2026.03.17 Daily Thread: The World According to Trade(Bait)

Happy Saint Paddy’s Day, everybody!

Today is another slice of real life events with those connected to this guy.

Other than Iran, the subject of ICE and law enforcement recently has ruled the thoughts of many. So, let’s make this a “thank your local and federal boots on the ground law officers” day. Seriously, when you see them out and about, thank them. Buy their coffee or lunch at the local fast food or c-store if so inclined. They do work many people would never do. For most, it is a true calling. Of course there are bad apples in every endeavor. Focus on the overall good and what they mean for a civil and safe society. The vast majority are good people trying to do their jobs well – to protect and serve.

The scripture today is from Romans 13:1 ,

“Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.”

Yes, that means to do so if not in conflict with His Word even if the authorities are criminals as we just went through here in America. Their deeds are seen by the Lord and will be avenged through His actions and authorities who replace them in His time and His way.

Any doubts that God raised up Donald J. Trump for these times?

A Dose Of The Real World

Today, I discuss an illegal invaders situation faced by ICE and law enforcement agencies of various types nationwide daily. Subject: Taking down land based drug trafficking. PDT has brought up that sea routes are largely under control, that land routes were underway. It is also a major reason why the border had to be secured first.

A real life example follows.

A neighbor friend of a close family member located in our same county found a large shipped package in her driveway in a residential subdivision in early February. She could not move her car around it to go to work. She called and asked our family member what to do. She told her to call the carrier. The neighbor said there was nothing on the package to indicate who the shipper was. Our family member asked the address on the package. It was a different address located near downtown; just had the same address number and the street name started with the same first letter. They assumed a delivery mistake, so the family member called FedEx and Amazon for the neighbor. They said no deliveries were made in the area or to either address. She then searched online for the package’s address, looked up the business located there and called. She asked if they were expecting a package, that it came to the neighbor’s house and had their address on it. A hispanic guy in broken English answered and said they were not. Meanwhile, the husband of our family member went to the neighbor’s house and worked her car around the package using the yard. The neighbor left for work and told the family member she would try to call other carriers including the post office. If nothing, she would call the police.

Later that morning while the neighbor was at work and before she thought to call the police, somebody came and retrieved the package because it was gone when she went home for lunch. In the early afternoon local residents observed ICE, ATF, and local law enforcement make what appeared to be a huge drug bust in town that afternoon. It hit all over social media around here. The whole area around the bust was shut down for a couple of hours and it was on a major route in the town. Daughter had a long delay getting home from work due to it.

After the dust settled and more became known and handled legally such that it could be discussed in generalities, we asked SonIL about it. Our subject family members were very curious as well. He was only involved in the crime scene security. Turns out it was an ICE related sting. The illegals and others at the bust address had already accepted three of four packages that authorities (probably MEMPHIS related) suspected had cocaine, however, they had intercepted the fourth. They did not have all they wanted to bust the entire operation on major felony charges as they suspected the first three packages may have been moved. Local ICE/ATF had been directed to the fourth package and made arrangements for the “mistaken” delivery to the neighbor’s driveway – it made sense as an accidental delivery. There are only two directions the retrievers could follow out of her subdivision and they were easily covered by the local task force. Our family member had unwittingly helped them by contacting the business on her neighbor’s behalf to let them know where it was. Undercover officers simply waited until the traffickers came to get it, followed them to the business and lowered the boom; catching all of the participants in the process as well as finding the other three cocaine containing packages that had not been moved. Undoubtedly the street value was worth millions of dollars.

That must have hurt business for their bosses as well as the recreational pursuits of many of their customers. Oh well. Can you imagine all of the excited news stories the local fake news media put out about it! Oh wait, crickets. Here we are over two months later and not one news report from area fake media. None. The storefront “business” (vape store) the traffickers operated on that main route was closed of course. Not one mention about that either.

After the busted drug traffickers finish doing hard time in prison, they will be deported back to their shizholes or El Salvador depending on cartel affiliation many years from now. This type trafficking has been happening all over the country for decades with the knowledge of many elected officials. This one example should illuminate the minds of even the least informed.

We voted for these policing and deportation actions. Pay attention to just how deep it goes and realize it is all around you. If you see something, say something.

My Downside

As a patriot, what downside, you may ask? I now have to put up with an annoying family member bragging about how she helped law enforcement make a huge cocaine trafficking bust in our area. I really do love her even if she is annoying. I am also jealous that I did not have the opportunity do it.

😂

My View

Raise your hand if you believe the fake media’s and Uniparty’s representations that there are less than 20 million illegals living in this country? Yeah, I know. Anybody who chooses to read here knows that is pure bullshiz.

Which is a major reason why #47’s patriots are spending nearly $40 billion on warehouses around the country to house all of them until they are jettisoned. However, you do not purchase real estate if the commitment is shorter term – you lease. This is a long term plan that is being executed. It will take the better part of a decade to get the 50 million or so out of here because of the intentionally misrepresented documentation they utilize as well as their hiding places.

However, as that is done it will free up “beds” to be used by the other criminals that are pulled in and processed. That would be for those such as fraudsters and the like found primarily in blue states as well as domestic illegal drug dealer networks. Be assured there will be future plans executed for the use of the facilities once the immediate mission is complete.

We ARE going to receive our country back. Criminals are criminals no matter their nation of origin. Which means other clean up will be occurring on a major scale. DHS facilities will not only be used for processing foreign invaders. They can also be used for temporary detention of domestic insurrectionists and criminals who fall under the umbrella of DHS.

This war is like so many others. It is about money and power. With our Treasury becoming more assertive in conjunction with law enforcement and national security departments, the noose will continue to tighten around the necks of those opposed to the American Way.

Conclusion

I will wind up with a quick story. i have brought up about my neighbor previously. He was an Army Ranger for 20 years before joining the LAPD as an officer and weapons instructor. He told me if he was a younger man he would have long since joined ICE to protect the homeland. He finds it to be the most important law enforcement role in America today. When he retired and moved back to the south, he left feeling that California was lost and would never be a part of America again. He no longer feels that way. He sees positive change on the ground with average citizens when he goes back for visits with his wife, who is a native of the state. He has hope again.

That helps all of us know we are on the right track, even in the bluest of states. Eventually sincere people stop enabling criminals when their activities start affecting their own lives. Keep the hammer down.

Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.

Before all things and people – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan.

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pgroup2

Uno.

TheseTruths

Quatro! (I don’t even qualify for a bronze medal. 😅)

cthulhu

“Un, deux, trois — cats sank!”

Wolf Moon

Dos!

Wolf Moon

Loved that story! Thank you!

Gudthots

Yes!

Gudthots

Been reading Kevin Bass.
Sharp and a fighter against the unethical Medical Tyranny.

Anish Koka, MD

@anish_koka
Mar 15
Latest @DRsLoungePod :

Kevin Bass, PhD, joins Anish and Dr. DiGiorgio to tell the story of how a viral Newsweek op-ed apologizing for his support of COVID lockdowns and mandates set off a chain of events that ended in his dismissal from Texas Tech’s MD/PhD program. Kevin walks through the internal emails, sham professionalism hearings, and rigged dismissal process he uncovered through FERPA records requests — and his ongoing federal and state lawsuits alleging First Amendment retaliation. The conversation then shifts to what Kevin has been building since: using AI pipelines to do large-scale investigative data analysis, from parsing the Epstein files to probing Medicaid fraud — work he argues would have taken a newsroom months, done now in days by one person.

YouTube Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction and Kevin Bass background
01:16 – Kevin’s COVID arc: from establishment supporter to dissenter
03:14 – The Newsweek op-ed and Tucker Carlson appearance
08:00 – Internal emails and the professionalism complaint campaign
13:44 – Sham hearings, appeals, and eventual dismissal
19:19 – The rigged consolidated hearing and Darren Gibson
27:34 – Dr. DiGiorgio on the medical training dismissal system
29:51 – Why Kevin still believes in the broader legal system
33:00 – What Kevin has been building since dismissal
36:00 – Using AI to analyze the Epstein files
40:10 – The messiness of large health data sets
46:00 – Immigration policy data analysis
49:06 – Medicaid fraud and the limits of legal definitions
56:20 – Advice to physicians on AI
01:03:10 – The future of health policy research in the AI era

Cohosts: @anish_koka and @drdigiorgio

show links

@drsloungepod

🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7vE4aC…
▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@TheDoctorsLoung…

Resources:
Kevin Bass’s case documentation site: case.kevinnbass.com
Kevin Bass on Substack: kevinnbass.com
Kevin Bass on X: @kevinnbass
Kevin’s original Newsweek op-ed (Jan. 2023): newsweek.com/its-time-scient…
Kevin’s Epoch Times essay on his dismissal: theepochtimes.com/opinion/ho…

Gudthots

Kevin’s observations and story are instructive to me.

Kevin Bass
@kevinnbass
17 Mar 2025

I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.

Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere “half-truth”: an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.

Didn’t the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn’t, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.

This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn’t understood what I had been judging.

I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn’t human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent “unprofessional behavior”, which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me.

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They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school’s own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.

But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, “Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood.” I wasn’t. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn’t imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.

When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn’t unique. It was all the same story over and over again.

I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don’t understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.

One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.

Mar 17, 2025 · 1:17 AM UTC

TheseTruths

Gudthots

St Patrick – Equal to the Apostles

PATRICK’S EARLY LIFE

St. Patrick … lived somewhere around the years of 390-460 AD. People all over the world still celebrate his feast day, though it is usually by consuming alcohol, wearing the color green, and perhaps decorating with four-leaf clovers. But who was St. Patrick? What kind of life did he live? …

THE REAL ST. PATRICK

The real St. Patrick had less in common with modern preachers and more with eastern mystics and the desert fathers. While the Desert Fathers fled cities and entered into deserts in order to focus on prayer, St. Patrick found constant communion with God in the “interior desert” of his heart. His life, overall, was a very fascinating hybrid of missionary and desert father. He prayed hundreds of times in the day and night, meaning that he truly understood what it means to “pray without ceasing.” He memorized the book of Psalms and would pray fifty of them each day.

St. Patrick was not Irish, but was taken as a slave to Ireland from Britain when he was about sixteen. Recounting his capture, he considers it a just punishment from God for his immoral lifestyle in his youth. As a slave in Ireland, he shepherded a flock, and during that time, he began to pray and found God.

One night, he was told in a dream of his upcoming return home and shortly thereafter a voice said to him, “Behold, your ship is ready.” He left the flock he was tending, walked about 200 miles to the coast, and boarded a ship as the Spirit led him. He had some adventures on the way home, and eventually arrived in Britain where his kinsfolk lived.

https://www.orthodoxroad.com/patrick-the-enlightener-of-ireland/

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TheseTruths

Amazing story about the drug bust. Also a cautionary tale to be very careful with packages. 😳

TheseTruths

WOW! President Trump just revealed he spoke to a US President who privately WISHES he did what Trump is doing to Iran

“I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, former president, he said, ‘I wish I did it, I wish I did,’ but they didn’t do it. I’m doing it.”

Q: Which president?

TRUMP: “I can’t tell you that. I don’t want to embarrass him, it would be very bad for his career, even though he’s got no career left!”

Who is it, Bill Clinton?

TheseTruths

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Gudthots

Okay, Texas.
What is going on?

Doc Pete Chambers
@DocPeteChambers
7h
***BREAKING – NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE***

66,146 GOP ballots DELETED during TX early voting. 87,336 voters appeared, disappeared, reappeared in state records. The Cornyn-Paxton margin is only 26K. Someone inside the system is picking our nominees. Don’t certify. Audit no, this is too big not to notice.

Complacency will end our Constitutional Republic!

WHAT HAPPENED?

Your vote disappeared. During early voting, thousands of Texas ballots vanished from official state records—then reappeared—then vanished again.

In BOTH parties. The data proves someone inside the system is manipulating who wins. We need answers before November.

THE PROBLEM IN SIMPLE NUMBERS:

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY:
•87,336 voters appeared, disappeared, then reappeared in state records
•66,146 ballots completely deleted from final count
•35,772 extra ballots added to people who already voted
•Only 26,000 votes separate Cornyn and Paxton—but 66,000 ballots disappeared

DEMOCRAT PRIMARY:
•37,039 voters appeared, disappeared, then reappeared
•10,558 ballots completely deleted from final count
•35,169 extra ballots added to people who already voted
•144,000 votes separate Senate candidates—but 10,000+ ballots vanished

Why This Matters:
•These numbers are bigger than the margins in major races
•This affects who appears on your November ballot
•Both parties were hit—this isn’t partisan, it’s corruption

more…

THREE SIMPLE RULES THEY BROKE:

Rule #1: Numbers Should Never Go Backwards

•What should happen: Vote totals only go UP as more people vote

•What actually happened: On February 17, the vote count went DOWN seven different times

•Translation: Ballots were deleted in real-time during voting

Rule #2: One Person, One Ballot

•What should happen: Your Voter ID gets one ballot recorded

•What actually happened: 1,549 Republican voters and 54 Democrat voters had MULTIPLE ballots counted

•Translation: The system is stacking extra votes on real people

Rule #3: Your Ballot Stays Counted

•What should happen: Once you vote, your ballot stays in the record

•What actually happened: 66,146 Republican and 10,558 Democrat voter records completely vanished by the end

•Translation: Real votes were erased

This isn’t a theory. This is downloaded government data from the Secretary of State’s website. Every day during early voting, researchers saved a copy of who voted. When they compared those snapshots, the numbers moved BACKWARDS.

That’s mathematically impossible unless someone is inside the system changing records in real-time.”
Supporting fact: The Texas Secretary of State changed the data file format multiple times during early voting and made access intermittent—exactly when researchers were watching.

Whoever controls our elections controls TRILLIONS in state and federal budgets.

This is a national security emergency. Foreign adversaries, cartels, corporate interests—anyone with the resources to breach our systems can now pick our leaders.

President Trump, AG Bondi, and DNI Gabbard need to treat this like the cyber-attack it is and lock it down BEFORE November.

#TXPrimary #ElectionIntegrity

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TheseTruths

People need to be prosecuted and this needs to be fixed ASAP.

cthulhu

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TheseTruths

Texas could lose thousands of trained workers after licensing rule change

Iris Yanez spent 12 months and $13,000 working toward a Texas hairdresser’s license. By the time she finished the requirements in early February, a quiet policy change by the state had already made her ineligible. 

“I’m going to have two credentials that I’m not going to be able to use,” said Yanez, an immigrant without legal status who also has a state license for eyelash extensions. 

Isn’t an “immigrant without legal status” an illegal alien? This story is all about people “without legal status” and how they can no longer work if they have to prove legal status. It completely ignores their disobeying the law in the first place.

The 45-year-old was caught in a sudden shift by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation that now requires applicants to provide proof of legal authorization to be in the United States.

Yanez is one of potentially thousands of hairdressers, barbers, electricians and HVAC professionals across Texas who are ineligible to obtain or renew professional licenses after the state agency added the requirement in late January. The department’s commissioners could vote to make the policy final as early as March 24. 

The agency says the change is meant to comply with a 1996 federal law signed by President Bill Clinton that bars states from providing public benefits to people without legal status unless a state legislature explicitly authorizes it — a law Texas largely did not enforce for decades.

Approximately 18,000 licenses — about 2% — are not attached to a Social Security number, according to TDLR data provided to the Statesman by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini’s office. 

Agency spokeswoman Caroline Espinosa told the Statesman the change was an attempt “to combat fraud, human trafficking and labor exploitation.” She declined to offer further explanation. 

The state’s two Hispanic chambers of commerce have opposed TDLR’s move, as has the League of United Latin American Citizens. All say the change punishes immigrants who try to work within the system and threatens to move more of the immigrant economy underground, hurting the state’s tax rolls. 

“Immigrants who try to work within the system”—by being here illegally???

Owners of Texas cosmetology schools in immigrant-heavy communities told the Statesman the change has already slashed enrollment, in some cases cutting it by more than half…

“When you push thousands of licensed workers out of the workforce, Texans will feel it through higher costs, longer wait times, and fewer services,” Romero added in a statement. 

Others will step in and fill the void.

For Yanez, becoming a hairdresser represented an improvement over her irregular work selling skin care products. 

She imagined supplementing her husband’s income from painting cars at an auto body shop and contributing to one of her children’s college tuition. 

In the first week of February, Yanez made the three-hour drive from Austin to Houston to finish her written and practical examinations for her haircutting license. The exams capped her 1,000 hours of state-required supervised practice. 

On her way there and back, she was afraid of being pulled over for a traffic stop and detained. But, “I wanted to do things the right way,” she said. 

This is unbelievable.

…Texas Hispanic business leaders vehemently opposed the rule change during a testimony session before the department’s commission on March 5, calling it unnecessary, political and damaging to the state’s tax rolls. 

J.R. Gonzales, vice chair of the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce, called the change “an assault” on Hispanics…

Everyone would have to abide by the rule, not just Hispanics. It’s no one else’s fault if a lot of Hispanics are in the country illegally.

…and argued that removing license-holders will simply grow the state’s underground economy with no benefit to the state. 

Barbers will move their businesses out of brick-and-mortar establishments and into their own houses, and HVAC technicians will have no incentive to continue working for licensed companies, Gonzales said. 

“You’re not going to tell me that someone who knows air conditioners for more than 15 years is going to stop working on them because you told them not to,” Gonzales said. “If you take it away from them they’re going to find a way to do this illegally.” 

No surprise since they’re already acting illegally.

…Along with representatives of other Hispanic chambers of commerce, Gonzales called for the commission to find middle ground between what he believes is a concern of closing possible loopholes and protecting license holders who have already complied with existing requirements — perhaps by grandfathering in those who already secured licenses

No. Change is hard, and it’s going to affect some people more than others. The sheer numbers, and the supposed effect this proposed rule would have, is a testament to how big the illegal alien problem is. This rule needs to be finalized.