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Given the significance of Trump’s extraction of Maduro, I thought I would gather information we have not yet looked at.I am not going to try and do transcriptions since my back said NO! (An arthritic back and cold do not mix, darn it!)

I am not going to try and put much order in the offering either, although I am going to put the information I think most important first as well as the new material I snatched from the comments at the Badlands Media substack

I am going to start with “Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action” (H/T Scott)

scott467  January 5, 2026 15:24

While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada On Notice

While mainstream media focuses on regime change in Venezuela, this video reveals Donald Trump’s covert battle against the British Empire’s financial backbone.

Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action breaks down how Trump’s actions extend beyond traditional geopolitics, targeting the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and offshore banking systems.

Discover the deeper implications of this fight, the role of Canada, and why even the British intelligence and John Bolton see this as a significant shift.”

I lied, here is a partial transcript:

3:20 …listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He told us exactly what this is…

Is the United States now at war with Venezuela?

…It’s not a war against Venezuela. You cannot continue to have the largest oil reserves, in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States. Not benefiting the people of Venezuela, stolen by a handful of oligarchs around the world, including inside of Venezuela, but not benefiting the people of that country.

Did you catch that? He didn’t blame socialism. He didn’t blame communism. He blamed oligarchs and drug trafficking organizations. [Remember the CIA always used Communism as the excuse for regime change according to Colonel Towner. Changes that benefited the oligarchs and NOT the people.– GC]

Now, that takes us back to Trump and his targeting of Canada, which no one seems to want to talk about. Because when you put the words oligarchs and drug trafficking organizations in the same context, you aren’t just talking about the cartels in Mexico or Colombia. You’re talking about key characteristics of the British Empire, which is the epitome of oligarchy. Or to put it another way, the rule of the few, which is what oligarchy means… [Remember The Network of Global Corporate Control — GC]

The British Empire has been the most notorious entity in the world when it comes to making money off of drug trafficking, going back over 200 years, including the notorious opium wars of the 19th century. This has never stopped. It’s just taken a new form….

4:56

…It is run by the empire’s favorite central banker, Mark Carney, and it is the major political outpost for the crown in North America, used for drug trafficking, as the president mentioned, illegal immigration, and terrorism.

…Carney has actually facilitated the financing arm of the cartels in his former role as the head of the Bank of England…

8:49

If this is a war on drug trafficking organizations and oligarchs, as Rubio says, then it is automatically a war on the global banking system because you can’t separate the two. The target isn’t just jungle labs and drug boats. It’s the city of London.

Let’s remember where Venezuela is. It borders the Caribbean. What else is in the Caribbean? The origin point for the infamous system of offshore banking established directly by the British. Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the government and the ex-checker, established 14 completely separate secret jurisdictions. These are the offshore banking centers that now hold between 50 and 75 trillion dollars with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated, and they facilitate illegal activity. What we once had, a legitimate regulated banking system, has been transformed into a criminal enterprise.

Interestingly, the Russians have known this for years and have been more vociferous about it than any Western government. In a 2014 speech, Viktor Ivanov, then Russia’s top drug enforcement official, laid it out clearly in a Moscow conference. He said,

“This allows us to confidently assert that narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system. It is not surprising that during the first peak of the financial crisis of 2008 2009, Antonio Costa from the UN announced that the top banks in the world dumped in around $352 billion of narco dollars to use for interbank borrowing to address the critical shortage of liquidity. And he goes on to make clear that the global financial system needs drug money to survive. The very existence of the global financial bubble, he said, is based on precisely this opportunity for banks to attract liquid narco money. In fact,this garbage fertilizes the present economic system…

…Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant recently commented that 50% of his job involves issues of national security. Now, think about it. Since we started targeting drug boats and lighting up the communications channels of the cartels and their financiers, I bet Treasury Secretary Bessant has been just as busy as Pete Hegseth…

END TRANSCRIPT

At 12:40, she mentions CryptoRich and Tom Luongo so let’s see what they have to say.

Trump vs Venezuela – What We Are Not Being Told! | With EM Burlingame & Blaine Holt

In that substack Tom posts the full video + transcript .Tom also highlights the most important part and I will reproduce it here.

As Dr Burlingame explains:

We need to understand is that, just like Russia prior, 20-some odd years ago and China, now over the last 10 years – 10, 11, 12 years – we have now gone to war with the financialists and their Kill Chain

But you know, the point is is that the drug- and human trafficking trade and the flooding of South and Central Americans into our country, in the tens of millions is an intelligence operation on behalf of the financialists, headquartered out of Wall Street, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Switzerland…

Roughly $2 trillion a year in cash – cash – floods into the banking systems in the United Kingdom and the US and Continental Europe and is what’s been keeping the banks afloat since 1971, increasingly, since we went to fiat…

How do you keep the whole thing having the appearance that it’s working? You need a ever-larger amount of illicit funding. Human trafficking is taken off in the last 20 years to an unbelievable, unprecedented-in-history rate. Why? Because humans beings – and 19% of that’s for sex – the rest is still labor or organs, right?

Over 50% of it is still for labor slavery all over the world, including in Europe, including here, in its various forms. Humans, as Illicit commodity have the highest return, the highest margins of any illicit product in the world, even way above drugs, including fentanyl…”

Here is the Youtube: (27 minutes)

So who are CrypoRich’s guests?

General Blaine Holt is a retired one star General with numerous recent appearances on John Michael Chambers’ “Eyes on Gitmo” series:

WHY ISN’T TRUMP ARRESTING THE CLINTONS? Gitmo Panel Breaks Down Bondi, DOJ & Military Tribunals (1 hr 30 min)

First 25 minutes is about the Wiener laptop & then Tina Peters. There is a brief discussion of Venezula since the extraction of Maduro had not yet occurred. They then get into elections.

39 minutes. —  Ret. Lt. Col. Matt Mack: “You can make a change locally. Hand count ballots one day election. …I talked to some folks at DOJ yesterday, the CIA is the BANE of all of this. They have been thwarting Tulsi Gabbard, trying to stop all of this. John Ratcliffe what the hell are you doing!” You are not helping the president, you are being controlled by John Brennan’s people…” And he goes off on a rightous rant against the CIA.

41 minutes — Ret. Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt

We have the only President in history that has not been anointed by the RIIA, the Royal Institute of International Affairs — Chatham house? The point is, this is the war. A 5th generation war and it is about to go kinetic.
Because what happens is, and you saw this in Tahrir Square when you had Egyptians, who could not feed their kids any more and they watched them die. Then they went and grabbed a gun… they are pushing us to that place. If you do not believe me, that’s fine, Go to Ireland. Go to the UK. Go to France, Go to Spain. Ireland is on the leading edge of complete society break down. Because it wasn’t just election integrity that was the problem.

You have to go to the WHY! Why is there an election integrity problem. Why don’t our politicians want to see one paper ballot one vote. Why do our politicians want to protect illegal invaders that come to our country to destroy our culture…

Our government, the Swamp, all of its tentacles, the Congress, all of the lobbyists, industry, the corporatists, the private equity bankers, everybody who profits off this system. They are ALL in on it They are the Swamp and have no desire to solve any of Americas problems. BUT they will suck the crap out of them with their taxes and resources and in some cases steal their land and their money.

So here are the battle lines. It is We the People vs the Swamp and there is a global edition of this. It is we the people vs the globalists, the city of London kids the ones that make Elon Musk’s wealth look like middle class wealth…. If you want to solve this problem, you had damn well better know who your enemy is.

EM Burlingame – Rich says he was enlisted in the green berets, special forces and stuff like that. https://emburlingame.substack.com


A recent article from EM Burlingame just for Scott:

Make No Mistake: They Fear Tulsi Most of All

or: How the Estrogenic Empire Finally Met a Matriarch Who Remembers the Old Ways and Won’t Kneel

…She’s our compass from the World of Woman. Our surety. The unseen hand that ensures our wrath isn’t wasted.

And they, women, have left her exposed.
One woman.
One true matriarch of the old patterns against the massive festering swarm.
Where are her peers from the World of Woman?
We men can kill till the end of time, and never truly protect her.
Only women engaged in the wars of women, that ruthless all or nothing blood feud has waged since the beginning of time, can.

And that swarm… you feel it, don’t you? The estrogenic tide. The inverted, the resentful, the hollow men and their shrieking harlots and harpies. They sense her and they convulse. Because she’s the restoration. The return of the healthy, the whole, the fierce guardian of the hearth. The Matriarch. Her strength’s a mirror, and in it they see their own withered, poisoned, worthless souls.

They can’t bear it.

Their time’s ending. You hear me? Your time of poisoning the well, of sterilizing the spirit, of trading our children’s future for your comfort… it’s over!

We need more of her. A legion of such women. A sisterhood of shadows, rising not to be like men, but to be the unbreakable wall around the creche that men can’t form. The final line….

Guess, EM Burlingame does not know about us. 😂

Tom’s next article & Video:

Patrick Byrne: Venezuelan Intelligence Has Penetrated the White House at the Highest Levels

At the bottom it includes an open letter to Trump & the American People From: Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, retired Major General of the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela.

…Patrick Byrne is so frustrated about the Color Revolution being waged against America that he made the rounds on three shows yesterday and dropped a lot of bombs and he burned his cover, finally admitting that he’d been a CIA asset since the early 2000s, telling Emerald Robinson that he’d had a non-standard relationship with them until he started working for John Brennan around 2006 to become a “Tier One Intelligence Asset”.

Around 2010 or 2011, Barack Obama elevated him to a “National Intelligence Asset” and in 2016, he was handled by Peter Strzok and James Comey to bribe Hillary Clinton for $18 million, during the early phase of the Russia Hoax….


As one of the guys at Badlands said. “Once CIA ALWAYS CIA…. OR YOU ARE DEAD.” How much of what Byne says is truth, I do not know. A Limited Hangout will put out maybe 80% truth so they can wrap it around the poison pill they are delivering. Given that, I think the crap about Marco Rubio & Ric Grenell is just that CRAP!

I also think ‘they’ are trying to poison the well in regard to election fraud. Because without election fraud they are in DEEP kimchi.

An alternate view:

The REAL Reason Behind Why The United States Just Took Over Venezuela?

…Here’s what I think this move was all about….

ONE: You may not know this, but dating back to the Bushes, Venezuela became a huge CIA hub.

Literally a large chunk of what ails the world probably originated or had some times to our CIA in Venezuela…

TWO: It has long been rumored that a large part of the election rigging was “outsourced” to companies with operations in Venezuela.

Here are the 14 minutes that got Lou Dobbs kicked off Fox News because he dared to cover it:

How about President Trump himself telling you the same thing point blank?

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One commenters under the CryptoRich video, points to this info on the processing of light versus heavy crude oil to say the video is incorrect.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4753767-why-the-u-s-cannot-use-its-own-oil


Seems that is Bull Schiff according to this from The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. (I wanted to correct it now since it looks like it may become a talking point.)

Heavy vs. light crude oil: U.S. refiners process it all

The global crude oil market provides refiners and crude oil producers the opportunity to buy and sell the many different qualities of crude oils produced around the world.

Two of the most important crude oil qualities are sulfur content and viscosity. Some crude oils are “heavy” or viscous, while some are “light” or more free-flowing. Some crude oils have high sulfur content, known in the industry as “sour” crude oil, and some contain much less sulfur and are considered “sweet” crudes. Heavy sour crude oil is more complicated to refine into lower-sulfur fuel and requires investment in additional process units. Many refineries in the United States have made the investment needed to process heavy sour crude oil into low-sulfur fuels but also have the flexibility to process light sweet crude oil.

“U.S. refineries can take in pretty much any kind of crude oil in the world and turn it into the cleanest-burning fuel that you can find on the planet,” says Stephen Fisher, a refining strategy advisor for BP….


Tore was also mentioned. Here is her current substack.

WHO was Buying Venezuela?

Her Name Was INGA: Venezuela and the War You Were Never Shown (that is everywhere)

“She” is everywhere and nowhere. “She” never signs her name, never takes the podium, never runs for office. “She” doesn’t overthrow governments—“She” reorganizes them.

Chaos is not the breakdown of the system. Chaos is the system operating as designed. What you are watching—across governments, economies, wars, elections, and institutions—is not failure, incompetence, or decay. It is coordination masquerading as disorder. At this scale, chaos does not emerge spontaneously; it is engineered, routed, financed, narrated, and maintained. Once you learn to read its patterns instead of its headlines, the illusion collapses, and a single truth becomes unavoidable: none of this is accidental.

I’ve watched this pattern long enough to know it isn’t theory. It’s method. My handle on X is Chaos Coordinator, and I wear it deliberately. I don’t pretend chaos isn’t happening—I map it, track it, and connect its patterns. I pride myself on coordinating chaos in the only way that matters: by observing how it is manufactured, routed, financed, justified, and repeated across borders. That is precisely why I’m qualified to speak about the global disorder we’re living through, because once you follow the money, the narratives, and the timing, it becomes impossible to believe any of this is accidental. Chaos at this scale requires planning, alignment, and maintenance—and I’ve spent enough time watching the machinery turn to know the difference between failure and design…

“She” is patient. “She” doesn’t need you to believe in “her”. “She” only needs you to keep arguing with your neighbor while she rearranges the board.

This is why the chaos feels synchronized. Why crises stack instead of resolve. Why accountability dissolves the moment you reach for it. Because the problem isn’t left versus right, war versus peace, or spending versus saving. The problem is that INGA has learned how to govern without ever appearing to govern at all….

This parallels what I have been thinking for years.

….

A few comments from Badlanders


🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸 (He is in France & his substack is https://substack.com/@trumpistdelafayette )

It seems President Donald Trump needed to meet rapidly Nicolas Maduro and his wife

He just said they had been exited from Caracas by US Special Forces…

I wonder what triggered this action at the worst moment (full moon) for the maximum efficiency of Special Forces, which do prefer NO MOON !

It resembles a powerful SHOW of power, very well staged…

Some useful links:

Official: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115830428767897167

https://www.twz.com/news-features/explosions-ring-out-across-caracas-as-u-s-special-ops-helicopters-fly-over-city

REUTERS has scenic pictures !

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03

The MSM and legacy conservatives News outlets (Breitbart…) are very late or fully absent to cover this matter!

H/T to Badlands Team for having told us this exiting of Maduro was pending since a few weeks !


[NOTE: Rybar is a Russian media organization previously funded by the deceased Russian mogul Yevgeniy Viktorovich. –GC]

Kristina Camp 

…This is translation from Rybar, “ misinformation” channel.

Here is a faithful English translation, keeping the original structure, tone, and emphasis:

📝 Who Will Get Venezuela’s Oil? 📝

On the main beneficiaries of the U.S. Armed Forces operation

The U.S. operation in Venezuela immediately sparked debate about the economic objectives of Trump’s team. Many even, for some reason, began calculating Venezuela’s oil reserves.

But the story is somewhat more complex than a simple “they attacked to seize the oil” narrative. It is rather about the redistribution of assets that are already under American control, [Actually City of London control -GC] primarily through JP Morgan, which we have written about in detail before.

🔻 What assets are we talking about?

▪️ The strikes were preceded by a wave of court hearings concerning one of the most important assets — CITGO, which is formally a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.

▪️ CITGO is an oil-refining company headquartered in Houston, Texas. 100% of its shares belonged to PDVSA. It owned three refineries, as well as dozens of other facilities and retail outlets.

▪️ For Venezuela, this structure ensured the refining of heavy oil extracted in Venezuela. Through the CITGO network, Venezuela had access to a supply channel and the largest U.S. market, could attract investment into the country, and mitigate the effects of sanctions.

▪️ After Venezuela and PDVSA defaulted, creditors began demanding repayment of debts, using CITGO shares as collateral. In 2018–2019, creditor lawsuits began, and in 2023, a court decision launched hearings on the sale of CITGO to repay debts.

At the same time, the company’s debts and the deal to sell it are fully controlled by JP Morgan.

The process remained stuck, as the acquisition of the assets faced potential legal consequences and overlapped with a personal conflict between JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Donald Trump.

Therefore, with the arrival of a new U.S. president, the struggle for the asset intensified. Dalinar Energy, which was supposed to buy CITGO and whose deal was overseen by JP Morgan, began losing ground, while the court supported an alternative bid from Amber Energy — a company linked to one of Trump’s allies.

🔻 How did this happen?

▪️ At the beginning of 2025, new auction rules were established. The court now evaluates the winner not only by price, but also by the probability of closing the deal, including approval from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and settlement of competing claims to the asset.

▪️ By spring–summer, everything seemed nearly decided: Dalinar Energy (created by Gold Reserve to acquire CITGO) was considered the favorite, having offered over $7.3 billion. By August, the process was said to be nearing completion.

▪️ But then, after Trump’s team intensified its activity on the Venezuela track, Amber Energy entered the scene (another company created specifically to acquire CITGO by Elliott Investment).

▪️ What was surprising was that Amber Energy offered only $5.9 billion, and after lengthy hearings the court ultimately approved the deal in favor of Elliott Investment’s subsidiary due to guarantees presented to OFAC that the transaction would be completed without costs or lawsuits.

🖍 Why are these events important?

The beneficiary of Amber Energy, which is claiming the assets, is Paul Singer — a major donor to the U.S. Republican Party and one of Donald Trump’s key sponsors in his presidential campaign. Given their ties, it would be entirely in Trump’s style to secure control over strategic assets and strike at competitors.

🚩 As a result, the White House moved to action: after losing CITGO, Venezuela is left with resources without distribution channels and oil without refining capacity, while the U.S. applies pressure on the “shadow fleet.” In the long run, this will lead Venezuela toward economic degradation and a weakening of its political position.

❗️ Amber Energy still has many legal issues to resolve, but today’s events in Venezuela will at least weaken the negotiating positions of Trump’s opponents at JP Morgan and corporations linked to the bank. Venezuelans, meanwhile, will simply be presented with the fact of revised agreements.

Now isn’t that an interesting Factoid? JP Morgan (well connected to the Rothschilds) was trying to grab CITGO and Trump seems to have snatched the prize out of their hands. 😂

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Moon of Alabama:

Trump Abducted Maduro But Did Gain Nothing

Or maybe the point was just to show off what the Trump administration might do to others:

In 1992, American conservative writer Michael Ledeen reportedly said: “Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”

Actually, such gratuitous demonstrations of might betray the fear that American world power is slipping. Beating up a weaker opponent to prove your strength is the action of an insecure bully.

Venezuela is likely to welcome U.S. oil companies which are willing to invest in the country. But it will be nothing like the bonanza Trump seems to envision. Venezuelan oil is heavy and costly to retrieve. One needs dilution fluids or steam to bring it to surface and to transport it to markets. With global oil prices expected to stay around $50 per barrel there is little incentive for the necessary multi-billion investment.

I expect that after this weekend’s action nothing will change. The U.S. does not want to govern Venezuela. It doesn’t want to put boots on the ground. The blockade, an act of war, will continue for a while but at some point the ships will have to go back to their harbors. As there is nothing to win from this the Trump administration will move towards its next target.

Meanwhile Israel is getting ready for another strike on Iran. The U.S. is repositioning troops to the Middle East while Iran prepares to hit back with all its might.

In a week from now Venezuela will likely be out of the headlines while business as usual continues.


I think he missed the election theft part of the story not to mention the money laundering and human trafficking.

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CRAP!!!
H/T patfrederick


However on second thought, has Maduro already made a deal and that is why he is being let off the hook via NY southern district? How machiavellian, keep your word with Maduro AND smear NY southern District, all in one act.

How US used 40,000-ton warship named after famous WWII battle to transfer Maduro


…Maduro was detained in Caracas along with his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown by helicopter to the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima before being transferred to the United States, according to a statement posted on X by US Attorney General Pam Bondi… 


Catching Maduro outside his ‘safe room’ and a trip on the open seas (not a plane) seems to indicate that Maduro was interrogated and records were recovered.

What a bang of a start to the New Year!

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Wolf Moon

Well, what the heck! I gave people time, but whatever! I’ll be first! 😂

Kea

Yeah. Waves
BUT
I have to bring up a very old school rhyme

“First is the worst, second is the best, third one with the hairy chest”

lol just kidding! Cheers wolf

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

cthulhu

I blame it on the lackadaisical kicker-outer.

Wolf Moon

One might think that, but I noticed it out very soon after scheduling, oddly!

cthulhu

You don’t have to say “oddly” when discussing WordPress behavior. It’s always implicitly included.

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Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

pgroup2

I thought about it.

Does that count? Never mind.

  :insane: 

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

Wolf Moon

Nice open, BTW. I’m not wed to any particular interpretation of WTH is going on with this whole Venezuela thing. All I know is that Demmunists are showing how terrible they are.

Wolf Moon

This is good – right? Meaning – they can counter the malign influence of SOROS on Radio Insurrection or whatever they call the Soros stations.

Aubergine

Put Dan Bongino back on the air in those stations, pronto.

patfrederick

what if that WAS the plan?

pgroup2

You should get paid for thinking like that.  😎 

patfrederick

who says I’m not?
  :wpds_wink: 

pgroup2

I’m always behind your behind.  😂 

Aubergine

I’ve had that thought.

It’s possible that the Candace Owens bullshit after Charlie Kirk died was a motivator to get Dan back on the air.

patfrederick

could be!

kalbokalbs

Dan’s show needs to be nationally syndicated.

Aubergine

I think it is about one thing, mainly; China.

I think the “trigger pull” on the operation that people are wondering about (on a full moon, seriously? Let’s really tax those Delta guys) was the fact that the Chinese showed up to negotiate some kind of deal that day. A message was sent to China in the most dramatic fashion.

The Chinese are looking for a couple of things. A foothold in our hemisphere is one. The other is energy for their ever-growing military-industrial complex. They don’t care if the oil is hard to extract, they’ll just starve their citizens a little harder to get the money to extract it.

I really think next up is Greenland. I actually believe that if Denmark won’t let us have it one way or another that we are going to go take it. I can’t even believe I’m saying it.

Trump has seen something that makes him certain that we have to have absolute sovereignty over this hemisphere, ASAP. And I think he means to make it happen by hook or by crook. Or by Delta Force in the dark of night.

Wolf Moon

Yes! I think you’re right.

Trump is going full Monroe Doctrine + Trump Doctrine on all foreign powers, both within this hemisphere and outside this hemisphere. I think he sees it as a continuum, which is kinda genius. But it’s easier to see with discrete levels.

(1) World Level (The Big Sphere)

Are you outside this hemisphere, fucking with the USA by fucking with things in this hemisphere? Pay the piper for your responsibility (Trump Doctrine) and GTFO (Monroe Doctrine).

(2) Hemisphere Level (Within The Americas)

Are you in South America, fucking with the USA for your own purposes? Pay the piper for your responsibility (Trump Doctrine) and expect a 4AM knock on the door (extended Monroe Doctrine) if you don’t.

(3) Quarter Sphere (North America)

Are you in North America, fucking with the USA? Are you Chinada or Chimexico? Now you’re REALLY gonna pay for your proxyhood responsibility (Trump Doctrine + all levels of extended Monroe Doctrine).

Trump does not fuck around.

Trump doesn’t just tell the delinquents to “get off my lawn”. He sends their parents a bill, puts their drug dealers on death row, and hires all the kids to work at his car wash or go to juvie. 😂

Obviously this drives the malignant, delinquent, druggie left insane!

Wolf Moon

Now THAT is interesting!

Aubergine

Lol! I love Risk. And that a great assessment.

pgroup2

And look at how big Ukraine is, in proportion to the rest of the map.

Sir ES

I think the Risk map isn’t ‘to scale’. Also, the borders of UKR have been expanding and contracting for hundreds of years, so much so that a name/nickname for it is “no-mans-land” IIRC.

Even now, it’s territory is changing!

And lastly, the polar map posted yesterday is more accurate, although I think the distortion of area increases the farther one goes from the North Pole (or the Arctic Circle).

I liked Risk too! Deploy the armies, roll the dice – and see who conquers who!

pgroup2

I was playing sarcasm but there’s always somebody to play the nerd [i keed i keed]

  :wpds_wink: 

Sir ES

Ah yes!

Walkin’ the line between candor and sarcasm, tricky tricky!

But yes, I should have known…

Cheers!

Valerie Curren

That Risk board looks quite different from the one we used as kids.

This one is closer to what I remember 🙂

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or maybe this, that might be the original version

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pgroup2

Just notice how – back before Russia’s SMO – Ukraine was very much bigger than reality.

Very similar to the current political reality.

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Valerie Curren

No doubt. They have been overinflated in many ways 😉

Sir ES

That last one was the one we used.

In the beginning, the players tried first to capture Australia or South America, because each could be defended from a single front, where one could concentrate all the troops.

And, when the continent was fully captured, each turn added extra troops/armies, building power for later battles.

Stratego, Battleship, Clue, Monopoly, Mastermind, and others.

Later, it was card-games – poker and bridge (among others), chess, dominoes, and backgammon.

Lotta learning and fun!

Valerie Curren

I think the bottom board is what we had too, for the chart w/ armies per owned continent was on it, I think. I can remember my brother calling a victorious single army holding a territory “the mighty e-ho” & he would bite down on the plastic piece making 2 legs of the triangle squished in so every time you saw that piece you’d remember how it stood strong against attack. We played that game Many Hours!

Firefly

A+ rant!   :cheers:   :cheers: 

Wolf Moon

Thank you!!! 😂

Aubergine

The Monroe/Trump Doctrine might as well be called “The Only Sane Doctrine” in my humble opinion. Let’s “get some.”

Wolf Moon

It’s the exact opposite of “putting up with shit”!!!

Sir ES

The “posite” of which would be “putting *down* the shit”, which has been the right and proper procedure of the animal kingdom for time immemorial.

A tried-and-true index of sanity!

kalbokalbs

Exactly.

I do hope Trump shares his vision with JD. In detail, including rational.

Valerie Curren

I believe that Trump will need some type of Legal Cover for whatever he does & he’s probably got a crack team, maybe the best in the world, looking into it!

slowcreekno

Could be as simple as defense from Russian ballistic missiles. Greenland is about halfway between Russia and the US, which is evident on a globe. Nice to have if someone over there gets bad ideas…

Wolf Moon

Iranian missiles too, in case those pesky mullahs ever get their shit together, or get out their current mess!

pgroup2

Not Iran – Ukraine. We are in most danger from Ukraine after the slush fund is turned off.

Their missiles and drones won’t reach from there but they will reach in this hemisphere.

Firefly

We have Space Force at Piktufik near Thule on the NW coast of Greenland. If I remember correctly from Corporal Boskin’s COLD Cold War (by Joseph Boskin who was stationed there in the summer of 1953), we have a 100 year lease (which will probably expire soon)

Sir ES

I wonder about the exact terms of that lease, and whether *expanding* the footprint, underground or above, was addressed specifically.

The original language may leave open a ‘loophole’.

Still, it’s better to negotiate in good faith, even if it takes more effort and time.

pgroup2

Are you suggesting that the skills and techniques of us legal eagles are inherently nefarious?

We’re making a note of your insolence, which will go into your permanent record.

  :wpds_cool: 

Sir ES

“Surety you crave!

“Austin Powers gives none.

“If you sue for his clemency, you must first do his bidding.”

Besides, I DINDU NUFFIN!

Firefly

That’s a good question. Expanding the footprint underground probably wouldn’t work as it is permafrost.

Wolf Moon

Some interesting info on travel to Mexico by celebrities for risky stem cell injections.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/health/kylie-jenner-seeks-stem-cell-therapy-in-mexico/

Wolf Moon

Nick Fuentes is “humbly” taking credit for pushing Vivek off social media.

https://thelibertydaily.com/vivek-ramaswamy-rage-quits-social-media-after-being/

scott467

From OT, looks like good news:

Brilliant Restitution Plan – President Trump Announces Interim Venezuela Oil Payment of $2 Billion
January 6, 2026 

SD: “This is way beyond winning, this is stunningly brilliant strategy. Not only has President Trump successfully apprehended Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro, but the remaining interim government officials have acquiesced to fund a civil restitution plan to pay for their malfeasance.

The government that stole from its people is being forced to pay restitution for their own fraud, abuse and misconduct.

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[SOURCE]

As we noted yesterday the immediate issue for Venezuela would be to fill the economic/financial void.

The Sea Island attendees support a quick Machado installation. Trump/Rubio prefer to proceed with more caution, especially because someone is going to be on the hook for financial support to Venezuela, because the domestic rewards from any expanded oil revenue are at least 5 to 10 years away.

Changing the regime in Venezuela may break China’s ‘belt and road’ grip, but China’s money is going to need to be replaced with independent domestic economic wealth for the Venezuelan people. That process takes time. [link]

Some type of short-term funding is needed during any kind of reconstruction of govt. Typically, the U.S. taxpayer would be on the hook during this phase; however, President Trump has found a way for the corrupt Venezuelan authorities to pay for their own civic shift back to democracy. Brilliant.

The 30 to 50 million barrels of oil is approximately a $2 billion self-created reconstruction effort.

Compare and contrast this approach with the trillions of U.S. taxpayer funds that were used in the failed efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etcetera…. or even Kuwait, albeit the Kuwaiti’s offered, but prior U.S. leadership chose influence over restitution.
In this example, almost immediately the funds now in the control of President Trump can be deployed to the greater benefit of the Venezuelan people.

Another way to look at this is like a type of ‘sovereign wealth fund’ created by the corrupt Venezuelan officials, using the resources that belong to the Venezuelan people, to support the interim needs of the same citizens they victimized.

Well done President Trump and Secretary Rubio!”
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Wolf Moon

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Too much winning? I don’t know, but it’s a lot of winning!

kalbokalbs

SPR – Strategic Petroleum Reserve gets a nice, plus up.

Also expect the two seized oil tankers are, or will be drained into SPR. US gets this “booty”, as ships were illegal.

It all too damn funny.

Trump is mopping the floor with DumRats. R-Cons, as usual, lost, without a clue.

TradeBait2

That some average Americans fall for the Demoncraps line of shiz is what bugs me most. They are useless warts on a hogs azz. All they have done for decades is sell us out.

Sir ES

Unrelenting propaganda for many decades has degraded the mentality and education of generations of younger Americans.

The “average” has gone down precipitously, by design – so much so that their world is unrecognizable to ours.

Yuri Bezmenov’s 3-hour video – from the ’70s! – highlighted the purposeful demoralization campaign, which has been ongoing, and the effects are what we see today.

Bezmenov also said that Americans had become complacent … and decadent. There is some truth in his words!

Most everyone shares in the ‘blame’ / responsibility for where we are now.

It’ll take a boatload of effort, and a good stretch of time, to redress the situation; and Q’s estimate was that 4-6% will be lost forever. I don’t know whether this meant physical casualties, or mental casualties (cannot adapt), or both.

SO much destruction! I pity the lost souls who have succumbed…

pgroup2

What the heck is he talking about?

Venezuela doesn’t have “High Quality oil”. Its oil is well-known as the most sour [worst] oil in the world.

I can’t believe DJT would make such a stupid statement.

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Aubergine

China wanted that oil, quality be damned. And Trump took it out from under their noses.

Which noses he is rubbing in it with his comments. Classic Trump.

pgroup2

Interesting.

Wolf Moon

Yes, the oil is very viscous, but apparently it’s very good for asphalt, diesel, and heavy equipment oils, and light crude doesn’t work for these products. The world has had to turn elsewhere for such thick oil, because socialism ran the Venezuelan petroleum industry into the ground.

https://www.ft.com/content/060c5ede-bda4-49a5-9dfb-4fc939372ae0

The stuff in tankers now may have already been mixed with naphtha, which is said to make it easier to ship.

Based on this, I think that Trump is pricing the construction of “Belt and Road” out of plausibility, much as Sundance is saying. OR China is going to have to look to other places, while Venezuelan oil will stay largely in this hemisphere – which IMO is more efficient anyway.

I am seeing that this was largely inevitable, and VSG Trump is simply forcing the inevitable to move ahead of schedule. China was unable to make Venezuela’s industry more efficient – it is now operating at about 1/4 of 1990s capacity. It needs American companies back.

Capitalist LOGIC is winning over communist EMOTION, which leaves destruction in its wake.

Wolf Moon

Ah, that explains the price jump in diesel, and why it doesn’t stink as much now.

pgroup2

I see, said the blind man [though he really couldn’t see].  😂 

Sir ES

I’m reminded of a clever ditty I heard as a teen:

“One bright day in the middle of night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back-to-back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
The deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys.
And if you doubt that my story is true,
Ask the blind man – he saw it too.”

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

scott467

So long as it works, it sells (I guess) 😁

Firefly

  :cheers:   :cheers:   :cheers: 

cthulhu

Who names their little girl “Cilia”, anyway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilium

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

Seriously – Probably Latin-worlders and Romance-language people, including French, etc. They love “soft c chick names”, IMO.

Here’s what Duck AI thinks.

DuckAI on the name Cilia

Search Assist

Cilia is a feminine name of Latin origin, meaning “eyelash” or “heavenly.” It is associated with beauty and delicacy, and has historical ties to various cultural and religious contexts.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/parentingpatch.com.ico parentingpatch.com

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.thebump.com.ico The Bump

Overview of the Name Cilia

Cilia is a feminine name with Latin origins. It is derived from the word “cilium,” meaning “eyelash” or “eyelid.” This connection suggests themes of beauty and delicacy, often associated with femininity.

Meaning and Cultural Significance

  • Meaning: Cilia can be interpreted as “heavenly” or “from the sky,” linking it to the Latin word “caelum.”
  • Cultural Associations: The name is connected to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music and the blind, adding a layer of historical and religious significance.

Popularity Trends

Cilia has seen varying levels of popularity over the years:

YearRanking1984#38911969

First recorded in the U.S.Recent Years

Trending upward

Cilia was most popular in Texas and has been noted for its stable trend in recent years.

Variations and Similar Names

Cilia has several related names, including:

  • Celia
  • Cecilia

These variations share similar roots and meanings, offering alternatives for those interested in the name’s essence.

Cilia embodies grace and beauty, making it a lovely choice for a baby girl.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.wisdomlib.org.ico wisdomlib.org
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/parentingpatch.com.ico parentingpatch.com

cthulhu

Oddly, the eyelash viper is not native to Venezuela, though found throughout Central America and a bit into Colombia and Ecuador.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothriechis_schlegelii

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cthulhu

Ah, yes, my sweet little Eyelash Flowers…..

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Wolf Moon

She’s a pistol! Or two!

pgroup2

The Haire family might.

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

TheseTruths

ciliaPLURAL NOUN
singular cilium

Biology. minute hairlike organelles, identical in structure to flagella, that line the surfaces of certain cells and beat in rhythmic waves, providing locomotion to ciliate protozoans and moving liquids along internal epithelial tissue in animals.Anatomy. the eyelashes.1705–15; New Latin, plural of cilium eyelash, Latin: upper eyelid, perhaps a back formation from supercilium eyebrow; supercilium

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Wolf Moon

Why Feminine Women Are The Best Investment Guys Can Make

Interesting thinking.

https://rumble.com/v73ymim-feminine-women-are-amazing.html

kalbokalbs

True.

cthulhu

I suspected that would be your reaction. 🙂

kalbokalbs

Proudly so.   :wpds_razz:   :wpds_cool:   :cheers: 

TradeBait2

Yes.

Aubergine

This is the truth, and has been for millennia:

Proverbs 31:10-31

10 Who[c] can find a [d]virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her;
So he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
13 She seeks wool and flax,
And willingly works with her hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships,
She brings her food from afar.
15 She also rises while it is yet night,
And provides food for her household,
And a portion for her maidservants.
16 She considers a field and buys it;
From [e]her profits she plants a vineyard.
17 She girds herself with strength,
And strengthens her arms.
18 She perceives that her merchandise is good,
And her lamp does not go out by night.
19 She stretches out her hands to the distaff,
And her hand holds the spindle.
20 She extends her hand to the poor,
Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of snow for her household,
For all her household is clothed with scarlet.
22 She makes tapestry for herself;
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
And supplies sashes for the merchants.
25 Strength and honor are her clothing;
She shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She opens her mouth with wisdom,
And on her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 She watches over the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children rise up and call her blessed;
Her husband also, and he praises her:
29 “Many daughters have done well,
But you excel them all.”
30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing,
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands,
And let her own works praise her in the gates.

Wolf Moon

Excellent! WISDOM!!!

Sir ES

Always.

Kea

He had fun laughing about the raid memes

Wolf Moon

FRANKLIN FTW!!!

cthulhu

For our fans of orchestral strings —

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Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

Valerie Curren

I thought that was from Cuppa…hope his feelings aren’t hurt 😉

cthulhu

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Wolf Moon

LOVE!!!

TheseTruths

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TradeBait2

Yup ^^^^

TheseTruths

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cthulhu

Needs one more even bigger creature, “The Cabal”.

Aubergine

Yeah, and it ain’t pink and cute.

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

Looks like Purple Sausage Lady is now a vampire!

TheseTruths

In a jaw-dropping announcement, President Trump disclosed that George Soros and Reid Hoffman are funding Antifa and the left-wing violence against ICE. Trump vows to launch a RICO investigation into George Soros.

Trump stated, “They’re going to have some problems.”

Rosa

Do we have enough prosecutors and investigators for all that needs to be done?

kalbokalbs

Nick delivering… Signed sealed, AND delivered.

Nick Shirley exposes there are 1,200 medical transport companies in Minnesota. For a year, photos with timestamps were taken of the vans that are supposed to be used by these companies

NONE MOVED IN A YEAR. They sit parked, but are getting paid to transport patients

“I have been to many of these transportation companies and I’ve been time stamping my photographs for a whole year at one facility in Minneapolis and those vans in that parking lot had not moved one inch in an entire year. They’re all still sitting there”

“So when you think about it, you have with the transportation companies, you have the adult care centers. So are they working hand in hand together to then say we’re getting the services from them adult daycare centers to then transport them to their appointments” (and it’s ALL FRAUD)

kalbokalbs

NEW: CNN reports SURGE in support for what President Trump did to Maduro +25 POINTS among the American public

“After the ousting, look! Support went THROUGH THE ROOF!” says pollster Harry Enten.

“It turns out, Americans like what they deem to be successful operations!”

cthulhu

Competence is sexy.

patfrederick

VERY

Aubergine

Delta Force is hot. Those guys are the absolute epitome of hot. And I can’t even see their faces in their photos!

Aubergine

Now do Greenland, lol.

kalbokalbs

Good points. Couple holes of sorts, maybe.

Odds are US Forces are nowhere near Straits of Taiwan. USN may have something nearby. If so, Chinee know what and where. They’ll wait until USN transit onward.

USAF Okinawa & Guam. USMC Okinawa and Iwakuni, JA. More stuff here and there.

Dunno, but I’d guess Chinee would “prep the battle space”, same as US does. Prolly have jammers, as does US. No idea the capability.

Taiwan has US AC, weapons, systems. No idea there true capability, nor numbers.

The tyranny of time and distance works in favor of Chinee. Against US. HUGE issue.

>>>Those caveats aside. AGREE…

  :wpds_arrow:  Both Chinee AND Russia likely shitting bricks, after witnessing US forces AND systems, perform exceedingly well in Iran and Venezuela.

cthulhu

I would expect that a couple of “training platoons” were situated on Taiwan, itself, as well as a metric buttload of equipment. I do not think it’s going to be a Chinese, “if we can overrun in the first two hours, we’ve got this” situation.

Further, I would expect that the time after the next two hours to get worse and worse for the PLA.

Finally, I’d expect the strategic phase — embargoes, fuel cutoffs, and infrastructure destruction — to be exceedingly painful within 24 hours.

That said, Taiwan is just an island and has known economic vulnerabilities that can be hit and likely hurt badly.

pgroup2

Lots of Chinese middle managers will be praying to get a long struggle session instead of the alternative – being an immediate organ donor.

  :wpds_shock: 

kalbokalbs

LMFAO! President Trump reveals Melania does NOT like when he does the YMCA dance

“Everybody wants me to dance. ‘Darling, it’s not presidential.’ She actually said, ‘Can you imagine FDR dancing?’ She actually said that to me!”

KEEP DANCING 47!

patfrederick

on the one hand, POTUS HAS TO BE POTUS–he dances, we love it! On the other hand, happy wife, happy life.

Wolf Moon

Hence, the mild, upper-body pseudo-dances! Art of the deal!

patfrederick

LOL

pgroup2

FDR likely would have been dancing all the time if he could.

He was confined to a wheelchair due to polio that he got as a child.

TheseTruths

He was born in 1882 and didn’t contract polio until 1921, so he didn’t experience his disabilities until he was almost 40.

No doubt he wished he had been physically able to dance. I can’t see that happening with WWII going on, so he missed out all around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Roosevelt sought to build support for a political comeback in the 1922 elections, but his career was derailed by an illness.[94] It began while the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island in August 1921. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio which left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. A 2003 study strongly favored a diagnosis of Guillain–Barré syndrome,[95] but historians have continued to describe his paralysis according to the initial diagnosis.[d]

Though his mother favored his retirement from public life, Roosevelt, his wife, and Roosevelt’s close friend and adviser, Louis Howe, were all determined that he continue his political career.[100] He convinced many people that he was improving, which he believed to be essential prior to running for office.[101] He laboriously taught himself to walk short distances while wearing iron braces on his hips and legs, by swiveling his torso while supporting himself with a cane.[102] He was careful never to be seen using his wheelchair in public, and great care was taken to prevent any portrayal in the press that would highlight his disability.[103] He usually appeared in public standing upright, supported on one side by an aide or one of his sons.

pgroup2

I stand corrected on his age at acquiring polio.

Sorry for my glib comment.

cthulhu

This is quite a bit of “inside baseball” for cultural anthropology. I actually took a course in college titled “Cultural Relativism”, so I get a lot of the references. It’s only six-and-a-half minutes, however, so I’ll just drop it here without a 20 minute introduction —

kalbokalbs

Catch the nugget in the last line. <<< News to me.

.@DanaPerino on how Walz dropping out is just the “beginning” of the Somali fraud fallout:

“He might have been the first shoe to fall, but there’s more coming because Keith Ellison… is on leaked audio talking to these people, telling them he will cover up the investigations.”

Sir ES

And shove that ANTIFA manual, that he was so proud of displaying in that photo, right up his ‘nether’ before being nailed to that wall!

kalbokalbs

In a nut shell…

BREAKING: Greg Gutfeld just said it PERFECTLY

“Trump’s not into forever wars, but he’s also not into hibernation. He’s just got one filter, and that is AMERICA FIRST. And if you’re going to pick any filter, it’s not a bad one to have!”

“There are no boxes for him. That’s kind of a good thing.”

“I mean, to be a neocon, you have to be for exporting democracy no matter what. To be an isolationist, you have to be against doing anything but just staying home and keeping your eyes closed.”

“But he is like, you can’t put him in a box, and that forces you to look at every independent action outside of some high-minded principle.”

“It’s like, is this thing good for America? Does it allow for a clean exit? When he says, we’re taking the oil, we can go, wow, that’s kind of brash. Yeah, but it’s honest, and is that good for America? Well, yeah, it was our oil!”

“He not only hampered the flow of drugs, he also is getting our oil back.”

“I think that Trump has always looked at ideology as narrowing choices, and he doesn’t like narrow choices!”

“He zigs and he zags. The principle is AMERICA FIRST.”

Valerie Curren

“He zigs and he zags. The principle is AMERICA FIRST.”

This vaguely reminds me of WolfMoon’s epic description of Trump that SomeDunce stole without attribution…Roller coaster or orbital planes or something. Anyone got it to share?

kalbokalbs

Looking forward to Greenland becoming part of the US.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the US acquiring Greenland:

“This is not a joke … This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land. This is in our national interest and it needs to be solved.”

Brave and Free

Tuesday recap sounds about right, more winning.

kalbokalbs

Day 7. MORE great news.

Contrary to what I’ve read elsewhere, the US did NOT sign on to the EU/UK guarantees for Ukraine.

SD

Lots of Words – United States Supports but Does Not Sign “Coalition of Willing” Security Guarantees

I’ll post the video outcomes of the Paris summit comments below. However, in the interests of time and cutting to the chase, the picture below highlights the reality of things as they present.

The British-based “coalition of the willing” (+1 USA) assembled in Paris as the operation to manipulate the U.S. into forming the cornerstone of the Ukraine “security guarantees” continues. A great deal of this is public relations and psychological operations intended to create something against President Trump’s expressed intention.

However, everything you need to know about the eventual end of this long exposition is evident in the image that everyone pretends not to see.

View post on imgur.com


German Chancellor Merz, Ukraine President Zelenskyy, French President Macron, British Prime Minister Starmer and then you have Mr Witkoff & Mr Kushner. What’s missing? Trump. There’s your answer!
.
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There’s no President Trump because the intent of the principals is against our America-first interest. Hence, the USA did not sign up to the EU created security guarantees, because Trump is demanding they do their own work.

Key word “proposed” [read agreement] …”These elements will be European-led, with the involvement also of non-European members of the Coalition, and the proposed support of the US.”…

President Trump is presenting: The U.S. will provide intelligence *monitoring* assistance, but that’s it.

Not in our strategic interest. Not our war. Not our issue.

The U.S. delegation did not sign up to the statement the EU put forth after the meeting.

Lots of words were said.

Lots of gratitude was expressed.

Lots of support was mentioned. However, ultimately the responsibility for any agreed security guarantees will be carried by Europe, not by the United States.

More…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/01/07/lots-of-words-united-states-supports-but-does-not-sign-coalition-of-willing-security-guarantees/

kalbokalbs

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patfrederick

not our circus, not our monkeys!

pgroup2

Emphasis on monkeys.  😉  😂 

patfrederick

  :wpds_lol: 

Sir ES

Best pithy line of the day!

Good job!

TradeBait2

Loving me some regional polarity. Globo homo Euro nazis want to fight Russia – have at it. Need weaponry, write the check and you do not get the best stuff. We are out on your cabal forever wars.

patfrederick

MAZE
@mazemoore
The Minnesota child care fraud saga is so strange because years ago it was fully investigated, documented, and reported on by a team of state investigators set up to catch and stop child care fraud.

They spent years gathering evidence including many hours of surveillance footage. In 2018 they compiled a detailed report and delivered it to their boss, the DHS Inspector General.

Directly from the report: “Investigators, as well as the Supervisor and Manager of this unit believe that the overall fraud rate in this program is at least 50% of the $217M paid to child care centers in CY2017.”

What did the Inspector General do with this information? She refused to meet with her own team, refused to discuss the findings of the report, and then spent $90,000 of taxpayer money to have an outside company write a report saying the fraud isn’t quite as bad as her own team of investigators was claiming.

Here’s an email summarizing the fraud that the lead investigator sent the IG in 2018. Those currently in the MSM claiming that child care fraud isn’t a serious problem should read this.

The real question is how highly paid state investigators spent years investigating child care fraud in MN, reported on said fraud, and eight years later not only was the fraud not stopped, it was bigger than ever.

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Brave and Free

So was Keith Ellison covering it all up? He’s been in office since 2019, hopefully he’ll get rolled up in a federal investigation and held accountable.

patfrederick

i hope so…him, timmy and ilhan!

Valerie Curren

Including for the George Floyd costs in money, emotional damage, & wrongful imprisonment for that guy who didn’t cause GF’s drug overdose!

pgroup2

At some point, the govt will have to admit that it faked the verdict in the trial and that it was legally impossible for the cops to have murdered Floyd. That means the $17 million paid to his kin will have to be clawed back. Including Crump’s atty fees. That’ll be entertaining.

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Valerie Curren

Yes. Those cops need to be made whole & society at large!

patfrederick

gotta make up those deficits somehow i guess

patfrederick

looks that way

Wolf Moon

Newscum’s new name is Newscam.

kalbokalbs

Do sane, logic people still live in California?

patfrederick

patfrederick

Valerie Curren

 😂 

patfrederick

i adore these memes

Valerie Curren

They’re great!

kalbokalbs

Alberta AND any other province(s) looking to cut ties with Canuckistan.

Brave and Free

Hopefully up next will be CA, NY, and Illinois.

patfrederick

testy old bitch…

patfrederick

agreed–especially the most fun part. you feel like you can connect with him–he doesn’t view himself as FAR ABOVE the US population as other presidents have acted.

mollypitcher5

So true !  :wpds_lol: 

kalbokalbs

Perfect nightcap from afar.

Trump WH is full of great trollers.

patfrederick

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TradeBait2

Nice thread, Gail. Good info to consider.

I wrote previously in my economic thread that Brownsville, TX refinery comes on line in 2027. There is going to be a glut in the old markets. Refining on the left coast will pick back up with Newscum’s exit. The left coast is one of the next corruption targets.

The glut kills Iran’s terrorist and Russia’s war machines. We can use the increased supply due to manufacturing increasing as well as freeing up huge reserves of natural gas for power plant generation and export.

TradeBait2

They weren’t kidding about bringing back cars that people want to drive now that the mileage guillotine is gone.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69904684/2027-dodge-charger-hellcat-v-8-future-cars/

Valerie Curren

I was Really hoping that Trump would manage to bring back Muscle Cars!!!

Sir ES

Gotta toss the digital computer chips, though, IMO.

Just mechanical, and electrical … but NOT digital.

No vulnerability to hacking (overrides the car pilot’s authority), and mechanical first, with electric last – no getting trapped by electrons, whether window-control, door-control, accelerator-/brake-control, steering-control, etc.

Cars that WE command!

Q did say, of plane crashes, that “7 of 10″ are *targeted” kills.

A big PASS on that, by whatever mode of transport we use.

I’ve read that pre-1999 (and earlier) vehicles are earning a substantial premium because they don’t have any ‘sophisticated’ digital controls. And earlier models are even more in demand.

The Roths, and HRC, acquired the patent for this type of hacking, which affected (-s) planes, trains, automobiles, and boats. (Q said; I believe it!)

Lovely.

Sir ES

You’re amazingly perceptive, as evidenced by your posts and perspectives.

I cannot thank you enough for your efforts to expose the rank idiot mentality we’re dealing with, the cure for which requires laser-like intellect, as you possess.

You’re a good-un, Gail! Keep on keepin’ on, sister!

Happy you’re here.

May God bless you and yours!

ES

patfrederick

Sie hassen dich
January 7, 2026 7:51 am

Even more Minnesota crime exposed.  This time it’s Behavioral Health Agency.
CBS down plays fraud with a nice headline. Calls it Failures in Oversight. 
“Created documentation after the fact to mislead auditors”
One auditor noted that several documents were created by the Behavioral Health Administration only after the audit began and had been backdated in response to document requests.
Two grantees were overpaid, and the Behavioral Health Administration paid some grantees for work performed before it fully executed the grant agreements, according to the audit. The agency also made payments to grantees for costs that were either not incurred or not properly supported by source documents.
 Koran said. “BHA failed to verify that grantees were providing the services they were paid for, failed to put basic financial controls in place, and then created documentation after the fact to mislead auditors.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/behavioral-health-administration-minnnesota-dhs-audit/

patfrederick

she ran a Montessori school in Minnesota

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Being licensed by the state sure prevents corruption, doesn’t it?

Minnesota governor Tim Walz has claimed that it isn’t true that he and his administration have not done enough to address accusations of fraud in Minnesota. “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud — referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs,” Walz wrote on social media.

Gee, that’s funny. Those of us living in Minnesota, who were paying attention, knew about the fraud since 2016 and didn’t hear anything about crackdowns.

I am a Montessori educator who taught children aged two and a half to seven for over forty years. During that time, but at separate times, I co-owned and co-operated two Montessori schools in the northwest section of the Minneapolis Twin City area. The schools were required to be licensed under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 142B, even though they were Montessori schools, not daycare centers. The purpose of licensing was and is to protect the health and safety of children by ensuring that providers meet minimum standards for care and their physical environment.

Licensing entailed pop visits; equipment requirements; staff requirements; and endless, time-consuming, and many times unreasonable recordkeeping. Visits included observation in the classroom, reading personal child records, reading personal staff records, inspections, and so on.

Sometimes, if they didn’t find anything wrong, they would invent something. One time, a license agent criticized us for not having a way for children to get a drink of water. My assistant pointed to the water fountain. The licensor said, “Well, the two-year-olds can’t reach it.” My assistant pointed to the stool. Not to be outdone, the licensor insisted that two-year-olds don’t know how to drink out of a water fountain. My assistant pointed to the paper cups on the shelf. The response: “Well, I didn’t see them.” And because she didn’t know that the cups were there, we received a citation. After that inspection, the licensor went out to lunch with one of our parents and admitted that she had to find things wrong with places she licensed in order to justify her job.

In view of all this, I find it very hard to believe that Walz and his minions have fought the corruption since he became governor in 2019. Look at the results and form your own conclusion.

Walz criticized Trump for making derogatory remarks about the Somali community. My husband and I had some Somali families in our school, and, except for those who had assimilated, none of them worked out. They demanded that we remove from our classrooms any books, pictures, songs, figurines, etc. that had anything to do with dogs or pigs. They demanded that we delete dancing. We didn’t. I had a conference with a Somali father and his two wives. He also made demands, and I didn’t comply. The family left the school.

The Somali families didn’t follow our rules. I had a mother who arrived to school late every day and allowed her children to walk into the room during morning group time, which was disruptive. We notified parents that those who arrived late would need to wait five to ten minutes outside the classroom until group time was finished before entering the room. She argued with us. Another mother lied on the time sheet about her daughter’s attendance in after-school care. There wasn’t one family who paid tuition.
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I once asked a very nice father some questions that I had heard about Islam. He was furious that I asked and was not so nice to me after that. A goal of Islam is to take over the world through immigration. The creepiest thing happened when a Somali father signed enrollment papers and said, with a smirk on his face, “Things are going to change.”

Multiculturalism preaches that all cultures are equal. They are not. Our cultures are not compatible. A culture that is corrupt takes corruption to the new country. It is hard for us to imagine this because in our country, we are surrounded, for the most part, with honest people who respect the rights of others.

Our sacred American culture is not compatible with a culture that values theft, deception, and enslavement. Combine an incompatible culture with socialist leadership in our government, and fraud is the result.

Charlotte Cushman is a Montessori educator who taught for over 40 years and co-owned and operated two Montessori schools. She authored Montessori: Why It Matters for Your Child’s Success and Happiness, Effective Discipline the Montessori Way, Your Life Belongs to You, and Save Montessori from Social Justice: Woke Montessori Schools are Betraying the Teachings of Maria Montessori. She has been involved in the study of Ayn Rand’s philosophy since 1970. Her book website is Cushmanbooks.com, and her opposition to social justice in Montessori website is authenticmontessorieducation.com.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/no_excuse_for_minnesota_corruption.html

Wolf Moon

Excellent.

It’s time to be truthful about Islam and Communism. If we don’t, then hell will come to this nation.

patfrederick

Kristi Noem
@KristiNoem
Really, you’re worried about taxpayer dollars? There’s been $9 billion stolen from the taxpayers in Minnesota since you became Governor.

You won’t let us in Minnesota’s jails and there is rampant assault against our law enforcement thanks to vilification from politicians like you. So, yes, there’s strength in law enforcement numbers to remove these violent criminals from the communities you refuse to protect.

patfrederick

ridiculous!

Sir ES

So the Clowns In America decided that they ‘need’ FOUR MORE YEARS to determine how best to heap even more lies to muddy the truth about the Jan 6 ***GOV’T*** insurrection against the American people.

I think they overestimate how long their kicker-of-the-can can PUNT.

Bless their cheating hearts…

kalbokalbs

“WHERE THE HELL IS JOHN RATCLIFFE!”

Understatement of the day.

Wonder what, if anything Ratcliff has done for America First.

Have often thought, did Ratcliff truly deliver in Trump 1.0.

But, Trust t=Trump, I do.

pgroup2

TradeBait2

This shows they are on defense. The good operatives are out doing their things in the field like in Caracas The bad are deep state bureaucrats sheltering unipartyists. Got to weed them out and this is part of the process.

Wolf Moon

EXACTLY.

barkerjim

Thank you, Gail!!! Wow, what a bunch of well-mannered chaos and possible success!!!

holly

Mamdani’s aide Cea Weaver cries when asked by press about mom’s $1.4 million dollar house.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15442191/cea-weaver-nyc-aide-racist-mamdani-cries.html

patfrederick

amazing how spoiled brats turn out when they’re older. notice I didn’t say adults?

Valerie Curren

Seems like many/most? collectivists grew up in privilege, like it’s a feature not a bug!

patfrederick

lots of kids rebel against their parents. so they hate what their parents represent or have.

Valerie Curren

yes

pgroup2

Well … they’re adults but they sure ain’t grown-ups.

mollypitcher5

Ughhh I bet she’s awful during family gatherings.

TheseTruths

She doesn’t have to give the home up, just share it. That’s the “warmth” of communism.

There is no consistency of principle in leftist ideologies. Weaver could have been asked about any well-off Dem who owns a nice home, but of course it hits closer to “home” with it being her mother.

kalbokalbs

Share the home as depicted in Dr Zhivago.

Looked for a clip on YT. could not find it.

Valerie Curren

Don’t know if this is real but it was in replies on xcancel to one of Sydney Powell’s videos you shared…hmmm…it Appears to be a Q connection…Great Opener, per usual, Gail!

Hope your back is feeling Much Better!

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https://xcancel.com/KAGdrogo/status/2007555612440494286#m

Valerie Curren

Thx 🙂

pgroup2

Imagine that!

We don’t have to imagine it – since it’s real.

Valerie Curren

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duchess01

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EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE

Verse of the Day for Wednesday, January 7, 2026

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR 1 CORINTHIANS 10

The great privileges, and yet terrible overthrow of the Israelites in the wilderness. (1-5) Cautions against all idolatrous, and other sinful practices. (6-14) The partaking in idolatry cannot exist with having communion with Christ. (15-22) All we do to be to the glory of God, and without offence to the consciences of others. (23-33)

6-14 Carnal desires gain strength by indulgence, therefore should be checked in their first rise. Let us fear the sins of Israel, if we would shun their plagues. And it is but just to fear, that such as tempt Christ, will be left by him in the power of the old serpent. Murmuring against God’s disposals and commands, greatly provokes him. Nothing in Scripture is written in vain; and it is our wisdom and duty to learn from it. Others have fallen, and so may we. The Christian’s security against sin is distrust of himself. God has not promised to keep us from falling, if we do not look to ourselves. To this word of caution, a word of comfort is added. Others have the like burdens, and the like temptations: what they bear up under, and break through, we may also. God is wise as well as faithful, and will make our burdens according to our strength. He knows what we can bear. He will make a way to escape; he will deliver either from the trial itself, or at least the mischief of it. We have full encouragement to flee from sin, and to be faithful to God. We cannot fall by temptation, if we cleave fast to him. Whether the world smiles or frowns, it is an enemy; but believers shall be strengthened to overcome it, with all its terrors and enticements. The fear of the Lord, put into their hearts, will be the great means of safety.

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Verse of the Day – January 7, 2026 (Morning Prayer)


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WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

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BE MY VOICE
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

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PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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Forgiveness in the 21st Century
Mind splitter, code keeper, builder of the altarsWhere will you go when the magic falters?Soul snatcher, trespasser, thief of the willCold-hearted, calculated; gives me a chill
Spell caster, handler, false web weaverSeems like your working up a real bad feverTavistock, CIA, MI6, FBI pick up sticksAll of you playing from the same bag of tricks
Who gave you the right; what makes you dare?Do you have any doubts about what is fair?Worker of iniquity, mind violatorWhat turned you into this stone-cold hater?
You herald human intellect, elevate the mindSurvival of the fittest, strong wins over kindCompassion seen as weakness, absorbed into the hiveMentality of evil; it eats you up alive!
The WILL is inviolate and should be sanctifiedAll your violations, abominations; will be tried;Judged and convicted, by the rule of the LawThere is a Higher Power that watches over all
Reject the dark forces, renounce and repentTurn your face away, before your life is spentChasing after evil, disguised as golden lightYou can’t change its nature, try as you might
To continue to deny exactly what you seeBefore your very eyes, the true realityWe have been told, they will prefer the lieAt times the vision weakens me; makes me cry
The evil slay the wicked, it’s written in the BookMaybe you should check it out; take a closer lookPower and the pleasure; the riches you enjoyAre fleeting, temporary, spoiled, rich man’s toys
It hasn’t been an easy path that leads me to todayWhere I can truly pray for you, and mean it, when I sayForgiveness, such a thorny rose, but one that can be knownFrom deep within the heart; through prayer, in tears, alone
D01: 04/10/2013

duchess01

Forgiveness in the 21st Century

Mind splitter, code keeper, builder of the altars
Where will you go when the magic falters?
Soul snatcher, trespasser, thief of the will
Cold-hearted, calculated; gives me a chill

Spell caster, handler, false web weaver
Seems like your working up a real bad fever
Tavistock, CIA, MI6, FBI pick up sticks
All of you playing from the same bag of tricks

Who gave you the right; what makes you dare?
Do you have any doubts about what is fair?
Worker of iniquity, mind violator
What turned you into this stone-cold hater?

You herald human intellect, elevate the mind
Survival of the fittest, strong wins over kind
Compassion seen as weakness, absorbed into the hive
Mentality of evil; it eats you up alive!

The WILL is inviolate and should be sanctified
All your violations, abominations; will be tried;
Judged and convicted, by the rule of the Law
There is a Higher Power that watches over all

Reject the dark forces, renounce and repent
Turn your face away, before your life is spent
Chasing after evil, disguised as golden light
You can’t change its nature, try as you might

To continue to deny exactly what you see
Before your very eyes, the true reality
We have been told, they will prefer the lie
At times the vision weakens me; makes me cry

The evil slay the wicked, it’s written in the Book
Maybe you should check it out; take a closer look
Power and the pleasure; the riches you enjoy
Are fleeting, temporary, spoiled, rich man’s toy

It hasn’t been an easy path that leads me to today
Where I can truly pray for you, and mean it, when I say
Forgiveness, such a thorny rose, but one that can be known
From deep within the heart; through prayer, in tears, alone

D01: 04/10/2013



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barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revolutionary-wednesday-january-7

Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! We’re a week into the New Year, and what a week it has already been. The pace of news has not let up, nor has the amazing trajectory. Your awe-inspiring roundup today includes: progressives experience shock as they notice the “Trump Revolution” going even further than their worst fears; NGOs wither on the vine; Trump demonstrates governing competence; European élites frightened of Trump, don’t criticize Maduro’s capture, and fret about Greenland; more journalistic malpractice; Risk boardgame analogy for Trump strategy; suddenly and unexpectedly, feds investigate California for welfare fraud; Newsom doesn’t deny it; obstacles preventing Golden State fraud detection; DHS deploys TWO THOUSAND federal agents to one city—Minneapolis; forensic audit of Minnesota welfare agency finds widespread fraud among the government employees tasked with preventing fraud; urgent Times editorial says scandal needs to wake up Democrats before it’s too late; Dems misunderstand Mamdani win; Republicans giddy; Mamdani tenant advocate an all-in confiscatory communist; and the upside of all these socialist mayors.

mollypitcher5

Here’s another thing. They act like the programs are vital for health, growth, kids, whatever BUT the $$$$ isn’t going there. For years it’s as if the programs don’t exist anyway. Why are they acting like the system will crumble without them? They haven’t been doing what it was allegedly earmarked for and nobody’s been crying about it.

mollypitcher5

Amen on that

TheseTruths

The WH has a J6 page, and it covers everything in detail: https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Introductory statement:

President Trump took decisive action to pardon January 6 defendants who were unfairly targeted, overcharged, and used as political examples. They were not protected by the leaders who failed them. They were punished to cover incompetence. 

On his first day back in office, January 20, 2025, President Trump issued sweeping blanket pardons and commutations for nearly 1,600 patriotic Americans prosecuted for their presence at the Capitol—many mere trespassers or peaceful protesters treated as insurrectionists by a weaponized Biden DOJ. He fully pardoned most, commuted sentences, and ordered immediate release of those still imprisoned, ending years of harsh solitary confinement, denied due process, and family separation for exercising their First Amendment rights.

THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS PAID THE PRICE FOR POLITICAL FAILURES THEY DID NOT CREATE.

Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent over 3 years and nearly $20 million in taxpayer funds on her partisan Select Committee, producing a scripted TV spectacle to fabricate an “insurrection” narrative and pin all blame on President Trump.

Video and audio recordings, including unaired HBO footage from her own daughter, show Nancy Pelosi repeatedly acknowledging responsibility for the catastrophic security failures—admitting “We have totally failed” and “I take full responsibility” for not having the National Guard pre-deployed, despite intelligence warnings and President Trump’s offers of troops that were ignored under her leadership as Speaker. 

The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as “insurrectionists” and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump—despite no evidence of armed rebellion or intent to overthrow the government. In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi’s own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power. This gaslighting narrative allowed them to persecute innocent Americans, silence opposition, and distract from their own role in undermining democracy.

TheseTruths

Matt Forney:

Did you know that the federal government was subsidizing homeownership loans for Indian H-1Bs? And did you know that Trump just killed that program?

Got what I voted for again.

We’re one step closer to DEI: Deport Every Indian.

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mollypitcher5

FFS Is this what our elected govt people do all day every day? Scam after scam

Addicted somalis ? Doubt the sharia mafia would allow it but it sure sounds like just the thing to grab from the river of money.
Daycare, elderly care, medical assist care, food distribution, now addiction care…I bet there are scam job prep programs and probably mosque related real estate grants or something .

duchess01

BREAKING: New Problems in Minnesota. – LIVE

OfficialACLJ – 01/07/2026

duchess01
Valerie Curren

5 hours on House Oversight of MN fraud

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYZnPXqLJX

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYZnPXqLJX

maybe this will let it play here, using twitter vs x

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duchess01

LOL

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mollypitcher5

LOL, I’d love to hear one of the Demnazi media pawns say “diversity is our strength” right now

PAVACA

So, per https://en.wiktionary.org/, “manege” is the “riding area in a riding hall” or a “circus ring” in Swedish. Does this Mr. Kulane train horses or work in the circus also?

Or is it that he just CAN’T SPELL ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WORDS?

duchess01

Feds probe hundreds of millions in suspected Somali cash in luggage leaving Minneapolis airport
Officials said most of the cash detected in luggage involved a small number of money couriers of Somali descent. The routine routes were to Dubai via Amsterdam, usually from Minneapolis but other times from Seattle, Dallas, Columbus and Atlanta.

Published: January 6, 2026 10:54pm
Updated: January 6, 2026 11:15pm

https://justthenews.com/government/security/wedfeds-probing-hundreds-millions-suspected-somali-cash-luggage-leaving

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pgroup2

That’s gonna leave a big mark.

kalbokalbs

State Of The Union material. Watch DumRats sit on their hands.

mollypitcher5

TheseTruths

Homeland Security:

Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.

An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.

The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.

This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats. 

This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available.

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mollypitcher5

In my view this women’s death is a result of years of allowing “protests” to become violent riots with no repercussions. They’ve been conditioned to believe that there won’t be consequences. Sorry kids…there are

TheseTruths

I have no doubt the officers will be unjustly charged and will be used to demonize ICE efforts and the Trump administration.

pgroup2

They are feds, covered by the supremacy clause.

Wolf Moon

Which is good, because Soros DAs routinely charge police for murder in such situations!

TheseTruths

They’ve been conditioned to believe that there won’t be consequences.

This. They’ve gotten away with so much for so long.

mollypitcher5

Guess it’s spiraling there now. Flag burning, the Mayor and Walz grandstanding
Unfortunate timing though. It gives Walz opportunity to be the voice of reason so to speak

TheseTruths

Yes, they will do everything to use it as a distraction from his fraud scandals.

Rosa

Yes, they think its all fun and games.

pgroup2

… all fun and games until you poke your eye out.

  :wpds_cry: 

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1700906271803683063

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PS – a Dindu named “Taqiya”? Can’t make this stuff up.

kalbokalbs

FAFO. E-ticket to hell. Searching for my concerned face.

In a fucking mood on anything in MN, or against ICE.

mollypitcher5

TheseTruths

I’m sorry she’s dead.

So she wasn’t an illegal, she was a protester.

It looks like a clear case of FAFO to me. There was an officer in front of her vehicle and she drove right at him, not slowly. What does anyone expect is going to happen when an officer’s life is threatened?

Driving toward him was a crime. Having parked her vehicle where it was in the first place might have been a crime. It looks like it was blocking the road and/or attempting to block the work of the officers. Using lethal force to threaten someone, let alone an officer, is not going to end well.

What was a protester doing in the middle of an ongoing operation? She should have been on foot, on the sidewalk, with a sign or something.

mollypitcher5

Yep and in the last few months we have seen footage of them using cars to intimidate and threaten ICE so this one was doing the same and instead of hurting/killing an agent she was the victim.

mollypitcher5

From Daily Mail UK

A woman claiming to be the wife of a protester shot dead in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent screamed in anguish moments after watching her die.

The 37-year-old woman was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis on Wednesday after she ignored ICE agents’ demands to get out of her car, reversed it and tried to drive off.

ICE claimed she deliberately drove her burgundy SUV at agents but witnesses dispute that and Mayor Jacob Frey called it ‘bulls**t’.

Video shared online captured a witness speaking to a woman who claimed she was her wife and they had a six-year child.

‘That’s my wife, I don’t know what to do,’ she wailed hysterically.

The man filming the video asked if she was with the woman who was killed, and if she had any friends who could help.

‘That’s my wife… [unintelligible]… I have a six-year-old at school… we’re new here we don’t have anyone,’ she replied.

The frantic woman could also be heard to scream: ‘We need a doctor.’

mollypitcher5

Wonder why she was on the street while ‘wife’ was the designated car protester? Out of town paid protesters or leftard karens that follow the latest ICE activities?

TheseTruths

Apparently neither of them needed to be at work. Maybe one of them has a job and it was her day off. Or maybe they make a living as paid protesters.

From that article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15443231/minneapolis-ice-shooting-victim-wife-screams.html

Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot. 

Well the one driving was not filming when she got shot. She was driving.

Regarding “legal observers,” is it legal to disobey orders from ICE?

mollypitcher5

This ^

gil00

Nope. Not observing anything. I wonder what org they were with bc several are tied tocommie activity.

gil00

I wonder too. Ice was just stuck and trying to get out of the snow when they were swarmed. Being new to the area and already involved in this?

mollypitcher5

Doesn’t it say it all that few of any are actual ‘immigrants’. They won’t even come out to be part of a throng to show how much they want to be in the USA.
The entire protest ICE has always been antifa, white wokesters , militant hispanic activists
They are the blac bloc of DS

Rarely blacks join in solidarity..I can’t even remember once.

pgroup2

The fake equality of queers. The poor kid.

kalbokalbs

speaking to a woman who claimed she was her wife …  :insane:   :insane: 

Rosa

A version I heard earlier today is that she was just an innocent local who was trying to leave the area.

Wonder what the story will be now that videos have come out???

kalbokalbs

Not sorry here. Assholes live OR die with the consequences of their actions.

ENOUGH!

gil00

And a lesbian.

kalbokalbs

American. Does not matter.

Used a deadly weapon on LE. Now dead Tough shit!

mollypitcher5

At 13:26 is the part about R Paul and Massie

duchess01

EVENING PRAYER

Dear Almighty Father,

Tonight, I am full of gratitude. The blessings you’ve showered upon me all day – they have been bountiful. “Give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18), you’ve taught us, and I heed this wisdom.

Your love, Father, is limitless. Your compassion – it’s a river that never dries. Amidst life’s ebbs and flows, your love remains my anchor. Much like it says in Lamentations 3:22-23, your steadfast love never ceases.

Lord, your faithfulness is remarkable. Despite hunger gnawing at millions, you’ve filled my plate. It reminds me of your promise in Matthew 6:26. Just as you feed the birds, you’ve fed me, too.

Your protection, Father, is a fortress. Dangers lurk, yet they can’t reach me. Just as Psalm 91:14 assures us of your protection, I have felt your guarding presence.

You are Jehovah Rapha, our healer. My health, a testament to your divine healing power, reflects the promise of Exodus 15:26. You’ve mended me where I was broken.

In the face of tall challenges, you’ve granted me triumphs. I’ve witnessed the truth of Luke 1:37. Indeed, nothing is impossible for you, Lord.

Trials of the day have come, yet here I stand. Your strength, my Lord, has fueled my resilience. Like the apostle Paul says in Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through you who strengthens me.
Amidst distress, you’ve gifted me peace. My soul finds rest in you, mirroring the promise of Matthew 11:28. Come to you, I have, and found rest.

My financial woes, they’ve been swept away. Your provision, a reflection of Philippians 4:19, has shielded me from ruin.

AMEN.

Wolf Moon

AMEN!!! 💖

patfrederick

sorry if this was already posted…

Mike Netter
@nettermike
LOYALTY TEST INITIATED: 
One Congresswoman Just Pulled the Pin on a Political Grenade That Could WIPE OUT Dozens in DC 
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) didn’t just make a statement — she launched a war.
Standing before the House, she demanded what no one in Washington wanted to hear:
A total ban on dual citizens serving in Congress.

No exceptions. No gray areas. One passport. One country. One allegiance.
“If you hold foreign citizenship,” Luna declared,
“you don’t belong in American power.”
The fallout? Immediate.
Staffers are whispering. Lawyers are scrambling.

And behind the scenes, insiders say a list of dual-national lawmakers is already circulating — and it’s longer than anyone expected.
This isn’t about paperwork.
It’s about influence. Foreign money. Divided loyalties.

Now, Capitol Hill is holding its breath:
 Which powerful names are at risk of disqualification?
 Which foreign governments are quietly panicking?
 And how long before classified briefings start leaking?

Supporters say Luna’s plan is a long-overdue firewall to protect U.S. sovereignty.
Critics claim it’s a purge in disguise

gil00

Is good for both.

Firefly

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

“Standing before the House, she demanded what no one in Washington wanted to hear:
A total ban on dual citizens serving in Congress.”

Not just congress, but nationwide. Eliminate dual citizenship!

  :cheers:   :cheers:   :cheers: 

TradeBait2

Common sense. Multiple should be an immediate disqualifier. They softened the requirements with the globalism push for no borders.

We the People of MAGA say 🖕 that.

Barb Meier

RealRobert (@Real_RobN)

Here it is:

The damning email obtained by King Solomon through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

CONFIRMS:

The Central Intelligence Agency conspired and succeeded in the overthrow of the United States government on November 3, 2020.

In a stunning exchange, CIA Director Mike Morell turns to fellow Director John Brennan and asks if he would join in toppling the United States government during the November 3, 2020 election. Brennan not only agrees—but also expresses his gratitude.

CIA Mike Morell: “Can I add your name to this list? Will be adding Leon Panetta, Sue Gordon, Jeh Johnson, George, Lisa Monaco, and Mike Rogers. And working on adding Dan Coats, Mike Rogers (HPSCI), and Tom Bossert. And lots of other IC career folk.

mollypitcher5

The underbelly being exposed

Barb Meier

all the way down to the backbone. The list of names should be considered a flight risk.

gil00

patfrederick

INSURRECTION ACT–

TradeBait2

Yup – PDT and patriots have this.

gil00

scott467

Minnesota is a hotbed of 60s radical Marxist type nutcases 🤣

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scott467

Arrest them all, subpoena their bank records and search their cell phones, find out who is paying them, then arrest the people who are paying them, and repeat, right on up the line.

I can’t do the press corpse’s job and the government’s jobs for them, some of you ICE agents are going to have to take the initiative and watch some old black & white film noirs from the 1950s to figure out how this is done.

It’s not rocket science.

Wolf Moon

scott467

Trump’s 2026 Secret Weapon: Bankrupting the Insurance Cartels

In this episode, we delve into Donald Trump’s revolutionary midterm strategy aimed at dismantling the financial empires of insurance cartels and HMOs. Trump proposes redirecting funds directly to citizens for their healthcare, challenging the traditional uniparty system.

We explore the historical context, linking current financial practices to fascist economics from Nazi Germany, influenced by British and Wall Street interests. Learn why the GOP must adopt this aggressive stance to win the 2026 midterms and break free from decades of financial looting.

Don’t miss Susan Kokinda’s analysis on Trump’s bold move against insurance companies and how it aligns with global power structures.

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patfrederick

scott467

Let me guess… Prozac eyes, late 40s, probably divorced, multiple children from multiple fathers, current boyfriend is a black hood-rat gang-banger wannabe.

Aaaand… I was mostly right.

She’s 44, this is her boyfriend, ‘Empress’. Looks like his head comes up almost as high as her shoulders:

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You can find out more from Brave A.I. in less than 5 minutes, than from reading a hundred MSM articles that intentionally avoid asking any questions that might portray a member of a protected-class in a negative light.
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Me: “Does Aimee have any children?”

Brave A.I.: “Yes, Aimee Bock has two sons.

 She had her first son in 2006 and was raising both children while working in early childcare before founding Feeding Our Future. Court and media reports, including statements from her attorney, have referenced her status as a mother, noting that she was living with her parents after losing her home and struggling to find employment during the legal proceedings.”
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Me: “Is Aimee married?”

Brave A.I.: “Aimee Bock is not currently married, but she was previously married and divorced before the Feeding Our Future scandal emerged.

 A 2022 Star Tribune article indicates she filed for bankruptcy with her ex-husband in 2013, though his name has not been publicly disclosed.

She is currently in a relationship with Empress Malcolm Watson Jr., her live-in boyfriend at the time of the fraud scheme.

 Watson received over $1 million from Feeding Our Future through payroll and a shell construction company, which prosecutors argued funded their lavish lifestyle, including trips to Las Vegas.”
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Me: “Is Empress the father of her second child?”

Brave A.I.: “There is no public information indicating that Empress Malcolm Watson Jr.
 is the father of Aimee Bock’s second child. While Watson was Bock’s live-in boyfriend during the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme and received over $1 million from the organization, court documents and media reports do not mention his paternity in relation to either of Bock’s two sons.

Bock was previously married (filing for bankruptcy with her ex-husband in 2013), but details about the children’s father(s) have not been disclosed.”
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Me: “Does Empress have any children?”

Brave A.I.: “Yes, Empress Malcolm Watson Jr. has at least one child: an 11-year-old son who was injured in a July 2024 single-car rollover crash involving Watson.
 
The boy suffered a broken ankle and was hospitalized. Watson was allegedly driving at high speed under the influence at the time and faces charges related to criminal vehicular operation and DWI.

There is no public information confirming whether he has other children.”
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Me: “Do Aimee or Empress have any history of mental illness?”

Brave A.I.: “There is no public evidence that Aimee Bock has a personal history of mental illness.

 However, during her legal proceedings, her attorney highlighted the significant challenges she faced as a single mother and her struggles after losing her home, which may indicate emotional or psychological distress, though not a diagnosed condition.

Empress Malcolm Watson Jr. has no publicly documented mental health diagnosis, but his behavior—such as being described as “hysterical, screaming, and flailing around” after a high-speed crash—has raised questions.

 He has an extensive criminal record, including violent offenses and DUIs, and faces multiple felony charges unrelated to the Feeding Our Future case, including assault and criminal vehicular operation.

While his actions suggest possible behavioral or impulse control issues, no official mental health evaluation results have been released.”
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Me: “How old is Empress? Can’t believe I’m calling a dude ‘Empress’…”

Brave A.I.: “Empress Malcolm Watson Jr. is 40 years old.
 
Multiple sources, including a Star Tribune article from October 1, 2025, and public background records, confirm his age.

And yes — “Empress” is an unusual name for a man, but it’s his legal name: Empress Malcolm Watson Jr. It’s not a title or alias, just a distinctive first name.”

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mollypitcher5

You’re getting good at this!

scott467

Somebody has to… we certainly don’t get any useful information from the press corpse!

scott467

Brave A.I.: “And yes — “Empress” is an unusual name for a man, but it’s his legal name: Empress Malcolm Watson Jr. It’s not a title or alias, just a distinctive first name.”

____________

A distinctively female first name.

……………………
empress
noun

1: the wife or widow of an emperor

2: a woman who is the sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire
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gil00

Very bizarre. The whole of it.

duchess01

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Wolf Moon

Excellent TRUTH in one paragraph.

patfrederick

timmy, timmy, timmy… this is a war you can’t win!

scott467

🤣

patfrederick

insurrection?

gil00

At the minimum.

gil00

Well every soldier best know that treason.

patfrederick

isn’t this called stalking and a crime??
Feisty Hayseed
January 7, 2026 5:14 pm

Leftist Minneapolis Livestreamer Andrew Mercado Threatens Nick Shirley and Other Right-Wing Journalists, Says Their Security ‘Will Have to Earn Their Paycheck’
Mercado is on the ground covering the escalating tension in the city over the shooting of a woman who attempted to run down an ICE officer earlier in the day.
The leftist activist has nearly 90,000 YouTube followers.
During his stream from Wednesday’s protest, Mercado is seen walking among a group of activists while ranting about his plans to target “right-wing propagandists.”
I’m going to harass the f-ck out of right-wing propagandists… tracking where they’re at and then just literally following them with a feed… They’ll have security but that’s fine,” the activist streamer stated.
Mercado continued, “Security will have to earn their paycheck that day… We have to follow Nick Shirleys and Cam Higby around… They need to not be able to move without the entire country knowing where they are at.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/watch-leftist-minneapolis-livestreamer-andrew-mercado-threatens-nick/

mollypitcher5

IF his 90k followers aren’t mostly bots, they will get a first look at fraud locations..win/win after he gets a stalking charge

Wolf Moon

Bear in mind that ICE has to actually be nice to leftist goons. Private security can “do what is needed” to stop leftist thugs attacking journalists.

duchess01

Dan Bongino DROPS THE HAMMER!!!

Doug In Exile – 01/07/2026

duchess01

Jeanine Pirro Shares RECORD ARRESTS as CNN Brings Up Trump’s Approval Numbers!!!

Doug In Exile – 01/07/2026

duchess01

[DS] Feeling The Pain,[DS]/D’s Are Moving From Information War To Physical War,Buckle Up – Ep. 3813
 January 7, 2026  x22report

https://x22report.com/ds-feeling-the-painds-ds-are-moving-from-information-war-to-physical-warbuckle-up-ep-3813/

Trump’s tariff system is putting a lot of strain on the Eurozone, they were hurting from the green new scam, but now it’s all falling apart. New supply of oil is coming into the US, prices are going to drop. Trump is shutting down the [CB] plan down, no institutional investors in real estate, prices are about to come way down. Newsom wants to confiscate Bitcoin. The [DS] is feeling pain, their drug, human and oil trafficking system is being dismantled. The [DS] have lost the information war, common sense has now taken over. The [DS] will now be moving to physical war. This is the trap Trump has set to use the Insurrection Act. Slowly but surely the [DS] will become more violent and Trump and the team will have to call the ball. Buckle up, the storm is approaching.

Ep 3813a – Newsom Wants To Confiscate Your Bitcoin, Trump Is Shutting Down The [CB] Plan
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3813a-newsom-wants-to-confiscate-your-bitcoin-trump-is-shutting-down-the-cb-plan/

Ep 3813b – [DS] Feeling The Pain,[DS]/D’s Are Moving From Information War To Physical War,Buckle Up
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3813b-ds-feeling-the-painds-ds-are-moving-from-information-war-to-physical-warbuckle-up/

scott467

I thought the Hematoma Komenei already escaped to Moscow?

scott467

Looks like Hematoma Komenei took the advice.

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It looks even funnier when other people say it… 🤣

scott467

“Silence, muslims! A white liberal woman is speaking!”

Here comes the ‘pockylypse… 😂🤣😂
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Valerie Curren

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scott467

I just found the muslim response to “Silence muslims! A white liberal woman is speaking!
😂
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scott467

You see this thing she’s doing with her hands, this hen-peck gesture, with the thumbs and fingers touching each other, and using them like ‘air daggers’?

It’s called ‘bird hands‘, a subject of much scientific study, by hoe math! 😁
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Wolf Moon

OMG, this video is fantastic!

Nagging BIRD HANDZ are so WYMYNZ!!!

Wolf Moon

Looks like things are gonna get REALLY hot in Minnesota!

Perfect weather for it! Commies ON ICE – no pun intended!

gil00

Thats why theyre pleading for floyd 2.0 rn…

duchess01

Islamic Regime COLLAPSES: Crown Prince Takes Control, Streets Erupt Against Khamenei

PPR GLOBAL – 01/07/2026

Wolf Moon

HUGE!!!

PAVACA

Gail Combs
Thank you so much!
Yours Truly has had a kind of vague “Suspicious Dog” feeling about Ratcliffe. Looks like that feeling was correct?

gil00

Childhood fun beingbruined by hedge funds and p.e. groups.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/general/the-soaring-price-of-youth-sports-50-to-try-out-3-000-to-play/ar-AA1TJN1r

Lindsey Rector added up the costs as she waited for her son to finish his baseball lesson.

That was $60 a week right there. A new bat: $500. His club baseball team in Boynton Beach, Florida, and its three practices a week were $3,000 a year. Out-of-town tournaments cost extra. Last summer, the team traveled to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. This summer, it will be Cooperstown, New York. She figures she spends at least $8,000 a year on baseball for her 12-year-old son, Cruz Thorpe.

She knows he loves the game. She’s less certain she can afford it.

“You’re just trying to do everything you can to make these dreams come true for your child,” Rector said. “But it’s just so money-driven.”

She even tried a GoFundMe campaign to raise some of the $4,000 she’ll need to reach Cooperstown Dreams Park, where preteen baseball teams from across the country flock each summer for weekly tournaments. A single mom working for an online education platform, she felt a little guilty asking for help. But she’s not alone: GoFundMe said “competition travel” was the top sports fundraising cause in 2025.

Youth sports has transformed over the past two decades, shifting from low-cost grassroots programs run mostly by local groups toward a high-priced industry filled with club teams, specialized training and travel tournaments staged at gleaming youth sports complexes — changes fueled, in part, by private equity and venture capital investment.

It’s a supercharged “pay to play” model that promises better opportunities and college recruitment, with little evidence to support it. But parents find it hard to resist, despite the sticker shock.

Many parents are struggling to keep up, according to a survey conducted by the Aspen Institute’s Sports and Society Program in partnership with Utah State University and Louisiana Tech University. Family spending on youth sports jumped 46 percent from 2019 to 2024, the survey found, reaching an estimated $40 billion a year. That’s more than the annual revenues of the NFL and NBA combined.

The impact on a family’s pocketbook varies, with costs rising for older kids and those participating in activities such as ice hockey or gymnastics. The Aspen Institute found families spent an average of $1,016 a year for one child’s primary sport, while other surveys have reported that the average youth club activity costs $3,000 to $5,000 a year.

New York Life survey in 2025 found 20 percent of parents said money worries had led them to reduce or drop their child’s participation in youth sports, and nearly 60 percent of parents in a 2022 Lending Tree survey described youth sports as a financial strain. A 2019 Harris poll for TD Ameritrade showed that even wealthier parents — those with more than $25,000 to invest — who had kids in a club sport were stressed, with 1 in 3 taking fewer vacations and 1 in 5 finding a second job to afford it.

“Nobody is all that happy with the current system,” said Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute sports program. “It’s broken at best.”

The costs of youth sports go far beyond paying for teams. Parents now have to pay fees for their kids just to try out for teams — $50 is not unusual — or even to watch them play.

“BIGGEST SCAM EVER,” said a mother online about being charged an admission fee to a club volleyball tournament she was already paying for her child to play in.

Wolf Moon

More Demmunist outrageous crap.

In 2023, 18 people were killed in a spree mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. Money was raised for the victims. But as @RichMcHugh reports, the victims learned that millions were instead given to left-wing nonprofits, including to many Somali groups.

kalbokalbs

Trump’s speech in Davos, in two weeks, will be Must Watch.

Trump’s gonna rub in how well the US is doing. Shred all the EU/UK open borders AND globalism IS Dead.

Wolf Moon

Yes – this will be fantastic!