This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
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Christmas is approaching! Get in the spirit!
(1) Another hymn by this bunch. I find this very listenable.
(2) MOAR CHESS. Get in the spirit of giving! Watch these two top players give each other gift moves, until the one who gives the earliest gifts WINS. Otherwise known as a stupid, bad game, won by the biggest troll.
(3) OK – time to get serious for a moment.
GATTACA is coming, thanks to CRISPR. We were warned!
Title: “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and His Husband Are Funding the Creation of Genetically Engineered Babies”
Subtitle: “The rebirth of Frankenstein in the era of CRISPR and AI”
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-his-husband
What was it that Jennifer Bilek was saying?
https://twitter.com/bjportraits/status/1989331259319890113
Looks like WE THE PEOPLE have some work to do in 2026.
(4) After that last one, you might be in need of ten funny Australian commercials. Enjoy!
(5) And if that wasn’t enough, this funny lady will be enough!
Christmas is almost here! Rejoice!
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From OT:
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Confirms His Resignation – Will Be Leaving FBI in January
December 17, 2025
SD: “FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirms via his X account, that he will be leaving the FBI in January.
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[SOURCE]
This announcement does not come as a surprise to those follow the details of corrupt systems closely and who have watched the scale of the problems surface through the years.
The problems within the FBI as an institution are systemic. Both Kash Patel and Dan Bongino faced a monumental challenge in trying to get their arms around the scale of the problem within the institution. There is no apple, only worms.
Any type of institutional confrontation at this scale can only succeed if the problems are first admitted. Bongino faced a big challenge with Director Patel refusing to accept institutional corruption was the biggest issue.
You cannot correct problems of great consequence until you admit the core of the problem. No admission was made. The problems remain.”
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That’s news to me.
Yeah. Not only is that statement about Patel not necessarily true – there is a lot of assumption going on here, as Dan did NOT say exactly why he’s leaving. It could even be multiple reasons.
After being reminded that Dan’s health may still be problematic, I would not be so quick as to assume there are not other very important reasons Dan is leaving.
Sundance could be right. But I myself would be very hesitant to make that call.
I agree. I don’t like seeing our side come to conclusions and create our own narratives that might or might not be true, or that might only partially be true, without evidence. The next steps after doing that are to ignore real evidence and/or to make it fit the created narrative.
Not long before Bongino left his podcast, he shared his morning health routine because people had been asking him about it. It was extensive and, IIRC, it involved what he ate, his workout, some kind of treatment for his back, and other things that seemed out of the norm but that he believed were beneficial to his health.
When he took the FBI job, my first thought was there goes that routine. I can’t imagine his being able to do it consistently as DDFBI. It also wouldn’t surprise me if the time away from his family has been bothering him.
If Bongino has concerns about what he saw in Washington, I hope he was able to communicate them to Pres. Trump. We will not know the real reasons he left unless he tells us, and it is within his rights to refrain from doing so.
I was hoping that, too.
The biggest problem that I see is the ability for POTUS to FIRE the Marxist embeds. Until SCOTUS finally rules that the administration is UNDER the EXECUTIVE (POTUS) & therefore separation of powers means he can FIRE AT WILL, cleaning things up is a futile exercise ESPECIALLY with the DC activist judges.
For Dan & Kash that must be a MAJOR frustration.
Yes – this. None of us know the legal entanglements remaining.
👍
And you are right. Too many assumshuns goin’ on.
“That’s news to me.”
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Agreed, that’s SD’s interpretation. Based on his long term position, I understand why that’s his interpretation, but there’s no way to prove it.
Based on all of Kash’s public comments that I have seen, it seems he’s either in complete denial of the degree of FIB corruption, or he understands how bad it is, and is trying to fix it, while not letting the public know the degree of corruption within the FIB.
I don’t think either one is good. The second would be better than the first, but it doesn’t matter what I think.
Fully believe Kash is working to fix, everything wrong that he finds.
It’s simply a massive problem. Dan I’m sure did the same. I assume he is bailing out of frustration, family and health.
Need more good guys on the inside.
Leveling FIB will not happen. So work on fixing it.
Fundamentally, I see the biggest problem as, NO ARRESTS.
If we can get arrests, that is a deterrent. I do believe we’ll see arrest soon. (Yea, not soon enough.)
I generally agree and hope you are right on arrests, but am not holding my breath.
My view is the FIB barrel of apples is spoiled and rotten at is core. My view is that it has been that way for many decades and has only been getting worse.
This is an area I am not in agreement with PDT. He views these corrupted agencies as American institutions that must be preserved. I view some, not all, as authorized enemies of state and We the People. All they have to do is be incompetent, much less criminal, for people and leaders to die or have their lives ruined by lawfare.That then creates what we have seen where we are one step removed from collapse as a nation.
But I concede my somewhat limited experiences with FIB may have tainted my view. i also concede that it may be a much longer process than anybody thought it would due to the extent of the DS and uniparty entrenchment.
I want to see the perp walks, convictions, imprisonments and executions live on TV. I doubt they happen because there is no evidence the will is there to do so. I desperately want to be proven wrong. Regardless, I will do my part (duty) no matter the outcome because who I really serve is a Holy God.
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/12/18/put-dems-on-the-spot-with-small-but-popular-affordability-hacks-n2667843
Schlichter is correct about this. If the GOP RINOS are not going to get rid of the filibuster, this is the LEAST they can do.
how is your back this morning??
Kurt mentions this but he does not know the REASON it happened.
Here is the PROBLEM — REACTION — SOLUTION
OLD NOTES 2009
The WTO Agreement on Agriculture set-up the Problem. FOREIGN DISEASES
One of the ideas incorporated in the WTO AoA is
“The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures…Aims to ensure that governments DO NOT USE QUARANTINE AND FOOD SAFETY REQUIREMENTS as Unjustified trade barriers… It provides Member countries with a right to implement traceability {NAIS} as an SPS measure.” — WTO
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsund_e.htm
The IPC (International Policy Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade) was created by the Agri-corporations in 1987 explicitly to push their agenda at the 1986—1994 Uruguay Round of Trade negotiations. Dan Amstutz, VP of Cargill, wrote the draft “Agreement on Ag.” and Robert Shapiro, chairman of Monsanto, was strategically placed as leader of the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations at the time to see that WTO was ratified by Congress in 1995.
👉The IPC wanted and got open borders and no quarantine. The result is that the USA exports 700,000 tons of quality beef while importing 1,500,000 tons from countries with: Naegleria fowler, Encephalitis, Vesicular Stomatitis virus, Leptospirosis, Trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), and foot and mouth disease.
RESULT
The US imports 2.5 million live cows from Canada with BSE (now found in USA) and from Mexico with tuberculosis (now found in USA), brucellosis (now found in USA) cattle tick fever, (now found in USA) Trypanosoma cruz (now found in USA), and Bluetongue (now found in USA).
Wide open borders, reduced disease surveillance, the closing of testing labs, slaughter vs first point (live herd) testing all seem to be designed to invite disease into the country and allow it a good foot-hold in wild and domesticated species. Is this good for American citizens or for corporations who will profit from the chemicals and medicines needed to fight imported diseases and pests? Is it good for corporations interested in replacing natural organisms with expensive “bioengineered” organisms?
Bovine Tuberculosis
This chart shows how USDA cut back TB testing after WTO was created in 1995. Note the significant drop in testing.
Summary of Tuberculosis Surveillance in California Cattle
Number of Cattle Tested
YEAR – Health Officials – Private Vet – Slaughter
1995 … 10,576 …………… 15,921 ….. 39
1996 ….. 5,100 …………… 17,100 ….. 58
1997 ….. 2,861 …………… 19,930 ….. 64
1998 ….. 3,530 …………… 18,189 ….. 39
1999 ….. 1,425 …………… 22,863 ….. 58
2000 ….. 1,967 …………… 19,930 ….. 64
2001 ….. 2,500 …………… 19,587 ….. 385
UC — Davis
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-BE_cca/INF-BE_cca02/INF-BE_cca0207-08.html
The USDA turned over cattle crossing facilities to private firms. The largest, accounting for 25% of the cattle imported from Mexico, is at Santa Teresa, NM, Chihuahuan cattle producers [Mexican] operate both sides of the cattle port-of-entry. — USDA publication
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/Agoutlook/june2001/AO282d.pdf
Before 1995 cattle imported to the USA were quarantined and tested, in April 2001, the USDA published a “rule requiring Mexican feeder steers to originate from herds that had recently been tested [in MEXICO] for TB. The USDA then agreed to grant waivers to whole-herd testing.
What are the effects on Bovine TB of the USDA implementing the WTO/corporate policies?
“Effect April 1, 2002… Dr. Logan… said, the disease is extremely rare in U.S. herds. However, more TB-lesioned cattle are being detected at slaughter, and ear tags indicate that many of these animals are of Mexican origin.” — TAHC state of Texas
http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/news/pr/2002/302TBMx.pdf
In 2007 American herds in Oklahoma and New Mexico were found TB positive and the cattle slaughtered. Additionally, it is anticipated that both New Mexico and California will lose their TB “free” status in 2008. — TAHC state of Texas meetings minutes
http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/agency/meetings/minutes/Minutes_CommMtg_7-29-2008.pdf
Those policies played Russian roulette with American livestock and crops. In 2005 the tenth TB positive herd was identified.
http://www.lookercomm.com/NewsLetterModule/WUDheadlinenews.ht
More ominous is the report of 397 deer and two elk confirmed with disease in a five county area of Michigan.
http://cetulare.ucdavis.edu/newsletterfiles/Beef_Round_Up3482.pdf
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Animal ID passes liability to farmers. HACCP-1996 allows corporations to control food testing. Government labs shut down, inspectors now inspect paperwork not food. Disease DOUBLED since 1996. ( “Shielding the Giant: USDA’s “Don’t Look, Don’t Know” Policy for Beef Inspection”)
Think the Food Safety Modernization Act is about safety? read: “Trojan Horse Law: The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 – Bader”
Similar “Legal” maneuvers saw millions of farmers driven off in India. Portugal lost 60% & Mexico 75%. High level EU meeting discussed driving a million Poles off their land. (The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside – Rose)
THAT was the set-up. We then had the e-coli outbreak at the NC State Fair helped along by a USDA vet (Animal Activist) Long story but I had a first person view of that mess. A petting farm of a friend was blamed. However that vet had stuck a thermometer up the butts of his animals the week before and his sheep and goat were the first ever to have that strain of BOVINE e-coli. Much later it came out that Con-Agra hamburger was contaminated with that e-coli due to poor slaughter practices.
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SOLUTION
The solution was THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT that the democrats had been trying to get passed for years. It was ALSO regulations that put most of the small slaughter houses out of business. Here in easter NC there are only three left. One has a months long waiting time. The second is a Muslim who STEALS the best cuts. (my calculations show a lost of about 10%) and another small slaughter house that caters to the Muslim community (Iman on premises for Halal slaughtering.) There prices have over doubled and I can no longer get ground meat.
I do remember the regulations in NC changing but I can not find any articles on the subject except these:
How Slaughterhouses Work:
2015 — Regulating backyard slaughter: Strategies and gaps in municipal livestock ordinances
Well, today’s headline is well within normal parameters. Unlike yesterday’s.
Today’s headline has no added original topics – just the usual Temu Trinkets (TM). Thus, just a boilerplate headline.
Who knows what is possible in the future! 😅
I’ll get my hip boots and my shovel ready. 😂
Too true. Sadly. Too true.
That woman on the right should stop smelling those fingers.
She doesn’t know where those fingers have been.
That’s why she’s smelling them, she knows where they’ve been…..
J.D. Vance:
This is just brilliant. J.D. just picked up a dropped light saber and cut off the head of the DEI Medusa.
Now we see what the communists did. Just WOW.
Those racist bastards. Fuck ’em.
This is the real story about WHY Hollywood turned so horrible.
Trump did the RIGHT THING squashing DEI like a bug. And it needs to be squashed again, just to make sure it’s DEAD. FOREVER.
And the commies KNEW IT. That’s why they didn’t fight back when Trump killed DEI – and only tried to oppose it by sneakery. They knew people like me would want them to HANG for this shit. Better to go silent than make it a fight, and people like this explain what really happened.
They didn’t just betray white men – they betrayed the very hope for a workplace without discrimination. They made a mirror image of the “old white guy” network.
Now, so many workplaces have turned from old boy’s clubs into old girl’s clubs – and it’s just the same old shit.
I’m so pissed.
Well said and true.
“…Now, so many workplaces have turned from old boy’s clubs into old girl’s club…”
It is even worse than that. By making COLOR and GENDER the ALL IMPORTANT hiring criteria you get CRAPY workers who KNOW they can scream RACIST if you dare to criticize their slovenly work habits and ethics.
Think Boeing Aircraft failing…
It’s just racism, sexism and ageism – discrimination. The leftists just painted it as only whites can do that and stupid white liberal people bought the propaganda.
identifying worker and work product through those lenses is immoral and illegal in some situations Which makes PDT and JD chopping its fugly head off all the more satisfying.
Do your own thing. Band together and go independent. Do anything but support these evil systems and companies.
“In reality, it was a deliberate program of discrimination primarily against white men.”
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You don’t say.
They really had me fooled… 🙄
““The femaleness is striking,” a well-known Gen-X reporter with impeccable liberal bona fides confided. “It’s like, wow, where have the guys gone?”
In less than a decade, the entire face of the industry changed. The New York Times newsroom has gone from 57 percent male and 78 percent white in 2015 to 46 percent male and 66 percent white in 2024.
Condé Nast today is just 35 percent male and 60 percent white. BuzzFeed, a media operation that had been 52 percent male and 75 percent white in 2014, was just 36 percent male and 52 percent white by 2023.
But nothing explains the New Media story quite like Vox, whose explainers dominated 2010s discourse and whose internal demographics capture the decade’s professional shift. Back in 2013, when Ezra Klein came under fire for his start-up’s lack of diversity, Vox Media was 82 percent male and 88 percent white.
By 2022 the company was just 37 percent male and 59 percent white, and by 2025 leadership was 73 percent female.
The demographic shift reshaped not only who told the stories, but which stories got told.”
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I’m shocked. Who would ever have guessed?
🙄
Trust the hillbilly Middie Marine. Semper Fi. There is a reason he says that on occasion. It is a message to us.
JD escaped the Yale/leftist snare. He turned into the patriot mole and they hate him for it.
Just. So. YES.
I keep saying – Democrats identify with drug dealers. Their affections belong to the people they buy drugs from – NOT the fellow users who died, who they don’t want to think about.
At least our dead got flowers and grass.
Federal Judge Will Not Temporarily Halt Trump’s Ballroom After Preservation Group Sued
Good GRIEF.
Preservation group… 🤣
Of course not. No good reason to join the herd of impeachables.
The whole “sanctuary city” thing is a mockery.
RADICALS OUT! FIRE THEM ALL! DEI MONSTERS BEGONE!
I just ran across this.
Latinx vs. Hispanic: A History of Terms
Learn about the history and debate surrounding how we describe Latinx and Hispanic peoples, and consider the relationship between language and identity.
It is VERY TELLING showing the hand of the Marxists.
In LARGE LETTERS at the top of the article:
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(There is that 1970s date again)
So what makes THEM special instead of say Germans?
So after getting the first step accomplished they went on to the second. CHANGING THE LANGUAGE to further divide people.
However they BETRAY the fact it is NOT ORGANIC BUT TAUGHT!!!
So these kids are TAUGHT to NOT ASSIMILATE into the American culture!!!
Too bad this language guy isn’t still with us. He drove ’em nuts during the S.F. State University riots in ’68.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa
AND from the accent the reporter was Hispanic.
A furious journalist!?!?
When was the last time anybody saw one of those?
Michael Knowles:
LMAO!!! I love it.
Watching his speech on Fox, and as soon as it was over they went right back to your “regularly scheduled program.”
No commentary from the talking 🤡’s.
The comments are fascinating but horrifying. Best suggestion for the unvaxxed is self-donation prior to surgery.
The only way to get spike protein blood out of the blood supply is to test every single blood donor, at the time of donation.
You certainly can’t rely on the honor system, and if the test takes longer than a few minutes, i.e., if people basically need to leave and come back a few hours later or the next day, they would need to do another test.
Because plenty of psychos would take the test and then go get a Covid shot before returning, just to pollute the blood supply.
And now we know how they are going to get rid of the 14 out of 15…
She made a complete azz of herself. Unprofessional, deflecting and trying to change the subject, disrespectful, condescending…
Yup. “I’m a victim!” THESE PEOPLE.
I experienced severe black fatigue just watching that 1 minute segment.
Even worse, now I have PTBF… post traumatic black fatigue 😂
THB, Typical Hood Behavior.
Aw c’mon…white folk been educated and whupped into obedience…no white person would utter it out loud…now her bruthas and sistas…who knows, they get to say it at will, whenever they want AND they aren’t bound by the nigga rule..they can say the entire word
Lamest argument ever
Even Piers has figured out Candace is the problem.
Piers Morgan CLASHES with Candace Owens During On-Air Firestorm Interview: “May be that the Person in the Media Spewing Bullsh*t to the Public is You”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/piers-morgan-confronts-candace-owens-tpusa-feud-during/
Positive news…
JUST IN: House Passes Bill to Prosecute Doctors and Parents for Sex Changes for Children with Three Democrats Joining Republicans but FOUR Republicans Voting Against – Trans Rep. Tim McBride Freaks Out Ahead of Vote (VIDEO)
The bill, authored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), makes it criminal to “knowingly perform, or attempt to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another person who is a minor” with penalties of up to ten years in prison. It further protects minors from chemical castration or hormonal treatments.
Parents who facilitate, consent to, or transport the minor to receive sex change surgeries could also be charged.
This codifies President Trump’s January “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” Executive Order, which restricts sex-change procedures for minors by cutting federal funding to institutions that practice the satanic procedures.
“It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” the order reads.
Greene gave a speech during a debate on the House Floor earlier,
“Today, the house is delivering on what the American people voted for, the opportunity to vote to end the genital mutilation of children via transgender treatments for children,” Greene said, noting that her bill is a “direct legislative reflection of President Trump’s executive order and every single Republican’s campaign promise in 2024.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/just-house-passes-bill-prosecute-doctors-parents-sex/
Well at least she is trying to do something useful.
Tucker and his ilk prolly said war with Iran was imminent, after Iran nuke sites struck.
WATCH: US SMOKES 26th Drug Boat Killing Four Narcoterrorists – Tucker Carlson Suggests War with Venezuela Imminent
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/watch-us-smokes-26th-drug-boat-killing-four/
Eighteen months in prison for two Tweets, seen by 34 people.
Twitter User Thrown in Jail Over Two Anti-Immigration Tweets Barely Seen by Anyone – Elon Musk Responds
Elon Musk weighed in on this news, stating, “The UK has become a prison island.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/twitter-user-thrown-jail-two-anti-immigration-tweets/
They’ve gone mad.
Like a modern day witch hunt, and they don’t realize they’re caught up in it, so it just seems like the normal or ‘right’ thing to do, that’s how it appears from the outside.
Mostly because I can’t process how they could do such a thing knowingly, without being caught up in some kind of mass psychosis, and even pretend to be civilized human beings.
Either that, or the government is a complete criminal mafia, running a total Orwellian control psy-op on the public, which is so evil and anti-human it makes Hitler look rational by comparison, in which case we should declare war with Britain yesterday.
Germany and France are no better, we just don’t see the same amount of coverage of those countries, probably due in part to the language and cultural barriers.
But the UK is gone. Completely mad, or completely evil.
Insane, or Nazis.
Either way, if I was Trump, I would cut all ties at the earliest opportunity, and let them crash and burn.
They’re in a runaway psychological death spiral.
This will be in my Am Stories at the end of the month. In the early 1800’s in POTUS Jefferson’s first term he called our own government and leadership a “reign of witches”, which is why he called the start of his first term the “revolution of 1800”.
With some of our founders still identifying and tied to the Crown (Federalists), how else could it be? TJ and the Jeffersonian Republicans made the move away. Average Brits have to stop being subjects and start being citizens who rule over their scumbucket politicians and royalty. Their reign of witches needs to end and be burned at the stake.
Cut ties. Tell them they are on their own and to call us when and if they get their acts together.
“…Insane, or Nazis…”
I vote NAZIS!
The Mitford Sisters…
Two were friends with Hitler, one eloped with her cousin, another attempted suicide while the eldest became an acclaimed novelist: As the last of the Mitford sister dies, how their lives were far more scandalous than any Downton Abbey plot — The Daily Fail.
A Lovesick Aristocrat and the Royal Family’s Nazi-Connected ShamesUnity Mitford was a besotted Hitler fan, newly published diary entries confirm. The Windsor family’s secrets were far worse. — Vanity Fair.
Providence goofs excel in intentional, incompetence.
Jesse nails this stuff.
Welcome to the NEW AmeriKa
WOW
And the gaslighting begins…..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/aoc-leads-jd-vance-for-first-time-in-2028-election-matchup-poll/ar-AA1SvRU6
who in the heck would believe THAT? 
This is straight out of the Twilight Zone.
Apparently there is a substance called DMT. I’ve never heard of it before, but apparently it’s a kind of psychedelic drug that doesn’t make you loopy, so you can remain mentally alert.
What people are doing, apparently serious people, is they are setting up a regular store bought laser, like a laser level that you should be able to get at any hardware store, and shining it on a wall, and then putting some kind of refractive material between the laser and the wall, to make the laser beam on the wall wider, maybe an inch or more wide, as opposed to the usual fine line.
Then they take this psychedelic drug called DMT, and then they look into the widened / refracted laser light on the wall. Not at the surface, but into the laser light, like looking through a window at what lies beyond, instead of focusing on the surface of the window glass.
And when they do this, what they see are numbers and symbols, and they’re static, so if you move, the numbers and symbols remain in place. Like they’re frozen in a three dimensional space, inside the laser beam. And if you move the laser up or down on the wall, the numbers and symbols don’t move with the light, instead other symbols and numbers become visible, as the laser light is moved higher or lower on the wall.
If I understand somewhat correctly, they think it has something to do with a collapsed wave function as it relates to quantum mechanics (or physics), like we only ‘see’ reality as we experience it, as we “look” at something, it manifests.
They think what the DMT does is interrupt that process, so that the quantum wave doesn’t collapse, so they see it in an un-collapsed state.
Sort of like Schrodinger’s box, where the cat is both alive and dead at the same time.
I wouldn’t have even wasted time on it, except I have seen the Shawn Ryan show before, and I recognize the guest here, Chase Hughes.
It’s a trip.
I’m checking other videos on the subject, but this seems like as good of an introduction as any:
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Thanks, Wolf!!! Love the beach Nativity!
Unreal! fraudsters in Minnesota are still getting federal funds–even AFTER they are caught frauding another system. For example, if they were caught in the Feed Children scheme? they use that money to buy homes and claim they are adult day care centers–getting almost a million a year for a home with only 4 bedrooms.
article
A Minnesota lawmaker alleged on Dec. 17 that a man awaiting trial on federal charges that he laundered $1.1 million in taxpayer dollars and his wife continue to collect payments from other government programs, a state lawmaker said Dec. 17.
That’s concerning, state Rep. Kristin Robbins told the fraud-fighting committee that she chairs.
“This is just one example of how potential fraudulent activity is being allowed to continue in Minnesota,” she said during a hearing at the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later, she alleged on social media that the state government “continued to pay a fraudster who was indicted.”
With the help of whistleblowers, a public-records researcher uncovered an intertwined web of people and entities allegedly tied to the man. Those connections are still receiving taxpayer dollars for assisted-living facilities and adult day services despite multiple “red flags” indicating possible fraud, Robbins said.
These revelations show that state agencies are failing to employ “the most basic checks and balances” to prevent and detect fraud despite state agencies promising reforms, Robbins told fellow members of the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Policy Committee.
The committee—five Republicans and three Democrats—has met regularly since February, trying to get a handle on the state’s burgeoning fraud scandals. In recent weeks, Minnesota fraud cases have drawn national attention and multiple federal investigations. The scandals mostly involve federal programs that state programs administer, with matching state contributions in some instances.
The defendant, whom Robbins dubbed Person One, allegedly received $49 million from state-run programs from 2019 to 2024 on top of the $1.1 million he is accused of laundering, she said.
He is among 78 people charged since 2022 in the Feeding Our Future (FOF) scandal. Fraudsters connected to that now-defunct nonprofit agency reaped a total of nearly $250 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program after falsely claiming to provide 91 million meals to needy children.
Robbins alleged that Person One “changed his name months before he was indicted” for FOF, and used his new name to purchase two homes that are operating as an assisted-living facility that receives government money.
One of those homes, Robbins alleged, was bought under the same business name tied to alleged money laundering in the FOF case.
“It is unbelievable,” she said.
A chart that Minnesota Rep. Kristin Robbins presented at a hearing shows how an indicted fraud suspect is allegedly tied to other people, businesses, and taxpayer-funded government programs.
What’s more, Robbins said, the defendant’s wife “just recently purchased a fourth home” that will become part of an assisted-living facility that she operates—and for which she was granted a temporary license in September.
Homes that the accused man purchased or owned were still enrolled in state programs as recently as this October, Robbins said, noting that the wife has run the sites for two years after her husband’s FOF indictment.
One of the assisted-living facilities that Person One administers has four beds. “Despite this limited capacity,” the facility was paid $826,000 in 2024 and was “on pace to double that” this year, Robbins said.
“We need to be concerned about that,” she said, adding, “This home was purchased with cash, which is a red flag because there’s a lot of money laundering going on in these spaces.”
Minnesota law allows the state to stop government program payments based on “credible allegations of fraud,” Robbins said. “And, my friends, if someone has been indicted in Feeding Our Future, that’s a credible allegation of fraud, and they should not be getting state money for any other program.”
Robbins urged state agency leaders: “At a minimum, any business with ties to Feeding Our Future indictments should receive higher scrutiny,” especially if involved parties are also seeking money from other government programs.
“Any business owner should be checked to see if the owner has a history of other violations,” she said.
State Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican, speaks at a committee meeting in St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 17, 2025.
State agency officials who testified at the hearing included Dr. Brooke Cunningham, the state health commissioner. She testified about the “large and growing” assisted-living industry, acknowledging a “need for oversight.”
But Cunningham noted that health care professionals who are involved in licensing and on-site reviews do not process billing claims. Therefore, they would not be privy to financial matters.
However, Cunningham said those staffers do pass along any concerns they notice “to our partners who do handle the billing for those services and who do investigate any sort of criminal activity.”
James Clark, inspector general for the Department of Human Services, said the department is putting a two-year “pause” on licensing new adult day centers.
“We’re shifting staff … so that they can squarely focus on existing adult day businesses,” he said.
Thus, he said, they can be more vigilant for signs of fraud.
In addition, he said, “we are aggressively suspending payments” whenever investigators are seriously concerned about fraud.
“I am sick of Medicaid fraud. I want to shut off payments to any provider that is stealing from us,” Clark said, adding that he would welcome information from the committee.
Robbins replied that the committee has not shared whistleblowers’ disclosures with Clark’s office because “this fraud has been perpetuated on your watch,” and the whistleblowers insist on confidentiality. They report being “terrified,” Robbins said, because many of them allege they were subjected to retaliation or surveillance when they previously tried to sound alarms about fraud.
Committee members interviewed whistleblowers and relayed information to federal prosecutors, the FBI, and the Office of Legislative Auditor, all of whom have access to bank, health, and payment records that legislators cannot obtain, Robbins said.
Robbins also said the Department of Human Services so far has responded to only one of her recent requests for data; six such requests remain unfulfilled.
The Epoch Times sought a response from Clark’s office and received no reply prior to publication.
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