Dear MAGA: 20250717 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic


This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • No food fights.
  • No running with scissors.
  • If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

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For the Qth of July, we offer this amazing history lesson. Sit back for a half hour!

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TheseTruths

The beginning of the plane video is intriguing, and I look forward to watcing the rest of it.

cthulhu

I have made a point of visiting several SR-71s in museums. They are amazing testaments to American ingenuity.

pgroup2

Good old Skunk Works in Palmdale made some fascinating stuff.

Also made the B-2.

And did it all in absolute secrecy.

cthulhu

Are you familiar with the area?

Whole lot of Joshua Trees and nothin’, and sometimes the Joshua Trees are scarce.

pgroup2

Bouquet Canyon and SR14 / Sierra Highway were former stomping grounds. Palmdale / Lancaster / Mojave slightly.

Plenty of yuccas in the high desert.

Fun factoids –

Many parts of the Westworld series used Placerita Canyon [just off SR 14] for the western scenes. Used to hang out there.

Star Trek used Vasquez Rocks state park for some episodes.

cthulhu

I used to live in Bouquet Canyon, and also lived in Placerita Canyon (on Placerita Canyon Road, just down from the highway towards town).

cthulhu

Everyone and their mothers-in-law has filmed at Vasquez Rocks. Similarly, much has been filmed at The Huntington.

Since my dad built it, a surprising amount of film has been shot at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the San Fernando Valley. They like the water gardens next to the futuristic administration building.

Here’s some footage of the latter…..

cthulhu

The guy who designed the “Japanese” gardens was named “Wong” [a Chinese name]. During the opening ceremonies, workmen on the job had put up official-looking street signs (since they had the right paint and such) that identified a particular service road as “Wong Way”…..

Quite photogenic for a sewage treatment plant — it was StarFleet Academy and Bill & Ted’s University.

Mind you, the administration building might have been half the size if they’d had flatscreen monitors instead of CRTs….

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cthulhu

One memory I have from this worksite was my dad taking me along during one of his onsite walks. I was just gawking, ’cause I was a kid and didn’t understand much, but my dad was still on the job.

Suddenly, he stopped — and shoved his fingers into a concrete retaining wall, tearing out a chunk with his bare hand. “Those bastards,” he snarled, “I’d bet this wall is no better than one-in-twelve!”

[Normal concrete is one part cement, two parts sand, and four parts aggregate (gravel), for a total of one in seven. He was saying that there was so little cement in the mix that it might as well have been a sandcastle on the beach.]

[The site went down as I was composing this. I found out when I tried to post it.]

kalbokalbs

SR-71 video very interesting. Enjoyed it.

TMI follows and in the spoiler.

80s/90s flew in/out of Kadena a dozen or more times. Can’t say I ever saw an in-service SR-71. Guy traveling with saw one. Can’t recall if it was parked or taxiing. I was oblivious. Wrong wide of the AC or whatever.

U-2 is still in service, as I understand it.

Late 80s. Osan AB, South Korea. Military air strips typically have roads near runways. Some around the entire runway. Seemingly always near taxi ways and hangers.

I assume the U-2 I saw had just left its hanger, heading out on a mission.

While jogging near taxi ways saw U-2 taxiing. Pretty cool sight. Saw the pogos, either side, under wings. They fall away as the AC lifts off. Two chase / escort vehicles, trailing the U-2. . .

Runway out of my visual sight, never did see the U-2 take off. Still pretty cool.

Unique to U-2, some take off and landing details, in the spoiler.

U-2 Take Off and Landing

The U-2 aircraft has unique takeoff procedures and requirements due to its specialized design and mission profile. The aircraft uses a bicycle landing gear configuration with a forward set of main wheels located just behind the cockpit and a rear set of main wheels located behind the engine. To maintain balance during takeoff, two auxiliary wheels called “pogos” are attached under the wings and fall off once the aircraft reaches sufficient speed and lift.

Key aspects of the U-2’s takeoff procedure and requirements include:

Auxiliary Wheels: The “pogos” are essential for maintaining stability during the initial phase of takeoff. They are designed to fall off once the aircraft achieves the necessary lift, allowing the main wheels to take over for the remainder of the takeoff roll.Key Aspects of a U-2 Landing:
1. Bicycle Landing Gear

The U-2 has a two-wheel main gear configuration — one under the fuselage forward, and one aft.Two small wingtip-mounted auxiliary wheels (called “pogos”) are used for balance during takeoff and landing, and they detach during takeoff and are reattached for landing.2. Need for a Chase Car

A high-speed chase car (often a modified sports car) accompanies the aircraft during landing.A pilot-instructor in the chase car communicates with the U-2 pilot via radio, providing real-time visual feedback during the final approach and landing.This is necessary because the U-2 pilot has limited visibility from the cockpit during landing and cannot judge height above the runway accurately.3. Final Approach and Flare

The U-2 has a very high stall speed (around 105–110 knots), so it lands fast compared to similar-sized aircraft.The pilot begins the flare at about 2–3 feet above the runway, aiming to hold the aircraft just above the runway until speed bleeds off.Once the aircraft touches down on its main gear, the wingtips are lowered to the ground using small pads (because the pogos are not used during landing), and the aircraft is taxied on its main wheels only.4. Post-Landing Assistance

Ground crews reattach the pogos after landing in preparation for the next takeoff.The pilot is typically assisted in exiting the aircraft due to the difficulty of egress in the pressure suit.Summary:The U-2 landing procedure is a carefully coordinated effort involving a chase vehicle and ground crew, designed to compensate for the aircraft’s unique configuration and high-altitude design. It remains one of the most challenging aspects of flying the U-2.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

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bakocarl

Our VQ-3 missions frequently made stopovers at Kadena. I saw an SR-71 take off once. As I recall, it was a fairly clear day with some distant high clouds. The SR-71 came down the runway, rotated to about 45 deg up, and held that angle until it disappeared as a tiny dot near the distant clouds. Nothing spectacular . . . all very routine . . . no doubt conserving fuel for the mission.

kalbokalbs

Nice.

TheseTruths

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pgroup2

Perfect.

So many nice touches, like hairy legs. Haven’t figured out the beach ball yet.

Brave and Free

Kids nearby?

slowcreekno

Same colors as the various Google logos. Or a standard Ludo game.

Or maybe just a prop to emphasize that this is on a beach somewhere.

Charlie

Blood on his hands.

Gudthots

Cute!

WSB

Where did she get the boots from?

scott467

Wouldn’t you like to know! 😁

kalbokalbs

Will always remember. After Hurricane hit Texas. Cajun Navy guy carrying a young mother through flooded waters. In Mom’s arms, an infant, asleep.

Have looked for the picture, with no luck. Beautiful sight.

patfrederick

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kalbokalbs

That’s the one. Saved it. Thanks Pat.

Nice seeing you. Hope Mom and all are doing well.

cthulhu

Toxic masculinity. Male privilege.

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Happy go lucky

Ahh yes, thanks pat. I remember that picture, that guy is sooo hot 😻

Gudthots

Free Tina Peters!
And “nuke ’em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”

slowcreekno

I seem to remember that there was something about the backing up the election data was something that was allowed or maybe even required, as per Colorado State law.

Perhaps it wasn’t thus, but the whole refusal to hear exculpatory evidence does not reflect well on that judge.

Gudthots

These judges are the problem.

pgroup2

So Roberts proceeded to ream him out, right?

Nah, I really didn’t think so.

Gail Combs

POLICY MAKING body of the Federal Judges???

WHY in H are judges MAKING POLICY?

I though Congress made LAWS and judges presided over courts that determined whether those laws were broken.

Policy Making – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Policy-making is the process of defining and redefining societal issues, constructing solutions, and regulating conflicts within modern societies by establishing boundaries, determining relevant themes, and legitimizing participants in the decision-making process.

Policy-making is not only a way to solve preconceived problems, but deserves attention as a practice of problem construction, as definition and redefinition of problems and as a way whereby modern societies regulate latent social conflicts (Fischer and Forester, 1993: p. 6; Hajer, 1995: chapter 1; c.f. Cortner, 2000). In this process the actors involved create, reinforce or dissolve boundaries. The boundary work is a way to establish “who is in and who is out of relevant peer groups and networks of prestige or authority” (Jasanoff, 1990: p. 14).

The boundaries in turn determine what themes are relevant respectively irrelevant for the discussion, and which actors, at what governmental levels, are legitimate participants in the debate. Together, the interpretations and boundaries form a frame which (though it is variable and changing) function as the guidepost for further selecting and organising information (Rein and Schön, 1993: p. 146). Thus it is a profoundly interpretative and sense-making practice, like any human practice, that makes it possible to make judgements and to act in a situation.

TradeBait2

In reality they are not judges. They are political operatives acting in the roles of judges.

cthulhu

They’re not even playing the roles — they’re merely claiming the powers.

slowcreekno

The DC Circuit is biassed… so cut the power and connect it to ground, that should make it stop?

Oh wait, not that kind of circuit. Or bias. which would generally make sense with some other semiconductor device nearby.

cthulhu

The entire reason that the DC Circuit exists is to give home-field advantage to bureaucrats. It should be abolished, to put the geographic advantage back to citizens.

Gudthots

Total multi-tasking best ever President!

pgroup2

Mexico isn’t going to be very happy about this.

cthulhu

Mexico can use HFCS while we get the good stuff.

jgreen42

In my younger days I had my share of Jolt Cola, that’s how productivity rocked

Gudthots

Heading in the right direction.

Gudthots

God bless this doctor.

Gudthots

Truth.

Stephie
@stephiebeltinck
7h
Learning today that House Election Oversight Committee Chair Rachelle Smit won’t be bringing Michigan Locus Standi whistleblowers in for testimony, as she’s ONLY bringing in testimony that aligns with legislation they’re writing.

How do lawmakers write legislation regarding our elections when they don’t have or understand all of the pieces of fraud?

Our group has the largest databank of Clerks Electronic Poll book election data in the State of Michigan, and likely the whole country. We can prove record tampering and record malfeasance by the top actors. The fraud can be identified by the Clerks electronic poll books, it’s the only true election record. Why do voters have multiple voter ID#’s that go active & inactive?

If we don’t get our elections straightened up soon, we lose.

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TheseTruths

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just FLIPPED on his immigration stance, says he supports deporting people who are just “undocumented.”

“If you are a drug dealer, if you are somebody in this country undocumented or has committed a crime, I think most people think, hey, have a nice day, you’re out of here, and I support that.”

scott467

Great SR-71 Blackbird video 👍😁

TheseTruths

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114865507306954051

Americans know we need a better Healthcare System to properly serve our Great Communities that were abandoned by the Radical Left Democrats. That is why Republicans included $50 Billion Dollars in the “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL” — to strengthen our most vulnerable Hospitals, including those in Rural areas. BUT, EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST THIS FUNDING! I want to thank all of the Republicans in Congress who worked incredibly hard to make this achievement possible. OUR NATION THANKS YOU, TOO!

TheseTruths

https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1945535489890529650

BREAKING – California’s new bill SB549 to purchase fire-damaged properties is far worse than expected as it forces California taxpayers, including Palisades residents through their property taxes, to fund the buyout, requires 40% of new housing to be for the homeless, overrides community input, and allows rezoning without approval.

scott467

They will not stop destroying everything they can, until or unless they are physically stopped.

TradeBait2

OPM stealing OPP.

Happens all over the country.

PAVACA

Backdoor Eminent Domain.
This was the goal of the Palisades fires, IMO.

TheseTruths

Portland, Ore. — Federal police officers enraged anti-ICE agitators after using a Donald Trump impersonation voice to issue official orders to vacate ICE facility property.

pgroup2

Creative mocking – the offspring of Memes.

scott467

👍😂

scott467

From OT:

President Trump Blasts Supporters Who Continue Focusing on Epstein Story
July 16, 2025 

SD: “President Trump sent out a very strong message on Truth Social today. “[M]y PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump said. Adding, “I don’t want their support anymore!

President Trump was then asked why he thought his supporters were so focused on the Jeffrey Epstein saga during an impromptu press conference. Response Below:

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Obviously President Trump wants his supporters to drop talking about this story, and I must admit I was wrong.

I earnestly believed someone close to President Trump would explain why his support base was/is focused on the Epstein scandal as representative of government control of information.

While the “Epstein stuff” in general has never been a subject of great interest here, I simply cannot explain this level of disconnect toward those to whom the story is important. This is new because President Trump has always reflected his understanding of his hardcore base of support, even when the details were difficult to understand.

PRESIDENT TRUMP – “The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It’s all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates.

Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.

I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!

Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” (TS: 16 Jul 13:43 UTC)

I have never seen an issue divide the support base of President Trump like the DOJ/FBI response to the “Epstein file” inquiries.  This is very unfortunate and completely avoidable.”
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scott467

It’s a very strange thing.

If it’s a “mass line” attack by the Left (I don’t know how it could be, since the only participants in creating all of the furor are DJT, Pam, Kash and Dan, plus Alina Habba), DJT should realize that, and understand it, and know how to counter it.

If it’s just a run-of-the-mill IC attack (I don’t know how it could be, for the same reasons as above, the only participants are Trump people), DJT should be aware of that too, and know how to counter it.

If it is something that DJT himself has done, on purpose, to create a firestorm of interest from all parties, prior to some big reveal, then it’s working.

But if DJT really doesn’t understand why transparency and “government control of information” (as SD puts it) is a BIG DEAL to his base, then we’re in Outer Limits / Twilight Zone territory.

FWIW, I think DJT is doing it on purpose.

He has to be.

Because Bondi can’t possibly be so incompetent, to have done the things she has done with regard to Epstein over the past several months, by accident.

If she did it by accident, if she really is that incompetent, that incompetence would be obvious and show up in other areas too, and DJT would notice it, and fire her.

So she did this on purpose.

Either she did it on purpose because she is sabotaging the Trump administration — which DJT would know immediately, and fire her — or she is doing exactly what she was instructed to do, to create this firestorm, to gin up maximum public interest, for whatever DJT plans to do next.

That’s how it looks to me.

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kalbokalbs

Excellent. Plain as day.

The Democrats just do this shit.

  • I can see it. You can see it. Many of us can see it.

It’s just one more distraction hoax,

only this time they’re using (actually abusing) the more manipulable people on our side.

  • I can see it. You can see it. Some or many of us can see it.
  • Emotionally fell for it. Hook. Line. Sinker.

>>> Fuck if I know, why otherwise intelligent folks, fall for this shit,

  • They will never be satisfied with whatever may, or may not come out.
Gail Combs

“…. Fuck if I know, why otherwise intelligent folks, fall for this shit,…”

It is simple really.

It is all about abusing little girls. A REAL TRIGGER esp for Momma Bears and protective Daddies.

TheseTruths

I understand that, but when people become focused on only one part of one issue, refusing to see the bigger picture even when it is laid out for them, then they can damage the very cause they champion. Sometimes things have to be played in a different way than the most straightforward one in order to get results.

singingsoul1

true that clouded my thought process on the whole Epstein saga. It always is about the victim boys or girls.
Stepping back I see more and diversion and emotional manipulation by those who want to stop MAGA and useful idiots potcasters.

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cthulhu

…..and formerly abused little girls.

kalbokalbs

Yes.

True for at least one QTreeper and another who posts, I think at Marica’s or Pat’s. Perhaps both. My heart goes out to them. A tragedy and terrible burden to live with.

My comment, slightly up or down to Gail also applies.

singingsoul1

Aubergine, Pat I miss also and they is in my prayers.

kalbokalbs

Yup.

The gals i refer to I admire, respect and admire them. My heart goes out to them. A horrible experience and terrible burden to live with.

My last comment on this. Not something I want to dwell on.

singingsoul1

Amen

kalbokalbs

Yes, S I M P L E. I get that. Have acknowledged that. But it really is not that simple, logically.

There is nothing Trump can do to satisfy the release file cry.

  • What if information is not there, satisfying what they THINK THEY KNOW.
  • Mission impossible.
  • This is reality.

It is ALL ABOUT Destroying Trump, America First, MAGA.

singingsoul1

Yes that is it and took me a while to figure it out. My husband saw it right away.

singingsoul1

Maybe some do it for clicks? Megan Kelly is so focused so into the Epstein so righteous and pure she sees nothing else. Nothing Trump did stop illegals and deport, stopped boys in locker rooms, taxes and so many other things.She and some of her ilk cannot help themselves hearing themselves talk about Epstein about failing of Trump in their mind and Blondi, Bongino and Kash. All I really care about is POTUS the rest if they scew up can be replaced.

michaelh

Trump Gravity

He’s weaving in and out of reality right now. But you’re right, he does have to draw these people in. They’re (Elon part of the “them”) trying to hang Trump on “he’s in the Epstein files” …

It’s like the Russians’ building a doomsday nuclear ship. If they know they’re going to die, they’re going to take the whole world down with them in a ball of fire. That’s just where we are with the Dem+Left.

TheseTruths

Good to see you.

singingsoul1

Quite insightful post 🙂
Elon is a hidden part of the deception of Epstein -Trump. He began the gossip on X. I am glad I never joined. I think Elon is evil was hoping he was not. He has no self restrain .

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kalbokalbs

Elon planted stuff? Edited or created fake documents?

Slow Guy had not thought of this.

Truly evil.

If so, does Elon or his people have access to computers. Did they have access or hack into DOJ computers.

BTW, Nice seeing drop by. Hope all is well.

singingsoul1

Amen

Robert Baker

it really is a distraction, a hoax, and a bullshit attack by the left, by manipulating Trump’s base – and it has actually been going on for a long time

If it is, as you believe, an attack by the Left on Trump supporters I would point out my concerns about that conclusion. The attack, whether from whichever quarter, is using facts as their ammunition. It is hard to attribute duplicitous motives to those whose arguments are based on facts. The fact that the strategy of the Left would be to split the MAGA community, while against my interests, can hardly be unexpected. I am sure those who like to quote Sun Tzu would agree that attacking an enemies’ mistake is acceptable doctrine.

On another topic you address, I find that my position on a special prosecutor is similar to yours. That responsibility is, by job description, a function of the DOJ. I see punting the problem to a special prosecutor, not only expensive, but shirking the DOJ’s duty.

Robert Baker

Please reconsider this assumption:
It is hard to attribute duplicitous motives to those whose arguments are based on facts.

I think you have me there Wolf. That was poorly phrased and I would like to retract that and replace it with this: It is hard to treat as propaganda an argument that is based on facts. I think it can be characterized as designed to divide but not false.

para59r

Looking at this up to the 2:30 mark. After that salt here and there.

para59r

Over all the Epstein thing blah… the real concern is who he is riding with now. Truthfully he can and likely will get more of his agenda done riding with these people however there’s a heavy control being applied that we are not going to like. He may not even like it either and may jettison bits and peices here and then and maybe all of it when he gets all he wants. That’s the hope.

para59r

Apparently Elon chimed in.

Makes it sound simple. But IMO the Israel reveal will make it a none starter. We’ll likely see a special council, a long drawn out process that lasts past the mid terms maybe with some selected releases before then and a final redacted release with curated findings.

Meanwhile new AI is going to be upon us soon. Hard to say what the landscape will look like by then.

TheseTruths

In this and no doubt some other matters, you are smarter than Elon.

Those who want Trump to violate process are NOT ready to say “OK – I will take whatever punishment or damage happens to Trump because of it. Do it to me, too.” Nope. Nobody is going to take the heat caused by their saying “Just light the fuse and blow it up and see what happens.” Demmunist Delight!

It’s a mob mentality, and that is one of the fruits of a mass line.

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singingsoul1

Amen

singingsoul1

Elon is just stirring the hornet nest to keep emotions going. He does not give a crap about Epstein he himself did know him personally. Elon is angry at Trump maybe he never truly was MEGA. Maybe he only wanted access through DOGE for non honest reasons? Info is valuable in his business. He has shown himself non trustworthy.

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singingsoul1

Israel might not be in the mix we do not know that.
This whole thing concerning Israel from potcasters reminds me of “all is the Jews fault before WWII?” Mae I am just sensitive to it since I heard the history and it was personal.

I do not know as fact if Israel was involved with Epstein or not.

singingsoul1

It is all about saving America that is what I am focusing on the rest is loud noise.

singingsoul1

Here is another one so called podcaster news man cannot help himself.
Equating Hillery with Trump is deranged. All those perfect people are crawling out of the woodwork  😡 

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scott467

It’s sad, and it’s all self-inflicted.

Pam Bondi is not a democrat.

Alina Habba is not a democrat.

They are members of the Trump administration.

They went out and stirred all of this up. If they hadn’t, consistently, over the past 4+ months, nobody would be talking about Epstein.

It’s not like MSM was constantly bringing up Epstein, they avoided Epstein like the plague.

So it’s completely, totally, unreservedly a self-inflicted wound.

I just hope DJT is doing it for a reason, one that is worth it.

Because if he isn’t, then he’s just destroying his own base, and he doesn’t even realize it.

Not because of anything the democrats have done.

But because his own people, with or without his permission, went out and punked his entire base with promises of transparency and revelations, and then after the dick-tease was at full boil, told us to go *&^% ourselves.

Okay.

If that’s what they want.

No idea why they decided to do this to themselves, why they brought this entire sh!tstorm on themselves with the DoJ memo to Axios, which no one signed, but which no one has denied.

There is not a single democrat in this entire thing.

It’s all Trump’s people.

They created it, they generated all the focus and interest, and then they pretended like there was nothing to see here, and then they tried a “these are not the droids you’re looking for” type BS move.

Not democrats, not the IC, not the Deep State, it was Trump’s people.

And now Trump is abandoning his own base over it.

I hope it’s part of some intentional plan, because if it’s not, then he just imploded his entire presidency, and the country with it, for no reason at all.

And all the people around him just let him do it.

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cthulhu

Holy hell…..

VSGPOTUSDJT convinced Coca-Cola to drop HFCS, go back to cane sugar in US sodas.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwAYUUUWQAARyEP?format=png&name=small

Is there anything this man can’t do?

Oops, T3 beat me to it.

But it’s still amazing. It has been the bane of sodas for decades!

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scott467

Maurene Comey (fired yesterday, daughter of James Comey), was in charge of the Epstein case, the P-Diddy case, and the Ghislaine Maxwell case. And Sam Bankman-Fried.

What are the chances?

Maurene’s husband Lucas Issacharoff, still works for the DoJ (SDNY), as does James Comey’s son-in-law, Troy Edwards.
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scott467

Near the end of the video above, Benny posts a radio interview of DJT by John Solomon, at “Just the News”.

This is alternate universe level stuff 😂
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DJT (9:02) “It’s all the same scam. They could look at this Jeffrey Epstein hoax also because that’s the same stuff that’s all put out by Democrats.

John Solomon: “Yeah.”

DJT: “And you know, some of the the naive Republicans fall right into line like they always do. They just don’t have the, they don’t have the sustainability. They don’t have the something. They don’t have that stick to it like glue.

The Democrats, you know, they have bad policy. They have bad candidates. They have bad everything, but they stick together. The Republicans don’t do that.

But they ought to look into the Jeffrey Epstein hoax, too, because that’s another hoax that’s frankly put out by the Dems, pushing, pushing the Republicans and put out by the Democrats.”

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That’s just factually, provably, not what happened.

Sure, the Dims may be fanning the flames to take advantage long after Bondi lit the fire and poured accelerant all over it, but the Dims wouldn’t have any flames to fan, if it wasn’t for Bondi going all over Fox News, time and time and time again, tantalizing and promising and teasing the release of Epstein information in response to direct questions.

Not once. Not twice. Not three times. Not four times. At least five times, plus the fiasco of giving worthless ‘binders’ to conservative influencers, plus getting caught on undercover video published by James O’Keefe, plus the press conference after the O’Keefe video was released.

So that’s what, at least 8 public appearances on the Epstein case, between the time she was confirmed on 2-5-25 and June 2025? So she’s averaging twice a month, for four months straight?

And Alina Habba, too. Both of them. Promising.

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Alina Habba says it perfectly. She’s right. Watch the video, it’s under a minute.

It wasn’t the Democrats. It wasn’t the IC. It wasn’t propaganda media. It wasn’t even ginned up by the conservative yootoob influencers.

It was Bondi (and Alina Habba). It literally could not have happened without them. The conservative influencers and the Dims would have had NO flames to fan, if Bondi (and Alina) hadn’t been out there stirring the pot.

So is DJT just completely in the dark?

Does he have no idea what his own AG has been doing, on average nearly every two weeks, since she was confirmed?

Is it all being hidden from DJT, so DJT thinks this is another hoax like Russia, Russia, Russia!?

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Solomon: “No, they definitely set the Republicans up. One one big prosecutor look at it all. Would that make you feel good? You think?”

DJT: “Well, I think it’s in the case of Epstein, they’ve already looked at it and they are looking at it and I think all they have to do is put out anything credible. But, you know, that was run by the Biden administration for four years. I can’t imagine what they put into files just like they did with the others.”

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Okay, fair point, it’s entirely possible, even very likely, that the Brandon administration doctored the evidence all over the place.

So have forensic teams examine it, just like they did with the recent prison tape release, and discovered that the tape was edited in Adobe Premiere. And when you find the doctored evidence, PROSECUTE whoever did it.

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DJT: “I mean, the Steele dossier was a total fake, right?”

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Yes, and the whole world knew who did it, from pretty early on. Besides Christopher Steele himself, IIRC, Strzok, Page, Nellie Orr and her husband, Hillary Clinton and others were involved. It was all over this website, TCTH and lots of other places.

The Russia hoax, beginning with the Steele dossier, was a complete and total fabrication.

But Epstein is not a fabrication, he was a real person, who committed real crimes with some of the most powerful people on the planet. Then he was put in a dangerous prison, with broken cameras and sleeping guards, and the most important witness in the whole world suddenly and mysteriously dies.

Even though Dr. Michael Baden, the most famous medical examiner since Quincy, says he has never seen someone have their hyoid bone broken in three places from hanging. Strangling, yes. Hanging, no.

So Epstein is not a hoax, and it’s pure gaslighting to conflate Epstein and the Russia hoax.

And DJT obviously knows all of this.

He knows the Epstein case is completely different than the Trump/Russia hoax.

He knows the Brandon administration had 4 years to tamper with evidence, and he knows that forensic experts can find and document the tampering.

He knows the Democrats (i.e., professionals, i.e., Congress) didn’t create the current firestorm, he knows mainstream propaganda media didn’t create it, he knows the IC didn’t create it — and he knows Pam Bondi did create it, with a little help from Alina Habba.

DJT knows all of this.

So I think he must be purposely pouring gasoline all over the Epstein thing, to create such a huge sh!tstorm, to get everyone’s attention (left, right and center), before revealing something.

Because he’s not stupid, he’s not ignorant, he knows who lit this wildfire, and the only reason Bondi and Habba would still be part of the administration is if they lit this fire on DJT’s orders.

That’s what seems to make the most sense, at the moment.

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kalbokalbs

Best option for several days has been special prosecutor. Ed Martin has been the best name I’ve heard.

scott467

Could there even be a special prosecutor more awesome, more shrouded in mystery and mystique and awe, than the vaunted John Durham?

How did that work out?

Total silence, for years. To the point where people began to wonder whether John Durham was even a real person.

It became a joke, a meme.

And when it was time for the stall operation to end, what did we learn? What was revealed? Who was prosecuted?

Sorry, I can’t pretend like the appointment of a special prosecutor / special counsel / special investigator is anything other than a misdirection ploy.

Trust in government isn’t just gone, they nuked it with ten thousand ICBMs.

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scott467

Then it’s a road to nowhere, as MTG noted. Special prosecutors, like congressional investigations, are purely ways for the gov’t to protect itself and its own interests against (in opposition to) the American People.

If there is a single instance where a special prosecutor (or Congressional hearing) ever accomplished anything, revealed anything, or did anything besides protect the government, what example would that be?

pgroup2

Of course this a DJT op. Intended to focus attention away from something.

And how do you get Comey’s daughter to flip on her dad? Well, you might start by firing her and then dragging her ass in front of a grand jury. She would be unable to tell her dad what her testimony was. If she did, goodbye law license.

Unless she flipped on her dad. Then she could “get away” with divulging grand jury testimony to him [think planting info]. Then if anything she told him surfaced somewhere else, DoJ would know it came from him. And they could bust him because he knows he shouldn’t have hurt his daughter by repeating info she gave him.

Then they use that to flip him.

That is just one hypothesis. There are others.  😉  😆 

para59r

Maurene’s husband Lucas Issacharoff, still works for the DoJ (SDNY), as does James Comey’s son-in-law, Troy Edwards.”

If they don’t go then that’s a head fake. Would go further and say the entire SDNY is likely infected.

kalbokalbs

Other than whoever Trump has assigned to SDNY, I’ve assume the entire SDNY office is 100% TDS.

scott467

More interesting info on Ghislaine, who wants to testify before Congress or anywhere else she can.

Benny talks about how the DoJ claims no one was trafficked to anyone, but if that’s so, then why is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison (prosecuted by Maurene Comey), if nobody was trafficked?

And then there’s the famous photo of Virginia Guiffre (Roberts) with Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew. And Prince Andrew paying a 10,000 GBP settlement to Virginia Guiffre (Roberts). That’s a whole lot of money for no trafficking going on.

And then recently, Virginia, who was not suicidal and said so publicly, was ‘accidentally’ run over by a large truck in the Australian outback, miles from nowhere.

Benny talks about how Ghislaine was covered by Epstein’s original plea deal (as a co-conspirator) with Alex Acosta during the Bush administration, but SDNY violated the agreement, because NY has some different interpretation than the other 49 states.

Ghislaine Maxwell is appealing, to force NY law to reconcile with the other 49 states, and if she succeeds, then she’s out of prison.

Ghislaine’s former cell mate, on Twitter, says practically none of the cameras work where she and Ghislaine were held, and she says Ghislaine is definitely not suicidal 😁
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scott467

It’s the next level of Epstein Friends that’s in question. Many of those people are now Witnesses and Informants, and there is no way that anybody reveals anything about them.

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If they are witnesses and informants, that implies they are witnesses and informants against people.

So whoever they are witnesses and informants against, those people should be prosecuted.

I’m sure that’s inconvenient. The Deep State has built up an entire global system based on the most vile, Satanic, evil deeds one could even try not to imagine.

It’s time for them to pay the piper.

Our relationships with other countries will survive just fine.

Someone I used to work with, who was very good at her job, once told me (about herself) that no one is too valuable to be replaced.

This was in an office full of people who liked her.

It’s especially true that no one is too valuable to be replaced when it comes to bad people in leadership. Nobody likes them at all. No one will miss Keir Starmer, or Macron, or Schwab, or Soros, or Gates, or Von Der Leyen, or Lagarde, or Netanhayu, or Trudope, or Carney, or Sheinbaum, or any of the rest of them.

So send them all a burn notice, and get on with revealing and prosecuting the entire IC with them, ours and theirs, if that’s what it takes.

Their countries won’t fall, but their leaders will be replaced. Maybe they will be replaced with people who are just as bad, or maybe they will be replaced with better people. We can’t know until we try.

But the bad people who can be held accountable, should be.

That’s not a small part of why We the People elected Trump, to drain the swamp, hold people accountable, restore confidence in the justice system, and eliminate this madness.

scott467

“There was oodles of time to make sure that only our IC knew about it, and that the whole story is classified out the wazoo, as high as the Q stuff, IMO.”

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The POTUS can declassify anything.

And SD has shown, long ago, how he could do it personally, without relying on any Director of Intelligence or CIA or Pentagon, etc., to do it.

This is, ultimately, at the core of what is driving all of the frustration.

He can’t promise transparency, he can’t run on restoring faith and confidence in the justice system, he can’t run on holding criminals who literally tried to overthrow our country accountable, and then make excuses for why, now that he’s in office, he can’t actually do it.

He can do it.

Look at all the other things he has done, which people thought were impossible, just because he decided to do it, and then did it.

This is the same.

It seems impossible because no one has ever done it before.

Trump likes to be the first.

He should do it.

He certainly can do it.

No one could stop him, if he decided to do it.

It may be that he intends to do exactly that, at a time and place of his choosing.

If so, then he should have had a better leash on Bondi and Habba, because it was his people who created this storm, and when Kash and Dan tried to lower the breathless expectations created by Bondi and Habba, they (all) could not have orchestrated a bigger mess, not even if they sat down and tried to map it out for four years during the Brandon abomination.

I sure hope he has some big reveal up his sleeve, so we can all breathe a giant sigh of relief.

Because if this is just a totally unforced error… then what a colossal waste.

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para59r

Fine with the Brit Financial stuff, but it seems she’s side stepped Israel’s roll and didn’t address it all. Might be because she’s just talking the banking/finance stuff and not geo politics. Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister, also stayed at Epstein’s New York home during the same time frame and conducted multiple other meetings with Epstein at the time. Not hearing any of that here. Might be best if that was also addressed.

para59r

Any chance she and her side kick are jewish? Doesn’t know a lot about these two. So Grok’d it. They get a clean bill of health.

Grok looked at much so jumps to the summary.

Summary of Findings

Based on the available public information, Susan Kokinda and Barbra Boyd are key figures in Promethean Action, a political movement with ties to Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas, rather than the “Prometheus Project” film. Their roles involve political activism, writing, and legal analysis, with a focus on domestic and geopolitical issues.

Regarding connections to Israel:

The evidence suggests that neither Susan Kokinda nor Barbra Boyd has direct personal, professional, or organizational connections to Israel. Susan Kokinda’s writings mention Israel in the context of geopolitical commentary, but this does not constitute a personal connection. Barbra Boyd’s work does not mention Israel at all.

No publicly available sources, including their author profiles and related articles on Promethean Action, indicate any such connections, and additional searches for direct links yielded no evidence.

This analysis provides a comprehensive overview, ensuring all relevant details from the research process are included, and aligns with the current date of July 17, 2025, for accuracy.

para59r

Looked at youtube vid history. Seems Barbra Boyd did a deep dive on Epstein / Israel here.

Liking these ladies is getting easier.  😁 

Gail Combs

“…1947, India gained independence after 90 years of British rule. ”

  :cheers: 

What she says dovetails very nicely with all the digging I did on so many of my articles.

para59r

I think they found a back door to your article stash  😆 

Gail Combs

I like her. She is staying focused on the primary culprit, the UK & the City of London.

Never forget the Balfour Declaration was just a 1917 letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild in order to get financing for the war AND to provide a non-Arab buffer zone around the Suez canal. Egypt did not declared its independence from Britain until 1922 and Israel did not declared independence from Britain until 1948.

The reason for Britain’s interest in the middle east in general and the Suez canal in particular was India. In 1947, India finally gained independence after 90 years of British rule. 

As far as I am concerned MI6 and MOSSAD are tied at the hip.

K1tt7-fzn

Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
1h
Senate approves bill to cut public broadcasting and foreign aid, 51-48. Collins and Murkowski are the only GOP nays

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
1h
🚨 BREAKING: The Senate has just voted to PASS President Trump’s DOGE rescissions package, 51-48

It now heads back to the House for a final vote, which must be accomplished by Friday

Over $9 BILLION for USAID, NPR, and PBS is on the chopping block! 🔥

***It seems that there were some minor changes, so it needs to go back to the House

Matt White
@GreenSuit76
41m
Replying to @4everwalkalone @nicksortor
Good eye. Yes, there were changes.

Marco gained more power through the Economic Support Fund, and “permanent” was removed from “permanently rescinded,” now just “rescinded.”

Economic Support Fund cuts decreased by about $400 million (less money cut).

The Department of State (Marco) gained more power due to added language allowing the Secretary of State to waive rescissions for funds critical to U.S. national security. I believe they retained $400 million for this reason.

cthulhu

Seems to me that we should lock all these guys in a room and only feed them when they cut $1B. After a while, they’d get trained to cut three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

And, mind you, I’m thinking of $1B in cuts on the President’s desk and ready for signature. They can cook the meal upwind of the chambers, but nobody is served until the package is on the desk.

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Gail Combs

I like the way you think.
🤗

eilert

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg HOLY CRAP! Stephen Miller reveals there have already been over 1 MILLION self deportations

He also sends an ultimatum to illegals, saying they face:

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/25fc.svg Sudden Arrest

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/25fc.svg Sudden Deportation

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/25fc.svg Wage Garnishment

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/25fc.svg Loss of property

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/25fc.svg Incarceration

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/25fc.svg Imprisonment for immigration and other crimes

“If you choose to self-deport, you can go back home, you have the opportunity to apply for legal entry if you wish to in the future, and you are going to get a $1,000 check on your way out”

The choice is obvous: SELF-DEPORT!

cthulhu

We need some high-profile cases where someone loses their house to seizure because they didn’t self-deport, instead of putting it up for sale and getting a wire transfer to their bank in Oaxaca.

TradeBait2

I agree, that would be very effective messaging.

para59r

1 Million is a good number. 19-20 Million more just for the Biden Era Illegals. Will it get easier or harder as more are shown the door?

kalbokalbs

Making life more challenging for illegals will pay dividends.

No free rent. No free utilities. No medical. No free food. Difficulty getting jobs.

More very public arrests, sweeps for illegals. No Notice arrests upending their lives.

Stories about Alligator Island and ideally more unappetizing way points….as they are unceremoniously dispatched home.

Homan and Noem just received a massive infusion of money for staff, equipment and operations.

TradeBait2

Some good news to report around here. A family member works in the hospitality industry. ICE busts are well underway. Local owners of tourist oriented businesses, meat packing, lawns services, construction, transportation, etc. have historically used a lot of illegals. Family member says the illegals are not aware or do not trust the self deport, collect $1000, apply for a worker visa opportunity to come back legally. They also believe having an anchor baby will allow them to stay.

If/when that later point is resolved in our favor at the SCOTUS level is when you will see even more of them headed south.

These are not just “criminal” busts, they are sweeps around here. Illegal is illegal – you are gone. Some are good workers who hope to fly under the radar or have business owner protection. Not happening. One local restaurant was completely shut down due to it last week in the middle of tourist season. SIL in LE, says they are holed up and not coming out of houses unless forced. He says some are self deporting or moving. Their official policy is to call ICE every time they determine somebody is here illegally as well as report observations that may lead to same.

If you are a law abiding owner of a business and your competitor(s) are using illegals, one phone call is all it takes to level the playing field.

Fake news is saying nothing about it. Not enough lefty viewers to offset the huge loss of MAGA viewers/advertisers if they did so.

kalbokalbs

Great news.

TradeBait2

For those who are not aware of what all the fuss is about with the Powell/Fed. He should have been canned long ago, but wasn’t because he is a uniparty azzhat that PDT should have never hired in his first term.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/17/can-trump-fire-fed-chairman-powell-yes-he-can-and-should/

cthulhu

Part of the problem that I’m going to toss on the table here is that interest rates are simple things with complicated ramifications. In particular, interest rates are very efficient ways of separating the reasonable from the moronic. Back in the “good old days”, many business decisions were evaluated using the “Internal Rate of Return” — even those associated with government. That has largely gone out the window since the Fed started to play fast and loose with interest rates as a device for manipulating the economy. ZIRP made every stupid, idiotic brain fart look like a scheme of geniuses.

But that is not to say that the way in will be the way out. Years and years of Fed abuse with low interest rates making dain-bramaged government initiatives like green energy and mass immigration look plausible might lead one to think that a solid round of high interest rates could slough off the malinvestment into the oblivion it deserves. That does, however, leave a bunch of government “full faith and credit” debt at risk. The current administration seems to be contemplating a different path.

Now, mind you, economic history suggests that there are only two ways of dealing with massive government debt — repudiation of the debt, or debasement of the currency. The current administration is full of scary-smart people who know this……but they all seem a bit giddy that this time might be different. Tariffs seem to be part of this.

And this leaves Powell standing alone. He’s not going to jam interest rates higher until the stupidity is squeezed out (see Volcker), and he’s not going to lower interest rates to give VSGPOTUSDJT some room to move……he’s going to maintain medium rates that will suck the life out of the Federal government like a vampire, until debt service causes the whole mess to collapse.

I’m as much a cynic as anyone on the national debt — and would hit the big, red “repudiate it all” button were I in charge…….but VSGPOTUSDJT is as tricky as they come, and I’m willing to see his scheme get a fair go.

cthulhu

Note that the big, red “repudiate it all” button is also known as “The Flounder Button.”

“You F’d up — you trusted us!”

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TradeBait2

👍

cthulhu

Just to get these in here…..

Keynes is always talking about “aggregate demand”, as in a big pool of money crying to be spent. Hayek keeps talking about “malinvestment”, which is money squandered.

TradeBait2

😂 Loved it!

Bet on Hayek. Keynes is a devil b!tch. Choose life.

Gail Combs

Keynes was British Fabian adjacent.

Keynes was not technically a Fabian, but was Fabian socialist nevertheless 15th September 2011

…. I agree that Keynes was NOT technically a Fabian (not being a formal member of the society). 

 

However, the Fabians did not want him in that role. He was more useful as an infiltrator into the liberal ranks. Keynes was very clever, and very political. He found it convenient to deceive. Despite the pretense of supporting the market (at times), he remained a strong socialist, and his philosophy not only arose FROM Fabian socialist philosophy, but was used as key reading by the Fabians. Apart from being on the closest terms (possible) with many key Fabians, he also lectured regularly at the Fabian Society.

 

I’m citing a few extracts from the book Keynes at Harvard below. Most of these have formal citations which you can verify from the book. I’ve also added a few other references, to strengthen the argument.

 

In sum, while Keynes was “technically” not a Fabian, he was through-and-through a Fabian in his ideas, approach, and legacy. He did more than anyone else to make Fabian socialist methods mainstream in the West. 

His achievements are many, including the Western welfare state, the “mixed’ economy and government intervention in business. Some of these ideas did well for a while, but these were not sustainable, and his ideas are now bringing great grief to the West…

TradeBait2

…he’s not going to lower interest rates to give VSGPOTUSDJT some room to move……he’s going to maintain medium rates that will suck the life out of the Federal government like a vampire, until debt service causes the whole mess to collapse.

Good analysis IMO. The Key word above is – “he’s”.

JMO – unless proven he has been working with PDT all along, he is an azzhat who is making bad decisions by costing the American taxpayer massively with higher interest rates than should exist per accurate economic forecasting models, which also includes what PDT accomplished in his first term.

It is PDT’s call to make on what to do and how to do it, not Powell’s. We the People have ceded far too much ground to the Fed bois. A politician POTUS will usually defer to the council of economic “experts” and department leaders because they do not know crap themselves. PDT knows what to do. He has already told the world and then instituted it with tariffs as a core principle.

The Federalists of our current day have been fighting it. They will lose. The deficit will be repaid from surplus unless they are successful in taking 47 out or the linage that is developing behind him with 48 and 49. That becomes less and less likely as some of the economic enemies will benefit greatly from the very policies they fight today.

So I am betting on PDT’s scheme.

Gail Combs

Actually WITHOUT ANY AGREEMENT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, the Open Market Committee in a 1951 meeting DECIDED OF THEIR OWN ‘ACCORD’ in 1951, to “go their own way”  despite what the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization might do.

👉”….Therefore the Federal Reserve is not answerable to the President or Congress or the electorate, nor even to a government audit or even Congressional funding!

A PRIMER ON MONEY – The Q Tree

….we look at the Federal Reserve Bank through the eyes of Congressman Wright Patman (D) in 1964 before President Nixon had to close the gold window.

Excerpts from

A PRIMER ON MONEY

COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

WRIGHT PATMAN Chairman 1964

Do bankers believe that they own the Federal Reserve banks.

  :wpds_arrow: Yes. [100% of the “stock” is owned by the private banks.

Also after instigating “the Accord” [1951] It was later revealed by testimony of some of the Federal Reserve officials to committees of Congress that the Open Market Committee had held a meeting on August 18 and decided not only to raise the discount rate, 👉but to “go their own way” on the Government longer term bond rate as well, despite what the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization might do😡

👉”….Therefore the Federal Reserve is not answerable to the President or Congress or the electorate, nor even to a government audit or even Congressional funding!]

The original act required that the banks invest 6 percent of their capital stock in the Federal Reserve banks.

Why was the Federal Reserve Act written to require member banks to invest in the so-called stock of the Federal Reserve banks? The framers of the Federal Reserve Act gave many reasons, but the main, reason was this: it was expected that the Federal Reserve would issue money, not mainly against Government securities as is now the practice, but against commercial and industrial loan paper-“eligible paper” as the reader knows.

It was in view of these considerations that Congress, in framing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, required member banks of the Federal Reserve System to put a certain percentage of their capital into the .’stock” of the Federal Reserve banks; this “stock” was a safeguard against a misuse of the Government’s credit which was being delegated to these banks. The 1013 act placed on the member banks, furthermore, a “double liability” for their “stock” in the Federal Reserve banks. In other words, if a Federal Reserve bank failed, the member banks would lose not only their invested capital, but an equal amount of capital which they would also forfeit. [pg 79]

The 1933 act also prohibited commercial banks from making stock market loans, and investment banks from accepting public deposits. This was an effort to prevent a wave of stock market speculation like that of the twenties by keeping commercial banking and investment banking separate and distinct. [pg 84]

What changes were made the Banking Act of 1935?

👉The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was made permanent, and the Board of Governors was given power to change reserve requirements.

The act of 1935 had other important revisions :

(1) The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was changed. Membership no longer included the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency, and the number of members was cut from nine to seven. The name, the Federal Reserve Board, was changed to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The reorganized Board, with its increased powers really gave us a central bank for the first time, in place of a system of individual Federal Reserve banks which were largely on their own.

(2) Also of primary importance in creating a true central bank was the establishment of the Federal Open Market Committee to determine purchases and sales of Government securities for the entire System.

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eilert

kalbokalbs

Raining on their parade.

Will the AF budget line be reduced $10 Billion? (No)

$10 Billion transferred to other items, to spend All $10 Billion. (Zero dollars saved.)

Yes, I am thankful the $10 Billion was cut from wasteful spending. Need more of it.

Would be interesting to know what the $10 Billion was shifted to spend.

para59r

Yes, needs much more. Just one B2 Bomber costs just over 2 Billion dollars. Likely more now since China is getting stingy with rare earth metals and with the MIC always rubbing their greedy fingers together in anticipating more money. 5 planes isn’t a whole lot. Do better Air Force!

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 Thursday, July 17, 2025

“At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” 

John 14:20 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR JOHN 14

Christ comforts his disciples. (1-11) He further comforts his disciples. (12-17) He still further comforts his disciples. (18-31)

(18-24) “Christ promises that he would continue his care of his disciples. I will not leave you orphans, or fatherless, for though I leave you, yet I leave you this comfort, I will come to you. I will come speedily to you at my resurrection. I will come daily to you in my Spirit; in the tokens of his love, and visits of his grace. I will come certainly at the end of time. Those only that see Christ with an eye of faith, shall see him for ever: the world sees him no more till his second coming; but his disciples have communion with him in his absence. These mysteries will be fully known in heaven. It is a further act of grace, that they should know it, and have the comfort of it. Having Christ’s commands, we must keep them. And having them in our heads, we must keep them in our hearts and lives. The surest evidence of our love to Christ is, obedience to the laws of Christ. There are spiritual tokens of Christ and his love given to all believers. Where sincere love to Christ is in the heart, there will be obedience. Love will be a commanding, constraining principle; and where love is, duty follows from a principle of gratitude. God will not only love obedient believers, but he will take pleasure in loving them, will rest in love to them. He will be with them as his home. These privileges are confined to those whose faith worketh by love, and whose love to Jesus leads them to keep his commandments. Such are partakers of the Holy Spirit’s new-creating grace.”

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.

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Verse of the day – July 17, 2025 | Psalm 78:2-4

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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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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

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

Amen.

duchess01

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

WHAT AM I DOING?

My heart is heavy – my heart is heavy
Am I a barrier to contain like a levee
Did You not command me of the divine
Did You not appoint and show me a sign

You know I never intended to intrude
To interrupt the flow with my interlude
Perhaps you unintentionally thot it rude
To publish my introspection to be viewed

Only You know my heart and my intent
For what I have written I never meant
To insult or to preach another gospel
To come off condescending or awful

I merely wanted to interject my thoughts
For you to examine and connect the dots
I hoped to inquire inspire introspect
What I had found in my study and checked

To share it with you was my heart’s desire
Even if I was preaching to the choir
So please pardon my presumption
Please forgive me my assumption

I hope and pray in some heavenly way
I have touched your heart on this day
For sharing is caring I truly believe
Through revelation our friendships we weave 

Thank you for listening with patience so pure
I’m grateful you’ve allowed me a voice adjure
If you have received a blessing from me
Then what I am doing was meant to be!

D01: 01/31/2023

para59r
duchess01

POEM CONTEXT

Truth be known – the ‘I’ in the poem is not me !!!

The poem was written by putting myself in the shoes of a former poster who is long gone – he wrote long tirades about Scripture – he had a good following – but some looked upon his posts as preaching – and – did not appreciate his gift – sad I know – so…

I wrote this poem to encourage him – but he up and left anyway – and took his admirers with him !!!

I wonder how many of you can relate to the ‘expression’ in this poem…

para59r

If I have it right, he stopped in today. Rather rare event.  😁 
If I have it wrong, I can’t fathom, but it sounds like Michael.

https://www.theqtree.com/2025/07/17/dear-maga-20250717-%e2%9c%be-thank-god-%c2%b1-theistic-evolution-%e2%88%88-thursday-open-topic/#comment-1489491

duchess01

TWO DIFFERENT MICHAELS – 2 DIFFERENT BLOGS – DISAPPEARED FOR DIFFERENT REASONS –

OUR MICHAEL WENT TO SCHOOL – NOT HIM

OTHER MICHAEL WAS DOING AN INDEPENDENT BIBLE STUDY – IT WAS HE ABOUT WHOM THE POEM WAS WRITTEN

PLEASE PARDON THE CAPS – KEYBOARD IS WONKY

para59r

Forgiven and Thank You!

duchess01

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

JESUS MY PEACE – Soaking worship instrumental – Prayer, Devotional, Meditation and Relaxation

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 !!!  ❤️❤️❤️



barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/re-heated-thursday-july-17-2025-c

Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Given the Childers family travel adventures yesterday, which resulted in very little sleep and lots of moving around, today’s post features a spruced-up edition of Classic C&C— a fresh update to one of the most popular C&C posts of all time. Best of all, it’s even more relevant now than when it first ran. Welcome back to the weird, wild, world of Hunga Tonga.

kalbokalbs

C&C, sought after daily staple. Thanks for bringing.

Gail Combs

Yup, daily staple!

para59r

Sabastian Sas explains how the Patriot Missile Procurement for Ukraine is going now that Trump is going to have the EU pay for it and a bit more.. Comical as always.

kalbokalbs

It’s all hilarious to Slow Guy.

Trump announces that NATO can arm Ukraine and US will sell replacement arms to NATO countries.

US jobs… US holds onto its arms.

NATO gives up arms, with the promise of arms, they purchase.

Several NATO countries opt out or are silent.

Its all BS. Best of all, US is not supplying arms to Ukraine.

As Ukraine continues to destroy itself.

Trump told Zelensky, you have No Cards To Play.

para59r

Yep. Trump is showing Zelensky he doesn’t really have all these friends that he thinks he has. Better he’s giving Zelensky 50 days to think about it.  😁  I don’t even think the pundits have this figured out yet. Might have to check, but they’ll probably read it wrong.
This is master class stuff going on here.

Gail Combs

When I saw the fifty days until sanctions and then SELLING arms to NATO followed by Russia ramping up I knew what Putin and Trump were up to.

It is amazing how absolutely DUMB some of these jokers are.

And the EU saying Russia should be broken up into several countries — YOU and what power gives you the strength and the RIGHT to do that? The USA???

PAVACA

HEADS-UP:
Israeli scientists have just developed an mRNA-based PLAGUE VACCINE, using a lab-modified gene and using N1-Methylpseudouridine as the lipid nanoparticle “delivery system” —

https://jonfleetwood.substack.comcp/168494356
“Israel Engineers Mutant Plague — Puts Its Genes in mRNA Shot That Makes Human Cells Produce Virulence and Immune-Evasion ‘Black Death’ Proteins: Journal ‘Advanced Science'”
16 July 2025
Yours Truly: This is the “Black Plague version” of the modRNA + N1-Methylpseudouridine COVID-19 “vaccines.” Except that the “payload” is a LAB-CREATED GENETICALLY ALTERED AND MORE VIRULENT VERSION OF THE BLACK PLAGUE.

Recall that Yours Truly has written extensively about the mechanism of the N1-Methylpseudouridine used in the Pfizer-BioNTech and in the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” — about how this lab-created ingredient replaces the natural Uridine in the COVID-19 “vaccinated” person’s body, kicking the door wide open for catastrophic immune evasion by said “vaccine”: evasion that will occur throughout the body and also the brain.

The PEER-REVIEWED paper that is referred to in the Jon Fleetwood article is here:

https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202501286
“Novel Bivalent mRNA-LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection Against Pneumonic Plague”
Dan Peer, et al.
25 April 2025

A screenshot from the Jon Fleetwood article is below:

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PAVACA

Wolf Moon
This whole “let’s make a lab-created modRNA mixed with LNP and create a new vaccine” situation is out of control.

This damn “plague vaccine” described above mixed up TWO different strains of the BLACK PLAGUE (Orientalis and Medievalis strains), which was then used against mice who were injected with the Kimberley53 “wild-type” plague strain.

It appears that this damn “plague variation” specifically targets the T1 helper cells and the IgG2 / IgG1 immune response cells.

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Gail Combs

HORRIFYING
Please add to the Friday Health Article so we have it to refer to easily.

PAVACA

Gail Combs
Thank you.
Yours Truly added this to the Health Friday post, with a typo correction the Fleetwood URL link, AND another item that also popped up related to experiments on lab-created variations on the BLACK PLAGUE.

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slowcreekno

It never ends does it, now here is the «…mRNA-based PLAGUE…»

What is the exit strategy here anyways, with everybody supposedly sick or gone and no-one will be left to run things?

That is just bereft of meaning.

para59r

Military Summary Channel.

para59r

In case no one has time to watch, rest assured the Russians are continuing to be, Russian accent, “bombing and attacking”

Gail Combs

Zelenskyy wants Ukraine bombed back to the stone age.

barkerjim

He wants to fight to the last stone!

cthulhu

To his last percent skimmed off the top.

PAVACA

DR. MARTIN MAKARY, FDA
DR. VINAY PRASAD, FDA CBER
DR. JAY BHATTACHARYA, NIH

WHY ARE YOU CONTINUING TO PUSH THE COVID-19 “INJURIES AND DEATH VACCINES”?

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TheseTruths

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Amnesty of any kind introduces a slippery slope where they can build on what was already done. “We gave them ‘partial’ amnesty, so these other workers deserve it too.”

Dems and RINOs are clever at using Trojan horses. I hope our side can be smarter. There are lots of good things happening, but my confidence is somewhat shaken by some of the things I’m seeing lately.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1945787064491925683

Keir Starmer announces that the UK is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in all UK elections.

The UK continues its suicidal spiral. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

TheseTruths

David Limbaugh:

Many think Trump is being dismissive of the Epstein thing — cavalier. I don’t read it that way. I think he’s pissed. He has racked up amazing, unprecedented policy accomplishments and Epstein is sucking the wind out of it — not to just to his detriment, but ultimately to ours.

I think we’re being presented with a false choice: you either favor full disclosure no matter the law and consequences about which we have no knowledge, or you’re a pedi-protector.

Do you all really believe Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, let alone Pam Bondi despite her PR missteps, have something to hide here? Is it conceivable that Patel and Bongino have railed about this issue for some time and now have some nefarious motive in changing their position? Did they find out — unbeknownst to themselves — that they are on the list?

Could there be some plausible explanation as to why they are playing their cards close to the vest for the time being, or is the fact that they’re doing so proof that they are suddenly embroiled in corruption?

That is not plausible to me. I don’t think these people changed their stripes that quickly. And I don’t think my willingness to trust them — makes me an enabler of corruption or perversion.

Back to Trump. If he were implicated the Dems would have crucified him when they had sole possession of the materials — files, list or no list. You know it. I know it.

But now people who have doggedly supported him even through tougher times are turning on him and piling on with the opportunistic Democrats who heretofore haven’t given two shakes about any of this.

None of us knows the full story yet. None of us knows yet why the administration hasn’t done a better job explaining at least that they’ll be able to tell us more later.

But it seems many have so much invested in believing the worst about this — that Epstein was the leader or at the center of a Robert Ludlum-level international conspiracy — that they can’t let it go. It’s as if their worldview will crumble if their worst suspicions aren’t vindicated. And if Trump and his administration happen to be in office when this whole thing fizzles, then they too must have been nefariously drawn into this conspiracy that is too powerful even for the fiercest of otherwise moral mortals.

In the meantime, Trump’s heyday is being rained on and he feels betrayed by a bunch of supporters who in turn feel that he’s betrayed them.

Well, I’m just asking for a little grace on both sides, especially the supporters who should at least give Trump, Bongino, Patel, and even Bondi some trust here before throwing them to the dogs. There has to be more to the story — or possibly way less to the story.

But this idea that previously non-corrupt people have immediately become corrupt just doesn’t pass the smell test for me and it surprises me that so many supporters have been so quick to jump ship.

And I repeat — no way in hell I’m defending the protection or insulation of pedophiles or corruption. Trump’s policies on the border alone have burnished his credentials as an enemy of trafficking and pedophilia. (I’m not intending to conflate the different issues, but he deserves credit for that).

And as dramatic and juicy as it sounds, I do not believe occam’s razor leads to the conclusion that the administration is concealing these “files” or lists because to disclose them would implicate all kinds of world leaders and lead to the downfall of civilization. Sorry folks. Just not buying it.

I could very well be wrong about all of this, which goes without saying. But can some of Trump’s latter day critics make the same disclaimer? Will they? Or are they sure they know this is the worst thing that’s ever happened and they now know that the deep state is so deep that it drills all the say down to China and encompasses Trump and his administration?

I’m not being sarcastic and I’ll allow as how the administration hasn’t handled this adroitly — and that’s an understatement. But I seriously doubt that if they are concealing anything it is because they are in any way involved in corruption. If they are holding back serious information I have to assume they have a darned good reason for doing so, even if in the end, they are wrong. I also suspect we’ll learn more sooner rather than later (I hate that Clinton-born phrase).

We have a country to save and we need to remember that — which, again, is not to say, “Let’s close our eyes to massive corruption because the end justifies the means.” Rather, it is to say, we have a country to save and the government officials we’re entrusting to do that as our representatives are probably not doing anything wrong here — and you should strongly consider that.

So many people I greatly respect I’m sure radically disagree with me here but that doesn’t make me disrespect them or judge them — as I fear many of them might judge me for my stance here. But I can live with that. And at least, in humility I will say I don’t know and can’t yet know all that’s involved and until I have more information in the fullness of time I’m going to trust the people I trust — and they’ve repeatedly earned that trust. Beyond my wildest expectations in fact. Accomplishing things I would never have thought possible, much less in such a short period of time, from the dismantling of the administrative state and department of education to the emasculation of Iran’s nukes and the sealing of a seemingly irreversibly porous border to the re-unleashing of energy, to the taming of inflation to the resurrection of the military, to the DOGE focus on fraud, waste and corruption, to the defunding of Ivy League institutions to Tariff revenues to major steps toward peace around the world. And so much more.

God bless you all — because presumably we want the same things — except those who would exploit this issue, or any others for their own self-aggrandizement.

kalbokalbs

^^^ Worthwhile read.

singingsoul1

Very good article.

I have been thinking it seems the influences those who had access to Trump the WH are the worse right now concerning Epstein. They are dogs with an bone and not letting it go.
At first I was upset also but the more I read those who are doubling down on Trump and Elon doubling down I am convinced something is wrong. Is the third party a new thing for some of them? Everything has shifted blame is on Trump why? I always bounce back to reality when going of the rails is just who I am and then see clearly. MEGA influencers are like spoiled brats throwing a fit because something does not go their way. We do not own Trump ‘s every move we want and want forgotten are the last 4 years. Do we want dems in congress ruling us impeaching jailing Trump? Do we want them to open borders again dumb down military dumb down our kids and yes us? Maybe influencers already dumb down who knows. To me it looks as even some republicans in addition to the Epstein saga want to burn everything down. I am against pedos also but trust Trump that he has an agenda to open all doors so we can see everything in time not our time our wants.
God bless and protect My President.

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kalbokalbs

Third party is a dead end.

We’ll be just fine. Stay the course, Trump provides.

Even if I were wavering, which I am emphatically NOT, there is No Better Answer Than Trump.

Everyone else is a compromised politician.

kalbokalbs

NEW: Kevin O’Leary says Trump’s tariffs are actually a smart play….and the markets are about to explode.

Mr. Wonderful just connected the dots in a way no one else is saying:

“What Trump is really putting in place is a VAT tax. A consumption tax. He’s just not calling it that.”

He says the so-called “tariffs” are actually reciprocal taxes….no different from what Europe and Canada already do.

“You start to see tariff rates between 10 and 12%, that’s the same as the VAT taxes the Swiss, French, British, and Canadians already charge.”

He even predicts the final landing spot:

“If we end up globally with a reciprocal 10–12%, everything works out—and the market thinks that too.”

“That’s why these indices are near all-time highs.”

The panic over tariffs? About to get real quiet.

TradeBait2

Mr. Wonderful would be 100% correct. That’s is how the income tax eventually goes away. It increases discretionary fund availability in a consumer based economy, which increases consumption tax revenues.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

NPR is so incredibly vital to everyone’s life that if taxpayers aren’t forced to finance it, nobody else will want to.

That’s what I’ve been saying. Time for the libs to step up and open their pocketbooks.

kalbokalbs

The missing Dumrat battle cry for PBS.

  :wpds_mad:  Millions will starve AND die without PBS funding.   :wpds_evil: 

TheseTruths

“People will die!” 😱

RedLegLeader68

Children will DIE!!

para59r

Trump seems to have stolen his current Ukraine strategy from the Sesame Street Defunding Play Book!  😆 

TheseTruths

Whatever works…😅

PAVACA

WOLF MOON and ALL —

The Health Friday post for this week is finished, and will publish just after Midnight on Friday morning.
Lids being blown off.
The rot is far deeper than could be imagined.

bakocarl

A Dog’s Life

Each morn I hear the house arise,
My heart leaps up, my tail complies.
By door I wait, my hope ascends,
The yard’s my world where joy begins.
 
The door swings wide, I bound, I race,
Through grass I match the squirrel’s pace.
The neighbor’s cat, a fleeting tease,
I bark, I lunge through morning’s breeze.
 
I roll in earth, the sun’s soft glow
Warms fur and soul where wild things grow.
A rabbit darts, my paws take flight,
Each leap a spark of pure delight.
 
The car door clicks, my ears prick high,
I leap inside, the world rolls by.
The wind’s my song, my nose takes lead,
Each scent a tale of life’s great deeds.
 
I dig, I sniff, I roam, I play,
The yard’s my stage, my own raceway.
A butterfly, a leaf’s soft fall,
Each moment hums, I heed their call.
 
As dusk creeps in, I trot back home,
The bowl awaits, no need to roam.
My feast is laid, I dive with glee,
Oh, dog’s sweet life, it’s joy for me!

para59r
singingsoul1

Wonderful thank you . Your poem reminds me of my dog. His energy I cannot escape and joy is contagious 🙂

TheseTruths

Some details about the bill that just passed the Senate (formatting mine)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-wins-again-senate-passes-9bn-in-cuts-to-global-aid-public-broadcasting/

• …broadcasting institutions NPR and PBS would lose their flow of taxpayer dollars when the package is signed into law.
• The bill also shuts off funding for foreign aid grants for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• …once final approval by the House of Representatives is given after a vote due this week (vote expected today, according to Politico)
• The legislation must pass by a Friday deadline (Politico: “otherwise [Pres. Trump] will be forced to spend the money Congress previously approved”)
• The bill embraces sweeping cuts of up to $8 billion in foreign aid including to global health programs, migration and refugee assistance alongside international disaster relief.

kalbokalbs

Years, many years, perhaps decades, I heard…Defund PBR. Nothing happened.

…Defund Department of Education. I forgot what Steve called them dunces. Nothing happened.

Trump 2.0 comes along...

  • NPR AND Department of Education Gone. Along with USAID, gone.
  • Federal workforce being drawn down.
  • Illegals being shipped out.
  • Woke shit cast aside.
  • Dozens more

Winning.

TheseTruths

kalbokalbs

Chiefio

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/

The Nature Of Drone Warfare
What is the reality of war fighting in the era of Drones?
I ran into these videos about drone attacks and production. The nature of war has changed dramatically in the era of drone warfare. Hiding in bunkers doesn’t work, nor does moving in vehicles. War from the air via cheap drones in huge numbers is what works now.

Remainder of the article within the spoiler.

Including sobering conclusion for Ukraine and Europe.

Drone Warefar. With Sobering Conclusion, For Ukraine, EU…

The Nature Of Drone Warfare
What is the reality of war fighting in the era of Drones?
I ran into these videos about drone attacks and production. The nature of war has changed dramatically in the era of drone warfare. Hiding in bunkers doesn’t work, nor does moving in vehicles. War from the air via cheap drones in huge numbers is what works now.

First off, a couple of terms defined:
FPV – First Person View. Drones where the operator sees through the camera on the drone, as also seen in the recorded video of the drone attack.

Overwatch – When there is someone (or now, some thing) assigned to keep surveillance on an operation, usually from above, for purposes of protecting the force and / or reporting on the success.

MIRV – Multiple Independently target-able Reentry Vehicle warhead.

ISR – Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. The Wiki adds “target acquisition” but many others don’t state it, just imply it.

You may sometimes in some videos see what looks like CПH that is the abbreviation for Spetsnaz or Russiian Special Forces. Also what looks like TACC in a corner of a video is Cyrillic for TASS, the Russian news agency.

How Russia Uses Drones – their POV
This is a video with strong pro-Russia bias, but showing what Russia is doing with drone warfare. Key takeaways are:

The integrated use of low level fiber optic FPV attack drones with overwatch ISR drones at altitude.

The combined use of drones with precision artillery when an attack drone is unsuited to a target (no approach through dense trees or large area).

The precision of FPV attack drones – flying between nets and into small holes. ANY small hole is enough to get your hiding spot destroyed.

Using 1 drone to breach an obstruction (like a window) and a second to enter and destroy the structure.

Drones that sit on the ground near a road, watching but using minimal power, until a vehicle arrives – then takes to the air to destroy it. Essentially aerial “land mines” with intelligence at the other end of the fiber optic cable (that can be kilometers long).

ISR providing “no place to hide” eyes in the sky. Makes hiding in a building, hole in the ground (“bunkers”), armored vehicles, or even under nets, camouflage and trees a bit pointless.

Both daylight and infrared cameras – night is not cover.

“Fighting” is now being done person to person but at a distance. One drone operator vs a few or even a single opponent soldier.

Sometimes it is one drone against one Drone Radio Antenna (FPV control facilities) or one radar set.

Russian “mobility warfare” is more effective than Ukrainian “defensive warfare” in bunkers and trenches.

Units of Russian Infantry as low as 1 solder may have both overwatch and attack drones assisting him.

There’s more to observe, but you get the idea. IF you sit in a hole, a building, or a “defensive position” you get killed. IF you move, you get observed and either you or your vehicle or both get destroyed. The “Front line” can be many kilometers behind the line of contact of ground forces.

Artillery barrages have been replaced by precision artillery with drone based ISR and attack drones. As precise as targeting a single soldier.

Going after Production sites
This next video, somewhat less Russian Biased, covers how Russia is attacking Ukrainian native drone construction sites. Despite them being highly disbursed as cottage industry sites.

Note too the economic war aspect. A $Hundreds or $Thousands drone can force a choice between losing a valuable bit of infrastructure or launching a few $HUNDREDS_of_THOUSANDS missile interceptor rockets… Cheapest weapon wins.
Manufacture of weapons inside Ukraine is now off the table.

Russia is now going for Deep Strikes all across Ukraine to remove military production, infrastructure, storage, and transport facilities. I suspect this means they are entering the final take down of Ukraine phase. Any Western Military folks or materials inside Ukraine will be a target.

In conclusion
No place to hide. No place to manufacture. No place to store inventory or house troops (or even train them).

Air dominance now comes from $thousand drones, not $Millions or $Billions stealth aircraft. What use would a B2 Bomber be against a drone mob…

The Russians have achieved Air Dominance along with Escalation Dominance.

There is no way for Ukraine / NATO to win this war. At best, they can escalate it into W.W.III with both Europe and North America being bombed into the dark ages via Oreshnik and nuclear weapons. Our ability to “project force” via forward bases in Europe (and elsewhere) along with Carrier Battle Groups has been nullified by the MIRV Hypersonic Oreshnik. Going into a ground attrition war against Russia will end in disaster against their drone operations and artillery.

kalbokalbs

TheseTruths

JUST IN: President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, following reports of swelling in the President’s legs, per Karoline Leavitt

Luckily, it’s nothing serious.

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE HANDLED. NOT covered up like Joe Biden’s illnesses!

“An echocardiogram was also performed and confirm normal cardiac structure and function. No signs of heart failure, renal impairment or systemic illness were identified.”

TheseTruths

Pray for President Trump. 🙏

kalbokalbs

Pleased Trump addressed these minor issues, up front, via Karoline

Perhaps notable AND NOT tossing darts at Trump.

I’ve noticed an apparent, as he walks, his back is not as straight , as I recall previously. IIRC, it was mentioned before and attributed to wearing a bullet proof vest. Or at least partially so.

Also in the WH and some other venues, I think Trump sits more than previous years. Trump is a big man, not young and prolly easing the load on his legs and feet. Smart.

Also, and I am grateful, Trump always keeps his hand on railings, going up or down steps.

TheseTruths

Trump always keeps his hand on railings, going up or down steps.

He has said that if he tripped and/or fell, he would never hear the end of it.

kalbokalbs

That’s a fact.

Same for exiting stages…

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singingsoul1

Can be painful. He might need to wear support socks

pgroup2

I disagree that it is not serious. It’s not life threatening but it is definitely something that needs to be watched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_venous_insufficiency

singingsoul1

My mother had that and it turned into thrombosis and she had an open leg. Trump has bedder doctors better meds I am sure.

PAVACA

TheseTruths
IMO, if the heart is in good shape, the situation can be managed well.

PAVACA

TheseTruths
Not am MD, nor do I play one on TV. However, I have chronic venous insufficiency with my feet, which manifests as varicose veins. I go to a vascular surgeon for tests and consultations.
Per the suggestions of the vascular surgeon—I wear compression socks, drink lots of water, added more vegetables to the diet, cut way down on sugar, watch the salt intake, walk a lot every day, put the feet up for awhile in the afternoon. I had ultrasound tests on both legs and feet, no clots. The heart is in good shape, thank God.

singingsoul1

My brother had some veins removed.

Gudthots

I understand that is excruciatingly painful.

Firefly

No it’s not. Vascular surgery takes half an hour, unpleasant, yes, like going to the dentist. In by 8 am, home by 10 am

cthulhu

I’m sure it would be, if done without anesthetic.

TheseTruths

Looks as if you a handle on the situation and that it is manageable. 👍🏼

Gail Combs

Hubby and I both have feet swelling problem. I have to watch my salt intake and drink lots of water.

Gail Combs

“….President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, following reports of swelling in the President’s legs,…”

Good grief if he did not have that condition at his age it would be a minor miracle.

POTUS is 79 years old and “…According to the Society for Vascular Surgery, CVI affects up to 40% of the U.S. population….” LINK

Society for Vascular Surgery

Fairly common, usually chronic

May affect up to 40% of the U.S population. More common in women (especially after multiple pregnancies) and in people who are middle-aged or older.

TheseTruths

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1944887484631965821.html

🔴 BREAKING: The U.S. Army now has a weapon that can instantly fry entire drone swarms.

It’s not a laser.

It’s not a missile.

It’s Leonidas — a microwave cannon that sends out a pulse and melts electronics mid-air ⚡

No ammo. No reload. Just pure energy.

One blast = 50+ drones down.

Built for the wars of the future. 🇺🇸

📡 Meet the weapon that makes air defense look like science fiction: [video here]

🚨 Here’s What Leonidas, the U.S. Army’s New Microwave Defense System, Is Capable Of.

No bullets. No missiles. No sound.

The Leonidas system uses high-powered microwave bursts to instantly disable enemy drones mid-air by frying their electronics — not jamming, but physically destroying circuits.

🔹 360° full-area coverage — engages in all directions

🔹 Neutralizes entire drone swarms in a single burst

🔹 Light-speed reaction time — hits targets instantly

🔹 No ammo required — runs entirely on electricity

🔹 Costs just cents per shot — vs. $100K+ interceptor missiles

🔹 Zero reload time — fires continuously

🔹 Fully mobile — fits on Strykers, trucks, or fixed posts

🔹 Silent & stealthy — safe for use near friendly forces

Already tested by the U.S. Army — and headed to the battlefield.

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The U.S. Navy is now testing Leonidas H2O, a high-power microwave (HPM) system developed by Epirus and engineered specifically for maritime operations…

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cthulhu

A number of years ago, UC Berkeley was a major part of subatomic research, and they had cyclotrons of all shapes and sizes, some the size of a clothes washing machine. These were rolled from room to room for demonstrations, and the output casually aimed out the window.

Until an airplane flew through the invisible cone of output and their gauges went wack.

One has to wonder what sort of range this Leonidas system might have…..is it going to start shooting down StarLink satellites or commercial jets in adjacent countries?

TheseTruths

Surely (Shirley!) the powers that be have considered that, especially since a cardinal rule of firearms handling is to know what is behnd your target. This is like that on a grand scale, but still…

Brave and Free

Well this is interesting, more bad news for the vaxxed………. Mind control……

https://slaynews.com/news/scientists-sound-alarm-magnetic-nanoparticles-covid-vaccines/

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TheseTruths

That would be explosive, if true. I know that magnetic properties were discussed here a long time ago and the idea was debunked, but that might not have been the same thing.

The unsettling possibility that mRNA shots may contain materials designed for neurological manipulation is not something that can be dismissed lightly.

pgroup2
kalbokalbs

Yea, Tabloid stuff. But dang, could they act more guilty. Dumbasses. B U S T E D !

TheseTruths

Sheer horror!

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I’m sorry for the humiliation his wife must be feeling, but maybe it’s good riddance in the long run. She must be livid as well.

https://pagesix.com/2025/07/17/celebrity-news/wife-of-ceo-allegedly-caught-cheating-at-coldplay-concert-deletes-socials-after-video-goes-viral/

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, quickly deleted her social media page after a video of her husband allegedly cheating at a Coldplay concert went viral.

Page Six observed that Megan’s Facebook page, which contained family photos, was no longer accessible as of Thursday morning.

Shortly before taking down her profile, she deleted her surname from her account.

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TheseTruths

He can kiss some of his millions (billions?) goodbye.

kalbokalbs

Catturd has a great sense of humor.

TradeBait2

Another idgit bites the dust and blows up his family.

TheseTruths

He appears to have a very nice family, too.

kalbokalbs

Genius Bill passes.

Now, Pass The Recission Bill. Read it was scheduled for today.

kalbokalbs

Chuckling as I peck in M O R E, please..

duchess01

Almighty God, we give you thanks for surrounding us, as daylight fades, with the brightness of the vesper light; and we implore you of your great mercy that, as you enfold us with the radiance of this light, so you would shine into our hearts the brightness of your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Grant us, Lord, the lamp of charity which never fails, that it may burn in us and shed its light on those around us, and that by its brightness we may have a vision of that holy City, where dwells the true and never-failing Light, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Lord God Almighty, as you have taught us to call the evening, the morning, and the noonday one day; and have made the sun to know its going down: Dispel the darkness of our hearts, that by your brightness we may know you to be the true God and eternal light, living and reigning for ever and ever. Amen.

Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth: The Lord is his name. Amen.

Amos 5:8

https://www.beliefnet.com/prayers/christian/bedtime/evening-prayer.aspx



kalbokalbs

RFI.

What is the easy way to open a X, thread/thread reader, such as this one.

Thanks.

TradeBait2

😂

TheseTruths

RFI = requires further information?

You are asking how to open a thread reader like that?

I used to type in the word “cancel” right after the x in the URL, but that only yields a “403 Forbidden” page now.

I just tried typing in “nitter.net” instead of the x and got a blank page.

I’m sorry I’m of no help. 😕

kalbokalbs

That was, is helpful. Thank you.

TheseTruths

YW. Maybe someone can shed some light on it.

kalbokalbs

Its weird. Initially it was not unrolled, or so I think. Just went back, unrolled.

I copied your notes above using xcancel or nitter.net. Rather sure they’ll come in handy next time I need a X unrolled.

TheseTruths

It was not unrolled when I went there.

Maybe those methods will still work sometimes. Thanks.

cthulhu

Request For Information.

TheseTruths

Thanks!

Gudthots

I’m using “nitter.poast.org” in place of “x.com” …
been working nicely for me

TheseTruths

Great, thank you!

Gail Combs
kalbokalbs

Thank you!

duchess01

X22 REPORT NOTIFICATION

Next Report On Friday,July 18

cthulhu
kalbokalbs

Some details on DoS, 3,000 Buy Outs and RIFs.

TradeBait2

Don’t stop until you get enough…

TradeBait2

Who else feels another boomerang coming?

kalbokalbs

kalbokalbs

Guess more arm twisting required to pass the recission package.

Trump may be busy this evening.

MUST PASS FRIDAY.

From Brave…

The House is voting on the rescission bill on Friday, July 18, 2025, following the Senate’s approval of the $9 billion rescission package early Thursday morning. 

This is the final deadline for Congress to act on the package, and if it is not passed by midnight Friday, the funds will be released as originally appropriated.

Key Details:

  • The Senate passed the bill in a 51-48 vote after an all-night session of amendments and debate.
  • The House must now vote to adopt the Senate-amended version of the bill, which removes a proposed $400 million cut to PEPFAR, among other adjustments.
  • The deadline is tied to a 45-day statutory clock that began when President Trump transmitted the rescission request to Congress on June 3, 2025.
TheseTruths

Citizen Free Press has headlines with more Epstein stuff. I don’t want to post it here.

I think *they* are trying to kill Pres. Trump with the stress. He handles everything so well, but we don’t know what is going on within. And the Right, instead of rallying around him, keeps nipping at the story, keeping it alive, and causing more trouble, not giving him any credit for wanting justice to be done.

singingsoul1

It is hard to stay strong fighting on two fronts. The kicker is all those people who were supposed strong supporters and friendly pod casters the new media did not give any time to find the truth. They jumped like sharks for the kill just as lefties do. Some are not letting up going for the kill so to speak. One can be disappointed one can be critical but when one truly puts country first one moves on and gives Trump grace.

kalbokalbs

EU going Batshit Bonkers All In For Ukraine.

kalbokalbs

The madness rolls on.

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kalbokalbs

Trump going on the offense, on Epstein fiasco.

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TheseTruths

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TradeBait2

There it is. May the games begin. 😂

kalbokalbs

Looks like WSJ is going to contribute to Trump Library, pay lawyers and hopefully go bankrupt.

kalbokalbs

TheseTruths

Excellent response.

kalbokalbs

On a positive note.

Golden Age: U.S. Retail Sales Rebound Sharply in June, Beating Expectations Across the Board
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/17/golden-age-u-s-retail-sales-rebound-sharply-in-june-beating-expectations-across-the-board/

TheseTruths

More winning!

TheseTruths

BREAKING: The lawsuit brought against the Trump administration by leftist FBI agents who conducted the corrupt J6 and Mar-a-Lago investigations has been THROWN OUT by a federal judge

Their case against the White House was SO WEAK that it was thrown out by a BIDEN judge

Now fire all these morons.

TheseTruths

Remember that woman who Democrats and the media claimed was kidnapped from a parking lot by ICE, shoved into an unmarked car, held in a building, starved, to force her to self-deport???

Turns out she staged the entire “kidnapping”

She’s now facing criminal charges for conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers

para59r

Middle East Round Up of sorts.. skipping around for a mad minute or so.

hasn’t watched all of this yet. 10 mins.

Pretty sure this isn’t the church. Just some little girl playing in the rubble. Actually she’s become iconic over night. Lots of still pics on this one.

Whoops… not the church again. Just some West Bank stuff being talked about recently.

Just some white guy in a defunked organization that made themselves useless just when they might be useful?

Nope no the church again. Looks like one of those humanitarian feeding stations that have become all the rave in Gaza. .

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Apparently 600 trucks get into these sites every day, but the need is for 3000 a day according to my Grok the other day. A variety of reasons are given as to why this does not occur.

🙄 🤔 hrmmm… don’t seem to have anymore on the church that isn’t similar to what was posted. 3 dead, 9 wounded. The bishop with the leg wound used to give Pope Francis daily updates from that church. Lots of posts claim this not to be a one off. Others say it’s just cowboy tankers that don’t like Catholics… any way…Anyway, Bibi says he’s sorry and it won’t happen again…cause ahh.. its the last Church in Gaza? 😉

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singingsoul1

That is the Trump I love decisive Da Boss:

Barb Meier

I am a great aunt for the second time and Reagan Renee already knows how to fold her hands to pray at 2 days old. Her parents, Chloe and Luke, are over the moon and the spoiling has commenced!

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cthulhu

Congratulations to Reagan, Chloe, Luke, and yourself! May your family ever prosper!

Barb Meier

Thank you, Cthulhu! It makes every day a happy day now that Reagan got here safely and has all her fingers and toes.

singingsoul1

Congratulation.

Barb Meier

Thank you, Singing!

TheseTruths

She looks like she’s about to offer some words of wisdom. So cute! ☺️

Barb Meier

Thank you, TT! Yes, she has a serious look. Perhaps she’s thinking about what it was like being born and joining us in this world. Well… this sure is different. LOL So much to discover and explore. I am hoping she has much laughter and joy.

Firefly

Looks like she’s about to say “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”! Congratulations!  :wpds_smile: 

Barb Meier

Thank you, Firefly! Yes, I believe she is busy thinking although it will take a little time to begin using English. My nephew, Isaac, and his wife are so happy to be grandparents and their 2 boys who are 10 and 15 are excited to be uncles.

Firefly

Reagan will much enjoy having young uncles!

Barb Meier

Oh yes, you are right!! My older brother enjoyed growing up with our uncle who was not too much older than my brother. They did many things together over the years.

K1tt7-fzn

Congratulations!

Barb Meier

Thank you, Kitt7-fzn! Babies sure can make the days happy.

para59r

Well, at least someone on the right is speaking out.

Happy go lucky

Welp. I’m at my folks to help them out for the weekend. Upon investigating this weird noise in the kitchen, I’ve found a bat in the vent of the range hood.

Not gonna lie, I taped the screen hoping to keep it secure until morning when I can call my brother to get over here and deal with it.

TheseTruths

You just never know what’s going to happen. Good luck getting it taken care of!

Barb Meier

Gosh, I just saw a post about bats on FB. Can’t find it, but I did find a wikihow article with suggestions. I also saw that bats can eat up to 1,000 mosquitos in an hour so they are beneficial even though scary.

https://www.wikihow.com/Catch-a-Bat-in-Your-House

para59r

His show is canceled.  😁 

TheseTruths

But not until May of 2026. It will run another season.

cthulhu

Just 10 months from now…..

cthulhu

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