2025-12-13, Simply Saturday.

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Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

If nothing follows, below KK, Night Crew, you are on your own.

KK

Fresh Stuff.  May be worth a read, listen, watch or scroll on by. 

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Prices pulled last evening.  Gold $4,317.20.  Silver $62.20.   Bitcoin $90,323.


American Stories.  (A series)

The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.

It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.

This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250

The Story of America: The Declaration of Independence

10:49.

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Articles.

Musk…out performing as usual.  Cracking up here…

Elon Musk Confirms that SpaceX Is Headed for an IPO that Could Make Him an ‘Instant Trillionaire’

Elon Musk has confirmed reports that SpaceX is planning an IPO in 2026. Musk’s space exploration company could hit the market at a valuation above a trillion dollars, allowing individual investors to buy into his dreams of Mars while also massively increasing his personal fortune.

CNBC reports that tech tycoon Elon Musk has verified reports that his space exploration company is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2026. Musk’s confirmation came in response to an article by Eric Berger from Ars Technica, which delved into the reasons behind the timing of the IPO and the role played by the rise of artificial intelligence and space-based data center opportunities.

More…

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/12/12/elon-musk-confirms-that-spacex-is-headed-for-an-ipo-that-could-make-him-an-instant-trillionaire



Just for fun…

Killing the penny was just the start. Trump is rewriting the rules on America’s coins

The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.

  • The administration plans to issue a $1 coin with President Donald Trump’s likeness on it next year, despite a century-old precedent of not honoring sitting, or even living former, presidents on coins.
  • Instead of quarters honoring the abolition of slavery, granting women the right to vote and the Civil Rights movement, the Treasury will instead issue historical quarters featuring white men from the 18th and 19th centuries who were already well represented on currency and in historical tributes.

The new coins, coming after the administration stopped issuing new pennies earlier this year, underscore Trump’s drive to put his own stamp on the presidency far beyond the confines of the White House – whether it’s by putting his own face and name on US institutions or by pulling back on diversity efforts to reframe the story of America itself.

The US Mint on Thursday released the final coin designs for historical quarters celebrating the country’s 250th birthday next year. Rather than the fight against slavery or giving women the vote, the designs primarily honored a more homogeneous view of US history: George Washington for the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, James Madison and the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, as well as pilgrims to celebrate the Mayflower Compact.

“The designs on these historic coins depict the story of America’s journey toward a ‘more perfect union,’ and celebrate America’s defining ideals of liberty,” said Kristie McNally, the acting director of the Mint, in a statement.

The US Mint told CNN on Friday that instead of the previously recommended tribute quarters to abolition, suffrage and the Civil Rights movement, the new designs celebrate “American history and the founding of our great nation.”

The Trump dollar

The controversial Trump dollar coin is also part of Treasury’s plan to mark America’s 250th birthday.

The US Mint issued three different proposed coins Thursday with different likenesses of Trump, including one resembling his famous mug shot from 2023. Designs for the back include different versions of the American eagle.

A previously released version of coin would have also featured Trump on the back, raising his fist after an assassination attempt last year. However, US law prohibits images of living people on the backs of coins. The US Mint told CNN there is no such restriction on the front of coins, though it’s been US law since 1866 that living people can’t be on paper currency.

Still, Trump’s coin will only be the second time a US coin features a living president. The first was a half-dollar coin with both George Washington and then-President Calvin Coolidge issued in 1926 to mark the country’s 150th anniversary.

More…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/business/trump-changes-coins-policy

^^^ Yes, I’ll buy a roll of Trump dollars, to keep. AND carry more Trump dollars. Frequently use them as conversation starters. Much like wearing a Trump hat, t-shirt… ^^^

EU – U N E L E C T E D Thugs AND War Mongering  L U N A T I C S.

FIRST this one….

EU Elites in Panic Mode: Threaten Belgium with Bankruptcy Over Refusal to Rob Russian Assets – De Wever Stands Firm Against Brussels’ Madcap Scheme!

The crumbling edifice of the European Union (EU) is showing its true colors, and it’s uglier than a Brussels bureaucrat’s expense report.

In a stunning display of tyrannical overreach, the EU’s unelected overlords are now threatening Belgium’s newly minted Prime Minister Bart De Wever with financial Armageddon simply because he refuses to play along with their insane plot to steal $200 billion in frozen Russian assets.

Yes, you read that right: STEAL. Like common thieves in the night, targeting a sovereign central bank’s holdings parked safely in Belgium’s Euroclear system. This isn’t just policy wonkery; it’s a full-throated assault on national sovereignty, international law, and basic common sense.

More…

SECOND…

NATO Leader Mark Rutte Urges Europe to Prepare For ‘Widespread Suffering’ and WW3 With Russia Within Five Years (VIDEO)

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is urging member states to prepare for World War III with Russia and its dictator, Vladimir Putin.

During a speech in Berlin on Thursday, the former Dutch prime minister said that “dark forces of oppression are on the march again” and that Europe is facing a “scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.”

More…

American Thinker

The Internet Archive must not be our only resource to access the past

These days, we’re heading for an infotainment implosion.  Even though we have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips, many fail to grasp its meaning and importance, much less read past the headline and, at best, the first paragraph.  Meanwhile, we’re letting machines do our thinking for us.

Glenn Beck’s new A.I. project is meant to get ahead of the curve, and it’s laudable in all its goals.  But there is also a vital function that cannot be neglected: archiving and storing away the facts and data of our society.  At present, these critical functions are performed by entities such as the Internet Archive, doing a yeoman’s job at storing away these irreplaceable records.  They’ve come under attack recently and have had some breakdowns that point to a need for a separate system that performs the same function, albeit from a conservative point of view.  Thus, this is our case for Glenn Beck and everyone else to support a Freedom Archive.

Multiple systems are better than one or two.

Most preppers can recite the rule of three: “Three is two, two is one, and one is none.”  In other words, you need to have a couple of back-ups for every primary system that you rely on — water, food, self-defense, etc.  The same holds true in storing information.

In engineering terms, you don’t want to have one failure mode that will lead to disaster. 

More

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_internet_archive_must_not_be_our_only_resource_to_access_the_past.html

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U.S. Govt Agency Verifies that Nine Large U.S. Banks Conducted Ideological Debanking Operations

Press Release – […] The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released preliminary findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo Bank, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.

The OCC conducted its supervisory review in accordance with the President’s Executive Order “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” to determine whether these institutions debanked or discriminated against any customers or potential customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities.

“The OCC is committed to ending efforts – whether instigated by regulators or banks – that would weaponize finance,” said Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould. “Although our work continues, the OCC is today providing visibility into the debanking actions against customers and lawful businesses taken by the nation’s largest banks to ensure public awareness, and to halt these harmful and unfair practices.”

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X’s

Federal AND State Medical Boards Are FUBAR.

The endless persecution of a great doctor, Dr Mary Tally Bowden, MD.

I lost. I’m appealing.

Texas Medical Board hearing

^^^  Never Forget What They Have Done To Us. I’ll Never Forgive. ^^^

With the persecution of Dr Mary Tally Bowden fresh in our mind…  This PSA

Always remember…especially, when talking with quacks, nurses, medical techs…

Big Pharma wants you on this.

Eleven months ago… We’ve come a long way. Yes, with a long way to go.

Joe Kernen: “The affordability issue is from the 22% increase in prices under Biden—full stop.” Former SEC Chair Jay Clayton: “[Trump was] thrown, what I would say, the worst economy for the average American in my adult lifetime.”

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Life IS getting better with Trump.

Louisiana man: “Since Trump’s been in, the gas is going down, everything’s getting better. He‘s deporting all these criminals that come over from other countries. I think it’s great.”

Tampon Tim has got to be one of the dumbest, most corrupt, retarded assholes ever elected. 

Well, elected or more likely installed.

Incompetent scumbag Tim Walz says it’s a “pretty hard reach” to expect the Somali community to not engage in the massive theft of tax dollars, criticizes

@POTUSfor calling them out: “Each community’s got this… Donald Trump brought this to the attention… very dangerous.”

Europeans in denial.  Dumbasses.

EuroTrash.

Watched the Nobel Prize ceremony yesterday — as a Stockholm resident living a 15-minute walk from City Hall. I thought about how Trump’s America has turned against us: they hate us for being 1. Cultured 2. International 3. Relevant. European civilization is beautiful — thank you again, Stockholm!

Publius.

I already ripped this lady earlier today, but I have been reflecting on her post more and wanted to make an additional point. I have traveled extensively in Europe, and while it may be the modern world, Europeans are vastly more hung up on matters of economic and social class, titles of nobility, differences in ethnicity and differences in race than America is. Despite its long history of attempting to be egalitarian, class still matters in Europe. Titles of nobility still matter. Generational wealth from centuries back still matters. Look at the stiffs in the photo. How many of them earned it? Americans of European descent escaped Europe to get away from that ossified class structure and to make their own way with unlimited opportunity, and that vision still separates us from Europe culturally and intellectually. In the movie “Gettysburg,” Jeff Daniels—playing Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain—delivered an amazing soliloquy, an excerpt of which goes like this: “America should be free ground — all of it. Not divided by a line between slave state and free — all the way, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here, we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here, you can be something. Here, is the place to build a home. But it’s not the land. There’s always more land. It’s the idea that we all have value — you and me.”

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THAT is the spirit and soul of the United States of America, and is what still separates us from Europe to this very day.

Europeans need to get a clue…

You’re slaves.

DumRats suck.  IIRC, this asshole, was on the J6 Non select committee of liars. 

Good on Kristi, for standing up to this DumRat dickhead.

Scumbag @BennieGThompsonsays the horrific attack on our two great National Guard heroes in D.C. was just an “unfortunate accident.” @Sec_Noem

: “You think that was an unfortunate accident!? It was a terrorist attack. He shot our National Guardsmen in the head.”

Good to keep this in mind when Pravda News AND DumRats lie about ICE arresting American Citizens.

Remember that every time you hear Democrats attack ICE for arresting US citizens they are arresting citizens who violently obstructed or assaulted federal law enforcement and are facing criminal prosecution.

.@SecWardelivers remarks at the new Space Command HQ in Alabama: “I also want to pass my congratulations and thanks from President Trump. He wanted me to pass the message on… WELCOME HOME!”

Amtrak employees having a Merrier Christmas. 

Imagine the wasted tax dollars that would have gone to Amtrak executives.

BREAKING: In an incredible Christmas surprise, the Trump administration is sending $900 BONUSES to 18,000 THOUSAND Amtrak workers… …and the money is coming from CUTTING top executives’ perks. “It’s budget neutral. We aren’t spending more federal money or Amtrak money. It’s taking money from the executives and saying, let’s SHARE the bonuses with the mechanics, operators…let’s give some of it back this Christmas season!” Sec. Duffy said Amazing! This is how it’s done!

Johnny Cash Saturday

I Walk the Line

Man in Black

Jackson

Tennessee Flat Top Box

Night Crew, Your Nickel.

KK

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pgroup2

It is the 13th. That’s 12 days to Christmas.

Git yer shoppin’ dun!

Wolf Moon

Support local businesses!!!

cthulhu

Rain is supposed to move in right before Christmas and just sit.

notasmidgeon

We could sure use the rain in south Texas.

cthulhu

I remember driving a Moronette around San Francisco while singing “The Merry Minuet” (with whistles).

Texas has needed rain for about 60 years.

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Barb Meier

An Internet search for “moronette” is sadly lacking and I won’t attempt a guess. You would not have a photo, would you? DuckDuck and Google find a few results that are not marionette but weigh heavily in favor of my intent being a puppet on a string and myself a poor speller.  😅 

Cuppa Covfefe

Could it be a female moron 😆 named Karen?
Maybe a tiny one 🙂

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cthulhu

IIRC, it was “Where’s the Rum”, and she was reasonably petite.

Gail Combs

I think “moronette” is an EXCELLENT WORD!

Definition:

A brain washed, propagandized person who does the bidding of another.

Example: MK Ultra killer.

Wolf Moon

The term has been used, in capitalized form, for Vice-President Cackles herself!

https://publishedreporter.com/2022/02/10/op-ed-the-moron-and-the-moronette/

Barb Meier

Ohhhh, thank you Cuppa, Gail, and Wolf!!! Hahaha… so I risk being a Moronette myself. I thought it was an exotic European car that Cthulhu was driving around San Francisco while whistling. I appreciate the remedial clarification.  🤓 

That is okay. Mom told me that when I was young, they parked my new bicycle behind the couch one Christmas and I did not notice it, so it is clear I can miss the point.

Aside: I loved that bike. It was blue and green with removeable training wheels. Once, I was riding down a long hill and someone’s baseball went speeding across the road. My bike stayed on course as we went right over that baseball.

My brother taught me how to ride and I loved taking it on the dirt lane past our house especially when it had rained so I could park the training wheels astride a rain puddle and spin rooster tails of water out behind me.

Wolf Moon

It may well be a car, too! Possibly misspelled, or auto-incorrected (no pun intended).

Barb Meier

I seem to remember a car name that when translated was unfortunate in the “translate to” language. So when naming vehicles, translations are considered.

Sir ES

The Chevy “Nova,” meaning “No Go” – I remember that too!

IIRC, it was Spain.

‘No habla Espanol!’ lol

Barb Meier

Thank you Sir ES!!

Sir ES

You’re quite welcome – we all work together here!

I hope you know that my prior nom-de-plume was Emeraldstar, of Q-Tree yore, yes?

Legend! Lol…

Have a good night!

Barb Meier

Yes, I was tempted to spell out your name but chose to use your new name. Have a good night too, Sir Emeraldstar!!

Cuppa Covfefe

Auto-transmission… 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Almost like Skyline Boulevard….

I used to drive up Highway 35 from San Mateo northwards, listening to Brahms’ B♭ Sextett while enjoying the fog passing through my 280Z 🙂 (despite the, erm, enhanced humidity)…
I’d roll the windows down on both sides (on a foggy day) and the fog would pass right through… 🌬  ☁ 

Made driving around the SF Bay Area for my programming contracts a lot more enjoyable (and tolerable)…

I had a motorcyclist friend and colleague who was a member of the 100MPH club on that road… My Z could only hope to approach that speed, despite my racing tires…

Here it is, with the score, wonderful piece:

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Barb Meier

Frosty passed through last night and it is 6 degrees here in Missouri. How lovely the Brahms’ B♭ Sextett you have shared with us.

You were in California when it was still an interesting place. I arrived in 1987 at the near end of the best of times. When grocery store check out lines were filled with tech discussions rather than layoff and outsourcing concerns.

There is still so much I do not know, but it was a privilege to get to support so many little startups and also the big boys like HP who I think you are quite familiar with.

cthulhu

She was a fellow Moron from Ace of Spades.

scott467

Seated rain is the worst kind.

cthulhu

Well, then there’s jumping up-and-down rain….typical during earthquakes……

scott467

And raining like cats and dogs.

Best use a metal umbrella for that.

patfrederick

we’ve had snow and cold since Thanksgiving. a few days ago it was -4*.

pgroup2

Ice skating weather.

Gail Combs

  :wpds_grin:   :pepper:   :pepper:   :pepper: 

cthulhu

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TheseTruths

So Elon could become a trilionaire. I’ve never heard of that before.

The horror…Trump is putting his likeness on a coin, PLUS white men on the quarters. 😱🤣

Ending debanking is huge!

Johnny & June have such great chemistry in the “Jackson” video.

Thanks, Kalbo.

Wolf Moon

Good stuff – all of it!

cthulhu

Cash’s chemistry with Roger Miller was awesome —

TheseTruths

It’s too bad the sound quality is not better.

cthulhu

Not to mention the video quality….

pgroup2

TheseTruths

Bizarre…

TheseTruths

Geminid meteor shower peaks in dark skies December 13-14

The Geminid meteor shower peaks all night on December 13-14, 2025. The planet Jupiter – brightest starlike object in the sky from late evening until dawn – will be near the Geminid radiant point. The waning crescent moon won’t interfere with these meteors this year. Many Geminid meteors are bright! Will any of them be as bright as Jupiter? Observe from a rural location from late evening until dawn. Have fun!

Predicted peak in 2025: is predicted** for 3 UTC on December 14 (9 p.m. CST on December 13).

When to watch: Since the radiant rises in mid- to late evening, you can watch for Geminids nearly all night – from late evening until dawn – on December 13-14. The nights before and after might be good as well.

Overall duration of shower: November 19 to December 24. This time period is when we’re passing through the Geminid meteor stream in space!

There is a lot of info in this article.

TheseTruths

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cthulhu

BWAHA HAHA HAHa HaHa haha haha ha!

Gail Combs

  :wpds_shock: ….  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: …..  :pepper:   :banana-mario:   :banana2: 

TheseTruths

Nick Sortor:

I’m sure MANY of you have seen this photo in your feed countless times today.

But most of you don’t know the backstory— which is EXACTLY what the Democrats intended.

The original photo has been floating around for years. It is NOT new. However, Democrats put arbitrary censors over the faces of 20+ year old women to make the public believe they were minors and victims.

Total BS.

These were models representing the well-known American suntan lotion brand Hawaiian Tropic at a Mar-a-Lago event.

One of the women, who was 22 at the time the photo was taken, told The Telegraph today that Donald Trump was a “gentleman” and “went out of his way” to ensure their entire group enjoyed their time at Mar-a-Lago.

“I was 22 years old and remember him being very nice. He was very gentlemanly, that’s the word to describe him,” she said.

Not a SINGLE ONE of them accused Trump of wrongdoing.

It’s absolutely freaking shameful how Democrats have decided to discard ACTUAL victims of Jeffrey Epstein in an attempt to falsely smear President Trump.

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Aubergine

hey covered heir faces because none of those women look remotely underaged.

Wolf Moon

When Dems aren’t lying, they’re lying about lying. Ooops – I guess that’s lying, too. Never mind.

mollypitcher5

So true lol

pgroup2

They covered their faces because they didn’t want to be sued for unauthorized use of likenesses. Most probably, that pic was owned by Hawaiian Tropic specifically for that ad campaign.

Don’t assign malice where pure avarice will suffice.  😆 

Aubergine

I read somewhere today that the photo was in the public domain, and had been for 20 years. So I don’t know.

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon

Love it!

Here’s more context, where Ash Carter’s wife tried to do damage control on this (she sounds “familiar” with Biden’s “stuff”!)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/31/joe-biden-stephanie-carter-1246007

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon

OMG, that’s both hilarious and horrifying.

SUBJECTS. They’re freakin’ SUBJECTS of the freakin’ CROWN.

scott467

They’re freakin’ SUBJECTS of the freakin’ CROWN.

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So are Canadans, Australians and Kiwis.

TheseTruths

Yes, I can’t imagine being a subject!

cthulhu

There are worse possibilities — you could be an object…..or even [drops close and whispers]…..a gerund!

TheseTruths

Or a dangling preposition!

Cuppa Covfefe

An indecent preposition… 🙂

Wolf Moon

No judgement here!

TheseTruths

ISWYDT 😅

Wolf Moon

😂

Robert Baker

Personally I think the worst is the dangling participle. But that is just me. It really depends on what you are looking for.

Sir ES

It seems that we’re mired in participial frays …

Robert Baker

Grammar Wars are the longest continuous conflict in human history.

Sir ES

So – we’re in agreement!

pgroup2

Some people like being an object if there’s sex involved.

cthulhu

Some people might like being a gerund if there’s sexing…..

Gail Combs

A favorite of mine

Gail Combs

POTUS should have that playing when he next meets Keir Starmer.  😂 

pgroup2

That is a great idea. Worthy of Stephan Miller.

Gail Combs

Thank You Kind Sir. That is high praise!

Gail Combs

I was thinking, All you have to do is play a musical version. Most people would get the reference.

Wolf Moon

BWAHAHAHAHA!

TradeBait2

👊 🇺🇸

Take no crap from anybody.

mollypitcher5

ITA ! Great opener Kal…kudos

mollypitcher5

Enjoy the brief moment of head swell…real life pops it like a balloon soon enough!!!!!

mollypitcher5

 😂 

Wolf Moon

LOL!

TradeBait2

They do not have this,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...

Instead they have dumbazz royalty and globalist commies to brainwash and control them.

TheseTruths

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Aubergine

There it is, in a nutshell.

TheseTruths

The DOJ is working to clean up voter rolls.

AAGHarmeetDhillon:

appy Friday! @TheJusticeDept and @CivilRights Division just sued 4 additional states for not handing over their voter rolls—bringing our total to 18! If states refuse to fulfill their duty to maintain clean voter rolls, we will. Thanks to Texas & other cooperating states!

Wolf Moon

I just love this. It is such beautiful payback for the racist Democrat CRAP that the whole country has had to put up with for decades.

scott467

If states refuse to fulfill their duty to maintain clean voter rolls, we will.

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They have already refused. It’s past tense. That’s why you sued them.

And even if you manage to coerce them, they won’t do it correctly. They will drag their feet and cheat, stalling until there isn’t enough time to do anything about it.

You know it, they know it, we know it… everybody knows it.

So do it for them.

You have access to all the data. Do it for them, scrub the voter rolls, so that when we’re a few months from the election and they have done absolutely nothing, you can have the National Guard present a finished product to them, all wrapped up with a bow, with the Guard remaining in place until after the election, to secure the vote.

Aubergine

Yes. I am well beyond talking about doing something. Shut the fuck up, and actually DO something.

cthulhu

Kalbo —

^^^ Yes, I’ll buy a roll of Trump dollars, to keep. AND carry more Trump dollars. Frequently use them as conversation starters. Much like wearing a Trump hat, t-shirt… ^^^

Me —

I bought several rolls of Andrew Jackson dollars, and I’ve kept one in my wallet and have been known to give them away to people who will read the last four paragraphs of Jackson’s Bank Veto.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society–the farmers, mechanics, and laborers–who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.

Nor is our Government to be maintained or our Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves–in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its control, but in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.

Experience should teach us wisdom. Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of Government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress. By attempting to gratify their desires we have in the results of our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. It is time to pause in our career to review our principles, and if possible revive that devoted patriotism and spirit of compromise which distinguished the sages of the Revolution and the fathers of our Union. If we can not at once, in justice to interests vested under improvident legislation, make our Government what it ought to be, we can at least take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our Government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy.

I have now done my duty to my country. If sustained by my fellow-citizens, I shall be grateful and happy; if not, I shall find in the motives which impel me ample grounds for contentment and peace. In the difficulties which surround us and the dangers which threaten our institutions there is cause for neither dismay nor alarm. For relief and deliverance let us firmly rely on that kind Providence which I am sure watches with peculiar care over the destinies of our Republic, and on the intelligence and wisdom of our countrymen. Through His abundant goodness and their patriotic devotion our liberty and Union will be preserved.

TradeBait2

Well done, coothie. 👍 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

TheseTruths

When you think of what the best-selling music single of all time could be, you might think it’s something by Elvis, MJ, or The Beatles. In reality, the best-selling single of all time is Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” – which has remarkably retained the record since 1955 [when the Guiness Book of Records was first published]. 50 million+ copies sold.

That clip is from the movie “Holiday Inn” in 1942, the year the recording was released. It starred Bing Crosby, Marjorie Reynolds, Fred Astaire, and others.

cthulhu

For us, you have to change the lyrics slightly —

“I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas….”

TheseTruths

“…just like the ones we used to see.
where the tree tops glisten, and children listen,
and hope Santa stops for tea…”

It just doesn’t have the same ring as the original. 🤣☃️

cthulhu

“…where inside is where we’d be.
Huddled ’round the flames, while window frames,
Shut grey torrents off our tree.”

Still needs work….

Cuppa Covfefe

Or, from the USC Band (banned?) Hymnal, “I’m Dreaming Of A Black Christmas”, a humorous parody for Tony Myatt, a great Tubaist at USC…

pgroup2

Is there a version called “I’m dreaming of white privilege”?

I didn’t think so.

TheseTruths

I’m dreaming of the white privilege,
That founded these United States.
Where they build civilization, and run the administration,
and be the race the others hate…

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

cthulhu

Bravo!

TheseTruths

Aubergine

Lol. That’s fantastic.

TheseTruths

Thanks!

TheseTruths

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Valerie Curren

 😂 

Gail Combs

That is a classic.

Scott should print it out and hang it above his computer.  😂 

scott467

The controversial Trump dollar coin is also part of Treasury’s plan to mark America’s 250th birthday.

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What controversy?

Can anyone imagine Parrot Media whining about a ‘controversy’ if Hussein, the patron saint of Liars and Traitors, did these things?

Of course not, they would only sing his praises eternally.

It’s only when someone who isn’t a fascist Leftist does something that there’s suddenly ‘controversy’.

What a bunch of weenies 😂

Wolf Moon

1000 AMENS!!!

TheseTruths

I think they’re manufacturing “controversy” into this:

A previously released version of coin would have also featured Trump on the back, raising his fist after an assassination attempt last year. However, US law prohibits images of living people on the backs of coins. The US Mint told CNN there is no such restriction on the front of coins, though it’s been US law since 1866 that living people can’t be on paper currency.

Still, Trump’s coin will only be the second time a US coin features a living president. The first was a half-dollar coin with both George Washington and then-President Calvin Coolidge issued in 1926 to mark the country’s 150th anniversary.

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Calvin Coolidge and George Washington on the 1926 Sesquicentennial coin.

The 250th anniversary is called…
…a semiquincentennial.
Also a sestercentennial

…(from the Latin “sesterce,” which was a Roman coin worth one quarter of a denarius, or about 2 1/2 donkeys–plus “centum” and “annum” again, giving us 2 1/2 centuries).

Gail Combs

So precedence…

Gail Combs

Trump can veto and the RINOs do not DARE vote to overturn that veto if they want to keep their seats.

TheseTruths

Cuppa Covfefe

Precedence of Presidents…

And give Abraham Lincoln and George Washington a full holiday EACH!!!

Valerie Curren

Would love to see Steve’s take on the topic…

TheseTruths

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The sequel: Franklin Goes to Jail

Wolf Moon

LMAO!!!

TheseTruths

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This should not be a “thing.”

Aubergine

Rooftop Turtles?

Gail Combs

  :wpds_wink: 

prairierose123

The snail! Ha!

Sir ES

I note the OWL as well.

Not participating, yet observing.

The OWL is a rather dark, and powerfully symbolic, part of the cabal’s comms.

I suspect its inclusion is purposeful …

TheseTruths

Jeffrey Epstein files reveal a woman named Kathy Ruemmler was one of the people who had the most communication with Epstein

Over 100 emails and more than 50 meetings in just 5 years after he was a convicted sex offender

She was White House counsel to Barack Obama

Aubergine

Hell, Epstein may have supplies the $80,000 worth of pizza and hotdogs for that infamous White House party the Obamas had.

Gail Combs

Now there’s a thought!

Worth checking the date of that party and  Epstein — Ruemmler e-mails and meetings.

From:
Massive Repository of Indisputable PizzaGate Evidence — The Millennium Report December 3, 2016

I’ve created this blog to share the information 4chan has collectively gathered and researched about a suspected pedophilia and human trafficking ring that we seem to have uncovered existing within our DC politicians and the elite class.

It all started with one incredibly suspicious Podesta email that had skeptics suggesting they weren’t actually talking about pizza, but rather in code….

….
That link goes to this WIKILEAKS:

From: Fred Burton [mailto:burton@stratfor.com]

Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:39 PM

To: ‘Don Kuykendall’

Cc: ‘Aaric Eisenstein’; ‘Darryl O’Connor’; ‘Copeland Susan’

Subject: RE: Get ready for “Chicago Hot Dog Friday”

I think Obama spent about $65,000 of the tax-payers money flying in

pizza/dogs from Chicago for a private party at the White House not long

ago, assume we are using the same channels?

TradeBait2

Love how PDT continues to con the Demoncraps into self destruction.

Great connection, Gail.

cthulhu

The rain gutters are full of leaves and the stupid tree still has a ton onboard. I’m going to shovel out the gutters at least twice.

Barb Meier

The house I bought had gutter covers so I did not need to climb 3 stories in the new addition to clean the gutters. I was grateful the previous owners had done that.

patfrederick

what kind of fruit does a “stupid” tree produce I wonder?

Sir ES

Dumbquats of course!

Sir ES

One of many species of the treetard family…

pgroup2

[loud snort]

patfrederick

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

Sir ES

I’m not as punny as Cuppa, but I have my moments!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Cheers!

cthulhu

In this case, spiky balls.

(It’s a liquidambar, also known as sweetgum.)

Gail Combs

We have them taking over the place. They are worse than dandelions.

holly

Another “random” attack.

A Georgia woman suffered severe burns to her face and body after being doused with a toxic chemical in a random attack while she was strolling through a park — and her sadistic assailant is still on the loose.

Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking laps around Forsyth Park in Savannah Wednesday night after attending a Christmas program at a nearby church when a stranger approached her from behind and poured the corrosive liquid over her head, according to her devastated friends and family.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/georgia-woman-ashley-wasielewski-suffered-severe-burns-after-being-doused-with-toxic-chemical-in-random-park-attack/

PAVACA

holly
Thank you.
This horrific incident has the earmarks of a Muslim acid attack on a female to disfigure the woman and render her “so ugly that no man will marry her.”
This kind of acid-disfiguring attack is done by Muslim men on either Muslim females who need to be “punished” under Sharia Law; or, on Kuffar (non-Muslim) females as a “warning” or as a form of “Islamic conquest.”
I hope that this young woman is able to have complete reconstruction and healing.
Islam is totally incompatible with American values and life.

mollypitcher5

That’s quite a leap from the random punch, slam or other stuff innocent people have been subject to. Terrible.Sounds very jihad to me

Cuppa Covfefe

The little town we live in only has around 14,000 people in it, yet our mini-Weinachtsmarkt had barriers up… 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡

And von der Leyen wants to import another NINE MILLION MOZZIES!!!!! to the EU….. Kulturelle Bereicherung indeed…..

Cuppa Covfefe

Happens here all the time. Also pushing people down stairways, onto railroad tracks, as well as the usual stabbing, groping, and raping, with the “three-ring rape circus” being especially popular for gang rapes, the first instance of which was New Year’s 2015-2016 (“thanks” Merkel) in the courtyard of the Kölner Dom (yes, Cathedral, no better place to do a gang rape, eh).

There are three concentric rings of Mozzie perps. The outer ring is for protection and keeping defenders (and police) away, the middle ring is for encouragers and a waiting zone and to keep the victim(s) trapped, and the inner ring is the gang rape itself. Those have been happening for ten years now. They are ALL ANIMALS!!!!!

Add to that they like to urinate, spit, or even defacate on anything and everything not “Halal”, in particular pork, even at butchers or stores. Again, back in 2015 all that started, and some poor butcher in Hamburg lost at least €5000,00 worth of his wares, and more money for cleaning and disinfecting it all.

WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN IT’S NOT JUST A “RELIGION”????? 😡 😡 😡 😡

Aubergine

If we don’t learn, then God help us all.

Cuppa Covfefe

Sad to say, we have no 2A over here… Uncle Adolf (or actually someone before him) took it away…

The City of Köln’s response (and Merkel’s) was “social distancing, two-arm’s length” … yeah, right. If the arms were, erm, loaded, perhaps…..

PAVACA

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT WOULD BE COMING TO THE UNITED STATES IF THE CURRENT “INCREMENTAL ISLAMIC TAKEOVER” OF THIS COUNTRY IS NOT STOPPED:

In IRAQ, a law has been passed that further relegates females to second-class status. The new law incorporates into the “Personal Status Code” laws in that country. In sum, the new law “transfers” almost all of the decision-making between husband and wife to the husband and the state only.

IN ADDITION — the new Personal Status Code law allows girls AS YOUNG AS 9 YEARS OLD to marry.
Mohammad “married” his final wife, Aisha, when she was 6 years old; when she was 9 years old, he decided that she was “mature” enough to have sex, so he consummated their marriage.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/15/iraq-new-personal-status-code-makes-women-second-class

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Wolf Moon

Islam is incompatible with the Constitution. Period.

patfrederick

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Gail Combs

FORGET RAISES FOR teachers MARXIST INDOCTRINATORS!  😡 

patfrederick

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Liberal journalist reporting over 800 illegals in just 2 days have contacted an NGO for food because they’re hiding from ICE raids and don’t want to leave their homes in Louisiana

This is just one NGO of many

She says restaurants are closed. Clearly the workers are illegal

Trump’s Operation Catahoula Crunch is taking place right now and ICE and DHS are targeting illegals in a large scale operation

Cuppa Covfefe

Nothing like a properly functioning ICE machine!!! (even in winter 🙂 )…..

Sir ES

“they’re hiding from ICE raids”

Maybe we should call them “ICE skaters”!

It kinda works …

Cuppa Covfefe

ICE CapRaids… 🙂

Gail Combs

“…Liberal journalist reporting over 800 illegals in just 2 days have contacted an NGO for food because they’re hiding from ICE raids…”

ICE needs to do phone taps and then show up as food delivery…

ALSO the NGOs need to go to jail for aiding and abetting.

patfrederick

Charlotte99
December 13, 2025 4:59 am

CHICAGO CRIME RING
Investigation finds over a dozen elected official’s aids in Chicago are making $200,000+ per year
“The City of Chicago’s salary database and something that seemed unbelievable:
One assistant to an alderman making more than $268,000 a year
– Another making more than $238,000 a year
– A staff assistant making more than $237,000 a year
– We found at least a dozen staffers with these generous salaries making even more than their bosses
“The top paid alderman makes $152,000 a year.
And yes, taking home even more than the mayor of Chicago, who earns $221,000 a year.
Unbelievable was right”
https://nitter.poast.org/WallStreetApes/status/1999696222572151007#m

Aubergine

Remember how we used to laugh that nobody could see that Clark Kent was Superman, because he was wearing glasses? How we couldn’t believe nobody could tell?

Damn, people are unobservant!

Aubergine

And also, does he realize that he’s talking to a white man, and so by his own standard he just became a “coon?”

This man is a moron.

Aubergine

Oh, ya think? LOL!

RedLegLeader68

I wouldn’t have used that descriptor [maybe another], but I’m probably from a different generation … yea, 4 days older than PDJT!!

cthulhu

I think the expressions are “queer as a three dollar bill” and “light in the loafers”.

cthulhu

Light, being the opposite of heavy…..and loafers are a type of shoe. Someone who might dance right out of his shoes.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Light+in+the+loafers

Lit would involve either drugs or fire.

Valerie Curren

toe-May-toe, toe-Mah-toe 😉 😉

Valerie Curren

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Cuppa Covfefe

Flaming Bassoon…

(Faggot is Bassoon, in German)…

holly

 😂  😂  😂 

barkerjim

Thanks, KK!!! Excellent post!!!

duchess01

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

Verse of the Day for Saturday, December 13, 2025

“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.”

Psalms 100:2 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR PSALMS 100

An exhortation to praise God, and rejoice in him.

– This song of praise should be considered as a prophecy, and even used as a prayer, for the coming of that time when all people shall know that the Lord he is God, and shall become his worshippers, and the sheep of his pasture. Great encouragement is given us, in worshipping God, to do it cheerfully. If, when we strayed like wandering sheep, he has brought us again to his fold, we have indeed abundant cause to bless his name. The matter of praise, and the motives to it, are very important. Know ye what God is in himself, and what he is to you. Know it; consider and apply it, then you will be more close and constant, more inward and serious, in his worship. The covenant of grace set down in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, with so many rich promises, to strengthen the faith of every weak believer, makes the matter of God’s praise and of his people’s joys so sure, that how sad soever our spirits may be when we look to ourselves, yet we shall have reason to praise the Lord when we look to his goodness and mercy, and to what he has said in his word for our comfort.

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.

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

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

PRAISE THE LORD
Praise the Lord – Who guides our way;Through His Spirit – to brighten our day;Touching our hearts – gently and deep;His Honor and Glory – we value to keep!
Our Father – Who loves us unconditionally;Is right beside us where we need Him to be;With Gifts of Grace – to bless us all day;His Spirit abides – to guide our way!
Praise the Lord – what better advisor;Could we ever hope – would make us wiser;When we are perplexed about what to do;God has a message just for me and you!
Through His Spirit – God speaks to us;He works out the particulars without the fuss;He guides us through life’s ups and downs;Through our successes – and turnarounds!
Praise the Lord – in good times and bad;Throughout his correction – don’t be sad;Know that God loves us no matter what;Through our if/then – and even our but!
God knows what we need before we do;Cause He sees in the heart of me and you;All He needs is acknowledgement thrust;From outside to inside – In God we trust!
Our Faith needs replenishment almost daily;We need to repent of our sins most ably;No hiding behind our justification;Cause God knows our heart identification!
Whenever you are caught in a dilemma or two;Just go to the Quiet – Let God speak to you;For in the silence – of your own heart;His secrets to you – He will gladly impart!
Praise the Lord – for His intuit inspection;His enduring love – His careful correction;Whenever we doubt – whatever the case;It is all about Virtue – His Gift of Grace!
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PRAISE THE LORD

Praise the Lord – Who guides our way;
Through His Spirit – to brighten our day;
Touching our hearts – gently and deep;
His Honor and Glory – we value to keep!

Our Father – Who loves us unconditionally;
Is right beside us where we need Him to be;
With Gifts of Grace – to bless us all day;
His Spirit abides – to guide our way!

Praise the Lord – what better advisor;
Could we ever hope – would make us wiser;
When we are perplexed about what to do;
God has a message just for me and you!

Through His Spirit – God speaks to us;
He works out the particulars without the fuss;
He guides us through life’s ups and downs;
Through our successes – and turnarounds!

Praise the Lord – in good times and bad;
Throughout his correction – don’t be sad;
Know that God loves us no matter what;
Through our if/then – and even our but!

God knows what we need before we do;
Cause He sees in the heart of me and you;
All He needs is acknowledgement thrust;
From outside to inside – In God we trust!

Our Faith needs replenishment almost daily;
We need to repent of our sins most ably;
No hiding behind our justification;
Cause God knows our heart identification!

Whenever you are caught in a dilemma or two;
Just go to the Quiet – Let God speak to you;
For in the silence – of your own heart;
His secrets to you – He will gladly impart!

Praise the Lord – for His intuit inspection;
His enduring love – His careful correction;
Whenever we doubt – whatever the case;
It is all about Virtue – His Gift of Grace!

D01: 07/29/2013


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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

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Aubergine

For any other Tolkien fans, this thread is a poem he wrote in 1938 called “Noel.”

The poem (sorry the formatting is off):

Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a sword leapt from its sheath.

The lord of snows upreared his head; His mantle long and pale Upon the bitter blast was spread And hung o’er hill and dale. The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All ways and paths were wild: Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child.

he ancient dome of heaven sheer Was pricked with distant light; A star came shining white and clear Alone above the night. In the dale of dark in that hour of birth One voice on a sudden sang: Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth Together at midnight rang.

Mary sang in this world below: They heard her song arise O’er mist and over mountain snow To the walls of Paradise, And the tongue of many bells was stirred in Heaven’s towers to ring When the voice of mortal maid was heard, That was mother of Heaven’s King.

Glad is the world and fair this night With stars about its head, And the hall is filled with laughter and light, And fires are burning red. The bells of Paradise now ring With bells of Christendom, And Gloria, Gloria we will sing That God on earth is come.

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Sir ES

I’d never come across that poem – thanks for posting it!

His command of the English language was formidable, and his literary talent extraordinary: a singular author, whose works have been enjoyed by many, many millions of readers over the years.

And I am one of them!

Aubergine

Me, too. I love Tolkien.

Gail Combs

Same here. We have TWO copies of his original paperbacks. One mine and one Hubby’s.

Cuppa Covfefe

Here’s a beautifully illustrated set of The Hobbit and the LOTR Trilogy… bought it a few months ago, and the quality is astounding; paper (seems to be acid-free), the illustrations, the covers, the bindings, etc. (smells like a well-made book)… I’m hoping there are some of the rest of the volumes (e.g. Silmarillion) of the same quality, etc.

I also want to get a Hardback set of Narnia in the same quality, both of materials and illustrations…

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Valerie Curren

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TradeBait2

Fantastic! Thanks for posting.

RedLegLeader68

Read and read again soaking in his command of our English language. Just amazing!

Cuppa Covfefe

Tolkien was an outstanding philologist, in addition to being a great writer and Christian. He was a member of the Inklings, a group of very talented authors…

barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/black-box-saturday-december-13-2025

Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your weekend edition roundup includes: the great unraveling of the mRNA platform accelerates, as Stanford publishes a gold-standard study finding a plausible mechanism of harm in the shots; rumors fly that FDA will put the kiss of death on the jabs in the form of a black-box warning; it’s Epstein time again, as more documents emerge without any gotchas, and Democrats seem to be losing interest anyway; judges agree to unseal grand jury files from three Epstein criminal cases; December 19th Epstein dump date looms; Trump snakes second-largest rare earths mine out from under European Union; and secret extended version of the National Security Strategy teases a global rewrite.

Gail Combs

Another winner!

Brave and Free

Thanks Kalbokalbs 👍
With the new PDJT coin release coming. How many people with TDS will buy them just to destroy them? Thus driving their value up, I may have to buy a roll for an investment.
🤣🤣🤣🤣

TheseTruths

They’d better think twice about that…😳

https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/mutilation-of-coins

18 U.S.C. 331 makes it illegal to “alter, deface, mutilate, impair, diminish, falsify, scale, or lighten” any coin minted in the U.S. or any foreign coin being used as currency in the U.S.

A conviction for mutilating, diminishing, or falsifying coins can carry significant penalties. These include:

• Fines of up to $250,000;

• Imprisonment for up to five years; or

• Both fines and imprisonment.

TradeBait2

A JC sighting! Thank you, KK. Excellent opener. Fits right in with my American Stories, not to be confused with Hillsdale’s. Going to rename mine for 2026 after the Finale since there are so many versions with the same name out there. Still working on the name. There is enough subject matter to post on America for years.

👍 Do your thang – SpaceX and Elon, PDT and the coins, Space Command HQ, ICE (MOAR!)

Enjoy Christmas, Amtrak employees.

Go to Hell – EU, royalty and their supporters, socialism/communism, globalist big banks, the commies on the J6 committee and their enforcers,

Tampon Tim is already headed to Hell – he wanted to get a head start on it while still alive,

There is no Affordability Crisis. That ended with the BBB. It only gets better and better for We the People going forward.

But the challenge to We the People is to get off the couch and vote every time there is an election. The turn out by us has been pathetic in the special elections. If you want to ruin the good times ahead, sit at home and do nothing. The most important thing you can do to help America is to vote for America.

The answer is THAT simple. DOJ election security work continues and is being effective, ICE is being effective. Homeland Security is being effective. We need to be effective.

TheseTruths

FDA Set to Give COVID Vaccines Serious ‘Black Box’ Designation: Report

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly preparing to place a serious “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines, according to a CNN report citing people familiar with the agency’s plans.

A black box warning is the most serious safety designation the FDA can require — appearing in bold at the top of a drug or vaccine’s prescribing information to alert doctors and patients to potentially serious risks.

According to CNN, the FDA’s proposed action would highlight major risks such as serious side effects and usage restrictions that should be weighed against benefits before administering the shots.

The report says two people familiar with the agency’s internal planning confirmed the intention to add the warning, though the plan has not yet been finalized and could change before it is publicly announced…

CNN’s account indicates that officials are still determining whether the black box warning would apply to all COVID vaccines, only mRNA-based shots from manufacturers like Pfizer and Moderna, or specific age groups.

The warning is expected to be unveiled before the end of 2025, though agency officials have not publicly confirmed plans.

Black box warnings are typically reserved for medicines with evidence of serious or potentially life-threatening adverse reactions that must be clearly communicated to providers and patients.

In describing the proposal, CNN’s sources noted that risks such as myocarditis or other serious effects — and possibly even deaths in rare cases — are part of what the agency is evaluating internally, though those claims have not been made public in detail.

The new black box designation, if finalized, would be a significantly stronger warning than existing vaccine labels, and is expected to prompt debate among medical professionals and the public — as most thing COVID-19 entail.

Critics of the move warn that placing the highest-level warning on widely used vaccines could fuel public distrust and hesitancy, especially among those already wary of vaccine safety.

Ding, ding, ding! 🔔

Supporters of the idea argue that transparency about potential risks — even rare ones — is essential to informed consent and respects patients’ right to understand safety concerns…

PAVACA

TheseTruths
Thank you.

Can somebody please explain WHY the FDA is STILL going the “half-ass” route, instead of just REMOVING THE COVID-19 “VACCINES” FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE? WHY DOESN’T THE FDA HAVE THE GUTS TO THIS?

Is it because Dr. Martin MAKARY (FDA Commissioner) is associated with BIO.org, which is implementing a coordinated campaign to have HHS Sec. Kennedy, Jr., removed, and replaced with a person who will “bring back the good old days” to the department?

Is it because Dr. Jefferey TAUBENBERGER (Acting Director of the NIAID division of the FDA) is a FAUCI acolyte and career NIAID employee?

There is INCREASING and IRREFUTABLE proof that the COVID-19 “vaccines” are dangerous and deadly — to ANYONE who takes them, even ONE injection of them.

Steve Kirsch is “fully vaccinated.” The vision in one of his eyes is almost, not totally, destroyed by a retinal embolism that blew up. This effect is one of the MANY ocular serious side effects / adverse reactions, to the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines.”

Scott Adams is “fully vaccinated.” He’s now dying of metatasized cancer, brought on by the COVID-19 “vaccines” he took (these “vaccines” damage / destroy the natural immune system, making the establishment of cancer quicker and more deadly.)

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TheseTruths

🙏 for Scott Adams

JUST IN: Scott Adams says he is paralyzed below the waist.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Pray for Scott

“I am paralyzed below the waist. I can’t move any muscles. I do have feeling – just can’t move any muscles.”

“The solution is to ambulance me to a facility to get radiated. They’re gonna try to radiate that pesky tumor around my spine.”

“If all goes well…I could go home. The good news is, we’ve MRI’d it and looked at it. I got all the help I need at Kaiser.”

Wolf Moon

Will pray for him!!!

PAVACA

TheseTruths
I’m so sorry to hear about this. So hoping that Mr. Adams pulls through this one.

D@MN THE COVID-19 “VACCINES.”

Valerie Curren

Fen-Ben & IVM etc. No one’s told him about this option???

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Gail Combs

That is what I was wondering!

Sir ES

Me too.

Radiation is like using a pile-driver instead of a targeted small hammer.

He’s almost the only “celebrity” (there’s a better word, unavailable to me right now), who had the nads to admit he was wrong, although the specifics elude me at present.

He’s got NADZ, to have admitted it. Very, VERY few display such.

May God bless him, and carry him through his trials.

Cuppa Covfefe

AMEN!!!!

Cuppa Covfefe

Praying for Scott…

They need Ivermectin to kill the tumor…

Something similar happened to my wife… the tumor grew into muscle and nerve tissue in her left leg, and she tripped and tripped, and eventually couldn’t walk…

Pray that Scott is SAVED!!!!!

Valerie Curren

So Sorry Cuppa for all of her sufferings 🙁

Cuppa Covfefe

Thank you, Valerie.

Now she has a perfect and immortal body, and is with Jesus, and all the saints, and our families…

Valerie Curren

Amen Cuppa…those kind of thoughts comfort me about my mother too…

Aubergine

Friends, we gotta be careful who we listen to. Jeez louise. This was not on my bingo card for December, but here we are. Ian Carroll is a furry:

https://x.com/slaterson101/status/1999696794331300330

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TheseTruths

It says it’s age-restricted and I have to sign in, but I don’t have an account.

Aubergine

Uh oh. In summary, apparently Ian Carroll had a Reddit account where he posted stuff that you don’t want to know, but it includes that he is a gay furry. And I guess there’s video, too, out there.

pgroup2

It’s of no value.

Lots of 2 second memes of celebs saying Oh really or similar.

barkerjim

xcancel gets by the age restriction

TheseTruths

Thanks! I tried using xcancel.com, and it works. Using nitter.poast.org didn’t work.

Wolf Moon

I cannot find anything about this, much less confirming it. IMO it could easily be the usual accelerants being poured on the fire.

Somebody needs to bring the goods here!

Aubergine

I’m going to keep watching. If I find something, I’ll bring it.

Wolf Moon

Good!

Ian Carroll produced VERY slick stuff from his first video (remember that one?), which was always very Suspicious Cat to me, perhaps as an “alleged white hat psy-op” by TLAs or MI6, but the point where I started getting some real side-eye was when he began morphing from anti-Cabal to straight up hinting strongly with “it’s the JOOZ” stuff, seemingly (to me) because that might be getting more clicks. Was he part of the antisemitism plotting, or just another influencer monetizing on it? That’s where I was questioning things.

But gay? A furry? Back when furries weren’t much of a thing? I’m throwing a DOUBLE SUSPICIOUS CAT. Next stop – Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are having a furry affair! 😂

Seriously – one of the best ways to save some people is easily disproven false accusations, and that’s what this smells like to me.

Aubergine

What I could see happening is a three-letter agency catching a person doing something questionable, and then blackmailing and grooming them into a disposable op. When they are no longer useful, someone “discovers” their secret, and they vanish from social media. I think we’ve seen it happen on X before.

Wolf Moon

That makes sense!

Aubergine

Oh, and P.S.

Furries have been a thing for a looong time. They were just not a “publicly known” thing.

TheseTruths

Someone I knew over 15 years ago was concerned at that time about a cousin of his who was into furries. That was the first time I had heard of it.

Wolf Moon

WOW. YIKES.

TradeBait2

Yup. Daughter’s school dealt with one 20+ years ago. Cat. Her mom wanted a litter box brought in for her to use. Seriously.

Sir ES

Infantilism – with a twist!

The “Comicon” events, where teens and twenty-somethings (and, unfortunately, older) seem to have been the start of many inexplicable fetishes, furry too.

Recall the former ‘Surgeon General,’ all baby-dolled up! Sickening!

This 2SLGBTQ-thru-Z stuff is, predominantly, mental illness. A Masquerade Ball, for adults, has been a once-a-year event, and I can see the fun. All the rest, IMO, devolves into debauchery and escape from reality.

Sad. Those attending *think* they’re having “fun” – I think they’re delusionary, pretending they’re potent and redoubtable.

Fiction and fantasy: nothing real about it, except their disowning reality.

Crazy stuff!

Cuppa Covfefe

That’s what the deep state wants: blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Hence virtual reality and Micro$haft’s “blended reality”.

And for the resulting folks who cannot tell between real, virtual, fake, and “blended”, they become targets of all manner of manipulation, skulduggery, and crime(s)…..

UnHolyDeck, as it were…

Aubergine

We had this happen recently here at a neighboring school. The school board said NOPE!

Wolf Moon

GOOD.

cthulhu

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Wolf Moon

YIKES!!!

Valerie Curren

That is so messed up, reinforcing delusions 🙁

Valerie Curren

age restricted tweet viewable on xcancel.com

Jamo https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f3f4.svg
@slaterson101
15h
internet sleuths found ian carrols old reddit account and hes a furry who used to give people advice on how to fix their ass tearing from being sodomized no im not joking

https://xcancel.com/slaterson101/status/1999696794331300330

TheseTruths

JUST IN: Stephen Miller confirms President Trump is STOPPING companies from replacing Americans with H-1Bs

“This is the 1st time in US history a president has taken action to stop companies from using low-wage labor to replace Americans!”

“The entire cost model…they fire the Americans, make them train their replacements, and hire them at half the cost. THAT WHOLE MODEL is blown up by this [visa] fee! That’s why it’s so important!”

Wolf Moon

Excellent.

Wolf Moon

You know, I’m surprised this didn’t get stronger attention earlier. In my long career in science and tech, it always seemed to me that the first people to get fired, laid off, or otherwise replaced by H1Bs, were old Jewish guys from the early days of computing. These guys were always fountains of necessary knowledge, unappreciated by management, and painful to lose, but their salaries could be used to hire multiple Indian know-nothings who looked good on paper, and lied like a rug about what they could do, but were MORONS.

Gail Combs

I saw that too and so did Hubby.

Cuppa Covfefe

There was someone at U.C. Davis who did an enormous amount of work exposing the scam of H-1Bs, but I don’t remember his name. It was back in the 1980s !!!

Sir ES

VSGPDJT *listens* to We The People.

GREAT news.

Thank God Almighty!

Sir ES

(I haven’t yet the ability to post a new topic; WP can wait, hence the following.)

A reminder from a true anon (one can tell!), expressing valid hope:

Post by demoralization shill:

“judges who protected epsteen and [gislaine] for 30 years”

Reply by patriot anon:

[Graphic included, 4 Q-posts]

“The corrupt judges have been under criminal investigation for years.

“The ANTIFA mapping (discussed by Q in four posts) wasn’t the only mapping that was done. I have no doubt that the public will soon learn all about what the judges have really been doing.

“All the corrupt judges (at both state and federal level) will be exposed, removed by the United States Military, prosecuted, and replaced by people who uphold their oath to The United States Constitution or else they, too, will be exposed, removed by the United States Military, prosecuted, and replaced by [other] people who uphold their oath to the United States Constitution.”

LINK – https://qalerts.app/?=ANTIFA+mapping

ARCHIVE – https://archive.ph/eHUml

Post# 23975550 (Sat) 06:10:12
Thread# 29214 (Fri) 20:02:30 (find thumbnail in the “Catalog” hyperlink at bottom of “Welcome Page”)

WE MUST KEEP FAITH!!!

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!!

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Gail Combs

Archive gives me: Not Found (yet?)

Sir ES

8kun is under attack, yet again. Files over 14KB didn’t display images for about 18 hours.

Archive may have been borked – unusable, as you found.

The attacks continue, indicating State-level interference. They continue to try to subvert, yet all they accomplish is to prove their PANIC!

I stand with the parallel of ANTIFA mapping – over 6 (!) years now – with judiciary mapping taking place.

So much behind the scenes that we don’t see! One must not only allow for what’s happening that we see, but also RELY on what we don’t YET see!

100% trust/faith is required of us; we must act accordingly, doubts begone.

We know so little of the machinations being employed right now, and so, we are ill-equipped to know how to play, as it were.

VOTE. WORK. BE HEARD.

Q said that THEY will do the heavy lifting – all we should do is complement their efforts. As Q-Treepers are doing, right now, HERE!

Whew! But rants aren’t always bad, yes?

Have a good night.

Gail Combs

Thanks for the update.

TheseTruths

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TradeBait2

The fires of Hell come to mind…

Cuppa Covfefe

Jeff Childers (Coffee&Covid) has a great article up on that…

TheseTruths

Land Along Southern Border Is Transferred to Navy To Become Part Of ‘National Defense Area’

The Trump administration said on Dec. 10 that it would transfer roughly 760 acres of public land along the U.S.-Mexico border in California to the Navy for three years to support border security operations.

While announcing the decision Wednesday, the Interior Department said the land would become part of a “National Defense Area,” or militarized zone, to bolster immigration enforcement.

The land stretches from roughly a mile west of the California-Arizona state line to the western edge of the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area in San Diego and Imperial counties, according to the Interior Department.

This corridor is one of the highest-traffic regions for unlawful crossings along the southern border, creating significant national security challenges and contributing to environmental degradation,” the department said.

The Interior Department said the land was originally set aside in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt for “border protection purposes,” and the Navy will use it to “strengthen operational capabilities while reducing ecological harm associated with sustained illegal activity.”

Since April, the federal government has transferred large portions of land along the southern border to the military, allowing troops to detain migrants attempting to cross the border or arrest people accused of trespassing on military bases.

The process began with a 170-mile swath of land along the border in New Mexico before the government expanded into Texas and Arizona.

While the Interior Department referred to the Southern California lands as a high-traffic area for illegal border crossings, arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped to the lowest level since the 1960s as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on illegal immigration…

TheseTruths

Why punctuation is important 😅

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Cuppa Covfefe

Erm, shouldn’t that be 100% if it were free???

Ahhh, the new math…

(but but but but didn’t the Mozzies say they invented math??? )…..

TheseTruths

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The wording of that is divisive scare-mongering, straight from the “Biden White House.” But hey, I survived several of those winters! 🥶☃️ And without jabs! 💉🚫

Wolf Moon

ME TOO!!! 😂

TheseTruths

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gil00

Why did she go to a park and night alone? Use some sense! Theres a reason fir the assaukt, pretty plain

Churchgoing woman suffered severe burns in random toxic chemical attack while walking at park

Georgia woman suffered severe burns to her face and body after being doused with a toxic chemical in a random attack while she was strolling through a park — and her sadistic assailant is still on the loose.

Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking laps around Forsyth Park in Savannah Wednesday night after attending a Christmas program at a nearby church when a stranger approached her from behind and poured the corrosive liquid over her head, according to her devastated friends and family.

She let out a blood-curdling scream as the chemical burned her skin, ate through her clothing, and melted her car’s key fob in her pocket.

She was instantly like, ‘Why are you pouring water on me?’ And then her skin started to burn,” said her close friend Connor Milam, who described Wasielewski as a giving person who often volunteered in her community and provided essential items to the homeless.

She looked down and her pants were starting to burn off her body. She started screaming. They didn’t rob her. They didn’t take anything from her. This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being.”

Wasielewski was rushed to the Augusta Burn Center, where she’s being treated for second- and third-degree burns over half her body, including her face, scalp, hands and legs, according to her son Westley.

The concerned son said he learned of the attack from a good Samaritan who came to his mother’s aid, adding that he could hear her wailing in agony over the phone.

“We don’t know who did it,” Westley said.

“She doesn’t have any enemies. She is a friend to everyone.”

No arrests have been made as local police work with the FBI to identify the chemical used in the savage attack and hunt down the vicious assailant. Extra patrols have also been stationed at city parks.

Authorities are searching for a person of interest who was last seen in surveillance footage sporting blue jeans and a dark hooded sweatshirt with a white cartoon rabbit

“Our Police Department is treating this case with the highest urgency,” Savannah Mayor Van Johnson said in a Facebook post Thursday.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/georgia-woman-ashley-wasielewski-suffered-severe-burns-after-being-doused-with-toxic-chemical-in-random-park-attack/

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Gail Combs

It SHOULD be safe to walk in a park no matter what the time.

Sir ES

Yes – but we’re at war, and our country has been invaded.

Too few – even now – realize the stakes involved, and the danger of being oblivious to the *very real* threats right here in America.

The times have changed …

Gail Combs

They changed in the 1970s.

Cuppa Covfefe

For every one of “ours”, one of “theirs” should be eliminated… too much, already…..

mollypitcher5

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gil00

I think this right here is a major reason why the perp felt emboldened. Incompetent chief. Dei promotions. Needs to go.

https://www.wtoc.com/2025/05/30/how-could-this-happen-again-spd-chief-lenny-gunther-speaks-with-local-businesses-after-another-major-shooting-near-ellis-square/

wowohwow1528

I think pork is anathema to muslims? If so then get a pet pig and walk that little porker all over the place. Then when it’s big enough …

Cuppa Covfefe

Maybe a feral hog/boar…

Cut to the chase and have done, quite quickly… no muss, no fuss, and nothing left behind…..

gil00

It should be safe, but it isn’t bc the politicians made it that way. Until it is, evety female must be extra careful . There arent any safe areas anymore. I take a weapon just to walk to the mailbox and look everywhere as i get the mail, quickly.

She wasnt asking for anything. He saw opportunity and clearly lying in wait w whatever he poured on her. White females are being assaulted at an alarming rate.

Wolf Moon

Yes – the best cure for Islamic Acid Attacks is concealed carry and KILL THEM BEFORE THEY RUN.

Cuppa Covfefe

And a sodium bicarbonate fire extinguisher… high pressure…

gil00

I bet you could invent one people would carry.

gil00

Cuppa, I saw your news. I am very sorry for the loss of your wife and your son’s mother.

wowohwow1528

This is terrible and outrageous! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

TradeBait2

Can’t wait…

eilert

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barkerjim
duchess01

12.13.25: SILVER continues to break records, Precious metals rally, News update, Pray!

And We Know

https://rumble.com/v72z646-12.13.25-silver-continues-to-break-records-precious-metals-rally-news-updat.html

scott467

“Previously we highlighted the short-term ramifications of the European Union push to force the sale of electric vehicle (EVs) upon the consumer base. {SEE HERE} EU automakers unable to meet the compliance goal began purchasing carbon credits to avoid stiff EU fines. Many of those carbon credits were purchased from Chinese automakers, who then turned around and started using the extra EU revenue to discount Chinese cars sold in Europe.”

_______________

So they begin with a made up ‘problem’ they call Globull Warming. It’s not an actual problem, if anything, global COOLING is the real problem, but they don’t care, because none of it is about the environment, and ALL of it is about CONTROL.

Then they try to force EVs on the public. Some people love them, some don’t, but the euro-Nazis don’t care about that either, they only care about FORCE. Because they’re Nazis.

So then they invent ‘carbon credits’, which is like flatulence in a zip lock bag, so they can fine themselves OR they can choose to ‘offset’ their (irrelevant, meaningless) ‘carbon footprint’ by purchasing farts-in-a-bag from chyna. A country that doesn’t hold themselves to the same pollution standards anyway, so trying to control pollution in Europe without controlling pollution everywhere else is like smoking on an airplane.

Then chyna takes the free money and uses it to subsidize their auto industry, making the Euro-Nazi cars even less competitive.

The idiocy and insanity is just breathtaking.

It’s not even idiocy, because no one in a position of power and authority can be that stupid, and still remember to breathe or blink their eyes occasionally.

So it’s intentional, which means it is criminal and treasonous.

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scott467

EVs are not easy to make, and legacy automakers CANNOT do it. They can’t just use their existing factories, substitute a battery for a gas tank, and call it ‘good’. It requires a completely new factory with new machinery.

And it requires a whole new culture to implement, which is the same reason U.S. legacy automakers can’t do EVs profitably either. They still use the outsourcing model, where every supplier takes a cut of profits, on thousands of parts that go into a car.

By contrast, Tesla (for example) has factories that were built from the ground up to build EVs, with state of the art robotic machinery, everything optimized for efficiency and speed of production.

And then, critically, Tesla is VERTICALLY integrated. They build almost everything that goes into their EVs. They make it themselves. So there are no (or very few) suppliers who take their cut out of the profits, which means Tesla can sell their cars for less than any competitor who outsources the majority of their parts.

And Tesla has their engineers and parts fabricators and assembly line workers in the SAME building. So if there is a problem on the assembly line, the engineers just go downstairs, figure out the problem, solve it, and get running again.

Legacy auto usually has their engineers in whole different parts of the country from where the cars are actually being built. If there is a problem on the line, there is a bureaucracy to fight through, just to get the problem in front of the eyes of someone who can actually fix it, and who has the authority to do so.

It could take days, weeks, even months, while Tesla is back running at full capacity in an hour or two.

If legacy auto, either in Europe or America, wants to compete in the EV market, they need to do what already works, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Tesla has been doing it for around 16 years now. Copy what they do, as best as you can.

It will requires tens of billions of dollars in UP FRONT manufacturing investment, a complete reworking of the supply chain to vertically integrate, and it will require either licensing Tesla’s FSD (full self driving) or spending the next 10+ years trying to invent their own, while Tesla takes the whole market.

Legacy auto already missed the boat on EVs. It will take years and tens of billions of dollars to get competitive with Tesla, and Tesla isn’t going to stand still while (or if) legacy auto tries to do it.

The best thing legacy auto could do is duplicate the vertical integration model in order to dramatically reduce costs on ICE (internal combustion engine) cars, in order to make ICE cars price-competitive with EVs.

If they don’t, eventually Tesla EVs will become so cheap that even most people who want an ICE car won’t be able to justify the cost.

I don’t want an EV, and I definitely don’t want ICE cars to go extinct.

But legacy auto is clueless. They have been riding on their own momentum for generations, while the terrain beneath them has changed dramatically.

If I was the board of GM, Ford or other U.S. auto makers, I would fire everybody in upper management and then poach as many executives from Tesla as I could hire.

I wouldn’t bother even trying to compete by building EVs, I would just have the former Tesla execs duplicate the vertical integration business model as much as possible, to bring down the cost of ICE cars as much as possible, to be able to offer ICE cars at a competitive price point to EVs.

Because if they don’t, those ICE car makers won’t be around much longer.

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duchess01

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

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scott467

Every cop defending the tyrannical government is a criminal.

scott467

If the Britons had guns, it would already be over.

Actually, if the Britons had guns, things would never have become tyrannical to this degree in the first place.

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scott467

Why are they wasting effort marching and protesting?

They should set every government building in the UK on fire at the same time.

THEN take to the streets to prevent firefighters from putting the fires out.

There’s not enough fire equipment to put out even a fraction of the fires anyway, but the point would be to stop firefighters from saving ANY government building.

Burn it all down to the GROUND.

Shut down the airports and harbors so the political class can’t escape, and then move on to the homes of the political class and the monarchy.

And round up every alien invader at the same time. Any who resist get ended on the spot. Strip the political-class survivors and monarchy of their citizenship, and deport them all in the same boats with the alien invaders.

Don’t care where you go, but you’re not staying here.

Goodbye and good luck.

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Cuppa Covfefe

Remember, remember, the fifth of November…..

cthulhu

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scott467

Trump’s Revolutionary Alliance: The Leaked “Core 5” Plan To Prevent World War 3

In this episode, Barbara Boyd discusses President Trump’s bold strategies to end the Ukraine war and dismantle the British imperial financial system. Trump aims to expose Ukrainian corruption, expedite peace negotiations, and form a powerful new alliance with Russia, China, India, and Japan.

This Core 5 Alliance seeks to supplant the globalist order, fostering international cooperation and economic development. Boyd delves into the implications of these strategies, the resistance from European war mongers, and the broader vision for a future free from endless wars and financial manipulation.

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Gail Combs

Perfect timing as the UK implodes!

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Wolf Moon

Best anti-Cabal news in a LONG time!

cthulhu

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PAVACA

Dr. William Makis has weighed in on the situation with Scott Adams.
Yours Truly uses the prefix that was granted to Dr. Makis upon his graduation from medical school. Dr. Makis also went through medical Residency. He practiced radiology and oncological radiology and treated hundreds of patients in Canada, where he lives — until he began to speak out against the COVID-19 “vaccines” a few years ago.
The Province of Alberta medical licensing board revoked BOTH Dr. Makis’ credentials as a medical doctor AND his radiology board credentials, last fall. He is no longer allowed to practice medicine or to call himself a doctor or to use the prefix Dr. in the Province of Alberta.
THIS, BY THE WAY, IS THE KIND OF THING THAT THE AMA WANTS TO HAVE HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES TO PHYSICIANS (THINK DR. PETER McCULLOUGH) WHO ARE SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE COVID-19 “VACCINES.”

Back to the Scott Adams situation:
Dr. Makis (his video is linked below) states that Kaiser Permanente (where Mr. Adams’ doctors are, and where Mr. Adams is now an in-patient) have basically abandoned Mr. Adams.
Dr. Makis reads the entire tweet chain that Mr. Adams posted regarding his current condition.
Mr. Adams IS NOW IN PALLIATIVE CARE at Kaiser Permanente. He is assigned to a Palliative Care nurse who is responsible for coordinating his care.https://54172
Mr. Adams can contact his doctors BY EMAIL.
Mr. Adams DOES NOT HAVE an assigned physician to oversee his case.
Kaiser Permanente, following the “guidelines” of the FDA, will NOT consider any use of Ivermectin and/or of Fenbendazole, to treat Mr. Adams’ cancer. Instead, Kaiser Permanente will use the usual standard of care treatments, such as radiation.

The video by Dr. Makis:
https://makisw.substack.com/cp/181554172

cthulhu

Very sad.

cthulhu

And, yet, Fauci is still called “Doctor”.

Valerie Curren

Dr. Mengele   :wpds_mad: 

PAVACA

CORRECTION ON THE REVOCATION OF THE LICENSE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE OF DR. WILLIAM MAKIS:
The revocation was issued by the Province of Alberta in the summer of 2025, and re-affirmed in September 2025:

https://cpsa.ca/news/statement-william-viliam-makis-not-licensed-to-practice-medicine-in-alberta/

PAVACA

Yours Truly doesn’t know how the partial URL for the video by Dr. Makis got “inserted” in the body of my comment.
Also, I’m still getting “frozen out” by WP while working on Health Friday posts. I have to go back to the Posts page and click “Edit” for the post I’m working on to “unfreeze” and continue working.

Wolf Moon

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scott467

Bannon War Room – John Case: Tina Peters’ Mission Is To Get Rid Of These Voting Machines, She’s Working At It Even From Inside The Walls Of The Prison
(16:38 total)

https://rumble.com/v72yzua-john-case-tina-peters-mission-is-to-get-rid-of-these-voting-machines.html

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Aubergine

For my fellow GenX-ers. This is absolutely hilarious.

mollypitcher5

It might slip out faster than I can stop it but in honor of this guy I’m going to try!!!!!! Imbecile will be my alternate descriptor
Tampon Tim is an imbecile

Wolf Moon

He’s definitely a MOW RON.

mollypitcher5

LOL, that was on the short list too  :banana-mario: 

cthulhu

And, then, there’s going at it another way —

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cthulhu

I’m thinking it’s about time for the Federal Building in Denver to get some new artwork out front….

Like a statue of Tina Peters, with a plaque declaring her a political prisoner of the Colorado state government.

Wolf Moon

LIKE!!!

Wolf Moon

Be careful which “plan” you trust. The Dems have a plan.

Valerie Curren

She is almost as obnoxious to listen to as is the Obamanation!   :wpds_evil: 

Wolf Moon

She’s nasty, annoying, and DRUNK!!!

Valerie Curren

You forgot evil AND incompetent AND corrupt   :wpds_mad: 

Wolf Moon

AND MORE!!!

Valerie Curren

Yes!

Wolf Moon

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cthulhu

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Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

Wolf Moon

This is a pretty powerful take-down of Candace Owens – without even mentioning her name. Surprisingly, the MSM is helping put out that fire, here.

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Wolf Moon

Interestingly, she cites the aspect of not wanting to taint the jury pool as part of why not all information is being released – again – she’s talking about challenges by Candace Owens, IMO.

TheseTruths

I’ve never heard Erika mention Candace’s name. I imagine one of the reasons has to do with legalities. Maybe Erika is being counseled to not say anything directly because IMO Candace would pounce on it and sue her.

Wolf Moon

EXACTLY.

Candace reminds me of certain psychotic ladies I’ve known IRL. The best thing one can do is avoid giving them ANYTHING that can be used as a weapon – or to hoax on victimization.

Wolf Moon

Here’s how AI really works…..

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it “digital transformation.”

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would “10x productivity.”

That’s not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we’d measure the 10x.

I said we’d “leverage analytics dashboards.”

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a “pilot success.”

Success means the pilot didn’t visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured “AI enablement.”

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We’re “AI-enabled” now.

I don’t know what that means.

But it’s in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn’t use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed “enterprise-grade security.”

He asked what that meant.

I said “compliance.”

He asked which compliance.

I said “all of them.”

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a “career development conversation.”

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we “saved 40,000 hours.”

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn’t verify it.

They never do.

Now we’re on Microsoft’s website.

“Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot.”

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He’s never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

“Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction.”

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I’m requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven’t used the first 4,000.

But this time we’ll “drive adoption.”

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I’ll be SVP by Q3.

I still don’t know what Copilot does.

But I know what it’s for.

It’s for showing we’re “investing in AI.”

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we’re serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Wolf Moon

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Cuppa Covfefe

“copilot”… They should just call it Otto… 🙂
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Valerie Curren

IF that’s real it sounds like some sort of fraud.

Or to quote John Lithgow in Cliffhanger “Kill one person & they call you a murderer, kill a million & they call you a conqueror!”

Wolf Moon

I think it’s a typical humorous but fictional summation of corporate waste on IT by “trendy” management.

Valerie Curren

AND government waste…before Trump!

Valerie Curren

Yes!

Wolf Moon

LOL. Yeah. Tools for tools. 😆