Trump ends the Iran war and launches a military operation in the same week; Democrats march with actual communists; the NYT discovers virtue; a Taco Bell 'hero' defends the soda line; more.
We need some good news! My traditional Lutheran church has seen an upsurge in not only marriages, but baptisms! We are now averaging a couple a month. For a small country church that is so encouraging. I also witnessed young men, (likely in their early twenties), going to communion. This was several, also never seen pre-covid. I prayed for a revival and this makes my heart happy.
We truly rejoice at this news! Our LCMS (the conservative) Lutheran church is also seeing more young families with children. Youth of any age makes our hearts glad. ❤️
Praise arises from humility and humility from our sin nature and need for forgiveness. Jesus’ sacrifice was not required of Him, it was a gift. I praise the One Who has saved me from the pit.
The Lord is the source of righteousness and His Law is our standard of righteousness. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our example who perfectly fulfilled the Law.
McDonald’s is reportedly going to follow Chick-fil-A and start only offering sodas at the counter and removing auto-fill stations. Taco Bell might take note.
Also, I wonder what Jeff would have to say about another Occupy Wall Street protest. I’m a lifelong conservative GOP voter and had sympathy for that movement. In the wake of ‘08 crash, only those taking loans were punished, but never a banker who enabled them. Both Bush and Obama gave the banks a free pass. The Uniparty lives on and we get distractions (race, trans, climate, etc) to keep us Occupied with something else.
I'm glad to know I was not the only one laughing at this Taco Bell enforcer story. I laughed so hard I was crying but kept telling myself I must be a degenerate to think it was funny. It has some serious societal implications that are not funny at all. Yet, being the reprobate I obviously am, I laughed myself silly and I don't even like chalupas. Oh what a deranged person I am.
I was holding it together, albeit barely, until I got to the suspect's name. At that point I had to put the phone down and go outside for some fresh air and deep breaths.
Totally hilarious, but i can't help but think back to the late 70's and 80's when, shockingly enough, we could hang out with friends and somehow waiti three hours for our favorite song to play on the radio just so we could record it on a blank cassette....and not kill each other.
“Unauthorized soda acquisition” 😅 Outstandingly funny way to kick off a Monday morning! Mr Jeff is giving my other favorite Florida Substack writer, Dave Barry, a run for his money today. I bet Mr Barry will be disappointed that he didn’t get to write this story first. Also, “Virtue Signals” might be a good name for a band, but not one that I’d listen to.
So at the rush of someone here being able to identify me by this confession... To the embarrassment of a dear younger friend, I ordered water and after it was full, using the small push lever vs the big one for the fizzy sugar, and being elderly but young looking 🙄 I got the push levers mixed up and ran both water and pop over my cup and even onto the floor before it stopped and Idk how. Who thought having a water and soda coming out that save SELF SERVE tap was a money saving idea???!!! Thankfully no one was also shooting at me maybe that makes it worse?
Let's not forget, these are the same people who supported taking out Brett Kavanaugh, fire-bombing Teslas, BLM riots that burned down entire city blocks, and Antifa laying siege to courthouses, and when Luig Mangione murdered a healthcare CEO in cold blood, leftists immediately fell in love.
I can't stand these people but I also feel sorry for them. Imagine spending your entire life talking about and protesting a fake problem.
The easiest population to recruit are those with high "empathy", low emotional stability, high victim identity, high support for silencing others.
I can guarantee you that perfectly describes these morons.
Liberalism is a mental disorder that causes only white people to look in the mirror and think "the world needs a lot less of me"
The good news is we win by attrition. These people hate people that have the very children they are supposed to educate because they don't have children of their own.
“The increasing willingness of mainstream Democrats to align with extremist socialist groups is a major factor in why the Democratic Party is losing the center more and more, and why so many lifelong Democrats find themselves feeling politically homeless.” In a nutshell: A vote for democrats is a vote for communism!
Now apply that statement and compare it to the Biden Administration's 4 years of Anti-America. And take it one step further and think where we would be today if President Trump had not been elected (which still amazes me when considering Mr. Dominion & all of his friends). You know as well as I do that it would NOT be a pretty picture had Comrade Kamala & Dufus successfully stolen the show. Which brings me to the final point.
If we don't get out an vote ENMASS and allow the communists to once again gain a foothold - we are DONE as a Constitutional Republic - forever. Trump is making wonderful changes that strengthen America and HELP The People, all of them. So, don't let the knuckleheads tell you any different. Vote Conservative. MAGA!
Communism is the only ideology that must pretend to be something else in order to survive.
now it is becoming clear the the entire democrat party is built upon a sand castle of fraud and it is coming down - from Act Blue, to USAID an other NGOs that get their money from the government to recycle to democrats, to massive fraud in virtually every government program, to voter fraud & cheating on elections (Buyden got 81 million votes -right) , and now to the birthright citizenship and unconstitutional gerrymandered districts, to now embracing communism - yes the democrat party will either dissolve or split - couldn't happen to a nicer bunch
It’s been a long while since I’ve been as disenchanted with anyone as much as I’ve been with Tucker. He is truly a destructive force now and I hope his followers have dropped off in droves. What happened to him? I didn’t change, he did, or was he lying all along?
Leftist brains are still convinced that the only way to "progress" in the 21st Century is with a utopian ideology from the 19th Century that was resoundingly disproven in the 20th Century.
There is no limiting principle with progressivism. There is "no that'll never happen". It's a relentless one-way ratchet and every win they achieve is just a stepping stone to their next objective, over and over again, forever.
Ten years ago the DSA was a radical fringe that nobody really thought would achieve major power. Now the entire Democrat party is realigning themselves around it.
Socialism is a paradox:
Socialism requires that the poor exist. They promise to help them. But if they truly help them, they would stop being poor.
And without the poor, Socialism is n no longer "needed".
Yes. And it’s been famously said, you can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out. And, elections have consequences, but bad ideas have victims. My self-designed bumper sticker says “Socialism fails every time it’s tried… the only difference is the body count.”
THINK LIKE A MARXIST; ALL Socialist, Progressivist, do-gooder Liberalist, and even the "No Kings!" Founders-Constitutionalists of USA have their place on the gradient of the Inevitable Fated scale of History, Economics, and Human "advancement" unto Communism. Karl was anxious to defeat the compromisers and half-hearted Socialists of all stripes and unify it all under a One World Global Revolution. It is a CULT a Disease, but in truth, it is driven and there is no line in the sand or half measure that will ever restrain its push to parasitic-evil supremacy. Much like the "out of the closet gays" that then pushed for "marriage" that then pushes for Tranz and even more depraved sex with abuse, porno, prostitution, enslavement, and far worse behaviors based on mental "illness" and insanity based upon wickedness. There's no genuine compromise or boundaries that these sick manifestations won't cross or seek to fundamentally transform.
Bingo. Jeff C "turns out that America’s founders actually believed that a republic requires virtuous citizens."
In answering the question, " Does Power Corrupt? " which to my own suprise I argued against , we find that happiness is downstream of virtue.
For a simple yet profound understanding of why the US system us the best system, and why Tyranny ever fails, consider to read and share with any youth that respect you...
I think the syndrome has maxed out, it is not calling many new members … that first wave was its only wave … that plus perhaps a trickle constitute its following.
Well, since having been introduced to the extremist world of religious fundamentalism on this Substack, I would say that the TDS/WOKE-folk are similar in extremism to the far-rightwing religious groups. Neither extreme is a good place to be.
Something else they have in common is that people at both extremes believe they they are hyper-GOOD. That is how each side sees themselves -- as very righteous.
Instead of just throwing the charge out there without a shred of evidence, how about proving your theory that "far right wing religious groups are extreme" Please explain to me how valuing the life of unborn innocents is extreme and evil, or upholding the ten commandments as a good model for how to lead a good life is extreme and evil, or committing to a monogamous relationship for life and growing, healthy, happy children (who understand there are only two genders, male and female, dont want to lop off their genitals to please some deeply ill/evil schemers to destroy humanity and also don't expect "the collective" to support them) into good adults who can successfully function in society, instead of blaming society for their problems is extreme and bad. The "woke folks" are diametrically opposed to functioning society built on functioning families.
But I ask you, please tell me what is extreme or wrong about "far right wing religious groups". Where are they wrong, what are they doing which is so horrible? Are you conflating Muslim religious extremism with the Christian "extremism" I've laid out above?
Only someone suffering from TDS and being "woke" could compare the two and find them comparable.
And don't forget the contrast between left and right in gun violence. I can't remember the last time a bonafied conservative Christian has shot anybody up, vs the constant reports of leftists doing it.
If you knew about the Christian faith, you’d understand that most have recognized their sinful nature, have been horrified by this realization and have received salvation and a solution to their dilemma before a Righteous God in the person of a living Jesus Christ. It is simple enough, the first step is to admit your propensity for evil (before God).
Im a practicing Christian, I understand the faith well, confess my sins if I commit one, strive to do better, have done better over the course of my life. to say I am sinful by nature is complete bullshit - to say I have the ability to choose between right and wrong is far more accurate.
What is your point and what does it have to do with "A"s stupendously ridiculous comparison of left work dehumanization extremism vs "far right Christian extremism" post?
"A" said religious fundamentalists are the extremist far right without taking even a second to define what exactly a religious right wing fundamentalist is. So, I defined religious fundamentalist for it, him, her, they, xi, dolphin person, etc.
I've been told that being pro-life is a far right fundamentalist position as an example.
“Far right extremism” is only a call for the values that grew us to a point of prosperity where we could afford to dalliance into extreme left nonsense. “Far right” is not far at all. It is certainly not “extreme”. It is only an acknowledgement of biological reality and alliance with the social sciences before they were used to call for the murder of unhappy people or people (babies) with the potential to be unhappy. The label “far right extremism” is only an offense-is-best-defense weapon rolled out by the left which is calling for unheard of things outside the history of fascist regimes. “Somewhere in the middle” is the smug language of a person who lacks traditional values and also the courage to go outright insane with the left.
I disagree, BT. I grew up in moderate, balanced Christianity and civil society. In Canada, actually. As a traditional Catholic.
We were exceedingly civil and polite. We were very well-educated in the traditional manner. It was not until the Troodo horror hit this country that anything changed from this approach.
Canada has few religious fundamentalists in the "Christian" vein. I only encounter them in the U.S.
On this Substack forum they are rampant. And their odd behaviour has nothing to do with the behaviour and Christian values I was raised on. They are far more similar to the WOKE or to other cultists than to balanced Christians
So you think that "balanced" means a lack of truth and love? You are mis-understanding this.
Jesus Christ was probably the most balanced human being to have walked the earth. You should take cues from him. I cannot see Jesus screeching judgmentally at others the way most of the extremist religious types here do. He would be ashamed of you.
I might argue that your polite and non offensive brand of Christianity is how we ended up with 55 year old bearded men insisting on toileting with schoolgirls. I condemn is both … I was of this “polite” non confrontational breed as well. I stood by for years, dismissing my conscience and discomfort in favor of “getting along”. I called it “minding my own business” but what I was doing was creating a permission structure for everything that plagues us now. I’d say my experience is representative of most Christians. We played right into their hands until they started coming for our children with their trans story hours and x rated comic books. I don’t mind standing up now. I see how I can either stand up or lie down, there is no fence sitting in a day and age like this.
BT, why do you continually assume you know me? When you get it wrong every time. I have never been leftwing. Or rightwing. Always Centrist. Not even a feminist.
I am not WOKE. Nor am I a religious fundamentalist.
Why can't you grasp the idea that there is a whole lot of possibility between far-leftwing-ism and far-rightwing-ism? You seem to be convinced that those are the only ways you can be.
Nonsense! Their extremisn and your extremism are far more alike to one another than being a balanced Centrist type is to either of you.
I might get a lot of Scripture quotes and little praying-hand emojis in response to that one. But I have blocked a number of the very extremist types here....which provides some relief.
I only began blocking the worst sorts after 5 or 6 weeks of their regular nonsense. They were not interested in civil discourse. It takes two sides for that.
I think people have blocked me. Probably the same ones who brag that they refuse to read anything written by people who disagree with them. It pollutes their vital fluids, or something like that.
The Puritans of that era certainly thought they were.
My point is that not everyone who claims they are Christian actually is. Christianity requires homeostasis, at the centre of the psychological spectrum where you can have a balanced SELF. Extremism is deficient in homeostasis by definition.
Au contraire, Alan. It is the pack of rather nutty extremists here who tell everyone else that they are sinners. In a very judgmental manner, over slight differences of opinion. And then they often go on to scream at you that you are the Anti-Christ too.
That is when I wonder, frankly, if they are mentally ill. This is not normal behaviour. They are similar to the WOKE-folk on TikTok.
It’s incredible the fallen world starts at the top, in our government. I’ll never forget Kamala bailing out criminals. Off topic but Warren is my senator.
These Liars and Frauds. That sums up the democrat party. From their feeble dementia riddled president who they all swore was sharp as a tack and running circles around everyone, to the fraudulent Chief, Elizabeth Warren, who stole jobs from actual American Indians and minorities, to Secretary of “Trans”portation, Pete Buttigieg, who took 3 months off so HE could breastfeed HIS new adopted child, what a GUY!
Of coarse Elizabeth Warren took a short position with Spirit Airlines just before the merger with Jet Blue knowing the merger would fail, making a fortune when the merger was tossed. Recently she sold off the stocks she had knowing the airline was going belly up. The greed was just too much for the scumbag, produce nothing, democrats to allow the merger. BTW she was the senator that headed up the campaign to squash the merger with Jet Blue saying it was creating a monopoly among the discount airlines, how utterly idiotic and corrupt. She has done nothing for Massachusetts, nothing except hurt the people that live here.
You must know that Merrick Garland was also all in on stopping the merger which inevitably forced Spirit to close its doors. I’m sure he made boatloads of money as well as the dirtiest of all Nancy the Disgusting Pig Pelosi.
Really happy the war is declared to be over, but a lot of us “subjects” struggle, daily trying to figure out how to pay the bills, while they live in their mansions. It’s gotten so bad at my house we’re trying to figure out what vehicle to sell to pay another outrageous number of monthly bills. We have both had a lifetime of working our asses off to the point our bodies are broken, while we watch these scumbag corrupt politicians get exorbitantly wealthy, as my family sinks.
Now not only the 14,000 Spirit jobs are gone but add to that another 30-40 thousand jobs that supported that airline. I’d say all the extra money Chief Spreading Bull made would help to pay off the massive wall around her mansion but that was completed long ago, just around the time she was killing the border wall, incredible. These stupid Massachusetts voters, many of them illegal aliens, I’m sure will vote the democrat back in, many of them are on the take themselves. J.Goodrich
Why was Pocahontas allowed to succeed with little help from a few other helpless fools? Why didn't so many others in Congress stand up against this? It seems to me that it is so easy for our members in Congress to push the blame but never stand up for what is right. They have become utterly useless and need to all be sent home and start fresh! Our Founding Fathers did not intend for our Legislators to make their so called job full time. If they had to actually work for a living, we would all be much better off!!!!
I’m the same Juju. I was going to repost but deleted it. This happened the other day when Lori commented on my post, hers were missing. Not sure why, I guess it’s a sub stack glitch??
I’m using the iPhone app, so I don’t have “ctrl” or F5 options. The Like and Reply buttons are missing on James’s comment, but visible on everyone else’s. Maybe a glitch on the iOS app.
Yeah the last iPhone app update broke a LOT of stuff. It’s not missing on every account, just a few.
My app also crashes all the time now after the update when I’m perusing notifications. They made so many things much worse, not better. And the interface with stacks is awful now. Why do they insist on fixing things that aren’t broken and breaking them?
As long as we have month(s) long s_Elections (built on wholesale mail in ballot fraud informed by s_election machines like ePollbooks in the ESS election theft suite) instead of verifiable elections we will have Pocahontas and the rest of them. And then throw in all the illegal immigrants who were let into the country, were registered to vote as part of their illegal entrance, to replace American citizens.
Can anyone please explain to me why government gets to run our elections and inform us of their "results"?
Well Dan, I for one think the cycle begins with Government Schools! As long as we allow the Government to educate our future voters' the bureaucrat underlings and staffers of the Congress will continue to run the Government with help from the Lobbiests.
I don't disagree, but it is bigger than that. The barrage of leftist bullshit through every type of media and from leftist billionaires like deeply evil soros, gates, zuckerburg, etc who stole their wealth or was given it by our government -through the appropriations of our tax money is equally responsible or was given it by parents who earned it (but they never earned a penny themselves).
I also have thought this, Lisa!! Government schools. That is precisely what they are. And the Teachers Unions are for the most part, vile, left leaning, and seem to do little to nothing to better educate our kids, but routinely donate big bucks to those left leaning organizations. It’s disgusting. So thankful the horrific overreach of the Covid debacle, caused a fair number of parents to Wake Up to what was really going on in their kids’ schools and how poorly the kids were doing overall.
You just highlighted why Trump has doomed the GOP. Main street is really hurting. Most middle and lower middle class families don't hold stocks other than being vested in a 401k. The needless Iran actions are going to hurt the working class for months, likely years. Kuwait shipped no oil during the month of April. If things escalate again, Iran may hit additional gulf oil infrastructure, which some analysts contend could take a decade to recover from.
While your family and most others struggle to make ends meet, our AIPAC bought and paid for politicians will vote to send billions more to Israel this year, and maybe even a $1.5 trillion dollar military package. Utter insanity.
Main Street is hurt by Local and State taxes, fees and policies far more than it is hurt by Federal Spending. If we look at California, very much like Massachusetts in so far a Governance, we see that the number and amount of taxes, fees and added costs due to ridiculous mandates (high-density housing, High-Speed Rail, Homeless projects, needle dispersal, et cetera) add up to a major squeeze on the middle class that makes too much in earnings to qualify as a pet of the Democrats, yet not enough to "feel" that they can invest in their own future. The truth is that anyone can invest in the market, if they have the ability to research funds and the personal discipline to forgo the easy "grab and go" temptations in favor of allocating a small amount to mutual funds.
Somehow during the Plandemic, many of us were able to make our own coffee, go without haircuts, restaurant meals of any kind, vacations, clothes chopping, Sporting events, new furniture, et cetera. It is often our own mindset that tells us we cannot achieve something therefore we do not even do the basic research, but just spout the lines that others' wrote for us.
Our debt is out of control, and is making the dollar weaker, which means main street has less buying power - it certainly does impact main street.
Most people in our country live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford an unexpected $400 expense (which isn't much these days) - how can anyone falling in this category afford to "invest?" They can't even afford to invest in a home for themselves, let alone the stock market or mutual funds.
While I agree people in general could be more frugal, I see a lot of families who already are, and are still scrapping by. It's only going to get worse with oil prices increasing the cost of everything for months or years to come.
Main street Democrat socialists complain about everything all the time.
You pay attention to those that cry "wolf" daily if you want.
They're the ones that are now up to number 13 Covid injections. It's no wonder they are crying the blues, they're killing themselves and blaming everyone else.
It's interesting how the trolls all show up first in the comments. "The war is lost" "Israel and the Jews are the real problem". See how they latch on to a spectacularly popular stack featuring optimism and encouragement to spew their garbage, hoping to snag a few devotees for their stacks. Parasites by definition.
I had to check to see if I’d missed comments and you reminded me that I had blocked a LOT last week. What a wonderful read this morning in comments without “them.”
Sounds wonderful. Do you have a link or directions on how to block individual comments? I tried a search but found very little information. Thanks in advance!
I’m not sure if you can block individual comments but you can block a commenter and hence all of his/her comments. Just click on their user name, you should see three dots at the top right on their account, click on that and you should see several options, including “block.”
Click on a poster's name in their comment; this takes you to their page. On the right top, you will see the 3 dot menu button. Click that and "Block"will become visible.
If you prefer mindless tribalism and cheerleading for our public servants who serve the ruling class.....you would call others with differing opinions trolls or bots. Maybe instead you could try to engage rather than just name call? Going around just calling others names seems much more like trolling than does sharing one's opinions.
I continue to be baffled by those that require laughs and misleading "optimism" in the face of the ship is that going down but hey, the band is still playing ( and the comedians are still try to wring some laughs from destructive choices that Trump makes). So very weird. Something happened to Trump's brain and the evil people that surround him feed it willingly. He seems so compromised now and totally controlled.
Yes, thinking about all the campaign rhetoric around foreign conflicts, MAHA, prosperity at home....it all seems like a dreamworld. It is hard not to wonder if Mossad has some serious dirt on Trump, or if he really is just an insane zionist after all?
Plus they are so boring since they always say pretty much the same exact things every day, not to mention being pessimistic and nasty. I finally decided I was done trying to accommodate and listen to them. I can get more rational, thoughtful and nuanced opinions elsewhere and from other people.
Fortunately, substack has the block feature, which removes these boring one-note propagandists from my view.
Since I would almost always scroll past the retards, anyway, this makes my daily consumption of Jeff's offerings quicker, tidier and much more pleasant.
Sure, Einstein... Patriots with tons of real-life experience and knowledge, Cols Macgregor, Wilkerson, Scott Ritter, Jeffry Sachs, Prof Merscheimer, Larry Johnson, Daniel Davis... ALL who agree that "The war is lost" and "Israel and the Jews are the real problem"...
All have TDS... and we should all continue to worship Orange "Bone-spurs" Caligula and his Court Jester Little Petey Hegseth for their unprovoked and illegal War (in direct violation of our Constitution, existing statutes and International Maritime Law).
The corrupt cowardly neocon scum of congress get special mention too... eh?
I prefer apartmented! Does anyone truly believe that a unhoused person, living on the streets or in a vehicle is suddenly going to become a actual homeowner? Or magically have the income to rent an entire house? I guess, it might be possible if all the taxpayer dollars that funneled through the NGO's earmarked for the un-apartmented actually... no, shelve that idea because this is the real world and not La La Land. People make a million little choices that result in their current status. Until people become mindful that they alone choose their circumstances, much like the Taco Bell employee and the non-customer, each chose their 2am antics, they will continue to be looked at as useful ignorant idiots for those wishing to control and further a narrative that feeds into their end game.
Jeff, I hope you don't mind a comment on Sunday's post. I know this borders on blog crime!
I'm not a subscriber (sorry the price is a bit steep for me...as much as I love your blog) but the headline about arrested Mexican officials got me curious and I searched it.
I then learned that two CIA officers were killed in Mexico (or died?) in mid April. For those in Portland, mid-April was just a couple weeks ago. Nothing in the MSM about this! Here's the story that I put together with help from my AI:
--The DOJ indicted 10 sitting and former Mexican officials on April 29, 2026, including Sinaloa's governor, for running a cartel protection racket in exchange for bribes.
--Both the governor and Culiacán's mayor temporarily stepped down — inadvertently stripping themselves of their legal immunity under Mexican law.
--Mexico's President Sheinbaum refused extradition, insisting any prosecution would happen in Mexico, not Washington.
--Ten days earlier, two CIA officers died in a vehicle crash in Chihuahua's mountains after an unauthorized counternarcotics operation — their deaths are the direct trigger for the indictments.
--Whether the crash was an accident or something more deliberate remains publicly unanswered by either government.
Trump 2.0 continues to be able to handle 186 different issues at once! Amazing!
My first job in 1971 was at a fast food joint which shall remain nameless. I ponder what direction my working life would have taken if I could have pistol-whipped difficult patrons. (Not to brag, but my gun has never discharged when pistol-whipping, as I'm fastidious about trigger discipline.)
"They can find all the Nazi-tattooed, bearded white guys they want, but if socialism is the main selling point, it’s going to be a difficult sale."
No, the sale will not be difficult because the Dem Party isn't the only salesman. The MSM will be selling this hard. And when we win the midterms, one of Trump's first Exec Orders should be to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC, NBC and maybe CBS. Although if CBS bucks the trend, the message would be even better by NOT revoking their license.
Not sure what Trump can do about MSNBC, CNN and the other cable news outfits...but I'm sure the Feds have leverage because thanks to 50+ years of Dems and RINOs constantly expanding the size of the Fed Govt...the Feds have leverage over EVERYTHING!
A tip about the MSM. Turn them all off. The only thing you'll miss is the phase "...will hurt Trump/republicans in the midterms..." following every report, whether the info is accurate or opined.
Actually, the only people who watch the MSM are dying off now. The generation we need to worry about does not get their indoctrination from the Dinosaur Media, they get it from bots and Podcasts, Instagram, Reddit and numerous other sources that seem to change and multiply monthly. The instigators'' who creating such a gullible and unlearned generation of sponges are our very own Government schools. I watched it happening to my children in the 2010's and did my best to counter act the Socialist, sexualized, world that the hip young Middle School teachers were dangling in their adolescent path, in the name of "tolerance".
Thankfully, my children, now adults, came to realized how empty and intolerant that lifestyle model actually is. Each generation seeks independence from the previous to some extent, and if not brainwashed and broken in the process, is capable of finding a sane place to land, that they can call their own and get on with the business of living.
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Let those be ashamed and humiliated altogether who rejoice at my distress;
Let those be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves over me.
Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication;
And let them say continually, “The LORD be magnified,
Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.”
And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness
And Your praise all day long.
— Psalm 35:26-28 NAS95
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We need some good news! My traditional Lutheran church has seen an upsurge in not only marriages, but baptisms! We are now averaging a couple a month. For a small country church that is so encouraging. I also witnessed young men, (likely in their early twenties), going to communion. This was several, also never seen pre-covid. I prayed for a revival and this makes my heart happy.
Joy!!!
Revival in Stockton CA:
https://blog.mariomurillo.org/2026/05/04/nothing-enrages-hell-like-a-miracle/?mc_cid=aa64f7e25c&mc_eid=95f45d248b
Thanks for sharing, SD. This is wonderful!!!
Hallelujah!!
We truly rejoice at this news! Our LCMS (the conservative) Lutheran church is also seeing more young families with children. Youth of any age makes our hearts glad. ❤️
Yes Janice, praise the one and only Lord
Amen!
Yes, because the Lord is so insecure he needs to be told how wonderful he is by mere humans, on a constant basis?
Praise arises from humility and humility from our sin nature and need for forgiveness. Jesus’ sacrifice was not required of Him, it was a gift. I praise the One Who has saved me from the pit.
Found another one!!
Notice you capitalized Lord. Bot Farm Llc teach you that?
Three followers and one post from the bot boy!
Bottroll.
You can’t just Shutup, Can you?
The Lord is the source of righteousness and His Law is our standard of righteousness. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our example who perfectly fulfilled the Law.
Those verses make me think of Erika Kirk. Let those be ashamed and humiliated altogether who rejoice at her distress.
Oh please
The write up of the Taco Bell fiasco is the funniest thing I’ve read in some time. That’s what I’m here for!
Jeff is wayyyy too preoccupied with Chalupas and such, I’m dying laughing that a Taco Bell was in the news. 🤣 They really gave him a soft pitch. Lol
Kind of glad he is focusing more on chalupas today and less on enhancement products 😆😛
Hahahahaha so true 😆
Now, that's funny right there, I don't care who ya are!
I bet he gets door dash Chalupas right before he starts his "research" for his daily post. Specifically, before reading the NYT.
Taco Bell AND a Florida Man. When it's tee'd up like that, gotta take a swing!
McDonald’s is reportedly going to follow Chick-fil-A and start only offering sodas at the counter and removing auto-fill stations. Taco Bell might take note.
Also, I wonder what Jeff would have to say about another Occupy Wall Street protest. I’m a lifelong conservative GOP voter and had sympathy for that movement. In the wake of ‘08 crash, only those taking loans were punished, but never a banker who enabled them. Both Bush and Obama gave the banks a free pass. The Uniparty lives on and we get distractions (race, trans, climate, etc) to keep us Occupied with something else.
Juju, I hope he might do a special edition tomorrow because Cinco de Mayo falls Taco Tuesday! A rare occasion! 😂😂😂
Make a cheesy Gordita at home: https://substack.com/@therecessionchef/note/c-251845304?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action The recession chef tends to go left but has interesting recipes & an entertaining way of presenting them. I’m not a Taco Bell customer but this recipe did look delicious.
Oh man, I'm in tears from reading that! Childers could have been a stand-up comic if he had so chosen. Who knows? Maybe he is...on the sly.
I'm glad to know I was not the only one laughing at this Taco Bell enforcer story. I laughed so hard I was crying but kept telling myself I must be a degenerate to think it was funny. It has some serious societal implications that are not funny at all. Yet, being the reprobate I obviously am, I laughed myself silly and I don't even like chalupas. Oh what a deranged person I am.
My thoughts exactly, Nancy. The laughter reflex Jeff’s rendition of that story triggered this morning nearly resulted in abdominal muscle strain.
I was holding it together, albeit barely, until I got to the suspect's name. At that point I had to put the phone down and go outside for some fresh air and deep breaths.
Otherwise I woulda cracked a rib. 😆
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Totally hilarious, but i can't help but think back to the late 70's and 80's when, shockingly enough, we could hang out with friends and somehow waiti three hours for our favorite song to play on the radio just so we could record it on a blank cassette....and not kill each other.
They'll never understand the agony....
Wow, haven't thought about that in some time - great memories.
We were the last one Johnny-O, and we didn't know it.
Its all been downhill since then.
“Unauthorized soda acquisition” 😅 Outstandingly funny way to kick off a Monday morning! Mr Jeff is giving my other favorite Florida Substack writer, Dave Barry, a run for his money today. I bet Mr Barry will be disappointed that he didn’t get to write this story first. Also, “Virtue Signals” might be a good name for a band, but not one that I’d listen to.
It would have to be one of those head banging screamer rock bands to properly reflect the name. Lol
So at the rush of someone here being able to identify me by this confession... To the embarrassment of a dear younger friend, I ordered water and after it was full, using the small push lever vs the big one for the fizzy sugar, and being elderly but young looking 🙄 I got the push levers mixed up and ran both water and pop over my cup and even onto the floor before it stopped and Idk how. Who thought having a water and soda coming out that save SELF SERVE tap was a money saving idea???!!! Thankfully no one was also shooting at me maybe that makes it worse?
I have done that too. 😒. Maybe not flooding the place however. I just slunk back to my seat.
I was laughing all the way through his description of events. If only I had that sense of humor while writing assault reports!
That’s going to be on his permanent record 🤣
Any teacher who skipped school to protest on May Day, should be docked a day's pay.
Teaches who skip school to protest should be fired!!
@Oma- and any teacher who seduced children into skipping school should not only be fired but her his/her teaching license revoked.
I think jail time is more appropriate.
Let's not forget, these are the same people who supported taking out Brett Kavanaugh, fire-bombing Teslas, BLM riots that burned down entire city blocks, and Antifa laying siege to courthouses, and when Luig Mangione murdered a healthcare CEO in cold blood, leftists immediately fell in love.
I can't stand these people but I also feel sorry for them. Imagine spending your entire life talking about and protesting a fake problem.
It has to be exhausting.
I can’t stand them. Period.
Lolol.
The easiest population to recruit are those with high "empathy", low emotional stability, high victim identity, high support for silencing others.
I can guarantee you that perfectly describes these morons.
Liberalism is a mental disorder that causes only white people to look in the mirror and think "the world needs a lot less of me"
The good news is we win by attrition. These people hate people that have the very children they are supposed to educate because they don't have children of their own.
Same. My raging liberal sisters and I are down to just trading cat videos and bird sightings online. Nothing else I feel we can talk about. Sad.
Comes from allowing President Trump to live in their heads rent-free way too long. But actually the President Trump they think he is.
Number of people who had to take off work for the protest: zero
Democratic Socialism = Oxymoron
Defending Democracy=Control by Progressive Socialists
“The increasing willingness of mainstream Democrats to align with extremist socialist groups is a major factor in why the Democratic Party is losing the center more and more, and why so many lifelong Democrats find themselves feeling politically homeless.” In a nutshell: A vote for democrats is a vote for communism!
Now apply that statement and compare it to the Biden Administration's 4 years of Anti-America. And take it one step further and think where we would be today if President Trump had not been elected (which still amazes me when considering Mr. Dominion & all of his friends). You know as well as I do that it would NOT be a pretty picture had Comrade Kamala & Dufus successfully stolen the show. Which brings me to the final point.
If we don't get out an vote ENMASS and allow the communists to once again gain a foothold - we are DONE as a Constitutional Republic - forever. Trump is making wonderful changes that strengthen America and HELP The People, all of them. So, don't let the knuckleheads tell you any different. Vote Conservative. MAGA!
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Former democrat. Fully MAGA/MAHA.
= socialism for the oligarchs.
As NYC is clearly showing, actual socialism is comeuppance for useful idiots.
How so in NYC?
= Criminocracy = Pathocracy too.
No way to talk about Wall St. and the Federal Reserve.
In a "pure democracy," voters get to secretly vote and publicly count votes exactly once.
and a hand gets cut off for cheating? that's a 2 strikes policy
Communism is the only ideology that must pretend to be something else in order to survive.
now it is becoming clear the the entire democrat party is built upon a sand castle of fraud and it is coming down - from Act Blue, to USAID an other NGOs that get their money from the government to recycle to democrats, to massive fraud in virtually every government program, to voter fraud & cheating on elections (Buyden got 81 million votes -right) , and now to the birthright citizenship and unconstitutional gerrymandered districts, to now embracing communism - yes the democrat party will either dissolve or split - couldn't happen to a nicer bunch
Wondering if we’ll see Tucker campaign for the bearded, tattooed communist running for office in Maine? Pretty sure he lives there.
It’s been a long while since I’ve been as disenchanted with anyone as much as I’ve been with Tucker. He is truly a destructive force now and I hope his followers have dropped off in droves. What happened to him? I didn’t change, he did, or was he lying all along?
Commie with an SS tattoo; LMAO!
Its just insane, but predictable.
Leftist brains are still convinced that the only way to "progress" in the 21st Century is with a utopian ideology from the 19th Century that was resoundingly disproven in the 20th Century.
There is no limiting principle with progressivism. There is "no that'll never happen". It's a relentless one-way ratchet and every win they achieve is just a stepping stone to their next objective, over and over again, forever.
Ten years ago the DSA was a radical fringe that nobody really thought would achieve major power. Now the entire Democrat party is realigning themselves around it.
Socialism is a paradox:
Socialism requires that the poor exist. They promise to help them. But if they truly help them, they would stop being poor.
And without the poor, Socialism is n no longer "needed".
Yes. And it’s been famously said, you can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out. And, elections have consequences, but bad ideas have victims. My self-designed bumper sticker says “Socialism fails every time it’s tried… the only difference is the body count.”
Also Thatcher’s "the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"
They won’t run out of OPM if the ngo fraudsters continue to steal our tax dollars. Vance’s fraud team needs to shut it all down.
bUt iF wE dO iT rIgHt tHiS tImE iT wIlL wOrK!
THINK LIKE A MARXIST; ALL Socialist, Progressivist, do-gooder Liberalist, and even the "No Kings!" Founders-Constitutionalists of USA have their place on the gradient of the Inevitable Fated scale of History, Economics, and Human "advancement" unto Communism. Karl was anxious to defeat the compromisers and half-hearted Socialists of all stripes and unify it all under a One World Global Revolution. It is a CULT a Disease, but in truth, it is driven and there is no line in the sand or half measure that will ever restrain its push to parasitic-evil supremacy. Much like the "out of the closet gays" that then pushed for "marriage" that then pushes for Tranz and even more depraved sex with abuse, porno, prostitution, enslavement, and far worse behaviors based on mental "illness" and insanity based upon wickedness. There's no genuine compromise or boundaries that these sick manifestations won't cross or seek to fundamentally transform.
Bingo. Jeff C "turns out that America’s founders actually believed that a republic requires virtuous citizens."
In answering the question, " Does Power Corrupt? " which to my own suprise I argued against , we find that happiness is downstream of virtue.
For a simple yet profound understanding of why the US system us the best system, and why Tyranny ever fails, consider to read and share with any youth that respect you...
https://anderdaa7.substack.com/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt
Always free, not a news feed...
Communism thrives on creating victims. TDS sufferers are America’s biggest victim class.
I’m beginning to think TDS is a contagious bioweapon.
I think the syndrome has maxed out, it is not calling many new members … that first wave was its only wave … that plus perhaps a trickle constitute its following.
It’s practically incurable.
It will remain incurable as long as they only take in lies and propaganda.
IMO they are the numero uno enemy from within.
Well, since having been introduced to the extremist world of religious fundamentalism on this Substack, I would say that the TDS/WOKE-folk are similar in extremism to the far-rightwing religious groups. Neither extreme is a good place to be.
Something else they have in common is that people at both extremes believe they they are hyper-GOOD. That is how each side sees themselves -- as very righteous.
Instead of just throwing the charge out there without a shred of evidence, how about proving your theory that "far right wing religious groups are extreme" Please explain to me how valuing the life of unborn innocents is extreme and evil, or upholding the ten commandments as a good model for how to lead a good life is extreme and evil, or committing to a monogamous relationship for life and growing, healthy, happy children (who understand there are only two genders, male and female, dont want to lop off their genitals to please some deeply ill/evil schemers to destroy humanity and also don't expect "the collective" to support them) into good adults who can successfully function in society, instead of blaming society for their problems is extreme and bad. The "woke folks" are diametrically opposed to functioning society built on functioning families.
But I ask you, please tell me what is extreme or wrong about "far right wing religious groups". Where are they wrong, what are they doing which is so horrible? Are you conflating Muslim religious extremism with the Christian "extremism" I've laid out above?
Only someone suffering from TDS and being "woke" could compare the two and find them comparable.
And don't forget the contrast between left and right in gun violence. I can't remember the last time a bonafied conservative Christian has shot anybody up, vs the constant reports of leftists doing it.
Oh and the left will conflate our right to defend ourselves with their use of guns to tear apart society. You are right.
If you knew about the Christian faith, you’d understand that most have recognized their sinful nature, have been horrified by this realization and have received salvation and a solution to their dilemma before a Righteous God in the person of a living Jesus Christ. It is simple enough, the first step is to admit your propensity for evil (before God).
Im a practicing Christian, I understand the faith well, confess my sins if I commit one, strive to do better, have done better over the course of my life. to say I am sinful by nature is complete bullshit - to say I have the ability to choose between right and wrong is far more accurate.
What is your point and what does it have to do with "A"s stupendously ridiculous comparison of left work dehumanization extremism vs "far right Christian extremism" post?
I would have said that your position is not far right but is mostly mainstream, altho to the right of the middle. Far rigjt id Tucker Carlson et al.
"A" said religious fundamentalists are the extremist far right without taking even a second to define what exactly a religious right wing fundamentalist is. So, I defined religious fundamentalist for it, him, her, they, xi, dolphin person, etc.
I've been told that being pro-life is a far right fundamentalist position as an example.
People like “A” throw out false comparisons in order to justify their own wrongs.
I agree, James. 100%.
“Far right extremism” is only a call for the values that grew us to a point of prosperity where we could afford to dalliance into extreme left nonsense. “Far right” is not far at all. It is certainly not “extreme”. It is only an acknowledgement of biological reality and alliance with the social sciences before they were used to call for the murder of unhappy people or people (babies) with the potential to be unhappy. The label “far right extremism” is only an offense-is-best-defense weapon rolled out by the left which is calling for unheard of things outside the history of fascist regimes. “Somewhere in the middle” is the smug language of a person who lacks traditional values and also the courage to go outright insane with the left.
Extremely well said, thanks BelleTower.
I disagree, BT. I grew up in moderate, balanced Christianity and civil society. In Canada, actually. As a traditional Catholic.
We were exceedingly civil and polite. We were very well-educated in the traditional manner. It was not until the Troodo horror hit this country that anything changed from this approach.
Canada has few religious fundamentalists in the "Christian" vein. I only encounter them in the U.S.
On this Substack forum they are rampant. And their odd behaviour has nothing to do with the behaviour and Christian values I was raised on. They are far more similar to the WOKE or to other cultists than to balanced Christians
Jesus was not “balanced”, not at all! He spoke truth with love.
So you think that "balanced" means a lack of truth and love? You are mis-understanding this.
Jesus Christ was probably the most balanced human being to have walked the earth. You should take cues from him. I cannot see Jesus screeching judgmentally at others the way most of the extremist religious types here do. He would be ashamed of you.
I might argue that your polite and non offensive brand of Christianity is how we ended up with 55 year old bearded men insisting on toileting with schoolgirls. I condemn is both … I was of this “polite” non confrontational breed as well. I stood by for years, dismissing my conscience and discomfort in favor of “getting along”. I called it “minding my own business” but what I was doing was creating a permission structure for everything that plagues us now. I’d say my experience is representative of most Christians. We played right into their hands until they started coming for our children with their trans story hours and x rated comic books. I don’t mind standing up now. I see how I can either stand up or lie down, there is no fence sitting in a day and age like this.
BT, why do you continually assume you know me? When you get it wrong every time. I have never been leftwing. Or rightwing. Always Centrist. Not even a feminist.
I am not WOKE. Nor am I a religious fundamentalist.
Why can't you grasp the idea that there is a whole lot of possibility between far-leftwing-ism and far-rightwing-ism? You seem to be convinced that those are the only ways you can be.
Nonsense! Their extremisn and your extremism are far more alike to one another than being a balanced Centrist type is to either of you.
I might get a lot of Scripture quotes and little praying-hand emojis in response to that one. But I have blocked a number of the very extremist types here....which provides some relief.
(sigh)... I guess everyone is blocking everybody now. Seems to be contagious.
It's ironic, considering today's theme of civil discourse.
Mrs. RW
I only began blocking the worst sorts after 5 or 6 weeks of their regular nonsense. They were not interested in civil discourse. It takes two sides for that.
I think people have blocked me. Probably the same ones who brag that they refuse to read anything written by people who disagree with them. It pollutes their vital fluids, or something like that.
Mrs. RW
"...That is how each side sees themselves -- as very righteous."
Thus does evil present itself. Thus in their perspective, Satan is the only one worthy of worship.
Yes, as in the "righteous Chrisitian" Puritans of 1692 in Salem. Who started working for Satan.
So... are you using this to characterize Christianity?
The Puritans of that era certainly thought they were.
My point is that not everyone who claims they are Christian actually is. Christianity requires homeostasis, at the centre of the psychological spectrum where you can have a balanced SELF. Extremism is deficient in homeostasis by definition.
Think of the Golden Mean. Balance.
“ Christianity requires homeostasis, at the centre of the psychological spectrum where you can have a balanced SELF”
Where does this definition or requirement come from?
You didn't really answer my question.
Gee, please inform me about moderation, @A.
I seem to remember most christiantjoughtrevolving around the fact that we are all sinners. Hm. And yet,here you are, above us all.
Au contraire, Alan. It is the pack of rather nutty extremists here who tell everyone else that they are sinners. In a very judgmental manner, over slight differences of opinion. And then they often go on to scream at you that you are the Anti-Christ too.
That is when I wonder, frankly, if they are mentally ill. This is not normal behaviour. They are similar to the WOKE-folk on TikTok.
It’s incredible the fallen world starts at the top, in our government. I’ll never forget Kamala bailing out criminals. Off topic but Warren is my senator.
These Liars and Frauds. That sums up the democrat party. From their feeble dementia riddled president who they all swore was sharp as a tack and running circles around everyone, to the fraudulent Chief, Elizabeth Warren, who stole jobs from actual American Indians and minorities, to Secretary of “Trans”portation, Pete Buttigieg, who took 3 months off so HE could breastfeed HIS new adopted child, what a GUY!
Of coarse Elizabeth Warren took a short position with Spirit Airlines just before the merger with Jet Blue knowing the merger would fail, making a fortune when the merger was tossed. Recently she sold off the stocks she had knowing the airline was going belly up. The greed was just too much for the scumbag, produce nothing, democrats to allow the merger. BTW she was the senator that headed up the campaign to squash the merger with Jet Blue saying it was creating a monopoly among the discount airlines, how utterly idiotic and corrupt. She has done nothing for Massachusetts, nothing except hurt the people that live here.
You must know that Merrick Garland was also all in on stopping the merger which inevitably forced Spirit to close its doors. I’m sure he made boatloads of money as well as the dirtiest of all Nancy the Disgusting Pig Pelosi.
Really happy the war is declared to be over, but a lot of us “subjects” struggle, daily trying to figure out how to pay the bills, while they live in their mansions. It’s gotten so bad at my house we’re trying to figure out what vehicle to sell to pay another outrageous number of monthly bills. We have both had a lifetime of working our asses off to the point our bodies are broken, while we watch these scumbag corrupt politicians get exorbitantly wealthy, as my family sinks.
Now not only the 14,000 Spirit jobs are gone but add to that another 30-40 thousand jobs that supported that airline. I’d say all the extra money Chief Spreading Bull made would help to pay off the massive wall around her mansion but that was completed long ago, just around the time she was killing the border wall, incredible. These stupid Massachusetts voters, many of them illegal aliens, I’m sure will vote the democrat back in, many of them are on the take themselves. J.Goodrich
Why was Pocahontas allowed to succeed with little help from a few other helpless fools? Why didn't so many others in Congress stand up against this? It seems to me that it is so easy for our members in Congress to push the blame but never stand up for what is right. They have become utterly useless and need to all be sent home and start fresh! Our Founding Fathers did not intend for our Legislators to make their so called job full time. If they had to actually work for a living, we would all be much better off!!!!
Greed and insider trading.
For some reason there is no like or reply under James’ comments for me, so I can’t do either. Hopefully he will see it under yours? Like!👍
I’m the same Juju. I was going to repost but deleted it. This happened the other day when Lori commented on my post, hers were missing. Not sure why, I guess it’s a sub stack glitch??
Same for me, that’s so weird 😕
Strange, I see a "Like" and "Reply" under his which is why I did.
Same for me 🤔
I have found using the combination of keys "CTRL" and F5 and or reopening in another window to be successful in fixing these anomalies.
I’m using the iPhone app, so I don’t have “ctrl” or F5 options. The Like and Reply buttons are missing on James’s comment, but visible on everyone else’s. Maybe a glitch on the iOS app.
Yeah the last iPhone app update broke a LOT of stuff. It’s not missing on every account, just a few.
My app also crashes all the time now after the update when I’m perusing notifications. They made so many things much worse, not better. And the interface with stacks is awful now. Why do they insist on fixing things that aren’t broken and breaking them?
As long as we have month(s) long s_Elections (built on wholesale mail in ballot fraud informed by s_election machines like ePollbooks in the ESS election theft suite) instead of verifiable elections we will have Pocahontas and the rest of them. And then throw in all the illegal immigrants who were let into the country, were registered to vote as part of their illegal entrance, to replace American citizens.
Can anyone please explain to me why government gets to run our elections and inform us of their "results"?
Well Dan, I for one think the cycle begins with Government Schools! As long as we allow the Government to educate our future voters' the bureaucrat underlings and staffers of the Congress will continue to run the Government with help from the Lobbiests.
I don't disagree, but it is bigger than that. The barrage of leftist bullshit through every type of media and from leftist billionaires like deeply evil soros, gates, zuckerburg, etc who stole their wealth or was given it by our government -through the appropriations of our tax money is equally responsible or was given it by parents who earned it (but they never earned a penny themselves).
I also have thought this, Lisa!! Government schools. That is precisely what they are. And the Teachers Unions are for the most part, vile, left leaning, and seem to do little to nothing to better educate our kids, but routinely donate big bucks to those left leaning organizations. It’s disgusting. So thankful the horrific overreach of the Covid debacle, caused a fair number of parents to Wake Up to what was really going on in their kids’ schools and how poorly the kids were doing overall.
You just highlighted why Trump has doomed the GOP. Main street is really hurting. Most middle and lower middle class families don't hold stocks other than being vested in a 401k. The needless Iran actions are going to hurt the working class for months, likely years. Kuwait shipped no oil during the month of April. If things escalate again, Iran may hit additional gulf oil infrastructure, which some analysts contend could take a decade to recover from.
While your family and most others struggle to make ends meet, our AIPAC bought and paid for politicians will vote to send billions more to Israel this year, and maybe even a $1.5 trillion dollar military package. Utter insanity.
Main Street is hurt by Local and State taxes, fees and policies far more than it is hurt by Federal Spending. If we look at California, very much like Massachusetts in so far a Governance, we see that the number and amount of taxes, fees and added costs due to ridiculous mandates (high-density housing, High-Speed Rail, Homeless projects, needle dispersal, et cetera) add up to a major squeeze on the middle class that makes too much in earnings to qualify as a pet of the Democrats, yet not enough to "feel" that they can invest in their own future. The truth is that anyone can invest in the market, if they have the ability to research funds and the personal discipline to forgo the easy "grab and go" temptations in favor of allocating a small amount to mutual funds.
Somehow during the Plandemic, many of us were able to make our own coffee, go without haircuts, restaurant meals of any kind, vacations, clothes chopping, Sporting events, new furniture, et cetera. It is often our own mindset that tells us we cannot achieve something therefore we do not even do the basic research, but just spout the lines that others' wrote for us.
Our debt is out of control, and is making the dollar weaker, which means main street has less buying power - it certainly does impact main street.
Most people in our country live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford an unexpected $400 expense (which isn't much these days) - how can anyone falling in this category afford to "invest?" They can't even afford to invest in a home for themselves, let alone the stock market or mutual funds.
While I agree people in general could be more frugal, I see a lot of families who already are, and are still scrapping by. It's only going to get worse with oil prices increasing the cost of everything for months or years to come.
Main street Democrat socialists complain about everything all the time.
You pay attention to those that cry "wolf" daily if you want.
They're the ones that are now up to number 13 Covid injections. It's no wonder they are crying the blues, they're killing themselves and blaming everyone else.
Boo Hoo!
So sorry to hear how hard it is being, JG. I pray for blessings on you.
Thank You Lisa!
It's interesting how the trolls all show up first in the comments. "The war is lost" "Israel and the Jews are the real problem". See how they latch on to a spectacularly popular stack featuring optimism and encouragement to spew their garbage, hoping to snag a few devotees for their stacks. Parasites by definition.
Amazing. I don’t see a single one of them today 😊 My block function is golden
I had to check to see if I’d missed comments and you reminded me that I had blocked a LOT last week. What a wonderful read this morning in comments without “them.”
They cannot rob this community of its celebratory joy and energy. Not while we have the power to preserve it.
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I found one: GK
Block complete.
I was thinking the same thing.
Same!!! 😁 The Vorpal Sword in action 😁
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
Sounds wonderful. Do you have a link or directions on how to block individual comments? I tried a search but found very little information. Thanks in advance!
I’m not sure if you can block individual comments but you can block a commenter and hence all of his/her comments. Just click on their user name, you should see three dots at the top right on their account, click on that and you should see several options, including “block.”
Tap on their avatar. On their profile page there should be three dots upper right. From that menu you can block
The block function is genius.
How do I block someone, please?
Click on a poster's name in their comment; this takes you to their page. On the right top, you will see the 3 dot menu button. Click that and "Block"will become visible.
It's a delightful feature.
If you prefer mindless tribalism and cheerleading for our public servants who serve the ruling class.....you would call others with differing opinions trolls or bots. Maybe instead you could try to engage rather than just name call? Going around just calling others names seems much more like trolling than does sharing one's opinions.
I continue to be baffled by those that require laughs and misleading "optimism" in the face of the ship is that going down but hey, the band is still playing ( and the comedians are still try to wring some laughs from destructive choices that Trump makes). So very weird. Something happened to Trump's brain and the evil people that surround him feed it willingly. He seems so compromised now and totally controlled.
Yes, thinking about all the campaign rhetoric around foreign conflicts, MAHA, prosperity at home....it all seems like a dreamworld. It is hard not to wonder if Mossad has some serious dirt on Trump, or if he really is just an insane zionist after all?
"If you prefer mindless tribalism and cheerleading for our public servants who serve the ruling class..."
Do you mean like the "liberals"
did for the 4 years Cabbage Head "auto-penned" his way through Washington D.C.?
Plus they are so boring since they always say pretty much the same exact things every day, not to mention being pessimistic and nasty. I finally decided I was done trying to accommodate and listen to them. I can get more rational, thoughtful and nuanced opinions elsewhere and from other people.
Fortunately, substack has the block feature, which removes these boring one-note propagandists from my view.
Since I would almost always scroll past the retards, anyway, this makes my daily consumption of Jeff's offerings quicker, tidier and much more pleasant.
Yes I’m very glad I finally decided to take advantage of that useful feature 😁
Janet is showing up first in my comments 😊
Mine also, then James.
Mrs. RW
Sure, Einstein... Patriots with tons of real-life experience and knowledge, Cols Macgregor, Wilkerson, Scott Ritter, Jeffry Sachs, Prof Merscheimer, Larry Johnson, Daniel Davis... ALL who agree that "The war is lost" and "Israel and the Jews are the real problem"...
All have TDS... and we should all continue to worship Orange "Bone-spurs" Caligula and his Court Jester Little Petey Hegseth for their unprovoked and illegal War (in direct violation of our Constitution, existing statutes and International Maritime Law).
The corrupt cowardly neocon scum of congress get special mention too... eh?
Bots
Good morning fellow C&Cers!
Good sunny Monday!! ☀️🌷☀️
I certainly is here in NE Kansas. Cheers.
Good morning, shayne!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Morning MtK!
Good morning!! 😊
Morning RL!
“Democrats find themselves politically homeless”,um surely he meant “unhoused”
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I prefer apartmented! Does anyone truly believe that a unhoused person, living on the streets or in a vehicle is suddenly going to become a actual homeowner? Or magically have the income to rent an entire house? I guess, it might be possible if all the taxpayer dollars that funneled through the NGO's earmarked for the un-apartmented actually... no, shelve that idea because this is the real world and not La La Land. People make a million little choices that result in their current status. Until people become mindful that they alone choose their circumstances, much like the Taco Bell employee and the non-customer, each chose their 2am antics, they will continue to be looked at as useful ignorant idiots for those wishing to control and further a narrative that feeds into their end game.
Choose wisely folks!
I look forward to your updates every day! Thank you Mr Childers!
Rabid Badgers! You named my next band!
Jeff has so many phrases that would make excellent band names!
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This is true 😁
I’m thankful I went to school when orderly potty training was mandatory. Also we learned water cups were for water and avoided gunfire.
Jeff, I hope you don't mind a comment on Sunday's post. I know this borders on blog crime!
I'm not a subscriber (sorry the price is a bit steep for me...as much as I love your blog) but the headline about arrested Mexican officials got me curious and I searched it.
I then learned that two CIA officers were killed in Mexico (or died?) in mid April. For those in Portland, mid-April was just a couple weeks ago. Nothing in the MSM about this! Here's the story that I put together with help from my AI:
--The DOJ indicted 10 sitting and former Mexican officials on April 29, 2026, including Sinaloa's governor, for running a cartel protection racket in exchange for bribes.
--Both the governor and Culiacán's mayor temporarily stepped down — inadvertently stripping themselves of their legal immunity under Mexican law.
--Mexico's President Sheinbaum refused extradition, insisting any prosecution would happen in Mexico, not Washington.
--Ten days earlier, two CIA officers died in a vehicle crash in Chihuahua's mountains after an unauthorized counternarcotics operation — their deaths are the direct trigger for the indictments.
--Whether the crash was an accident or something more deliberate remains publicly unanswered by either government.
Trump 2.0 continues to be able to handle 186 different issues at once! Amazing!
My first job in 1971 was at a fast food joint which shall remain nameless. I ponder what direction my working life would have taken if I could have pistol-whipped difficult patrons. (Not to brag, but my gun has never discharged when pistol-whipping, as I'm fastidious about trigger discipline.)
I just don't abuse my guns by using them as clubs. Always carry around a baseball bat for your Taco Bell outings. That's my motto.
Aluminum Childs size is incredible. One hit wonder. I have one for each car, when the shooting of the perp is “ overkill”.
I do have a lead-filled, leather-lined sap for close in work.
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Depends... are you human...
Or simian?
"They can find all the Nazi-tattooed, bearded white guys they want, but if socialism is the main selling point, it’s going to be a difficult sale."
No, the sale will not be difficult because the Dem Party isn't the only salesman. The MSM will be selling this hard. And when we win the midterms, one of Trump's first Exec Orders should be to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC, NBC and maybe CBS. Although if CBS bucks the trend, the message would be even better by NOT revoking their license.
Not sure what Trump can do about MSNBC, CNN and the other cable news outfits...but I'm sure the Feds have leverage because thanks to 50+ years of Dems and RINOs constantly expanding the size of the Fed Govt...the Feds have leverage over EVERYTHING!
A tip about the MSM. Turn them all off. The only thing you'll miss is the phase "...will hurt Trump/republicans in the midterms..." following every report, whether the info is accurate or opined.
I haven’t watched or listened to them in decades.
And too many people love “free stuff” 😕
Actually, the only people who watch the MSM are dying off now. The generation we need to worry about does not get their indoctrination from the Dinosaur Media, they get it from bots and Podcasts, Instagram, Reddit and numerous other sources that seem to change and multiply monthly. The instigators'' who creating such a gullible and unlearned generation of sponges are our very own Government schools. I watched it happening to my children in the 2010's and did my best to counter act the Socialist, sexualized, world that the hip young Middle School teachers were dangling in their adolescent path, in the name of "tolerance".
Thankfully, my children, now adults, came to realized how empty and intolerant that lifestyle model actually is. Each generation seeks independence from the previous to some extent, and if not brainwashed and broken in the process, is capable of finding a sane place to land, that they can call their own and get on with the business of living.
Morning!
Kim, wow you did it! Good morning
Good morning!! 😊