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Hell, Elon blasted out the obvious…

Until we have a conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Chiefio comes through…

Will Trump bring back incandescent bulbs. (I wish.)

Prion & Huntington’s Treatment, & LEDs Getting Worse

Two Stories here, both Medical. In 2028 LED Bulbs get worse, & we might fix Huntington’s & Prion Diseases

I’ll start with the not so good so we can end on a good note.

LED Bulbs to get worse for health in 2028

Current pending regulations will make LED Bulbs even more narrow spectrum (and in a very bad way), so even the better color spectrum bulbs with both aesthetic and health benefits will be banned in the USA.

This will not bother me much, since I have a lifetime supply of IC and CFL bulbs; but I might stock up on a few of the better LEDs and encourage LED using friends to do so.

14:12

For those who have not got an inventory of Incandescent bulbs: You can make work-arounds.

There are Y adapters to turn one socket into 2, then put 40 W “appliance bulbs” in it for an 80 W IC lamp. I also bought some adapters with 3 to 1 sockets and then 3 x 25 W bulbs gives you a 75 W, while 3 x 40 gives 120 W of light.

I also have 2 “three way” floor lamps and, for now, you can still find IC 3 way bulbs ( I bought a bunch of 50 / 100 / 150 from Amazon recently). Then, running it on the low setting, when that burns out, you still have a bulb of the higher wattage that works in a regular socket (since the power comes from the center pin for that filament). I use the 50W as “all day long” ambient light in my office and about once a year get a bulb with only the high power 100W setting left, and move it to the Den Lamp on a dimmer. Run at about 90% of power, they last for several years.

Finally, “Rough Service” bulbs are not “general service” so you can still get “rough service” IC bulibs. I also have some 200 W “High Power” bulbs, that, turn on a dimmer will last nearly forever (though with low efficiency, but with LOTS of healthful IR light 😉

So with some work it is still possible to bypass the lousy LED light.

More…

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Booting islamis MUST be a Major 2028 Theme.

  • Zero immigration.
  • No mosques.
  • No sharia.
  • America wide. NO dual citizenship in federal offices. Elected, appointed, or otherwise. NONE.

France Burning, UK Rotting, Left & Muslim Riots

France Imported the 3rd World, now it burns. UK is importing it too, so far just rot

I do not know who “at the top” made the decision to import a load of leftists, Muslims, and the 3rd World and thought that would be a good thing for Democratic Christian Republics in modernity; but they were wrong. Very very wrong.

So now a bunch of “students” by the thousands in France are burning down their schools with the excuse that they are not good enough… though how a pile of ashes will provide a better education is unclear… The UK continues to force invading “migrants” onto an existing population that is already struggling. I doubt anyone at the decision making point in this migrant invasion has actually read the Koran or knows what it says is mandatory (hint: it is NOT what a Muslim will tell you thanks to Taqiyya – the Koranic permission to lie to the Infidel about Islam until you have converted them and their country (which is also commanded)).

There are fundamental incompatibilities between Islam and Christianity (including that the Koran says to try to convert Christians and only kill them after you give it a good attempt and they won’t pay you a special tax to stay alive… Then there’s the “kill the Jews where you find them” which sure sounds like a “hate crime” to me… and the stoning of anyone gay unless you can toss them off a high building… and more. And yes, I have read the Koran and it does say it is OK to enslave the infidel).

So John Cleese (Monty Python / Faulty Towers comedian) pointed out some of these inherent incompatibilities and the result is that the police (the Thought Police department of the Government Security apparatus) has put this 86 year old man on a potential terrorist list of some kind for speaking a truth that made someone (muslim) uncomfortable. Britain is toast. Cold and soggy toast at that.

Oddly, Better Bachelor who usually covers the Feminist Gender War On Men, has the news about it:

33:40

Here’s the link to the same story on Rumble for when YouTube takes down the original to comply with some European dictate or other:

IMHO, this will continue getting worse until one of two things happen:

1) Most likely is the collapse of European Christian Democratic Republics as Europe becomes Yet Another Islamic Mess like the rest of the Muslim World.

2) Least Likely is that the Native Europeans do what they did in the 1200-1500 A.D. era and once again drive out the invading ideology.

BOTH of them will involve a LOT of death and bloodshed. At present, with demographic collapse among the existing populations of Europe (largely due to the feminist ideology of “career no kids” and blame men), in another generation there will be a majority Muslims in Europe and they will just vote in an Islamic State. Then it will be “conversion by the sword” for any minority population of Europeans. That’s what the Koran mandates.

What would it take for a revival of a Christian Europe? Good luck with that… I don’t know what it would take, and I don’t see anyone making it happen. I do see a LOT of “import fighting age 3rd world Muslim Men”, and the fantasy that this is somehow going to end well.

Islam is NOT just some kind of “Christianity Lite”, and do not buy the lie that it is. Read your history. Read the Koran. THINK for yourself. Speak truth to power (and everyone else too…)

Me? Happily retired and NOT going to ever visit Europe again. Not the UK. Not the EU. Not Switzerland or the Nordic countries. Maybe Latin America selectively… Oh, and I will continue to advocate for stopping the flood of invaders to the USA and removal of the ones already here. It would be nice to save Canada from the European Disease, but as long as Carney and his ilk are in charge, closing the northern border is probably the best we can do. Might be nice to connect Alaska with the lower 48 via the Western Provinces becoming States (should they wish it), but not interested in Ontario / Toronto / Montreal…

I also hope that Australia can reverse some of their Cranial Rectal Inversion… but not seen any evidence there either.

IF anyone has sussed out the origin point for the idiocy of our Idiots In Charge in the West, I’d love to know about it. Is it all just the WEF? Or is something behind those curtains too? Cultural Marxism and Islam seem like strange bedfellows, and why Feminist Women are all for it is a mystery too (as being put in a tent without education and part of a harem seems counter to their POV)… I have trouble believing that our “Leaders” are really so stupid as to think they can benefit from the Chaos that they are causing. They ought to look at the results of prior French Revolutions and the resulting French Haircuts… So it all remains a mystery to me. But a cure can start without knowing where the root cause is located… for now.

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Another take on plagues. Well, the plague in Californicate.

Plague Panic! – not so much…

There’s a lot of Russian Lab Plague Panic! stories going on.

Why do I not care? Because I lived 60+ years with Plague in California.

I asked Brave A.I. for a summary of “Plague endemic in California” and it said:

Showing results for California, US

Plague is endemic in many parts of California, specifically in rural and undeveloped foothill and mountainous areas, as well as some coastal regions. The disease is naturally present in wild rodent populations, primarily ground squirrels, chipmunks, and woodrats, which serve as the main reservoir for the Yersinia pestis bacteria.

The South Lake Tahoe area in El Dorado County is a known hotspot, having recorded a human case in 2025 and evidence of plague in rodents since 2021. Other high-risk areas include the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, as well as higher elevations in Tulare County. Plague is not found in the Central Valley or the southeastern desert regions, and human cases in urban areas have not been reported in nearly 100 years.

Transmission to humans typically occurs through the bite of infected fleas from wild rodents or by handling infected animals. Pet cats are particularly susceptible and can carry infected fleas into homes or transmit the disease via respiratory secretions if they contract pneumonic plague. The average number of human cases in the United States is about seven per year, with most occurring in western states, and these cases are effectively treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early.

AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

Bolding done by me.

BTW, it isn’t just California.

From: https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html

So ask me again how worried I am about ONE case of plague in a guy in Russia?

It is one big Ho Hum.

Many more cases outside of Russia:

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One more Chiefio for grins.

3, 2, 1…Queue lawsuits.

3, 2, 1…Software stock(s) selloff?

Don’t “Learn To Code” – Do an A.I. Clone…

Well this is going to be huge…

A small group used A.I. to write an open source clone of Photoshop in Rust in a few weeks. The whole thing.

Software companies just took a major hit to their business model. Even if nobody makes an A.I. Windows Clone, or Micro$oft manages to sue folks to prevent it: Any group could now make a ‘work alike” that was better than their crap, and a LOT more efficient, that required minimal changes to work flow and user skills, and make it free or minimally priced.

Going to Programming Classes and “learning to code” is no longer a viable career path. Learning to prompt an A.I. is.

Expect a flood of cheap software that works FINE from places like India, China, and frankly, just about anywhere. Were I, say, the Chief Tech Officer of the Government of Some 3rd World Country: I’d NOT be cutting a check for ANY Western Software. I’d either use the existing Open Source stuff, OR if some particular need existed and no open source product existed – I’d tell my computer department staff to whip up a clone using A.I. tools.

IMHO, there will be a huge reduction in valuations of Software Companies… the survivors will make it on “consultants” and “maintenance” fees. Not a software license fee.

10:40

Time to change from “learn to code” to “learn to prompt A.I.”

It looks (from what they said) like even the Q.A. & Validation was done with A.I. assist.

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Charlie nailed it…

Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

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Gail Combs
Gail Combs

H/T OldOzzie 2 JoNova.s October 9, 2026

One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump’s second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.

The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees.

Not since President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the federal workforce been at this level.

It’s not merely that the feds have shed superfluous jobs – there are still over 4 million contract workers, after all. It’s that the White House has been targeting all the right institutions.

The bloated War Department, with over 61,000 departures, and the equally bloated State Department, with 37 percent of its staff gone, experienced the biggest reductions.

But most of the buyouts were aimed at agencies and departments that should have been shuttered a long time ago. Take the U.S. Agency for International Development, which, for years, was used to funnel billions to hard-left ideological projects around the world. Virtually its entire staff is gone.

👉The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the unaccountable bureaucratic brainchild of progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has lost roughly 88 percent of its workers, though it’s still far too big.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the agency that was funneling fine $$$ to Leftist NGOs. Trump put a stop to it during his first term.

The Agriculture Department, which, despite its name, is principally a welfare agency that has little to do with farming, experienced tens of thousands of departures. So has another welfare-state institution, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, whose most notable achievement has been helping inflate housing prices.

Not every agency is being clipped fast enough, though. Early in his term, Trump signed an executive order directing the dismantling of the Education Department. Yet this intrusive agency, which spends its time propping up unions and undermining local initiatives, has lost only 40 percent of its staff.

Every time Republicans threaten to cut federal jobs, though they rarely follow through, Democrats predict that society will be plunged into chaos and high unemployment.

The unemployment rate in September 2024 was 4.1 percent. In September 2025, it was 4.4 percent. It’s at 4.1 percent today. Barely anyone, one suspects, has noticed that the federal workforce has shrunk by around 11 percent. They probably wouldn’t notice if it shrank by another 11 percent.

What Democrats (Labor/Greens/TEALs) really fear is losing power.

Federal agencies, government employees and public-sector unions are all bases of political influence for the Left.

scott467

“Every time Republicans threaten to cut federal jobs, though they rarely follow through, Democrats predict that society will be plunged into chaos and high unemployment.”

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The exact opposite is true.

Government strangles a country — through regulation, through ideological incentives that defy reality, through cronyism, through no-bid contracts and a thousand other anti-freedom devices — causing depression of industry and causing high unemployment.

Shrinking government has the opposite effect.

Gail Combs

2013 Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer
U.S. GDP is just $16 trillion instead of $54 trillion

The growth of federal regulations over the past six decades has cut U.S. economic growth by an average of 2 percentage points per year, according to a new study in the Journal of Economic Growth. As a result, the average American household receives about $277,000 less annually than it would have gotten in the absence of six decades of accumulated regulations—a median household income of $330,000 instead of the $53,000 we get now.

The researchers, economists John Dawson of Appalachian State University and John Seater of North Carolina State, constructed an index of federal regulations by tracking the growth in the number of pages in the Code of Federal Regulations since 1949. The number of pages, they note, has increased six-fold from 19,335 in 1949 to 134,261 in 2005. (As of 2011, the number of pages had risen to 169,301.) They devise a pretty standard endogenous growth theory model and then insert their regulatory burden index to calculate how federal regulations have affected economic growth. (Sometimes deregulation extends rather than shortens the number of pages in the register; they adjust their figures to take this into account.)

TradeBait2

Using a scalpel instead of a meat cleaver. We the People want the latter, but it is smarter to do it like PDT is doing it. He is balancing the economic news for the midterms and 2028. The unemployment rate and related data is involved. Once the data centers and factories start coming on line, the demand for workers with them goes up, the fed workforce should start getting slashed and more retooling of departments with patriots as we want to see it.

cthulhu

The Department of Education only had about 4000 people in it, educational outcomes declined for every dollar spent, it’s one of the younger departments (Jimmy Carter), and a substantial portion of its workforce is addicted to communist indoctrination or kiddie porn.

In addition, there is nothing in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that calls for its existence.

Whole thing should be razed and sown with salt.

Gail Combs

Along with the teachers unions. Government Workers of ANY TYPE should be barred from forming unions.

Valerie Curren

This!

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

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Gail Combs

UK will become the Palestinians Pakistanis second country.

Valerie Curren

AND logic   :insane: 

TheseTruths

The RNC just sued Michigan election officials for illegally stacking poll worker positions with Democrats, sidelining Republicans, and hiding election records from the public.

scott467

A lawsuit, that might be adjudicated sometime in the 2030s.

That’ll show ’em, r-Cons.

TheseTruths

I think these kinds of lawsuits are filed stop the action in question and obtain a fast ruling.

scott467

From a Michigan judge?

I hope they learned how to judge-shop from the d-Rats.

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TheseTruths

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scott467

“— AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING”

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Buck up, little deepstaters… Don’t be panicans! 🤣

pgroup

Suck it up and be good little buttercups.

pgroup

The number of Americans is less than 300 million.

There are lots of people here who don’t belong here.

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TheseTruths

Nick Sortor:

I have received a CEASE-AND-DESIST demand from some deranged leftist for facilitating the livestream of the Fort Hood shooter’s execution

My attorneys will be responding shortly.

Spoiler alert: the livestream WILL go on!

I have never desired to witness the death of a human being, but such videos are all over the internet. They depict events such as law enforcement shooting someone coming at them with a knife, people jumping out of the Twin Towers on 9/11, the JFK assassination, and much more. That’s life today, and this lady is going to have to deal with it.

TheseTruths

Apparently the perceived issue is that Hasan is a paraplegic and will likely be in a wheelchair when executed, and the woman thinks her disabled child would be traumatized by that. As with any other societal issue, it will be her job to protect her child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan#Medical_condition

…On November 5, 2009, Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar!”[82][83][84] (the phrase means “God is great”),[85][86] and opened fire on unarmed people in the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood, located in Killeen, Texas, murdering ten men and three women (one of whom was pregnant), and wounding over thirty others in the worst shooting against armed forces on an American military base.[7]

Department of the Army police officer Kimberly D. Munley encountered Hasan, who was leaving the building. Munley and Hasan exchanged shots before Munley was shot in the leg twice.[87] Department of the Army police officer Mark Todd shot Hasan several times.[88][89] Todd kicked the pistol out of Hasan’s hand, then cuffed him.[90]

The attack lasted about ten minutes…[91] 

Post-shooting Medical condition

…On November 13, Hasan’s attorney, John Galligan, announced Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down from the bullet wounds to his spine and would likely never walk again. He currently uses a wheelchair.[97]

TheseTruths

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scott467

Henry the emasculated Fonzie: “Live execution ?? Is this where we are now ?”

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That’s where all of you on the LEFT have brought us.

Now go find a shark to jump.

pgroup

Lots of people are unaware that he was the first to do it.

patfrederick

Mary Surrat (and co conspirators) was PUBLICLY hanged 1865.

scott467

“Apparently the perceived issue is that Hasan is a paraplegic and will likely be in a wheelchair when executed,”

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Then hang him. Trap door opens, wheelchair falls through, Hasan stays.

He should be hung anyway, hanging is for traitors.

Firing squad is too honorable.

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Brave Si: Hanging was the primary method of execution for traitors in the United States, where Title 18 U.S. Code § 2381 stipulates that conviction for treason results in death or imprisonment, with no legal mandate for public hanging or specific execution methods like hanging at a “busy intersection.”

In contrast, historical England and Ireland employed the brutal “hanged, drawn, and quartered” punishment for high treason, which involved being drawn on a hurdle to the gallows, hanged (nearly to death), disemboweled, beheaded, and quartered.

This gruesome practice was codified in the Treason Act 1352 and remained statutory until its abolition in 1870, though it was eventually mitigated to simple hanging and beheading in later centuries.
…………………..

pgroup

… simple hanging and beheading …

That is quite a phrase.

scott467

“and the woman thinks her disabled child would be traumatized by that.”

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Then she should at least pretend like she’s an adult, and not let her disabled child watch.

She’s not Miss Nanny America.

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TradeBait2

We have simply got to quit caring as a society for the penalties applied to perps. They are paying the price for their crimes and know what will happen to them prior to committing the deeds.

Pray for their souls and execute for their penalties in a much more expedient manner. The commies use the issue to divide We the People and the longer it drags out the better they like it to increase disunity. Execution is what the want to do to all patriots, they just have to use criminals and societal rot (Europe) from within to accomplish it.

pgroup

Because he didn’t die on the jihad battlefield [their sick teaching for murdering innocents], he won’t get to see Allah nor get his virgins/raisins. Truth is – he could never get to see Allah, a fictional character thought up by Mohammad. The 72 virgins/raisins are just part of a motivational tool.

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patfrederick

why would a mom allow her disabled child to watch that AT ALL???

scott467

It’s all part of trying to make the population soft, so there is no fear of actual consequences for one’s actions.

Makes me angry every time youtube pixelates some act of violence, like we’re all 3-year olds. It’s not just insanely frustrating to have the most interesting and important moment intentionally withheld from the public, it’s just so mother-henish it makes me want to vomit.

Like you’re 12 years old again, and your MOM is standing over your shoulder, pushing the censor button on a remote control.

People need a lot more reality, and a lot less pretending.

The entire world is upside down because we have those two things so bass-ackward.

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patfrederick

i almost wish POTUS had been more open about what he had been screaming. if he screaming the aloha snackbar nonsense–that would be very telling and show the American people we do not need these people in our country. If he was screaming irrational gibberish the left would try to Mary Clancy the dude..

TheseTruths

Data Republican:

After the book launch event (which went great!), @DataInterpretr and I watched the @glennbeck special. And, oh my goodness, he has such a talent for explaining difficult concepts that are smack-in-your-face undeniable.

I hope there’s a way to get this special out to the public, it’s a conversation maker and election changer. The DSA must be stopped!

Glenn Beck:

The DSA thought nobody would ever connect the dots. They were wrong.

What looks like spontaneous activism on our streets and in our culture is an engineered illusion. For decades, mountains of cash have been funnelled through NGOs, charities, and foreign foundations to build an unelected influence machine no politician can compete with. They built an apparatus to control the narrative, power their politicians, and infect our culture with Marxist ideology.

The blueprints existed. But tonight, alongside @DataRepublican, we map out the entire machine.

This is 3:40-minute promo video.

TheseTruths

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pgroup

If they got here illegally [or became illegal by visa overstay], they aren’t allowed to assimilate. They just get to leave.

TheseTruths

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Nothing American about it.

TheseTruths

Mark Meadows:

Remember how Biden told us to prepare for hurricanes!?

“A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.”

Thankful these days of foolish “leadership” are behind us!!

The idiocy that we have lived through boggles the mind. They will keep pushing all kinds of things that make no sense unless we take strong, forceful stands. I think it started with using political correctness and “racism” to silence people. That has to stop and be reversed.

scott467

“A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.”

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Because if enough people are vaccinated, it stops hurricanes… trust the science, you stupid sheeple 😂

scott467

“They will keep pushing all kinds of things that make no sense unless we take strong, forceful stands.”

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Evil laughs at ‘strong stands’.

Physical force is what works.

They don’t laugh at that.

Firefly

Scott, you’re on a ROLL this morning!

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pgroup

And he’s gathering no moss.  😂 

scott467

“New Department of Energy Rule that will Change Your Light Bulbs”

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That’s just great.

If only we knew someone who had power and authority over the Department of Energy.

pgroup

Whut???

A rule will come and change my light bulbs???

Will it do the vacuuming, too???

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patfrederick

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TheseTruths

*language warning*

Liberals are jumping onto the border wall construction and attempting to chain themselves to rebar in front of machinery.

Border Patrol also had to pull one protester out of a tree with a CRANE, and another woman stayed chained to a gravel truck for almost 7 hours before agents sawed her loose. Around two dozen protesters have been arrested so far,

A country isn’t a country without a border. These people are mental.

scott467

“Liberals are jumping onto the border wall construction and attempting to chain themselves to rebar in front of machinery.”

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Start pouring the concrete on them, and all around them, like they’re not even there.

Watch how fast they unchain themselves.

Gail Combs

I think we all are. I have ZERO give a fucks for the Useful Idiots destroying my country.

Gail Combs

Ignore them and run over them. If needed bury them in the cement… on second thought, no that would weaken the casting.

Valerie Curren

Greetings Q-Tree friends & family,

Thank you for praying, again, for my family. My daughter & her brand new baby boy came home from the hospital Friday & mother & baby plus dad & big sister all seem to be doing well. Josiah & I stopped by to bring a new cot that Michael ordered so Clarissa can sleep in the baby’s room until she’s healed enough to do stairs to her bedroom upstairs, & we had a brief visit with the family. I finally got to hold my first (known) grandson (don’t know if heavenly grandchild is a boy or girl) too! We’re thankful that David’s lung situation cleared up enough to be with mom in her hospital room for hours before they were able to head home too. The hospital also did an Echocardiogram on the baby because of a heart murmer but I guess that didn’t generate further concerns.

Speaking of Echos, Josiah has one this week along with another Pediatric Cardiologist visit. I’m anticipating his heart conditions to be stable but plan to ask the doctor for a referral to someone to get his knee situation evaluated. His right knee is now collapsing multiple times a day, even when he wears the brace &/or uses the cane. He is now often falling a few times a day because of this & has bruised or scraped up knees, shins, hips, & his back. Hopefully we can then get some answers & help for him soon…

Hubby & I met with a financial advisor this week & we are now hopeful that we should be able to secure both the Cottage & “Hilton” hunting “cabin” from my dad’s estate/trust & these transactions should play out within the next 2 months. Funding still partially/largely depends on the closing of the sale of my dad’s house, which still pends. We are both feeling so much better about the situation after our meeting this week. There are still quite a few moving pieces but there appears to be a viable pathway forward so we are thankful.

Thanks for the many times you have prayed for us & our many complicated family situations! I so appreciate the many prayers & encouragements. Blessings to all!

patfrederick

sounds like things are looking up!! fingers crossed and prayers sent for all!

Valerie Curren

Thanks Pat. God is good no matter what but good news is a relief for sure!

pgroup

He should be using his free hand to touch [not put his weight upon] stable things – walls, tables, chairs, etc. This supplements his middle ear balancing mechanism which eliminates one task that he might not realize needs help.

He also needs to move more slowly and deliberately, thinking consciously about each step in the process.

I have found that I can prevent falls by forcing myself to go step-by-step on those movements that I used to perform almost instinctively AND by touching secure surfaces/objects to reinforce my sense of my center-of-gravity.

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pgroup

Experience – the most sadistic teacher.

She gives the test and then gives the lesson.

Valerie Curren

Those are good suggestions but this doesn’t (usually) appear balance related, though he’s had those problems in the past. This appears to be mostly mechanical as in he’s walking along & then the knee just gives out, as I’ve seen it happen multiple times. Last night it happened on the stairs & even though he was holding the railing he still fell down three stairs 🙁 Compounded with his ongoing emotional pain about his marriage & still refusing to communicate wife he’s usually hurting all around  💔 

pgroup

Exactly. He’s walking along as he always does – NOT THINKING ABOUT WALKING!!! It is a balance issue or he wouldn’t fall [he’d just stumble and be able to shift his weight].

As far as falling on the stairs, it reinforces my advice – he needs to learn how to walk in his current condition.

Trust me on this – he has balance issues. If he follows my advice, he might never fall again.

PAVACA

Valerie Curren
Thank you for the update. So good to hear that the new baby and mother are both at home now!
Also, great to hear that the Cottage and hunting cabin situation can perhaps turn in your favor. Sending much Good Energy for this.
Yours Truly agrees with pgroup’s reply. This brings up, IMO, another question (one which may have already been dealt with) — is there some kind of inner ear / vestibular issue with your son? Not saying that such an issue would affect his knee, but it could affect balance in general.
Please, take care of yourself.

Valerie Curren

He historically had some vestibular issues when younger but I don’t think that is currently (much if any of) a factor. Most of those balance issues seem to be more connected with low blood sugar nowadays, though he did have a vertigo day a few weeks back, bad enough to keep him home from work & out of the car too…

Gail Combs

Hopefully you are aware that  low blood sugar is caused by eating carbohydrates. (Sugar & Statch)

I am very sensitive and have given up most carbs and went Keto at 19 years because I hate the crash after I eat carbs.

If I do eat carbs (CHOCOLATE!!!) it is at night.

Valerie Curren

Yeah, Hubby & Josiah have hypoglycemia so have to eat mostly fat & protein. They usually handle things pretty well but if either are more active than typical they need to eat more accordingly. Peanut Butter is their fast safety net, or nuts, protein bars, &/or jerky.

Gail Combs

ASK the financial advisor about a separate appraisal of the  Cottage & “Hilton” hunting “cabin” 

Valerie Curren

It’s possible, we’ll see 🙂 Thanks for the suggestion 🙂

barkerjim

Thanks, KK!!! Chiefio is always a good read!!!

TradeBait2

Excellent, thought provoking opener.

Looks like We the People need to raise a stink about the 2028 LED regs.

Euros and Aussies need to groacet. Bunch of pansies. So utterly stupid.

America first and always.

Valerie Curren

“ALL Some idiot bureaucrat(s) need to be sent packing” fify 😉 😉

barkerjim

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Aubergine

I am at a Christian women’s retreat this weekend, so I won’t be around much! Have a great weekend!

patfrederick

have a great time!

PAVACA

Wonderful! Enjoy!

cthulhu

Why a “retreat”? Why not an “advance”, or even a “charge”?

Valerie Curren

I read, Freudian slip-ish “advance” as “avoidance”, layering my vibe atop your comment LOL

Valerie Curren

Have a wonderful time! May you be refreshed & those you interface with enlightened 😉

barkerjim
barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/safe-and-sound-saturday-october-10

Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your weekend edition roundup includes: Jimmy Talarico is found safe and sound at an Austin music festival after a flu that lasted somewhere between nine and fourteen days, depending on whom you ask, and the Times debuts a sneaky, passive-aggressive way to spread a rumor while denying it is spreading rumors; Vance pulls Microsoft and seven other firms out of the green-card line, and India’s own commerce minister says thanks; the DOJ quietly ends ninety-two years of federal silencer registration; and Kamala’s husband may have just saved the Democrat Party from itself.

Valerie Curren

“and Kamala’s husband may have just saved the Democrat Party from itself.” Did he get her pregnant? LOL

TheseTruths

This link was included in yesterday’s Coffee & COVID.

The White House:

WATCH: A special tribute video honoring President Donald J. Trump’s uncle, Dr. John Trump, plays at the New Golden Age Summit.

Dr. John Trump was [posthumously] awarded the National Medal of Science by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

Valerie Curren

Yes there were some amazing things about these connections I saw on Twitter before getting banned in 2021. I wish there were a way to save “favorites” there…

Valerie Curren

It’s your thoughts that count, which are ablolutely Priceless!!!

TheseTruths

Stephen Miller:

“Vice President Vance and his team have exposed historic volumes of food stamp fraud, day care fraud, Medicaid fraud, health care fraud, Social Security fraud, every kind of fraud you can imagine that steals from and betrays American families and workers. Today is no different. What the task force and its partners in law enforcement have uncovered is systemic immigration fraud that violates the laws and the statutes of the United States to undercut American workers and labour.”

TheseTruths

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patfrederick

lol

TheseTruths

Benny Johnson:

A new report shows President Trump has cut legal immigration even more than illegal immigration.

Numbers are down across the board: H-1Bs down nearly 80%, refugees and asylum seekers down 90%, spouses coming in cut in half. All cratering.

This is massive.

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Valerie Curren

I think by percentages that illegals have lost a larger percentage than the legal percentage, fwiw…

TheseTruths

Previously reported, but the ATF has now issued an official policy. The last sentence is important.

ATF Releases NFA guidance in response to the Texas NFA lawsuit:

“Effective October 9, 2026, ATF will no longer require individuals to seek ATF approval under the NFA before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, and “any other weapon[s]” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(e). ATF will also no longer require such items to be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. These policies apply uniformly to anyone otherwise subject to these requirements, not just to the plaintiffs in the litigation.”

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pgroup

Complete lack of trigger finger discipline.

TheseTruths

The new helipad looks fantastic.

President Trump and Iron Mike Tyson just boarded Marine One Together. Fake News can’t stand this

TheseTruths

More School Cafeterias Are Getting a MAHA Makeover

A return to scratch cooking is gaining momentum in public schools under the Make America Healthy Again initiative and private foundations.

In Cleveland, new students at several schools across the city were pleasantly surprised by their cafeteria last month.

A shiny new buffet counter with locally sourced produce and a variety of cold meats and eggs replaced packaged salads with wilted lettuce, bland-looking vegetables, and minimal protein. Cilantro-lime rice made with just five ingredients has also been a popular choice lately, said Robert Gorman, executive director of nutrition services for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

“We’re getting back to the basics,” he told The Epoch Times. “If there’s a will, there’s a way. If you want to serve locally, you can.”

Public schools in Santa Fe, New Mexico, also have salad bars with local fruits and vegetables, plus beef from a nearby ranch included in the hamburgers, Frito pies, and Bolognese pasta sauce, said Diana Tarasiewicz, the district’s student nutrition director.

Both districts received support from the Colorado-based Chef Ann Foundation, which works with school leaders to replace ultra-processed foods with whole ingredients.

The Make America Healthy Again federal Harvest to Hallways initiative, announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services just ahead of the current semester, will allow these districts and thousands of others to improve school nutrition and connect with local farmers for years to come.

The bipartisan Scratch Cooked Meals for Students Act, meanwhile, might see action in the upcoming congressional session. The bill was referred to a Senate committee in late May. It would establish a pilot program for replacing heat-and-serve operations in school cafeterias with scratch-cooking methods.

At the state level, legislation related to restricting unhealthy ingredients or incentivizing partnerships with local farmers was proposed or passed in Alaska, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures…

Gail Combs

My college had food that was WAY BETTER that Mom’s cooking! Did not hurt it was an ag college with a culinary Arts degree too. We ate what the college grew so it was all ‘locally sourced’ and FRESH!

The first 2 years, dinning was formal and upper classmen taught manners to the incoming classes. Then the Civil Right Act passed and we got ferals from the inner city, so it went cafeteria style. The BLACK upper classmen were disgusted with the situation BTW.

Gail Combs

GOOD! It is about time. Maybe we will see the obesity crisis in the young recede.

TheseTruths

Trump Petitions Supreme Court to Reinstate Lawsuit Against Clinton, DNC, Over Russia Claims

The case stems from a 2022 complaint alleging conspiracy to promote a false collusion narrative.

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Oct. 9 to revive his dismissed civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and others.

The president alleges they conspired to create and spread a false story that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.

Lower courts rejected the case and ordered Trump and one of his attorneys, Alina Habba, to pay almost $1 million in sanctions. The trial judge and the appeals court called the lawsuit “frivolous,” saying it had no legal merit and appeared aimed at political grievance rather than a valid claim.

Trump is now asking the nation’s highest court to review the appeals court’s decision upholding both the dismissal and the sanctions.

While he was out of office after losing the 2020 election, Trump initiated the lawsuit in federal court in Florida in March 2022, under a federal racketeering law known as civil RICO. That law allows private individuals to seek damages when they claim someone engaged in a pattern of illegal activities, such as fraud or conspiracy.

The lawsuit targeted Clinton, the DNC, former British spy Christopher Steele, former FBI Director James Comey, and more than two dozen other people. It centered on the so-called Steele dossier, which was opposition research funded by Clinton’s campaign that alleged the Russian government had compromising material on Trump.

Trump’s lawsuit touches on topics covered by two earlier government investigations.

…The attorneys also ask the Supreme Court to decide whether a lower court can fine a president and his lawyers close to $1 million merely for making that argument, even if the court rejects it in the end.

…“This court’s intervention is necessary to protect the presidency, and to prevent judicial disagreement from becoming a license ⁠to punish its advocates,” the petition said.

It is unclear when the Supreme Court will take up the petition.

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PAVACA

Wow.
Just Wow.
Playing a soprano sax at 105 years old IS NOT EASY.
Mr. Critelli’s breath control is astonishing, given his age.
And he can STILL produce a vibrato sound on the instrument.
God bless him!

Gail Combs

My favorite instrument. I had to play it for Hubby.

duchess01

FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND ALL IN NEED OF PRAYER

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

TIME WITH JESUS Soaking Worship Music & The Gentle Beauty of October



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duchess01

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 Friday, October 9, 2026

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“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”

2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR 2 TIMOTHY 4

The apostle solemnly charges Timothy to be diligent, though many will not bear sound doctrine. (1-5) Enforces the charge from his own martyrdom, then at hand. (6-8) Desires him to come speedily. (9-13) He cautions, and complains of such as had deserted him; and expresses his faith as to his own preservation to the heavenly kingdom. (14-18) Friendly greetings and his usual blessing. (19-22)1-5 People will turn away from the truth, they will grow weary of the plain gospel of Christ, they will be greedy of fables, and take pleasure in them. People do so when they will not endure that preaching which is searching, plain, and to the purpose. Those who love souls must be ever watchful, must venture and bear all the painful effects of their faithfulness, and take all opportunities of making known the pure gospel.

6-8 The blood of the martyrs, though not a sacrifice of atonement, yet was a sacrifice of acknowledgment to the grace of God and his truth. Death to a good man, is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world. As a Christian, and a minister, Paul had kept the faith, kept the doctrines of the gospel. What comfort will it afford, to be able to speak in this manner toward the end of our days! The crown of believers is a crown of righteousness, purchased by the righteousness of Christ. Believers have it not at present, yet it is sure, for it is laid up for them. The believer, amidst poverty, pain, sickness, and the agonies of death, may rejoice; but if the duties of a man’s place and station are neglected, his evidence of interest in Christ will be darkened, and uncertainty and distress may be expected to cloud and harass his last hours.

9-13 The love of this world, is often the cause of turning back from the truths and ways of Jesus Christ. Paul was guided by Divine inspiration, yet he would have his books. As long as we live, we must still learn. The apostles did not neglect human means, in seeking the necessaries of life, or their own instruction. Let us thank the Divine goodness in having given us so many writings of wise and pious men in all ages; and let us seek that by reading them our profiting may appear to all.

14-18 There is as much danger from false brethren, as from open enemies. It is dangerous having to do with those who would be enemies to such a man as Paul. The Christians at Rome were forward to meet him, #Ac 28|, but when there seemed to be a danger of suffering with him, then all forsook him. God might justly be angry with them, but he prays God to forgive them. The apostle was delivered out of the mouth of the lion, that is, of Nero, or some of his judges. If the Lord stands by us, he will strengthen us in difficulties and dangers, and his presence will more than supply every one’s absence.

19-22 We need no more to make us happy, than to have the Lord Jesus Christ with our spirits; for in him all spiritual blessings are summed up. It is the best prayer we can offer for our friends, that the Lord Jesus Christ may be with their spirits, to sanctify and save them, and at last to receive them to himself. Many who believed as Paul, are now before the throne, giving glory to their Lord: may we be followers of them.

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Verse of the Day | Matthew 6:14-15 [October 10, 2026]


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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

duchess01

WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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duchess01

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

Amen.

duchess01

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

Have you noticed evil increased on earth
The arrogance and flagrancy sheer girth
We are told to pray daily without end
We must not quit give up or even bend

What makes evil so blatant in plain sight
What can we do to curtail this and fight
We must don our Armor of God so fine 
We must be Prayer Warriors divine

We must empower others do the same
In His Precious and Most Holy Name
For whatever we ask of the Father
In Jesus’ name compares to no other

We must stand and be bold in all our ways
We must hold onto Him all of our days
We must not accept what’s meant to deter 
Redacted refracted revised to infer

We will find truth in His Word as put forth
We will discover knowledge for its worth
We will discern understanding in time
We will reap wisdom its purpose sublime

Saturated with lies and dire deceit 
We exhaust ourselves in fighting replete
Instead of uniting under His banner
We’re distracted in discordant manner

To God be the Glory forever amen
To Him be our allegiance now and when
We fight the good fight and are welcomed in
To our heavenly home purified within

D01: 08/04/2023



duchess01

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

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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!!  ❤️❤️❤️



barkerjim
patfrederick

Virginia GOP
@VA_GOP
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svgBlanket restoration of voting rights to violent felons is WRONG for Virginia. 

As we’ve seen this week, Fake Moderate Spanberger can’t even handle restoring voting rights to felons without giving dead people the “right” to vote.

Previous Republican AND Democrat governors have understood the wisdom of individually reviewing cases.

Now Democrats want to automatically restore voting rights to EVERY felon, even those who have not paid restitution to victims.

VOTE NO on question 3.

patfrederick

I am disturbed by this picture. anyone else?

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cthulhu

Assassination attempts?

Gail Combs

Reagan and a very poor portrait of him!

Gail Combs

Founding father, Alexander Hamilton (possibly James Garfield assassinated in 1881), Lincoln, Trump, Kennedy, Reagan

TheseTruths

Washington. See my other comment.

Gail Combs

Nose (and hair) suggests Washington but there are these via Brave.

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https://wallpapers.com/alexander-hamilton-pictures

TheseTruths

Founding father, Alexander Hamilton (possibly James Garfield assassinated in 1881), Lincoln, Trump, Kennedy, Reagan

• Hamilton doesn’t fit a pattern of presidents. There would be no reason to include him with four of the greatest presidents we have ever had, two of whom were assassinated and two of whom had assassination attempts—and not include other non-presidents who had assassination attempts.
• Garfield was in office less than four months. It would not make sense to include him with the other presidents.
• Only two of the men depicted were actually assassinated.

None of the proposed theories makes sense except that this picture depicts our greatest presidents.

Gail Combs

I most certainly do not consider Reagan among our greatest presidents. That is what threw me off.

Under Reagan we saw the beginnings of the lost of AMERICAN owned businesses.

…A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or “bootstrap” transaction) occurs when an investor, typically [a] financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company’s equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage (borrowing). 👉The assets of the acquired company are used as collateral for the borrowed capital,👈 [BEFORE it was acquired] sometimes with assets of the acquiring company. Typically, leveraged buyout uses a combination of various debt instruments from bank and debt capital markets…

The leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s was conceived by a number of corporate financiers, most notably Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and later his protégé Henry Kravis. Working for Bear Stearns at the time, Kohlberg and Kravis, along with Kravis’ cousin George Roberts, began a series of what they described as “bootstrap” investments…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout

TheseTruths

I most certainly do not consider Reagan among our greatest presidents.

You don’t, but he has that reputation among many.

Gail Combs

I realize that. Ain’t the Fake News great?

Valerie Curren

sounds like that leveraged buyout should have been illegal 🙁

Gail Combs

Very true. Instead of stopping monopolies from forming Reagan encouraged them.

Valerie Curren

So sad & detrimental to the nation

TheseTruths

If the one on my left is Washington, I had not known an attempt while in office. 

That’s what I’m saying: People have “assassination” on the brain, but I don’t think it’s about that. I think it’s about the greatest presidents, in the artist’s opinion (even if it’s AI/SI).

“Coincidentally,” some of the most consequential presidents who were doing the most to preserve and restore America are the ones who have been targets. But I don’t think that’s what the painting is emphasizing. The painting illustrates that, but I think its overarching theme is that Trump belongs in that elite group, even if people have disagreements about which presidents should be included. This is one artist’s, or AI/SI’s, pick.

Valerie Curren

my other arm 😉

scott467

🤣😂🤣

cthulhu

You ARE inside the screen!!! I’d always wondered.

Gail Combs

I have trained Hubby to use North, South, East, West or Drivers side Passenger side.

Left vs right is something I have to think about for a moment and is NOT a good thing to use when giving me last minute directions when I am driving.

TheseTruths

I don’t think so. See my other comment.

patfrederick

this was posted without on TCTH by a commenter.

the most simplistic characteristic of everyone in the picture (except the President and Mrs Trump) is that they’re all dead. is this a threat? it struck me as so, even though the poster at tcth hasn’t made any threats before. something about this strikes me the wrong way.

TheseTruths

except the President and Mrs Trump) is that they’re all dead

I can see why one could consider that to be possibly ominous, but I think it’s just including PDJT with an elite group of presidents, like we do when we “place” him on Mt. Rushmore (also with dead presidents   :insane: ).

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TheseTruths

I also think the fact that they’re in a ballroom, which presumably is a WH ballroom, emphasizes “presidency.”

There are people standing around the ballroom, which is normal, too. I don’t think they are all supposed to be ghosts of the dead.

patfrederick

i would expect the other Presidents and their wives to appear wispy but they’re not–they are the same –that’s what makes me uneasy.

TheseTruths

I understand, but IMO the inclusion of Washington, who was not assassinated, was our first president, and who is considered among the greatest if not the greatest—and who, as a Founding Father, was a patriot’s patriot—dispels all those other considerations.

We are “living through history” and we know that our current president, who is unique in his fervor, dedication, and ability to get things done, has many enemies who want him dead; so many of us are on edge about that and are defensive of him, which is understandable.

patfrederick

well I didn’t mention assassination, I just said dead.

TheseTruths

well I didn’t mention assassination, I just said dead.

Of the five, Washington is the only one who was not assassinated and did not have a “major, known” attempt on his life as president.

If people want PDJT to die before his time, it would take an assassination, no? (I don’t like talking about it in this cavalier manner.)

Valerie Curren

Reagan wasn’t assassinated, “just” shot…

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TheseTruths

Reagan wasn’t assassinated, “just” shot…

Yes, that’s why I included this:

Of the five, Washington is the only one who was not assassinated and did not have a “major, known” attempt on his life as president.

Valerie Curren

maybe if it had been “or” instead of “and” I would have read that differently 🙂

TheseTruths

i would expect the other Presidents and their wives to appear wispy but they’re not–they are the same –that’s what makes me uneasy.

I would be uneasy if the others were portrayed as “wispy.” That would indicate that the painting is emphasizing death rather than presidential greatness.

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patfrederick

it just strikes me that way. foreboding…in a sense.

TheseTruths

On the one hand, because so many of the presidents who were working in the best interests of America have had attempts on their lives or have been assassinated, it’s easy to see that in the picture. But if assassinations and attempts are the point, it’s not complete.

Presidents assassinated:
Abraham Lincoln, 1865
James A. Garfield, 1881
William McKinley, 1901
John F. Kennedy, 1963

And many other attempts, including Reagan and Trump, and Washington’s perils on the battlefield.

But maybe it intends to portray presidents who were patriots working in some manner against the progressives and for America as founded. “Great Presidents” could be the theme: Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, and Trump.

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scott467

“Ideology, not religion.”

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It’s not as if they can be separated one from the other. islami can claim they are different, but how can anyone know? All we have is their taqiyya, uh, I mean their ‘word’, for it.

What is the point of continued pretending?

Call that spade a spade, and outlaw it.

islami go home.

You go now.

Firefly

Thanks Kalbo (I should have checked before posting!)

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scott467

That didn’t take long.

From OT:

Zelenskyy Urgently Attacks Russian Oil/Fuel Export Terminal
October 10, 2026

SD: “Immediately after President Trump announced a strategic energy supply deal with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine President Zelenskyy ordered drone strikes against the Russian oil/fuel export terminal NZNP.

The targeted terminal is located in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Rostov-on-Don, and it is used to transship petroleum products including diesel fuel for exports toward the west. {SOURCE, Ukraine Today}

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The intention of Zelenskyy’s targeting is obvious to anyone who has followed the conflict between Russia-Ukraine and the involvement of EU-NATO countries in keeping maximum conflict at the forefront. They do not want a strategic agreement between Putin and Trump.

Hours before the Ukraine targeting of the NZNP export terminal, President Trump announced a strategic agreement with President Putin for refined diesel exports over the next six months. This Trump-Putin agreement was against the interests of Zelenskyy and specifically against the interests of his benefactors in London, because Putin and Trump are working outside the “western market pricing system”.

To fully understand what is happening, I strongly suggest you spend the time to read my previous articles on the dynamic as outlined below in sequence.

[generic Putin jpeg]

♦ First, start with understanding why Europe’s financial system is in conflict with Russia. In his own words Vladimir Putin explains why EU-NATO must have an expanded war with Russia. It has nothing to do with political ideology, and everything to do with control of money. – SEE HERE

♦ Second, understand how the western control of the “market price” of commodities is used to manipulate political outcomes. This ties directly into the first article about why London must control the money and combat Russia. In this second article three weeks ago, CTH outlined a very predictable path that was most likely. The Trump-Putin strategic alliance is EXACTLY what we expected to happen. – SEE HERE

♦ Third, you can actually move beyond the current moment into the future by looking at the Lukoil story. When you combine what Putin has said with the strategic agreement with Trump now in place you can clearly see how Lukoil is going to end up being a wedge to drive out London financial influence and free the USA from this corrupt market control system. – SEE HERE

Once you understand those three previous outlines, then you understand exactly why the U.K. needs Zelenskyy to stop this agreement between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. London’s entire market control system is at risk. It’s all connected.

•Discounted potash from Belarus, sold to the U.S. at discount (non-market) prices. [Canada smacked.]

•Discounted diesel fuel from Russia, sold to the U.S. at discount (non-market) prices. [London smacked.]

These are two recent examples of Trump working around the traditional western system of financial control within the “market system”. These are also two transactions that cut out the middlemen completely. In essence, stand back and look at what Trump is doing here, it’s the same reason BRICS exists; it’s the BRICS argument against western financial control.

Trump is aligned ideologically with the BRICS position on energy exploitation. However, it’s actually more consequential than just an alignment of interests. The biggest economy in the world, the economy that establishes the currency used in most global trade, is now aligning in common purpose against the financial schemes of London, while RETAINING the dollar as the central trade currency.

Trump is telling BRICS there’s no reason to replace the dollar, we can just replace the manipulation.

London must be going bananas, and Zelenskyy is their tool to stop Trump.

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Gail Combs

GEE, seems as if the USA should ATTACK Ukraine, not Russia…
  :wpds_wink: 

Firefly

Tulsi Gabbard, speaking today at the Texas Youth Summit

My Message to All Americans

Last edited 1 hour ago by Firefly
RedLegLeader68

Yes, Must Listen!!!!!!!!

Valerie Curren

Most excellent!!! Thanks for sharing.

TheseTruths

Katie Zacharia with Jesse Watters. She’s going to be a great press secretary.

patfrederick

Harrison
October 10, 2026 4:31 pm

Another treasonous judge who ignores the fact that said illegals voluntarily entered Mexico (and likely multiple other countries where they could have applied for ‘asylum’) before arriving at the border…and the reality that we have embassies in every country they came from, wherein they could have applied for asylum. Choices have consequences.
Then there is the simple matter that it isn’t our responsibility to care for people who aren’t citizens. It’s really strange in another way as well. Where are the type of places that large numbers of illegal aliens flooded to? NYC and other high crime areas – places far more dangerous than most of their native towns.
Reality is that they are economic migrants – who have zero right to ask for asylum or be in our nation.

Gail Combs

Good GRIEF they are NOT AMERICANS and they are NOT IN AMERICA!

So Judge it is NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!

patfrederick

I agree. what is his jurisdiction?

patfrederick

Gail Combs

One of the named universities that JD Vance is going after is HARVARD.

I can not get this video to play on youtube although it will play within the article. (It is just this video other promethean videos play. 🤔

Promethean Overviews has Trump’s War on the Harvard Machine: The End of the Liberal Empire and the Battle for America

Harvard’s battle against the American System spans centuries. Mike examines globalization, America’s skilled-worker crisis, and what President Trump is building to replace it.

Harvard’s failures did not begin with DEI, critical race theory, or modern campus politics. In this Overview, Mike traces the institution’s transformation back more than 300 years and examines its conflict with the religious and economic principles that helped shape the American Revolution.

From Harvard’s opposition to George Whitefield to the influence of the Boston Brahmins and economist Frank Taussig, Mike argues that the university helped replace the American System of protective tariffs and national development with British free trade.

The story then turns to Jeffrey Sachs and the economic “shock therapy” imposed on Bolivia and post-Soviet Russia. Mike connects these policies to the neoliberal ideology that later accelerated American deindustrialization through NAFTA, the WTO, and globalization.

America is now confronting the consequences as manufacturers, shipyards, construction companies, and the power grid struggle to find skilled workers. Mike argues that the country is losing generations of industrial knowledge that cannot be replaced by academic credentials.

President Trump is advancing a different model through the Foundry School, the proposed U.S. Space Academy, and a renewed focus on science, manufacturing, competence, and national purpose.

This is the battle between Harvard’s tiny Yard and the vast potential of the American Mile.

X • https://x.com/stegerMG

Substack • mikesteger.substack.com/

00:00 Trump’s War on Harvard

01:55 The Fight Over Tax Exemptions

02:53 Building Harvard’s Replacement

03:48 Harvard’s 300-Year History

04:24 George Whitefield and the Revolution

05:55 British Free Trade and Opium

06:48 How the American System Was Buried

07:47 Jeffrey Sachs and Shock Therapy

10:14 Globalization Comes to America

10:31 America’s Skilled Worker Crisis

12:29 Lincoln’s Land-Grant Colleges

13:14 MacArthur Rebuilds West Point

13:56 Foundry School, Space Academy, and Science

14:59 The American Mile

We will see if the youtube video loads OK here.

Gail Combs

WEIRD it plays here. but refuses to play if I left click the youtube button on bottom right.

patfrederick

HJB News

@HJB_News__
Putin says he doesn’t fear the UK because, “they can’t even stop rubber boats invading their country, and now they are making Somalian refugees members of parliament”.

TheseTruths

“they can’t even stop rubber boats invading their country, and now they are making Somalian refugees members of parliament”

My first reaction was to laugh, but he’s right and it’s utterly pathetic.

duchess01

10.11.26: A HISTORIC team/New monetary system, ASSET-CONNECTED future, AMERICA, PRAY!

And We Know

https://rumble.com/v7gogd8-10.11.26-a-historic-teamnew-monetary-system-asset-connected-future-america-.html