EU drags itself to $750B energy bar after sandbagging. ICE agents rescue airports after Democrats broke them. Pentagon shutters pressroom after judge cancels security rules. 3 stories, 1 lesson.
It never fails. I wake up, scan the morning headlines and doom-scroll my X feed with R.E.M. singing 'It's the End of the World as We Know It' in my mind.
Then—right on time (usually)—the daily C&C shows up, and there’s the inestimable Jeff Childers, calmly flipping the script with his trademark mix of legal scalpel and sarcastic optimism. Suddenly I’m humming 'Accentuate the Positive' and the day doesn’t look quite so apocalyptic. (Here's Van Morrison's 2023 cover: https://youtu.be/EcxFs-fgmaw)
Thanks for the daily lens adjustment, Jeff. Keep slinging that sanity and optimism our way—the C&C Army needs it!
Every day I look forward to Jeff’s C&C column for clarity, positivity, and humor.
Seems Jeff has also been discovered… by the blue haired, nose ringed, low T, hate 🤬 patrol. We are being “flooded” by negativity and hate in the comment section by these trolls. The number of vitriolic commenters just seemed to have bloomed overnight almost like it was coordinated… hummm.
I wish there were a way Jeff could get the income needed by making every day's post only for the paying readers. I know we would lose a lot of good folks. So perhaps have 2 levels of payments. One to get you in to read the comments and the other to be able to comment.
03/24/26: For the same reason that "George Soros" (Hungarian Auto-Pen), age 702, reads 2,966 Substack columns each day, pumping up their "readership" count and posting Communist Chinese-Amazon product-review bot-gibberish.
Yep it seems to have opened up the proverbial can of worms as well as turned over the barrel and every bad apple has popped to the top of the dung pile. The maggots are growing in number.
I look forward to C&C also, and have for years, since probably 2022, definitely 2023 and ever since. I have much respect for Jeff. I love his sense of humor, but honestly when it goes into mocking situations that will lead thousands to millions of people to freeze and/or starve to death down the road, it's less funny.
I often don't have time to comment, but I comment more lately as world events are racing toward the disaster every COVID dissident wanted to avoid, but this time the pretext is different, and people seem incapable of seeing that Trump could ever do anything majorly wrong, like either intent to herd us all into digital prisons, starve people to death, or being easily manipulated by those who do.
Not all uncomfortable observations are from hatred or trolling.
Likely Trump was installed, regardless of votes, to bring in technocracy - as is evident here, his power grabs face far less resistance from his supporters than they would if a Dem tried them.
But to whatever degree votes matter, if enough liberals hadn't realized how corrupt our "side" was and voted for Trump, as I did, he would have had a lot less votes.
Respectful conversation can also disagree.
Very heartened to see a lot of conservatives not going along with this war. The "left" and "right" should stop hating each other. The real enemy is the control system, which needs global crisis to be sprung as the "solution".
"My exploration into social control has taught me this: we have far more in common with each other than with the systems exploiting our divisions.
The guy struggling to pay rent has more in common with another guy struggling to pay rent than either has with the billionaire who owns both their apartment buildings. It doesn’t matter what either of them looks like or who they pray to. The same goes for parents - a mom worried about her kid’s future has a lot more in common with other worried parents than with the politicians exploiting that fear for votes.
This doesn’t mean pretending all perspectives are equally valid or ignoring real injustices. It means refusing to let those injustices be weaponized to make us hate each other. It means developing the spiritual maturity to hold multiple truths simultaneously. ....
I think about all of us, carrying our ancestors’ wounds, trying to make sense of a world that seems designed to keep us afraid, angry, and separate. But I also think about what becomes possible when we refuse to play that game. When we insist on seeing each other’s humanity even when we disagree about solutions. When we direct our anger toward systems rather than scapegoats.
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I’m angry. I want to be clear about that. But where I point that anger is what matters.
Can we stay furious at the cage-builders without turning on whoever’s in the cage with us? Can we hold the idea that threats are both real and manufactured at the same time? That our neighbors’ fears are valid even when someone’s exploiting them? That violence creates victims and beneficiaries - and they’re almost never the same people?
The division machine has one weakness: it needs us to play along. Every time we refuse their dialectic - every time we look up instead of sideways - the whole thing gets fragile. They work so hard to keep us looking at each other because they know the moment we look up, the whole game falls apart." - Joshua Stylman
Ellen: "Respect. Commonality. The enemy is not each other." So radical!
Reminds me just a bit of "Love your neighbor as yourself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
The same thing is happening on “Clusterfuck Nation” blog! The comments section is being infiltrated by these leftist know-it-alls! They are rude, usually wrong & hatefully annoying! And their numbers are increasing! Schmucks !
Well said! C&C is my go to every day. Jeff filters out the BS and provides clarity and does it with a sharp and often biting (those hapless Portlandiers) sense of humor. I did see the video with Mike Rowe. Totally enjoyed it. Two very smart, clever and genuine dudes, spreading their love and optimism.
Yes, and not in the deservedly-mocked manner of what used to be called the "bliss ninnies," who eschew thought and just live in a permanent mental LaLa Land. Jeff encourages more, not less, discernment and reminds me of someone on-line who recently commented, "It's not Christ-like to outsource your rational thought."
Jeff indeed performs a crucial service because even so-called "conservative" media knows that "clicks" come from fear-mongering, doom-and-gloom, the sky-is-falling headlines... all under the cover of "news"...and they never fail to fulfill their mission.
It's easy to succumb to a black pilled ecosystem.
Jeff is one of the best remedies out there. I am very grateful to God for Jeff's ministry.
That waste of space senator Blumenthol yammering ICE is going to start shooting people IN AIRPORTS??? I don’t even have words. Shaking my head. But liberal heads will be raising theirs up and down like a team of bobble head dolls. 😱😵💫
03/24/26: Tie goes to Mazie, winner of 193 Pearl Hearts for eating courageously at Hawaii chain restaurants Zippy's, L&L & Hawaiian Barbecue Rainbow Drive-Ins!
My husband is a Viet Nam combat vet and he as well as pretty much all his veteran acquaintances absolutely detest that liar Da Nang Dick Blumenthal. His name is on the stolen valor list. What a detestable P.O.S. that man is. Shame on the voters who keep voting this cretin into office.
Sorry, it's NOT "'the voters' who keep voting this cretin into office," but rather, Mr. Dominion, himself!
Why do you think the Demtards fight so hard against the SAVE (voting revision) Act? It's because they KNOW that with fair & honest elections 98% of them will be booted out of office, if not each and every one of them!
If the SAVE Act doesn't pass we may as well throw in the towel and start preparing for our own demise because "the opposition" has already demonstrated time after time that they are quite willing to burn down our cities, coddle criminals, and subject our children to sexual deviancy on a daily basis. If you thought the Biden Regime was bad, we don't want to see what any future Communist, er, Democrat platform will contain. Surely, freedom, liberty, and the love of Christianity will be far removed and stuffed in a corner somewhere.
And as for "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal, IMO, he deserves to be removed from office for his blatant valor deception, then bankrupted and, hopefully, imprisoned for a spell. How glorious that would be!
I saws in a video shown on the Five of Ice agents in airports and there was a woman with her cellphone videoing the agents. Yawn. Typical brainwashed leftist.
If we put a bunch of them, and there are a bunch of them, in a room together they could energize a small city. And to think they persecute the poor little cow when their own expulsions are far worse.
Cows are God's animals, they are beautiful beasts being able to turn grass into delicious steaks, etc. Swalwell and the bunch of losers he farts around with, they aren't God's people, they are spawn of Satan, full of shit and flatulence and deserving of an eternity in hell, lucky for them, I don't get to decide but unless they change their ways, I don't see how THE Judge can't give them a one way ticket to burning in hell AND having to smell their own farts!
I love cows and live in cow country. When my husband was alive we raised our own beef to feed the family. I usually got too attached until I thought about God giving us the beasts of the fields for our use. Almost all of God's creatures are beautiful but if not beautiful useful.
It’s so important to find a group of like minded people, especially in these times.
We are fighting the DSA in my city—well, most of California, really, and I’m in the process of writing a letter to Fair Political Practices Commission to require a council member to recuse themselves from voting on mobility and housing due to his connections to it.
I wrote a draft of it, sent it through the group, and received critique, along with an attached PDF with info linking this council member with some hinky business. Not enough to accuse him, but enough to be questionable looking. I revised the letter with more information, and that has inspired others in the group to dig even deeper.
It is cold .. and way too trusting of whatever fits a partisan narrative to be right and fair ... but a lot of good people are cold when it comes to who they "other" .... there's a lot of that in this comment section .. and the left is excellent at that also ...
I think Jeff has severe TDS where the D stands for devotion, but I think he's a beautiful soul with a brilliant sense of humor.
Yes! Same here. Reading and thinking about Jeff's writing is shifting my worldview back towards optimism. Vaccine makers would benefit from studying C&C. Not only is proven safe, effective, but its also affordable and proving capable of providing sterilizing immunity towards negativity and catastrophic nihilism. Win/Win!
Yesterday, a close friend called to share his concern about the Iran war and various other world happenings. I could tell he was very upset, almost verging on tears. He is a Trump supporter from the beginning, so I didn't have to start with Genesis, Chapter 1. As a matter of fact, all I had to do was copy and paste a link to yesterday's C&C and send it to him. He texted me back about an hour later, thanking me profusely for saving his day. I said, "Don't thank me, thank Jeff."
I have such a friend. I’ve had her reading C&C for a year or so now. She’s still attached to some Rumble celebrities, but she only has to vent to me maybe once a quarter now. In the beginning it was almost daily, but she had gone through losing her mother after being her caretaker for several years, and God gave me the grace to patiently listen.
I sent yesterday’s CnC to my hair gal. She’s conservative but her first question to me was about Israel and the Jews. She is missing a few things because of her direction or algorithm. Jeff pulled so much together.
Amen! The entire world needs a dose of optimism! Some parties, (who shall remain nameless) preferably via a colonic flush.
Doom-ing is easy. Holding onto faith and hope and joy, when there are so many people and institutions arrayed against all that is good and right and true can be hard. Very hard.
But we have Christ, our Savior.
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.”
The girl school bombing is sad. Sadder still is where the school was located and that they were one of the only classes in session. Sad that Iranian military men chose to sacrifice those girls. I cannot even begin to fathom what Jesus thinks as I'm not a practicing Christian yet. Quickly heading in that direction though.
You are badly misinformed on the IDF-like attack, Shawn.
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It is common-place that military bases have schools nearby for the servicemen's children. The USA does the exact same thing all over the globe.
All schools were in session. This attack kicked-off the war. Schools were closed after the first school was hit. This chronology is very important, clearly.
I did as well [gave up X for Lent] and it was God's gift to me. I won't go back and live in the negative cesspool. My soul and attitude is much better here with Jeff. (And I'm much more informed!)
Once a day I check FB and Insta but only because of my grandchildren. I go steal their photos so I have some current ones. I have 6 that live in 6 different states!
In my mind, there is always optimism as long as we have breath. Something can be done, if only to not be a source of darkness, but light. But part of that is also being realistic.
30 minute security lines while not 6 hour security lines, are not 5 minute security lines.
We could have really fast security lines if we allowed profiling. My argument years ago was, if a terrorist was 6'4" irish guys, then by all means, pull me out of line if it means keeping the line going.
In the late eighties, when I t-boned a drunk teacher who decided it was a great idea to turn left right in front of me at a green light and sent my car into a spin (and totaled it) the first thing I did, in shock, was to push my car to the side of the road to let traffic through.
So true! Hubs and I have said for years that profiling is the best way to run security. But nooooooooo…
The message and genuflection to the current things will not go quietly.
Plus I think the elites who love the security state enjoy humiliating the rest of us while they swan around in private jets with zilch security checks.
Happened to me with an unlicensed, illegal alien woman. Turned me into a spin running the stop sign. I then hit a stop sign, knocked it over and when rescue arrived found the stop sign had opened a big wasps nest in the ground. The car was full of them and the guy pulling me out got stung so bad he had to be hospitalized. I got barely a scratch. She got a bunch of tickets that her lousy fake insurance tried to fight TWICE. It was a Chrysler LHS. I loved that car.
Let Truth -- coupled with us-all praying for peace, given that divine intervention is required -- set us Free from leaving the world's next generations with more of today's endless, evil wars (per John 8:32). This is a positive objective to focus on, once the bigger-picture of Truth is learned -- "If we can face it, God can fix it" (CAF pastor) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chns_KEMIls .
When you’ve been watching long as me (50+ years) you’ll probably be able to skim the headlines; say “yeah, right…you wish… you useful idiots…🤣😂🤣” and then wholeheartedly jump joyfully into C&C’s warm optimistic waters.
I've been with Jeff from almost the beginning when I was looking for someone sane in 2020. He has had to morph the Substack and he has done an amazing job. Sane people on here need to know if some commenter gets out of hand you report them to the Substack authorities and get them shut down. Those 3 little dots to the right of comments are wonderful to utilize when necessary.
Someone pointed out that after Jeff did the Mike Roe interview a bunch of dweebs showed up to cause trouble. Kind of like phone scammers and ID thieves. Worthless creatures breathing air.
I look for the cheer here as well. It is like going to happy hour with coffee instead of booze. That said, it is a must to read other sources. There is a reason there are trials after all, with two sides presenting evidence and what it means. The NYT ran a headline that the Saudis are pushing for the war to continue. I told a friend a while ago that Saudi Arabia is a rising power (or perhaps has been for some time). The various monarchies are fusing technology into their societies. While Joe Kent argues Israel's fingerprints are all over this war and Charlie Kirk's death, I don't think Israel is the real power source. With anti-Semitism rising in the UK, I wonder if Israelis and Jews will find more protection in the Middle East. Have no idea. Just pondering.
It is astounding to me that Islamists have infiltrated western Christian civilization nations with armies of military aged men, obviously skilled at killing; they have very openly declared their opposition to America and Israel, Christianity and western culture and called repeatedly and forcefully for our death—yet Israel (the size of New Jersey), under constant psychological and physical attack, is accused of having ambitions to take over and force their ideology on the rest of the world?
This is demonic, not logical and as old as the time of Abraham. The lie of ‘I’m not antisemitic, just anti Zionist’ is a very thin cover that won’t sustain.
The Zionist movement that worked to acquire a land for Jews in their ancestral homeland did so with the fervent hope that this would provide respect and safety to Jews after centuries of pogroms and abuse against them.
It took the horror and shame of the Holocaust to bring about the agreement and very limited support of western countries to make this dream come true.
Since then Israel has been under constant attack from her ‘neighbors’, the ‘lovely’descendants of Ishmael and Esau; brothers they should be.
God is with her. She has won every war miraculously. She has taken what Mark Twain described as an utterly desolate, barren land and made it bloom with produce and gleaming modern cities as vividly prophesied by Isaiah. It is her land and will only respond to her occupation. This has the Arabs wild with jealousy and full of coveting.
Even if he's wrong, having such cogent alternative assessments really makes clear the vast groupthink and, more specifically, implied assumptions and narrative conceits, that underlie the mainstream corporate/NGO consensus.
03/24/26: “If only the EU could pipe its gas directly from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s rear aperture.” --- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bravo! --- “Judge Friedman wrote a lovely, 40-page opus … but he missed the point. Now the reporters are working out of a trailer … Great job, New York Times!”
I have a 70s copy of Mother Earth News with a German design of a compost maker that captures the ensuing methane for home cooking needs.
I'm sure that the famous German engineering abilities can revive the design, to make up for their feckless leaders boycotting cheap Russian gas, combined with war criminal Joe Biden blowing up the Nordstream pipelines to make sure they couldn't waver.
And after you use the gas to cook, you use the compost for your garden.
Well, Iran has some nuclear material that needs to be removed from their control...maybe Trump's cryptic energy-related present from Iran? And I can see him using it as a bargaining chip with the EU.
Friends, my husband missed a flight to Europe for work yesterday even after getting to the airport (Houston IAH) 4 hours early. Wasn’t even close to making it.
I happened to be coming back from visiting my parents at the same time, and I have never seen so many people in one place. The line was EVERYwhere and people were well-behaved as far as I saw. ICE agents were there, but they were mostly at entrances and exits, managing the line, stuff like that.
Probably canceling our trip to see our college kid in 2 weeks because there doesn’t seem to be any resolution to this problem coming soon.
Turns out I actually hate the do-nothing blowhards in congress even more than I thought I did, and that’s saying something.
Best of luck to any of you braving this mess. I hope you have a small airport to use.
I believe this DHS funding caper cooked up by the Hillary Clinton types is going to backfire pretty spectacularly; I predict the TSA will not emerge unscathed and the whole deal will turn around and bite them in the butt.
I’ve noticed there are a lot of people now questioning if we really need TSA. Apparently they fail like 95 or 97% of their ‘secret shopper’ tests. The problem is that you can’t prove a negative, so how would we ever know how many people would have tried to bring a knife/chemical agent, whatever onto a plane but haven’t because they know there’s the chance they would be caught? It’s definitely a deterrent. And also… why is the 97% failure rate being published? Do we want the nefarious people to know that?
The obvious solution to a safe no-TSA airport would be to ban Muslims from flying. Then the airlines would just have to worry about the drunk AWFLs who provide so much content to Reels.
The reason for them screening older people is that many are very gullible when it comes to someone asking them to carry something for them onto the plane. It happens way more than you know. Also since they're not paying attention, things can be dropped into their open bags. Source: I used to train tsa.
When I flew to Europe in 2014 with my son's youth orchestra, my son - at the time in 9th grade - got chosen at every, single security checkpoint for "enhanced" interrogation. It was ridiculous. At the time, he stood at 5'9", weighed about 135 lbs and had short, red hair. Maybe it was the GB Packer sweatshirt that set them off. In the meantime, women in full burkas walked right on through with agents actively avoiding interacting with them.
Two years later when we were coming back into the States and going through Customs at Toronto airport, the agents questioned all these young musicians who were CARRYING THEIR INSTRUMENTS about where they had been, what countries did they visit, what instruments did they play, who were their favorite composers. Again. Absolutely ridiculous. You have these exhausted kids, clearly traveling as a group with chaperones and the t-shirts to prove it, subjected to such inanity. My poor daughter was so flummoxed she almost cried. To top it all off, the agent asked me if I could prove my kids were my kids. Setting aside the fact that three redheads were standing in front of her and that we all shared the last name (!) she then asked if I had a letter from my husband permitting me to take the kids out of the country. I replied, "but, we're going HOME to our country." That's how these agencies work. Utter. Morons.
I think the real reason is that they screen people who they perceive as the most docile. Especially older women. I've even had TSA tell me before to "humor them" because they need to keep up their skills. Never mind the Muslim people going by.
Maybe people like Biden. And McConnell. Most of us are conscious and are not gullible beccause we learn from experience and know way more than you kids.
See how I painted you as a generalized group? Doesn't work, does it?
I’m 78. I had to lift up my shirt at my Christmas flight because of a safety pin and hook. A couple of years ago had to wrench my arm out of a sling where I had wrist plate surgery the day before. I told her it hurts, but too bad, I guess.
I think our generation is suspect because we actually experienced the joy of being homemakers. If we didn’t do it, we saw our mothers and grandmothers in that sweet role.
I've always seen it as a control mechanism. Not so much for the older generation but to condition the kids that they have no autonomy and must bow to authority.
I agree completely. And I put drug tests in that same category.
I used to tell the you'uns I worked with that I never had to pee on command to get a job. Never had to give my fingerprints or pass a background test. Just presented my nursing license, told them my SS number, and showed up to work on time.
They couldn't believe it. Surely I had to pee in a cup when ordered!
@Susan- my husband has lost quite a few expensive pocket knives because he was in such a habit of carrying one, he would forget he had one on him. Insert eyeroll here (________).
When I travel I pick a less expensive one and get them through in my carry on about 50% of the time. You should see the looks I get on return legs when I act all embarrassed and tell them they are welcome to dispose of it but “It didn’t bother the agents at my departure airport!” LOL. I too believe in malicious compliance…
Proving that it is up to individual TSA agents and their particular temperament, not the procedures. It's a performative farce, but when a bully is hired, they can make people's lives miserable.
I know one person who accidentally took a giant knife to South America on a flight (forgotten it was in the bag) and it was not found by the TSA 😳 He didn’t have any bad intentions of course but it certainly wasn’t very reassuring to know that the screeners missed that!
A friend's wife was an FBI agent. She accidentally left her service weapon in her carry-on once and TSA missed it. When she got on the other side of the screening area she realized she had it in her bag. At that point she proved she was not the FBI's sharpest tool by turning herself in!
I had a doctor acquaintance fly with 30- 1oz tubes of toothpaste but they made her toss the 6oz tube of toothpaste. SMH! She didn’t on purpose to prove a point
I like leaving ICE in charge; a great deterrent to illegals and all kinds of other illegal activity! And hey, they’re getting paid! We can save even more money abolishing TSA! Dems lose all around!🤣
The C&C comments I mostly align with. But the xenophobia over ‘brown’ Asians expressed by some is disappointing. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us to judge a person not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. That applies to everyone. Reminds me of people who cross the street to avoid passing a black person. Sad and might add, un-Christian.
It's Muslims referred to--not "brown" Asians. The Koran is full of violent preaching towards those who aren't Muslim--even death and maiming of those not of their faith. The fact that some C&C readers recognize this is not "xenophobia."
Regarding skin color, even the late Jesse Jackson said: "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Look up crime statistics to see -- "xenophobia" doesn't mean recognizing crime patterns.
Context matters. Certainly, you avoid this in low-trust areas, such as poor inner-city locations, or a dark street at a late hour. My comment was encountering those of other races in US airports, who said those 'Muslims' make me feel unsafe. I say that is a crock of sh*t. So, let's not be idiots and apply stereotypes to all situations?
There was a black TSA woman at the Denver airport yelling at all of us to do this and do that, but we couldn't understand what she was trying to say. Her accent made it impossible. It was ridiculous.
Of course we should judge individuals as individuals, but we're talking about groups and in some contexts, profiling based on group behavior is prudent.
As a small woman, I would need to evaluate the whole situation but I might cross the street if the black person was young, male and acting unpredictably (and in most cities, you will find that). That doesn't make me a "racist" but rather someone who is rational and knows the statistics. I was recently confronted by a young, black man in the city who was either drug-altered or mentally ill. He made a direct line for me, talking loudly and pointing at me and swinging his arms. Without hesitation I went to the other side of the street and also looked around for someone to help me out should the need arise. If that makes me un-Christian, so be it.
How about at a US airport, NAB? Because my comment was in response to someone who expressed fear of ‘Muslims’ at a US airport, specifically Chicago O’Hare.
One might only hope. With all the rumored identification and scanning devices said to be available, is it not well beyond time to at least upgrade (if elimination is not possible) security checks? TSA inspection of person and property is 100% "ICK" (term of art) and I have no confidence that it is capable of detecting or deterring weapons.
BTW: When I pull up Substacks, teh format is REALLY messed up... are you having any issues? I may have been intentionally shadow-banned, many dislike my comments... especially as "AD"!!
Hey, thanks for the link. Pretty exciting stuff to think that cancer is caused by parasites. No wonder they never wanted to find a cure. It has been a real money maker.
Yes, I had problems with Substack. Waited for Jeff's Substack on Saturday and it never arrived. Yesterday I checked all my subscriptions and was no longer subscribed to it. Had to re-subscribe. Weird.
I know so many people who have suffered and died from cancer. Can you imagine if curing cancer was just as simple as getting rid of parasites? No wonder they didn't want us to use it during covid.
Went through all my Substack subscriptions and I am missing a few of them. I didn't delete or unsubscribe them either. And the format of the page I need to check has been changed. Not sure what is going on.
On X several big accounts have been hacked. And the accounts are the good guys like Whitney Webb and some of the medical freedom movement folks.
I completely distrust corporate media so I wonder how true these stories about excessive TSA lines are (and consequently, how true is the instant fix of adding ICE?). Maybe only a select few airports are experiencing issues and reported on to push an agenda?
I definitely think the media attention is making it worse. If everyone that has a flight arrives 6 hours early (TSA lines at IAH are already 250 minutes this morning at 8:30 am) then it’s definitely going to backup the system.
However, the airports having the most problems (Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte) are major airline hubs so that makes sense. I do wonder why massive security lines in blue states aren’t being covered on the news though. How is LAX? O’Hare?
My brother went through Phoenix Sky Harbor last night and said there was more media there than passengers. Saw ICE. Said it was a clown show with the media. He got there 4 hours early, got through in less than 30 minutes, and spent time in the bar.
We flew out of PHX yesterday afternoon. Got there in plenty of time expecting long lines. Through security I’m less than 15 minutes. Absolutely no problem. Maybe the difference is locals were donating gift cards and food to help the agents survive without paychecks? Wondering if Atlanta is doing this
That can be typical at ATL some days, although the last time I flew out of ATL to CO, it was maybe 15 minutes. Oddly, the return trip from CO to ATL, that line was maybe 35-40 minutes.
I just stand there the entire time thinking how much I can’t wait to hear what the Taliban people who started all this crap said, when they not only didn’t get 40 virgins when they went to heaven, rather, they’re burning in hell— completely virgin-less, for all eternity.
1.5 hours isnt good in my eyes but it looks good when facing 4 plus hours and then still missing flight.
He now waits 4 hours for his flight though. But, he doesn't have to worry about missing flight... lol. Id be the one with 30 min to check in and the line is 5 hours long.....cussing the entire time.
Does make you question if this was planned.....make everybody get there early to make crowds overwhelming.....makes for great propaganda spreading.
One and a half hours can be typical at ATL some days, although the last time I flew out of ATL to CO, it was maybe 15 minutes. Oddly, the return trip from CO to ATL, that line was maybe 35-40 minutes. (That may have something to do with all the weed-sniffing dogs. Idk…)
I just stand there the entire time thinking how much I can’t wait to hear what the 911 perps (who started all this crap) said, when they not only DID’NT get 40 virgins when they went to heaven, rather, they’re burning in hell— completely virgin-less, for all eternity.
My daughter flew out of BWI about 10 days ago and she was through security in less than 20 minutes. She had a mid-morning flight. Coming home, she flew out of an airport in FL (I can't remember which one) and had the same exact experience. Not all airports are like what they're showing on tv.
Kinda like when my daughter had kidney stones during the height of covid when “all hospitals are overrun with covid patients”. We drove up to an absolute ghost town with empty tents and empty parking spots as far as the eye could see. You could do donuts on every level
of the parking garage, with not a car in sight. 😑 There were 4 patients in the entire ER.
It would be great to have an expose on “all hospitals are overrun with covid patients”. Where are all the bonafide "investigative journalists"? Or are hospital employees under strict NDAs?
We all knew (or should have known, (with basic common sense and ordinary observation) that the "hospitals overrun" narrative was bullshit.
There WERE plenty of covid patients at one point, but a hospitalist friend of mine from Alabama said that a huge amount of time was spent over hospital-mandated infectious precautions (between each patient, regowning, regloving, face protection and masking) which proved to be pointless, but consumed lots of time and tons of wasted supplies.
The dancing nurses on TikTok should have been a clue.
They were for sure a clue for me. And I kept wondering where that whiny Greta T. was, and why she wasn’t raising Cain abt all waste with the POE and masks, etc.
There is actually a website that lists all hospitals and their capacity and how full they are. My friend used it all the time in 2020 to debunk reports of over-full hospitals.
The bonafide ones have moved on to exposure of current chaotic crises. It’s a fast moving world indeed. The lying evil beings know a moving target is hard to hit.
Quite of few subcontract out the TSA function. There is a list online somewhere. I, too, have flown through some of them recently and no lines to speak of. Less government is truly more.
I can believe it's happening in at least some places but the conspiracy theorist in me can imagine a scenario where TSA management in certain airports adopt a liberal leave policy encouraging & approving liberal use of sick leave as well as encouraging less efficient passenger screening. This can then be reported on by corporate media to push a TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) agenda. I believe government employees will be required to be back-paid after a shutdown so I'm rather skeptical of large percentage of employees quitting or calling in sick. It's certainly possible but where to find the ground truth?
If you were not getting paid, would you still show up for work?
Not a fan of TSA at all, but they are fairly low paid workers in often expensive cities. And with the high rents and increase in gasoline prices, how will they survive?
Ya I wouldn’t go to work without pay. Maybe for a week or 2?!? Unless I knew I’d get paid like air traffic controllers. Not sure if TSA is in the same boat?
Wait. Where did I say people have the luxury of waiting for back pay? Where did I mention living from paycheck to paycheck? Or were you just stating the obvious for the sake of stating the obvious?
And for all the people crapping on Lydia, almost ALL banking institutions have a policy of advancing 30 days of pay to FEDs at zero interest. Not sure how many will extend the program after 30 days however.
Over 40% TSA calling in sick in Atlanta according to reports. Yeah, that will cause a backup. I guarantee you 90% of them are TDS hires. Atlanta! Nuff said.
Ok but that doesn't prove that the cause is the lack of funding to TSA. If a TSA manager/supervisor is incentivized by how many people they supervise, they will emphasize their need for people/funding. Maybe they have 3 hour lines because the media promoted fear caused everyone to all come to the airport first thing in the morning. Will they tweet later on if the lines are only 20 minutes? I'm just suggesting people apply some skepticism to mainstream media reports and consider alternative explanations and conclusions.
I am currently at Atlanta airport waiting for a flight today (Tuesday) and there were no lines at 10.30 AM! Apparently things started to clear up yesterday afternoon after ICE agents showed up in the morning. I also wonder whether the announcement “encouraged“ the agents to come to work… marvelous to behold.
As I replied to Valerie, I breezed through TSA at the Atlanta airport this morning. I could go stand by the escalator bringing people up from the plane train to the C gate and ask the new arrivals about their experience. Since I have plenty of time before by flight, I might just do that.
@Anne- I LOVE the Atlanta airport! I make sure I have a long layover so I can ride the trains, go to the museum, window shop (I don't want to carry stuff), sip my Sbux (which is on every concourse EXCEPT C).
Some staff at some airports are "encouraged" to be out - to increase the pain to the public - to help their team (one guess as to where all the political support in NYC and ATL goes). Many FEDS don't give one single f*** about the constituents - only their own personal small lives.
The first weekend of March I flew to San Antonio from Denver and back again on the following Tuesday. Both airports had smooth security line experiences. They were both busy, but the lines moved quickly. It's been a long time since I flew anywhere from Denver and I was shocked at how much it had improved the security line.
My husband and I have taken quite a few flights in the past month and have had no problem with any domestic airport except Charlotte. He also had a longer wait in London Heathrow but that’s not a surprise.
I had no problem in the Colorado Springs airport either (I can usually return my car, check my bag, and get through security in 8 minutes, yesterday it was 13 lol), but IAH is a huge international airport. They only had 2 security lines in the whole airport and no TSA precheck or global entry.
So sorry that you are going through this. I have travelled by air twice during this debacle without any lines or issues. The difference? All airports through which we went through security have subcontracted out the TSA function. Less government, less hassle. Let's go back to private security and screening at airports!
Ok I like this theory, that the airports that have subcontracted out tsa are performing better. That makes some sense even though I don’t know if it’s actually true or not. My other guess was just management. Like how you can go to your favorite restaurant and it’s always amazing but you go to another location and it’s meh or worse.
The genius of all of this, however, is that the leftists blame the Executive Branch when it is the Legislative Branch (and those daredevil Dems!) that have precipitated these multi-city fiascos.
Extending compassion to all those trapped in lines, awaiting time to be trapped in a winged metal cannister far above the clouds. Hoping all arrive safely.
I am sitting in the Atlanta airport, having arrived four hours before my flight time. The skycap described yesterday’s mayhem in great depth—he speculated that 65% of travelers missed their flights. I breezed through TSA in minutes and thanked those who served me for showing up. The CNN crew and others were staked out at the entrance to North checkpoint. That was more than three hours ago. I still have another hour before my Delta flight.
Daughter flew TPA - San Jose last Monday and returned/reversed on Friday. Said there were no issues whatsoever at either airport. Their weekend visitor flew out of TPA last night with only 15 minutes through TSA.
Blumenthol. Stinking up my capitol building and country in so many ways. Gobsmacked by his effing ignorance. Assuming he mostly flies private to @void the rabble.
I found your comment very illuminating, Valerie. If it takes a direct impact to you, or your adjacents, by a Congressional action to really understand how those actions affect our lives then it's no wonder Congress skates by with 9% approval ratings (or whatever it is) but they aren't met with pitchfork-carrying crowds at home or on The Hill.
My husband flew from Minneapolis (Main terminal) last Tuesday afternoon to Cincinnati and was through security before I had fully exited the airport property after dropping him off. He said they were 'overstaffed'. MSP is a very large airport. I was surprised he didn't have more of a wait, but maybe it was due to the day of the week.
How many brutal murders do we have to witness Joe Biden’s unvetted illegals aliens commit again and again on young American “Citizens”? Meanwhile never missing a paycheck, these collectivist democrats keep DHS, which includes TSA, unfunded, basically and methodically dismantling them. It’s so obvious this democrat communist hive has zero love for the average American “Citizen” struggling to survive, but insist on protecting and funding these murdering and raping illegals. There have been thousands of citizens murdered, killed or raped by these illegals let in by the democrat mafia thugs. I wanted to mention just a few victims of these miscarriages of justice; Stephanie Minter, Logan Federico, Iryna Zarutska, Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, Lizbeth Medina and of coarse 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray who was tied up, strangled to death, and left in a shallow creek.
This past Thursday in Chicago, Loyola College freshman Sheridan Gorman had been looking for the northern lights with her friends in the early morning when a masked man approached them near Lake Michigan. According to police, the assailant brandished a gun before shooting at the group, striking Gorman in the back.Sheridan is just the most recent American senselessly murdered by the democrats, sadly she won’t be the last.
"She was exactly where she should have been — close to campus, surrounded by friends, living her life," Gorman's devastated family said, “Our family is forever changed."
On Sunday, March 21, Chicago authorities charged 25-year-old Jose Medina (caught and released by Joe Biden) with the first-degree murder of Sheridan Gorman, in addition to first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a firearm. And of coarse he was here from Venezuela, let into America illegally by Joe Biden and the democrats, protected by democrat Governor Pritzker. Yup just another day in America, no justice for the scumbag murdering communists who did this to us.
To me the real guilty murderers are Joe Biden and his whole administration. Merrick Garland, Kamala Harris, and top of the list Alejandro Mayorkas. How Mayorkas is allowed to walk freely in this country is way beyond me. He should be charged for the thousands of deaths of American citizens his illegal policies have caused. If there was ever a case using “the fruit of the poisonous tree”, IMO, this is it! He should be handcuffed, shackled and thrown into the filthiest prison for his open borders policy crimes he committed as DHS secretary. And for every future person killed by these illegals. that he let in, he should face additional murder, rape, vehicular homicide charges again and again. This lying POS should be left in there to rot with the sentence of being hung by the neck until dead hanging over his head for all of the pain he has caused these American families. Now that would be justice and a real deterrent for any future communist/democrat administration recklessly and negligently opening America’s borders in this way again.
I’m am so tired of hearing from the current democrats in the Senate this past weekend about the 2 deaths of American Citizens in Minneapolis and FAILING TO NOT ONCE MENTION THE INNOCENT LIVES THAT YOU JUST LISTED!🤬 They try to make that a huge talking point in their arguments. All of them keep saying the same thing and I am tired of listening to them.
Trump should bring the Gorman family to the White House, have a press conference, and say over and over again that Schumer Jeffry’s Joe Biden and all the democrats that protect these murderers since they illegally crossed our border killed Sheridan Gorman. This should be said again and again, Schumer Jeffry’s, Pritzker, Biden and the rest of the democrats protecting these murderers murdered Sheridan Gorman. You watch when a terrorist gets on a plane and blows it up because the democrats shut down of the TSA they will say it’s Trumps fault for giving the mullahs justice.
If you were a Dem, would you not sew chaos and relish crime, fraud, illegal voting, SRA, murder and mayhem? That is who they are, what they stand for and what they endorse and support wholeheartedly. They are the Pharisees of this age acting holier than thou while allowing and endorsing everything sick and twisted under the sun. May they be destroyed and left to ash.
One tiny correction, James: Iryna’s killer was a homegrown jungle animal, not an immigrant (but still very much a casualty of literally murderous Democrat policy choices).
Otherwise, I absolutely agree with you.
Every person in the Biden administration chain of command from President AutoPen through Sec Mayorkas down to the lowest clerical staff in their Homeland (in)Security regime needs to be charged as an accessory before the fact to each of those murders.
Fat boy Pritzker and all his henchmen & the corrupt Chicago Democrat machine also need to be charged as actual accomplices and accessories as is appropriate in Sheridan’s murder (they may need a bigger cell for Pritzker).
And these attacks are minimized by a media that buries the stories as fast as they are reported.
There is only one solution and we all know what it is... mass deportation. There has been a lot of dramatic theatrics with ICE but there is STILL no mass deportation. It looks to me like there never will be any mass deportation. We are just being strung along. And, by the way, why is there still no wall? Just how hard is it to build a wall? If there was a Dem in the WH, we'd all be complaining about this - would we not? But a good war covers a multitude of sins.
Some may dispute this number but as I understand it, there are about 50 million illegal aliens in the US and there are about an equal number of aliens here on VISA. That's about a third of the total population of the US. Does anyone really think we are going to deport 50 to 100 million non-citizens? The logistics alone appears impossible.
But I frankly do not believe there is any intention to deport the mass invasion that took place for 4 years under Biden. Every aspect of the depopulation and replacement agenda is still in operation. Even the bio-weapon slow kill shot and the poisoning of our skies. The protection of white Christian America is being declared force majeure and we are being replaced by the invaders. We have gone from America being 90% Christian white in 1970 to less than 60% white now... in just 50 years. We are being replaced and that ratio is dropping fast.
What happens when Christian and white both become a minority in the US? Can it even be called "America" anymore?
I believe people's values are more important than skin color. We are a country based on Judeo-Christian values which need to be upheld and protected. Give me Tim Scott over Dick Durbin any day. Who would you rather have living next door, a black family with an American flag flying or a green-haired white Karen with a "love is love" sign in the front yard?
"I believe people's values are more important than skin color..."
Of course... and I never said otherwise. BTW, Tim Scott is a full blooded American and a Christian. In 1970, the American population was 90% Christian white and 10% Christian black. We are the ones being replaced by a mass invasion of aliens who are mostly Islamic and just happen to be dark skinned. That is their values. Their religion and culture is hostile to American Christian culture and they are here to conquer us. They are not here to assimilate.
The fact of the matter is, just being white marks us as their enemy and makes us a target to the invaders. But they will also be able to easily tell actual Americans like Tim Scott apart from themselves, making them targets as well.
Point of information: America culture is not based on "Judeo-Christian" values. That is a psyops. Judeo-Christian is an oxymoronic phrase. Judaism is a religious cult that rejected the Christ when he came to them and they remain a cult today. American culture is not Judeo-Christian.
They have been arguing about this for centuries. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson pointed out that the English common law was in effect for 200 years before the Romans even invaded, and that US law is based on English common law.
''Thomas Jefferson argued that U.S. law is based on English common law—originating from pre-Christian Saxon customs—rather than Christianity, maintaining that Christianity is not part of common law. In his 1814 letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, Jefferson stated that common law existed for 200 years before Christianity arrived in Britain.
Key Aspects of Jefferson's View on Law and Religion:
Separation of Law and Religion: Jefferson argued that merging Christianity with common law was a "lie" and a "frauds" perpetuated by judges.
Saxon Roots: He believed the "free principles of government" were inherited from Anglo-Saxon predecessors, not religious texts.
The "Wall of Separation": In his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, he codified the 1st Amendment as a barrier between church and state, rejecting the idea of a Christian nation.''
So... assuming Jefferson is correct (though I do not view him as the definitive authority), exactly what philosophy/belief system were the "Anglo-Saxon predecessors" based on? Certainly not Islamic faith. Ultimately, all law is based on someone's religious faith.
Jefferson may have personally rejected the idea of a Christian nation but many of his contemporaries did not. Furthermore, the 1st Amendment itself is not a barrier between religion and state. It simply prevents the Fed Gov't from establishing a state church.
That is some accusation.... and a straw man attack. Not too clever.
The Ten Commandments are not the Law of Moses. They are the law of God and Jesus referred to them Himself. You talk as if the "Law of Moses" and Christianity are two different things. If that is what you think then you are deceived.
You are really good at accusations but you can't even logically explain how it is that I'm "promoting a lie".
With the judicial system being ‘packed. Since Clinton era by activist judges, how can they move in on those they’re ‘watching’ ?
Yes. If a demonicRAT were still President, they could DRONE these groups and the collective media would ‘yawn’ and turn away.
But if this President were to move and arrest them, what do you think the judges would do?
And then the wimpy Eeyore reply to your comment:
‘Sadly true’
Your Judges aka Boasberg would let them out, they would scatter, and each start another group. And they would be more aware they’re being watched, becoming even more dangerous.
So what is your and Eeyore’s ‘Sadly true’ solution?
Clearly, Mrs Richard is correct. Public Law empowers the Gov't to deport aliens who are here illegally. That is the very definition of what it means to be "illegal". All Trump has to do is arrest and deport them per Public Law. If he has to take it to the SCOTUS, then so be it. The law of the land is on his side. This NEEDS to be challenged and settled once and for all. That's his job!
What you and ‘Richard’ font seem to get is what the Soros prosecutors and judges are doing. You both seem to be willingly blind dead AND dumb to that fact.
It doesn't seem like anyone is familiar with Muslim and Middle Eastern history. A huge part of the Middle East was originally Christian and they were driven out and mass murdered by the Muslim invaders who finally took over. Does anyone even know what happened during the Ottoman Empire? They took over the Iberian peninsula for 800 years until they were finally driven out, so it can be done. However, given what we see now with so many Christian countries inviting them in and then becoming doormats and not daring to boot them out after seeing how they behave, it's not likely to happen. Muslims do feel it's their mission from Allah to spread Islam everywhere on earth and control everything. And to kill everyone who won't convert and submit. One comment I have heard from a great many Muslim clerics in Western countries is this line: "We did not come here to assimilate. We came here to take over."
Millions throughout history have been slaughtered by Muslims. Millions! Those Westerners and Christians who think they aren't still trying to do that all over Western Europe and in this country are sadly naive and they deceive themselves through ignorance. They are doomed to eventually find out the hard way.
Yes! LMAO over that story! Not sure if the stupid judges will learn their lesson. This administration seems ready for almost anything the rogue judges try to throw at them. The legacy media are screaming like vampires in daylight touching a cross as they realize the growing irrelevance of their jobs.
"Isn't that the way every dictator got started? Hitler controlled the 'German Brown Shirts'. The Brown Shirts were causing all sorts of civil upheavals. Hitler promised to stop the Brown Shirts and quickly put in power."
Congress, under Article 3 of the Constitution, created the district courts. Congress could restrict the kinds of cases they hear, but I doubt that will happen. Congress will most certainly not impeach them either. The only control over these rogue activist judges will continue to be the federal appeals courts or SCOTUS.
ICE has easily shown the obvious fact any traveling citizen knows… TSA is horribly incompetent to begin with. Not to mention how the ones working in liberal cities are often openly hostile to us. My husband had a medical device and the hoops they made him jump through and the attitude was night and day when comparing the TSA in Daytona Beach vs the treatment in Raleigh. Good thing he had control of his temper after serving 27 years in the Navy. I am all for abolishing the TSA and bringing back the way we freely traveled before 9/11. I remember when they started the mess and my Dad, a conservative from RI (I know the only one up there) said to me “great … give the government more power over us by taking away our liberties and they’ll screw it up beyond our imagination”. He nailed it!
Thanks, Mary Ann, that’s a great article. It’s kind of long, so here’s an excerpt for those who might not read the whole thing:
“ The TSA was founded on a promise. After the September 11 attacks, fear drove speed. Within weeks, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, federalizing what had been private screening. The rationale seemed obvious. Decentralization had failed, we were told. Only a uniform federal agency could prevent another catastrophe. But there was a problem embedded in that founding premise. The hijackers exploited not a failure of private screening uniformity but a failure of intelligence sharing and cockpit policy. They used boxcutters, not bombs. They boarded flights in airports where security met all then-existing standards. Federalizing screeners was a non-sequitur solution to a wholly different problem. That foundational error has now had twenty-five years to metastasize.”
And the dumber they are, the more arrogant they are.
Once (can’t remember where) my husband got groped by the TSA man. He was wearing shirts and a t shirt. The guy actually felt along his bare legs. 🤦♂️ he got so pissed he took his shirt off to show there was nothing underneath. The TSA goon made him put his shirt back on so he could feel him up.
They actually don’t profile I think. Or if they do they go after easy pickings like old men and women. Or they count every 10th person. Totally ineffective and highly expensive.
They do profile in that a one way ticket, paid in cash within a 2 day period before the flight got extra attention, which prints on the boarding pass. The screening at the checkpoint was supposed to be continuous, meaning when they finished with one, they picked the next one. What was really stupid IMO was doing the same at the gate during boarding. Pulling them aside to check their carryon one last time. That was post 9/11. The private companies who did the checkpoint were just as good and nicer than the TSA. The smaller airports were a lot better because you knew them.
There's a glimmer of hope in RI - I'm originally from there and have many friends still living there and most of them are conservative. They're there - they just don't get heard.
I did learn that if you are unlucky enough to go through security (pre TSA check) after a pilot who buzzes the metal detector, that pilot will go through no problem, but the next person in line will suffer the consequences with a full search.
Yes, it is pretty clever to start another quagmire in the middle east, get precious troops killed, and spend hundreds of billions of dollars, all the while killing a more moderate Iranian leader, who is currently replaced by leadership who do think they need a nuclear weapon. TAW TAW TAW TAW.
Wait until the bill comes in for the dozens of destroyed US bases in the region.....oh, but we likely won't be invited back to rebuild them so whatever, right?
Another total waste of tax dollars is the nonsense about putting a base on the moon!!! When will the insanity stop?? Stop wasting OUR money on that moon idolatry.
Is it getting more and more uncomfortable that my predictions are coming true? Don't worry, when the big brother narrative shifts, you will too, like a good sheep.
There are no moderate leaders in Iran unless you mean ones who kill hundreds instead of thousands. Hard to imagine a more wrong thinking post than this. Iran has missiles that can reach all of Europe. Even the Euro- weaklings know better than this post.
Did he foresee the Iranian tariffs? I find that rather ironic.
The Iranians have never charged a fee to ships to pass through the Hormuz Strait, but now they say that they will be charging a million dollars a ship, to help rebuild all that the US and Israel have destroyed.
TAW? I'm guessing that Trump can't complain about Iran's tariffs, since he uses them also.
Great article yesterday making the case to get rid of the TSA. By Alexander Muse: TSA “has had 25 years and approximately $200 billion to demonstrate its competence.”
Oh good, we can use that money to pay for needless wars and line the pockets of military contractors. Trump continues to spend like a drunken sailor. Remember how everyone lapped up the DOGE mania bullcrap? So much changed because of DOGE! Or, they just used it to steal everyone's sensitive data. Shocker, I know.
They are all thieves and liars, to be sure. But I have to live in the reality as it is. So I do think DOGE is “working” and looking forward to more as fraud in States is exposed. You’ll never get an argument from me on the invasions of our privacy and trampling of our Constitutional rights. Data is the new oil, and there’s not much I can do about it. That ship has long since sailed.
That must be fabulous. I have two super young sugar maples but also i live in the oregon coast range. I keep telling my grandkids that someday after i am gone if they have the right kind of winter/ spring they might get a little syrup.
Hard maple, also called sugar maple are the best. Norway and black maples are good too. Silver maples have a very low sugar content. Not sure about your coastal maples. But the sap right out of the tree is like the best mineral water.
It’s like waiting for Christmas each morning as we wait to read your next blog. I remember when I first started listening to Rush I always figured out a way to listen each day. Maybe “Wisdom on Loan from God” Thanks for connecting the dots! I pray it all comes out as you and we all hope! After all God is still sovereign and will all end as He intends. Thanks Jeff!
I hope to be able sometime later today to stop cracking up every time I think about the picture of the new press bus in the Pentagon parking lot. My sides hurt.
Ya gotta love the DOW reaction to the reporter problem… it’s the military way… when one guy messes up everybody does pushups… usually that guy never messes up again! Well played Secretary Hegseth! 👏👏👏
It never fails. I wake up, scan the morning headlines and doom-scroll my X feed with R.E.M. singing 'It's the End of the World as We Know It' in my mind.
Then—right on time (usually)—the daily C&C shows up, and there’s the inestimable Jeff Childers, calmly flipping the script with his trademark mix of legal scalpel and sarcastic optimism. Suddenly I’m humming 'Accentuate the Positive' and the day doesn’t look quite so apocalyptic. (Here's Van Morrison's 2023 cover: https://youtu.be/EcxFs-fgmaw)
Thanks for the daily lens adjustment, Jeff. Keep slinging that sanity and optimism our way—the C&C Army needs it!
P.S. If you haven't seen Jeff's sit-down with Mike Rowe, watch it today: https://youtu.be/9jL4PlM4h8c
I knew I wasn’t alone in loving the optimism and sarcasm Jeff shares daily!
It’s like a holiday EVERYDAY ‼️😂❤️
He talks me off the ledge before I even get my shoes on to walk to the ledge. 🩷😊
Every day I look forward to Jeff’s C&C column for clarity, positivity, and humor.
Seems Jeff has also been discovered… by the blue haired, nose ringed, low T, hate 🤬 patrol. We are being “flooded” by negativity and hate in the comment section by these trolls. The number of vitriolic commenters just seemed to have bloomed overnight almost like it was coordinated… hummm.
They showed up overnight after the Mike Rowe show. They honed in on us. I was afraid that could happen. 😣😠
I agree with that! Damn comment section has been rough. I look for the regulars still 😉
That's what I do. They are all over the app and frequently shut down any reasonable conversation.
I wish there were a way Jeff could get the income needed by making every day's post only for the paying readers. I know we would lose a lot of good folks. So perhaps have 2 levels of payments. One to get you in to read the comments and the other to be able to comment.
Calgon, That would be "Pay To Say!"
03/24/26: For the same reason that "George Soros" (Hungarian Auto-Pen), age 702, reads 2,966 Substack columns each day, pumping up their "readership" count and posting Communist Chinese-Amazon product-review bot-gibberish.
Ain't the First Amendment grand?
Only when it goose steps with the Golden One.
Yep it seems to have opened up the proverbial can of worms as well as turned over the barrel and every bad apple has popped to the top of the dung pile. The maggots are growing in number.
Also noticed and busy blocking!
I look forward to C&C also, and have for years, since probably 2022, definitely 2023 and ever since. I have much respect for Jeff. I love his sense of humor, but honestly when it goes into mocking situations that will lead thousands to millions of people to freeze and/or starve to death down the road, it's less funny.
I often don't have time to comment, but I comment more lately as world events are racing toward the disaster every COVID dissident wanted to avoid, but this time the pretext is different, and people seem incapable of seeing that Trump could ever do anything majorly wrong, like either intent to herd us all into digital prisons, starve people to death, or being easily manipulated by those who do.
Not all uncomfortable observations are from hatred or trolling.
Likely Trump was installed, regardless of votes, to bring in technocracy - as is evident here, his power grabs face far less resistance from his supporters than they would if a Dem tried them.
But to whatever degree votes matter, if enough liberals hadn't realized how corrupt our "side" was and voted for Trump, as I did, he would have had a lot less votes.
Respectful conversation can also disagree.
Very heartened to see a lot of conservatives not going along with this war. The "left" and "right" should stop hating each other. The real enemy is the control system, which needs global crisis to be sprung as the "solution".
https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-enemy-is-not-each-other
"My exploration into social control has taught me this: we have far more in common with each other than with the systems exploiting our divisions.
The guy struggling to pay rent has more in common with another guy struggling to pay rent than either has with the billionaire who owns both their apartment buildings. It doesn’t matter what either of them looks like or who they pray to. The same goes for parents - a mom worried about her kid’s future has a lot more in common with other worried parents than with the politicians exploiting that fear for votes.
This doesn’t mean pretending all perspectives are equally valid or ignoring real injustices. It means refusing to let those injustices be weaponized to make us hate each other. It means developing the spiritual maturity to hold multiple truths simultaneously. ....
I think about all of us, carrying our ancestors’ wounds, trying to make sense of a world that seems designed to keep us afraid, angry, and separate. But I also think about what becomes possible when we refuse to play that game. When we insist on seeing each other’s humanity even when we disagree about solutions. When we direct our anger toward systems rather than scapegoats.
•••
I’m angry. I want to be clear about that. But where I point that anger is what matters.
Can we stay furious at the cage-builders without turning on whoever’s in the cage with us? Can we hold the idea that threats are both real and manufactured at the same time? That our neighbors’ fears are valid even when someone’s exploiting them? That violence creates victims and beneficiaries - and they’re almost never the same people?
The division machine has one weakness: it needs us to play along. Every time we refuse their dialectic - every time we look up instead of sideways - the whole thing gets fragile. They work so hard to keep us looking at each other because they know the moment we look up, the whole game falls apart." - Joshua Stylman
https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/why-trumps-takeover-in-gaza-preceded
Ellen: "Respect. Commonality. The enemy is not each other." So radical!
Reminds me just a bit of "Love your neighbor as yourself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
“ A nation divided can not stand “
Mark 3:24
“ And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.”
Wise words and excellent quote from Joshua Stylman’s post. He is a great observer and writer.
The same thing is happening on “Clusterfuck Nation” blog! The comments section is being infiltrated by these leftist know-it-alls! They are rude, usually wrong & hatefully annoying! And their numbers are increasing! Schmucks !
If I was the cussin’ kind, I’d say *major expletive*
But you can insert your fave there…😁
I like cussing! I say it’s better than throat punching someone🤣
Yes, for sure!
Or the famous Chuck Norris roundhouse kick! 😁
I am amazed there’s no Chuck Norris emoji…🙀
Everybody's got an opinion!
Well said! C&C is my go to every day. Jeff filters out the BS and provides clarity and does it with a sharp and often biting (those hapless Portlandiers) sense of humor. I did see the video with Mike Rowe. Totally enjoyed it. Two very smart, clever and genuine dudes, spreading their love and optimism.
Yes Jeff’s white pilling is finally starting to affect me, a natural doom-and-gloomer.
Yay! “Don’t worry; be happy”
Yes, and not in the deservedly-mocked manner of what used to be called the "bliss ninnies," who eschew thought and just live in a permanent mental LaLa Land. Jeff encourages more, not less, discernment and reminds me of someone on-line who recently commented, "It's not Christ-like to outsource your rational thought."
Two things I am not good at naturally. 😅 I work on it. 😆
It’s scriptural! Worry is a waste of time.
I know. I am much much better but tend to struggle. Not Today Satan!!!
Jeff indeed performs a crucial service because even so-called "conservative" media knows that "clicks" come from fear-mongering, doom-and-gloom, the sky-is-falling headlines... all under the cover of "news"...and they never fail to fulfill their mission.
It's easy to succumb to a black pilled ecosystem.
Jeff is one of the best remedies out there. I am very grateful to God for Jeff's ministry.
IMHO... Jeff is over the top optimistic... as Rome burns.
Comes from being both a Trump and Israel fan.
re: "If only the EU could pipe its gas directly from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s rear aperture."
While schumer might be one ahole with plenty of gas to release, this contract MUST go to that bumbling, fart ripping POS, Eric Swalwell.
Let's review the evidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wKCrc-gqBY Clearly, this lying windbag owns the market! Somebody needs to tap it and sell it to the EU NOW!
I say make the process seamless…let’s just ship Swalwell straight over there and cut out the middleman!
I can go for that!
That waste of space senator Blumenthol yammering ICE is going to start shooting people IN AIRPORTS??? I don’t even have words. Shaking my head. But liberal heads will be raising theirs up and down like a team of bobble head dolls. 😱😵💫
03/24/26: Blumenthal ("When I was in VIETNAM...") has just gone off the Deep end to a depth lower than Senator Mazie Hirono (Alzheimer-D).
Competion stiff for lower level stupidity, though Mazie seems
to be the better bobble
03/24/26: Tie goes to Mazie, winner of 193 Pearl Hearts for eating courageously at Hawaii chain restaurants Zippy's, L&L & Hawaiian Barbecue Rainbow Drive-Ins!
My husband is a Viet Nam combat vet and he as well as pretty much all his veteran acquaintances absolutely detest that liar Da Nang Dick Blumenthal. His name is on the stolen valor list. What a detestable P.O.S. that man is. Shame on the voters who keep voting this cretin into office.
Sorry, it's NOT "'the voters' who keep voting this cretin into office," but rather, Mr. Dominion, himself!
Why do you think the Demtards fight so hard against the SAVE (voting revision) Act? It's because they KNOW that with fair & honest elections 98% of them will be booted out of office, if not each and every one of them!
If the SAVE Act doesn't pass we may as well throw in the towel and start preparing for our own demise because "the opposition" has already demonstrated time after time that they are quite willing to burn down our cities, coddle criminals, and subject our children to sexual deviancy on a daily basis. If you thought the Biden Regime was bad, we don't want to see what any future Communist, er, Democrat platform will contain. Surely, freedom, liberty, and the love of Christianity will be far removed and stuffed in a corner somewhere.
And as for "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal, IMO, he deserves to be removed from office for his blatant valor deception, then bankrupted and, hopefully, imprisoned for a spell. How glorious that would be!
Have a wonderful day, despite all the madness...
Dollar Store Obama, aka Hakeem Jeffries, said the same thing on CNN. They must have gotten the same memo.
I saws in a video shown on the Five of Ice agents in airports and there was a woman with her cellphone videoing the agents. Yawn. Typical brainwashed leftist.
So many pipe lines, so many a**holes....... 🔥
@Help- HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Line them up. Bend them over.
Sour gas will only generate a flickering flame so EU be prepared with a Swalwell source.
That's all those losers in the EU deserve anyhow, a flickering, stinking flame.
Tragic to witness the once great countries circle the bowl from
failed ideology. As you point out it, deserved
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If we put a bunch of them, and there are a bunch of them, in a room together they could energize a small city. And to think they persecute the poor little cow when their own expulsions are far worse.
Hi Debra,
Cows are God's animals, they are beautiful beasts being able to turn grass into delicious steaks, etc. Swalwell and the bunch of losers he farts around with, they aren't God's people, they are spawn of Satan, full of shit and flatulence and deserving of an eternity in hell, lucky for them, I don't get to decide but unless they change their ways, I don't see how THE Judge can't give them a one way ticket to burning in hell AND having to smell their own farts!
I love cows and live in cow country. When my husband was alive we raised our own beef to feed the family. I usually got too attached until I thought about God giving us the beasts of the fields for our use. Almost all of God's creatures are beautiful but if not beautiful useful.
03/24/26: Wot?! And deprive CA of its foremost source of energy?
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Thought you might enjoy this
https://youtu.be/h7wWsSJUpoM?si=zrlJzNIkUFijQN5L
Thank you. I enjoyed this, especially history after the Japan atomic attacks.
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It’s so important to find a group of like minded people, especially in these times.
We are fighting the DSA in my city—well, most of California, really, and I’m in the process of writing a letter to Fair Political Practices Commission to require a council member to recuse themselves from voting on mobility and housing due to his connections to it.
I wrote a draft of it, sent it through the group, and received critique, along with an attached PDF with info linking this council member with some hinky business. Not enough to accuse him, but enough to be questionable looking. I revised the letter with more information, and that has inspired others in the group to dig even deeper.
Things are going to get hot. LOL
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Personally, I believe that Jeff is remiss in his lack of discussion of the cooking of a girls school. Don't you?
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/whipsawed-tuesday-march-24-2026-c/comment/232649999
And his refusal to even mention Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza...
And today's comment:
"Now Russia’s gas pipeline is filled with seawater, and Europe is dependent on the US. TAW." is despicable.
Our CIA blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, in a clear act of economic terrorism. Celebrating that is the act of a vile scumbag.
It is cold .. and way too trusting of whatever fits a partisan narrative to be right and fair ... but a lot of good people are cold when it comes to who they "other" .... there's a lot of that in this comment section .. and the left is excellent at that also ...
I think Jeff has severe TDS where the D stands for devotion, but I think he's a beautiful soul with a brilliant sense of humor.
100%.
I wonder if Trumpo teh Clown will be around much longer...??
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/is-trump-being-sidelined?
Yes! Same here. Reading and thinking about Jeff's writing is shifting my worldview back towards optimism. Vaccine makers would benefit from studying C&C. Not only is proven safe, effective, but its also affordable and proving capable of providing sterilizing immunity towards negativity and catastrophic nihilism. Win/Win!
Or as Jeff would say, Whomp Whomp! Or is it Womp Womp. 🤪
03/24/26: Schumer: Wimp, wimp...
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I wholeheartedly agree with your recommendation to watch the Mike Rowe-Jeff Childers conversation.
I just listened to it last week while on a long drive and it was fantastic!
I am a regular listener to the Mike Rowe podcast on YouTube. His video with Jeff is how I found Jeff !
Welcome!
I found it fantastic also.
I’m not sure if I tagged you in this.
https://youtu.be/h7wWsSJUpoM?si=zrlJzNIkUFijQN5L
Yesterday, a close friend called to share his concern about the Iran war and various other world happenings. I could tell he was very upset, almost verging on tears. He is a Trump supporter from the beginning, so I didn't have to start with Genesis, Chapter 1. As a matter of fact, all I had to do was copy and paste a link to yesterday's C&C and send it to him. He texted me back about an hour later, thanking me profusely for saving his day. I said, "Don't thank me, thank Jeff."
I have such a friend. I’ve had her reading C&C for a year or so now. She’s still attached to some Rumble celebrities, but she only has to vent to me maybe once a quarter now. In the beginning it was almost daily, but she had gone through losing her mother after being her caretaker for several years, and God gave me the grace to patiently listen.
I thought you might enjoy this.
https://youtu.be/h7wWsSJUpoM?si=E3pN_PblXTrvuklf
Good stuff! I had forgotten about Bill Whittle.
I sent yesterday’s CnC to my hair gal. She’s conservative but her first question to me was about Israel and the Jews. She is missing a few things because of her direction or algorithm. Jeff pulled so much together.
Amen! The entire world needs a dose of optimism! Some parties, (who shall remain nameless) preferably via a colonic flush.
Doom-ing is easy. Holding onto faith and hope and joy, when there are so many people and institutions arrayed against all that is good and right and true can be hard. Very hard.
But we have Christ, our Savior.
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.”
Keep delivering your unique blend of joy, Jeff.
So true! And makes me think of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, ‘If’.
Had to memorize it in High School.
Keep it as a .pdf on desktop
If you can keep your head, when all are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
You got a good education! I wish all young people had to memorize ‘If—‘
I love that poem! Along with his The Gods of the Copybook Headings.
The more things have changed the more they stay the same.
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon saved me from utter despair and carried me through some long years of DEI exposure.
Another great work by a true master. Inner fortitude is a recurring theme of his. We shall need it going forward.
Without a doubt!
I loved the “Gods of the Copybook Headings!”
What do you believe that Jesus thinks of Trump/Hegseth TRIPLE-TAPPING a girls school to kick-off their glorious war?
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Facing reality is not "Doom-ing" and America was truly great when it didn't commit Hellish war crimes. So there's that.
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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/fizzles-fears-and-flip-flops-monday/comment/232211954
The girl school bombing is sad. Sadder still is where the school was located and that they were one of the only classes in session. Sad that Iranian military men chose to sacrifice those girls. I cannot even begin to fathom what Jesus thinks as I'm not a practicing Christian yet. Quickly heading in that direction though.
You are badly misinformed on the IDF-like attack, Shawn.
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It is common-place that military bases have schools nearby for the servicemen's children. The USA does the exact same thing all over the globe.
All schools were in session. This attack kicked-off the war. Schools were closed after the first school was hit. This chronology is very important, clearly.
You are parroting MSM's propaganda.
The Iranians did not triple-tap their own school, Shawn. If you truly want the truth, read this post: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/whipsawed-tuesday-march-24-2026-c/comment/232649999
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That is fantastic news! Jesus will be so pleased! Way to go! 🙏🏻
Almost every military base we have has residency for families of servicemen and schools for their children.
Exactly. Thank you.
Lil Trumpsters are taught to parrot that it is the sneaky Iranians' fault for putting a school there!
Colonic flush! Love it! Who knows, they might just feel better and see better. :)
And Mike had a 30-minute clip from the 2-hour(!) show, this weekend, was terrific!🎙️
Here is a short clip I made of their conversation about AI:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxY7GUQfwTpYRLAz3-J9ofBYhF_hNXM7GH?si=JA0PxPKvY5mcefbN
No poop emojis here!
I have given up X for Lent and may keep going. I get all I need from C&C! 😊👍
I did as well [gave up X for Lent] and it was God's gift to me. I won't go back and live in the negative cesspool. My soul and attitude is much better here with Jeff. (And I'm much more informed!)
I am still hanging in there on X but my block button has been on fire.
Congrats! When I removed FB, it was liberating. My friends and family know where I am. That enough.
Once a day I check FB and Insta but only because of my grandchildren. I go steal their photos so I have some current ones. I have 6 that live in 6 different states!
🙏
Good for you. I tried similar and so far failed.
In my mind, there is always optimism as long as we have breath. Something can be done, if only to not be a source of darkness, but light. But part of that is also being realistic.
30 minute security lines while not 6 hour security lines, are not 5 minute security lines.
We could have really fast security lines if we allowed profiling. My argument years ago was, if a terrorist was 6'4" irish guys, then by all means, pull me out of line if it means keeping the line going.
In the late eighties, when I t-boned a drunk teacher who decided it was a great idea to turn left right in front of me at a green light and sent my car into a spin (and totaled it) the first thing I did, in shock, was to push my car to the side of the road to let traffic through.
So true! Hubs and I have said for years that profiling is the best way to run security. But nooooooooo…
The message and genuflection to the current things will not go quietly.
Plus I think the elites who love the security state enjoy humiliating the rest of us while they swan around in private jets with zilch security checks.
Happened to me with an unlicensed, illegal alien woman. Turned me into a spin running the stop sign. I then hit a stop sign, knocked it over and when rescue arrived found the stop sign had opened a big wasps nest in the ground. The car was full of them and the guy pulling me out got stung so bad he had to be hospitalized. I got barely a scratch. She got a bunch of tickets that her lousy fake insurance tried to fight TWICE. It was a Chrysler LHS. I loved that car.
Mine was a Chevy Celebrity, not a great car, but it got me from point A-B after a car I loved, a 1976 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight gave up its ghost.
Love your handle Jimmy! I'm a Grandma and was called a Grandma Killer. LOL!
Thanks. I think it puts off some of the people I debate because I come preloaded with an insult.
Let Truth -- coupled with us-all praying for peace, given that divine intervention is required -- set us Free from leaving the world's next generations with more of today's endless, evil wars (per John 8:32). This is a positive objective to focus on, once the bigger-picture of Truth is learned -- "If we can face it, God can fix it" (CAF pastor) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chns_KEMIls .
You gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
And don’t mess with Mr. In Between.
The version I know is Johnny Mercer. ☺️
After 75 years on this earth, my main takeaway is that attitude will make or break it.
It certainly helps a lot.
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I first heard this song from my mother’s 78 record when I was about 15 and latched on to its message, a life changer in attitude🎶💃🏼!
And that was 55 years ago 🤠
When you’ve been watching long as me (50+ years) you’ll probably be able to skim the headlines; say “yeah, right…you wish… you useful idiots…🤣😂🤣” and then wholeheartedly jump joyfully into C&C’s warm optimistic waters.
I've been with Jeff from almost the beginning when I was looking for someone sane in 2020. He has had to morph the Substack and he has done an amazing job. Sane people on here need to know if some commenter gets out of hand you report them to the Substack authorities and get them shut down. Those 3 little dots to the right of comments are wonderful to utilize when necessary.
I’ve been here from early on as well. Thanks for the reminder. Some are obviously here for the wrong reasons.
Someone pointed out that after Jeff did the Mike Roe interview a bunch of dweebs showed up to cause trouble. Kind of like phone scammers and ID thieves. Worthless creatures breathing air.
Jeff is becoming more of a perceived threat as he grows in popularity.
They’re going where Trump supporters are, hoping to divide.
I look for the cheer here as well. It is like going to happy hour with coffee instead of booze. That said, it is a must to read other sources. There is a reason there are trials after all, with two sides presenting evidence and what it means. The NYT ran a headline that the Saudis are pushing for the war to continue. I told a friend a while ago that Saudi Arabia is a rising power (or perhaps has been for some time). The various monarchies are fusing technology into their societies. While Joe Kent argues Israel's fingerprints are all over this war and Charlie Kirk's death, I don't think Israel is the real power source. With anti-Semitism rising in the UK, I wonder if Israelis and Jews will find more protection in the Middle East. Have no idea. Just pondering.
It is astounding to me that Islamists have infiltrated western Christian civilization nations with armies of military aged men, obviously skilled at killing; they have very openly declared their opposition to America and Israel, Christianity and western culture and called repeatedly and forcefully for our death—yet Israel (the size of New Jersey), under constant psychological and physical attack, is accused of having ambitions to take over and force their ideology on the rest of the world?
This is demonic, not logical and as old as the time of Abraham. The lie of ‘I’m not antisemitic, just anti Zionist’ is a very thin cover that won’t sustain.
The Zionist movement that worked to acquire a land for Jews in their ancestral homeland did so with the fervent hope that this would provide respect and safety to Jews after centuries of pogroms and abuse against them.
It took the horror and shame of the Holocaust to bring about the agreement and very limited support of western countries to make this dream come true.
Since then Israel has been under constant attack from her ‘neighbors’, the ‘lovely’descendants of Ishmael and Esau; brothers they should be.
God is with her. She has won every war miraculously. She has taken what Mark Twain described as an utterly desolate, barren land and made it bloom with produce and gleaming modern cities as vividly prophesied by Isaiah. It is her land and will only respond to her occupation. This has the Arabs wild with jealousy and full of coveting.
Well said.
Palestinian = Christians Jews Druse and Arabs.
This is very good:
https://youtu.be/h7wWsSJUpoM?si=E3pN_PblXTrvuklf
This one is better and more truthful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOTcuNPLvs
I think the only One Who can save our nation is Yeshua.
Read Biglino's "The Naked Bible" to learn about "Yeshua".
XLNT READ!!
Certainly an interesting point of view, and worth considering.
Even if he's wrong, having such cogent alternative assessments really makes clear the vast groupthink and, more specifically, implied assumptions and narrative conceits, that underlie the mainstream corporate/NGO consensus.
03/24/26: “If only the EU could pipe its gas directly from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s rear aperture.” --- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bravo! --- “Judge Friedman wrote a lovely, 40-page opus … but he missed the point. Now the reporters are working out of a trailer … Great job, New York Times!”
I have a 70s copy of Mother Earth News with a German design of a compost maker that captures the ensuing methane for home cooking needs.
I'm sure that the famous German engineering abilities can revive the design, to make up for their feckless leaders boycotting cheap Russian gas, combined with war criminal Joe Biden blowing up the Nordstream pipelines to make sure they couldn't waver.
And after you use the gas to cook, you use the compost for your garden.
Win/win.
Mrs. RW
I have a feeling that nuclear energy is going to make a big comeback in the EU.
Good luck getting uranium.
Mrs. RW
Well, Iran has some nuclear material that needs to be removed from their control...maybe Trump's cryptic energy-related present from Iran? And I can see him using it as a bargaining chip with the EU.
Inexpensive Russian gas....
Will we ever find out who destroyed Nordstream?
Gosh, it is a mystery, my son.
Mrs. RW
Jeff seems to think that the destruction of the pipelines by our CIA was a great victory for his idol... Trump, AKA "Orange Caligula".
It was during the Biden regime though. The explosives were placed in the NATO Baltops exercises in 2022, and set off later that year.
I doubt that Cabbage Head did the planning though.
Mrs. RW
True... but is it not sad that Jeff would celebrate industrial terrorism and somehow twist it to "TAW"?
Memories of hippie days of yore!
Friends, my husband missed a flight to Europe for work yesterday even after getting to the airport (Houston IAH) 4 hours early. Wasn’t even close to making it.
I happened to be coming back from visiting my parents at the same time, and I have never seen so many people in one place. The line was EVERYwhere and people were well-behaved as far as I saw. ICE agents were there, but they were mostly at entrances and exits, managing the line, stuff like that.
Probably canceling our trip to see our college kid in 2 weeks because there doesn’t seem to be any resolution to this problem coming soon.
Turns out I actually hate the do-nothing blowhards in congress even more than I thought I did, and that’s saying something.
Best of luck to any of you braving this mess. I hope you have a small airport to use.
I believe this DHS funding caper cooked up by the Hillary Clinton types is going to backfire pretty spectacularly; I predict the TSA will not emerge unscathed and the whole deal will turn around and bite them in the butt.
I’ve noticed there are a lot of people now questioning if we really need TSA. Apparently they fail like 95 or 97% of their ‘secret shopper’ tests. The problem is that you can’t prove a negative, so how would we ever know how many people would have tried to bring a knife/chemical agent, whatever onto a plane but haven’t because they know there’s the chance they would be caught? It’s definitely a deterrent. And also… why is the 97% failure rate being published? Do we want the nefarious people to know that?
The obvious solution to a safe no-TSA airport would be to ban Muslims from flying. Then the airlines would just have to worry about the drunk AWFLs who provide so much content to Reels.
Yep. A little profiling goes a long way. My 85 year old mother in law does not need to be felt up by security.
The reason for them screening older people is that many are very gullible when it comes to someone asking them to carry something for them onto the plane. It happens way more than you know. Also since they're not paying attention, things can be dropped into their open bags. Source: I used to train tsa.
Thank you for explaining why elderly are frisked!
We’re not that dumb, thank you, speaking at 78.
When I flew to Europe in 2014 with my son's youth orchestra, my son - at the time in 9th grade - got chosen at every, single security checkpoint for "enhanced" interrogation. It was ridiculous. At the time, he stood at 5'9", weighed about 135 lbs and had short, red hair. Maybe it was the GB Packer sweatshirt that set them off. In the meantime, women in full burkas walked right on through with agents actively avoiding interacting with them.
Two years later when we were coming back into the States and going through Customs at Toronto airport, the agents questioned all these young musicians who were CARRYING THEIR INSTRUMENTS about where they had been, what countries did they visit, what instruments did they play, who were their favorite composers. Again. Absolutely ridiculous. You have these exhausted kids, clearly traveling as a group with chaperones and the t-shirts to prove it, subjected to such inanity. My poor daughter was so flummoxed she almost cried. To top it all off, the agent asked me if I could prove my kids were my kids. Setting aside the fact that three redheads were standing in front of her and that we all shared the last name (!) she then asked if I had a letter from my husband permitting me to take the kids out of the country. I replied, "but, we're going HOME to our country." That's how these agencies work. Utter. Morons.
I think the real reason is that they screen people who they perceive as the most docile. Especially older women. I've even had TSA tell me before to "humor them" because they need to keep up their skills. Never mind the Muslim people going by.
@Beth- exactly. Children's backpacks, too.
Maybe people like Biden. And McConnell. Most of us are conscious and are not gullible beccause we learn from experience and know way more than you kids.
See how I painted you as a generalized group? Doesn't work, does it?
I’m 78. I had to lift up my shirt at my Christmas flight because of a safety pin and hook. A couple of years ago had to wrench my arm out of a sling where I had wrist plate surgery the day before. I told her it hurts, but too bad, I guess.
I think our generation is suspect because we actually experienced the joy of being homemakers. If we didn’t do it, we saw our mothers and grandmothers in that sweet role.
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The problem is, it's Muslim screeners WORKING at the airports!!!
maybe more than muslims should be banned from flying...
https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/
Since I've been dunking on Hartsfield all morning, there's no reason to stop now.
I met a guy in a bar in LAX who trained/placed sniffer dogs at airports worldwide.
He told me that the canine program at Hartsfield was the worst in the country and that they had never had a positive alert on any baggage sniffed.
Never
I knew my decision to avoid that airport totally was a good one. 🤔😵💫
WTH?!?!?
I swear
Well they once caught me with knitting needles. The world is a safer place 🙄
Four TSA agents spent 15 minutes debating over my toothpaste, and ended up throwing it in a trashcan right next to their station.
Good thing for them there were no explosives in my toothpaste. And if you can't put toothpaste back into the tube, how do you put explosives in?
Anyway, I vote for no more TSA. They are worthless.
Mrs. RW
I've always seen it as a control mechanism. Not so much for the older generation but to condition the kids that they have no autonomy and must bow to authority.
I agree completely. And I put drug tests in that same category.
I used to tell the you'uns I worked with that I never had to pee on command to get a job. Never had to give my fingerprints or pass a background test. Just presented my nursing license, told them my SS number, and showed up to work on time.
They couldn't believe it. Surely I had to pee in a cup when ordered!
Mrs. RW
@Susan- my husband has lost quite a few expensive pocket knives because he was in such a habit of carrying one, he would forget he had one on him. Insert eyeroll here (________).
When I travel I pick a less expensive one and get them through in my carry on about 50% of the time. You should see the looks I get on return legs when I act all embarrassed and tell them they are welcome to dispose of it but “It didn’t bother the agents at my departure airport!” LOL. I too believe in malicious compliance…
@Chuck- I love malicious compliance
I saw a lady knitting in the airport yesterday! Guess they don’t enforce that one anymore. 😂
@Valerie- they're afraid someone is going to knit an Afghan. Ba-dump-dump
Winner winner, pretzel bag winner. 👍🏻
😂😂😂knit an Afghan……istan😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
ha! good ONE!
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It’s always been hit or miss. I’ve had them both taken, and not taken, at the same airport 3 days apart.
Proving that it is up to individual TSA agents and their particular temperament, not the procedures. It's a performative farce, but when a bully is hired, they can make people's lives miserable.
Mrs. RW
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I’m sorry the absurdity of that just made me laugh! Clown world for sure! 🤡😡
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I lost my good nail clippers at the last TSA rodeo. It had that 1 inch nail file.
YES!! Ditto my hubby!
Maybe they thought you were a modern day Madame Defarge 🤨😆
Made me trash about a hundred dollars worth of Bath and Body products (gift for my granddaughter). Yeah, so much safer.
I know one person who accidentally took a giant knife to South America on a flight (forgotten it was in the bag) and it was not found by the TSA 😳 He didn’t have any bad intentions of course but it certainly wasn’t very reassuring to know that the screeners missed that!
A friend's wife was an FBI agent. She accidentally left her service weapon in her carry-on once and TSA missed it. When she got on the other side of the screening area she realized she had it in her bag. At that point she proved she was not the FBI's sharpest tool by turning herself in!
Yet they always find my 2” pocket knife and make me throw it away. 😂
Right?? Or the time they confiscated butter because it could be a liquid 🙄🙄🙄
I had a doctor acquaintance fly with 30- 1oz tubes of toothpaste but they made her toss the 6oz tube of toothpaste. SMH! She didn’t on purpose to prove a point
I like leaving ICE in charge; a great deterrent to illegals and all kinds of other illegal activity! And hey, they’re getting paid! We can save even more money abolishing TSA! Dems lose all around!🤣
Someone needs to start a rumor that numerous illegals have been detained.
If assertions cannot be proven, as you say, then the conclusion that there is "definitely a deterrent" cannot be correct.
Yes I’ve heard that statistic before.
I remember when tsa started their hiring process- their requirements were almost nil-
With the number of muslims working at O'Hare, I may finally feel safe. Let's hope our TSA staffing starts to be a lot more serious in the future!
Seeing all the Muslims at ORD makes me feel less safe! They will sacrifice their own lives any day for Allah.
The C&C comments I mostly align with. But the xenophobia over ‘brown’ Asians expressed by some is disappointing. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us to judge a person not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. That applies to everyone. Reminds me of people who cross the street to avoid passing a black person. Sad and might add, un-Christian.
It's Muslims referred to--not "brown" Asians. The Koran is full of violent preaching towards those who aren't Muslim--even death and maiming of those not of their faith. The fact that some C&C readers recognize this is not "xenophobia."
Regarding skin color, even the late Jesse Jackson said: "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Look up crime statistics to see -- "xenophobia" doesn't mean recognizing crime patterns.
Jesse Jackson said he crossed the street when he saw a group of black ‘youth’ coming. Only an idiot wouldn’t.
Context matters. Certainly, you avoid this in low-trust areas, such as poor inner-city locations, or a dark street at a late hour. My comment was encountering those of other races in US airports, who said those 'Muslims' make me feel unsafe. I say that is a crock of sh*t. So, let's not be idiots and apply stereotypes to all situations?
There was a black TSA woman at the Denver airport yelling at all of us to do this and do that, but we couldn't understand what she was trying to say. Her accent made it impossible. It was ridiculous.
Of course we should judge individuals as individuals, but we're talking about groups and in some contexts, profiling based on group behavior is prudent.
As a small woman, I would need to evaluate the whole situation but I might cross the street if the black person was young, male and acting unpredictably (and in most cities, you will find that). That doesn't make me a "racist" but rather someone who is rational and knows the statistics. I was recently confronted by a young, black man in the city who was either drug-altered or mentally ill. He made a direct line for me, talking loudly and pointing at me and swinging his arms. Without hesitation I went to the other side of the street and also looked around for someone to help me out should the need arise. If that makes me un-Christian, so be it.
How about at a US airport, NAB? Because my comment was in response to someone who expressed fear of ‘Muslims’ at a US airport, specifically Chicago O’Hare.
Any large airport.
Ditto DC Reagan.
One might only hope. With all the rumored identification and scanning devices said to be available, is it not well beyond time to at least upgrade (if elimination is not possible) security checks? TSA inspection of person and property is 100% "ICK" (term of art) and I have no confidence that it is capable of detecting or deterring weapons.
I want to see the list of all the highjackings/bombing the TSA has thwarted since 2001
I have a feeling there aren’t any
2001
Ty!
@Dindunuffin-From your keyboard to God’s eyes!
Wouldn’t that be nice!!!
People seem to forget about that terrorist attack at Brussels Airport that targeted the check-in areas.
People seem to forget A LOT of freaking things! 😡
In 1986 a bomb went off in the Austrian airport where i had been strolling the week before.
Hi, KJ... thought you might find this interesting... I sure did!
https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/is-cancer-really-a-parasite-interview?
BTW: When I pull up Substacks, teh format is REALLY messed up... are you having any issues? I may have been intentionally shadow-banned, many dislike my comments... especially as "AD"!!
;-)
Hey, thanks for the link. Pretty exciting stuff to think that cancer is caused by parasites. No wonder they never wanted to find a cure. It has been a real money maker.
Yes, I had problems with Substack. Waited for Jeff's Substack on Saturday and it never arrived. Yesterday I checked all my subscriptions and was no longer subscribed to it. Had to re-subscribe. Weird.
It was the only one I was dropped from.
Yes, great hope... but imagine all the unnecessary deaths due to Big Pharma greed and politicians being bribed to do nothing!
BTW: My Substacks re all messed up format-wise too... I can hardly read them and have a very hard time posting...
I know so many people who have suffered and died from cancer. Can you imagine if curing cancer was just as simple as getting rid of parasites? No wonder they didn't want us to use it during covid.
Went through all my Substack subscriptions and I am missing a few of them. I didn't delete or unsubscribe them either. And the format of the page I need to check has been changed. Not sure what is going on.
On X several big accounts have been hacked. And the accounts are the good guys like Whitney Webb and some of the medical freedom movement folks.
I sent an email to info@substack.com I doubt it will help, but why not?
I thought maybe I was being shadow-banned... many don't like my posts as the Dude.
;-)
This one too:
https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/
{{hugs}} I hope you get to see your child.
Thank you! Me too.
Praying for this situation to resolve in time!
I completely distrust corporate media so I wonder how true these stories about excessive TSA lines are (and consequently, how true is the instant fix of adding ICE?). Maybe only a select few airports are experiencing issues and reported on to push an agenda?
I definitely think the media attention is making it worse. If everyone that has a flight arrives 6 hours early (TSA lines at IAH are already 250 minutes this morning at 8:30 am) then it’s definitely going to backup the system.
However, the airports having the most problems (Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte) are major airline hubs so that makes sense. I do wonder why massive security lines in blue states aren’t being covered on the news though. How is LAX? O’Hare?
My brother went through Phoenix Sky Harbor last night and said there was more media there than passengers. Saw ICE. Said it was a clown show with the media. He got there 4 hours early, got through in less than 30 minutes, and spent time in the bar.
We flew out of PHX yesterday afternoon. Got there in plenty of time expecting long lines. Through security I’m less than 15 minutes. Absolutely no problem. Maybe the difference is locals were donating gift cards and food to help the agents survive without paychecks? Wondering if Atlanta is doing this
I had a friend who is flying out of Atlanta today. He arrived early and got thru security in 1.5 hours.
Wow, that’s awful! Way too long!
That can be typical at ATL some days, although the last time I flew out of ATL to CO, it was maybe 15 minutes. Oddly, the return trip from CO to ATL, that line was maybe 35-40 minutes.
I just stand there the entire time thinking how much I can’t wait to hear what the Taliban people who started all this crap said, when they not only didn’t get 40 virgins when they went to heaven, rather, they’re burning in hell— completely virgin-less, for all eternity.
I avoid the Atlanta airport at all cost. Same with Charlotte. Hell holes.
Isn’t that the standard time for that airport? I was there in 2022 and it took that long and I have TSA pre check
1.5 hours. Is that good? 😝
1.5 hours isnt good in my eyes but it looks good when facing 4 plus hours and then still missing flight.
He now waits 4 hours for his flight though. But, he doesn't have to worry about missing flight... lol. Id be the one with 30 min to check in and the line is 5 hours long.....cussing the entire time.
Does make you question if this was planned.....make everybody get there early to make crowds overwhelming.....makes for great propaganda spreading.
My grandson was coming back through Atlanta this past weekend. I expect he did make it back to college in Massachusetts.
One and a half hours can be typical at ATL some days, although the last time I flew out of ATL to CO, it was maybe 15 minutes. Oddly, the return trip from CO to ATL, that line was maybe 35-40 minutes. (That may have something to do with all the weed-sniffing dogs. Idk…)
I just stand there the entire time thinking how much I can’t wait to hear what the 911 perps (who started all this crap) said, when they not only DID’NT get 40 virgins when they went to heaven, rather, they’re burning in hell— completely virgin-less, for all eternity.
That thought makes the wait more bearable.
That’s actually good in that airport.
LAX was no problem last week but you couldn’t find a bar seat at 10am 🤣
Reports from my local large city airport is an average of 20-30 minutes.
My daughter flew out of BWI about 10 days ago and she was through security in less than 20 minutes. She had a mid-morning flight. Coming home, she flew out of an airport in FL (I can't remember which one) and had the same exact experience. Not all airports are like what they're showing on tv.
Kinda like when my daughter had kidney stones during the height of covid when “all hospitals are overrun with covid patients”. We drove up to an absolute ghost town with empty tents and empty parking spots as far as the eye could see. You could do donuts on every level
of the parking garage, with not a car in sight. 😑 There were 4 patients in the entire ER.
Our hospital was furloughing employees for 2 weeks at a time due to low census of patients in 2020
It would be great to have an expose on “all hospitals are overrun with covid patients”. Where are all the bonafide "investigative journalists"? Or are hospital employees under strict NDAs?
We all knew (or should have known, (with basic common sense and ordinary observation) that the "hospitals overrun" narrative was bullshit.
There WERE plenty of covid patients at one point, but a hospitalist friend of mine from Alabama said that a huge amount of time was spent over hospital-mandated infectious precautions (between each patient, regowning, regloving, face protection and masking) which proved to be pointless, but consumed lots of time and tons of wasted supplies.
The dancing nurses on TikTok should have been a clue.
They were for sure a clue for me. And I kept wondering where that whiny Greta T. was, and why she wasn’t raising Cain abt all waste with the POE and masks, etc.
I heard by end of that summer that hospitals were not overrun at all.
There is actually a website that lists all hospitals and their capacity and how full they are. My friend used it all the time in 2020 to debunk reports of over-full hospitals.
Mrs. RW
Right?? I’d like to see that!!
The bonafide ones have moved on to exposure of current chaotic crises. It’s a fast moving world indeed. The lying evil beings know a moving target is hard to hit.
I broke my wrist in Sept. 2020. I was THE ONLY PERSON in the ER.
That lie was exposed for all with eyes to see, as well as the depth of deception being used.
Quite of few subcontract out the TSA function. There is a list online somewhere. I, too, have flown through some of them recently and no lines to speak of. Less government is truly more.
Photos and reports on X this morning about airports like JFK and Atlanta still having crazy lines.
I can believe it's happening in at least some places but the conspiracy theorist in me can imagine a scenario where TSA management in certain airports adopt a liberal leave policy encouraging & approving liberal use of sick leave as well as encouraging less efficient passenger screening. This can then be reported on by corporate media to push a TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) agenda. I believe government employees will be required to be back-paid after a shutdown so I'm rather skeptical of large percentage of employees quitting or calling in sick. It's certainly possible but where to find the ground truth?
If you were not getting paid, would you still show up for work?
Not a fan of TSA at all, but they are fairly low paid workers in often expensive cities. And with the high rents and increase in gasoline prices, how will they survive?
I’m sure many of them that aren’t showing up are doing door dash to put food on the table.
Found out a friend of mine needed to do DoorDash to make some extra money.
Well they won’t receive back pay if they don’t show up. 🤔
Elon offered to pay them. I wish he would.
I don’t think that’s legal, but it’s a wonderful offer.
I’m responsible enough to have something to tide me over, and the promise of back pay would incentivize.
Ya I wouldn’t go to work without pay. Maybe for a week or 2?!? Unless I knew I’d get paid like air traffic controllers. Not sure if TSA is in the same boat?
They are always back paid after a shutdown.
Lots of people live paycheck to paycheck.
They don't have the luxury of waiting for backpay.
6 months of the fiscal year working with NO PAY!!
Wait. Where did I say people have the luxury of waiting for back pay? Where did I mention living from paycheck to paycheck? Or were you just stating the obvious for the sake of stating the obvious?
Dumb way to live.
I realize that, but have they found new jobs so quickly?
And for all the people crapping on Lydia, almost ALL banking institutions have a policy of advancing 30 days of pay to FEDs at zero interest. Not sure how many will extend the program after 30 days however.
Over 40% TSA calling in sick in Atlanta according to reports. Yeah, that will cause a backup. I guarantee you 90% of them are TDS hires. Atlanta! Nuff said.
Tweet on X from Homeland Security.
3-hour lines at Houston Airport.
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2036436859509768463
Ok but that doesn't prove that the cause is the lack of funding to TSA. If a TSA manager/supervisor is incentivized by how many people they supervise, they will emphasize their need for people/funding. Maybe they have 3 hour lines because the media promoted fear caused everyone to all come to the airport first thing in the morning. Will they tweet later on if the lines are only 20 minutes? I'm just suggesting people apply some skepticism to mainstream media reports and consider alternative explanations and conclusions.
The one thing that you learn if you work for the federal government is that managers and supervisors normally have no power to make changes.
I am currently at Atlanta airport waiting for a flight today (Tuesday) and there were no lines at 10.30 AM! Apparently things started to clear up yesterday afternoon after ICE agents showed up in the morning. I also wonder whether the announcement “encouraged“ the agents to come to work… marvelous to behold.
As I replied to Valerie, I breezed through TSA at the Atlanta airport this morning. I could go stand by the escalator bringing people up from the plane train to the C gate and ask the new arrivals about their experience. Since I have plenty of time before by flight, I might just do that.
@Anne- I LOVE the Atlanta airport! I make sure I have a long layover so I can ride the trains, go to the museum, window shop (I don't want to carry stuff), sip my Sbux (which is on every concourse EXCEPT C).
Guess what! I saw Starbucks in C today! There have been some notable upgrades in the Atlanta airport, as it readies for the World Cup in June.
@Anne- time for another trip!!!! WHOO-HOO!!
Good to hear about the good experience in Atlanta.
I have to fly next month out of Washington Dulles and hope things are settled by then.
Some staff at some airports are "encouraged" to be out - to increase the pain to the public - to help their team (one guess as to where all the political support in NYC and ATL goes). Many FEDS don't give one single f*** about the constituents - only their own personal small lives.
Pretty sure that if you live in an expensive city like NYC, it is impossible to go without a paycheck.
The first weekend of March I flew to San Antonio from Denver and back again on the following Tuesday. Both airports had smooth security line experiences. They were both busy, but the lines moved quickly. It's been a long time since I flew anywhere from Denver and I was shocked at how much it had improved the security line.
My husband and I have taken quite a few flights in the past month and have had no problem with any domestic airport except Charlotte. He also had a longer wait in London Heathrow but that’s not a surprise.
I had no problem in the Colorado Springs airport either (I can usually return my car, check my bag, and get through security in 8 minutes, yesterday it was 13 lol), but IAH is a huge international airport. They only had 2 security lines in the whole airport and no TSA precheck or global entry.
I wish I could fly into CS!
That is my favorite airport! I will never fly into Denver unless I’m desperate.
I would drive a day to get to an airport to fly into Colorado Springs!. We go to Colorado Springs to rent a car to drive to Denver. 😡😭😡
We used to live in a place where IAH was often our stopover and the lines were bad then (mid 2000s).
Charlotte has always been horrible, and I have never understood why.
And always under construction. Just like Atlanta
So sorry that you are going through this. I have travelled by air twice during this debacle without any lines or issues. The difference? All airports through which we went through security have subcontracted out the TSA function. Less government, less hassle. Let's go back to private security and screening at airports!
Ok I like this theory, that the airports that have subcontracted out tsa are performing better. That makes some sense even though I don’t know if it’s actually true or not. My other guess was just management. Like how you can go to your favorite restaurant and it’s always amazing but you go to another location and it’s meh or worse.
The genius of all of this, however, is that the leftists blame the Executive Branch when it is the Legislative Branch (and those daredevil Dems!) that have precipitated these multi-city fiascos.
Extending compassion to all those trapped in lines, awaiting time to be trapped in a winged metal cannister far above the clouds. Hoping all arrive safely.
I am sitting in the Atlanta airport, having arrived four hours before my flight time. The skycap described yesterday’s mayhem in great depth—he speculated that 65% of travelers missed their flights. I breezed through TSA in minutes and thanked those who served me for showing up. The CNN crew and others were staked out at the entrance to North checkpoint. That was more than three hours ago. I still have another hour before my Delta flight.
Daughter flew TPA - San Jose last Monday and returned/reversed on Friday. Said there were no issues whatsoever at either airport. Their weekend visitor flew out of TPA last night with only 15 minutes through TSA.
Driving for Spring Break…but California gas prices lol the plebs never win 😂
Blumenthol. Stinking up my capitol building and country in so many ways. Gobsmacked by his effing ignorance. Assuming he mostly flies private to @void the rabble.
I just saw there was a vote to make members of Congress go through regular security/TSA at the airport now.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/21/senate-votes-to-make-lawmakers-wait-in-airport-security-like-everyone-else-n2200488
I heard Delta is no longer providing escorts for legislators.
I saw that too!
That was John Kennedy, yes? He’s often awesome.
John Cornyn, surprisingly enough! 🤯
I found your comment very illuminating, Valerie. If it takes a direct impact to you, or your adjacents, by a Congressional action to really understand how those actions affect our lives then it's no wonder Congress skates by with 9% approval ratings (or whatever it is) but they aren't met with pitchfork-carrying crowds at home or on The Hill.
My husband flew from Minneapolis (Main terminal) last Tuesday afternoon to Cincinnati and was through security before I had fully exited the airport property after dropping him off. He said they were 'overstaffed'. MSP is a very large airport. I was surprised he didn't have more of a wait, but maybe it was due to the day of the week.
remember its democrats although republicans get a share of the blame for not going straight (or even anticipating) to reconciliation
Republicans tried 14 times to get to reconciliation.
Stop lying.
I am sorry! I went thru a smaller airport and had no issues.
I'm sitting in IAH right now.
Lay over, thankfully.
Guy next to me just said he waited 3.5 hours today in IAH.
I went through Boston. 30 second wait .
Why is it so different everywhere??
How many brutal murders do we have to witness Joe Biden’s unvetted illegals aliens commit again and again on young American “Citizens”? Meanwhile never missing a paycheck, these collectivist democrats keep DHS, which includes TSA, unfunded, basically and methodically dismantling them. It’s so obvious this democrat communist hive has zero love for the average American “Citizen” struggling to survive, but insist on protecting and funding these murdering and raping illegals. There have been thousands of citizens murdered, killed or raped by these illegals let in by the democrat mafia thugs. I wanted to mention just a few victims of these miscarriages of justice; Stephanie Minter, Logan Federico, Iryna Zarutska, Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, Lizbeth Medina and of coarse 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray who was tied up, strangled to death, and left in a shallow creek.
This past Thursday in Chicago, Loyola College freshman Sheridan Gorman had been looking for the northern lights with her friends in the early morning when a masked man approached them near Lake Michigan. According to police, the assailant brandished a gun before shooting at the group, striking Gorman in the back.Sheridan is just the most recent American senselessly murdered by the democrats, sadly she won’t be the last.
"She was exactly where she should have been — close to campus, surrounded by friends, living her life," Gorman's devastated family said, “Our family is forever changed."
On Sunday, March 21, Chicago authorities charged 25-year-old Jose Medina (caught and released by Joe Biden) with the first-degree murder of Sheridan Gorman, in addition to first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a firearm. And of coarse he was here from Venezuela, let into America illegally by Joe Biden and the democrats, protected by democrat Governor Pritzker. Yup just another day in America, no justice for the scumbag murdering communists who did this to us.
To me the real guilty murderers are Joe Biden and his whole administration. Merrick Garland, Kamala Harris, and top of the list Alejandro Mayorkas. How Mayorkas is allowed to walk freely in this country is way beyond me. He should be charged for the thousands of deaths of American citizens his illegal policies have caused. If there was ever a case using “the fruit of the poisonous tree”, IMO, this is it! He should be handcuffed, shackled and thrown into the filthiest prison for his open borders policy crimes he committed as DHS secretary. And for every future person killed by these illegals. that he let in, he should face additional murder, rape, vehicular homicide charges again and again. This lying POS should be left in there to rot with the sentence of being hung by the neck until dead hanging over his head for all of the pain he has caused these American families. Now that would be justice and a real deterrent for any future communist/democrat administration recklessly and negligently opening America’s borders in this way again.
J.Goodrich
I’m am so tired of hearing from the current democrats in the Senate this past weekend about the 2 deaths of American Citizens in Minneapolis and FAILING TO NOT ONCE MENTION THE INNOCENT LIVES THAT YOU JUST LISTED!🤬 They try to make that a huge talking point in their arguments. All of them keep saying the same thing and I am tired of listening to them.
They are already so dumb- if only they could be rendered mute as well
Trump should bring the Gorman family to the White House, have a press conference, and say over and over again that Schumer Jeffry’s Joe Biden and all the democrats that protect these murderers since they illegally crossed our border killed Sheridan Gorman. This should be said again and again, Schumer Jeffry’s, Pritzker, Biden and the rest of the democrats protecting these murderers murdered Sheridan Gorman. You watch when a terrorist gets on a plane and blows it up because the democrats shut down of the TSA they will say it’s Trumps fault for giving the mullahs justice.
Sanctuary City should be abolished and made illegal… just like the illegal aliens that they are protecting!
Made illegal and the officials who designated them Fired!!
They would ALL be charged with Aiding and abetting!
If you were a Dem, would you not sew chaos and relish crime, fraud, illegal voting, SRA, murder and mayhem? That is who they are, what they stand for and what they endorse and support wholeheartedly. They are the Pharisees of this age acting holier than thou while allowing and endorsing everything sick and twisted under the sun. May they be destroyed and left to ash.
👍😢👍👍😢
One tiny correction, James: Iryna’s killer was a homegrown jungle animal, not an immigrant (but still very much a casualty of literally murderous Democrat policy choices).
Otherwise, I absolutely agree with you.
Every person in the Biden administration chain of command from President AutoPen through Sec Mayorkas down to the lowest clerical staff in their Homeland (in)Security regime needs to be charged as an accessory before the fact to each of those murders.
Fat boy Pritzker and all his henchmen & the corrupt Chicago Democrat machine also need to be charged as actual accomplices and accessories as is appropriate in Sheridan’s murder (they may need a bigger cell for Pritzker).
He is a mob leader and I pray his end is like Hamans.
Pritzker? I didn’t know that, though not surprised.
His mob is his family.
And these attacks are minimized by a media that buries the stories as fast as they are reported.
There is only one solution and we all know what it is... mass deportation. There has been a lot of dramatic theatrics with ICE but there is STILL no mass deportation. It looks to me like there never will be any mass deportation. We are just being strung along. And, by the way, why is there still no wall? Just how hard is it to build a wall? If there was a Dem in the WH, we'd all be complaining about this - would we not? But a good war covers a multitude of sins.
Some may dispute this number but as I understand it, there are about 50 million illegal aliens in the US and there are about an equal number of aliens here on VISA. That's about a third of the total population of the US. Does anyone really think we are going to deport 50 to 100 million non-citizens? The logistics alone appears impossible.
But I frankly do not believe there is any intention to deport the mass invasion that took place for 4 years under Biden. Every aspect of the depopulation and replacement agenda is still in operation. Even the bio-weapon slow kill shot and the poisoning of our skies. The protection of white Christian America is being declared force majeure and we are being replaced by the invaders. We have gone from America being 90% Christian white in 1970 to less than 60% white now... in just 50 years. We are being replaced and that ratio is dropping fast.
What happens when Christian and white both become a minority in the US? Can it even be called "America" anymore?
I believe people's values are more important than skin color. We are a country based on Judeo-Christian values which need to be upheld and protected. Give me Tim Scott over Dick Durbin any day. Who would you rather have living next door, a black family with an American flag flying or a green-haired white Karen with a "love is love" sign in the front yard?
"I believe people's values are more important than skin color..."
Of course... and I never said otherwise. BTW, Tim Scott is a full blooded American and a Christian. In 1970, the American population was 90% Christian white and 10% Christian black. We are the ones being replaced by a mass invasion of aliens who are mostly Islamic and just happen to be dark skinned. That is their values. Their religion and culture is hostile to American Christian culture and they are here to conquer us. They are not here to assimilate.
The fact of the matter is, just being white marks us as their enemy and makes us a target to the invaders. But they will also be able to easily tell actual Americans like Tim Scott apart from themselves, making them targets as well.
Point of information: America culture is not based on "Judeo-Christian" values. That is a psyops. Judeo-Christian is an oxymoronic phrase. Judaism is a religious cult that rejected the Christ when he came to them and they remain a cult today. American culture is not Judeo-Christian.
They have been arguing about this for centuries. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson pointed out that the English common law was in effect for 200 years before the Romans even invaded, and that US law is based on English common law.
''Thomas Jefferson argued that U.S. law is based on English common law—originating from pre-Christian Saxon customs—rather than Christianity, maintaining that Christianity is not part of common law. In his 1814 letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, Jefferson stated that common law existed for 200 years before Christianity arrived in Britain.
Key Aspects of Jefferson's View on Law and Religion:
Separation of Law and Religion: Jefferson argued that merging Christianity with common law was a "lie" and a "frauds" perpetuated by judges.
Saxon Roots: He believed the "free principles of government" were inherited from Anglo-Saxon predecessors, not religious texts.
The "Wall of Separation": In his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, he codified the 1st Amendment as a barrier between church and state, rejecting the idea of a Christian nation.''
So... assuming Jefferson is correct (though I do not view him as the definitive authority), exactly what philosophy/belief system were the "Anglo-Saxon predecessors" based on? Certainly not Islamic faith. Ultimately, all law is based on someone's religious faith.
Jefferson may have personally rejected the idea of a Christian nation but many of his contemporaries did not. Furthermore, the 1st Amendment itself is not a barrier between religion and state. It simply prevents the Fed Gov't from establishing a state church.
The English common law was based on experience, as I understand it.
A long history of people working out their grievances, which then became precedent when similar concerns arose. We still do a version of that.
I don't know their religion before the Roman invasion. Probably some version of paganism.
I understand that there were contemporaries of Jefferson which claimed the same thing people do today.
Hence, his pointing out the obvious facts negating the claims.
It worked about as well for him as it does for truth tellers today. People just ignored him, and kept claiming absurdities.
Precendent.
Mrs. RW
Just because you are a non-believer does not make your last paragraph true.
We are a country based on the LAW OF MOSES, and on Christianity.
Your ignorance is either due to propagandists posing as teachers or willful ignorance of our nations founding principals.
Either way, you have believed and are promoting (propagandizing) a lie.
That is some accusation.... and a straw man attack. Not too clever.
The Ten Commandments are not the Law of Moses. They are the law of God and Jesus referred to them Himself. You talk as if the "Law of Moses" and Christianity are two different things. If that is what you think then you are deceived.
You are really good at accusations but you can't even logically explain how it is that I'm "promoting a lie".
And even Yeshua called them Moses writings. Given to him by the Most High. And we ARE based on Judeo-Christian values.
I saw a reporter ask Trump if there were Iranian sleeper cells among the illegals.
Trump blamed Biden for letting them in, and said that yes, there were illegal Iranians who they knew about, and were ''watching".
Say what????
This sounds like a set-up to a false flag, to me. If there are illegal Iranians, deport them. Problem solved.
Instead, we will see the usual false flag atrocity, followed by a quick arrest because the perp was "known to the authorities".
And then it will be hyped to justify more war.
Mrs. RW
With the judicial system being ‘packed. Since Clinton era by activist judges, how can they move in on those they’re ‘watching’ ?
Yes. If a demonicRAT were still President, they could DRONE these groups and the collective media would ‘yawn’ and turn away.
But if this President were to move and arrest them, what do you think the judges would do?
And then the wimpy Eeyore reply to your comment:
‘Sadly true’
Your Judges aka Boasberg would let them out, they would scatter, and each start another group. And they would be more aware they’re being watched, becoming even more dangerous.
So what is your and Eeyore’s ‘Sadly true’ solution?
If they are here illegally, they should be deported. That is what Trump promised to do. According to him, they are illegals let in by Biden.
I don't see the problem here.
Mrs. RW
Reading comprehension.
Get some.
Arrogant some?
Clearly, Mrs Richard is correct. Public Law empowers the Gov't to deport aliens who are here illegally. That is the very definition of what it means to be "illegal". All Trump has to do is arrest and deport them per Public Law. If he has to take it to the SCOTUS, then so be it. The law of the land is on his side. This NEEDS to be challenged and settled once and for all. That's his job!
What is YOUR solution? Eeyore wants to know. LOL
He IS doing it.
What you and ‘Richard’ font seem to get is what the Soros prosecutors and judges are doing. You both seem to be willingly blind dead AND dumb to that fact.
I do not see any mass arrests.
Sadly true.
It doesn't seem like anyone is familiar with Muslim and Middle Eastern history. A huge part of the Middle East was originally Christian and they were driven out and mass murdered by the Muslim invaders who finally took over. Does anyone even know what happened during the Ottoman Empire? They took over the Iberian peninsula for 800 years until they were finally driven out, so it can be done. However, given what we see now with so many Christian countries inviting them in and then becoming doormats and not daring to boot them out after seeing how they behave, it's not likely to happen. Muslims do feel it's their mission from Allah to spread Islam everywhere on earth and control everything. And to kill everyone who won't convert and submit. One comment I have heard from a great many Muslim clerics in Western countries is this line: "We did not come here to assimilate. We came here to take over."
Millions throughout history have been slaughtered by Muslims. Millions! Those Westerners and Christians who think they aren't still trying to do that all over Western Europe and in this country are sadly naive and they deceive themselves through ignorance. They are doomed to eventually find out the hard way.
I’d put Pritzker (Prick-ker; JabbaDaGuv) and moronic pointy head Brandon Johnson in the same jail cell. )
Well said! Thank you!
OMGosh... that pic, "Pentagon Journalist Headquarters" is hilarious 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Do you think Cousin Eddie got a tax deduction donating his travel trailer?
I hope the fumigated chair is inside and the sh’tter is full!
throw in the squirrel too
If I were there as a witness, I would have been clapping and doing the Happy Dance!
I'd be right there with you 😂
Many would be. We could start our own Conga line!
Yes! LMAO over that story! Not sure if the stupid judges will learn their lesson. This administration seems ready for almost anything the rogue judges try to throw at them. The legacy media are screaming like vampires in daylight touching a cross as they realize the growing irrelevance of their jobs.
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Inquire of Yahweh and His strength;
Seek His face continually.
Remember His wondrous deeds which He has done,
His miracles and the judgments uttered by His mouth[.]
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Seek His face continually, pray and read His Word daily! You’re the best Janice and we appreciate you!
That was the belief in Germany.
"Isn't that the way every dictator got started? Hitler controlled the 'German Brown Shirts'. The Brown Shirts were causing all sorts of civil upheavals. Hitler promised to stop the Brown Shirts and quickly put in power."
Thank you!
My pleasure!
"The “abolish ICE” party just accidentally ran the best ICE public relations campaign in history."
Excellent! I love the jujitsu games going on :D
And helping grandma find her gate, rather than slowly killing her during the Covid years. Priceless.
Boom Nard!
Yes, indeed -- mental strategy games. The Trump admin. has talent there.
Allegheny County (PA) is in a real conundrum. They voted to prevent cooperation with ICE.
But Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) is in Allegheny County and now has ICE agents at the airport helping with security.
😂✊🏼🇺🇸thanks for this update!
Here's some details on Allegheny County's folly.
Link: https://www.publicsource.org/allegheny-county-council-vote-cooperation-ice/
"If only the EU could pipe its gas directly from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s rear aperture." 😂🤣😂🤣 And, an endless supply!
Add Nadler to that as well and the world will no longer have any energy shortages.
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If we can do anything to legally oust these wacko judges, please inform! 👨🏻⚖️⚖️✊🏼🇺🇸☕️
Congress, under Article 3 of the Constitution, created the district courts. Congress could restrict the kinds of cases they hear, but I doubt that will happen. Congress will most certainly not impeach them either. The only control over these rogue activist judges will continue to be the federal appeals courts or SCOTUS.
including the retired ones. omg
ICE has easily shown the obvious fact any traveling citizen knows… TSA is horribly incompetent to begin with. Not to mention how the ones working in liberal cities are often openly hostile to us. My husband had a medical device and the hoops they made him jump through and the attitude was night and day when comparing the TSA in Daytona Beach vs the treatment in Raleigh. Good thing he had control of his temper after serving 27 years in the Navy. I am all for abolishing the TSA and bringing back the way we freely traveled before 9/11. I remember when they started the mess and my Dad, a conservative from RI (I know the only one up there) said to me “great … give the government more power over us by taking away our liberties and they’ll screw it up beyond our imagination”. He nailed it!
Alexander Muse's Substack yesterday argued that TSA should be disbanded, likening it to the eighth circle in Dante's Inferno: https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/chaos-walkouts-and-95-failure-rates
Thanks, Mary Ann, that’s a great article. It’s kind of long, so here’s an excerpt for those who might not read the whole thing:
“ The TSA was founded on a promise. After the September 11 attacks, fear drove speed. Within weeks, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, federalizing what had been private screening. The rationale seemed obvious. Decentralization had failed, we were told. Only a uniform federal agency could prevent another catastrophe. But there was a problem embedded in that founding premise. The hijackers exploited not a failure of private screening uniformity but a failure of intelligence sharing and cockpit policy. They used boxcutters, not bombs. They boarded flights in airports where security met all then-existing standards. Federalizing screeners was a non-sequitur solution to a wholly different problem. That foundational error has now had twenty-five years to metastasize.”
They were federalized and immediately joined the government employees union!
People get pretty arrogant once they get that gubmint job.
And the dumber they are, the more arrogant they are.
Once (can’t remember where) my husband got groped by the TSA man. He was wearing shirts and a t shirt. The guy actually felt along his bare legs. 🤦♂️ he got so pissed he took his shirt off to show there was nothing underneath. The TSA goon made him put his shirt back on so he could feel him up.
They actually don’t profile I think. Or if they do they go after easy pickings like old men and women. Or they count every 10th person. Totally ineffective and highly expensive.
They do profile in that a one way ticket, paid in cash within a 2 day period before the flight got extra attention, which prints on the boarding pass. The screening at the checkpoint was supposed to be continuous, meaning when they finished with one, they picked the next one. What was really stupid IMO was doing the same at the gate during boarding. Pulling them aside to check their carryon one last time. That was post 9/11. The private companies who did the checkpoint were just as good and nicer than the TSA. The smaller airports were a lot better because you knew them.
And if they actually get to boss people around…oh, my!
There's a glimmer of hope in RI - I'm originally from there and have many friends still living there and most of them are conservative. They're there - they just don't get heard.
Time to DOGE TSA!
I did learn that if you are unlucky enough to go through security (pre TSA check) after a pilot who buzzes the metal detector, that pilot will go through no problem, but the next person in line will suffer the consequences with a full search.
Legalized rape.
Wait till ICE moves in.
I am constantly amazed by Trump’s cleverness.
It’s seems like he knows the next steps in the Demora’s play book.
Yes, it is pretty clever to start another quagmire in the middle east, get precious troops killed, and spend hundreds of billions of dollars, all the while killing a more moderate Iranian leader, who is currently replaced by leadership who do think they need a nuclear weapon. TAW TAW TAW TAW.
Wait until the bill comes in for the dozens of destroyed US bases in the region.....oh, but we likely won't be invited back to rebuild them so whatever, right?
Another total waste of tax dollars is the nonsense about putting a base on the moon!!! When will the insanity stop?? Stop wasting OUR money on that moon idolatry.
@Johhny- Why TF are you still here?
Zero is obviously paid well. Troll farms are a real thing!
Is it getting more and more uncomfortable that my predictions are coming true? Don't worry, when the big brother narrative shifts, you will too, like a good sheep.
While pumping and dumping energy stocks on Wall St.
Petrodollars is toast. Chinese Yuan will lead the world economy.
Get your ticket for the breadlines sponsored by the brown shirts ICE.
Funny we never needed DHS before 911 to help grandma.
There are no moderate leaders in Iran unless you mean ones who kill hundreds instead of thousands. Hard to imagine a more wrong thinking post than this. Iran has missiles that can reach all of Europe. Even the Euro- weaklings know better than this post.
Did he foresee the Iranian tariffs? I find that rather ironic.
The Iranians have never charged a fee to ships to pass through the Hormuz Strait, but now they say that they will be charging a million dollars a ship, to help rebuild all that the US and Israel have destroyed.
TAW? I'm guessing that Trump can't complain about Iran's tariffs, since he uses them also.
Mrs. RW
The USA needs to implement a full blockade of the Straits. Everybody goes through or nobody goes through
He understands money talks and gets it done one way or the other. D'rats take it to, like slave holders.
A person can figure out the plays by knowing how mankind evolved in terms of the psyche. Evolutionary Psychology.
Robert Cialdini offers a good basic book on this: "Influence".
All influenced by Rockefeller propaganda. Evolution is a tool for Eugenics like the death shots. Some evolved not to take them.
Didn't you know, its a win (TAW!) to just have another gov agency take over for a gov agency. So much winning.
Great article yesterday making the case to get rid of the TSA. By Alexander Muse: TSA “has had 25 years and approximately $200 billion to demonstrate its competence.”
https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/chaos-walkouts-and-95-failure-rates?r=1o2l6&utm_medium=ios
He's right.
Oh good, we can use that money to pay for needless wars and line the pockets of military contractors. Trump continues to spend like a drunken sailor. Remember how everyone lapped up the DOGE mania bullcrap? So much changed because of DOGE! Or, they just used it to steal everyone's sensitive data. Shocker, I know.
They are all thieves and liars, to be sure. But I have to live in the reality as it is. So I do think DOGE is “working” and looking forward to more as fraud in States is exposed. You’ll never get an argument from me on the invasions of our privacy and trampling of our Constitutional rights. Data is the new oil, and there’s not much I can do about it. That ship has long since sailed.
I've been happy to be tapping maple trees for syrup and wine, so I can be distracted from the madness.
But very grateful for your assessments.
Maple trees for wine? You have my attention.
And maple beer :)
So a fermented maple syrup? Way cool
Maple sap comes out of the tree at about 2% sugar. For syrup you have to reduce it to 68%. 15% for wine, and 9-6% for beer.
That must be fabulous. I have two super young sugar maples but also i live in the oregon coast range. I keep telling my grandkids that someday after i am gone if they have the right kind of winter/ spring they might get a little syrup.
Hard maple, also called sugar maple are the best. Norway and black maples are good too. Silver maples have a very low sugar content. Not sure about your coastal maples. But the sap right out of the tree is like the best mineral water.
Buckets, bags or tubing? RO, oil, NG or wood. Inquiring minds want to know.
Buckets and wood. I'd add a pic of the barrel stoves, but i can't here.
It’s like waiting for Christmas each morning as we wait to read your next blog. I remember when I first started listening to Rush I always figured out a way to listen each day. Maybe “Wisdom on Loan from God” Thanks for connecting the dots! I pray it all comes out as you and we all hope! After all God is still sovereign and will all end as He intends. Thanks Jeff!
Ditto!
I hope to be able sometime later today to stop cracking up every time I think about the picture of the new press bus in the Pentagon parking lot. My sides hurt.
The only thing that would've made it better is if it was the beginning of winter instead of spring! I'm still laughing, too! 🤣
It's 3:30 in the afternoon and I'm still chuckling. I took a screenshot and put it in my phone's gallery.
Ya gotta love the DOW reaction to the reporter problem… it’s the military way… when one guy messes up everybody does pushups… usually that guy never messes up again! Well played Secretary Hegseth! 👏👏👏