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America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
- Pass SAVE America Act
- Trash Filibuster
- Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
- Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
- Trash Blue Slips
- Confirm Trump Nominations.
- Codify Trump Executive Orders.
- Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
KK
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The following from American Stinker, related to USA 250. Interesting read.
Audio at the link.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/usa_250_setting_the_stage_for_revolution.html
USA 250: Setting The Stage For Revolution
America, Great Britain, and the Western world on the eve of the Revolution.
S. David Sultzer | April 16, 2026
Image created using AI.
NOTE. Eight minute audio, of this article, at link below.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/usa_250_setting_the_stage_for_revolution.html
What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. — John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815 (Bold mine.)
As the year 1760 dawned, England and its perennial enemy, France, were at war for global dominance, fighting on five continents. It would later be known as the Seven Years War, with its theaters in North America labeled the French and Indian War and the 1st Anglo-Cherokee War.
By 1760, great, wind-driven ships traversed the world’s oceans. The Age of Sail, which began in the 15th century, and its companion, the Age of Discovery, had transformed the world through trade. Before 1600, in every developed society across the world, a tiny minority of royalty and their associates were wealthy, while all about them, the vast majority lived in subsistence-level poverty. That changed only with the advent of world trade, mercantilism, and capitalism, which together lifted the majority out of poverty and created a middle class.
Image by Our World In Data. CC BY 0.
(Slow Guy. Coincidence, I’m sure. GDP per capita in England, Shot Up, about 1913.)
By 1760, about 1.5 million people lived in the North American colonies, and the population growth rate was set to double in 20 years. The colonies had benefited from nearly 150 years of the British government’s “benign neglect.” As the Privy Council told South Carolina’s new governor in 1722, that policy was intended to make colonial governments as “Easy and Mild as possible to invite people to Settle under it.”
By 1760, a prosperous middle class had developed in the colonies. It was a society unburdened by Europe’s ultra-wealthy, permanent noble class. When Lord Wortley Montague died in London in 1761, his estate was worth over £1.3 million. When the wealthiest merchant in Boston, Thomas Hancock (John’s uncle), died near the same time, his estate was valued at only £70,000.
The colonies were also unburdened by Europe’s permanently impoverished underclass, for they had great economic mobility and opportunity. As one British visitor, Nicholas Cresswell, wrote in contrasting the colonies with Europe, “here there are no fears [of poverty] and with the least spark of industry, a man may support a family…”
In 1760, religious issues were of central concern, although the nature of the battle had changed.
For a thousand years, Islamic wars of conquest had demanded Europe’s energy. By 1760, the Muslim attacks against Europe had ended. Barbary pirates, who enslaved some 1.25 million Europeans, including American colonists, were still a problem (indeed, two of America’s first wars, the First (1801-1805) and Second (1815) Barbary Wars, were against the pirates), but they were not what led to America’s Revolution.
What mattered in the colonies were Christian schisms. Christianity had always been the indispensable beating heart of Western civilization, but the Reformation of 1517 splintered the universal Catholic Church, leading to numerous Protestant sects. Europe was riven by internecine religious wars and religious persecution, pitting Christian against Christian.
For two centuries, Protestant minorities in Europe were persecuted. This was as true for the Huguenot Protestants in Catholic France as it was for the Puritans and all others who dissented from the state religion of England, Anglicanism. Many European and British Protestants fled to the North American colonies.
In the mid-17th century, Great Britain was in the midst of revolutionary turmoil. It had been convulsed by a bloody civil war pitting Protestant sects against Anglicans (the British version of Catholicism) and against Catholics. In Scotland, the Jacobite rebellions saw the Scots fight for Europe’s Catholic monarchs and against the Protestant English.
Other than the Jacobite rebellions, these conflicts were all about the ancient “rights of Englishmen,” which are detailed here. These rights, which began with the Magna Carta and included no taxation without representation and the right to due process of law, were mostly spelled out in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, to which the monarch agreed after England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688.
By 1760, roughly 80% of colonists in North America were members of persecuted Protestant sects, including Congregationalists (Puritans), Baptists, Quakers, Scots Presbyterians, French Huguenots, and German Lutherans. By 1760, English Anglicans made up only about 15% of the colonial population. Jews were about 1% of the colonial population, as were Catholics, despite their religion being proscribed in all but Maryland’s colony.
In 1760, there was bad blood between Massachusetts’ mostly Congregationalist population and the royally appointed Anglican government. Already a decade earlier, the Congregationalist minister Rev. Jonathan Mayhew had given a sermon justifying the prior century’s English Civil War, when Puritans beheaded the Anglican king.
Rev. Mayhew combined the Bible (Romans 13:1-7) and John Locke’s 2nd Treatise of Government to reach a religious justification for rebellion and revolution against a tyrannical king. His sermon deeply affected a young John Adams, then sitting in the pews. As historian J. Wingate Thornton has described it, this sermon was “The morning gun of the American Revolution.”
The (mostly Protestant) British colonists in North America during this time of civil strife had the words ‘British liberty’ on their lips. They knew their history well and were immensely proud to be British. They knew the Magna Carta and were proud to live in a land where they could speak freely and, in theory at least, be free from tyrannical government.
When Patrick Henry, in 1765, wrote in the Virginia Resolves that the colonists had all the Liberties and Privileges of Englishmen, including the right to be taxed only by their democratically elected governing body, he was not innovating. He was treading a path already blazed in England for half a millennium.
Finally, to this mix of economic and traditional liberty, the year 1760 added one more thing: the Enlightenment. It was a period of rationalism and reason—a search for objective truth in all aspects of life. It would lead to great advances in science, economics, and political theory. Societally, it would lead to the First Great Awakening, a religious revolution in the American colonies and the UK. That, in turn, would lead to the abolitionist movement. For the first time in human history, people argued that slavery was morally wrong. By 1760, Quakers formed the colonies’ first abolitionist society had formed among the Quakers. Ben Franklin eventually became its President.
In the UK, with its long history of both individual rights and Christianity, the Enlightenment led to classical liberalism. As John Locke wrote in his 2nd Treatise of Government, God gave man the right to life, liberty, and property. No man could give away those rights, nor could a government infringe upon them except for war and law enforcement. Other rights, such as freedom of speech and the right to democratically elect a representative of one’s choice, were derived from and were necessary to enjoy these God-given rights. (Bold mine.)
It’s noteworthy that the Anglo Enlightenment reached its apogee in the United States in 1776, when Thomas Jefferson wrote the preamble to The Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (Bold mine.)
Those words came from numerous inspirations, not least John Locke.
But even as the new United States was busy creating a constitutional framework for this new, classically liberal nation, the Enlightenment was reaching a different, bloody conclusion in France. In the crucible of the French Revolution, all of the modern ills of Western civilization were being born:
- socialism,
- the police state,
- state terrorism,
- state-sponsored atheism, and a
- war on Christianity
- as a first step to destroying Western Civilization, then
- for socialists to rule over the ruins.
^^^ Bold and format mine.
All of history since 1792 has been a competition to see whether the French or the American Revolution will win in the West. Let us hope, on this, the 250th year of our nation’s birth, that it is the latter.
(Slow Guy. Much of the above I knew. Serious dot connecting, having read this article.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/usa_250_setting_the_stage_for_revolution.html
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Justice Thomas buries progressivism, in speech at Austin University.
YT.
Drawing on his extensive tenure as a jurist, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a moving address at The University of Texas at Austin on the continued relevance of the Declaration of Independence. Describing the Declaration as the foundation of American government, Justice Thomas emphasized the need to valiantly safeguard its principles. Doing so, he detailed the threats to the Declaration’s principles, arguing that progressivist philosophies from the early 20th century to today seek to disregard the principles espoused there and eliminate natural rights in the process. Justice Thomas also shared the ways in which pivotal seasons in his own life—from his Georgia upbringing to his Catholic high school education—shaped him both as a jurist and as a citizen.
59:41. Perhaps play above video in background.
OR Coffee & Covid reported on Justice Thomas’ speech as well.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/otto-von-poopy-head-friday-april ht BarkerJim
On Wednesday, Justice Thomas, age 77 and apparently immune to biographers, marched into the University of Austin and declared independence from the administrative state on its behalf. ABC reported, “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America.” Blasts is accurate. But bazooka’d might be the mot juste. He called progressivism “an existential threat” to America, compared it to totalitarianism and slaveholding, and explicitly called for resistance comparable to the original American Revolution. Fix bayonets! It was a declaration of war.
Thomas, 77, delivered his incendiary remarks at the University of Austin Law School’s special 250th anniversary event on Wednesday. They were broadcast live on CSPAN to the entire world.
“As we meet today, it is unclear whether our Constitutional principles will endure,” the Justice began, warming to his theme. “At the beginning of the 20th century, a new set of first principles of government was introduced into the American mainstream … called progressivism.” It must be rooted out. “Progressivism has made many inroads in our system of government and our way of life,” he said. “It has coexisted uneasily with the principles of the Declaration. Because it is opposed to those principles, it is not possible for the two to coexist forever.”
In a single sentence, he ripped progressivism and the most annoying bumper sticker ever made.
He described the tentacled ideology as a European concept, a foreign import, landed on our shores by President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921). “Progressivism was not native to America. President Wilson and the progressives candidly admitted that they took it from Otto von Bismarck’s Germany, whose state-centric society they admired” so that we could “catch up with the more ‘advanced and sophisticated’ people of Europe.”
Progressivism flips the board on the Founders’ original intent. “Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government,” Thomas explained. “It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from the government,” and “requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with the Constitution.”
He called progressivism a murderous ideology. “Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration was based,” he said. “Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people.”
Residents of several neighboring states could hear the collective gasp from the faculty lounge at Harvard. It was the Supreme Court equivalent of dropping a live badger into a crowded elevator at a Democratic Socialists convention. He continued, going further, correctly noting that U.S. progressives embraced eugenics, racial segregation, forced sterilization, fascism (national socialism), and the grotesque notion that oats and nuts can somehow be “ethically milked” —whatever that is— if you squeeze them hard enough.
Thomas traced the murderous movement straight to elitist arrogance and scorn for ordinary American values. “President Wilson described the American people as ‘selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn’ and ‘foolish,’” he continued. (Though, to be fair, if you’ve ever driven on I-95 in South Florida, you’ll admit Wilson at least had a talking point.) Worse, the justice explained, “Wilson lamented that we do too much by vote and too little by expert rule.”
“Progressivism,” Thomas declared, “is retrogressive.”
He spoke carefully, as one of the nation’s top legal minds would. But it was nothing less than a call for revolution. “In my view,” he dramatically concluded, “we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the Declaration had, so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs.”
Then came the call to action: “It’s our country. It’s governed by our consent. Let us act like that and take ownership of it.” Stab them in the face. (After a fair trial, of course.)
🔥 In Austin, Justice Thomas stopped treating progressivism as a mere policy preference and openly described it as a rival regime. Progressivism is a wacky, spike-helmeted Bismarckian project that “seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government.”
It denies that rights are God‑given, and insists they flow from an all‑powerful administrative state. Because progressivism is “opposed to those principles,” Thomas explained, “it is not possible for the two to coexist forever,” a line that sounds less like standard conservative rhetoric and more like a formal declaration of war, easily comparable to the most inflammatory language found in the Declaration of Independence itself. (Democrats treat the Declaration of Independence the same way you treat a smoke alarm— by removing the battery to make it stop beeping.)
🔥 Critics on the academic left understood what Thomas was really up to. Progressive historian Tad Stoermer argued that the justice “is not doing what his critics will say he is doing,” meaning just a generic MAGA broadside, but “something considerably more precise, and considerably more dangerous.” In Stoermer’s view, Thomas is trying to reclaim the “sacred ground” of the Declaration for conservatives while banishing progressivism into the “profane” category— beyond the Pale of America’s civic religion altogether.
Stoermer wasn’t wrong.
Democrats furiously attacked the messenger —Thomas’s motives, his ethics, and his “extremism”— but gingerly avoided his central premise: that progressivism rejects the Declaration’s God‑given natural rights and aims to replace them. In short, they’re not saying he’s wrong. It’s like if the doctor tells you that you have a tapeworm occupying your small intestine, and you respond by criticizing the doctor’s leprechaun tie. You still have the tapeworm, but at least you didn’t have to talk about it anymore.
Their ad hominem reaction all but conceded the justice’s point. On cable news and in friendly write‑ups, Democrats denounced Thomas for “blasting” progressivism, accused him of endangering democracy, and recycled the usual ethics grievances— but none of them would touch his underlying claim that modern progressivism treats rights as government favors rather than gifts from God.
For instance, they didn’t argue that the Declaration’s language about being “endowed by their Creator” is wrong, or even that it’s compatible with Wilson’s idea of rights doled out by administrators; they just changed the subject. Their studied silence on the first principles is a kind of quiet confirmation that Thomas correctly identified the fault line— and Democrats decided not to fight him on that unfavorable ground.
Thomas essentially told them their political religion is a cheap German knockoff that leads to tyranny, and they responded by accusing him of using the salad fork to eat the crusted venison. Plus, he came in the wrong RV.
All that is well and good. But here’s the thing. Justice Thomas is not exactly a wallflower. When he speaks, he says exactly what he thinks, and always has. But he’s never gone this far before. He’s never declared war on progressivism as an “existential threat,” and declared, with all the majesty and force of his high office and at the peak of his rhetorical skill, that only one form of government can ultimately survive.
Does this new boldness mirror something happening behind the scenes in SCOTUS’s private chambers? Was it intended to frame a pending decision that could cause a political earthquake, like birthright citizenship, perhaps? Is this post-pandemic expert fatigue, and now even Supreme Court justices feel free to say out loud that the ideology of expertise itself is perverse and incompatible with popular self‑government?
Or does Thomas’s 9-minute manifesto mark a brand-new cultural inflection point?
We know one thing for sure: the conservative counter‑revolution has been winning. It gained ground during the excesses of the Biden administration and the pandemic, when the right fought a mostly defensive war against mandates, censorship, and rule-by-bureaucracy. It shifted into offensive gear after Trump’s re‑election, scoring visible victories against DEI, trans‑ideology, open borders, and a long string of similar cultural outposts.
And now, with Justice Thomas standing up in Austin to boldly announce that progressivism “seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration, and hence our form of government” and “cannot coexist forever” with it, the counter‑revolution looks remarkably like an army that has seized the high ground and is preparing to march onto the final battlefield.
We only need to get Justice Thomas a helmet with a spike on top, and then we’ll be fully prepared for the final boss battle— progressivism itself.
Ease up on the scroll wheels. Or not. 🙂
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Perfect time, for America to sever the chains. STOP propping up allies, friends…freeloading mooches. After their sucking up on America’s treasure, for decades.
Image AI. From American Thinker
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.
We, can NOT allow America to go the way of Europe and England. Down the…
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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.
Merica…The Land that I, We Love.
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West Side Story Saturday
America
4:56
Tonight
6:06
Maria
3:06
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Seriously…
…We’ll get through this, just fine!
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Someone mention, fishing…
Trace Adkins – Mind On Fishin’
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Night crew, your nickel.
KK
Trump 2028!
That “America” number is such a classic. The lyrics are amusing but also reflect real attitudes. The dancing is fantastic, with George Chakiris (the main guy) being a standout who appeared in a lot of movies. He is 93 today.
Yes, very interesting lyrics.
There were two different sets of lyrics, one for the broadway show, and a toned-down version for the movie.
I have to wonder what it would have been had Bernstein’s/Sondheim’s original concept survived… the original plan for the musical was sort of a Romeo and Juliet with a Catholic and a Jew…
Will be looking around for the Broadway version later this morning.
West Side Story a favorite here.
I meant the original Broadway one; the revival is probably different yet again…
I have the piano conductor score, as I performed it in high school and community theatre (piano)… It was a lot of fun, but a lot of work, do… Bernstein wasn’t shy about crazy time and key signatures, or trading five flats for six sharps in transitions (e.g. “A Boy Like That/I Have A Love”)… Brilliant musical…
Thanks for the clarification.
“This is the kind of recklessly American propaganda that I live for”
LMAO!!! Oh, that’s good!
Well that was fun!
In one scene it featured one of my favorite things; I love to watch someone who is a natural runner sprint full-out. I don’t know why.
My favorite part of any Tom Cruise movie is watching him run top speed. It’s like watching a bird fly, or a fish swim. He is fully in his element.
I saw Tom in an interview once talking about how dangerous his run in the first Mission: Impossible movie really was. He said if one thing was out of place, he was moving so fast he couldn’t stop, he would just crash. It seemed pretty scary to run that fast. Maybe that’s why I like it.
In one of my old horse mags, there was a story about one of the famous Quarter Horse race horses. They used to run on county fair courses and fly-by-night tracks.
Anyway they had a mishap on one of the courses because it had not had all the gunk removed. After that the horse refused to run unless he inspected the track first. The horse would walk around the course with his nose almost to the ground inspecting the footing.😅
SMART HORSE!
Lol, yeah!
DHIMMIS ARE DHUMMIES!
Love that fishin’ song! 💖🎣
Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo
Sadly, it was during Pres. Lincoln’s funeral procession. There are two little boys in a second-story window in the left part of the photo. They are Teddy Roosevelt and his brother. The full story is at the link.
Fascinating coincidence.
Had no idea, Lincoln’s funeral procession, included New York City.
“Less fearful of islam” he says, from behind his walls and guards.
The last pope I had any respect for was John Paul. He actually seemed to be religious.
I liked Benedict.
Yep. Pope Benedict was well-respected by both Catholics and Protestants alike, and he was an excellent theologan. Some of my son’s professors at Uni Tübingen were classmates of Pope Benedict’s, and they kept in touch over the years. A common thread was that Benedict was too conservative for Tübingen 🙂
Very interesting essay on the American Revolution – especially the idea that it happened BEFORE the fighting.
It all made so much sense.
You do not get a revolution until people are completely fed-up with the situation and see no other option. SO yes, the Revolution is going to be in the minds of the people FIRST.
BTW this is what 5th generation Warfare/Psy-ops is all about. The Globalists are fighting to take over the MINDS of our young people FIRST, with the hopes a kinetic war won’t even be necessary.
This ^^^^
MAGA is a revolution. We now see its manifestation on the world stage.
There was a lot of dissatisfaction in the Colonies about many things, that many don’t even realize.
For example, the reason for the Regulator Movement in South Carolina was the fact that there were no courts or legal system at all in the back country. And by that, I mean the entire state outside of Charleston.
If you committed a crime, you had to be tried in Charleston. If you needed to document a land grant, travel to Charleston. There were multiple steps to finalize a grant, also done in, you guessed it, Charleston. And that could be a journey, one-way, of over 200 miles.
When people were just trying to raise a family, feed themselves, and build a life, having to spend months traveling just to do paperwork was onerous, to say the least. And if somebody burned down your house, or murdered your neighbor, having to deliver him to Charleston hundreds of miles away was ridiculous.
Some of my ancestors were Regulators in South Carolina. Some were originally associated with the North Carolina Regulators, which formed for a completely different reason. They wanted fair taxation and better representation in the government, more closely resembling the eventual Revolutionaries. The NC Regulators ended at the Battle of Alamance, where they were crushed. Many fled the Colony, which is what led to the dissolution of the big church my ancestor Shubael Stearns started there. His brother Peter, my direct ancestor, ended up in a nest of Regulators in South Carolina.
The Revolution was the end result of “a long train of abuses and usurpations,” for sure.
AMEN! That sounds beyond onerous!
Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
WOW!!!
Grateful Wiseman shared that story. Perhaps the amazing sights, led to an awakening.
Thanks for bringing this, TT.
She’s got a point…
Leo knows exactly what he’s doing.
He took his marching orders from David Axelrod.
Who takes his orders from Hussein the Betrayer.
Prog Nazis are prognazicating!
It might seem hard to believe, but originally Lebanon was a majority Christian country…
‘Slims. They’re trouble.
Yep… and now we’ve got Virginia ‘slims… 😡 😡 😡 😡
“You’ve come a long way, baby! Now it’s time to get dragged by the hair, back to the cave!”
Like Frances, Leo is a disappointment.
That’s an understatement.
The contrasts between the pope and PDJT is on full display.
One standing up for the people and God, and one isn’t…….
Everyone has to pick their side.
Promethean Action video slightly up or down, posted by Scott, explains perfectly where my thoughts are based.
Likely controversial. Not intended to be. Simply an observation.
Europe. The Vatican. Pope. Which happens to be Leo.
Europe Has Become A Joke.
Leo can’t see the strangle hold, London has has on, maintaining global tensions.
Yup. They know how to pull his puppet strings.
Sorry, I wasn’t directing that at you or anyone here. Just an observation of what the uninformed sheeple are missing.
Previous was post taken as you intended. 
👍
I’m psyched that VSGPDJT targeted “Pope” Leo.
Finally, a salvo against the Vatican!
Sovereign City-States, wherein the Vatican holds authority over all souls, the City of London rules over money, and DC provides the might / military strength.
The three are (for just a little while longer) united under their shared flag of three red stars on a white field.
If one allows for the amazing conspiracy theories proffered by Q, the anons, and others – MOST of which have been demonstrated to hold water – then this last target, the Vatican, completes the triangle.
Power, money, and might.
Remember the Trump rally when he uttered “My name is Donald John”? It was a powerful clue, that his OWN name is separate from his family’s name, the surname.
It may be that using both the individual’s name *and* the family’s name is IMPROPER, legally.
Imagine that all birth certificates are deficient, and that’s how we’ve lost our God-given rights.
UCC coding, registration, etc., like chattle.
Let’s see what happens…
Your theory is far beyond the fence line. 😂
Predictive programming!
And, as I’m sure that most know here – I don’t need no stinkin’ fences!
Freedom of speech reflects freedom of thought.
Glad you’re healing (however the pace).
Cheers!
Promethean Action associate video that I just found, posted OT:
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Solid Overview of President Trump’s Consequence from the Promethean Action PAC
April 17, 2026
SD: “Mike Steger from the Promethean group presents thoughtful analysis of the change President Trump is bringing to a new era in geopolitical alignment. This is an interesting and insightful review.
As noted by Mr Steger:
“From direct negotiations between the United States and Iran for the first time in nearly half a century… to coordinated diplomatic and military movement across the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond… the old geopolitical order is being replaced in real time. This is not chaos. This is strategy.”
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The global shift begins
1:20 The strategy behind the Iran deal
3:05 Blockade pressure and economic impact
5:10 Diplomacy with teeth: Islamabad talks
7:20 Iran moves closer to a deal
9:00 Nations aligning: Pakistan, India, China
11:15 A global reset in motion
13:10 The long game: from Riyadh to today
15:20 The new Middle East framework
17:10 Europe’s decline and the old order fading
18:50 What this moment really means
Time well invested, listening to this video.
Big Picture Dot Connecting, that Trump has been engineering for ~Ten Years.
World leaders, around the Globe, are openly or tacitly supporting Trump.
Well, that is except Europe. Which as stated in this video, Europe Has Become A Joke.
Golden Age of America, meets potentially the, Golden Age Across The Seas.
(Such optimism is rare for Slow Guy.)
“…This is not chaos. This is strategy.”
No Schiff! If I can see the moves, I can not believe others with more knowledge are unable to see the moves. That means they (the Fake News) are LYING…. As usual.
Fake news is working hard to keep a herd of deluded Dem sheeple intact, going BAH BAH BAH with TDS.
As good a place as any to put this. You can’t negotiate with religious fanatic terrorists. They are not, can not, and will not negotiate in good faith. It’s an exercise in futility, and it is pissing me off.
Summary:
Iranian Forces Open Fire On Tanker
The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reports that a tanker was “approached by 2 IRGC gunboats, with no VHF challenge, and then fired upon.”
UKMTO did not provide any further details about the two Iranian vessels that fired on the tanker or the type of weapons used in the maritime incident, which was reported to have occurred 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman.
Assume that President Trump is about to become absolutely furious on Truth Social. One can also assume that backchanneling and behind-the-scenes talks are not going well if an incident like this occurred ahead of the U.S.-Iran weekend negotiations.
Hormuz Closed (Again)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bit-chaos-hormuz-reportedly-shuts-agains-ships-make-u-turn
Until the Iranian people are dragging dead mullahs through the streets, armed to the teeth by somebody other than lying Kurds, without the IRGC shooting back because they’ve fled or are dead, this shit will go on.
I am totally with Trump about the need to shut down Iran’s nuclear AND ballistic missile programs. More about that later. I GET IT. But believing any Muslim except a DEAD MUSLIM is futile.
SPOT ON!
Iranians have got to be armed. Once armed. constant ambushes.
Ground War needs to happen, by Iranians. May already be happening. Internet blackout.
IIRC, I think I saw a story that the IRCG was getting ambushed but I can no longer find it.
There were a few reports:
Thanks for bringing the sauce.
AMbushes on IRGC islamis are sporadic. If they ever get Internet, ambush reports will be via firehose.
IRGC islamis are propped up by Internet blackout.
And yes – there is no negotiating with any Muslims except dead ones. I believe what dead Muslims say.
Well said! They are incredibly inflexible and refuse to admit defeat!
“Raisins!? I was not told there would be raisins!”
“I believe what dead Muslims say.”
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Even the dead ones are lying…
It’s all frustrating.
Agree, there is no negotiating with fanatics. IRGC islamis perfect examples.
Fundamentally, IRGC islamis are skeered not ready to meet their fate.
Trump will stay the course.
After all tanker traffic is cleared, IRGC islamis are going to be in a world of hurt.
Can’t see IRGC islamis have any cards to play.
IRGC islamis are getting desperate. Llikely Will Panic.
FACT IS, IRGC islamis Are going bankrupt AND Their Fate IS Coming.
It could take years to secure and open the strait, but America will find a way.
We must, and we will much – about that – be committed 👍
One can also assume that backchanneling and behind-the-scenes talks are not going well if an incident like this occurred ahead of the U.S.-Iran weekend negotiations.
I think that what you are seeing is an absence of central leadership. The country breaks down into fiefdoms and warlords acting independently. It will be difficult for the Iranian negotiators to keep these small power groups under control. These kind of actions are generally eradicated only after a new consensus government is in place.
Somewhere it was mentioned that VSGPDJT noted that there were 24 different factions vying for control, with one of them in the lead so far…
Tribal battles like those playing out in the streets of Berlin every day. Five “Lebanese” Clans, a biker gang, and some skinheads duking it out… animals…
I believe that the present chaos was intended by the IRGC as a war strategy in the event the leadership was neutralized. I believe it is referred to as the Medusa strategy. Independent units of the local IRGC were to act autonomously. That may be what was demonstrated by the reported attacks on ships in the Strait.
The best part is that DJT can act all furious on Truth Social, and then laugh out loud to himself, because the only people harmed by the Hormuz being paralyzed are all of our adversaries:
1) iran, losing more money and their oil wells will soon have to stop pumping due to lack of storage, causing long term damage
2) CCP chyna, which loses a significant percentage of their oil imports which they were getting at heavily discounted prices
3) the confederation of euroweenies who get lots of their oil and other goods through Hormuz
The disruption is already creating permanent rerouting and sourcing as importers de-risk their exposure to Hormuz.
America is selling more oil than ever before.
euroweenies are now dependent on America for oil and LNG, giving their boogeyman (DJT) total economic leverage over them.
So it appears that every time Hormuz gets shut down, America benefits and all our adversaries suffer.
I don’t know how long we can endure that much winning — but I’m willing to find out 🤣
Interesting password-protected SD post.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/17/background-update/
He’s asking us not to pass the PW around, and to keep this post a bit under wraps. I agree with his concerns. If you are registered and you need the password, contact me on Gab or X by PM and let me know here that you are contacting me. I can give it to you by PM.
Please don’t post the password openly here.
Not sure what is supposed to happen but …
I right-button clicked the link to open in a new window [which it did].
All I got was an empty password box with an enter button.
No password.
So even if I wanted to spread it around, I couldn’t. 😆
If there’s a next move, I sure don’t know it.
If you know the password, type it in the password box and click enter 👍
Your deadpan delivery is perfect.
Thank you, I’ve been practicing 😁
A couple possible, next moves.
From Wolf’s post.
Let it remain an unsolved mystery and move on.
FWIW. Briefly scanned SD blathering.
My take away. Vintage SD. Lots of key strokes. Something inbound.
Can’tWon’t say what it is.Just dawned on Slow Guy.
OMFG. Was just about to post. Only thing missing is, Support CTH Here.
Went back and looked.
LMAO!!!
More than that, he is taking credit for having directed a major breakthrough.
The problem I have is that I doubt we could ever know the details of it or who said what (which would allow us to form our own impressions), so it leaves me with the feeling of being fed self-serving, riddle-infested crumbs that we are supposed to believe, follow, and admire. I don’t need to know about it until there is a report that says he met with So-and-so and gave them such-and-such and navigated through the obstacles placed by specific people. Since the chances of his ever saying that are slim to none, I don’t need to be patronized for someone else’s glory. “Bring the receipts,” as they say; but apparently that is conveniently not possible.
I opened it and tried the usual CTH password, which worked.
Amazing, really, considering how long ago I was banned…..
Apparently he has no reason to change it. I don’t think he’s trying to hide the password protected posts from people with genuine interest, I think it has to do with keeping it away from web-crawlers.
With that in mind.
Cracking up here. AI. Grok.
Grok around the clock 🙂
So Grok can access the pw-protected post?
I was going to check myself, but since I already accessed the post by password, I can’t copy & past the original link to Grok to find out.
Grock around the block?
(It’s always a mistake for me to go over there.) I will respect the stated need for secrecy and will only remark that he is taking credit for something major while criticizing those who place obstacles due to their desire for credit. Since everything must remain secret, I would rather not get reports about things that can’t be named, which is what I expect to continue to happen. I see no need to keep talking in riddles that don’t convey information while stating that one is orchestrating events, if one doesn’t want credit. Just do the work, if such exists, and keep it secret.
if you never say it plainly and openly, you can claim later that you were right all along and that the readers misconstrued his conclusions.
You can’t imagine how many arguments/discussions/debates I won in elementary school with that little trick.
Fun times.
Yes, and you also avoid dealing with major players disputing your version of events.
Not everyone is cut out for the greatness of changing the world and never being known for it. We still to this day don’t know for sure the names of all of Washington’s spy ring. We still to this day don’t know for sure who told Dr. Joseph Warren that the British were headed out.
There are so many unsung heroes who worked fearlessly for freedom, but whose names are unknown. Some seem unwillingly to settle for only knowing that they did it.
Hear! Hear!Silence. Silence.
Very creative use of the strikeout function. Kudos.
Hubby’s grandpa was a newspaper man who was friends with Elijah P. Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor, who had his printing presses destroyed.
After that Hubby’s grandpa burned all his correspondence. I wonder what history went up in flames.
The Babylon Bee:
SCOTUS Rules Death Penalty Is OK For People Who Post ‘BREAKING’ And A Siren Emoji Before Every Tweet
😆 😆 😆
I’ve started leaving “breaking” out when I copy and paste X posts.
LMAO!!!
Their credibility is never coming back.
I thought everybody already knew Gina was dirty.
Anyone paying attention knew…..
I suppose that means Pompeo was too.
yup
We “know” a lot of things, but having documented proof is important.
LOL!!!
Recently yootoob has removed the ability to toggle off time-stamps in the transcripts. Because $$$ (somehow, because it’s always about money).
While looking for a solution, I found a website that eliminates the time-stamps. There is something about uploading a “.sbv” transcript file (whatever that is), but fortunately you can also just copy the section of transcipt you want and paste it in the text box, and it will eliminate the time-stamps that way too.
This is the website link:
https://timewipe.deepakness.com/youtube/
Thanks!
I ended up giving the timestamped transcripts to Hubby who then put it thru E-Max
devastating news about Mom. She has uterine cancer and given her age, the doctors decided not to do a biopsy (VERY painful for her) but they said they could see the large mass on the CT scan. She is getting discharged back to her Memory Care facility today while my brother and sister in law look for hospice for her.
So sorry, 🙏
thanks Brave
Hugs!!!
thanks, I need them.
Oh my goodness, Pat….I am so sorry to hear.
thanks coothie
Terrible news. Prayers for Mom’s comfort. 
thanks kal.
If it were me, I’d (a) look for an independent second diagnosis; (b) investigate how to administer ivermectin or moxidectin with goat spit (needn’t be injected or oral, will absorb through skin); and (c) investigate how to administer supplemental vitamins with fenben or Mebendazole.
And, of course, re-read where Linda testified.
None of these have the side effects of chemo, radiation, or surgery.
Linda’s article : https://www.theqtree.com/2024/12/04/my-cancer-journey-by-linda-and-20241204-open-thread/
family dynamics prevents this.
I live 4 hours from her–my brother? 20 minutes. he has POA. they (he and his wife) made sure mom got every cv vax and booster available to her because they were FREE. my resignations about the issue were overruled.
If you visit her, you can give her ivermectin surreptitiously. I’ve had a plan in place since Covid.
Make a special “foot and hand cream.” Use some regular, fast absorbing lotion. Blend in horse paste ivermectin gel from the feed store. Rub it into her hands and feet. Can’t hurt, might help.
I don’t know if this will help you or not, but somebody else might need the Machiavellian delivery method someday.
thanks.
Maybe DMSO? Might talk to Midwestern doctor about possibility.
DMSO stinks (many can smell it – I used it as a lab solvent all the time) and even the purest grade will cause strong garlic breath in the patient due to biological reduction – which could even lead to a further misdiagnosis, more wrong meds, and eventually culpability when the system needs to blame somebody.
IMO don’t take the risk.
Regular creams will work, IMO. Ivermectin is strong at small doses, and large areas of skin are a good way to amplify the topical dose. Also, using it underneath hospital socks will amplify the effect. IMO she can get close to an oral dose by steadfast topical application.
Plus, the best part, is that ivermectin has almost zero interaction with other drugs, and should have almost no side effects at topical doses.
YES.
This is a great idea!
I had all sorts of plans “just in case” during Covid. I thought out many possible scenarios and strategies. I am a certified pastor now, card-carrying, because of Covid. Benefit of clergy was something I hoped they couldn’t deny someone in a hospital.
I’ve said for years they don’t want to make me a subversive. I hate it, but I am quite capable of it.
Excellent preparation!
DMSO???
That’s awful.
Being denied the chance for a second opinion? No words.
IVM, Fenben / Meben, vitamins could possibly make a difference. Yes, there are issues, like age and co-morbidities — but there’s always a chance they could help.
DAMN THE COVID-19 “VACCINES.”
THEY HAVE ZERO BENEFIT AND 100% RISK.
agreed. and i disagreed vehemently when she told she was getting the first one, but i was overruled.
There comes a time when you have ‘run your race’ [as Paul said], and any further effort on your part would simply be a waste. That’s when it’s appropriate to put on one’s shoes and start truckin’ on down the road.
When I’ve accepted reality like that, an amazing amount of relief has come upon me.
Reality. Sucks to realize it. A relief to accept, reality.
More encounters with it…
YES. That’s where I’ve recently landed.
What’s happening with you? Whatever it is, you have my prayers.
I’m fine just grappling with the whole aging industrial complex which I’ve been part of via my mother for the past 6 months. If ever there was a time for acceptance it’s old age. The relief, for the elderly and their families would be immense. Great insight from kalbo. Appreciate the prayers.
No problem! “Aging industrial complex” is a gem – and quite real!!!
Very true, but it still hurts. Even decades later.
I’m hoping to talk to her before i fight too hard for something maybe she doesn’t want.
Yes! I trust your discernment on this.
Wise you are.
That is pure wisdom right there. Good for you.
👍👍
I had the same thing happen with my mom. She and I had a long discussion about those jabs and she decided not to take it. Then the next thing I know, one of my nephews took her down to get the shot basically behind my back. I didn’t find out until weeks later.
Grrrrrr……
Well-meaning, but still.
GRRRRRRRR!
family!
I am so sorry to hear that Pat. I went thru the same thing with my Mom and later my Dad. I have not spoken to my EX-brother since Dad’s funeral because of it.
It is soul killing to know you might have helped and were prevented by avarice family members.
👃Prayers for you and your Mom. 
thanks Gail.
OMG.
Extra prayers for your strength and peace of mind.
It sounds like you did the right thing, respecting the POA, and being overruled, rather than creating a family firestorm.
i wanna hear how Mom feels before i put on that armor. If she is accepting, then I’ll spend whatever time is left, making her feel loved and try to bring her some smiles.
AMEN!!!
Great plan. Mom’s wishes. Enjoy the days.
Wishing you strength and patience as you work through, heart wrenching times.
she’d do it for me.
Pat 💔 that’s very sad news . Sending love and hugs
thanks Molly.
Oh, I am sorry. That’s very sad. I hope you will be able to spend a lot of time with her in the coming days and weeks.
thanks Aubergine…we’re hoping to.
Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, DOUBLED vitamins???
Scientific Study: Unexpected Antitumorigenic Effect of Fenbendazole when Combined with Supplementary Vitamins
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2687140/
Linda had breast cancer: https://www.theqtree.com/2024/12/04/my-cancer-journey-by-linda-and-20241204-open-thread/
Ivermectin’s Anticancer Effects and… – Integrative Cancer Care
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells
The decision by the world’s premier cancer research institute to study ivermectin as a cancer treatment has alarmed career scientists at the agency.
If the career fakers were true scientists they would be thrilled to try anything that may provide a cure for cancer. That is unless they do not give a rats azz about humanity and only want to pad their pockets and comfy lifestyles.
Oh wait…
Nothing worse than “healers” who knowingly DON’T HEAL.
Charlatans, pretenders, and snake-oil salesmen.
Money money MONEY!!!
Pfft.
I’m so sorry to hear about this. Please, if you feel the need, make sure that the hospice arranges for spiritual counseling for yourself. Hospice is supposed to offer spiritual counseling services for the patient and the patient’s family.
Sending Good Energy, Deep Courage, prayers — and hugs.
thanks CV…I’ll keep that in mind.
So sorry to hear this. Praying for you all. 🙏 💔
Hospice is a real blessing. I have seen so much good done by them, both for family and friends.
Will pray for your mother and your whole family as you “walk through the valley of the shadow of death”🙏🙏🙏
thanks firefly.
I’m sorry that your mom, you, and your family are going through this. Ongoing prayers for her physical, mental, and spiritual state and that she will not endure pain. 🙏 Strength and comfort for you all as you navigate through this difficult time. 🙏
thanks TT
Oh, Pat, I’m so sorry to hear this. Prayers up for her and you and your family. It may not be possible in this situation, but if there is any way to smuggle some ivermectin in to her and get her to take it every day, it could help.
thank you, but i don’t think it would be possible with her memory at this point.
🙏 for both of you. May she pass without pain and peacefully.
thanks TB
I am very sorry about the news Pat, and about the family dynamic which doesn’t make things any easier.
I am praying for you and your Mom.
thanks Scott
Prayers up, Pat… May GOD Strengthen and Comfort you and your Mom, heal her, and heal your family too; and guide all the medical folks involved…
thanks Cuppa, I appreciate it.
So sorry for your Mom, Pat.
After reading your post about her plight, I had a feeling, but didn’t want to say so.
For every season…
It’s a high blessing to have so many family members – she, and you, have done so much – and followed the “Be fruitful and multiply” edict.
Celebrate such a blessed life lived!
ES
thank you Sir.
omar claims accounting people made a huge error and she had to revise her 2024 financial disclosure statement. it went from $30,000,000 to $18,000. a $30 million dollar accounting error that has been “revised” away. i‘m sure the money is long gone, but if this doesn’t trigger an investigation, what will? after all, she SIGNED it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15743895/Ilhan-Omar-excuse-multimillionare-fraud-investigation.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
Nothing like COMPOUNDING the crime. Banks have to be involved unless she was literally shipping cash via couriers to Somalia.
This woman is CRAFTY with the bucks. No 60 IQ there, IMO.
OR she has a very good handler.
or they were using the inflated number to secure premium loan funding for something else…
Some daycares and learing centers…
they are the silent partners
She [or the estate] will have to prove undue influence of the tax preparer as a first step. This can be quite difficult sometimes.
It’s usually easier [after she passes] to prove she was incompetent and the tax preparer knew it AND benefited by keeping the info concealed.
I was presented with this problem when my mother passed. My sisters plotted to have her change her will disenfranchising me eight days before she died.
Mom was a multi-millionaire from a botched surgery about ten years earlier that settled a year before. Mom had told me years earlier that her will would always have equal shares for her kids. I guess a million bucks each wasn’t enough – they had to make sure I got none of it.
I surmise it was because my bio father was different than theirs. I wasn’t really part of the family even though I was adopted by their father.
I know this is TMI and I’m sorry if I screwed up anybody’s Saturday.
WOW. Not TMI. Sad story.
so sorry pgroup!
I don’t know how you, as a member of congress, can claim you didn’t realize your financial disclosure was off close to $30 Million. she signed her name to it. and only revised it because attention was drawn to it.
with $30Million in ghost money now, watch for the accountant to “disappear” so he can no information.
He sure is a candidate for the Clintoon treatment.
I feel for you Pgroup.
My EX-brother bribed Dad’s lawyer into HIDING THE FACT HE HAD THE WILL IN HIS SAFE.
It was just shear luck I found an envelope stuck under a filing cabinet drawer. A filing cabinet my brother had completely cleaned out. When presented with the evidence of the statement by my father that he had the will, the lawyer IMMEDIATELY coughed it up. I wanted to sue that lawyer, but my lawyer talked me out of it.
Unfortunately brother dear had already grabbed most of the valuables that were to come to me AND convinced the rest of the family that I was just nasty, greedy and insane. He even tried to talk MY lawyer into viewing me as insane. That had to do with the fact he had by that time 8 relatives die in his house a couple days after they signed a will leaving everything to him. (And yes a lawyer friend living in my brother’s town dug up all that evidence for me.) He is now a multi-millionaire and I have not had anything to do with any of them ever since.
Hubby’s family on the other hand are all sweeties so I gained back what I had lost when I married.
That sounds like my story, except I only have a few bits and pieces to go on. I didn’t even know mom was in hospice. I have no dealings with either of them nor do I desire any. Let somebody else evangelize them.
AMEN BROTHER!
Just because they are ‘family’ does not mean they can not be ‘not nice humans’ (my lawyers term for my brother and his wife.)
Your bro sounds like he’s a murderer as well as a thief 
A mass murderer!
Yes! A Monstrously Evil Man!
That’s really rough. Hubby’s mom was cut out of her family fortune too, by a vengeful step-dad that she’d threatened to kill if he wouldn’t stop beating up her mom 🙁
I don’t think mistakes of that kind and of that magnitude would be made by most lay people, let alone professional accountants.
Gosh did I screw that up. I mixed up the Omar tax return comment with the Mom-has-cancer comment [in my addled brain] and got a picture that Mom had 30 million stolen via shenanigans.
This caused my other comment to be weirdly placed [I think]. So sorry.
Got it, no worries.
Yes, family members can go “off the rails” when the demise of a parent (especially a surviving parent) is “closer down the road”, let alone after the parent passes away.
lol…thanks for the laugh. mom certainly does not have $30 million.
“This caused my other comment to be weirdly placed [I think].”
Which comment(s) was weirdly placed? You crack me up at time PG.
Thanks for the chuckles. Along with an occasional, 
Thank you, KK!!! Very well said!!!
YW. Luck on my part.
Excellent refresher on events leading to Revolutionary War.
Complimented by timely, Justice Thomas’ speech.
trying to get a handle on taxpayer funding for useless degrees.
FTA
The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it will be stripping federal student loan funding from any college program that does not yield a high salary after the student graduates.
Stereotypically worthless degrees in areas like “women’s and gender studies” have become the standing joke that jabs at how unserious college has become. But under new proposed rulemaking from the Education Department, if schools want to offer degrees that bury students in debt while giving them poor job prospects, the institutions will have to fund those programs themselves.
“The Trump Administration’s proposed accountability framework is grounded in common sense: if postsecondary education programs do not leave graduates better off, taxpayers should not subsidize them,” Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent said in a press release. “This consensus-backed framework will drive meaningful change in postsecondary education, ending years of regulatory whiplash and addressing student debt that has left too many students worse off.”
(more)
Right now, the Education Department’s student loan portfolio, funded by the American taxpayer, is nearly $1.7 trillion. It is estimated that fewer than 40 percent of borrowers are in repayment, and nearly 25 percent of borrowers are in default.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/17/trump-admin-to-stop-taxpayer-funding-of-worthless-college-degrees/
It was ALWAYS about US Tax payers FUNDING MARXIST INDOCTRINATION.
i think it’s egregious for taxpayers to fund college courses that do not lead to employment. lesbian basket weaving …WHO needs that class? how does it transform into a paying job after graduation. if you wanna take it on you own..feel free.
h/t Marica
AwakenedOutlaw
@AwakenedOutlaw
If you were wondering why Trump is so damn interested in getting his hands on any uranium in Iran, even the “dust,” here’s one reason.
Once acquired, experts can undertake a process called nuclear forensic analysis (aka provenance determination), whereby it can be determined where the ore originated, and I don’t mean in general.
They can confirm its origin not only down to the country (or general region) it came from, but also to the mine from which it was extracted.
Smart money is on their ore being confirmed to have come from a Uranium mine in Montana.
Now stop and consider the implications of that being true, if that’s what’s ultimately proven.
‘Sum of all Fears’ energy comes to mind.
Not on my Bingo card.
Leo. Axelrod. hussein. Hmm.
i hope this is a lead up to the take down of both hitlery and obummer.
YUP!
Hitlery Clinton, Obama and URANIUM ONE Scandal….
Trade, Capitalism, John Locke, English Bill of Rights…
The Shadow State 67: The City of London (1 hour)
War Hampster (Brady) gives a lesson in banking history starting with a quick review of the Dutch System.
William and Mary are invited by English nobles and merchant princes (British East Indies Co) to over throw the CATHOLIC English king in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The important parts were they accepted the Bill of Rights of 1689, shifting England to constitutional monarchy, and they bring the Dutch Financial System with them.
William III (r. 1689-1702) and Mary II (r. 1689-1694) | The Royal Family
HOWEVER THERE WAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT RESULT THAT BRADY OUTLINES.
8:00 Brady:
But the cool thing is William… brings all these great ideas with him. Things like a stock exchange. A central Bank. In fact the Bank of England would be founded 6 years later. And we know where that lead us to.
Col Towner:
So he is just transferring the Dutch Empire to the English Empire.
Brady:
Yeah, We talked about how the Dutch securitized their entire industry. They stopped producing goods and services, and they just basically speculated all over the world. It is exactly what wall Street became. They [the Dutch] have already been investing in the British pounds because it pays bigger interest… So they are subsitizing their own enemies.
THAT IS WHY THE DUTCH FELL. tHEY HAD STRETCHED TOO THIN AND THEY WERE FINANCIALLY SPECULATING ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Col Towner: Which is what you see happening today.
Brady: Well that is why we are telling the story so we do not repeat it too.
…..
Investopedia — Understanding Securitization: Definition, Examples, and Impact on Markets
Scary
https://toresays.substack.com/p/inside-job-blueprint-for-an-american
INSIDE JOB| Blueprint for an American Color Revolution Part I — The Core Group
Alternate website:
https://toresays.com/
Also a listing: https://scfreedomfighters.com/toresays/
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-moderate-whats-coming
Trump is a Moderate. What’s Coming is Far More Conservative.
Nothing thrills us white folk more than a good old fashioned rescue mission.
Yet that is how Congress gets its members – by increasing the number of critters it makes for additional cockroaches in D.C.
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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 Saturday, April 18, 2026
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“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
1 Thessalonians 5:9 (KJV)
COMMENTARY FOR 1 THESSALONIANS 5:9
The apostle exhorts to be always ready for the coming of Christ to judgment, which will be with suddenness and surprise. (1-11) He directs to several particular duties. (12-22) And concludes with prayer, greetings, and a blessing. (23-28)
1-5 It is needless or useless to ask about the particular time of Christ’s coming. Christ did not reveal this to the apostles. There are times and seasons for us to work in, and these are our duty and interest to know and observe; but as to the time when we must give up our account, we know it not, nor is it needful that we should. The coming of Christ will be a great surprise to men. Our Lord himself said so. As the hour of death is the same to each person that the judgment will be to mankind in general, so the same remarks answer for both. Christ’s coming will be terrible to the ungodly. Their destruction will overtake them while they dream of happiness, and please themselves with vain amusements. There will be no means to escape the terror or the punishment of that day. This day will be a happy day to the righteous. They are not in darkness; they are the children of the light. It is the happy condition of all true Christians. But how many are speaking peace and safety to themselves, over whose heads utter destruction is hovering! Let us endeavour to awaken ourselves and each other, and guard against our spiritual enemies.
6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly things should be known to all men. Shall Christians, who have the light of the blessed gospel shining in their faces, be careless about their souls, and unmindful of another world? We need the spiritual armour, or the three Christian graces, faith, love, and hope. Faith; if we believe that the eye of God is always upon us, that there is another world to prepare for, we shall see reason to watch and be sober. True and fervent love to God, and the things of God, will keep us watchful and sober. If we have hope of salvation, let us take heed of any thing that would shake our trust in the Lord. We have ground on which to build unshaken hope, when we consider, that salvation is by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, to atone for our sins and to ransom our souls. We should join in prayer and praise one with another. We should set a good example one before another, and this is the best means to answer the end of society. Thus we shall learn how to live to Him, with whom we hope to live for ever.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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From Exile to Belonging | Verse of the Day – April 18, 2026 (Morning Prayer)
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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN
BE MY VOICE
CHILD NOT CHOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
WHERE ARE YOU, LORD?
In the early morning light, I see YOU;
I begin the day just right; I pray, too;
I recall the blessings YOU have given;
I ask to be Holy Spirit driven!
I thank you for the sunshine YOU have sent;
For the flowers and trees; their nourishment;
I thank YOU profusely for loving me;
And pray I may serve YOU graciously!
Oh, but lately, Lord, I’m having trouble;
I’m anxious, lonely, and seeing double;
I do not know what has come over me;
It’s been really hard connecting with Thee!
Overwhelmed at times, I can find no rest;
From the constant barrage of evil’s quest;
From unwelcome guests who rob me of time;
From interrupted prayers to outright crime!
Where are you, Lord? I need you right now;
Come quickly into my heart somehow;
Fill me with your Spirit and make me whole;
Let me suffer no more with this empty soul!
Hear my cry in the day and into the night;
Protect me by day and by night, be my light;
Let not Thy presence be hidden from me;
In your mercy, Lord, hide my sin from Thee!
Whatever I have done or have not done;
Let it be known; let victory be won;
Gather me into Thy Loving embrace;
Wash the pain and tears away from my face!
Reveal to me what I have done so wrong;
Away from YOU, I have suffered so long;
The emptiness inside is so hard to bear;
I wonder, at times, if YOU are even there!
Where are you, Lord? Oh, please hear my call;
I’m confused, broken in my wherewithal;
Why are you silent in my time of need?
Is it because of my secular greed?
Have I not attended to my daily prayer?
Have I neglected for my neighbor to care?
Have I been selfish thinking only of me?
Oh yes, that is it – that is what it must be!
Hence the reason for the anxiety;
My trust in YOU, Lord, has just ceased to be;
My heart is on things of the world not YOU;
No wonder I’m hurting, lonely, and blue!
Thank you, DEAR LORD, for clearing the air;
For sending YOUR SPIRIT for me to care;
For renewing in me hope, love, and peace;
For making this longing finally cease!
Forgive me, Lord, for my selfish pride;
For from you I have been trying to hide;
For feeling unworthy to share with YOU;
My ineptitude and shortcomings, too!
Why did I even think YOU did not care?
Why did I ever refuse with YOU to share?
Why did I think YOU could never relate?
To the suffering I simply abate!
Did you not see in the Garden at prayer?
The loneliness a man is forced to bear;
When he is abandoned by all in the end;
When no one will stay; not even a friend?
Did you not ask for this cup to pass?
Was it your fear? What was it alas?
Was this just another human refrain?
Something YOU would do all over again?
No, you were not complaining it’s not fair;
And you were not wishing YOU did not care;
YOU were just preparing YOUR human side;
To let YOUR soul with YOUR Father reside!
So I’ll take my cue directly from YOU;
And stop thinking of me as YOU would do;
Deny myself and just follow YOUR lead;
And YOU will provide whatever I need!
D01: 4/05/2013
STRENGTHEN MY HEART
Have mercy on me, my Lord and my God;
For I am distressed – in chains I am shod;
My tears flow like rivers – raging from strain;
My heart is pierced – my throat aches in pain!
My life spent in sorrow – and in deep regret;
My sins are before me – I cannot forget;
In repentance I seek You – for right relief;
Your loving kindness is – my refuge – belief!
Lord – affliction – has broken down my strength;
From helplessness, stress – I suffer at length;
My foes have encompassed me – all around;
They ravage me daily – destruction bound!
I trust in You, Lord – take comfort in You;
Come to my aid – Lord – Refresh me anew;
My life is in Your hands – if it be Your Will;
Calm the waters – from their raging – be still!
Feed me – knead me – with Your nourishing grace;
Through faith without fear – my weakness erase;
Infuse me with courage – and strengthen me;
Help me be steadfast – a stronghold like Thee!
Let me be glad and rejoice in Your love;
Assured in Your goodness sent from above;
Let me not – for one moment – be fearful;
Keep me far from unsure – doubtful – tearful!
Free me from distress – of body and mind;
Help me walk self-assured – no longer blind;
With my life in Your hands – deliver me;
From the throes of my foes – let me be free!
Strengthen My Heart – as only You know how;
Pour forth Your knowledge – understanding now;
Send in Your angels – with reinforcements;
Lift up my spirit – in inch increments!
Send forth Your Spirit – to enlighten me;
With knowledge – understanding – wisdom be;
A tower of strength – instilled in my heart;
Let not Your Spirit – from me ere depart!
Strengthen My Heart – as only You know how;
Pour forth Your knowledge – understanding now;
Send in Your angels – with reinforcements;
Lift up my spirit – in inch increments!
Send forth Your Spirit – to enlighten me;
With knowledge – understanding – wisdom be;
A tower of strength – instilled in my heart;
Let not Your Spirit – from me ere depart!
Strengthen My Heart – my Lord and my King;
Let the indwelling Spirit – His power bring;
Your justice – Oh Lord – from on high rain down;
Let Your Heavenly Grace – be forever my crown!
D01: 09/30/2013
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sour-grapes-saturday-april-18-2026
Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! It’s time for the weekend update. Your roundup includes: the Wall Street Journal’s spectacular editorial U-turn on Iran, from “reckless brinksmanship” to “Trump has the right instincts” — in three weeks flat; Trump’s Chokepoint Strategy quietly locking down Hormuz, Malacca, and Gibraltar in 30 days; NATO heroically showing up after the fight is over; AI coming for your doctor (and why that’s actually good news); and Ilhan Omar’s $30 million “accounting error” that didn’t quite jump off the page.
(Thanks to alert readers who called in yesterday to offer eyeball advice. My right eye still feels remarkably like a soft-boiled egg in a Cuisinart, but it is improved from yesterday.)
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
prayeveryday777
https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️
KK; THIS IS SO GREAT !!! CLARENCE THOMAS !!! THANKS SO MUCH !!! ❤️
MANY BOOKS WILL BE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS MAN !!! WHAT A BLESSING HE IS !!!
TRADE ??? YOU VOLUNTEERING ??? YOU COULD MAKE A GAZILLION $ AND LIVE LIKE A KING !!! JUST SAYING… 🙃
Yes. Justice Thomas, is an American treasure!
I keep hearing good things about this movie. Can anybody hear vouch for them?
I saw it a couple of weeks ago. I had read the book. It follows the book fairly closely. I liked the book. I liked the movie. My opinion is that it is worth the time and money.
Thank you!!!
Strong opener today, Kal. Had already rolled the primary point of Justice Thomas’ comments about progressivism into the underlying cause in an opener a few weeks from now. And yes, it included summary points of the American history you brought today.
As Gail and I continue to point out, the root of evil comes from the City of London. They use captured religions, academic institutions, medical industry, etc. to pull it off. Once you see it you cannot unsee it.
Looking forward to the opener when it arrives. Always pick up additional insights. Thanks.
This is literally mind blowing
Spencer Pratt exposes Los Angeles Department of Water and Power salaries
– Over 100 LADWP employees earn an annual compensation of over $500,000 per year each
– 26 LADWP employees earn more than $600,000 thousand dollars per year
– 4 top level LADWP employees earn more than $700,000 dollars a year
– The LADWP has a combined water and power budget of 11 billion dollars
I looked into it further, and get this
100% of leadership and oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are aligned with Democrats
Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass appointed the 5 member Board of Water and Power Commissioners, which sets policy and approves major decisions like executive hires and salaries
California is essentially run by the mafia
They are literally giving themselves $500,000 -$800,000 EACH and this is just one department
Grief!
Bill Mulholland is rolling over in his grave.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Mulholland
The Muslim Nazis occupying Iran are now setting up in parks.
See the machine gun?
They aren’t there to fight the USA or Israel.
They are there to murder Iranians who try to rise up and overthrow this brutal Islamic dictatorship.
Observer SC
April 18, 2026 12:41 pm
Hmmmm….
“Source confirms to me that Joe diGenova will be sworn in on Monday as Counsel to the Attorney General to lead the Russia collusion hoax invesitgation.
He will work out of the Fort Pierce, FLA courthouse; a grand jury has been empaneled there since January.
This is the home of Judge Aileen Cannon, who presided over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s documents case against the president until she determined in July 2024 that his appointment violated the Constitution and tossed the indictment.”
Life is about to get going.
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Dr Oz confirms that after stopping payments to 450 hospices in California, still NOT ONE has called and asked to have their payments reinstated
450 hospices out of 450 hospices in California were fraud
He says collectively they stole $750 million in just on year
Grateful all the fraud is being discovered, revealed, yada, yada.
Typically missing in these stories, a couple key points.
Arrests?
Of the $750,000,000 stolen from the government, how much recovered or at least frozen until cases are resolved?
As long as $750 million or less is the cut-off to avoid prosecution (they got in right under the wire), are there any new $750 million government giveaways available, for those who may be a little late to the party?
You know, asking for a friend.
I’m sure there’s a substantial cover charge to get into THAT party.
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
This is where the homeless money in California goes
Democrats gave a NGO $23 MILLION dollars
The NGO used it to buy
– A mansion in Los Angeles
– $125,000 Land Rover
– A second home in Greece
US Attorney’s office says THEY FOUND 12 MORE CALIFORNIA NGOs doing the same thing
“The U.S. Attorney’s office in L.A. says they are actively investigating at least 12 other similar fraud cases here in California.”
Seems like the governor ought to be accountable for the things that go on in his state.
he’s not responsible for those kinds of things!
he has the hairdo, the smile, the tan, the wife, the backers.
How much more do you expect one man to do?
How much more?—
Run for President in 2028.
well, yes…did you read all the qualifications i posted above…lol
I expect him to take us all out to dinner at the French Laundry.
Not necessarily at the same time.
French Laundry? what the heck is that?
Greasy spoon for the likes of greaseball, NewScum.
4.18.26: FED Reserve PANIC, Money FLOW to Natural Resources, Gold/Silver huge investment! PRAY!
And We Know
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https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116421546255773580/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116415235246782462/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116404114461125172/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116392910468567768/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116387152531399084/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116421374487410975/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116415109865782463/media/1
https://gab.com/GrrrGraphics/posts/116409200423993767
ECONOMIC FURY: Why Trump’s Warning Went ONLY to Britain
“Susan Kokinda argues that recent U.S. actions framed as confronting Iran are actually aimed at dismantling the British imperial financial and geopolitical system. She cites Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s April 16 meeting with UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves, highlighting the on-record “Economic Fury” campaign and U.S. tracking of financial flows to Iran that allegedly lead to London.
The episode shows Trump is ending a decades-old “world extortion” model tied to the Strait of Hormuz, Lloyd’s war-risk insurance, and London’s commodity pricing power (gold, metals, oil benchmarks). It also points to an Israeli–Lebanon ceasefire and Trump prohibiting Israeli strikes, arguing this removes Netanyahu’s leverage built on a perpetual Iran threat. With London’s pricing nodes shifting toward New York and the “special relationship” weakening, the Hudson Institute is said to be pinning hopes on a King Charles visit to the U.S.”
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I’m not aware of this situation. Demanded by whom, and of whom, and under what conditions?
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj691w2e840t
Apparently one of the reasons why the uranium ‘dust’ DJT keeps talking about is so important is because uranium can be traced to wherever it was mined, anywhere in the world.
Which means the uranium dust in Iran will likely be traced to the Clinton/Hussein Uranium One deal.
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Trump just admitted the real reason for Iran’s uranium and nobody caught it
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word on the street is that the dust came from the USA
That’s what I’m seeing: Montana??
yup…Montana
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@AwakenedOutlaw
If you were wondering why Trump is so damn interested in getting his hands on any uranium in Iran, even the “dust,” here’s one reason.
Once acquired, experts can undertake a process called nuclear forensic analysis (aka provenance determination), whereby it can be determined where the ore originated, and I don’t mean in general.
They can confirm its origin not only down to the country (or general region) it came from, but also to the mine from which it was extracted.
Smart money is on their ore being confirmed to have come from a Uranium mine in Montana.
Now stop and consider the implications of that being true, if that’s what’s ultimately proven.
‘Sum of all Fears’ energy comes to mind.
You be careful out there on the street. There’s traffic and stuff, you know.
up here? mostly coyotes, bears, rattlesnake and four wheelers…but that’s just our street. admittedly you can’t trust the snakes, the bears will eat you and the coyotes will try to out maneuver you. which is why i drive a Jeep…lol
His take.
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/trump-is-gathering-evidence-in-iran
Prosecutors Reveal Camera Footage that Shows Captured Tyler Robinson Going to Sniper’s Perch, Taking Shot that Killed Charlie and then Running Off to Wooded Area
No camera footage of those events is revealed in this X post. It is a prosecutor stating that the footage exists. I doubt that he would lie about it since he is an officer of the court, so I think it must be true.
Never fear; Candace rarely, if ever, admits she was wrong. I predict that she will twist this to serve her own ends, and that the brainwashed sheep will continue to follow her. For Candace and her followers, it doesn’t matter what the evidence shows or what facts are revealed.
Trying to read to the MRS. and she’s not paying attention [47 years in!]
As it should be AND is in Slow Guy’s castle.
As with RedLegLeader, 47 years in, Zero dragons!
Brenda? Her name should be Karen…..
“Verbal Test For Immigrants: Say These 20 Sentences.”
Gotta love it!!!
Grammar nazi approved!!!
Mamdani PANICS After DISASTROUS Tax Plan FALLS APART
M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman
𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟐 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐐𝐈 𝐎𝐈𝐋—𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐔𝐙
An Indian-flagged VLCC supertanker was 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 after IRGC gunboats opened fire near the Strait of Hormuz. The firing was confirmed on 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝟏𝟔 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬—the international distress and calling frequency that every vessel monitors.
Think about what Iran just did. India has been one of Iran’s 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬—one of the only countries still buying Iranian oil when the rest of the world walked away. And the IRGC just fired on an Indian ship carrying 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐪𝐢 oil—not even Iranian cargo.
This is a regime so 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 that its military is now attacking the ships of countries it needs as allies. The IRGC doesn’t care what the Iranian government promises—they’re firing on anything that moves because four competing power centers can’t agree on a single strategy.
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬’ 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭—𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟𝐟-𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐩.
It’d be pretty funny if India nuked ’em.
it actually would.
Puppets That Can TALK! CRAZIEST Ventriloquist Auditions That SHOCKED the Judges!
I ❤️ ventriloquists!
Great video!
EVENING PRAYERS
Healing Prayers
Prayer for Restorative Rest
Healing Hand, as I lay in my bed this evening, I pray for Your restorative power to touch my life. Mend what has been broken, soothe what has been hurt, and heal what has been wounded. May I find in sleep the healing that my body and spirit need and wake to a day of renewed health and vitality. Amen.
Evening Prayer for Wholeness
Gentle Healer, with the night’s calm, I seek Your healing for my body, mind, and soul. Where there is pain, bring relief; where there is fatigue, bring restoration; where there is distress, bring tranquility. Wrap me in Your peace as I trust in Your loving care to make me whole. Amen.
Prayer for Comfort in Illness
Lord of Comfort, as I face the trials of illness, I pray for Your healing touch. Ease my discomfort, calm my anxiety, and deliver me from my afflictions. In Your mercy, may I find the comfort that leads to a peaceful rest, knowing that You are with me, sustaining and healing me. Amen.
Nighttime Blessing for Healing
Divine Physician, under the canopy of the night sky, I pray for Your healing blessings. Let Your life-giving energy flow through every cell, every nerve, every aspect of my being. May my rest be deep, my healing complete, and my faith in Your power absolute. Bless me with the gift of health, and let my gratitude be a testament to Your mercy. Amen.
Serene Prayer for Recovery
Merciful Restorer, as I seek repose in the stillness of this night, I ask for Your healing hand upon my life. Guide the hands of those who care for me, provide wisdom for the paths of recovery, and grant patience for the journey. In this serene hour, let Your comfort envelop me, as I place my trust in Your plan for a full recovery. Amen.
https://enlightio.com/evening-prayers-for-today
Bruce is upset that he is classified a he on his passport.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/04/18/caitlyn-jenner-lobbies-trump-to-keep-trans-identity-on-passport-i-cant-travel-internationally-anymore/
Once a dude, always a dude. Even if IT dresses as a dudette. 
Well he sure looks like a dude in that picture. An ugly one too, just saying.
Last time I checked if you have a penis you’re a male 🤦♂️
Someone should ask Bruce if he has XY chromosomes. (He does.)
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/trump-is-gathering-evidence-in-iran
Ilhan Omar’s “Millionaire” Mystery EXPOSED… Then Walked Back?
Oops…complete with happy ending.
JUST IN: Parachuter slams into the scoreboard at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia.
The incident took place before the kickoff for Virginia Tech’s 2026 Spring Football Game.
According to Virginia Tech spokesperson Mark Owczarsk, the parachuter was rescued within 15 minutes.
“We are grateful to report that the skydiver was safely secured and is currently stable. Our primary focus remains on their well-being,” Hokie Sports said.
“We extend our sincere appreciation to the first responders, event staff, and medical personnel for their swift, coordinated and professional response.”
Another surprise… 🙃
TRUMP JUST POSTED THE CONSPIRACY
Former CIA Director Mike Morell colluded with Deep Stater John Brennan before the 2020 debate ADMITTING to a disinformation op to discredit Biden laptop story
Brennan gave the green light.
Trump WON IN THE END.
Tousi TV latest update on Iran. Reporting on more shooting in the Hormuz Strait. Indian ship shot protesting cuz they said they had gotten permission from the IRGC so why are they being shot at? The authorities are split in many groups and it seems each doing their own thing, like the right hand doesnt know what the left is doing. US mobilizing troops. Israel on standby. Sounds like a mess. Trump says he’ll know by tonight whether a deal is possible.
The trick will be to take these 24 factions to rat each other out (a core competency in that region!) and then liquidate half of them. Repeat as necessary.