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.
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."
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. 😱😵💫
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!
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.”
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.
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.
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 .
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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 (________).
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.
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 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.
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 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
if 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.
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.
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?
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?
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).
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
"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.
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.
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!
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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!
Can you imagine if Bidumb started this retarded war and then proceeded to lock out press and censor information like currently is being done? Your head would explode. But now its 4D chess or something. Clowntown, again.
Biden never had press conferences. He had events where he had pre given questions with scripted answers. And craven journos like the NYT and the other alphabets went along with it. Talk about censorship.
When the press leaks vital information and refuses to comply with requests to deter from that, they overstep their boundaries. Actions have consequences. This is why we can’t have nice things…..Trump can bring down the cost price of producing bombs. They can’t cost that much to make and must be grossly inflated in price. I’m sure that is just another money grab for the cabal anyway. The loss of American lives, not excusable. Horrific consequence but more lives will be lost globally if this is not curtailed once and for all.
Please try to make your negative comments rational and…that would be “Constitutional Republic” to you….
You mean when press leaks information that is vital for the public to know in order to make informed decisions about their "leaders?" Are we taking our cues from Israel on censorship?
To me, it seems pretty obvious that a whole lot more lives and treasure have been lost since the start of this war. Just one more war until we achieve peace!!!!
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.
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.
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”
Two things I am not good at naturally. 😅 I work on it. 😆
It’s scriptural! Worry is a waste of time.
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."
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!
So many pipe lines, so many a**holes....... 🔥
@Help- HAHAHAHAHA!!!
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.
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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. 😱😵💫
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I wholeheartedly agree with your recommendation to watch the Mike Rowe-Jeff Childers conversation.
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. 🤪
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
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’.
I love that poem! Along with his The Gods of the Copybook Headings.
The more things have changed the more they stay the same.
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.
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
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.
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 .
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!)
Congrats! When I removed FB, it was liberating. My friends and family know where I am. That enough.
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.
This is very good:
https://youtu.be/h7wWsSJUpoM?si=E3pN_PblXTrvuklf
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. ☺️
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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
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.
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.
I started it and had to pause. Cant wait to finish it!
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!
@Beth- exactly. Children's backpacks, too.
The problem is, it's Muslim screeners WORKING at the airports!!!
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
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
@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 (________).
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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
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ha! good ONE!
It’s always been hit or miss. I’ve have 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
If assertions cannot be proven, as you say, then the conclusion that there is "definitely a deterrent" cannot be correct.
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.
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!
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! 😡
{{hugs}} I hope you get to see your child.
Thank you! Me too.
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.
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!
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 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
if 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.
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
Our hospital was furloughing employees for 2 weeks at a time due to low census of patients in 2020
I broke my wrist in Sept. 2020. I was THE ONLY PERSON in the ER.
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?
Well they won’t receive back pay if they don’t show up. 🤔
Tweet on X from Homeland Security.
3-hour lines at Houston Airport.
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2036436859509768463
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.
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?
6 months of the fiscal year working with NO PAY!!
I realize that, but have they found new jobs so quickly?
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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
remember its democrats although republicans get a share of the blame for not going straight (or even anticipating) to reconciliation
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.
Driving for Spring Break…but California gas prices lol the plebs never win 😂
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.
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.
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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.
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 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
I’d put Pritzker (Prick-ker; JabbaDaGuv) and moronic pointy head Brandon Johnson in the same jail cell. )
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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[.]
— Psalm 105:4-5 LSB
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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."
OMGosh... that pic, "Pentagon Journalist Headquarters" is hilarious 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Do you think Cousin Eddie got a tax deduction donating his travel trailer?
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!
"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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
@Johhny- Why TF are you still here?
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
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.
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!
Who’s going to “empty the shitter” on the Pentagon Press trailer?
Maybe the NYTs on 💩 patrol 😏
Yeah, its usually a good sign when "democracies" lock out press from their what should be public events.
Pentagon offices are not a “public event”
Can you imagine if Bidumb started this retarded war and then proceeded to lock out press and censor information like currently is being done? Your head would explode. But now its 4D chess or something. Clowntown, again.
Biden never had press conferences. He had events where he had pre given questions with scripted answers. And craven journos like the NYT and the other alphabets went along with it. Talk about censorship.
Thanks for bolstering my point. When Biden was absent we all chided him. Now we lock press out and its TAW!!!! Clowntown.
The alphabets and the democrats and the islamocommies never chided Biden. They said such idiocies as this is the best Biden we’ve ever seen.
How about the extra billions taken from the taxpayer without approval. Even the Times might note that.
Maybe going to the Board of 'Piece of the Action'.
When the press leaks vital information and refuses to comply with requests to deter from that, they overstep their boundaries. Actions have consequences. This is why we can’t have nice things…..Trump can bring down the cost price of producing bombs. They can’t cost that much to make and must be grossly inflated in price. I’m sure that is just another money grab for the cabal anyway. The loss of American lives, not excusable. Horrific consequence but more lives will be lost globally if this is not curtailed once and for all.
Please try to make your negative comments rational and…that would be “Constitutional Republic” to you….
Vital information, like the budget that outspends Russia and China 10 to one without the latest technology and now toast.
You mean when press leaks information that is vital for the public to know in order to make informed decisions about their "leaders?" Are we taking our cues from Israel on censorship?
To me, it seems pretty obvious that a whole lot more lives and treasure have been lost since the start of this war. Just one more war until we achieve peace!!!!
Maybe the Times is antisemantic.
Nadler.
hahahahaha- not going to be cousin Eddie
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.