2026.04.14 Daily Thread: The World According to Trade(Bait)

In honor of a day in America that led to slavery of all tax paying citizens, April 15, we dedicate this opener. It will not delve much into the history of the income tax’s origin, Gail has already handled that quite well and I urge you to read her works related to it. In them we revisit the period around 1913 and its many federal government related acts of aggression against We the People with the income tax being a big one.

I want to focus more on the way out of it, which #47 and Scott Bessent are orchestrating, now that we know tariffs are going to stay in play. We know the Fed is in process of being neutered and in the process, our petro dollar based fiat currency reserve will change to a version closer to what we had pre 1971 when gold was still the standard bearer and markets were less volatile with their bubbles and busts. Those were the days that brought us these immortal words that are still how it all should go,

#47 already told all of us how our nation can earn it – by him and future Presidents using tariffs.

So, let’s focus on how Trade thinks this may be positioned to go.

National Piggy Bank

Very few people will deny that it seems the entire world has used us as one. My goodness, the tossing money at illegal aliens, NGOs, fraudsters, foreign nations, and a sundry of criminal causes and enterprises of the moment for decades has been mind blowing. Most of us had no idea that trade imbalances were being built through unfair trade practices as long as that cheap shiz from China, Bangladesh, Meh-i-co and such kept showing up on our doorsteps. Once it was starting to be exposed, most of us could not get it off our minds how we have been lied to and used continuously for questionable to horrible purposes that had less than zero long lasting benefit to us. The worst part is it has resulted in a $38+ trillion and climbing national debt. We have all been paying excess taxes to support thieves and war pigs the entire time going back to the Vietnam War.

That is coming to an end. Many simultaneous actions are being undertaken by #47 which will stem the tide and then seemingly all at once, eliminate it. Our role is to keep the pressure on elected officials and the judiciary. We need to help Trump be Trump, to be followed by Vance being Vance, Rubio being Rubio, etc.

Who holds the largest amount of the debt? The same entity that will have #47’s hand pick take over as Chairman soon. Expect things to radically, but quietly change at the Fed and with the changes the national debt picture. Besides lower interest rates, it will probably include the spin out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into private entities that removed contingent debt from our collective books, marking our strategic reserves of gold and silver to market, market moves internationally to sell some debt, and possibly bankrupting a few complicit mega national banks and even Fed banks that have insufficient cash to meet their requirements.

That is even leaving out the effects of the potential use of stablecoin with blockchain tech.

All of the planned and already staged actions reduce inflation and interest rate volatility. So why is that so important? Simply, for every 1% reduction in the fed funds rate, there is a reduction in debt service interest of $500 – 600 billion. The current rate is 150-200 basis points (1.5 – 2.0%) higher than debt markets, economic activities, employment, and inflation indicate it should be. This has gone on for the entire first plus year of #47’s term. That tells us that at the time of this post that close to $1.5 trillion of our annual deficit is bogus just on that one issue. Why? The Fed has been doing it because some large international banks, their masters, have been running out of cash liquidity. Cutting to the chase – it has been an ongoing manipulation that hurts We the People in exchange for propping up their elitist scum bucket friends.

The dirty, not so secret, secret is they are upside down on derivatives in the big banking world. The Fed with their mega bank cronies, including the Euros, are trying to keep enough cash in the connected banking system to stay afloat. They do that by keeping the Fed Funds rate higher than the economics indicate plus while rolling the currency printing presses. You do not have to be a financial expert to tell which banks are most endangered. Just consider the individual responses to #47 and Bessent’s policies and statements. The move away from fiat currency puts holes in and in some cases sinks many of their boats. Even with that, many nations and mega banks are capitulating worldwide starting in Switzerland and progressing through the EU as Bessent turns the screws. Add in the effects of taking Iran out as a lever of their power and it seems tough times are ahead for many EU globalists. Spain has been particularly offended of late. Oh well…

The obstruction led by Jerome Powell has been criminal and even treasonous in my book. He has been screwing all of us, not just #47, in an effort to save the globalist cabal’s kingdom. America Last has been the Dems and Fed’s mission for many years.

The major ratings agencies have been telling the world for years that our growing national debt is a huge problem. It has not been a secret to anybody. Despite knowing that, the world invested into the debt of America, Inc. Instead of seeking funds from selling debt, It seems that the #47 generated trillions in investment into America to avoid tariffs. That spikes fed revenues over a relatively short period of time and leads to the win in The Golden Age that follows once the old guard’s thieving is kaput.

So what does all of that mean for We the People?

Trump Accounts & More

Now that we have identified a relatively easy solution to $1.5 trillion or more in annual deficit just with Fed interest rates being normalized, let’s look at another big ticket annual cost. How many reading this know how much of the federal budget, not the annual overspend (deficit), is comprised of the entitlement program of Social Security?

It is approximately 21% ($1.5 T) of the expenditures annually. Funny, that amount appears again.

One way to look at it is that it is a pretty big chunk that makes up much, if not all of the annual deficit even with the efforts of DOGE and other savings have kicked in. You do understand that the feds do not really lockbox your Social Security contributions, right? It all goes into the same pot and is used for the same grifting even with the separate accounting. They are Ponzi scheming. They are using a growing population’s contributions (including a previously exploding illegal alien population using fake ID’s/SS numbers) to fund existing enrollee funds allocations. Please tell me you remember they just removed over 12 million SS account recipients over the age of 110 or so. All were recipients of monthly checks and likely “voted” in our elections. You do know that most of that money was going to fake ID illegals who funneled it back to their handlers who fund the crooked politicians and government criminals.

Which is one major reason why the cabal members wanted a lot of older people to die with the COVID plandemic (scamdemic, hoax, whatever you want to call it). Scare enough of the sheeple into taking clot shots that accelerate the death rate to improve the actuarial tables to help fund the projected outflow to the criminals.

The problem they experienced has been that more people began to be skeptical about all of the COVID boosters and the fear porn they used. Fool me once applied as the resulting health issues of jabees became ill and died. The first two clot shots did some damage to the 70% or so of Americans who took them. However, to achieve the full kill effect they targeted, they needed far more sheeple to have 5+ shots. You know that is the number from PAVACA’s incredible research.

Meanwhile, MAGA patriots saw through it even when our germaphobe leader still backed his Warp Speed program. He read the tea leaves and backed off somewhat. He went on to have Bobby take over HHS and fully supported him to complete his personal withdrawal from weighing in on the issue, thankfully.

Now, a large number of younger MAGA patriots are doing what Charlie Kirk said to do all along – love Jesus, love country, get married and have babies. #47 along with JD became close to Charlie. They believed in him and the mission of TPUSA. So after he was elected he saw that TPUSA could help save America short and long term. Now the only defense that have are paid fake MAGA influencers who are rapidly declining in influence as their shilling is revealed.

We all knew the enemies of America would drink their own kool-aid and kill themselves off eventually, they always do. The Karens and Kens of baby making age are not into having kids anyway. Most Karens cannot even get a Ken interested in them. much less a MAGA male. Once the illegals were heading home, the left has effectively been isolated and continues to destroy themselves in incredibly stupid attempts to stay relevant.

Enter Trump Accounts and increased BBB child tax credits. Trump Accounts are rewards for baby making to encourage a return to understanding capitalism and the American Way. Funding initially will come from entities and private business people such as Michael Dell and wife. Promises from #47 indicate there is more on the way and it appears funding can even come from future “dividends” he declares from the coffers of America, Inc. Those revenues would undoubtedly come from, drumroll please, tariffs.

If families also invest funds in to their children’s accounts and the feds manage the funds as proposed well, the index accounts they use to produce anticipated historical returns of 8-15% over time will allow our young people to roll the dice and leave the funds invested. Or they can use for education, buy a home, and so on. Program details will be coming in advance of the July roll out.

But wait, there is MOAR!

Back To Social Security

Building Trump Accounts into the psyche and lexicon of the American public opens the door for younger adults to seek personal investment and private retirement funding exclusive of the current Social Security methodology and delivery because they doubt it will exist when they get there. For the record, I doubted as well some four decades ago and yet, here we are still receiving benefits.

For some of of us oldsters, we remember when many employers stopped offering defined benefit pension plans as 401-k style plans were first developed and approved by the federal government. The standard bearing, universally employer offered Defined Benefit Plans are very expensive for employers to maintain and as the average American lifespan increased, even more so. To protect recipients who worked many years to earn good ones, the federal government established an agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), to insure all plans. Employers pay fees to the PBGC that insures all recipients will receive their pensions even it there becomes a situation that there are insufficient funds available in each employer pension plan.

Employers sought a less expensive answer for retirement and the 401-k was devised along with other similar plans. Most employers stopped offering defined benefit plans and offered 401-k plans to replace. Benefits for existing participants in the former were frozen at their current levels for existing employees. The employees then began contributing to their own retirements in the latter. Many employers began offering some level of match of the amount an employee contributed subject to individual plan parameters and federal regulations. The better the employer did financially, the more some would contribute. The employee would choose their investments from a smorgasbord of options in mutual funds, bond funds and money market rates. Over time the vast majority of retirement plans have evolved to this type.

At this point, you should be seeing what may be coming with “Social Security” in the future.

Trump Accounts are the educator, the government does the investing for you, just in index funds instead of interest starved Treasuries. So, instead of the low risk, low ball fake SS investment model; they get to prove themselves worthy of the new method that will still be regulated. Unlike Social Security’s Ponzi scheme, Trump type accounts are actually invested into equities and bond markets using index funds. That helps fuel our capitalism based economy. Win-win applies. The returns people receive based on historical performance of index funds far exceeds inflation, treasury bond rates and bank interest on savings instruments.

Again, the current Social Security program is nothing more than a Ponzi weirded Defined Benefit Pension Plan with the federal government tax revenues funding it based on antiquated ways to take care of the income needs of senior citizens. By giving all adult citizens the option to go with a federal government version of a 401-k, which is what a Trump Account resembles, the government no longer has to fund the SS program for those who seek to have better returns and control over their money and futures. The SS funding gets shored up as needed through tariff revenues as all of the old users pass away.

Independence matters. Making market returns is important. Fueling education and investment into capitalism is crucially important. We did not become the greatest nation on earth by being Marxists and compliant sheeple. Patriotic Americans are bold innovators and hard workers.

Your Budget

I hope I do not have to tell you what lowering the interest rates and increasing the fuel and power generation supplies in America does to the costs of household budgets. Then add in what the BBB did to personal income taxes. The snowball rolling downhill has already begun.

It matters to us in flyover country what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. Destroy the sponsors of terrorism and the world gets flooded with oil that we already have more than ample supply of domestically. What does that tell you about future energy costs, which flows into the cost of products and services?

Lower interest rates do not just apply to home mortgages, car loans, and credit cards; the lower rates apply to funds borrowed by businesses as well as government. The fuel and power costs lowers prices the same ways including transportation costs. Less taxes paid are obvious. All of if increases available consumer spending for more and more American made products, which increases jobs and related wage rates and benefits. Meanwhile illegals are going home, who have been taking many jobs at below market wages without paying taxes, yet, voting and receiving government and medical services

All of the activity increases fed tax revenues, reduces government borrowing (bonds), and reduces the interest cost in the federal budget. That accelerates the elimination of the annual budget deficit as well as national debt over time. More international business investment and growth decreases wars just as all of PDT’s economically driven peace deals have done.

Conclusion

By supporting common sense moves the entire annual deficit at current levels should be eliminated at a good, measured pace. The moves even leave ample room for the support of PDT’s proposed military budget increase as the funding flows into job creation as well as preserving our freedom. That expands our national influence and prevents foreign aggression for decades to come. Peace through strength again proves to be the best deterrent there is.

The war pigs still lose along with all of the forever war politicians aligned with them.

Is that lead AI generated pig Lindsey Graham?

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

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

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TheseTruths

Thank you for that insightful article, TradeBait. It’s good to have a view into what PDJT is going and the probable results, which seem to bode well for the future. 👍🏼

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Gail Combs

Agreed.
As I said yesterday, we have a really great brain trust going here at the Q-Tree, each with their own area of expertise that can be shared with the rest of us.

kalbokalbs

Blessings I am thankful for every day. Wolf, QTree, QTreepers…

Valerie Curren

Yes!!!

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon

I really suspect that China is the snake in the grass behind a lot of this crap.

Wolf Moon

Love it! Seeing SSA as a giant defined benefit plan – wow – very useful!

cthulhu

Defined benefit plans all tend to become Ponzi schemes.

cthulhu

Just as an overview to Ponzi schemes…..

A real guy named Charles Ponzi [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi ] noticed a peculiarity with the postal service. You could buy an international postal reply coupon anywhere in the world for whatever it cost in local currency, and use it anywhere in the world as postage to anywhere else. In Spain, for instance, you could buy one for 74 pesetas (this is long before euros) and use it to mail something from London to Istanbul (which would normally cost half a pound).

This was interesting, if abstruse. People could see it working if they went on holiday, but going to a foreign post office cost more than the theoretical gain.

The next datum that fed into this story was that you could also redeem these postal coupons instead of using them. You could buy one in Spain for 74 pesetas and sell it in England for half a pound. This was helpful for those on holiday that purchased too many and wanted to cash them in when they got home. People could observe this as well.

The final bit of setup, which was also true, was that you could scour around the fringes of this international postal system and find rinky-dink countries that might sell these reply coupons at a deep discount, particularly if they were going through a financial crisis.

So Mr. Ponzi set up a company to purchase these coupons at a deep discount and sell them in advanced countries where they were much more expensive. If you bought in, you could expect 50% profit in 45 days, or 100% in 90 days. Money came pouring in, and early investors sang his praise when the expected returns were paid. Of course, most of these investors decided to do another round with even more money.

Sadly, this fine little scheme was quite seldom performed. So much money was pouring in so fast that there was no time to do the little dance, so the company merely paid off the early investors with money from the later investors. So much money was flowing through the sluices that the entire stock of postal coupons on Planet Earth would be insufficient to soak up the claimed operations.

When the new money coming in was insufficient to pay off the older investors’ returns, the scheme collapsed….and Ponzi’s name is remembered to this day.

cthulhu

Incidentally, governments leave this sort of slop around all the time.

At one point, the US Mint was trying to push presidential dollar coins. They’d allow you to pay by credit card and deliver them to your door with no freight cost.

So I ordered $300 of Andy Jacksons on my Discover. Unfortunately, by the time I got the coins and verified my Discover 1% cash back of $3 had arrived, they’d halted the program. I was prepared to do $3000 for my next batch.

pgroup2

Unfortunately, by the time I got the coins and verified my Discover 1% cash back of $3 had arrived, they’d halted the program.

Quite a shocking discovery, wouldn’t you say?  😂 

cthulhu

If they had any brains, it would not have worked even once.

cthulhu

I should note that I’ve been giving these Andys out to people who read the last four paragraphs of his Bank Veto speech —

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.

kalbokalbs

If the Andy offer remains on the table.

Next time I’m passing though Santa Clara County, I’ll vector over to 280, Steven’s Creek, local TJs area to meet, greet and claim an Andy.   :wpds_shock: 

Reality is, my next visit to Santa Clara County, you’ll likely be in NC.   :banana-mario: 

Maybe get Linux tip or two. Actually went back and watched the Linux video posted a couple days back. Very interesting.

cthulhu

It’s an open invite. I did about 20 of ’em at a Moron Meetup in Vegas some years back, and I’ve also done ’em for the staff of a local pizza parlor.

Being half-packed, it might take me a bit to find my stash.

I consider giving them to anyone who reads Jackson’s words as a civic duty.

Your best Linux tip is to start using it.

cthulhu

And, BTW, I’d celebrate doing a meetup no matter the frivolous circumstances.

kalbokalbs

As would I. Will keep it in mind, when I’m out that way.

A diversion of sorts on the road. Well worth it, in my mind.

Thanks.

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kalbokalbs

Got it all.
Cracked up over, Moron Meetup.   :wpds_lol: 

cthulhu

I’ve done a bunch of Moron Meetups when I was active on AoSHQ. Thought nothing of it, had a great time.

Found out later that certain AoSHQ Morons were stalkers and problems (mainly to females). Would be doing fewer MoMes even if I weren’t banned. Did the Vegas @ Rio MoMe while banned and had a nice time — that was when I distributed Andy coins.

Valerie Curren

AoSHQ” huh?

cthulhu

Ace of Spades HQ.

Valerie Curren

TY 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Yeah… had me thinking $cientology 😀
(AOSHUK, etc.)…..

scott467

Would be doing fewer MoMes even if I weren’t banned.

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👍😂

Valerie Curren



scott467

“I was prepared to do $3000 for my next batch.”

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So 1% cash back on $3,000 is $30.

You can do almost as well, using STRC. STRC is the ticker symbol, it is also called or known as ‘Stretch’.

I tried it last month, and it worked fine.

STRC is one of MicroStrategy’s (MSTR) preferred share offerings, paying an 11.5% yearly dividend, paid monthly, so 1/12th of 11.5% paid monthly.

And because the IRS considers the dividend as return of capital, it is tax deferred.

Anyone who is a shareholder on the ex-dividend date (i.e., as of close of market today) gets paid their dividend at the end of the month.

You can sell your shares on the 15th if you want to, i.e., the following morning, you just have to be a shareholder on the ex-dividend date.

Importantly, STRC shares are designed to always cost $100 per share.

When demand pushes the price per share above $100, they sell more shares into the market, diluting it, to bring the share price back down to $100.

If the share price drops below $100 (for a week or more, IIRC), they increase the dividend by 0.25% for the following month, to increase demand. When STRC was initially listed, I think the yield was 9%, but they increased the yield over the following months, in 0.25% increments, until it was up to 11.5%, which seems to be the sweet spot.

The capital raised from selling STRC shares is used to buy Bitcoin which is the underlying asset securing the STRC (and MSTR), and also to maintain a cash position (currently over $2 billion dollars) to cover yield payments for more than 2 years.

STRC is seeing large inflows primarily from institutional investors, but also from many retail investors.

So it acts like a stable coin, pegged at $100 per share. It does fluctuate, usually by plus or minus 0.05 cents. It fluctuated as much as $4 or $5 dollars in the early going, but they have refined the algorithm over the past 9 months or so, to where it is very good at keeping the share price right around $100.

If you had invested $3,000 today (the 14th), then tomorrow (the 15th) you would qualify for the 11.5% dividend, or $28.75 ($3,000 x 11.5% = $345 ÷ 12 = $28.75 or nearly the same $30 as in your Discover Card 1% cash-back example, without the hassle of mail or physical delivery).

Many people are using STRC like a high yield checking account or money market account, but if you don’t want to keep your money in STRC shares, then you only need to own them for one night during the month.

For example, you could buy STRC shares at your online broker at 3:59pm on the 14th, and then sell them at 9am on the 15th. You get paid the dividend on the last day of the month, which is automatically added to your brokerage account.

So if one is concerned about having their money in STRC, or just concerned about having their money in the stock market at all during a given period, the capital only need be at ‘risk’ (i.e., in the market) for 17 hours each month, i.e., from 4pm on the 14th of the month, until 9am on the 15th.

For a larger example, scale accordingly. $300,000 x 11.5% = $34,500 ÷ 12 = $2,875 monthly dividend.

For retired people living on fixed income, STRC could significantly reduce the amount needed to cover monthly living expenses, in comparison to much lower yielding instruments that require significantly more capital invested to achieve the same monthly cash flow. Probably utilizing a higher risk instrument in the process.

Not financial advice of course, I’m not a financial advisor, I don’t even play one on TV, please always do your own due diligence, etc., etc.

I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn last night, or even recently — so any residual benefit would certainly have worn off by now.

I invested in STRC last month for the first time, and it worked just as designed. The dividend payment showed up in my account on the last day of the month, so I did the same this month.

I was already very familiar with Michael Saylor’s company MicroStrategy (rebranded just “Strategy” not too long ago, but it’s like Twitter vs. ‘X’, most people still call it MicroStrategy and the ticker symbol is still MSTR), and I have been following the progress of their preferred dividend yielding share called STRC (or ‘Stretch’) since it was listed on the stock exchange last year in July, 2025.

Just food for thought.

Edit: I just saw that STRC took in over $1.1 billion dollars on April 13th.

Today (April 14th), STRC took in another $1.57 billion dollars, today being the last day of the month to get in to qualify for the dividend payment.

So liquidity is not an issue.

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cthulhu

I should note that I could have also done Frequent Flyer miles, or some of both.

Cuppa Covfefe

Somehow I’m getting an impression of Henry Winkler, busy in a post office in Timbuktoo…

Wolf Moon

BUT – and please correct me if I am wrong – the real problem seems merely to have been excessive payment of returns. Had Mr. Ponzi limited investment and/or returns according the “the input and the output of the dance” – meaning how much he could buy and sell – it would not have been problematic – right?

In other words, simply don’t guarantee a return greater than whatever the system actually pays. Don’t allow investment greater than what is allowing desired returns. Basically, the stock market.

Thus, it seems to me that the second error, beside Ponzi’s original error of considering investment income as being directly payable to investors without traveling through “the dance”, is that of not differentiating “good Ponzi” from “bad Ponzi”. Yes, the original scheme (“good” Ponzi) is basically a form of “gray market manipulation” – BUT it’s no more parasitic than much of the rest of capitalism and socialism, IMO. As long as the parasite isn’t killing the host, symbiosis is possible.

E.g., I prefer “banking” some of my money with Uncle Sam from April to April, because keeping my hands off of it is a SERVICE I am willing to pay for. Yes, the IRS is parasitizing me, but I find it useful, and a reliable way to set aside funds. As does Uncle Sam. 😂

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon

HA! I love it! Because TRUE ENOUGH!!!

Gail Combs

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

kalbokalbs

Xi may declare a national day of mourning, IF, Swalwell truly resigns.   :wpds_lol: 

Valerie Curren

now do Wallz 😉

pgroup2

Daily Mail headline:

Fang Fang hardest hit

Firefly

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

TheseTruths

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scott467

Looks like most of them are crashing into each other. Like a global game of bumper boats.

pgroup2

We can cut a heck of a deal with Cuba – US will create 100% employment in Cuba in exchange for approval to build 20 nuclear power plants there AND an underwater cable to transmit most of the electric output to Florida.

Bonus – Cuba gets free electricity across the entire country.

Firefly

Let’s send some of that power to Puerto Rico too!

pgroup2

Gotta get rid of the gangs first.

Sir ES

It’s very often the case, even here on America, that the local / county / state gov’t works WITH the gangs, cooperating at somewhat of an arm’s length.

Crack was just introduced on purpose in 1980s NYC, and crates of firearms (many of which were illegal – special mags, high-power, suppressors, etc.) were dumped at various ‘hoods’ in Chi-Town.

Create the emergency, profit from the mayhem…

Gail Combs

Very true even today. My local town is known to be crooked. I have heard it (and horror stories) from 4 separate people who do not know each other. One was a cop for a neighboring town who refused to work here because they were so crooked.

TheseTruths

Cynical Publius:

One does not need to be a rocket scientist to realize that the reason Obama henchman David Axelrod met with Pope Leo last week was to coordinate a media propaganda blitz and quasi-color revolution designed to separate faithful American Roman Catholics from support for the MAGA agenda.

scott467

So Leo is an active political tool of the lunatic and very criminal American Marxist Left, leveraging the highest office of the RCC for corrupt Leftist politics and to divide the flock.

Got any Scripture for that, Leo?

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pgroup2

Sure he has Scripture for that. But it involves silver coins.

Aubergine

Whoo, that’s gonna leave a mark!

You win the internet for the comment of the day!

TheseTruths

The Scripture “excuses” that I’ve seen in the past are the verses about peace, love, and helping the poor. The problem is that people, including people in high places like the pope, interpret Scripture to mean whatever they want. “Love,” to them, means not having any boundaries—for the United States, but not for the Vatican. For the U.S., in their view, it means catering to the needs of the world for some reason. “Peace” means not using force, even for good and even in the face of those who want to kill you.

As with all things Left, the lack of logic becomes apparent under scrutiny.

Pope Leo XIV:

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

Coexist, donchaknow. He just said it.

scott467

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

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These things are just flat out false.

God has blessed numerous conflicts in Scripture, and even handled multiple conflicts with direct divine intervention.

To suggest that Jesus is “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword” is to say that Jesus does not forgive, which is also false.

It is also a false because Cornelius, the very first Gentile to become a Christian, was a Roman Centurion who carried a sword every day, and knew very well how to use it.

Military action is the only thing which creates a ‘safe space’ for freedom or times of peace… how else does he think tyrannical dictatorships are restrained or ended? Wishful thinking?

How is his own security working out, without armed guards?

How is patient promotion of coexistence and dialog working out for the 45,000 civilians murdered in cold blood by the islamo-fascist regime of Iran this past month?

How can anyone who issues a statement like his be considered a credible speaker on anything having to do with Christianity, or even common sense, much less truth?

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Robert Baker

It seems His Eminence missed this one.

Matt 10:34–36Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn “ ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— your enemies will be the members of your own household.’“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth! I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And the enemies of a man will be the members of his household.“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. “For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

TheseTruths

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Cuppa Covfefe

Dyslexics Untie!

TheseTruths

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kalbokalbs

Sad truth in Prickster and Johnson’s Chicago.

Following, just being a PIA.

Enlist. Two Officers in the picture.

TheseTruths

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kalbokalbs

That’s funny.

Laughing at myself.

First time Slow Guy saw a U-Haul truck with the decal, of a partially open roll down door, with household stuff, I thought it was real. Damn Slow Guy can be Slow.   :wpds_question: 

TheseTruths

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scott467

Agreed. So what is the most effective way to confront the criminal political-class, since the FIB and the DoJ don’t seem interested?

Where is Harmeet Dhillon and the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ, to protect the First Amendment against attack by the rogue criminal government of California?
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………………….
Me: Brave, is journalism protected by the First Amendment?

Brave search reply (not A.I., I think, because it’s under the “all” search category and not the ‘ask’ category, but it sounds like A.I. anyway): “Yes, journalism is protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of the press to report on matters of public interest without government censorship or prior restraint. 

This protection extends to all forms of newsgathering and reporting, including television, radio, online media, podcasts, and independent bloggers, not just traditional newspaper publishers. 

The First Amendment prevents the government from abridging the freedom of the press, ensuring that journalists can act as a watchdog to expose corruption and hold officials accountable.”

.

Me: Is investigative journalism protected by the First Amendment?

Brave search reply (not A.I., but not really sure, see above): “Yes, the First Amendment protects the professional activities of journalists and the publication of news, which are essential to investigative journalism and a free press.”
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Harmeet, Harmeet… wherefore art thou, Harmeet?

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cthulhu

I’m sure you already know this, but “wherefore” means “why”.

Juliet’s lament, “wherefore art thou, Romeo?” is actually “I meet this total hunk at the market and fall in love, and he turns out to be the #1 son of a family of bitter enemies — if he’d been some random shepherd, I could’ve just bagged and tagged him….oh, my bad luck….why are you Romeo?”

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Valerie Curren

LOL

Gail Combs

Remember the journalists in CA that exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby parts were found GUILTY.

Verdict: Undercover Journalists Guilty After Exposing Planned Parenthood’s Sale of Baby Body Parts

After six weeks of testimony, a San Francisco, CA jury on Friday ruled against David Daleiden and other undercover investigators after they exposed Planned Parenthood operatives discussing how to sell aborted baby body parts….

…lead Thomas More Society defense attorney Peter Breen. “We intend to seek vindication for David on appeal. His investigation into criminal activity by America’s largest abortion provider utilized standard investigative journalism techniques, those applied regularly by news outlets across the country.”

“David’s findings revealed practices so abhorrent that the United States Congress issued criminal referrals for Planned Parenthood, and numerous states and elected officials have moved to strip it of funding,” continued Breen. “Rather than face up to its heinous doings, Planned Parenthood chose to persecute the person who exposed it. I am fully confident that when this case has run its course, justice will prevail, and David will be vindicated.”

 

Tom Brejcha, Thomas More Society President and Chief Counsel, noted that the implications of this lawsuit go far beyond “exposing the evils of the abortion industry.” 

 

“This case puts the constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech on trial. It tests the sacred tenet of freedom of the press,” Brejcha explained. “Planned Parenthood decided that it was above the law…

Firefly

This case was finally resolved, David HAS been vindicated, after YEARS of litigation!

Gail Combs

The PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT!

Sir ES

Yep.

I was about to post exactly that, earlier, but I was interrupted!

The only good news is there won’t even BE a Democrat party soon enough, and the fraudsters and grifters and disloyalists are getting caught.

Judges, smudges! They and their complicit cohorts are going down.

Arrests not up to expectations? There’ll be an avalanche of ’em!

Glad Skull ‘n’ Bones Boasberg was smacked down today – one of the biggest judiciary *tools* I’ve come across.

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep… he’s a monkey wrench 🙂

Sir ES

And a flunky hench to boot.

I assume you’ve heard somewhat of the ritual ‘hazing’ of the recruits of S&B chapters, yes?

Valerie Curren

  :doublepuke: 

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep…. the Flintstones’ theme song mentioned something about it….

“We’ll have a gay old time….”…..

Needs to learn about a brace and bit…

(My Dad had one of those; wish I’d brought it with me… fun to see/experience the wood being drilled very, very slowly…)…..

[We have a friend who is an artisan cabinetmaker in France… one day he was there with his Dad showing us family heirloom tools from prior centuries including what looked to be an outsized block plane that was effectively a planer/jointer. The tool was maybe four inches wide, but SIX FEET long… and, oh, what a joy to see the paper-thin shavings issue from the stock…]…..

Here are some examples of his work…

http://www.michel-donnot.fr/cache/mod_roksprocket/b6dc2e6288ddd8cc88889a4ce19fc63e_0_0.jpg

http://www.michel-donnot.fr/cache/mod_roksprocket/2b08c8a0280e09b32f47b548019f3708_0_0.jpg

(I can just see coming in late at night, after a long day at the pub, trying to navigate this 😆 )

http://www.michel-donnot.fr/cache/mod_roksprocket/d7be088cc68ae6bb95caee8b382f3380_0_0.jpg

LoneStar

 😯 

Gail Combs

FWIW, Colonel Towner and I think it was War Hamster have a series of videos on S&B…

YUP! Here it one of the videos:

The Shadow State 20: Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888
https://rumble.com/v659cya-the-shadow-state-20-secret-societies-4-more-skull-and-bones.html

I join Colonel Towner-Watkins for the 4th episode of our Secret Societies series. In this episode we explore the ties and careers of 3 notorious Bonesmen; William M. Evarts, William Collins Whitney, and Former 2-time Secretary of War Henry Stimson.

Find the Colonel at: 


Find me at: 


War Hamster’s Rumble page:
https://rumble.com/c/WarHamster?e9s=src_v1_cbl

scott467

This case was finally resolved, David HAS been vindicated, after YEARS of litigation!

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The ‘resolved’ part better included multiple tens of millions of dollars to David for malicious prosecution, violation of Constitutionally guaranteed God-given rights, and damages.

Lots of damages.

There should also be prosecution of the D.A. and whoever authorized anyone to prosecute a U.S. citizen for exercising his 1st Amendment rights.

To have done such a thing is a flagrant affront to the very rule of law any such D.A. is sworn to uphold.

Valerie Curren

hear, hear!

Firefly

Agreed!

scott467

“This case puts the constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech on trial. It tests the sacred tenet of freedom of the press,” Brejcha explained. “Planned Parenthood decided that it was above the law…

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The case should never have gone forward in the first place, it should have been thrown out, and the target of Planned Parenthood should have sued Planned Parenthood for violation of his Constitutional rights.

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pgroup2

So what is the most effective way to confront the criminal political-class, since the FIB and the DoJ don’t seem interested?
Where is Harmeet Dhillon and the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ, to protect the First Amendment against attack by the rogue criminal government of California?

You need to stop this repeated implication that nothing is happening. You have no idea what’s going on inside Dhillon’s division of the DoJ.

Harmeet is an excellent attorney, highly skilled but most importantly, highly efficient. She is making sure she can’t be blown out by poorly prepared pleadings. But more likely, she is gathering as much evidence as she can get so that when an arrest is made, the defendant’s attorney tells his client that he doesn’t stand a chance against all that evidence so he better cut a deal by SINGING LIKE A CANARY.

When an arrest is made, all sorts of time deadlines start ticking. They all favor the accused. Prior to arrest, the only thing ticking is the statute of limitations and that is measured in years, not days like the other ones.

Lots is going on. You just can’t see it. And you don’t need to see it.

What you need is faith and trust.

Years three and four of POTUS 47 are going to be explosive, legally speaking. We have to get past the 2026 election.

Firefly

Many Thanks pgroup!

Gail Combs

THANKS!!!!

The RICO case(s) are going to be for the history books.

The Cabal really blew it by going after Trump in Florida. That puts most of these connected cases in FLORIDA and not DC. 😂

Valerie Curren

Yuuuuge!!!

TheseTruths

Lots is going on. You just can’t see it. And you don’t need to see it. 

What you need is faith and trust.

Attorney Steve Turley made that point in his excellent analysis of the right-wing influencers who have turned on PDJT, brought here yesterday.

Sir ES

Excellent article today TB! A lot of threads woven together.

It’s always good to demonstrate optimism, for morale and to bolster ones will to see things through.

Btw, the shill presence on 8kun has been substantial and sustained: it’s a tried-and-true index of the PANIC the cabal feels.

And for us?

“FEELS GOOD, MAN!”
–Pepe the Fren

Lol

TheseTruths

Dems continually come up with legislation that is unconstitutional. They do it all the time regarding the Second Amendment. It’s significant that it’s now happening with journalism, which they have always tended to protect. But that’s okay; we have the Bill of Rights. It just takes time and money to fight their power grabs.

IMO anyone defending this kind of unAmerican legislation should be immediately removed from office.

Firefly

AB2624 is EVIL!

  :wpds_evil:   :wpds_mad: 

cthulhu

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pgroup2

Are we sure that the IED wasn’t packed with IUDs?

  :wpds_wink:    :wpds_lol: 

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Aubergine

Can we know it wasn’t an IUD? Was his injury on his ding-dong? Maybe he stuck it where he shouldn’t have, and that IUD just got him!

Cuppa Covfefe

And from out in left field, softly wafting on the waves of the 70s… 🙂

Valerie Curren

 😂 

Barb Meier

  :wpds_lol: 

cthulhu

I missed bringing a Schlichter yesterday because I was frazzled from rounding-up tax stuff.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/04/13/how-about-a-dignity-act-for-actual-americans-n2674291

kalbokalbs

Relax. Have a beer for breakfast. You have another day.

cthulhu

I have never filed on April 15. I’d have to stand in line.

During my many years as a professional accountant, I got in the habit of always going on extension (work got done for paying customers before I did anything else).

It looks like I’ll file tomorrow, which will be my first April filing in about 30 years. And this despite Schwab changing a 1099 on the tenth.

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cthulhu

It looks good. I’ll just have to do CPA stuff tomorrow morning (Cut, Paste, and Assemble).

Cuppa Covfefe

Rock, Paper, Shotgun, erm, Scissors… 🙂

Valerie Curren

  :banana-mario: 

Cuppa Covfefe

You should be rounding down 😀

TheseTruths

From yesterday, DNI Tulsi Gabbard:

Newly-declassified records expose how deep state actors within the Intelligence Community concocted a false narrative that Congress used to usurp the will of the American people and impeach duly-elected President @realDonaldTrump in 2019.

Today, we reveal the truth

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Valerie Curren

I thought Strzok was CIA tasked to FBI   :wpds_twisted: 

cthulhu

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Firefly

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

eilert

This is one of the heroes which were brutally gunned down by the fascistic Islamic regime in Iran in January.
Heroes the Propaganda Stream Media refuses to show.

Hamid Mahdavi spent his final hours carrying injured protesters away from regime forces. Footage of his courage spread widely, but behind every viral moment is a human story.

Hamid was a firefighter who shared his journey online, a tribute to his love for protecting others.

When the streets filled with protesters, the regime showed no mercy. But mercy was all Hamid had to give. He had spent his life placing himself in danger for the safety of others, and in his final moments, he did the same.

We remember Hamid for his courage, his compassion, and his sacrifice for the safety of Iranians everywhere.

eilert
kalbokalbs

Should go viral.

Firefly

Thanks eilert for posting about this hero!

  :wpds_cry: 

eilert

CNN right before we hit Iran’s nuclear facilities last year: There is no need for this. Iran isn’t close to having a nuclear weapon.

CNN immediately after last year’s strike: The mission failed, Iran is closer than ever to having a nuclear weapon.

CNN right before we hit Iran this year: There is no need for this. Iran isn’t close to having a nuclear weapon.

Spoiler alert. This is how Democrats/MSM will be, with everything, for the next three years. It’s exactly how they were on everything Trump did during his first five years.

kalbokalbs

Excellent read TB. Thank you!

The first coherent path out of our living Ponzi scheme, SS, that I’ve read.

Trump is truly the GOAT. As is Team Trump, the GOAT.

We are Blessed.

patfrederick

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Cuppa Covfefe

Bet the gal’s name is KAREN!!!!!

cthulhu

A rather shocking amount of my “kid clothes” were purchased from Sears. Specifically, the Sears surplus store in the San Fernando Valley.

Valerie Curren

toughskins!

Cuppa Covfefe

Mervyn’s (and Capwell’s) also had some really good clothes…

(Though I HATED clothes shopping, and only tolerated it because I could go to the Lionel Trains and Craftsman Tools displays afterwards 🙂 )…..

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kalbokalbs

Living that sentiment.   :cheers:   :pepper:   :banana-mario:   :banana2:   :cheers: 

patfrederick

me too!
give me farmers any day.

patfrederick

Paul A. Szypula https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg
@Bubblebathgirl
An American citizen went up against Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on the issue of illegal immigration and completely wiped the floor with him.

She called him out to his face for obsessing about Epstein when illegals have caused exponentially more harm to children and the American people in general.

Khanna gaslit and said of the Democrats, “We have been for a secure border.”

She shot back quickly, “No one in California can say they’re for a secure border.”

Khanna then brought up the collateral damage of ICE raids in Minneapolis. She rightly retorted, “Two people.” Meanwhile Democrats defend millions of illegals.

Khanna tried to pivot to the issue of sex trafficking by rich people but then got silenced because he’s ignoring the sex trafficking by illegals.

This woman was just getting started too.

She rightly said that illegals feel like they’re above the law because “they get right back out of jail when you guys let them out… they are above the law. They are at a tier that gets to walk free whenever they want.”

Khanna claimed that “if you commit a violent crime then you should face deportation.”

She strongly responded, “But you guys don’t do it!”

Khanna then tried to demonize ICE. She responded, “I feel comfortable with ICE around. I’m not a criminal illegal immigrant so I feel very comfortable. I’m not terrorized by them and I’m from New York.”

Khanna then tried to make a case for illegals who’ve opened a restaurant in the U.S. Again, this woman crushed his argument: “Why? Why are they allowed to do that? Why are they taking that place away from someone else?”

Khanna then said if the illegal operating the restaurant has been here for 10 years then they should be allowed to stay.

Her response to this was perhaps her best of the conversation: “If you’re going to go after someone that was on Epstein’s island 10 years ago then you should go after people that came here illegally 10 years ago.”

YES!

Khanna then promoted a path to legalization for illegals and the woman got booted because the crowd wanted to talk about Epstein.

This woman won the debate and the leftists just didn’t want to hear it.

We need people like her in Congress who refuse to be gaslit by Democrats promoting their nonsensical pandering to illegals.

Gail Combs

GOOD, a BLACK WOMAN! She checks most of the boxes so if she runs as a DemonRat she should win in a landslide. (2 parties can play that Trojan horse donkey game.)

patfrederick

this irks me…

kalbokalbs

U F B

Once I saw it. I can’t unsee it.

Sadly, what I see, Continuously Gets Worse, Over The Decades.

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patfrederick

it triggered a memory for me. it was 20 years ago, we were in the truck and an ad came on the radio. It was all about FREE classes for people to learn English and to learn about what “services” were available in the area, and how “people” could have a “pathway” to citizenship. SPONSORED by Catholic Charities.
(We were driving just over the state border in NY and this radio station is out of Elmira NY. )

patfrederick

tbh there are no RC churches around here within a 45 minute drive and there are plenty of mountains in between, so I have not gone in a long time. My hubby is not RC. We pray, we follow the Commandments and read Scripture. we do not tithe, but we are generous whenever the occasion arises.

pgroup2

One of the purposes of tithing is fulfilled by your generosity. IMO.

kalbokalbs

Have never bought into, tithing. Another of my failings.

Voluntary donations to a church, sure. Mandatory, NEVER.

Generous, considerate, helping others in need, 100%.

My focus is the truly needy. Generally, do not trust middleman.

Obviously folks do whatever they believe is correct.

patfrederick

I agree on the middleman theory. it’s what disgusts me the most about ngo’s, the administrators profit from someone’s need. that’s twisted.

Gail Combs

At one point the CEO of the Red Cross was the highest paid person in the USA. (I do not know if that is still true.)

patfrederick

THAT’S what I mean. the hierarchy in organizations–each level siphoning off exaggerated salaries from the money that should be going to those in need. it’s sickening.

Cuppa Covfefe

DePat always used to bring up the hypocrisy of the charities, where the “manglement” was getting hideous amounts of money while everyone else (often volunteers) got next to nothing…

Gail Combs

I really miss D-Pat.

Sir ES

“[D]o not trust middleman.”

Indeed!

That’s what PDJT is doing to the healthcare insurance industry, so that people can do business directly with providers.

All that middlemen do is broker a deal between two parties, and siphon off value from either side.

Middlemen are a COST. Very few are required (attorneys, CPAs, etc. are exceptions).

Direct interaction, in general, is best…

patfrederick

you’re very kind TB!

Gail Combs

I certainly agree!

It is better to do kindnesses to others that you see are in need than to Tithe to an ‘Institution’ who may very well use your tithings for evil.

We are seeing just that with our federal and state governments.

pgroup2

Disagree that Yeshua wasn’t a good Jew. I think He was the best Jew, observing all the feast days and all the commandments.

He even said to the Pharisees, haven’t you read the Scriptures. That was an intensely sarcastic and insulting thing to say to men who read Scriptures as their vocation.

What I believe was the root of their enmity of Him was that He was the example that exposed their shortcomings while they criticized everybody else’s failings.

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Brave and Free

Good point, kinda like what PDJT just did.

Cuppa Covfefe

The Pharisees are the perfect example of projection (like the SatanoDEMONRATS) who accuse everyone else of doing what they actually do.

From something I noted before:

Also from Revelation 12:9-11: (DEMONRATS always accusing and projecting):
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

pgroup2

I am sorry for my error.  😢  😪 

Cuppa Covfefe

Your tar and feather appointment is at 10:00 tomorrow morning 😀  🛂 

PAVACA

Well said.
Yours Truly was raised a Roman Catholic. Left that after college to be received into the Episcopal Church. Left that as a married woman when that denomination started going more leftward. Joined an Anglican Church group in Durham when I moved here. Left that when they started doing the DEI-type “we’re here for all people” thing.
Now — I read the Bible. Read our good bakocarl’s Sunday lesson. Sometimes virtually attend Sabbath or High Holy Day services at Central Synagogue (New York City.) Listen to religious music (Bach Cantatas, Gregorian Chant, the Poor Clares of Arundel.)
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (mother of Philippe II, Regent of France for Louis XV) was raised a Lutheran. She had to convert to Catholicism in order to marry her French husband (Philippe I, brother of Louis XIV.) But she was never comfortable with the Catholic Church. As an older woman, she made it clear that she would only attend the services that the King required the Court to attend — Christmas and Easter. Instead, she read several chapters of the Bible every day and “created her own little religion” (her words.)

Gail Combs

Very well said TradeBait.

You are better off staying home and reading the Bible each Sunday! Or better yet find a group of like minded people to celebrate Sundays with.

Valerie Curren

My Best church experience in decades was our “illegal” house church family gathering during the height of covid criminality under Witchmer’s brutal boot!

Aubergine

I wish I could write about what I really think about the Catholic church. But I won’t. I don’t want to offend people who are Catholic, because I think they are innocently following their hearts.

I will say this; this pope is the logical and perhaps inevitable product of a two millennia progression based on a single incorrect belief.

barkerjim

Our faith is based on the belief that only Jesus is between us and God!!!

Valerie Curren

Amen!

Cuppa Covfefe

(see my Tom Lehrer link 🙂 )…..

Somehow, politics and greed, etc., somehow manage to snake their way into every institution…

There’s a great online store called Christianbook.com that often has HUUUUGE discounts on books, often on reference libraries such as writings of the Early Church Fathers that was 23 volumes or so, but fantastic… I can’t afford the shipping over here, but when we lived (briefly) in Kalifornistan, we bought a lot of stuff from them.

Doesn’t help that we’re all book hounds, but it’s so nice having a lot of really good references all in a set… http://www.christianbook.com

Aubergine

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep… I think Tom Lehrer had it pegged (even though I got in trouble for playing this and “Turn Back O Man” from Godspell at Catholic school 🙂 )…. Have to think that not many folks remember “Vatican II” and how the church was before that… Pope John XXIII was rather liberal indeed…

Cuppa Covfefe

I suspect, on Netflix at least, in these days, the lyrics start “Turn Black, Oh Man”….

duchess01

FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND ALL IN NEED OF PRAYER

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

Goodness Of God : Peaceful Christian Piano Instrumentals for Worship With Blooming Spring Scenes

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duchess01

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

Verse of the Day for Tuesday, April 14, 2026

“For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”

Matthew 18:11 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR MATTHEW 18:11

The importance of humility. (1-6) Caution against offences. (7-14) The removal of offences. (15-20) Conduct towards brethren, The parable of the unmerciful servant. (21-35)

7-14 Considering the cunning and malice of Satan, and the weakness and depravity of men’s hearts, it is not possible but that there should be offences. God permits them for wise and holy ends, that those who are sincere, and those who are not, may be made known. Being told before, that there will be seducers, tempters, persecutors, and bad examples, let us stand on our guard. We must, as far as lawfully we may, part with what we cannot keep without being entangled by it in sin. The outward occasions of sin must be avoided. If we live after the flesh, we must die. If we, through the Spirit, mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live. Christ came into the world to save souls, and he will reckon severely with those who hinder the progress of others who are setting their faces heavenward. And shall any of us refuse attention to those whom the Son of God came to seek and to save? A father takes care of all his children, but is particularly tender of the little ones.

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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God’s Eyes Are on You | Verse of the Day – April 14, 2026 (Morning Prayer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9K2NWzV2k
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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

duchess01

WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE
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CHILD NOT CHOICE
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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

duchess01

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

MISSING YOU
The family is quietI really know not whyThere has been no real riotNothing that meets the eye
We were flourishing and strongEven with the stress of each dayThen suddenly something went wrongAnd we have somehow lost our way
Something has gone adriftAnd split our family apartThere was a sudden shiftAn attack on every heart
Some say life has gotten in the wayToo many distractions they bearSome say away they must stayAnd take solace away in prayer
Some are dealing with painOf the physical and the mentalFrom interaction they abstainThus with all we must be gentle
With whatever you are dealingWe will keep you in prayerThat God provide the healingBe comforted and aware
If you have a problem with anotherLet it not fester insideAsk God for help with sister/brotherLet peace in your heart abide
Forgiveness is a blessingLike no other that I knowIt’s power to relieve the stressingThe hurt and pain it will slow
Please check in and let us knowYou are okay and just fineLet us hear and see you glowLet your light for us it shine
Pray and then pray againFor God to give you a signBring out the great AmenAnd with us all be fine!!!
D01: 03/25/2022

duchess01

MISSING YOU

The family is quiet
I really know not why
There has been no real riot
Nothing that meets the eye

We were flourishing and strong
Even with the stress of each day
Then suddenly something went wrong
And we have somehow lost our way

Something has gone adrift
And split our family apart
There was a sudden shif
An attack on every heart

Some say life has gotten in the way
Too many distractions they bear
Some say away they must stay
And take solace away in prayer

Some are dealing with pain
Of the physical and the mental
From interaction they abstain
Thus with all we must be gentle

With whatever you are dealing
We will keep you in prayer
That God provide the healing
Be comforted and aware

If you have a problem with another
Let it not fester inside
Ask God for help with sister/brother
Let peace in your heart abide

Forgiveness is a blessing
Like no other that I know
It’s power to relieve the stressing
The hurt and pain it will slow

Please check in and let us know
You are okay and just fine
Let us hear and see you glow
Let your light for us it shine

Pray and then pray again
For God to give you a sign
Bring out the great Amen
And with us all be fine!!!

D01: 03/25/2022


duchess01

Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing

#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html

Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms

prayeveryday777

https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html

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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!!  ❤️❤️❤️



kalbokalbs

After Iran is brought to heel, Houthis need to be bitch slapped into smithereens.
True, Houthis will lose their funding. May have already lost their funding.

They remain belligerent terrorists. Not just to Israel, but every ship that transits the red Sea. Unacceptable. Easily remedied with some well place ordnance.

Carrier USS George H.W. Bush Operating off Southern Africa as Iranian Blockade Begins
https://news.usni.org/2026/04/13/carrier-uss-george-h-w-bush-operating-off-southern-africa-as-iranian-blockade-begins

patfrederick

some cultures remain stagnant in their territorial beliefs. pirates and bullies gonna steal and try to intimidate.

patfrederick

and this SHOULD motivate the Pope to action..something…but he’d rather jump out of his lane to attack our president. smh

H/t Marica

kalbokalbs

That one ought to leave a mark. It won’t.

Wouldn’t want to offend islamis. Frances would not approve.

Bishop’s truly don’t care. Frauds.

patfrederick

i agree.

Brave and Free

They care about the $$$ more.
And what there’re covering up…….

Cuppa Covfefe

Made me think about the movie “Frances” about Frances Farmer and lobotomy…

(A nickle’s-worth of advice for free: don’t ever make a movie date of “Frances” and “Sophie’s Choice” as a double feature… 😮 )…..

Firefly

You have given us the reasons for your hope. Many Thanks for your outstanding article TradeBait!

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barkerjim

Thank you, TradeBait!!! Many more smiles incoming!!!

patfrederick

the front of our home is mostly glass with a deck and roof covering. A little while ago a northern flicker (a larger bird) SLAMMED into the upper window and fell to the deck on his back. His eyes were opened and i could see he was breathing but i thought he was a goner.
took him a while but he eventually flipped himself onto his belly and looked around–turning his head this way and that. and then he called out (i’m guessing to his mate) and i heard a faint call in return from down the driveway. He sat for a while and then trilled again…and again there was a response–closer this time. The he turned himself to face the driveway and trilled a third time and his mate flew to the railing trilling. Then he flew off the deck into the woods with his mate beside him.

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Brave and Free

God’s creations are beautiful.

patfrederick

they are!!!

Cuppa Covfefe

Here at HP Böblingen, we have a breezeway (mostly glass) that had problems with birds flying into it, either blinded, or whatever…

Someone (I think a child of one of our engineers) suggested stickers/decals/whatever that looked like birds, to discourage the other birds from flying towards the breezeway…

It actually worked quite well well (probably still does)…. sigh… if only I were still working there (although I’d have to be retired now anyway, as they have a mandatory retirement age of 66)…

Gail Combs

We had a pheasant fly THRU a window get chased by the dog and fly back out thru a different window.

barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/consequential-tuesday-april-14-2026

Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup includes: how the C&C Army’s respectful pushback on the President’s AI post was answered with grace — proving that civility still works when both sides want it to; how the media’s Strait of Hormuz narrative collapsed so completely that the New York Times admitted Trump was right while European leaders publicly pleaded for him to reopen the world’s most critical shipping lane; how the Pentagon, in a move the media barely whispered about, signed a military agreement beside the strait that carries eighty percent of China’s crude oil — positioning America at the throat of Beijing’s energy supply; and how the Democrat party’s moral reckoning with Eric Swalwell cost them a congressman, a billionaire benefactor who walked out in disgust, and whatever credibility they had left on “protecting women.”

Cuppa Covfefe

Pucker Carlson…

patfrederick

this comment is gold

thedoc00
April 14, 2026 10:52 am

Reply to  Bubby
The ledger of the tax payer funded Congressional “hush money fund” tells a different tale … too bad the public is not allowed to see it.

in response to this lie

Sir ES

Just saw the video, and guess what?

666 comments…

patfrederick

creepy!

Cuppa Covfefe

Possessed Poligrip Pavement Princess Mafiosi Piglosi d’Alessandro Gambino…
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barkerjim

https://toresays.substack.com/p/the-architect-they-had-to-remove

The Architect They Had to Remove: Daniel Meyer, the ICIG Whistleblower Program, and the Atkinson Fraud
How the man who built the Intelligence Community’s whistleblower system was pushed out—just before that system was weaponized for impeachment.

barkerjim
barkerjim

A massive trucking scandal is (again) unfolding in Illinois and you can be sure the Chicago/IL media will go out of its way to ignore it.

Last night, 60 Minutes exposed just a few parts of a serious national public safety threat posed by “chameleon carriers,” often owned/operated by foreigners.

The segment focused on Super Ego, owned by Serbs but headquartered in Elmhurst–a western suburb not far from O’Hare Airport in an area where dozens of other trucking companies are located.

Super Ego is under federal investigation (by DOT, at least for now) and being sued “fraudulent, unsafe, deceptive, and unlawful trucking practices.”

Super Ego is tied to numerous crashes including one in Florida where two girls were seriously injured after a Super Ego driver crashed into a stopped school bus.

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/14/nites-ov-de-rod-24/

A massive trucking scandal is (again) unfolding in Illinois and you can be sure the Chicago/IL media will go out of its way to ignore it.[…]
The FMCSA (under DOT) in continuing an ongoing audit of IL SOS office related to the issuance of at least 10,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses over the past few years.
These are truck driver’s licenses awarded to non residents–foreigners–including some here illegally.
In 2024 and 2025, the state saw a huge jump in the number of non-domiciled CDL issued by IL SOS. In fact, an industry watchdog group obtained records via FOIA that showed roughly 40% of ALL CDLs issued by IL SOS in 2025 went to foreigners.
FMCSA determined at least 20% of all non-domiciled CDLs issued by IL SOS were done so illegally. Applicants did not furnish federally required paperwork including unexpired passports and IL SOS issued CDLs for a longer period of time than the applicants’ work authorization permitted.

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barkerjim

Murkowski is wrong.

96% of Alaskans have an acceptable state approved ID according to the Dept of Transportation.

In raw figures: there are 563,588 people over the age of 16 in Alaska. 539,812 of them have driving licenses according go the DOT.

Alaskans are not going to be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act as written. If they lack a birth certificate they can use their driver’s license to acquire a copy under Alaskan law.

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TheseTruths

😱 If this is science, then we’re doomed.

Aubergine

I just asked Grok if he (I call Grok a ‘he’) knew what that was. And if he fell for it when it came out. He said he didn’t; that there were red flags all over it.

kalbokalbs

Looks like writing on the wall…Alito may be retiring.

As much as I’d like to see Thomas stay around for years, my guess is he’ll also retire.

BREAKING: The Senate GOP is prepared to swiftly confirm a REPLACEMENT for conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito if he retires in the coming weeks

Alito is INCREDIBLE, but if he thinks he should retire before Democrats gain power, I would respect it.

LEADER THUNE: “That’s a contingency, I think around here, you always have to be prepared for,” Thune tells @dcexaminer @DISivak

“And if that were to happen — yes, we would be prepared to confirm.”

HUGE shoes to fill, same for when Clarence Thomas retires.

TheseTruths

We need solid conservatives, not wishy-washy ones.

kalbokalbs

BOOM: Speaker Johnson CONFIRMS he supports full expulsion of $5M FEMA thief Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL)

“The facts are INDISPUTABLE at this point!”

“She SHOULD be expelled.”

Now bring it to a vote, NO delays!

Linda

How about putting her in jail? Just being expelled from Congress isn’t a big punishment for what she did.

kalbokalbs

Fox News’ Bret Baier: “Do you think that when the president says it’s ‘hurting him very badly,’ ‘catering to the radical left’ is hurting the Catholic Church?’ Do you agree with the president there?”

Vice President JD Vance: “I think in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic Church, and let the president stick to dictating American public policy.”

“I think the president has the prerogative to set American foreign policy. He’s got the prerogative to set American immigration policy… I don’t think it’s particularly newsworthy.”

Cuppa Covfefe

The Church’s mission is to SAVE SOULS, NOT to SAVE FACE!!!!!

Gail Combs

OR to facilitate MASS 👉 ILLEGAL👈 IMMIGRATION INTO THE USA!!!

How many children have been SEX trafficked thanks to the Catholic Church?

How many tons of drugs have been smuggled into the USA thanks to the Catholic Church?

HOW MANY AMERICANS ARE DEAD thanks to the ILLEGALS smuggled into the USA by the Catholic Church?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Given the information below, it is hard NOT TO CONSIDER THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THE ENEMY OF THE USA!

From GROK

…the Connection between Jeffery Sachs, the Catholic Church, the UN sustainable global Development, and using Catholic charities to assist migrant asylum seekers into the United States, as discussed in the book Ethics in Action for sustainable development...

Connection Explained

Overview

The book Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022), co-edited by Jeffrey Sachs, explores how religious and ethical traditions, including the Catholic Church, can support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One key area is migration, where the Catholic Church, through organizations like Catholic Charities, plays a significant role in assisting asylum seekers, including in the United States.

Jeffrey Sachs and the UN Connection

Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, is deeply involved in UN sustainable development efforts. The book, a result of discussions with the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, includes his chapter on migration drivers, linking UN goals with ethical actions.

Role of the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, through contributors like Daniel G. Groody, discusses its perspective on migration in the book. Groody, a theology professor, highlights the Church’s role in aiding migrants, aligning with SDG 10, which focuses on reducing inequality and facilitating safe migration.

Cuppa Covfefe

I was speaking of their TRUE mission, not the mission they have chosen to follow….

Gail Combs

Just like the USA, the Catholic Church has been hi-jacked AND by the same people.

….

If you read the Canterbury Tales, you can see Chaucer was not particularly fond of the upper strata of the Church. However he had nothing but good things to say about the humble village Priest.

I think the situation really has not changed that much.

Cuppa Covfefe

Hmmm. When was it things started going a little pear-shaped with plugins?????

pgroup2

Amazing.

There are millions of people who understand that article. But I ain’t one of ’em.

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Cuppa Covfefe

Basically a plugin author/vendor got bought out by a scammer, who replaced some routines with “trojan horses” that did nefarious functions (“phoning home”, etc.) rather than what was advertised…

Wurst Press seems to have a history of “Install, then test” as opposed to the normal sequence, “TEST, THEN INSTALL”… 😡 😡 😡 😡 (OK, OK, I’ve seen it over the last 50 years in the biz world too… 😮 … still, that doesn’t make it right)…..

Just think how nice it would be if all the energy, talent, time, money, etc. were spent on making things better, rather than scamming and hurting everyone… sigh…..

patfrederick

Jake
April 14, 2026 12:36 pm

Appeals Court Orders Boasberg to End His “Intrusive” Criminal Contempt Investigation of Trump Related to Alien Enemies Act
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/breaking-appeals-court-blocks-boasbergs-criminal-contempt-inquiry/
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday voted 2-1 to end Judge James Boasberg’s criminal contempt inquiry related to the Trump Administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
The three-judge panel ordered Boasberg to end his “intrusive” contempt probe of the Trump Administration.
Judge’s Rao (Trump) and Walker (Trump) ordered Boasberg to end his inquiry.
Judge Childs (Biden) dissented.
Last March Boasberg granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the Trump administration from deporting thousands of Venezuelan nationals believed to be members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang under the Alien Enemies Act.

TheseTruths

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patfrederick

every month when we visit Mom, we have to travel the interstates…and the trucks scare the crap out of me. I bring my sudoku book and don’t look up till we’re almost there.

Cuppa Covfefe

Are you the one driving? 😆

patfrederick

LOL…hardly.

Gail Combs

Lucky you! I am the designated driver most of the time. Esp when hauling trailers.🙄

pgroup2

[loud snort]

Rosa

Regarding Wolf’s Sodom and Gomorrah video yesterday (maybe I missed any responses?) It is certainly thought provoking. The basic theme is that excess wealth and leisure in a society plus human nature leads to a very bad place. And Sodom and Gomorrah show us what happens. The video included some supporting archeological evidence. We already know that on an individual basis, ‘Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.” ( Quote by Benjamin Franklin)

So what would it look like if the whole of society was based on excess wealth and leisure? (An argument against too Golden of an Age?😉) The video argues that too much wealth in Sodom led to pride, competition in displaying excesses of all kinds. and a sick arrogant “hive mind” devotion to excess that ultimately led it to its destruction. It also led to a hardening of hearts to the vulnerable and those who do not have and cannot get wealth.

Throughout history, toxic excess has mostly been confined to the ultra wealthy. But what if it was available to everyone? Gives me a little different perspective on the age old question of why God allows so much struggle and trouble!

Robert Baker

Your comments confirm my own meditations on prosperity and good times. God promises blessing (not just wealth and prosperity although that is one aspect of divine blessing) on those peoples and nations who order their lives according to divine imperatives. Such blessings can become a curse for a people who fail to properly understand God’s intent. When someone focuses on the received favor of God instead of on God Himself they lose sight of the relationship between the Giver and the gift. Such failure leads to temptations of greed and avarice and all variety of sinful behavior instead of the desired hope of a holy and righteous life. I have concluded that one should hold such blessings lightly and take every opportunity to pass them on. I don’t think that God intended for us to hoard our blessings like misers.

TheseTruths

Well said!

TheseTruths

I agree that excess that is toxic can lead to destruction. My question is what makes it toxic. IMO it is the character of the people.

I think that delivering people out of government-induced poverty, taxation, and wealth destruction doesn’t have to be a net negative. Also, though, that struggle and trouble do build knowledge and character. It is possible for people to be able to keep what they earn and live what is considered a comfortable life without their necessarily becoming ungodly or hedonistic. Life brings plenty of struggles no matter how much money one has.

But a mindset of desiring wealth above all else and of being in competition with others, as well as using that wealth for unseemly pleasures, is destructive. Robert Baker’s comment describes it perfectly.

Gail Combs

If leisure leads to time for inventions and conquering new frontiers (Space) I think we will be fine. Think the ‘taming’ of the US frontier.

cthulhu

Time to break out the Thorstein Veblen (inventor of the term “conspicuous consumption”, among other things). [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen ]

Cuppa Covfefe

Another author well worth reading is Vance Packard, author of, among many other titles, “The Naked Society”, “The Wastemakers”, “The Hidden Persuaders”… way ahead of his time, but, sad to say, it looks like few people took him seriously… or, perhaps, few people cared…

patfrederick

patfrederick

Matthew S. DePerno, Esq.
@mdeperno
On January 6, 2021, I briefed Ulrich Brechbuhl, Counselor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, inside a secure State Department SCIF about the 2020 stolen election.

No phones. No computers. No electronics. Paper only.

For several hours, I walked through forensic evidence. This was not about anything abstract.

It was always about fake ballots.

I showed him:
➔ Ballot run manipulations, ballot mapping schemes, who printed them, how they were shipped, routes they traveled, and how they were counted.
➔ Assignment of fake ghost ballots to registered voters through inflated QVF records.
➔ Variants of subversion, error rates and remediation patterns.
➔ Ballot anomalies, including off-site printing, irregular formatting, oversized internal blocks, and side marker manipulations.
➔ System vulnerabilities, including anonymous external connections with elevated privileges and hardcoded passwords such as “12345678.”

Page after page. Data. Analysis. Forensics.

And we talked about a guy named “Ben Smyth.”

He knew. 

I was later indicted by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel because I filed a lawsuit in Antrim County in 2020. One of her prosecutors told me directly that I was charged because I “started the train rolling.”

This is lawfare. And it was used to silence me.

The story is not being told by Michigan media.

That is about to change.

Valerie Curren
scott467

I was later indicted by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel because I filed a lawsuit in Antrim County in 2020.

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Liberal white woman.

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One of her prosecutors told me directly that I was charged because I “started the train rolling.”

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I bet it wasn’t a liberal white woman.

Probably not a woman at all.

TheseTruths

Biden FDA Knew About COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk And Kept Americans In The Dark

Senate investigators spent months reviewing roughly 2,000 pages of federal records. What they found is damning. FDA and CDC officials under the Biden administration identified a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer’s COVID-19 bivalent booster in seniors – and never breathed a word to the public.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a formal letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laying out the evidence. He wasn’t speculating. He was citing the government’s own files.

“HHS records show that as early as October 2022, federal health officials identified a potential connection between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster and ischemic stroke for individuals over the age of 65,” Johnson wrote.

An ischemic stroke means a blockage of blood to the brain. Between November 2022 and March 2023, seven separate analyses of incoming data flagged the same stroke signal — specifically in adults over 65. CDC data cited by Johnson shows 226 stroke cases reported between August 2022 and February 2023, with additional cases surfacing throughout 2023 and 2024.

Despite the risk, the Biden administration issued no formal warnings. No Health Alert Network message. No changes to booster recommendations for seniors. Nothing.

Instead, in February 2023, HHS quietly hired a private contractor, Lukos LLC, to conduct a deeper internal investigation, dubbed “The Stroke Project.” Publicly, officials kept insisting the vaccines were safe.

“From the initial detection of the safety signal in late 2022 … health officials continued to say the vaccine was safe while simultaneously searching for evidence to support that assertion,” Johnson said…

More at the link. IMO this is criminal.

Sir ES

A couple of weeks ago, a coroner in charge of a substantial area / county revealed that 30-40% of the cadavers had whitish tendrils in the arteries – the clot shots.

I remember a few videos / pictures of these clot-strings, some of which were over TWO FEET LONG, in the legs, of course.

I also remember from maybe 4-5 years ago, a continuous video of someone hooking up a microscope to a computer display.

He had a parcel containing the long swab kit, meant for the nose (blood-brain barrier).

Again, live, he tore the plastic bag protecting the swab, and viewed the cotton end via microscope, and on the connected screen, there were LIVE organisms. He carefully probed one or two to confirm: they responded, and moved.

The “Covid test” introduced the pathogenic virus to whoever used it!!!

The PCR tests were frauds too. As were the masks (many from China, who knows what materials), and the VAIDS clot-shots.

ALL of it were 100% lies.

Staggering, the depths of evil some people plumb.

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Valerie Curren

Oldest son’s MIL used to work in funeral industry & she Swears that “whitish tendrils in the arteries” were evident After Covid but BEFORE the Shots, fwiw.

patfrederick

boasberg AGAIN

War Correspondent

@warDaniel47

BREAKING: US Attorney Jeanine Pirro just announced activist Judge Boasberg has BLOCKED a Grand Jury from investigating the Federal Reserve Pirro says this block is TOTALLY ILLEGAL. THE HOUSE NEEDS TO START IMPEACHING THESE ACTIVIST JUDGES. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! “As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in IMMUNITY preventing my office from investigating the federal reserve. This is wrong, and it is WITHOUT legal authority.”

Cuppa Covfefe

Boasberg is Skull and Bones…..

Those links need to be tracked down, and the influence ENDED. Bonesmen do NOT respect the state/local/national government (they are true globalists) and Boast-Turd has written as such. Bushies and Kerry and others of their ilk are deep into it…..

TheseTruths

I wonder if there is any legal remedy besides impeachment by the House. They are too slow and there are too many RINOs.

scott467

Ignore him if he is wrong on the law, and force the issue.

Otherwise you give him the authority to stop you, the authority which Jeanine just said he doesn’t have.

Well if you consent to or abide by his claimed authority, if you obey his order, then he DOES have have that authority, whether it’s legitimate or not.

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scott467

“This is wrong, and it is WITHOUT legal authority.””

______________

If Boasberg is WITHOUT LEGAL AUTHORITY then IGNORE HIM, Jeanine.

Either you’re right, or you’re wrong.

If you believe you are RIGHT, then INGORE him and conduct your investigation.

That’s what a MAN would do.

FORCE the issue.

That’s what the man, Boasberg, is doing.

If you can’t force the issue also, then find someone who can.

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patfrederick

pgroup2

I can’t find my surprised face.

patfrederick

other than that, you’re doing good though?

pgroup2

My situation is stable.  😎 

patfrederick

Hi-O-Silver!

patfrederick

mine is MANGER-ABLE

patfrederick

he’s a SPEED BUMP–that’s his job–to slow down the President’s agenda

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
HOLY CRAP! Judge James Boasberg just got SLAPPED DOWN by the US Appeals Court

Boasberg is hereby banned from trying to hold Trump officials in contempt after they DEPORTED illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act

He LOST! https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg

ACTING AG TODD BLANCHE: “Today’s decision by the DC Circuit should finally end Judge Boasberg’s year-long campaign against the hardworking Department attorneys doing their jobs fighting illegal immigration.”

Last year, SCOTUS upheld Trump deporting illegals under the Alien Enemies Act, and Stephen Miller said at the time:

“This was a huge, I mean monumental victory for President Trump…A total embarrassment for Judge Boasberg…Those monsters can now be hunted down and expelled from this country with speed, force, and efficiency.”

It’s official! Trump wins again!

Valerie Curren

What an uplifting & encouraging post, TB–Thank you!

Here’s a tidbit of what happened yesterday. Some of you may remember my parents’ “Sidewalk Angels” scripture ministry on their property, Carl even wrote a poem about it. Dad was concerned that the bible verses weren’t getting put out since he’s not home. I was able to write down 2 resurrection verses he wanted yesterday.

I had just finished the first one, John 11:25, using the NIV, when I knocked over the small bucket with sidewalk chalk spilling out all over. A young man riding his bike stopped & offered to help me pick up the chalk. We got into a conversation. His name was Mohammed, a direct descendant of “the prophet Mohammed” & claimed he was originally from Lebanon & of the Shia branch of Islam.

We had a wide ranging, respectful conversation & I shared the Gospel message with him in various ways including showing Jesus crying “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” & showing how that was a quote to the beginning of Psalm 22 & how in that Psalm aspects of Jesus death were prophesied, including a description of the crucifixion torture that hadn’t even been invented yet. Many other things were shared & discussed. In the end I gave him my dad’s NIV, thankfully the late 70s pre-woke version. He also let me pray with him but I was not allowed to touch him either on the hand nor on his shoulder through his shirt.

I prayed, among other things, that God would open his eyes & his ears & soften his heart to receive truth from the Lord. I also prayed for his protection (he claimed no knowledge of either honor killings or the possibility of being killed if he ever converted away from Islam) & in Jesus’ name.

He noticed my brother in the backyard & asked if he could meet him so I took him back there & introduced them. They also spoke for a few minutes & covered some of the same ground I’d covered with him. My brother also prayed with him & they shook hands.

Bottom line is an apparent direct descendant of That Mohammed appears to be a God-loving & Truth-seeking person, willing to accept the NIV & stating he would read. I encouraged him to pray before reading & ask God to reveal truth to him as there were things in the Bible that were different than what is taught in Islam.

God is good & His Word will not return void. Even in my dad’s frailty & decline his ministry is bearing fruit–PTL!

Valerie Curren

TY TB 🙂 Blessings!

pgroup2

That is a stunning story. I am speechless.

  :wpds_shutmouth: 

Valerie Curren

I didn’t even know You could be struck speechless 😉 😉

Cuppa Covfefe

Duct Tape fixes anything 😆

Valerie Curren

 👍   👍 

pgroup2

I didn’t either.  😆 

Valerie Curren

Don’t let wifey find out  🙃 

PAVACA

Fabulous! May this young man be led to the Light and the Truth.

Valerie Curren

Amen & Amen!!!

patfrederick

Bubby
April 14, 2026 3:01 pm

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-watchdog-files-complaint-against-obama-judge-at-center-of-arctic-frost-lawfare/

FTA “‘The American people deserve an immediate investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding these meetings.’ good government watchdog has filed a judicial complaint against an Obama-appointed judge for her instrumental role in the Biden administration’s anti-Trump lawfare, The Federalist has learned. Submitted on Monday to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), the complaint obtained by The Federalist “addresses probable judicial misconduct” by D.C. Senior District Judge Beryl Howell. The filing specifically highlights “recent reports that [Howell] consulted with members of the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) in strategizing on how to prosecute President Trump and other members of his administration, specifically the Arctic Frost investigation and prosecutions.” Among the records released by Grassley and Co. were a series of January 2023 “AG Briefing” materials, which seemingly indicated plans by Smith’s team to brief Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland on their investigation. Included in these materials was a scheduled meeting with Howell.

“The notes from these meetings show members of the DOJ discussed strategy with the judges on how to best prosecute President Trump and his allies, and how to obtain phone records and communications from sitting members of Congress,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick said in a statement to The Federalist. “The American people deserve an immediate investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding these meetings and if found to have violated judicial canons, Howell should be disciplined to the fullest extent possible.” CASA demanded that Howell be “disciplined” by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals “if found to have violated any of the above Canons.”

Corrupt Judge Howell being an obama appointed Judge in the corrupt DC District will not be disciplined! She should be impeached but that won’t happen either! The Republicans are feckless when it comes to Democrat criminality!!! So much for separation of branches! The Democrats in the House or when occupying the Executive Branch work hand in hand with their activist, leftist Judges in the Judicial Branch to get their desired results and the Constitution be damned!! Make no mistake about that!

TheseTruths

Beryl Howell’s name has come up before. May she face justice!

patfrederick

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scott467

Malacca. That’s a significant point in Turley’s video today that I just posted above (or below) 👍

Firefly

C&C covered it also!

scott467

Excellent, multiple avenues for the information to get out 👍

TheseTruths

Not exactly the kind of globalism the Left had in mind. 😂

patfrederick

scott467

Put liberal white women in charge, and this is what you get.

Don’t learn any lesson, just keep doing the same thing, over and over again.

TheseTruths

I can think of some liberal black women whose ideology is the same. They cheat and facilitate cheating by others. Then there are the Chinese ones who are here to destroy us…etc. But point taken.

Gail Combs

Stacy Abrams comes to mind.

TheseTruths

Unconstitutional as far as I can tell. Article II, Section 1.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

pgroup2

Don’t forget this was affected by Amendment Twelve.

duchess01
scott467

Everyone in NYC should go become squatters and set up tent cities in the Hamptons.

There is lots of nice stuff there, and they can be close to the Leftists who love lawlessness and chaos and anarchy most.

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Cuppa Covfefe

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…..

Leave Lionel Hampton alone 😆

TheseTruths

NYC owns one of the properties, but it will take $30m to get the store running. Then the food is free. I don’t know where they think the money to run the store is going to come from. Higher taxes, probably. But the stores are going to fail not long after opening, so NYC will have invested $30m+ for nothing. And that’s just one store.

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Cuppa Covfefe

First LONDON, then NYC, then…. PARIS? BERLIN? BRUSSELS? SF? LA?

Amy Mek is well worth reading/watching…. the Mozzies are arm-in-arm with Pantfa, the GangGreens, the FAR LEFT, and whatever communists are looking for some action…

Seems that no-one is learning history anymore… probably too worried that it isn’t called herstory, so they don’t read/listen…

(If they had any clue, they’d learn that L’histoire is a FEMININE noun)…..

Sir ES

So is “Macron,” right?

Sacre Bleu!

IIRC, the song lyric is …

“New York, London, Paris, Munich … Everybody talks about (hmm) POP MUSIC!”

And they don’t have a clue, sadly…

scott467

NYC owns one of the properties, but it will take $30m to get the store running. Then the food is free.

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The food still won’t be free 😁

Sir ES

The cycle of communism presents free food, so that commercial enterprise is undercut; then, after all alternatives besides gov’t food are gone, then the communist stores close down for lack of funding. Checkmate.

When the gov’t gives one food and shelter, then the gov’t can also TAKE IT ALL AWAY.

Duncery, in living (dying) color.

Let’s ask the Cubans!

duchess01

EVENING PRAYERS

Prayer Of Thanksgiving In The Evening

Praise Your holy name Heavenly Father, for granting yet another day in my life and for being with me every step of the way. Thank You for the many blessings that You have provided and the love and fellowship that I have with the friends and family that in Your grace You have placed in my life.
 
My heart is so thankful for all the many blessings that I enjoy day by day, and today I am once again reminded that Your mercies are new every morning and Your faithfulness endures from generation to generation.
 
Thank You, that I have been brought into Your family and have been made a child of God and a citizen of heaven. Words cannot express my love and devotion to You Lord
 
I pray that You would watch over me as I rest tonight, and that You would give me a restful night’s sleep so that I may wake up in the morning refreshed in body and spirit and ready to do Your will. Guard all those that I love and may we all grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in the days that lie ahead. This I ask in His precious name,
 
Amen.

Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Prayer Of Reflection On The Past Day

Loving Lord, as the day is coming to an end, I want to thank You for being with me in all that has taken place today. I also want to lay the whole day before You, asking that you would show me if there is anything that I have done to hurt or harm another person unknowingly, or if I have done anything that is displeasing in Your sight, or quenched the work of the Spirit in me, so that I may turn away from such things in the days that lie ahead.

Lord, I desire to do Your will in all things. I pray that You would cleanse me of any wrong thoughts or attitudes that may have surfaced in my heart today. Wash me in Your cleansing flood, I pray. 

Thank You, that You are a God who forgives our transgressions when we are willing to confess them to You, knowing that such cleansing before You immediately draws us back into sweet fellowship with Yourself. 

Give me a good night’s rest I pray, and may I rest quietly in Your loving arms in the knowledge that in Christ, I am eternally secure, due to Your amazing grace, for which I praise You. In Jesus’ name, 

Amen.

Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Evening Prayer For Forgiveness

Heavenly Father, thank You for bringing me through this day and Lord, forgive me for the times when I have wandered outside Your best will for me, instead of trusting You implicitly.
 
Thank You, that You are such a gracious Shepherd to me and that You come and rescue me even when I lose my way and stray from the path that You have laid out for me.
 
As I look back over today, I know Lord that there were things that I should have said and done differently, and times when I reacted in a manner that was not honouring Your holy name. Forgive me I pray, but thank You, Father, that You always faithfully prepared to gently bring me back to Yourself.
 
Give me a good night’s sleep I pray, knowing that there is no condemnation because I am in Christ, and may I wake up in the morning refreshed and ready to do Your will. In Jesus’ name I pray,
 
Amen.

Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers

scott467

This is a good one today. Turley speaks slowly, so it works fine for me at 1.7x speed with captions. 15 minutes, including a 2-minute commercial (5:02 to 7:02) that you can skip. So about 7-1/2 minutes at 1.7x speed, if you skip the commercial.
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China Just THREATENED The U.S. Navy, Then THIS HAPPENED….

“China’s strategic reliance on Iranian oil and its control over critical maritime routes is increasingly challenged by U.S. military and economic maneuvers.

Recent intelligence indicates that China is supplying Iran with military aid, while the U.S. has secured overflight rights in Indonesia, effectively controlling crucial shipping lanes vital to China’s energy imports.

This shift in power dynamics could lead to significant vulnerabilities for China’s economy, as U.S. alliances strengthen and energy markets recalibrate around American resources.”
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Sir ES

“military aid” from the Shy-Knee?

Didn’t work at all on Venezuela.
And “MANPADS” may not do the job either (hygiene and such).

Two pincers, one in Hormuz, the other by Indonesia.

Maybe their “Belt and Road” should have included solutions for sea transit complications!

“Sea Lanes and Port Calls” may have been a better way.

Stragedy!

Hope you’re well, Scott – Cheers!

scott467

And “MANPADS” may not do the job either (hygiene and such).

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Yes, ‘MANPADS’ is a very unfortunate name… either intended as a joke, or maybe the person who came up with it was a tranny 😂

Cuppa Covfefe

Available for free in Minneapolis… 🙂

TheseTruths

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Apparently Muslims don’t want to, so why should anyone else?

scott467

Leftists would understand this, if they had the intellectual capacity to put themselves in someone else’s shoes — which they don’t, unless you force them.

For instance, ask any Leftist if they would be fine if DJT or his supporters moved in next door to them.

Probably best to ask from a safe distance, Leftists also have zero emotional self-control.

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patfrederick

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

TheseTruths

60 minutes (interviewing three Catholic bishops):

“In the Catholic teaching, this is not a just war,” Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., says of the war in Iran. https://

cbsn.ws/47SJKd8

Kristan Hawkins:

I don’t seem to recall three Bishops doing a lengthy interview with 60 Minutes to denounce President Biden’s policies that unleashed unrestricted chemical abortion pills into every state and killed over 700,000 children made in God’s image last year alone.

A thousand times, this ⬆️

scott467

“In the Catholic teaching, this is not a just war,” Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., says of the war in Iran.

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So sorry, Mr. holder of an office and religious title that is found nowhere in the Christian New Testament or 1st century church of Christ.

Or the 2nd century church of Christ, for that matter.

Or even the 3rd century.

Which means the equivalent of at least the entire existence of the United States (250 years) passed between the time the Lord’s church was established and recorded in Acts chapter 2, and when men invented the office of ‘Archbishop’, without any Authority from God’s Word to do so.

And if you choose to organize your church in a way that is in conflict with the Lord’s church as He established His church in Scripture, then the church you have is indeed your church, and not His church. In which case you can do whatever you want and call yourself whatever you want, in your church.

But leaving that aside for the moment — unless you would like to discuss it further, which I would love to do — what is the Roman Catholic teaching on a ‘just war’, which man or men wrote it, and by what Authority did they write it?

And when we are done with that, we’re going to apply whatever your ‘just war’ prerequisites are to every war going back to Jericho, to see if even a single one meets your inherently flawed and politically-determined criteria.

And then we will discuss what you actually know about the current conflict, and whether you are even in possession of enough classified information to presume to make a determination regarding the ‘justness’ of the conflict at this point in time.

Which you are not — I’ll help you out with a hint there, you’re not.

What you are doing is nakedly political.

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pgroup2

Your last sentence is quite a decorative bow on the seminar.

Love how you tied it up so neatly.

TheseTruths

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says there are likely TWO MORE members of Congress that will be forced to resign as early as next week.

When CNN’s Boris Sanchez asked who she was referring to, Luna named names.

SANCHEZ: “You mentioned that you were anticipating that more members would either be expelled or forced to resign…”

“Can you give us an estimation on a number of how many you think may be soon to depart?”

LUNA: “Um, probably two. And it’ll probably happen the week of the 21st.”

Sheila Mccormick has been found, I guess, fuilty on 25 different violations.”

“Stealing of $5 million in FEMA funds. I don’t think the Democrats are going to vote to protect her. In fact, I know they won’t. The votes are there.”

“And there’s another member of Congress that the speaker is looking into the Congressional ethics report on that I’m finding, is pretty alarming.”

“And so I think there’s more to come on that. But again, I won’t be leading any of those expulsions. Those are being led by other members of Congress.”

SANCHEZ: “Is that Congressman Cory Mills?”

LUNA: “Umm…I believe so, yes.”

Mills is accused of assault and benefiting from federal contracts while in office.”

House of Representatives Vacancies: How Are They Filled?

Constitutional Provisions

The Constitution addresses House vacancies in Article I, Section 2, clause 4:

“When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.”

Typically, state governors—”the Executive Authority”—are authorized to issue orders for special elections to fill House vacancies. In contrast with the Senate, there is no constitutional provision for the appointment of interim Representatives.

scott467

From OT:

Unsettled Science – More Americans Distrust Vaccines Than Ever Before

April 14, 2026 

SD: “Many people said one of the results from the COVID-19 experience and the subsequent vaccination controversy would be a big drop in those who supported the government position on overall vaccine efficacy and safety.  A recent poll conducted by Politico now reflects exactly that outcome.

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[SOURCE]

(Politico) – […] Results from the March poll of 3,851 U.S. adults conducted by Public First show that a plurality of Americans question the safety of vaccines, support reducing the number administered and believe that people’s right to decide what they put in their bodies is more important than preventing the spread of disease.

Nearly half of U.S. adults surveyed last month signaled they think the science on vaccines remains up for debate and that it’s damaging to require people to receive them, rather than that the science is clear and it is dangerous to challenge it. (read more)
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scott467

From OT:

President Trump Calls for a Clean FISA (702) Extension
April 14, 2026

SD: “My personal opinion on the FISA-702 reauthorization is well known {GO DEEP}. However, I am not naïve enough to believe there is enough DC support to stop it. {GO DEEP} That said, I am disappointed the reauthorization will not be attached to the Save America Act as leverage.

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[Via Truth Social] – “I am working very hard with our Great Speaker, Mike Johnson, along with Chairman Jim Jordan and Chairman Rick Crawford, to get a clean extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week. I am asking Republicans to UNIFY, and vote together on the test vote to bring a clean Bill to the floor. We need to stick together when this Bill comes before the House Rules Committee today to keep it CLEAN!

I was a victim of the worst and most illegal abuse of FISA in our Nation’s History, by Radical Left Lunatics, who lied to the FISA Court to spy on my 2016 Presidential Campaign in their attempt to RIG the Election in favor of Crooked Hillary Clinton. Their use of this instrument in the 2020 Presidential Election was even worse! When the Dirty Cop, James Comey, the failed Head of the FBI, went after me, he was using FISA Title I, the Domestic Collection, not FISA 702, the Foreign Collection, which needs to be extended today.

While parts of FISA were illegally and unfortunately used against me in the Democrats’ disgraceful Witch Hunt and Attack in the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax, and perhaps would be used against me in the future, I am willing to risk that as a Citizen in order to do what is right for our Country.”

“Our Military desperately needs FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on the battlefield, both in Venezuela and Iran. Since the first day of my already Historic Second Term, my Administration has worked tirelessly to ensure these FISA Reforms are being aggressively executed at every level of the Executive Branch to keep Americans safe, while protecting our sacred Civil Liberties guaranteed by our Great Constitution. With the ongoing successful Military activities against the Terrorist Iranian Regime, it is more important than ever that we remain vigilant, PROTECT our Homeland, Troops, and Diplomats stationed abroad, and maintain our ability to quickly stop bad actors seeking to cause harm to our People and our Country.

The fact is, whether you like FISA or not, it is extremely important to our Military. I have spoken to many Generals about this, and they consider it VITAL. Not one said, even tacitly, that they can do without it — especially right now with our brilliant Military Operation in Iran. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

~President DONALD J. TRUMP

I have outlined this seemingly inevitable construct with great detail; the systems creating the surveillance state for several years; culminating in a December 2024 recap [SEE HERE] along with my position in January of 2025 [SEE HERE]. I do not like it, but I understand the arguments behind it.

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duchess01

The More Trump Dismantles The [DS] System, The More Unrealistic It Becomes, Prepare Yourself – Ep. 3883
 April 14, 2026  x22report

https://x22report.com/the-more-trump-dismantles-the-ds-system-the-more-unrealistic-it-becomes-prepare-yourself-ep-3883/

Canadians are now moving to the US because their country is imploding economically. A new report show DEI reduces productivity in the US, all part of the plan. Europe has an energy problem and Trump is warning them, but they are not listening. Trump is using Andrew Jackson and William McKinley to restructure the economic system away from the Federal Reserve. The [DS] is trying to gain the narrative in what Trump is doing but it keeps failing. Trump is dismantling the system that the [DS] has setup. As Trump goes deeper into the system and goes after certain players the more unrealistic it becomes. The system has had the people for a long time and now Trump is exposing and destroying it at the same time. Prepare yourself because more is coming. 

Ep 3883a – Stablecoins, Gold, Energy, Tariffs, Trump Is Changing The Entire Economic Landscape
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3883a-stablecoins-gold-energy-tariffs-trump-is-changing-the-entire-economic-landscape/

Ep 3883b – The More Trump Dismantles The [DS] System, The More Unrealistic It Becomes, Prepare Yourself
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3883b-the-more-trump-dismantles-the-ds-system-the-more-unrealistic-it-becomes-prepare-yourself/

duchess01

kalbokalbs

IRAN IS ON THE BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, and even CHINA is panicking!

WATTERS: “If Xi calls the gay Ayatollah and tells him to beg for mercy, he’ll beg for mercy!”

“Beijing knows when it’s over. Iran can’t lose its sugar daddy, and China’s not going to watch its favorite gas station go bankrupt. The ChiComs already lost one proxy, Venezuela.”

“[Iran’s] currency is about to COLLAPSE, and they’re already staring down the barrel of hyperinflation.”

“Their ghost fleet has been suctioning up all that cheap, sanctioned Iranian oil, and now that supply’s dried up. It’s starting to bite, because for the first time Xi Jinping weighed in on the war, and he called the blockade, ‘dangerous and irresponsible.'”

“That’s when you know it’s working.”

“The Strait was the Iranians’ LAST card to play, and they’re LOSING it. Our ships just went up the gut, and the mullahs didn’t do a thing about it!”

“We thought the Houthis might join the fight, but they stayed on the sidelines. Now we’re squeezing Iranian heads to the wall!”

This is SUCH A MASTERCLASS

kalbokalbs

“Never listen to a panican. You will do VERY well in life, ignore the panicans!”

TRUMP’S IRAN BLOCKADE JUST STUNNED THE WORLD!

STEPHEN MILLER: “President Trump has put Iran in a box. He’s played the CHECKMATE MOVE.”

“What you’re watching is the total RESETTING of the American power DYNAMIC for the next 100 years!”

“Now, no matter WHAT path Iran chooses, America WINS. If Iran chooses the path of a deal, then that’s great for the world.”

“If Iran chooses the path of economic strangulation by blockade, then the world will pass Iran by!”

“New energy routes will be established, new supply chains will be established, other nations throughout the region, throughout the world, and especially America will power the world, and Iran will become a footnote.”

“President Trump is saying, we, the United States, have the world’s not just most powerful military, most powerful NAVY.”

“And whoever controls the seas is able to control the outcomes in any foreign policy showdown.”

“So that’s the choice Iran has, and President Trump has put America into a win-win posture!”

“Never listen to a panican. You will do VERY well in life, ignore the panicans!”

kalbokalbs

WOW. Border Czar Tom Homan just gave the PERFECT response to Pope Leo

“I’m a lifelong Catholic. I wish they’d STAY OUT of immigration, they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

“Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years, and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got r*ped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a 5-year-old boy that baked to death, if they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change!”

“And I welcome discussion with any of them, because they don’t understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.”

“Where President Trump had the most secure border in the lifetime of this nation, right now, lives are being saved. He’s saving thousands of lives a year because he has a secure border!”

“Human traffickers are out of business, right? The cartels are going bankrupt because of that secure border. I wish they’d understand that.”

“Because if they did, I think they’d have a different opinion.”

Mic drop.

scott467

This video shows how everything DJT is doing is really to counter CCP chyna and reestablish American global dominance — which CCP chyna, all over the world, was seeking to take for itself.
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Trump just DID THE IMPOSSIBLE.
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Aubergine

Yesterday I got to spend some good quality time with my granddaughter. I took her to visit the cosmetology school she wants to attend to check things out. We were in the car about an hour each way.

It was VERY interesting to talk to that 18 year old!

She said that since, in her words, I “keep up with things in politics and the world,” she wanted to ask me some questions. She asked some good ones!

She asked about what was happening in Iran, and why. She asked what the heck is going on in Minnesota. She asked about islam, and what is the problem with it, given that we have freedom of religion. I was able to give good answers to all her questions, with examples and what to research so she could check it out.

The other really interesting thing to me was her opinion of AI. She hates it. Her friends hate it, too. Sometimes teachers ask her to use it in school, which really pisses her off! She thinks people should use their own brain. She also thinks the water and electricity usage is a big problem.

This girl is a quiet one. But she proves the adage; “still waters run deep.” I’m very proud of her.

pgroup2

You are fortunate. Here’s another slogan:

Love the youngsters now because they will be the ones to take care of you later.

When the time comes, your granddaughter will be there for you.

Aubergine

I sure hope so!

kalbokalbs

Nice an 18 yo is thinking of those topics and wants to understand them more.

PAVACA

TradeBait2
Thank you so much!

Is it even remotely possible that the United States can get back to pre-1913 and eliminate the Federal income tax code? Would that just shift the issue to the individual States—in other words, States increase their state income tax rates, and States that currently do not have state income taxes, impose them?

scott467

Just saw this tweet, featured in a Benny Johnson video.
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Mike Netter
@nettermike

“Can we just take a second here and admit something that the regime media and the foreign policy geniuses in Washington will never say out loud? President Trump just dropped the hammer on Iran—and it’s not just tough, it’s brilliant. Absolute chess move.

After Tehran laughed in our face and refused to play ball on the terms we laid out—no more nuclear games, no more shaking down the world for passage through the Strait of Hormuz—Trump didn’t blink. He announced a full naval blockade of the Persian Gulf. No ships in, no ships out. And here’s the part that should have every oil trader and every globalist suit sweating through their overpriced suits: he’s redirecting those tankers straight to the Gulf of America. Buy American oil. Pay in U.S. dollars. End of story.

Why is this genius? Let me break it down like the simple truth it is.

First, it ends the extortion racket without sending a single American boot into another Middle Eastern quagmire. Iran thought they could turn the world’s most important oil choke point into their personal toll booth. Wrong. Trump just flipped the script: you don’t control the flow anymore. We do. The same Navy that’s been babysitting the planet for decades is now finally working for us. No more free security for countries that hate us while they get rich off our protection.

Second, it supercharges American energy dominance. We’re sitting on more oil and gas than anyone else on Earth. Block the Gulf, prices spike everywhere else, and suddenly every country that needs crude—Europe, Asia, whoever—has one logical place to go: right here. Gulf of America terminals firing on all cylinders. American workers. American profits. American dollars. The petrodollar doesn’t just survive; it gets a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart. While the rest of the world scrambles, we’re printing money and telling our enemies to pound sand.

Third, it exposes the whole rotten global order for what it is. For years, we’ve been told we have to play nice, subsidize everyone else’s defense, and let hostile regimes dictate energy prices. Trump just said: no thanks. This isn’t “escalation.” It’s accountability. Iran wanted to play pirate in international waters? Fine. Now they get to watch their economy choke while American energy booms. China and India want cheap oil? Better start buying it from the country that actually produces it instead of funding the mullahs who hate us.

The usual suspects are already screaming about “warmongering” and “oil prices” and how this is all so very complicated. Spare me. The complicated part was pretending America wasn’t the strongest kid on the block. Trump just reminded everyone—especially our adversaries—that we don’t have to beg or bribe or negotiate from weakness. We set the terms now.

This is what America First actually looks like when it’s executed by someone who means it. No forever wars. No blank checks. Just raw, unapologetic leverage that puts American workers, American energy, and American strength first. And the best part? The Iranians are the ones who forced his hand. They chose this. Trump just made them regret it.

God bless the guy. In a town full of people who couldn’t negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag, he just reminded the world who runs the table.”

cthulhu

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