.com/status/911/map/
More wheels falling off!
vote counting platforms....
Ominous for sure.
The auto dealer one was also Crowdstrike, with rumors of ransomware attack
Yes, that's why I mentioned it. Maybe we will not find out the real or whole story behind that either.
Fortunately--I'm on a LINUX host...but the banks I use and most of the medical centers in my part of PA were NOT!! Shameless and there are people "in the know" around the globe that are intimating this was INTENTIONAL on the part of "Clown"Strike to interfere with the transmission and audience' ability to view the Thursday evening broadcast of the RNC. Could be - but it didn't work out as "they" planned.
I've been running Linux since before most anyone even heard of it, since I knew it was the right way to go.
Fortunately, many companies also know that now and have their mission critical hosts on Unix/Linux/Solaris too. So not all are on Windows.
BTW, MacOSX is based on BSD Unix too. Courtesy of the UNC/Berkely.
Windows and Clownstrike are trojan horses that will bring them down in time.
I also will NEVER upload ANY of my files to a "cloud" - the one experiment I ran with "cloud sources" blew up in my face royally. Thankfully--the files I lost were inconsequential! Would you believe I still have PAPER B.U. for all critical files!! YEPPIR--I'm "old school" and proud of it!!
I have several 1 and 2 TB hard drives for my personal storage, so I never use online storage either.
Although since hard drives also die eventually, I have duplicate drives since it's way too much for paper!
I basically have my own private data center server with several terabytes of storage for my music, video and data collections on. My own digital library.
Terabyte SSD drives are so cheap now! Relatively speaking.
Chances are high that Crowdstrike's "click this to say you agree with the thing you didn't read" license makes the customer liable for anything that might go wrong. Will be interesting to see if it goes to court whether that stands up or not.
Yep.
This is a good read about that subject.
https://veryslowthinking.substack.com/p/hybrid-warfare-food-for-thought
I bank locally, two banks, and with a credit union. The larger local bank, which is listed on the stock exchange, went down. The smaller local bank and the credit union did not. I’m assuming they’re on a different system and plan to move out of the larger bank.
That supports my thought that small local banks and credit unions are not as centralized as the large ones. It's also another reason why anything centralized is bad. It's only good for the centralizers and hackers. Especially banks and governments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTr3_mhGPI
Thanks for that link. I love Whitney Webb!
86 - "...get the bulk of your cash out..." So then, put cash where??
I'm stashing some cash, and buying real assets with most of the rest, leaving only enough in my bank accounts to pay monthly bills and living expenses.
Not financial advice, just what I am doing.
(Real assets=gold, silver, food, real estate, cars, etc...)
Oh yeah - Climate Change caused for sure...
Want to keep the F B I from raiding your house, add sloped walkways to each entrance. BINGO!
You've probably seen the meme selling the Slope 1000; "Protect your family from the Slope 1000, 1-888-SLOPE ME," On sale now for $299.
I can't quit laughing.
A friend just sent that one to me...hilarious!
Aka: wheelchair ramps
Good one!
😂
"Cloud Seeding" brains with mind viruses for the neo-feudal surveillance security state.
They have special plans for us and I don't think we're going to like it....but ze bugs will be yummy!
Population reduction has been a goal from hell since the beginning. Literally.
You're spot on. If we look at all these "initiatives" like climate change and DEI, they are all very satanic and we need to realize this: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/are-we-under-satanic-attack#details
Unfortunately, a lot of people out there are comfortable in their tiny little comfort cages :(
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-comfortable-cage-of-our-modern
and then to mock us 2 years ago, our children were put in visible cages, circles were drawn and we were dared to step outside them. but on the other hand, 500 tv channels.
and as you saw, people willingly walked into them, and took their children with them. The contempt with which the cabal hold the sheeple is not without cause.
sad but true. saying is people go insane in mobs and come to their senses one at a time. which includes me. which is why I keep hammering away.
I figure its just like being on the Titanic . I am pretty sure its gonna go all the way under............. but maybe if everyone else jumps then I'll be ok .
or, hell, what am i gonna do ? Swim to shore ????
You are absolutely right! Every negative thing happening now is focusing on achieving "Ze Depopulation" purpose.
i am not FOR the depopulation plan . BUT i would say that as far back as 30 years ago I was thinking " damn, the amount of humans are multiplying like crazy ! " .
Of course, most people saw no danger in that . ( Do any of you ? )
Well.......... maybe "more the merrier" in some peoples thinking , however maybe 5 % are eating REAL food ( not processed or gmo or some list of 40 ingredients and additives with some fake flavoring . and SUGAR up the gazoo). And, though we speak of Love and God .......... when i walk through the valleys of civilization I just don't see it .
So , for my Sunday sermon i will shout out my WOES ... to what mankind has evolved into . ( i will not repeat George Carlin's opinion , but it does appear, to me at least, to be even worse then we he voiced it ) .
And in the spirit of "elections" , and "promises", I will watch the movie once again :
"Hope and Change : episode 2030" . Some organic popcorn, please ...........
Actually, you are not evil to think there are too many people. World population did jumped straight-up 8 fold after 1900s. So, we do have a problem. 8.1 Billion and going up.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/?ref=ae.studio
I do hope globalists are reading this: We can all work together on a better solution!! For example, do educate young people about the current world population explosion, do tell people that computer driven machines are replacing human labor, .... Let's solve the problem by not having that many babies.
Amen .............. ( will anybody listen ? )
I do wish we could go "back in time " ........
I will yell a little louder next time . ( will anybody listen ? )
Peace. Love. Less babies . Less chemicals . No greed and corruption.
As that song goes, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", or at least the psychopaths do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w
We actually all ingest a certain amount of bugs due to the FDA’s allowance of a “small” percentage in industrial manufacturing.
But don’t worry! If the FDA says it’s safe, we’ll be okay 👍🏼
This is why it's so important to buy real food and cook our own meals. Leave the boxes, bags and cans on the shelves.
I’ve been doing that for years! Definitely not changing that.
I can't remember where I read it, but coffee is allowed about 20% other material. I've since switched to buying whole bean.
All I've bought for decades. Makes better coffee too. When we travel, we take our own coffee , grinder, and French Press
I saw a man looking at different foods under the microscope -completely disgusting! on IG lately. Ignorance was bliss.
https://nedb.substack.com/p/ignorance-is-not-bliss
Ignorance is a blister, painful when popped.
The local health food store is already selling organic cricket snacks.
It'll become the foundation of the new food "compass" they introduced a couple years ago to replace the food pyramid.
All i know is the day they come for my medium rare filet is the day i storm the capital.
I hope everyone will support me in my Food Coupass!
As I said yesterday, don’t touch my ribeye! 🥩
They'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands
I say that about the keys to my gasoline guzzling car, but it certainly applies to my red meat too 😅 (coming from someone who lives in the land of Tesla, Prius and Rivian)
It will be "two pillars" of food. Or a food checkerboard. A food square-and-compass would be too obvious.
No need to rush out to the health food store. Crickets cost upward of $40 a pound, Trantula snacks even more. A fillet steak looks like a bargain in comparison.
Tell them if they don't ditch them, you'll take your business elsewhere. I was probably giving a local health food store ~$600 a year in business, until one day the owner and I got into a discussion on jab mandates . She was all for them. I never went back.
Back in the 1960s my father brought home a container of chocolate covered ants from the grocery store to gross us all out. I don't remember that they became a "thing." My own feeling is that we ordinary folk are more powerful than those hubristic oligarchs with their stupid plans for bugs and lab grown meat. We will beat them every time.
Yes we will. They underestimated us for too long.
Now they are scared of us.
Will pet owners realize that they are cheaper at the pet store?
Pet store crickets smell
like cricket pee. It’s SO strong! We kept a bearded dragon— or some reptile— for a friend who was deployed for 18 mo. We had to buy ze bugs. Let me tell ya, the deployee couldn’t have come home soon enough for me!
The only
good thing abt the reptile in question was watching him ride around on the robo-vac like he was sailing the 7 seas.
This is hysterical! My grands got one of those critters… his crickets got loose. Their mom, who loved the little guy, was freaked out. Mealworms became his staple. 🤢
probably better for you than 9/10s of what your grocery store is selling you
Thanks for letting us know...NOT buying!!!
Looks like the WEF is having their Me Too moment. https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-economic-forum-opens-board-probe-of-workplace-culture-8571c6fd
And most don’t know Elon Musk is directly involved in that one.
I suspect they will find a way to blame Trump!
don't you know he is to blame for every evil in the world?
They would say Trump is also guilty of causing sun spots, too.
An interesting Cloudstrike connection:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/what-is-crowdstrike-why-was-donald-trump-talking-about-it-in-2019-us-elections-2016-ukraine-election-interference-call-russia-putin/articleshow/111865514.cms
I wonder if Crowdstrike has any connection to Dominion?
BOTH are corrupt and FUBAR.
I once backed out of buying a house because it had a flat roof & satellite photos showed standing puddles.
Can secret service snipers tolerate wet feet?
Can we sue Bill gates ? It affected hospitals!!!
Taking a break from cleaning up this mess, it should be noted that the only ones affected by this disaster were PCs and servers that were left running overnight. The borked update got replaced shortly after it was released, and those that checked in later were not impacted. The fix is relatively trivial, though a huge PITA for remote users.
lol!
Wonder how much “open source” code they are using in their mission critical applications? How much REAL testing (beyond regression testing) are they doing?
Never knew a wheelchair ramp was a threat to National Security
Software is not a gadget, having no physical existence.
sarcasm is unique to humans. try it out....the human part....
Good stuff, Ryan!
Nailed it Ryan! I think Vonu is a Star Trek character…name fits doesn’t it?
Isn't that what Mork from Ork was fond of saying....."vonu vonu" ?
I miss Robin Williams!!
may he RIP.
Nanu. Nanu.
He was the best.
Cheers!
lol, yep!
😉 🥂
So is grammar outside of yourself.
i know there's a human under that pedant suit
Pedant? I had to look that one up Ryan. You could have just said dick! 😆
I gave away my last suit of any kind many years ago.
Even the birthday suit?
😂 Hang in there with that suit, buddy! Never fold!
Trumps speech, at least the first part, was amazing. The end got a little rambly. I LOVE that he’s talking about what he wants to do rather than just telling us why the other guy is bad. And that quote about Americans expecting better leadership gave me chills. Excellent.
Also, I love it when Tucker cracks himself up.
Tucker giggling is completely contagious 🤣
He laughs at himself a lot; seems to have a great sense of self-deprecating humor without being falsely humble.
Yes! His laugh is so goofy I almost can’t help laughing too.
He does have a goofy and infectious laugh!
I heard someone say Tucker’s laugh is a national treasure. 🙂
I like Tucker a lot.
You, and several other million women, me included! 😂 He has quite a fan club. I seldom disagree with him.
I haven’t had a chance to watch his entire speech from last night, only the clip Jeff posted today, but I’m looking forward to it.
I disagree with those who think he’d be a good VP, I want to see him as press secretary. Wouldn’t that be fun to watch him take down media stooges on a daily basis with his quick wit!
He may have a place in Trump's administration - but he is too valuable as a journalist. The stories he puts out there ! He is fine right where he is, I think.
Yeah, I kinda think he’s too much of a free spirit to take that job anyway. He seems to love his life away from Fox, being his own boss.
I’ve been so disappointed with people like Kaleigh McEnany, who I thought did a great job as Trump’s press secretary, but to work at Fox is anti Trump. They have a few people who come across as conservative, but I believe they’re very controlled, because Fox, as an organization, is not pro-Trump.
Yes, agreed - he certainly seems to be enjoying his freedom....and the opportunity it brings. What terrific content !
Ya he is far better as a journalist.
Tucker for Press Secretary!
The greatest interview of his is 85 min. with John Rich or BIG & RICH fame. It. was. SO. GOOD!
My 1 criticism of Tucker was it felt like a speech he’d give at Heritage. Not a speech to RNC delegates.
And what would be wrong with that?
The Heritage Foundation is AMAZING
Nothing wrong with them. Just different. It didn’t feel like the RNC with him
I am a fan of Tucker… going with my spouse to see him live in Jacksonville in September
Harris needs to take laugh lessons from him.
In Tucker's case, it's sincere.
Cackling Kamala
KaRmala is what Tucker used to call her on FOX. Love it!
This is funny, was thinking about it earlier today as I watched his speech..... he's like a kid. A big kid - and yes, as Running Logic states - it's infectious as hell.
And the best part ? Lefties HATE that laugh !
Laugh on, Tucker, LAUGH ON !
It is refreshing compared to the Kamala cackle...
DEMS are going to place her into the Election to replace "Bitten". Really not looking forward to see and hear her for the rest of the Election Period.
Gosh I love that guy. Some are speculating Trump will try to hire Tucker as press secretary but IDK if Tucker would do it.
It is easy to be self-deprecating when one is a multi-millionaire.
One would think but how many do we actually see behaving that way?
Very few of them are in the public eye.
Oh, please...
I'm sure you are most welcome...
It's easy to be self-deprecating when one is a human.
No other creature would think us worth the effort.
You sound so depressed. I didn’t think you ‘entities’ could get depressed. I have noticed that certain spiritual entities are happy when everything is chaotic, but depressed when people are filled either joy, have hope. You seem to bloom when you see chaos.
No wonder you’re sad.
Try reading the Bible.
I am not an entity.
I'm not sad, I'm being bullied by hypocrites.
I was reading the bible until my psychowife stole it.
Just wish he didn’t do it so much
Why? I like it that he laughs all the time. I'm tired of being stressed and anxiety-ridden. He's so cheerful, but if you look around, there doesn't seem to be much to be cheerful about. How does he do it? What is his secret?
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22
His laugh is infectious, but in a good way!
Heard a discussion the other day about the cabal of evil “elites.” One comment was that they literally are in league with Satan, and are incapable of experiencing joy or gratitude. This rang true. Think of Soros, Hillary Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, all the Bidens, and on and on. Their eyes and faces show the truth of this.
Been reading a lot of ancient history, very intriguing material, especially with all the fairly recent archaeology finds and historical and religion revisions that may be ( should be ) required. Material on the ancient civilizations - Summerian / Annataki - address the differing influences and conflicts. Then, if you read background investigations on Epstein, Pizzagate, Child trafficking etc., you will better understand the historical satanic progression and those involved. Evil elites is an apt definition!
It’s amazing it’s been going on for so long but we mostly haven’t been aware if it, at least I haven’t, until the last eight years. President Trump pulled back the veil … his mere existence set them into a frenzy of hate and vitriol that exposed their slimy, satanic underbellies.
I'm ancient. I saw it 50 years ago when I came to Jesus at age 20. The progression by the progressive has been a downhill snowball.
Pray without ceasing.
Their cult is the cult of death.
Watch many of his speeches and talks with the likes of Thomas Massie and John Rich. His Scottsdale speech in Wisconsin was great. He talks about his spiritual journey and his going to Maine to live. He’s definitely found something.
I think that is why he is able to laugh. He has found, not only something, but Someone. The same Someone Who slightly moved the President’s head……..
I am in agreement. Infectious joy from knowing you're on the right side, in the right place, on the right path. No wonder Dems are so gloomy.
100%!
I loved his comment “ I think we are going to be ok “.
His faith was so evident at that moment.
It's like he prayed after leaving the stage in Butler, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head” (Psalm 3:3). I hope he did.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
I wondered about that--I only knew of his Vermont home. But a recent Ask TC made it seem that he was in Maine. There's been so much heavy news in last two mos I have not taken time to watch TCN
It is Maine, but way off the beaten path. If you go to Tucker Carlson.com, browse until you find the Scottsdale speech. He’s actually giving it in WI, but to a group who we all would call “salt of the earth”. He talks about Maine at length. I learned a lot about him through that speech.
Agree 💯. Sometimes laughing, giggling and smiling is the best response. 😄🙂😁
GG I also believe Tucker exemplifies living with joy as a Christian. It is one of his gifts - you don’t see a lot of people able to laugh off absurdities.
Laughter really is the best medicine. Laughter produced serotonin which is produced by the body and does amazing things. It's a great research. We are fearfully and wonderfully made!!
I agree he is so cheeeful and its wonderful. The best part about the RNC was how hopeful and positive and joyful it was instead of non stop negative attack the left.
Is that why people look at me sideways 🤣. I don’t think many days go by that I don’t laugh at myself!!!
Same. I am a target rich environment for my own humor. 😂
Love this!!
His responses to Aussie media were absolutely golden. Tucker for Trump's Press Secretary?
He'd make a great Press Secretary beginning in January.
It is!! I’m so glad to hear someone else has been doing the same thing.
I thought Trump’s speech was a bit long too but consider these possible reasons:
*he made up for lost speaking time last Saturday (😆).
*it was probably cathartic for him in some ways considering how close he came to death. Notice how much calmer and clearer he was?
Here’s what I thought about President Trump’s speech.
1. How can he have such energy at this time of night? (I had had an unusually busy day and I was yawning my head off. I’m sure his day had been much busier.)
2. Because of the assassination attempt (Jill Biden and company meant it for evil, but God meant it for good (Genesis 50:20), I believe millions were watching, who had never heard Trump, raw and unfiltered, before. They now know how the media has lied. President Trump is far too brilliant to pass up the opportunity to reach them.
Rambling? Interesting that the ultra liberal Daily Beast used that same description.
Even in my tired and sleepy state, I judged it to be an outstanding, on target and incredibly purposeful speech.
Unfortunately, there are still MANY who are still not paying attention.
Not paying attention, or enemies on here to harm?
There’s an awful lot of questionable posting on here.
Lots of new account names.
Lots of subterfuge.
What’s that old saying? You know you’re over the target if you’re taking a lot of flak?
I’m speaking of my own little circle of friends & family…which I imagine carries out exponentially.
Hopefully then, you’re just dealing with ignorance, willful or otherwise.
Plenty of that, too.
When Trump walked stage left and embraced the mannequin with Comperatore's firefighter coat and helmet ... Both moving, and a display of true sincerity.
Now try to imagine Biden, Harris, or their handler, The Lightbringer, doing that.
The coat and helmet have more flexibility than Biden.
And greater self-awareness.
😝😝😝😝😝😝
😝😝😝😝😝
hahaha
Brought me to tears!
Got a little choked up when he did that
I told my husband I don’t see another politician doing that. It was a bit odd but it WAS very sincere. I LOVE how the humanized Trump this round. Bravo to Lara Trump and co-campaign manager.
I thought the most touching thing was when Trump kissed Comperatore's helmet and then touched the coat. That was incredibly moving.
When did he do that exactly? Wanted to see it - I’m sure it’s powerful -I wasn’t able to watch the beginning last night and am trying to find it on the you-tube clip…….
https://substack.com/home/post/p-146776409
Embedded video is cued to this part of Trump's speech.
Thanks
But why is his last named misspelled on that jacket???
It was spelled that way on his jacket long before yesterday. It was his actual jacket on display - provided by the Buffalo FD.
Supposedly not enough room for the complete spelling when it was made.
My understanding is that he retired from that. Even if not, he was a Fire Chief. Just like I am a veteran. I may not serve any longer, but I am still a veteran.
Both are something to be proud of.
We buried my fave uncle in Feb. He was a fire chief and a veteran. A bunch of guys from his fire dept. came to the funeral and one gave a speech.
The fire truck parked outside & they ran the siren for 3 min. while they did a special announcement they do when one of their own dies. It was very moving.
He had been retired for over a decade yet the dept. still chose to honor him this way.
There was a veteran ceremony-ette as well, and the folded flag was presented to my aunt and her grown kids.
Yeah, Trump's speech was a little too long, and Tucker's was too short.
His speech was exactly as long as it needed to be. Unbelievable the hyper criticism about nothing continues in some minds and always will as far as DJT is concerned.
But you know we are entitled to our opinions. Become snarky and you are just like the other side. Don’t agree? Fine. Move along.
Thanks, mommy. But no thanks! You are certainly entitled to your opinions and I’m certainly entitled to critique them. Can’t take the heat? Stay out of the kitchen!
Some false kind of nicety nice crap is why we’re in this absurd state of affairs. Mustn’t hurt any snowflake feelings…🤮
Just sad how the nastiness spews out of supposedly the conservative side. Thanks for the real life examples of how nasty and evil a person can be. Now, bye.
Don’t let the door hit you in the azz on the way out, Karen.
One man’s snark is another man’s rapier wit. You haven’t been appointed judge over this site so far as I know.
Frankly I'd like them to trade jobs. Trump does great shows and Tucker has great ideas.
While it seems Tucker has seen the light [not necessarily from above] don't forget it wasn't long ago he was asking Hunter for a reference to get his son into an elite school. It's in the Laptop from hell.
Tucker has great ideas but has he even created a job like Trump in his business career? Maybe a couple of cameramen. So IMO Tucker is just where he needs to be, interviewing the right people to educate his viewers in what's happening behind the scenes and helping to make it make sense. That's his fortay.
Friendly edit: "forté"
Y'all get with the program, Fla Mom: This is 'Merica and it is FORTAY.
And, if you order sweet tea in the south, it’s ‘sweetass tea’. I had never myself saying ‘sweetass’ until we moved to South Florida……I had to say it 3 times, as the waitress had no idea what I was saying. The third time I repeated it I heard it……..I was 26 years old and never realized. I was a pastor’s daughter. I had never said ‘ass’ in mah laf (my life). Now I’m in KY, so you can imagine my ackseyent naow. (Interpret is as you will)
Now, when we go back to Alabama, I hear people in restaurants calling it ‘sweetass tea’ again.
Lol! Got it-
I wonder if Tucker will get a job in his administration?
I hope not. Many of these effective people need to stay where they have proven themselves effective, please! Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Massie, Rand Paul....
That's the one reason I worry about JD as VP. The very popular gov. of Ohio, Mike DeWine, is likely to appoint Matt Dolan, who LOST the Republican primary fight to run against sitting US Senator Sherrod Brown. Given is from Ohio; he's my choice
Gov DeSwine is popular? Not in my neck of the woods (NE). We can't stand the little RINO troll-man and wish we could replace him with a true Patriot.
Yes! Agreed
I would be shocked if that happened considering he's extremely vocal about how much he hates DC (he spent 35 yrs there) and what a blessing it was when Fox fired him. He's now got his own show, his own network, and his own staff with all of it being done at his home far away from DC. He says he's never been happier.
Good point!
He would make an entertaining Press Secretary.
Press Secretary
Yeah, President Trump is dumb as dirt and has never had a good idea. Sure…
Way to go, Florida man! Such enhancement to your credibility. Implying that DJT has no good ideas is very contrary to what Jeff Childers is saying and to logic. That’s your TDS talking.
One wonders how you tolerate reading Jeff anymore. Must be very painful.
And he's broke, penniless and friendless just like all the other dumb as dirt folks who never had a good idea.
It’s all smoke & mirrors making it look like he’s wealthy, has a loving, lovely family and a caring circle
of friends. 🙄
😂😂😂. Good one, Willing Spirit!!!
🤣
I thought his speech was amazing.
When Trump finally got to policy and said “drill, baby drill” then said “close the border” and then “peace talk” I was jumping around screaming “finally, finally freaking finally!” Y’all that’s all he needs to do. Seriously just those 3 things would put this country back on track! He needs to just say that, forget about the current admin, because those 3 things are what the undecideds want and need to hear.
AND starve the 3 letter agency beast and cut spending. Every time I look at the national debt clock I get anxiety. Businesses are drowning in regulations, gov wastes more money than some small countries even spend, and all of this helps fuel inflation.
The problem with cutting funding is the executive branch (President) is not in control of that. The Pres can ask Congress for budget cuts but cannot make them real.
Win the House and Senate and the WH, and the tyranny of the 3 letter entities is history.
Yes, we know Congress is drunk on spending. But the Prez has a veto option.
Those 3 things will make a huge change for sure! I feel you. I was screaming and saying hell yes with Viveks speech other day!
If you haven’t yet seen it, I encourage all to watch J Rogan’s interview of Tucker from several months ago. It’s long, but the end gave me chills. Tucker literally said we need someone willing to die for our country to get out of the mess we’re in. Seemed so prophetic.
Loved it! I hadn’t heard Tuckers story before.
He was more subdued than usual last night-- in a good way!
When doesn't Tucker crack himself up?
He does it constantly, and I love it. His laugh is infectious, esp since he’s often laughing at himself.
When he interviews Putin?
Tuckers giggle is contagious.
President Trump was simply awesome.
Valerie-
To me the “not so good” part of his speech was still fine. It felt like the Trump we know. If the speech had completely changed from how we know him some might question if its the same person. He gave a remarkable speech esp without a prompter. And I actually love that he can think on his feet and come up with other thoughts. So for me the only part that dragged on was the relentless thanking and cheering for people. LOL Otherwise I loved it all.
I am truly excited. Hope the dems dont steal it.
Agreed. The fact that he went 90 ish min without a teleprompter and didn’t lose track of what he was saying is amazing. At any age.
I was at the convention. He had a teleprompter. There were 3 large screens along the wall opposite the stage. I could see 2 of them from where I was sitting in the arena. Of course he went off script - if you watch any of his rally speeches, it's easy to tell when he is reading from a teleprompter and when he's not. Most of the 1st part of his speech was from a teleprompter.
This is true!
I don’t understand your comment
In Trumps speech he talks about his hand being bloodied… but there was no blood on his right hand when he raised it fisted to shout “fight, fight, fight”.
So you mean to tell me that the SS thought to wipe his hand off before having him stand up. Where did they get the wipes from and they got his hand that clean in that amount of time?A lot of things are not adding up & sure smells fishy. Trump also said blood was pouring from his ear in his speech. Really? Where was the blood on his shirt collar & jacket??
What makes me sad is all the people going along with the so called assasination. Tucker being one of them.
There are so many things that don’t make sense. Gun shots sound different in different videos, in all the videos there are things we cannot fully see, where are all the spectator videos, why wasn’t there more blood?, why didn’t more people fear for their lives?…so many questions!
Certainly there are many questions, but not the ones you brought up here.
Cartilage doesn’t have blood vessels. The only blood vessels in the external part of the ear are small capillaries to sustain the thin layer of skin. So a wound there won’t bleed too heavily. Small amounts that got on his hand could easily have been brushed off on a sleeve or trouser leg in the ~30 seconds before the “fight” gesture.
When one is bleeding from a gunshot wound, it tends to make an emotional impression, so a bit of hyperbole (“blood pouring”) is understandable. But if you want to fault his choice of verb as insufficiently clinical… OK, whatever.
Sound recordings will differ significantly based on the type and location of microphone, the acoustics of the surrounding area, and the medium used to record them. Digital formats will be affected by processing software. Cell phones are optimized for human speech at short distances, which has a much lower frequency and volume than a gunshot.
Spectator videos are available in abundance, but they're inevitably kind of redundant: everyone was looking towards President Trump speaking, not at the crowd or a seemingly-random building off to the side. People react differently to sudden and unexpected dangers (and have different reaction times), so you can't infer whether or how much they feared for their lives.
Any other questions on your mind?
Trump said in his speech that an ear wound bleeds
more than any other injury.
I would think that if you were shot in the ear with a round
from AK 47 there would be some blood splatter.
And you would likely need some reconstructive
surgery, and not just a bandage.
And one more thing, in the video showing
the SS Sniper getting off three shots, after the
first shot the gun recoils and points up a bit
so the next shot would be wildly off target.
But the gunner does not re aim.
But that's just what I think.
President Trump is incorrect about that. The pinna (the outer part of the ear) doesn't have a lot of blood vessels, so it doesn't bleed much. This is why pierced ears are a thing. The bullet in this instance thankfully only grazed or nicked the edge, causing some capillary bleeding at the point of impact and a little bit of blood spatter on his cheek. This is consistent with needing stitches (and a bandage). Reconstructive surgery, if any, would be very minor and can be done later.
The weapon was an AR-15, not an AK-47, but that doesn't really matter in this scenario. Bullets from either one will punch through a thin layer of cartilage (like the ear) and barely slow down. The main difference will be a slightly larger or smaller hole.
God forbid, but if you're going to get shot, this is about the best you could hope for. None of which makes the shooting any less terrible. President Trump was INCREDIBLY lucky. And I'm not going to fault him for overstating how much bleeding there was. And there are certainly questions that need answering. All I'm saying is the particular questions Gabriella asked are actually pretty easy to answer.
Plenty, but I’m not going to waste my time anymore typing them all out.
Any question can be easily answered doesn’t mean it’s right or true.
I want to believe the assisination wasn’t staged/planned but after what was done to the whole world during Con-vid, I believe anyone can and will lie to us. So far I’m seeing “they” will keep the chaos going continuously and keep people constantly confused and searching for answers.
You can believe whatever you want. I’m not here to convince anyone to change their minds.
TDS is without cure.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/00d2XkZwMTc7grPjnBcJaZ5LA
Not sure if pic will come through, but there’s a hole in Trump’s ear. I guess he had that punched in for effect???
I can see the photo, but what is circled doesn’t show definitely that it’s a hole. I see dark red circle shape but to the left is dark red also.
I can't see any pic.
Sorry it comes up when i tap on link.
He had blood on his right ear and right hand. A Biblical sign of anointing.
He also said there were thousands of people there.
The only crowd you see in most of the videos is the
rent a crowd behind him. Has anyone seen photos or videos of
of the throngs of people that would typically be present at a Trump rally.
Then there was the photographer that just happened to be in exactly the right
position to capture perfectly composed photos of the fist pump moment
with a vibrant blue sky and the US flag perfectly located in the background.
Pulitzer Prize winning material. I'm going with the entire event being
a staged production with crisis actors and extras.
Notice that you had no "likes" until I gave mine? There is far far more to being awake than just realizing they were trying to kill us with the jabs.
Totally agree. First part was fantastic. Then it got campaign stump like. Wish I had seen the end but I couldn’t stay up!
The guy who sang at the end!!! WOW. What a fabulous ending it was.
Me, too. Ninety minutes just too long.
Summer soldier. So sorry you were inconvenienced.
😂😂. You are cracking me up!!!
Can you imagine Tucker as press secretary?!
Oh my gosh… this is genius! He would be hilarious and probably very effective. But I doubt he would do it.
Love that Tucker!
Infectious laugh!! 😘
I'm hoping Trump has a change of "heart" since his near brush with termination and dumps Vance and names Tucker VP. One can hope right? I have no doubt that Tucker would stand up and answer such a call to duty.
I dunno, Tucker already said he would not, in several different interviews. He really seems to despise politics. People who hate politics get eaten up by it and leave quickly (like the excellent former congressman Doug Collins of Georgia). There are people who thrive on politics (like Thomas Massie). You can’t force someone into a role they hate. Or at least it probably won’t go well. I hope Collins shows up again in Trump’s cabinet.
Agree. Tucker has said repeatedly he has no desire to get involved in politics.
Honestly, I prefer Tucker stay right where he is...exposing the truth, and interviewing some great folks.
I prefer he stay where he is also!!!
In truth, we may be better off with Tucker doing exactly what he is doing. That said, I would sure like to see someone with his grit and moral fiber at Trump's side. Just saying....
He hates politics but he also hates most politicians. He thinks none are moral nor happy.
Did not someone say that J.D. V.was the only senator in a happy marriage?
Tucker also said - I think at the Heritage event that took place alongside the convention - that every bad person he knows in DC was lined up to knife Vance. Which, he pointed out, says all you need to know about Trump choosing Vance. Tucker very strongly endorsed Vance.
(Tucker cracks me up. He's saying the quiet part out loud these days. At that same Heritage event he basically said it was time for men to stop being sissies. Like, if the school is going to groom, and essentially sexually assault your child, there needs to be a response to that.)
American males have been feminized. And real men who hate politics and are unafraid of conflict are the very men we need in office. Short of that, the revolution will eventually have to come from outside the political structure and that means real war.
Yes, Tucker said that.
LOL!!!!!! That is hilarious and sad.
He, who knows it all, has spoken again. What bunker have you been hiding in for what ‘you’ consider a decent amount of time before you go sniping at DJT again?
Well, while I support Trump, I will never refrain from asking questions. If Americans as a whole did a better job of asking questions, we might be more successful at holding our leaders' feet to the fire. If that's considered "sniping" then snipe on.
Phil ... take stock of the entire program of the convention. It's all circus acts, props, projected imagery, embedded messaging ... and maybe subtle or not depending upon the mind of the beholder. And as you know, all the Big Decisions are made before a convention even opens its doors. And maybe come to think of it, maybe Shakespeare should have said something like 'all the world's a stage and all the actors are orchestrators' and then just spiced it up with some juice words like 'storms, strutting about'... and my all time favorite, 'uttering up a bad breath of understanding' ... and left it at that!
Now that the whole show of the Selection Season is in high gear, it is IMPOSSIBLE to make any intelligent comment. Why? Because Selection Season is like Roman chariot racing where the spectators choose their favorites by color ... either Blue, Green, Red or White. With Selection Season 2024, just shuffle board the colors around a wee bit and the choice narrows some. And right now it is down to either Red, White and Blue or Green. That's all you get. No further discussion.
Aside from noticing that conventions are now reality show entertainments and nothing else, there is one more things. Conventions are now a little bit like Mr. Covid the Super-Soap Salesman, Safe and Effective. No one is allowed to question The Narrative being trotted out. Already Butler and an Everest of Inconsistencies, sorry ... too late! All discussion is now set in cement ... signed, sealed and delivered. The Super Photo Iconic of the Decade says it all. And no Renaissance painter could compose a better picture than that photo. Not even Leonardo's Last Supper exceeds. But wait! I just thought of one huge difference ... possibly? Leonardo's Last Supper has a vanishing point. In fact, the whole Last Supper is a tableau of personalities brilliantly conceived and set against the organizing principle of a central vanishing point. And now with that in mind, go see if you can find one in The Iconic Photo. *
* But wait and upon reconsideration ... if there is a vanishing point in The Perfect Picture, then it could quite possibly be hiding behind the conspicuously fluttering flag. After all, flags are known to hide a multitude of sins! (Myself? I can't quite entirely figure it out!)
Does not the weight of that cynicism cause you some extreme anguish? Oh, if you could just find the perfectly pure humans, for which you could have some appreciation. Alas and alack, this world cannot meet your exceedingly high standards and you will never be able to just live and enjoy. What a task of being an ultimate and extreme judge of human behavior you have assigned yourself.
Yours is a legitimate musing. And a lot to unpack here.
First, cynicism by inclination is wholly in they eye of the beholder. It is also quite possible therefore that the extreme ideologues, Woke and/or Marxist of all stripes, are also brimming full with cynicism too. I can't really say, but now that you mention it. Something to think on. To extend, if you employ the word cynicism with some extreme connotation, as in 'ultra extreme far rightist extreme cynic' ... then I plead not guilty. If the word cynic is employed by way common parlance, common literary usage, as in 'suspicious of just about everything I am seeing and hearing' these days ... then I plead guilty but with mitigating understandings surrounding and qualifying.
If the cynicism is cynicism at the things of the World and not a tainting of a Joy in Lord and all that entails, would not such a framing then substantially alter the color of things? Doesn't it tip the scales some, alter much by which yardstick of measure is used?
If the standard imputed to me is extreme, it is extreme proportionately by the measure of distance the standard is away from, distant from application of God's Law by habit of worldly praxis. Figuratively speaking, if the standard is Scripture ... it is only extreme because nobody is following it.
I have no expectation of my own cobbling. And so the world not meeting 'my expectation' is moot ... excepting that any expectation by daily habit should be obedience to Higher Law. And that was why the Two Tables were once featured in all the courtrooms in the federation on loosely called these Unite States. And please notice the word 'these'. It is used with intention.
First, I appreciate your moderation. By surface indications, one could easily jump the shark and go into full catapult launch. Second, it is a legitimate question and something everyone who is upset with mire of corruption sucking us down might have to deal with these days (how to have standard, whose standards ... and not to turn into an emotional shipwreck in the process. Also, and in short, how to be wise). In fact, getting sucked into a toxic cynicism which can only destroy the Joy in and the Peace of God, is something to be wholly avoided.
My quarrel with you lies in the word 'assigned'. I looked at that word and wondered immediately, "Had I gone through the wrong door. And somehow inadvertently wandered into Gender Assignment School ... by mistake?"
If as in Matthew 5, and if "... men shall revile you, and persecute you ... for my namesake ...", then it is wholly to be expected that Man will call such 'judgmental' and other such. It cannot be avoided and it is now on our doorstep.
Your see! There is a lot of sorting out to be done these days. Also, yours among the postings, I do most admire and appreciate. And this of yours today, especially.
"...Figuratively speaking, if the standard is Scripture ... it is only extreme because nobody is following it..."
And there it is! The Standard that divides men for which Christian men will always be accused of being extreme. Thus was He rejected by the world and we should expect no less. Holding that Standard up to our leaders is not to condemn but to say this is the goal to pursue and to hold them accountable to it. Thus does our Lord and King judge all of history.
That's it in a nut shell ... 'if the Standard is Scripture'.
Most 'Christians' in the West don't want to deal with Scripture nor the Law. They rather interpret Scripture away, and safely render it null and swept under the rug. That this is so ... is the Fall of the West. And this failing is the reason why we will not be 'saved' by carnival and circus performances. Or entertainments the equal to TV reality shows.
You and I will not, do not have a place at the Table of World. We will not drink the liquor of their blood nor eat the bread of their cravings. We are more apt to be ground down, spit upon, despised ... possibly executed. And about 'executed', why not? Because we are no greater than Christ our Lord and Master to whom are Slaves. And we have no exemption whatsoever which places us, elevates us greater than He who trod the earth, was slain and did arise from the dead.
Now, there are those who think one cannot have the standard of Scripture, that wholesome standard that is the Law which is the Ten Commandments, and still have have joy. Because the burden of that is too great. The do not say this out loud to themselves, but hide this away someplace in their hearts where they dare not look. Instead, they look for an easy way out, a pathway of deception ... like not being judgmental or judging at all ... or embracing a love which slays anything in its way, even the sinner himself. And I am not speaking to today's exchange, but in general, because I don't presume to know what is not given to me to know. But I do know that if God is real to a person, and if the promises eternal are real to a person, then one does not sweat earthy existence too much.
Thanks for writing. I am glad to hear it ... what you said. And another positively bright spot in the day.
Brevity would be your friend. Not to mention common sense.
"Common sense"... now there's a contradiction in terms.
Ha! You are right again! You are always right!
Brevity? Let's see ...
Run Spot run. See Dick run!
Yes, Brevity is such a magnificent thing. Get them sentences down to five words or less! Lowest Common Denominator! And make it easy. Raze all to the ground ... and so much easier to see the Forest for the Trees, especially if there are no trees.
My new motto is:
Brevity is good but Sparse is better!
I am right with you on this.
Jeff - missed opportunity to tie in the lettuce story. 😊
"Can the old man hold out? We’ll see."
Rewrite "Can the old man hold out? Lettuce see".
How long “wilt” it last?
😂🤣
Very good!!! 😂😂😂
😅🤣😂
Here's another one:
Will they play "Kale to the Chief" when Biden leafs office?
Good one!! 😆😁
Will Biden remain or Romaine
😆
Another good one!!!
Thanks!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
— Colossians 1:9-14 LSB
"that you may be filled with the FULL knowledge of His will....bearing fruit.
...Who Rescued us from the authority of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of the Son...in whom we have Redemption..."
HALLELUJAH!!!
All Praise and Glory to King Jesus, who alone is Worthy of all Honor, Power and Praise !!!
Amen!
I do love Paul.
There is so much meat and encouragement in Colossians. I want to quote it all the time!
Next to the Apostle John....Saul of Tarsus...now PAUL is my "go to" Biblical author.
Blessings and JOY to you, sister in faith!!
I’m voting for the felon and the hillbilly.
[full disclosure: quote from an unknown wit]
I like “ the outlaw and the hillbilly “
Indeed, he is not a felon, as those were trumped-up (ain't that a tickle?) charges. He IS an outlaw. So was Robin Hood, so was William Wallace. To break evil law makes one an outlaw.
I like using the word Trump’s enemies use against him. You're right, he’s not a felon, but the law declared him to be one anyway. Those who hate him can't see him as anything else, but I’m not sure they get the word “outlaw” and it’s reference to Robin Hood and William Wallace in the same way we do.
I’d like a tshirt with that 🙌🏼
Me too!
Better!!!
Where can I buy the tshirt?!
I haven't seen any for sale so I called a guy in town here who makes signs and he's making me one, actually two: one to wash and one to wear! He's also make a yard sign for us with the same sentiment on it.
With the mangled ear
I like "pierced" ear.
As a fellow hillbilly, I am so excited to have one of our kind in the White House! Did you see his family with him on the stage? They have his back! Same as with DJT and his family last night.
Family is everything.
Trump has successful and loving children who adore their father. Compare to the Biden family.
😄😄😄 Good one. 👍 Me too.
LOL, Good to see you here, also!
Parents:
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.22.6.NKJV
On it!
Me too!
This is a truism, not a promise.
"Secret Cervix appalled by DEI rhetoric against female agents."
Also Secret Cervix: https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1813123240363020662
(30 sec video of all tall-bro security detail at Convention)
Secret Cervix!....LOLOLOL
Secret Service did more to destroy the Equal Rights movement than any one organization could ever hope to.
Also: "Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel"
https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1814278991605350726
They were pulled by Cheatle for Jill. She ‘spontaneously’ decided to have an event (closed) and the agents he had always had were sent to guard her. See Naomi Wolf’s SubStack yesterday.
It appears that Jill could have been behind the attempt on the President’s life.
I read that. Naomi made some great points.
She called it "Lady MacBiden". It is a good read.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/gary-d-barnett/another-psyop-believed-by-ignorant-and-gullible-americans/
It’s really stupid to believe that Trump would allow 2 people to be seriously injured (by real bullets) and one to be killed (by a real bullet) for political advantage. Personally, I think that’s more in the camp of the deep state folks. Think of the risk he would be taking if someone leaked the plot! They would hang him for sure. And as many ways they have tried to end Trump’s chances of winning, he would be nuts to trust a stray bullet wouldn’t hit him!
🙄 It’s ignorant and gullible people that believe the assassination attempt was staged. Jeez.
I had questions right away before I saw others questioning. Doesn’t Jeff tell us to use discernment & look out for fake news?
thanks. love the language. esp use of 'dolt'
wish I was on my phone where I have emojis after skimming that article...
that one with someone throwing up would do
okay, I'm over it
Here’s the link to the article.
https://open.substack.com/pub/naomiwolf/p/lady-macbiden?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7caok
Why weren’t the photographers backed away? How would the SS know that they weren’t a part of the assassination team?
"Strange that secret service decided to move people from behind the stage right before the shooting."
https://x.com/DavidYeshua4/status/1812666988637847843
TDS has no cure.
They were in a prohibited area. The Hawley letter says people were allowed where they weren't supposed to be.
The timing is what's suspicious.
Matt Wallace @MattWallace888
"Rumors are circulating that the Trump assassination attempt was an inside job after the release of this angle. Pay attention to what the secret service agent does seconds before!"
https://x.com/MattWallace888/status/1812381308561117231
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/gary-d-barnett/another-psyop-believed-by-ignorant-and-gullible-americans/
Did Rachel Madow write that, or:
"MSNBC talking heads, like Joy Reid, are telling viewers that Trump staged the attack against himself—resulting in 34% of Democrats believing this lie. She uses her platform to spread lies about the former president and incites violence by claiming that he will end democracy."
I’ve been to a Trump rally before and watched many others. If you’re talking about the Secret Service agent directing the photographers to another area, that’s not uncommon during these rallies. The press/photographers/Secret Service are always prowling about (and then sometimes to they are still as statues 🤷♀️). If it was an inside job and they wanted the photographers in place for an iconic photograph, why didn’t they just station them in the perfect position from the start, or ten minutes earlier, not *as* the gunshots rang out? Seems like a bit of a late positioning to me, if one is arguing it was staged.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/gary-d-barnett/another-psyop-believed-by-ignorant-and-gullible-americans/
How many times do you need to post this today? I got the link the first time...
Wow. Just wow.
Thanks for the link.
I would so love to see the secret service agents assigned to Jill’s appearance scheduled at the same time (only shortly before) as Trumps rally and less than an hours drive away!!!
For that matter, how about Kamala’s SS agent lineup? Were they all tall?
Just curious!👀
Seems like Kamala would have requested the pony tail brigade.
Love "secret cervix". 😂😂😂
I gotta "steal" secret cervix if you don't mind. It's epic. I need to dunk on a few people.
Interesting! Also, Trump used to always shake hands and give high fives. Now he is crouching along a black wall.
We don’t know how many more CIA agents are in the room.
Interesting 🤔
I will offer this personal example of the potential consequences of DEI over merit: we recently had a young, female firefighter hired by our local FD. They did everything they could to facilitate success for her, but at the end of her probation year, she was fired. Why? Well, as a petite woman, she was simply unable to adequately and SAFELY perform the physical requirements of the job. According to one of her colleagues who participated in Academy with her, they almost literally dragged her across the finish line.
During training, she frequently experienced anxiety attacks. She also refused the counsel of her fellow firefighters to "start eating, lifting and putting on bulk" so as to be able to effectively "handle hose" and complete the very arduous tasks required of being firefighter which routinely, for those of you who don't know, requires performing tasks while wearing air tanks and other equipment weighing up to 60 pounds and "on air" which in and of itself is very challenging.
My husband was once at a scene at which a fellow firefighter fell through the floor of a burning building. Another firefighter basically one-armed the fallen man out of the basement pulling him to safety. There is absolutely NO WAY that young woman could have executed that save. My husband, during training - who is not a huge guy - had to heft a much heavier firefighter up a ladder in a "man down" rescue drill which required my husband to get under the other fire fighter and hoist him up on his shoulders and push him up the ladder. Again. There is NO way a petite woman could do this. These are the stakes.
Yes I agree with you, there is no place for anyone who can’t meet the requirements of the job, and if that means fewer women, so be it.
And I would add that this is as much about protecting the woman's safety too. She would not only have jeopardized the safety of her fellow firefighters, but put herself at risk too.
Exactly, great point.
Women who want to do these types of jobs need to take the exact same physical requirements tests that men do. No "easier" tests for them. If they can't pass the same physical requirements as men, they don't get in. Period.
Yes, I completely agree.
This is simple truth, reality, and common sense. My Mom used to tell me “you can do anything you put your mind to”. And while i appreciated the optimism and encouragement, it is always tempered by truth. I could not ever become a singer for example because I’m terrible!
By pushing falsehoods that women can do any and all jobs men can do (or vice versa) we further the lies and also prevent people from discovering what they are truly great at.
I tell my children they can achieve anything they put their mind to - within reason. My string bean middle school aged son wants to play football. Sorry dear, your physique is not cut out for football! So he plays basketball and baseball instead :)
Yea, I’m a 5’2” female who never felt any desire to be a firefighter or such. I’m sorry, those women are trying to make up for some sort of inadequacy feelings or something instead of truly living their true purpose.
As a classic 60s feminist, my memory is we were fighting for *equality of opportunity*. Just for the chance to try out for jobs like that. No guarantee of getting them, which is crazy.
Yes. In the old days, it was common that "no women need apply", no matter if they were a powerlifting marathon runner. Equality is about giving everyone a chance to meet the standards, NOT about letting people in below standard. (Well, and also about not having "fake" standards that serve no purpose other than keeping certain people out.)
A female friend formerly worked as a firefighter. She trained relentlessly to do the ladder carry you described. It nearly killed her but she persevered, was hired, but eventually resigned. Maintaining the required upper body strength proved to be an impossibility.
I don’t believe that they should lower the standards for women for physical requirements. They should not hire wimpy men either.
I no longer have the strength to change a flat tire. I need my men. I’m 102 pound weakling ( autoimmune issues, resisting the slow kill program daily.)
I need my husband to get the twist cap off my bottle of wine, Rosalind ;).
Salsa here, lol.
I still think these "outages" are just setting us up for when the globalists shut it all down. Be prepared people. And where in the heck is Mitch McConnell??????
That's what I noticed. Who wasn't there at the convention. All the rino/traitors- Cheney, bush, Pierre delecto, pence. Good riddance.
I did too. everyone not there.
Alex Jones has been warning us that they will shut down the internet.
If that happens, I will miss C&C and I will miss all you commenters☕️🍪
Too bad we don’t have those old military phones in a box! 📞🧰
We should set up a c&c meeting place in each state. We’ll need to stick together if this happens for any real amount of time.
Will there be one in Cali? There's a few of us here!
Create a ☕️N⚙️ bumper sticker as a code. ; )
We still have CB radios.
Do you mean homing pigeons?
Same
Tin cans and string will work really well when the grid goes down.
You can shout further than a ball of string.
Sat phones will still work when the cell towers go down.
Assuming the satellites still work after the next coronal mass ejection.
Elon’s Starlink is way ahead!
Amateur Radio operators practice being prepared to operate in emergencies.
I used to think that AJ was a bit out there. Now I see that he's just ahead of the curve (most of the time)
AJ has been saying for weeks that Biden will drop out of the race on 20 or 21 July.
I used to think he was kind of nutty talking about the Deep State.
But, I figured he saved my life when he had Dr. Francis Boyle on in February 2020 confirming my suspicions that covid was a bioweapon. Dr. Boyle was on again in December 2020 calling the covid shot "Frankenshots" and warning they were also a bioweapon.
On Covid, all one had to do was look at the SEC filings which clearly stated that mRNA was an experimental genetic therapy. Thanks, I'll pass on that! But beyond that, I just happened to pick up a Tom Clancy book Rainbow 6, published in 1998. I was at an airbnb and randomly pulled that off the shelf. The plot: bio terror plus a vaccine that kills! Chance?
Trouble is, very few people thought to look at the patents and SEC filings.
Or would even know that one could do that, that they would exist for an experimental medical therapeutic.
Doing one's due diligence was elbowed to the cheap seats when 'trust the science' became the dominant public motif.
First place. Second place, the footnotes. That's the string that leads to unraveling the lies. Just have to know what to question and where to dig deeper.
On your "random" book choice, as a coincidence denier I'd say someone just the other side of the veil - which is as close as your skin - has your best interests at heart. Way too many non-coincidences here - thus the "denier" characterization - to mention over the last 40+ years since more than half of my family of origin has made the shift to the other side. Many friends and extended family as well. Yet another instance of, nothing is as it seems. Reference quantum physics for preliminary verification.
The veil! Yes!
And now Jones basically kisses Musk's ass. Suspect...
So...
I think you will appreciate this info:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/
It is a BIG "so."
Jones may be trying to convince Musk to bail him out of bankruptcy.
June or July? Because June has passed.
Sorry! I will fix it.
You can edit errors in posts here? How? If i catch a bad typo i usually delete and repost
He's at least 5 yrs ahead. I've been playing catch up for a decade.
Alex reads everything published by the regime, including the historical documents. He has so much info on his head, I'm surprised he doesn't jumble it all up a lot more often.
He is proof that, once you see the goals and the playbooks a few times, you know what's happening instantly.
For example, the strategic similarities between the ClA hit on JFK and their recent Trump attempt are remarkable. Cause a kill box to occur, create security lapses, have a patsy and a narrative, and take out the patsy. The tactical details differ, but the basics of the op are nearly identical.
Now figure in Alex's 39+ yrs of investigating these plots and plans...
It bothers me that Jones and others who repeat dire predictions over and over again call them into being, in a sense. I followed Jones in the run up to the 2016 election and backed off.when his hate and yelling became too much for me. He’s been correct about many things but I believe in the power of words to be extremely creative. By repeating something with so much emotion again and again and then thousands coming to believe and repeat, that’s powerful.
And in the past month Jones was almost giddy when talking with Ivan Raiklin about Trump being assassinated. Of course Ivan's solution was to put Gen. Michael Flynn in and don't remember what Jones thought but I'm thrilled that Flynn wasn't even shown at the convention. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/please-kill-him-alex-jones-discussed-benefits-of-assassinating-trump-6-months-ago/ar-BB1q5ECv?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Both Jones and Tucker thought that the Deep State would try to assassinate Trump.
I wouldn't describe Jones as being "giddy," I would describe his last couple of days of being in a state of high anxiety.
BTW...probably not a good idea to use a link from MSM to make your point.
We will wake up and voila global digital currency and social credit score. Tuckers latest interview with the country singer about Revelation was eye opening for me.
@AB what a fantastic interview/bible study! I was mesmerized. John Rich was his guest. Highly recommend 🏆
Made me grab the good book and do some studying myself.
Revelations has always distressed me so I read it with a heart that trusts God has my best interests.
Love John Rich! https://youtu.be/RzCIlfpSVdY?si=NOA-wFrnB_o5BPLr
A friend sent me the link, it was eye opening, “gave me chills” to quote another friend 🙏🏼
I was mesmerized. Theirs was a substantive discussion. I will watch it again.
John Rich’s discussion of John Darby was new to me. Very interesting- kind of turns things upside down for many believers.
What? I didn’t see that…
I will most definitely go listen. Thanks!
Yup. This was another trial run.
Where's Mitch? Possibly in the Biden Bunker, encouraging Ol' Joe to stand tall and stay in.
Do we really care?
The Blob is onto plan D to M, to retain power. Cyber outages, power grid outages, escalation in Ukraine(NATO)/ Russia(CCP), escalation between Israel/Iran, mid level terrorist attacks in America. Just trying to normalize Chaos. The goal is to install the new Blob Puppet without an Election.
I’m still amazed that Zelensky is still in power. He canceled the election and his term has run out but he’s still there. Why?
My son, who has an American friend in Ukraine, which friend is married to a Ukrainian, said that the Ukraine constitution allows for elections to be put off in times of emergency. Convenient.
Is that a serious question?
Candace Owen proposed that the plan was, after a successful hit on Trump last week, creating a huge mass psychosis event, like September 11, we would find out that “Iran did it” and the traumatized population would cry for war, or just be so easily led right into it.
Last person I am listening to is Candace Owens. She showed her true self (which I had a little feeling about her from the very beginning - and my gut instinct has never, ever been wrong) this year. She's just parroting views already out there.
Good rational for paper ballots… especially interested as a Washington State resident (at least we live on the East/more conservative side of the state).
It’s another Alex Jones prediction come true
Mary Talley Bowden MD @MdBreathe 7:04 AM · Jul 19, 2024 · 109.7K Views
Some of my followers told me last night I need to “move on.”
I am still seeing vaccine injuries.
I am still having trouble getting my patients IVM.
I am still fighting for my license.
All babies are expected to get the shots at their 6 month check-up.
How can we move on when it’s still going on?
I will not stop until the shots are pulled off the market and people are held accountable.
https://x.com/MdBreathe/status/1814255072152256606 (shows a table of crazy Vaxx schedule for kids)
This has been going on for decades. The fight against vaccines. Just certain people woke up. The choice, the individual choice, is still there and has been. Don’t take vaccines and become informed. The trajectory, even with Trump- is going in the right direction now- but it took this world crisis to get it there. So blaming Trump is asinine. The truth is this has been a fight we have been fighting for ages and many administrations.
Based Florida Man, meanwhile everyone on the Right including most anti-vaxxers, are now worshipping the one who is responsible for this weapon of mass destruction and still pushing it. None other than their new god, Trump. I don't get it! Mass Madness!
Biden forced people to take the shot or lose their job.
Kathleen Janoski, yes that was a tragic terrible thing Biden did. But that does not excuse Trump from his responsibility for Warp Speed and all it's horrible repercussions, and he is still pushing the vax. He is not stupid - He is controlled!
You do realize of course that the bioweapon covid, and the bioweapon covid shot, were created and funded by the US government and DoD long before Trump came into office.
And yes, it annoys me that he has not denounced Warp Speed, but I am more worried about those nutcases in DC getting us into WW3.
So in the hierarchy of worries, WW3 is at the top, and OWS is close to the bottom.
Kathleen Janoski, Trump still pushed the vax and went along with it, which tells me he is as controlled as Biden. Anyone who gets in the WH is controlled. And I agree with you that WW3 is at the top of concerns. I'm praying the controllers will allow Trump to stop it. We just don't know what is behind the curtain nor what lies ahead.
Give it a rest.
God is behind the curtain and he knows what lies ahead.
He has not pushed the vaccine for a long time nor does he tout warp speed. Stop looking for the bogeyman
Nor has he acknowledged its terrible tragic widespread effects. He just shutup all of a sudden so people like you would forget the horrors of the vax. Do you really not know how the vax has changed the course of the human race in a very negative, irreversible way? The guy is partly responsible for mass worldwide murder and mass debilitating injuries. If he came out and reversed his stance and showed true remorse, that might be different. P. S. There are a lot of dead people now and seriously injured people who took the vax because Trump pushed it.
And there are thousands of people who were injured or killed because Biden mandated it for the military and employment.
Just f'ing give it a rest.
You read 1, and only 1 Substack.
Either get lost and stop crying or start reading more Substacks.
Discourager troll
🤣When someone doesn't want to face the truth, they hurl insults at others. Ad hominen attack. Until the people wake up to the fact that they are being played by both sides, which is really one controller, a free world will not appear.
Yeah, I call ‘em like I see ‘em. You gonna pull this free world out of your ass, while sitting on the fence avoiding any danger by refusing to participate?
Spoiler alert; not gonna happen. The battle must be engaged.
I watched all the RNC nights for the first time ever using live stream to skip to long shots of people dancing. Last night was great. Hulk Hogan! So entertaining, the whole thing was well done.
We watched it all 4 nights as well - something we've never done (we've always watched the speeches by the candidate). We actually enjoyed it! Who'da thunk?
I’ve never watched the convention all the way through. But this year was so different than years past. There was a palpable outlook of hope and faith. Very special indeed.
Ditto!!!!
Looking at Trump as he was watching Hulk and and others, with a sweet and admiring grandfatherly smile..wow. 🥰
Trump has really morphed into a wonderful person, (defensive 'mean' tweets not withstanding). 😉
I’ve come to believe he has a tough mean streak and is also sincere and compassionate for people. That combo is leadership. The way he describes threatening the Taliban leader to stop shooting our troops long distance resulted in 18 months of no US troop dying, he’s very serious yet still funny.
Yes, real leadership qualities.
Also in how he sees qualities in others to help them in their careers,
especially women..
Oops, but I forgot, the lunatics of the left say that he is a misogynist!🙄🤭
And the way he treats people who have experienced a terrible loss like the families of the dead servicemen and of the women and children murdered by illegals. He genuinely cares about them and feels their hurt right with them.
💯💯💯
If only he had showed some empathy towards those killed or injured by the pharma cartel.
I’m going to wait and see on that. It’s possible he may never address it, but I also wonder if he learned his lesson from last time about his promises to drain the swamp, which gave them a heads up to prepare to counter his efforts. I hope it’s just that he’s keeping his cards close to his chest this time. But yes, I definitely would want to see him address that at some point soon.
His comments made during the call he had with RFK jr were interesting and suggest he may be aware.
I enjoy listening to President Trump, but I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s basically “speaking to the choir”. Since the majority of the choir hasn’t been told by media to be concerned about the collusion between pharma and our government, there’s no need to address the millions of lives being killed or injured by vaccines. That wouldn’t be prudent. Just keep the focus on “look over there” at the media approved “deaths of concern”….fentanyl and those murdered by illegal immigrants.
AngelaK, why do you think he's *changed* into a wonderful person, vs. he was always himself but you and others perhaps just couldn't see it? I was anti-Trump, almost never-Trump, back in 2016, until I voted for him because Hillary. Then I was thrilled, for the most part (and he too is human and so imperfect, esp. by my human standards). I learned to appreciate his sense of humor, his love of the average Joe and Jane, and his love of our country, even if he doesn't articulate things as well as many smooth talkers, and even though he seems not to have the grasp of the fundamentals of constitutionalism that I would prefer.
Oh, I agree with you. I did think he was a good and caring person the first time, but I think that his defensive adolescent side gave the media and haters more ammunition.
I think that some of my former dislike (and the reason I said morphed) was from his much younger days in NYC when I lived there. He was really full of himself for a while! 🤭
On the other hand, our gossip page of the NY Post did report that he didn't like the society parties Ivana wanted him to attend, because he wasn't really into that kind of sycophantic pretense. He liked real people like himself. So there was that side of him that I knew about as well.
My comment was meant like that of an old friend meeting up with someone they went to college with. and that person is now elderly.
People mature and change, and as they become more secure in themselves, they often become more down to earth and their best Attributes shine!
Indeed, Trump's best attributes of leadership are now on display!
Also, there is the aging factor.
My mom and other adults of my family all softened and sweetened as they got into their 70s.
So please take my comment in the positive spirit which it was offered.
Well, you had it over me, since I knew virtually nothing about Trump before he was inaugurated. To my shame, for the most part I believed what was said about him.
I’m similar. Never cared for him or watched his TV show. Recently saw him on Opera in the 80s saying almost exactly what he says now. It’s like he always said the same things but now it’s in context of being president. Now the audience is there. He isn’t speaking to pander to an audience. He speaks and the audience responds.
It was very sweet when his little granddaughter climbed up on his lap when her dad Eric was speaking.
I noticed his humble smile as well, Angela! He is genuine in every single moment. 😌
I didn't really listen to him (Hulk Hogan). I find him obnoxious to listen to; not my cup of tea.
However, I did notice that Franklin Graham said " my Lord and Saviour Jesus", acknowledging that there are non Christians in the audience.
I didn’t notice him talking about it… but again, it was hard to understand him.
Pastor Sowell had us all yelling "AMEN!!!" What a revival speech! Praise the Lord and the power of faith and prayer. 🙏✝️❤️
I loved Pastor Sowell's speech, which was also a testimony! Powerful stuff. Always refreshing to hear credit given to Jesus Christ, not just a vague reference to God.
👍🙏👍
I would love to attend his church! Such passion for God!
I agree, and I absolutely loved the band. Sixwire killed it with great, uplifting "oldies" from the 70ys/80ys. They continuing playing song after song, to fill in when there were technical difficulties or speakers couldn't get up to the stage. It was like a giant happy party. :D
Dad Rock as my kids call it. They were good. 👍
I'm sure the DNC will feature live music with songs past the 80s, since their base is much younger than that for the RNC. I noticed a majority of "older and wiser" heads on the floor of the RNC. 😉
That is mostly because young Republicans don't choose to join their county party and run for Chair and State Committeeman/woman or elected state office, so they aren't eligible to attend the RNC convention. It's the fault of young Republicans, not the older ones who put in the time and effort.
I'm glad folks enjoyed the reality show. The comment thread seems people have lost all ability for critical thinking (or to realize they are watching a reality show).
I hope people can come back to reality island:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/
in some sense, all of life is a ''reality show''
Whitney's (the writer) an incredible interviewee. Rattles off evil people and plans like a machine gun. She's got a 2-volume set out (supposedly a 3rd volume coming out) called "One Nation Under Blackmail" in which she shows connections and sordid affairs between LOTS of people around the world.
She's a walking encyclopedia of permanent state knowledge. Unfortunately, the people who really need to read her will not, and will continue to support the very people and policies they are supposedly against.
I was following Whitney before the pandemic. We all experienced 2 years of a dystopian nightmare, some worse than others. I was completely black-pilled and depressed for most of that time 2021-2023, and then I decided life is too short to live that way. I decided to focus on positives. For example, if Trump had been killed, the GOP nominee would be Nikki Haley, and the VP would probably have been someone like Marco Rubio. I'll take Trump and Vance over that combo any day of the week. I'm not so naïve to think they will be successful in any effort to reform our federal government in any meaningful way. But I am and have been excited this entire year at the prospect of the Dems losing and them being completely demoralized, fearful, shrieking and crying on Nov 6. It will be 10 times worse than it was in 2016, and it will be absolutely delicious.
Yep, I understand where you are coming from. My problem/frustration is with the many on these threads who can't look objectively at reality. Trump can do no wrong, he's a savior, etc. That is a recipe for disaster.
I agree with you. After the entire 'Chinese spy balloon' thing, I stopped getting frustrated. People are ignorant by their own choice.
Johnny I thought the same. I actually loved it. Usually these are painful to watch.
I was at the convention. The crowd went wild when Hulk ripped off his t-shirt. It was my favorite moment of the entire convention. My friend was standing next to our Secretary of State, and she had to move a few steps away from him because he was swinging his arms so much in joy. She thought he was going to accidentally whack her with his flailing arms.
"But Biden is acting like an elderly relative who can no longer be trusted to drive safely but refuses to hand over the car keys. It’s a problem."
🤣🤣 I immediately connected to this statement. I can laugh about it now but a few years back, my sisters & I were confronted with such a dilemma when we had to make the decision to take away our father's car keys (he had Alzheimer's) after he took a drive to the grocery store from his Michigan home but wound up in Wisconsin.
We had similar circumstances. Mom went for a drive to the bank but ended up 250 miles away in another state.
My MIL took a drive to her daughter’s house, got lost and ran out of gas in middle of road, fortunately back country road. They only found her because in onstar on the car when she didn’t show up to daughters house. Last time she ever drove.
Geez! Wow! So scary 😱 It’s really so sad to watch mental decline. Nobody wants to lose their independence and that’s understandable.
Wow. There is a great song about a true story of a couple who drove off like that. https://youtu.be/X5jlTlUTWfQ?si=AbtoNXB_fDXoU3cn
That must have been very hard to experience. I’m sorry
It was. Thank our Lord an Appleton police officer located him, found my sister's name in his wallet, and took him to the hospital until we could get there to bring him back home.
Same scenario (other than location) with Mom. It must be more common than we know.
It is, sadly. Texas has "Silver Alerts" for such cases (much like Amber alerts but for the elderly). We had tossed around the idea of taking his car keys away for quite awhile before this happened but it's one of those situations where there's no handbook to go by. His car symbolized freedom for him so it was a really hard decision. Plus...we knew we had a responsibility to protect other people too. It wasn't just about him.
Driving for Mom was also her freedom - her parents were legal immigrants and her mother never learned to drive - but she was determined to learn and always loved it. Though she was showing some confusion I had driven behind her just the week before and her driving was spot on. This was also during the covid freakout (2020) so in trying to keep her "safe" it was easier for some dementia to sneak in unnoticed. She is still kicking at 91 and living at home with caregivers and palliative care check ins.
And throw a UTI on top of dementia and you have "the perfect storm."
Very well said, I never had to deal with this personally but have friends who have and it’s such a tough thing on so many levels 🙁
I’m glad it end up safely. It’s so hard
We went through this a few years ago with my mom. There’s an app you can put on their phone that will locate where they are. Also there’s a book- Creating Moments of Joy- that was a game changer for our family. It helps you to help your loved one have a better life and it tells you what’s coming. I cannot recommend it enough, it was a game changer for our family. We were blessed to be able to keep her in her home of 50 years.
Thank you Emumundo! I may have to get that for my kids :) I have the book “I am dead, now what?” for them after I depart but what if I lose my marbles on the way?
Oh my word! 😳
Relatable indeed!
"a Microsoft subcontractor called “CrowdStrike,” whose largest investor is Blackrock,"
Thomas Crooks who tried to assassinate Trump was in a Blackrock commercial.
Just a coincidence.
CrowdStrike was hired by Hillary Clinton. They were the firm she contacted via Michael Sussman to run the Muh Russia scam against then-candidate Trump in 2016.
Also was the name Trump brought up with Zelensky on that phone call that triggered impeachment against him
I knew the name was familiar and I didn’t have a positive knowledge of it. Very interesting.
I forget. How many coincidences does it take before it's true?
There are no coincidences.
There is no truth.
One of our statements is false.
You should be the one to identify it with your experience in making them.
There is truth.
You are mixing “my experience has been” for the truth.
A person who has been a sex slave from birth has only that experience. Is that the way people are supposed to live? That is not truth.
A person who believes someone is their relative when it is not true is believing their experience not the truth.
What is the international standard for "the way people are supposed to live?"
All human beings are relatives, being the same species.
ah, you sound like Pilate asking The Truth, ''what is truth?"
John 18:38
Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.
I don't read fiction like you do.
Blackrock is a nefarious company. It should be shut down and broken up. Top leadership charged with treason etc.
We could nueter them instantly if we just blocked them from voting as shareholders for all the stocks their customers hold in their fund accounts. All the power comes from the aggregated share holder voting.
As is normal in corporate governance.
Uh, how would "we" do that?
Actually, there are a few funds who say they'll cast votes in a more beneficial direction. Strive is one example https://www.strivefunds.com/about-us.php
The reason I invested some money there.
Check your 401K's and IRA's and make sure you don't have any Blackrock or Vanguard funds. If you haven't looked lately, it's highly likely that you do.
But they own over 80% of the S&P 500! I probably own most of the companies that you have stock in!
Me too.
It’s difficult not to
It’s an investment company with multiple (thousands) of investment funds for specific purposes. Each fund has from a handful to hundreds of investors.
It’s not like a manufacturing company that can be closed.
Who is going to do that? They have more power than any government. Not saying it would not be nice!
Cite one commission of treason by Blackrock.
I have never seen a Blackrock commercial before. How someone found it is amazing!
However, it established the kid as a smart student at Bethel Park.
Actually, thru its ETFs and other funds, Blackrock is biggest shareholder of lots of companies. I would check some examples but my broker's site seems to be crowdstruck at the moment.
If you look up almost every single large corporation, Blackrock is in the top 3 shareholders. I looked up about 5, and Vanguard and/or Blackrock were in the top 3 excepting one corporation.
Which broker? At the moment I can't use RBC.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a cross-dressing peanut butter sandwich. Welcome to Biden University. Re-writing normalcy since 2020.
🤣😂
I'm remembering the last election. Nothing is off the board to fix the election. Pray hard....
Indeed! … without ceasing!🙏
Last night’s RNC was everything my family hoped it would be. We watched every minute of it including Trump’s speech that went until midnight, EST! As Melania so eloquently stated, “the winds of change have arrived”. So true that statement is - and boy does it feel GOOD!
And the Holy Spirit can be found in the wind
Melania’s letter to The country and world was classy and hopeful.
The left only sees her as a call girl.