“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. Every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Pass SAVE America Act
Trash Filibuster
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
Today in History: April 25, Spanish-American War declared
On April 25, 1898, the United States Congress declared war against Spain. The 16-week Spanish-American War resulted in an American victory, after which the United States took possession of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam.
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Stuff…
Please take a few minutes. Enjoy Hung Cao’s Incredible Journey. Vietnam – Africa – America.
They just thought Pete Hegseth was over the top, now we have a man in charge of the Navy who blew shit up for 30+ years and was really good at it.
They just thought Pete Hegseth was over the top, now we have a man in charge of the Navy who blew shit up for 30+ years and was really good at it. A great time to be alive!
Hung Cao, the former refugee who is Trump’s new acting navy secretary
Vietnam-born Cao stood twice for federal office in Virginia and has called for upgrading of fleet to face new threats
The acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, who steps into the role after the sudden departure of John Phelan, is a veteran naval officer and former refugee who earned a position with the Trump administration with campaigns for political office in Virginia marked by religious intolerance.
When Cao was first appointed, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, set him to modernizing base infrastructure and quality-of-life issues for sailors and marines, and to raise recruiting standards. Cao has also been a point person in the administration on permitting vaccine refusal and eliminating “DEI” policies in the military.
He has been sharply outspoken about the military’s recruiting practices, saying in a debate with Tim Kaine when he ran against him for Senate in 2024 that the military should be recruiting “alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them, and ask for seconds”.
At his confirmation hearing, Cao described an aircraft carrier as “99,000 tons of American diplomacy” but noted that the availability of ships hovered at about 60%, which he described as “horrid” readiness.
Asked about his views on how to either use the existing fleet or to transition to a new paradigm for naval warfare, Cao said the military was living each day like it was 10 September 2001, and that the country must accelerate shipbuilding while improving technology so that it can defeat hypersonic missiles and other threats.
“We need to rethink naval warfare,” Cao said last June. “We need to be ready for what happens tomorrow.”
Cao ran twice for federal office as a Republican candidate in Virginia, falling to US representative Jennifer Wexton in a House race in Virginia’s northern suburbs in 2022, then to Senator Tim Kaine in 2024.
Cao’s comments in an interview about Monterey being taken over by “witches” and a joke about being “African American” because he lived in Africa as a child became a campaign issue. Cao expressed support for a national abortion ban as a candidate.
Cao, 55, fled Vietnam with his family when he was four. He lived in Niger as a child while his father worked for USAID. Cao enlisted in the navy in 1989 before graduating from the US Naval Academy and earning a commission as a special operations officer.
He served on active duty as a diver and explosive ordnance technician with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, notably leading the team that recovered the body of John F Kennedy Jr off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
Cao was section head for the budget programming division in the office of the chief of naval operations before retiring as a captain in 2021. He has a master’s degree in applied physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and completed fellowships at MIT and Harvard.
“I came to this country with nothing, as a refugee,” Cao said in response to a question during his confirmation hearing as undersecretary of the navy. “We grew up in Africa, actually. In 1979, when the shah of Iran was overthrown, the marines brought us into the embassy and stood watch over us in case they had to do an evacuation … I wanted to be like those heroes, so I have dedicated my entire life to serving the military.” (Bold mine.)
Cao’s son graduates this year from the US Naval Academy.
An interesting review of the Australian Oil Shortages over many decades
The short form is that W.W.II was the worst due to dependence on Asian sources (under British Empire control) and then being cut off by war. Gee, Asian sources cut off in war… rather like now when Australia depends on imported fuel from Asian refineries that in turn depend on Arabian Gulf oil…
During the 1970s Arab Oil Embargo Australia had rationing, but due to domestic “work actions” (strikes) by oil workers. The country was nearly self sufficient in oil and oil products then.
Fast forward to now: All the “lessons learned” have been discarded, all but 2 refineries closed in favor of Asian ones (and one of those two just had a major fire…), and the crude oil supply is disrupted by a war.
“Those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it.”
Stockpile Food To Prepare For Worst Food Crisis | China Cuts Fertiliser, Farmers Abandon Paddocks
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Australia’s Fuel Supply Is More Fragile Than Anyone Realises (This Is How Rationing Starts)
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In Conclusion
It didn’t have to be this way. Australia could have kept its oil refineries, continued to develop oil fields and production, and built a nitrogen fertilizer plant. They did not. They chose in stead to save a couple of pennies on the $A for Urea and other nitrogen fertilizers, and similarly for oil products.
Literally “penny wise and pound foolish”.
FWIW, he says “you will not see it today”… yet we are seeing it today. So when the really hard bit hits, expect it to be a lot worse.
We are at the start of a Cascade Failure. Shortly it will be impossible to prevent the cascade.
Today I did a Walmart run (for things I’d not already prepped, like laundry detergent, fresh fruit, condiments, and another round of paper goods)…
SLOW GUY here. I continue, to not see food or daily essentials shortages in the USA. Come 1 May, if Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Slow guy will likely bump up stocks. Previously planned, picking up a pig, from the processor next week. Plenty of beef in the freezer. It’s the stuff on supermarket middle aisles, I’ll bulk on again. Stuff has long shelf life. So no big deal there. No spoilage. It’ll get used, Nothing tossed.
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Image AI. From American Thinker
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.
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“Meme them until they cry, then make memes about them crying” – Don Tzu…
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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. Every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Pass SAVE America Act
Trash Filibuster
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. — John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815 (Bold mine.)
By 1760, great, wind-driven ships traversed the world’s oceans. The Age of Sail, which began in the 15th century, and its companion, the Age of Discovery, had transformed the world through trade. Before 1600, in every developed society across the world, a tiny minority of royalty and their associates were wealthy, while all about them, the vast majority lived in subsistence-level poverty. That changed only with the advent of world trade, mercantilism, and capitalism, which together lifted the majority out of poverty and created a middle class.
(Slow Guy. Coincidence, I’m sure. GDP per capita in England, Shot Up, about 1913.)
By 1760, about 1.5 million people lived in the North American colonies, and the population growth rate was set to double in 20 years. The colonies had benefited from nearly 150 years of the British government’s “benign neglect.” As the Privy Council told South Carolina’s new governor in 1722, that policy was intended to make colonial governments as “Easy and Mild as possible to invite people to Settle under it.”
By 1760, a prosperous middle class had developed in the colonies. It was a society unburdened by Europe’s ultra-wealthy, permanent noble class. When Lord Wortley Montague died in London in 1761, his estate was worth over £1.3 million. When the wealthiest merchant in Boston, Thomas Hancock (John’s uncle), died near the same time, his estate was valued at only £70,000.
The colonies were also unburdened by Europe’s permanently impoverished underclass, for they had great economic mobility and opportunity. As one British visitor, Nicholas Cresswell, wrote in contrasting the colonies with Europe, “here there are no fears [of poverty] and with the least spark of industry, a man may support a family…”
In 1760, religious issues were of central concern, although the nature of the battle had changed.
For a thousand years, Islamic wars of conquest had demanded Europe’s energy. By 1760, the Muslim attacks against Europe had ended. Barbary pirates, who enslaved some 1.25 million Europeans, including American colonists, were still a problem (indeed, two of America’s first wars, the First (1801-1805) and Second (1815) Barbary Wars, were against the pirates), but they were not what led to America’s Revolution.
What mattered in the colonies were Christian schisms. Christianity had always been the indispensable beating heart of Western civilization, but the Reformation of 1517 splintered the universal Catholic Church, leading to numerous Protestant sects. Europe was riven by internecine religious wars and religious persecution, pitting Christian against Christian.
For two centuries, Protestant minorities in Europe were persecuted. This was as true for the Huguenot Protestants in Catholic France as it was for the Puritans and all others who dissented from the state religion of England, Anglicanism. Many European and British Protestants fled to the North American colonies.
In the mid-17th century, Great Britain was in the midst of revolutionary turmoil. It had been convulsed by a bloody civil war pitting Protestant sects against Anglicans (the British version of Catholicism) and against Catholics. In Scotland, the Jacobite rebellions saw the Scots fight for Europe’s Catholic monarchs and against the Protestant English.
Other than the Jacobite rebellions, these conflicts were all about the ancient “rights of Englishmen,” which are detailed here. These rights, which began with the Magna Carta and included no taxation without representation and the right to due process of law, were mostly spelled out in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, to which the monarch agreed after England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688.
By 1760, roughly 80% of colonists in North America were members of persecuted Protestant sects, including Congregationalists (Puritans), Baptists, Quakers, Scots Presbyterians, French Huguenots, and German Lutherans. By 1760, English Anglicans made up only about 15% of the colonial population. Jews were about 1% of the colonial population, as were Catholics, despite their religion being proscribed in all but Maryland’s colony.
In 1760, there was bad blood between Massachusetts’ mostly Congregationalist population and the royally appointed Anglican government. Already a decade earlier, the Congregationalist minister Rev. Jonathan Mayhew had given a sermon justifying the prior century’s English Civil War, when Puritans beheaded the Anglican king.
The (mostly Protestant) British colonists in North America during this time of civil strife had the words ‘British liberty’ on their lips. They knew their history well and were immensely proud to be British. They knew the Magna Carta and were proud to live in a land where they could speak freely and, in theory at least, be free from tyrannical government.
When Patrick Henry, in 1765, wrote in the Virginia Resolves that the colonists had all the Liberties and Privileges of Englishmen, including the right to be taxed only by their democratically elected governing body, he was not innovating. He was treading a path already blazed in England for half a millennium.
Finally, to this mix of economic and traditional liberty, the year 1760 added one more thing: the Enlightenment. It was a period of rationalism and reason—a search for objective truth in all aspects of life. It would lead to great advances in science, economics, and political theory. Societally, it would lead to the First Great Awakening, a religious revolution in the American colonies and the UK. That, in turn, would lead to the abolitionist movement. For the first time in human history, people argued that slavery was morally wrong. By 1760, Quakers formed the colonies’ first abolitionist society had formed among the Quakers. Ben Franklin eventually became its President.
In the UK, with its long history of both individual rights and Christianity, the Enlightenment led to classical liberalism. As John Locke wrote in his 2nd Treatise of Government, God gave man the right to life, liberty, and property. No man could give away those rights, nor could a government infringe upon them except for war and law enforcement. Other rights, such as freedom of speech and the right to democratically elect a representative of one’s choice, were derived from and were necessary to enjoy these God-given rights. (Bold mine.)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.(Bold mine.)
Those words came from numerous inspirations, not least John Locke.
But even as the new United States was busy creating a constitutional framework for this new, classically liberal nation, the Enlightenment was reaching a different, bloody conclusion in France. In the crucible of the French Revolution, all of the modern ills of Western civilization were being born:
socialism,
the police state,
state terrorism,
state-sponsored atheism, and a
war on Christianity
as a first step to destroying Western Civilization, then
for socialists to rule over the ruins.
^^^ Bold and format mine.
All of history since 1792 has been a competition to see whether the French or the American Revolution will win in the West. Let us hope, on this, the 250th year of our nation’s birth, that it is the latter.
(Slow Guy. Much of the above I knew. Serious dot connecting, having read this article.)
Justice Thomas buries progressivism, in speech at Austin University.
YT.
Drawing on his extensive tenure as a jurist, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a moving address at The University of Texas at Austin on the continued relevance of the Declaration of Independence. Describing the Declaration as the foundation of American government, Justice Thomas emphasized the need to valiantly safeguard its principles. Doing so, he detailed the threats to the Declaration’s principles, arguing that progressivist philosophies from the early 20th century to today seek to disregard the principles espoused there and eliminate natural rights in the process. Justice Thomas also shared the ways in which pivotal seasons in his own life—from his Georgia upbringing to his Catholic high school education—shaped him both as a jurist and as a citizen.
59:41. Perhaps play above video in background.
OR Coffee & Covid reported on Justice Thomas’ speech as well.
On Wednesday, Justice Thomas, age 77 and apparently immune to biographers, marched into the University of Austin and declared independence from the administrative state on its behalf. ABC reported, “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America.” Blasts is accurate. But bazooka’d might be the mot juste. He called progressivism “an existential threat” to America, compared it to totalitarianism and slaveholding, and explicitly called for resistance comparable to the original American Revolution. Fix bayonets! It was a declaration of war.
Thomas, 77, delivered his incendiary remarks at the University of Austin Law School’s special 250th anniversary event on Wednesday. They were broadcast live on CSPAN to the entire world.
“As we meet today, it is unclear whether our Constitutional principles will endure,” the Justice began, warming to his theme. “At the beginning of the 20th century, a new set of first principles of government was introduced into the American mainstream … called progressivism.” It must be rooted out. “Progressivism has made many inroads in our system of government and our way of life,” he said. “It has coexisted uneasily with the principles of the Declaration. Because it is opposed to those principles, it is not possible for the two to coexist forever.”
In a single sentence, he ripped progressivism and the most annoying bumper sticker ever made.
He described the tentacled ideology as a European concept, a foreign import, landed on our shores by President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921). “Progressivism was not native to America. President Wilson and the progressives candidly admitted that they took it from Otto von Bismarck’s Germany, whose state-centric society they admired” so that we could “catch up with the more ‘advanced and sophisticated’ people of Europe.”
Progressivism flips the board on the Founders’ original intent. “Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government,” Thomas explained. “It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from the government,” and “requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with the Constitution.”
He called progressivism a murderous ideology. “Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration was based,” he said. “Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people.”
Residents of several neighboring states could hear the collective gasp from the faculty lounge at Harvard. It was the Supreme Court equivalent of dropping a live badger into a crowded elevator at a Democratic Socialists convention. He continued, going further, correctly noting that U.S. progressives embraced eugenics, racial segregation, forced sterilization, fascism (national socialism), and the grotesque notion that oats and nuts can somehow be “ethically milked” —whatever that is— if you squeeze them hard enough.
Thomas traced the murderous movement straight to elitist arrogance and scorn for ordinary American values. “President Wilson described the American people as ‘selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn’ and ‘foolish,’” he continued. (Though, to be fair, if you’ve ever driven on I-95 in South Florida, you’ll admit Wilson at least had a talking point.) Worse, the justice explained, “Wilson lamented that we do too much by vote and too little by expert rule.”
“Progressivism,” Thomas declared, “is retrogressive.”
He spoke carefully, as one of the nation’s top legal minds would. But it was nothing less than a call for revolution. “In my view,” he dramatically concluded, “we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the Declaration had, so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs.”
Then came the call to action: “It’s our country. It’s governed by our consent. Let us act like that and take ownership of it.” Stab them in the face. (After a fair trial, of course.)
🔥 In Austin, Justice Thomas stopped treating progressivism as a mere policy preference and openly described it as a rival regime. Progressivism is a wacky, spike-helmeted Bismarckian project that “seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government.”
It denies that rights are God‑given, and insists they flow from an all‑powerful administrative state. Because progressivism is “opposed to those principles,” Thomas explained, “it is not possible for the two to coexist forever,” a line that sounds less like standard conservative rhetoric and more like a formal declaration of war, easily comparable to the most inflammatory language found in the Declaration of Independence itself. (Democrats treat the Declaration of Independence the same way you treat a smoke alarm— by removing the battery to make it stop beeping.)
🔥 Critics on the academic left understood what Thomas was really up to. Progressive historian Tad Stoermer argued that the justice “is not doing what his critics will say he is doing,” meaning just a generic MAGA broadside, but “something considerably more precise, and considerably more dangerous.” In Stoermer’s view, Thomas is trying to reclaim the “sacred ground” of the Declaration for conservatives while banishing progressivism into the “profane” category— beyond the Pale of America’s civic religion altogether.
Stoermer wasn’t wrong.
Democrats furiously attacked the messenger —Thomas’s motives, his ethics, and his “extremism”— but gingerly avoided his central premise: that progressivism rejects the Declaration’s God‑given natural rights and aims to replace them. In short, they’re not saying he’s wrong. It’s like if the doctor tells you that you have a tapeworm occupying your small intestine, and you respond by criticizing the doctor’s leprechaun tie. You still have the tapeworm, but at least you didn’t have to talk about it anymore.
Their ad hominem reaction all but conceded the justice’s point. On cable news and in friendly write‑ups, Democrats denounced Thomas for “blasting” progressivism, accused him of endangering democracy, and recycled the usual ethics grievances— but none of them would touch his underlying claim that modern progressivism treats rights as government favors rather than gifts from God.
For instance, they didn’t argue that the Declaration’s language about being “endowed by their Creator” is wrong, or even that it’s compatible with Wilson’s idea of rights doled out by administrators; they just changed the subject. Their studied silence on the first principles is a kind of quiet confirmation that Thomas correctly identified the fault line— and Democrats decided not to fight him on that unfavorable ground.
Thomas essentially told them their political religion is a cheap German knockoff that leads to tyranny, and they responded by accusing him of using the salad fork to eat the crusted venison. Plus, he came in the wrong RV.
All that is well and good. But here’s the thing. Justice Thomas is not exactly a wallflower. When he speaks, he says exactly what he thinks, and always has. But he’s never gone this far before. He’s never declared war on progressivism as an “existential threat,” and declared, with all the majesty and force of his high office and at the peak of his rhetorical skill, that only one form of government can ultimately survive.
Does this new boldness mirror something happening behind the scenes in SCOTUS’s private chambers? Was it intended to frame a pending decision that could cause a political earthquake, like birthright citizenship, perhaps? Is this post-pandemic expert fatigue, and now even Supreme Court justices feel free to say out loud that the ideology of expertise itself is perverse and incompatible with popular self‑government?
Or does Thomas’s 9-minute manifesto mark a brand-new cultural inflection point?
We know one thing for sure: the conservative counter‑revolution has been winning. It gained ground during the excesses of the Biden administration and the pandemic, when the right fought a mostly defensive war against mandates, censorship, and rule-by-bureaucracy. It shifted into offensive gear after Trump’s re‑election, scoring visible victories against DEI, trans‑ideology, open borders, and a long string of similar cultural outposts.
And now, with Justice Thomas standing up in Austin to boldly announce that progressivism “seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration, and hence our form of government” and “cannot coexist forever” with it, the counter‑revolution looks remarkably like an army that has seized the high ground and is preparing to march onto the final battlefield.
We only need to get Justice Thomas a helmet with a spike on top, and then we’ll be fully prepared for the final boss battle— progressivism itself.
Ease up on the scroll wheels. Or not. 🙂
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Perfect time, for America to sever the chains. STOP propping up allies, friends…freeloading mooches. After their sucking up on America’s treasure, for decades.
Image AI. From American Thinker
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.
We, can NOT allow America to go the way of Europe and England. Down the…
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“Meme them until they cry, then make memes about them crying” – Don Tzu…
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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Skip spoilers, please.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,764.80. Silver $76.60. Bitcoin $72,878.
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
Seems Road To Liberty, videos no longer posting on a regular basis. 🙁
A tangent of sorts…
Freedom 250 Presents: The Launch of Freedom Trucks
Freedom 250 Presents: The Launch of Freedom Trucks
1:04.
A fleet of six Mobile Museums, known as “Freedom Trucks,” are traveling throughout 2026, bringing the story of American independence to students, families, and citizens in every corner of our country. With interactive and inspiring content for visitors of all ages, the exhibit tells the harrowing story of how 13 colonies declared independence, defeated the greatest empire in the world, and secured American sovereignty 250 years ago. With engaging elements such as, “Are you a loyalist or patriot” quiz, a kiosk to sign your name digitally to the Declaration, and a wall of 50 American heroes, these exhibits celebrate the remarkable achievements that 250 years have made possible.
Freedom Truck Mobile Museums were created in partnership with PragerU and Hillsdale College and made possible by The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Freedom Trucks schedule, through October at the link below.
Net Zero AND Green New Scam weenies are always worth a laugh, taunt, sarcasm…
Not a big issue today in America, but, if the Straits of Hormuz remain closed, it Will Be A BFD. Less so in America, but it will effect us. America, heavily dependent on imports. Including food. Though I do NOT have any idea the degree, food sectors. We may learn. Worth monitoring in the short term, for now. Adjust, IF necessary.
Dear Climate Crazies, Doom Goblins, and Gang Green- You are now living 20% of your dream…
In an odd turn, I find myself thinking that leaving the Strait of Hormuz closed might be the best thing we could do for the world. It is just 20% of the Oil & Gas only (NOT the coal or nuclear power) taken off line. Given that the “goal” of the Climate Crazies is 100% net zero by 2030 (last time I looked), we have simply moved 1 year closer to that goal, and will need to do the same every year… ’27, ’28, ’29, ’30 & ‘success’… so WHY bother to reopen it? It will just set the world back a full year on their “progress” to their “goal”…
Embrace the pain. Live with the economic collapse, the $10 / gallon gasoline & Diesel fuel. The hunger from food system collapse and the lack of damn near everything as shipping and international trade shudders to a halt. That IS what will come anyway, as long as the goals do not change.
So think of this as a small 20% “taster” of stopping oil & gas. Realize that more power comes from Coal, and that isn’t done yet (so really this is about a 10% “hit” of the total).
So where are we? Survival Lilly gives a short summary of Europe and a bit more.
Germany gets the Draft, again, and continues economic collapse with destruction of energy supplies, making Lake Coal:
12:37 (Slow Guy. Perhaps worth a listen. Nothing new, by me.)
And a broader look at European distress… The ships that were already in transit with LNG & oil have arrived, and only now is the actual shortage of physical supply manifesting. So what’s happening and planned “going forward”? “Doom, despair, and agony… ” as the song goes:
10:02 (^^^ Slow Guy. Worth a glance…maybe…)
I’m in the USA, so this mostly has no effect on me. Gas is up about $1 to $1.50 compared to Trump’s best and still lower than Biden’s disaster. Stores are still fully stocked. I expect no significant worsening for things here. BUT even with the USA oil & LNG “lifeline” to Europe, they are toast. Just not possible to refill the natural gas storage in time for winter without M.E. LNG. (or Russian gas… that will now go to China instead). Were I living in Europe, I’d be moving out.
Oh, and California is going to implode badly too, as they are shutting oil refineries and depending on tankers to deliver oil from Russia & the Middle East after refining in Asia… who have announced they are halting exports.
How bad will it be in Asia? Remembering that we get most manufactured goods, materials & products from them now. China got hacked, China NOT backing a UN Security Counsel move to open the Strait. Continuing decline of Real Estate and exports…
12:55 (Slow Guy. Some interesting stuff I had not heard. Worthy. )
And France taking a dive too, along with China:
8:47 (Slow Guy. Worthy listen. Big picture matters. Mid and long term implications of the Straits of Hormuz closed.)
North Sea oil for immediate delivery near $147 / bbl…
Then a bit more on food, from a paranoid POV:
12:30 (Slow Guy. Much of this chatter IS similar to discussions we had when Ukraine Russia war started AND droned on. <<< Russian fertilizer was largely rerouted to end buyers / users. Prices went up. Never the crisis thought it might become.
The Straits of Hormuz closed long term is HUGE. Oil, obviously. Damage to ME fertilizer industry…impacting the global community.
Capitalists have a way of figuring stuff out. Making money, is quite an incentive.
Worthy listen.)
UPDATE:
Philippines declares fuel emergency (almost all comes from M.E.) & Japan hit too:
7:31. (Slow Guy. Philippines imports 98% of it oil from ME. Nothing surprising.)
In Conclusion
So why not take the hit now. Let the world see, feel, live the dream, have the full experience of just 20% of the Green Dream. Perhaps a few “leaders” and “decision makers” would be able to see just how bad it is, and how much worse it would be to actually go to zero.
These folks have ZERO ability to see what is coming, so let it hit them full in the face. That seems to be the only time the see anything and (potentially) can learn how stupid their decisions have been.
I know, easy for me to say since I’m in a “Safe Place” and won’t have much bad to deal with. But consider the alternative. We let the Crazies continue on their destruction of global energy supplies, rocketing the global economy into full collapse and that inevitably leading to Global War (hungry cold people usually do that).
Pain early and hopefully lighter with learning. or Pain more and worse later after it is too late to change.
Praying for the missing F-15 pilot. His Health AND safety.
At this point, No News IS Good News. <<<>>> IRGC does not have him.
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Note to Wolf. If I need to adjust, what I’m doing with, Simply Saturday, please break out the Big Crayola’s. I’ll do my best to follow your lead.
Administrivia.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Skip spoilers, please.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
Cash Is King, Dowd Sees $10,000 Gold As The Credit Market “Is Starting To End The Party”
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
JUST IN: Rep. Ronny Jackson WARNS that America’s relationship with useless European allies may change after the stunt they pulled with the Iran war They’re afraid to UPSET their Muslim population and want a free ride. What does NATO do for America?
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Stuff…
Random thoughts.
Up front. I do believe oil will flow from Straits of Hormuz, within a ~month.
The world, global economy will pick up and be better for, No IRGC Global Bully.
But I have and am pondering. WTF IF oil does Not flow out of Straits of Hormuz, for many months.
No panic. No paranoid thoughts. No batshit crazy shopping sprees.
Observe. Think logically. Believe my gut instincts. trust your gut instincts.
Fuel, Oil, CNG wise, America will be just fine.
But, what will be the impact of No Oil for EU, UK… Whatever those countries create, to export to America… Food? Products America needs for our economy. Prolly lots of alternative sources.
Yea, I have No Idea, what I am talking about.
Chiefio has a couple interesting posts this past week.
Well, “yes and no”. IMHO it is never time to Panic. Even in horrible disasters a clear, focused and calm rational approach works best. Preparation? Ought to have been done years ago, or months, or a couple of weeks back; BUT if you are not prepared, NOW is always the best time. But without panic, please.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,509.40. Silver $70.52. Bitcoin $65,898.
Metals and Bitcoin have been getting thrashed for weeks, or is it, months.
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
Trump admin. launches official WH app following series of cryptic social media posts
Following a series of cryptic social media teasers that sparked widespread speculation, the Trump administration officially launched the “White House App” on Friday.
The mobile platform is designed to bypass traditional media, offering citizens “unfiltered” access to live-streamed briefings, executive actions, and a direct messaging line to President Donald Trump.
Notably, the app also features a dedicated ICE Tip Line, allowing users to report immigration-related information directly to federal authorities.
“Live streams. Real-time updates. Straight from the source, no filter,” the White House promised from the app in its Friday announcement on X.
🇺🇸 🚀 LAUNCHED: THE WHITE HOUSE APP
Live streams. Real-time updates. Straight from the source, no filter.
The conversation everyone’s watching is now at your fingertips.
LAUNCHED: THE WHITE HOUSE APP Live streams. Real-time updates. Straight from the source, no filter. The conversation everyone’s watching is now at your fingertips.
Download here
Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-white-house/id6759938088
Three, Thune, Eric Schmidt, AND Bernie Moreno, conspired against 50 R-Con Senators, Trump, The House AND ALL Americans.
>>> Cowardly Betrayal. <<<
100% Data Republican’s X below, worth reading every word.
Hello Senator Thune,
At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.
Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 27, 2026
Hello Senator Thune,
At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.
Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.
You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.
You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.
Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.
Let’s be precise about what you did:
1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. “Good possibility,” you said. Not “we will.” Not “guaranteed.” Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year’s bill with no certainty of future funding.
The precedent you set:
You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.
But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:
• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions
You’ll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won’t bend them to win one.
What you’ve actually accomplished:
Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.
Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.
And you’re out here tweeting about how Democrats are the “Defund the Police” party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:
Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?
Why couldn’t it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?
You know why. Because you didn’t want your voters to see what surrender looks like.
Here’s my message: We saw it anyway.
Stop hiding behind “Democrat obstruction.” You’re the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.
WOW. Rep. Tim Burchett just ripped Senate leadership for even leaving SPEAKER JOHNSON in the dark on the DHS funding deal that omits ICE
So a SHADY deal was made behind closed doors. Now Speaker Johnson is rejecting it! “I’m a little ticked off.
I’m ticked off at the Senate leadership, how they’ve, them and the Democrats, have decided to thwart the agenda of our president!”
“Going home for two weeks, not addressing the SAVE America Act, which is of the utmost importance.”
“We need to get that in. You know, the House has a bill to fund DHS. Of course, we’ll secure the border and pay our TSA agents and fund the men and women who work to protect American citizens.”
“It’s pretty pathetic to go home at two o’clock in the morning, or vote at two o’clock in the morning, and kind of leave, well, not kind of, but really do leave the taxpayers high and dry in this great country!”
“And I don’t blame the rank-and-file members. They have no say-so in it. This is clearly a deal that’s cut.”
“Our Speaker of the House didn’t even know. They didn’t have the courtesy of making a phone call over there.”
“So it’s clear that they don’t want us in the majority. They want to, they want the status quo to continue. They apparently want to open the borders and continue not funding our TSA, because that’s the way their votes have shown.”
“So we’ll keep fighting. We’re still here!”
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Unbelievable, Evil Within Our Elected Government.
On the lighter side.
Reality. America is better for this.
Image AI. From American Thinker
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.
With the ABOVE in mind…
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American Spirit, Winning…Jack Hughes
American Spirit, Winning…Alysa Liu.
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Trains are awesome. Union Pacific Series of Commemorative Engines.
“God gave me strength, I couldn’t let them folks die”
16 yr old Corion Evans was hanging out with his friends when he saw a car PLUNGE into the Pascagoula River in Mississippi.
3 teenage girls began screaming for help as the car quickly sank.
Evans immediately sprang into action, diving in to rescue the girls.
When asked where his bravery came from, he replied “God gave me strength, I couldn’t let them folks die.”
Police Officer Gary Mercer assisted Evans with the rescue, but he began to drown as well when one of the panicking victims tried to pull him under.
Despite being out of breath with exhausted legs, Evans swam back AGAIN to rescue both the Officer and the 3rd teen girl.
Four people are alive today because a young man put the lives of others before his own.
He truly is a hero.
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“Meme them until they cry, then make memes about them crying” – Don Tzu…
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DinDuNuffin Fatiguer.
The FULL bodycam footage has been released – not the little IG clip that the mainstream media wanted to use to spin this into a police-bashing headline.
And now the TRUTH is out:
-Gets in a cop’s face calling him “B*tch” -Officer pushes back to protect himself -Woman kicks… pic.twitter.com/33AdtO88VR
The FULL bodycam footage has been released – not the little IG clip that the mainstream media wanted to use to spin this into a police-bashing headline. And now the TRUTH is out: -Gets in a cop’s face calling him “B*tch” -Officer pushes back to protect himself -Woman kicks the cop between the legs -Criminal immediately plays the victim card REPOST and get the TRUTH out there!
Karen earned a GREAT Body Slam. Then Pepper Spray. Kudos to the Cop.
California Karen in Linda Vista Skate Park learned a lesson to stop acting inappropriately around children from a San Diego police officer. pic.twitter.com/qa8fJRVRcB
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,507.15. Silver $68.62. Bitcoin $70,730
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
We, can NOT allow America to go the way of Europe and England. Down the…
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American Spirit, Winning…Jack Hughes
American Spirit, Winning…Alysa Liu.
American Spirit…Don TZU
“Meme them until they cry, then make memes about them crying” – Don Tzu…
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Clandestine arrives at a similar conclusion, that we have been reading.
Trump Calls on China to Help with Strait of Hormuz!
VERY interesting 👀
Trump once again calls out NATO for not willing to help with the Strait of Hormuz.
Then Trump calls on Japan and CHINA to help out, since they are the ones who use it most.
If Trump can get China to help, that would be COLOSSAL! The optics would be perfect. If China helps, that would solidify that this operation with Iran had global support, even from our perceived geopolitical adversaries, like China. It would confirm that the Iranian regime was a threat to the world, and Trump was right to destroy them.
It also opens the door to normalized relations with China, and proves that NATO are not actually the allies they pretend to be. It adds validity to my hypothesis that we are witnessing a shift in the global order and alliances. If China helps the US and NATO doesn’t, the entire geopolitical landscape will be turned on its head.
I think this operation in Iran is about much more than just destroying the savage Iranian regime. I think we are witnessing something much bigger. I think we are witnessing a shift in the global power structure.
Dam collapse imminent as catastrophic flash floods hit Hawaii
“Evacuations have been ordered with a dam on Hawaii’s Oahu island at risk of imminent failure as the second significant storm in a week pounds the state,” reports Yahoo News:
Catastrophic flash flooding from the storm has already destroyed homes, forced rescues and cut off towns in northern Oahu.
The Wahiawa Dam “may collapse or breach at any time,” according to an alert from the Oahu Department of Emergency Management. Residents in the towns of Waialua and Haleiwa have been told to leave immediately due to “potential life-threatening flooding” and a flash flood warning has been issued for the area until 1:15 p.m HST.
“Do not stop to pack or prepare your home. Only take items ready to go,” the alert said.
The North Shore has been under flash flood warnings since early Friday as heavy rain lashes the island.
Most Importantly getting Russia to stop helping Iran, would likely help IRGC / Iran collapse..
Totally piss on “fair weather” allies – EU, NATO, UK, Five Eyes. Trump may be in the mood to simply, tell EU, NATO, UK, Five Eyes, Ukraine is your problem. Best wishes.
Slow Guy literally does not give a rats ass about Ukraine.
Putin Reportedly Offers To Cut Iran Intel-Sharing If US Does Same In Ukraine
Moscow has been accused by top officials in the White House and in Congress of expanding its intelligence-sharing with Iran amid the now three-week-long war involving the US and Israel. Russia has even been accused of handing over targeting information, allegedly assisting in Iranian ballistic missile attacks on US bases and radar sites as well as sensitive assets in the region.
Russia hasn’t confirmed that it is doing this, and has issued a meager official denial – but it also hasn’t taken serious steps to convince Washington otherwise. The Kremlin is perhaps relishing in the idea of doing to the US in Iran precisely what the US is doing to Russia in Ukraine – making the operation harder, more costly, and setting up for potential quagmire.
On Friday Politico is reporting on a possible quid pro quo offer: “Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to the U.S. under which the Kremlin would stop sharing intelligence information with Iran, such as the precise coordinates of U.S. military assets in the Middle East, if Washington ceased supplying Ukraine with intel about Russia.”
Can’t say I’m excited about this. Good, Bad, or Indifferent, this is inevitable.
AIR SUPREMACY: Anduril’s High-Speed Drone ‘Fury’ Starts Production in New US Plant (VIDEOS)
Another deadly tool for the strike packages.
It’s hard to overstate just how much the strike (or kamikaze) drones have become a defining feature of today’s battlefields.
Since day one in his second presidential term, Donald J. Trump demanded from Pentagon contractors strike drones that were inexpensive and deadly – and that’s what he is getting.
Now, as the US is undertaking a military operation against Iran and proxy groups, the Lucas drones – an adaptation of the Iranian Shaheed – is being widely used, with a new model expected soon.
FURY: "We [were] competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, & in the end Anduril beat all of them."
This is the first autonomous fighter that the United States Air Force has ever procured. We recently just flew it for the first time.
We went from signing a contract with the Air Force to first flight in 556 days, which is, as far as I know, the fastest new fighter development program since the end of the Korean War.
The really exciting thing about this program is we are competing against a lot of the big guys. So we are competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and in the end
@anduriltech beat all of them, which was really, really gratifying to, you know, go from starting this company to going toe-to-toe with the guys who are legends of the fighter community & actually get selected to build something.
Build something that flies. So it’s an AI-powered fighter jet that flies alongside manned fighters.
So imagine if I had an F-35 pilot, he might fly with two or three or four or five of these alongside with him, extending his weapons webs forward, his sensors forward, & allowing them to engage in risks that you would never want a person to do.
You know, there’s a lot of ways to win a fight and live to see another day. There’s a lot of ways to win a fight and sacrifice pawns on the board.
And autonomy means that you can do that without the ethical problems of just throwing away human lives.”
Trump orders ground forces to recover Uranium material. DELTA Force tagged.
IF IRGC leftovers play hardball with Straits of Hormuz, SEALS will take Kharg Island. ZERO Iranian oil flowing through the Straits of Hormuz. Cash Flow evaporates.
LEAK: Pentagon Preparing Plans For Possible Deployment of US Troops on the Ground in Iran – Trump Appears to Dispute Leak
Senior military commanders have submitted specific requests aimed at preparing for such an option as President Trump weighs moves in the U.S.-Israel-led conflict with Iran, the sources said.
Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources briefed on the discussions told CBS News.
Mr. Trump has been deliberating whether to position ground forces in the region, sources said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
It was unclear under what circumstances he would authorize the use of troops on the ground.
Boebert continues to be a disappointment. Slow Guy assumes she supports taking out IRGC. If so, all of that ordnance, AC, support costs a hell of a lot. As did the Venezuela operation AND constantly taking out cartel drug boats. Hope Boebert doesn’t go the way of MTG.
Rep. Lauren Boebert Says She’s a NO Vote for $200 Billion War Supplemental: “I am Tired of the Industrial War Complex Getting All of Our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars”
Bessent has gone from talking about this, to doing it. Un-sanction oil. Iran would have soldit discounted anyway. Now it’s sell at a higher price. Chinee, perhaps Japan, Europe are buyers. Reduces stress on oil market, prices. BRILIANT.
🚨 BREAKING: In a genius move, President Trump and Sec. Scott Bessent just UN-SANCTIONED Iranian oil that was already loaded onto ships
Bessent had said this is using Iranian oil AGAINST them to unleash more supply and lower prices while the war continues and possibly winds down… pic.twitter.com/DFUn8BKO2D
BREAKING: In a genius move, President Trump and Sec. Scott Bessent just UN-SANCTIONED Iranian oil that was already loaded onto ships Bessent had said this is using Iranian oil AGAINST them to unleash more supply and lower prices while the war continues and possibly winds down LFG! BESSENT: “We’d be using the Iranian barrels AGAINST the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers!”
The action runs for the next 30 days.
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This LE guy likely already has job offers. Hopefully he’ll move out of his blue shithole state, IL.
🚨 WOW. Patriot police officer Jason Lentz has just been FIRED the Elgin, Illinois department because he tried to help ICE arrest criminal illegal aliens
The officer publicly posted locations where they “shouldn’t” (should) look
WOW. Patriot police officer Jason Lentz has just been FIRED the Elgin, Illinois department because he tried to help ICE arrest criminal illegal aliens The officer publicly posted locations where they “shouldn’t” (should) look He should move to a police department that will ACCEPT his commitment to the rule of law!
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump SLAPS DOWN the notion that DNI Tulsi Gabbard's job is in jeopardy
"I thought she did a GOOD JOB yesterday!" 🇺🇸
This comes after Tulsi was VICIOUSLY grilled by House and Senate Democrats, and handled it with class pic.twitter.com/FtmDVnbfjq
JUST IN: President Trump is CONFIDENT the US can finally pass the SAVE America Act as floor debate stretches multiple days There is NO EXCUSE! “I’m hearing very good things!” “They don’t want to approve voter ID because they CHEAT. They don’t want to approve citizenship.” “The Democrats don’t want to do that. Why? You know why? Because they want to cheat!”
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PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST LAID IT STRAIGHT: “[The Strait of Hormuz] will open itself at a certain point!” Slow Guy figures, Lloyd’s, at the direction of British PooBah, will by coincidence, deem vessels insurable again.
🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST LAID IT STRAIGHT: "[The Strait of Hormuz] will open itself at a certain point!"
"But we've defeated the enemy and they are an enemy. There is sick group of people. The leadership is gone. The Navy is gone. The Air Force is gone. The anti-aircraft… pic.twitter.com/kgzThklnY8
PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST LAID IT STRAIGHT: “[The Strait of Hormuz] will open itself at a certain point!” “But we’ve defeated the enemy and they are an enemy. There is sick group of people. The leadership is gone. The Navy is gone. The Air Force is gone. The anti-aircraft equipment that they have, the radar they have is all gone.” “Everything’s gone. The Strait itself, the actual Strait. We’re doing a good job, but it would be nice if the countries including China, if the countries that use it, China uses it 90% of their energy.” “Japan is 95% of the energy. It would be nice if those countries would get involved.”
Michael Caputo was interviewed by Catherine Herridge as he outlines all of the FBI targeting and DOJ harassment that took place in the past several years. This is a very interesting interview
00:35 Michael Caputo: Biden Era FBI ‘Surveilled’ Dozens of Trump Associates 01:28 Caputo Says He Was Targeted Over His Investigation into Bidens and Anti-Weaponization Initiative 02:12 How Did the Biden-Era Investigation Continue Under AG Bondi? 03:10 Google Alert: FBI Subpoenaed His Records 04:29 Caputo Says He Was Working in Same DOJ Building as DOJ Investigation Targeting Him 06:00 August 2024 Susie Wiles Calls with Shocking News 06:40 Before 2024 Presidential Election, FBI Laid A Trap? 07:58 Federal Warrant Wanted Information About Caputo’s State of Mind 09:30 FBI Should Be Shattered: ‘Russia, Russia, Russia All Over Again’ 10:42 FBI File: Caputo Called A Radical Traditionalist Catholic (RTC) 11:30 Caputo ‘Had To Go To The Highest Authority’ To Get Case Closed 12:44 Russia Gate Cost Caputo’s Family Everything 13:55 Threats To Caputo And Family 16:10 Accountability For RussiaGate 18:00 If Democrats Win Mid-Terms: Weaponization Will Increase 10x 19:50 Caputo: Task Force For Americans Who Were Harmed By Weaponization 20:50 Response to Critics Who Say Caputo Sees Conspiracies 21:43 Independent Journalism
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $5,036.30. Silver $81.34. Bitcoin $70,876
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
Me. Looks to be an amazingly simple, 1, 2, 3, way to save a life.
Slow guy ordered a couple kits, with hard cases. One kit with case, to Daughter with 14yo and 10yo.
Slow Guy figures. In a choking scenario, they could call 911. The 14yo CPR, assuming he is trained. Nether Heimlich Maneuver.
BOTH Can Easily Use The LifeVac To Save A Life.
I’ll ensure they are trained on how to call 911 first, then use LifeVac. Which will be stored in an easy to grab location. Likely kitchen or dinette area. NOT buried in the back of a cupboard or the like.
Ordered Thursday evening. In UPS hands Friday. Delivery next week. 🙂
If nothing else, this morning. Perhaps consider if LifeVac is a good for your family.
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Trump embraces All Americans. Liking the cowboy hat – White Hat no less. 🙂
We are in a global war, but we are not at war with any nation or their people.
We are at war with a flag-less entity, that has imbedded itself within nations around the world.
A secret society that uses power and influence to infiltrate and subvert nations to do their bidding. While rulers rise and fall, they maintain control over generations from the shadows, via mass wealth and influence over politicians, bureaucrats, media, etc.
This entity, known as the “Deep State”, is a transnational criminal organization, that is responsible for nearly all destabilization around the globe. Destabilized nations allow them to plunder the wealth and resources of these nations and their People, in order to fund the Deep State machine, so they can maintain their global influence and power.
For the first time in history, it appears this global entity is being hunted. Trump and the US MIL are currently purging the pawns of the Deep State, i.e., the narcoterrorist cartels in the Western Hemisphere, Iran and their terror proxies in the Middle East, etc.
Eliminating this entity, and their assets, via force, is proving to be the easy part. Getting the brainwashed public to grasp the unfathomable levels of evil, corruption, and infiltration, and then getting them to buy-in on the operation… that’s the tricky part.
Earlier today CBS reported that Cuba had released 51 political prisoners as an outcome of pressure from the Trump administration upon the Cuban communist regime headed by Miguel Díaz Canel. You can read the CBS report HERE.
Hours later, Communist Leader Miguel Díaz Canel, appears on state television in Cuba to announce that the Cuban government has entered direct negotiations with the government of the United States
“Whenever we have been in tense situations in relations with the United States, efforts appear to seek channels for dialogue.” The video on Cuba–US talks is now ready with English captions and translations attached right here.
“Whenever we have been in tense situations in relations with the United States, efforts appear to seek channels for dialogue.” The video on Cuba–US talks is now ready with English captions and translations attached right here. — made by TranslateMom Do these talks signal a real shift in Cuba–US relations?
UPDATE: Muslims are now FURIOUS that a Christian church has shut off their parking lot to Muslims “Just let us park there! But NO!” “Completely blocked it from us.” They think they are entitled. Don’t give in even a little bit!
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Ogles, Truths is hitting raw libtard nerves.
🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Andy Ogles MIC DROPS every Democrat who is furious about his "anti-Muslim rhetoric"
"I don't care about 'dangerous rhetoric.’ The threat is DANGEROUS MUSLIMS." 🫳🏻🎤 pic.twitter.com/Jr3U9IMNqE
JUST IN: Rep. Andy Ogles MIC DROPS every Democrat who is furious about his “anti-Muslim rhetoric” “I don’t care about ‘dangerous rhetoric.’ The threat is DANGEROUS MUSLIMS.”
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This bodes well for running illegals out…
EOIR Announced 42 Immigration Judges on Wednesday March 11th.
“This Department of Justice has made reducing the immigration court backlog a top priority, and these 42 new highly qualified judges will help us deliver on that goal,” said @AGPamBondi. “Under the Trump… pic.twitter.com/w5hxDQZpBW
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) March 13, 2026
EOIR Announced 42 Immigration Judges on Wednesday March 11th. “This Department of Justice has made reducing the immigration court backlog a top priority, and these 42 new highly qualified judges will help us deliver on that goal,” said
@AGPamBondi. “Under the Trump Administration, immigration judges will decide cases based on the law – not politics.”
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Paging Ken’s AND Karen’s…
This Child Learned Early…
Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Ensure Talking Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
KK
Fresh Stuff. May be worth a read, listen, watch or scroll on by.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $5,189.40 Silver $85.25. Bitcoin $68,160
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
My bad. Thursday, while recollecting, run ins with snakes, over the years.
I erroneously posted ~20′ snake, a couple doors down and behind our housing unit, Easy Street, Binictican, Subic Bay, Philippines.
Went searching for a picture.
Likely it was this snake.
This is a 17-foot long, 175-pound reticulated python. Found in the back yard of Binictican Navy Housing at Naval Station Subic Bay in 1986. This snake was cooked and served at JEST (Jungle Environment Survival Training School) to the staff and family members at a division picnic. When it was cut open, there was a wild pig inside, its last meal.
The snake was caught 1981/82. Above “1986” was either another snake caught at essentially the same location. Most unlikely. More likely, 1986 the year the snake was BBQ’d, at a Division gaggle of sorts. I do know the snake was fed baby monkey’s periodically. But, Only when he was hungry.
DW face lit up when I showed her the above picture. She recollected when it was caught a few doors down, from our housing unit. Talk of the neighborhood that day.
Enough reminiscing, correcting the record AND mostly wanted to share, what I figure is a really cool snake story.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump EVISCERATES Europe for allowing Islamic Sharia courts — they're going to DESTROY their western culture if it doesn't stop
"In the UK you have a TERRIBLE mayor of London, and Sharia courts! You DON'T want Sharia courts. Sharia courts adjudicating… pic.twitter.com/buISZqApsL
BREAKING: President Trump EVISCERATES Europe for allowing Islamic Sharia courts — they’re going to DESTROY their western culture if it doesn’t stop “In the UK you have a TERRIBLE mayor of London, and Sharia courts! You DON’T want Sharia courts. Sharia courts adjudicating law!” “It’s simple. Immigration and energy. Bring it back, otherwise you’re not gonna bring it back.” The UK must save themselves!
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Ponder…
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.”
Arnold Toynbee.
Linkage is shattering…
(Image AI. From American Thinker)
ONE guess where this post is going.
Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Canada, increasingly, demonstrate no WILL to preserve their countries, heritage, themselves, along with give up, whatever Freedom’s they once enjoyed.
These days they, Kow Tow to Chinee. They bow, while taking a knee to muzzies.
On the positive side, Canada breaking apart would be outstanding.
America Wins.
Canadian provinces breaking away from Ottawa and Quebec, WIN.
If above happens, likely Alberta, perhaps more provinces, may align with America. More winning in my mind.
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Below snatched from American Thinker Stinker (ht Gail)
Is It ‘America Alone’ In The Fight To Save The West From China And Islam?
The signs were obvious two decades ago, and the insightful Mark Steyn—the conservative Canadian author—addressed them then. In numerous books, written in his sharp, convincing style, he warned that America would soon become isolated in its fight against Islamist jihad. Today, that loneliness appears to be fully realized.
His 2006 book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, convincingly argued that much of the Western world would not survive the 21st century. Europe, with its declining birthrate, would be the first to go—thanks to white people being “too self-absorbed to breed,” while Muslims worked to change the demographics in their favor.
It also predicted that Europe would be defeated by its obsession with multiculturalism—essentially a surrender to Islam—and its welfare-driven laziness. Only America, dedicated to individual effort, morals, and economic growth, would be able to resist the onslaught of civilizational jihad.
Just five years later, in After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, Steyn lamented that America was also in serious danger of joining the rest of the Western world in an unavoidable decline. He observed that the growth of government, rising debt, the focus on diversity over excellence, and cultural shifts—away from individualism and self-reliance toward state handouts—were hollowing out America.
Fifteen years later, not only is the mood in Europe and the U.S. against America, but our neighbors, Canada and Mexico, too, are hesitant to join us in confronting a three-pronged threat: Islamists, the unchecked Trojan horse tactics of communist China, and the drug and smuggling cartels at our borders. Canada has fallen under the influence of both Islam and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while powerful criminal cartels aligned with China have a firm grip on Mexico.
Image created using AI.
Europe, as Steyn observed, has become unrecognizable. The influence of so-called liberalism, far from transforming all nations into Sweden and eradicating war, has altered the very character and demographics of the continent. Ask a Jew in Malmo, Steyn writes, if you can find one! The same story is unfolding in Britain.
Commenting in The New York Post, Melanie Phillips states that Britain’s response to the issue of Muslims being smuggled into the country and their involvement in terrorism, espionage, and arms smuggling has been “craven.” Muslims refuse to integrate into British society, and the government has gone out of its way to accommodate them, allowing them 85 sharia courts so far.
Instead of addressing this security crisis, Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s government suppresses criticism of Islam by raising the false idea of Islamophobia. Tommy Robinson, who the previous government jailed for criticizing Islam, mass Muslim immigration, and Muslim rape gangs, still faces danger and is labeled an extreme right-winger. Similarly, in a serious violation of free speech, political candidate Paul Weston was charged in 2014 with a racially aggravated crime for quoting an excerpt critical of Islam from Churchill’s The River War.
For decades, Muslim gangs have been grooming and assaulting underage girls, but Starmer has been hesitant to investigate and prosecute them. He also ignores widespread antisemitism among Muslims. In 2024, a Jewish man was prevented from crossing a street under threat of arrest for being openly Jewish and thereby “antagonizing” pro-Palestine marchers. Britain’s recognition of Palestine following the October 7 massacre by Hamas signals Starmer’s capitulation to Islam.
Starmer’s interactions with China symbolize Britain’s waning influence and capitulation to the CCP. During his trip to Beijing, the prime minister was not met with the usual protocols. CCP leader Xi Jinping gave Starmer a brief, informal meeting and spoke to him as if he were subordinate.
Starmer failed to press Xi on several key issues: human rights, especially the detention of activist Jimmy Lai; cyberattacks on British companies; covert Chinese interference in the UK government; and trade deficits. He approved China’s plan to build a massive embassy near critical fiber-optic cables and sensitive U.S. infrastructure, a move that could threaten intelligence partnerships with the U.S.
To our north, Canada has increased the risk by entering a new “strategic partnership” with China, shifting Canada’s economy away from its long-standing reliance on America. During his visit to Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney avoided discussing Jimmy Lai’s incarceration, the execution of seven Canadians in China on drug charges (which is ironic since China is a major exporter of fentanyl precursors to North America), and interference in Canadian elections.
Carney returned with agreements on cooperation against drug trafficking and cybercrime, along with a pledge to increase cultural exchanges. Given how China operates, security experts have no doubts about what ‘cooperation’ and ‘cultural exchanges’ will actually entail. Additionally, it is hard to understand how a liberal government has reconciled with an authoritarian regime.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Carney expressed excitement about recalibrating Canada’s relationship with China: he stated that Canada had aligned itself with the “new world order,” would pursue global governance, and move away from the U.S., its largest trading partner. He urged other countries to do the same.
According to a 2025 report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Muslim Brotherhood organizations have infiltrated Canada’s civil, academic, political, and economic sectors. They promote radical Islamist ideology using federal funding.
The report provides strong evidence that Canada has become a hub for money laundering and a gateway for terrorists entering the U.S. But instead of designating these groups as terrorist organizations, Carney was a guest at a recent Eid celebration hosted by the Brotherhood-linked Muslim Association of Canada.
Unchecked immigration, wokeism, the romance with multiculturalism, and a fragile national identity have allowed not only the Brotherhood but also networks connected to China, Russia, Iran, and Qatar to entrench themselves in Canada. Collectively, they pose a serious security threat to the U.S.
A recent seizure of carfentanil—originally developed to tranquilize elephants—revealed that the U.S. now faces a dangerous flow of synthetic drugs across its southern and northern borders. The drug was being smuggled into the country by a Montreal-based cartel.
China is the primary source of raw materials and equipment for drug production, including fentanyl. Therefore, there is reason to suspect a Chinese connection, similar to Mexico, where Chinese gangs have established themselves on the drug scene. These gangs, it goes without saying, cannot operate without the CCP’s approval.
The Bureau’s report on the carfentanil seizures quotes former DEA chief Derek Maltz: “We are getting crushed with carfentanil, xylazine, etizolam, isotonitazene—all those new psychoactive substances which are coming out of China. So, it’s just another phase of the attack.”
In 2023, there were over 72,000 drug-related deaths, mostly caused by illicit fentanyl brought into the U.S. from Mexico by sophisticated cartels, armed with RPGs and exploding drones, and collaborating with China. Chinese gangs have extensive networks in Mexico’s drug hubs, laundering money through cryptocurrencies and digital payment platforms.
Mexican governments have long collaborated with the cartels, which are viewed as sources of profit and power. However, President Donald Trump has pressured the current Mexican government to combat the cartels. The recent killing of Jalisco cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes—‘El Mencho’—in a joint U.S.-Mexico operation highlights Trump’s dedication to securing the border and stopping trafficking.
If America is to stand alone in the asymmetric war launched by China and the Islamists, we need strong leadership to exert pressure and defend our borders. On a civilizational level, however, we are lost unless the West unites. Steyn opened the first chapter of America Alone with a chilling quote from historian
Is It ‘America Alone’ In The Fight To Save The West From China And Islam?
Slow Guy figures answer to above, Yes AND No.
America Alone? Yes.
Save The “West”? Not America. NFW. The “West” themselves MUST reach down and demonstrate the WILL to Save Themselves. Fend off Chinee and islam. Unlikely from Slow Guy’s vantage.
Further, for my money, and I have not pondered this greatly.
Europe / UK surrendered, when they adopted EU – European Union.
Surrendered their destiny.
Surrendered their identity.
Surrendered their WILL, as unique countries, ways of life, traditions…
BREXIT was a leap towards saving Britain. Which Britain ultimately fumbled.
Passing thought occured to me awhile ago.
Was the Utopian belief in the UN, an initial surrender by the Global Community? Dunno.
On the positive side,
LIVING AMERICA FIRST, Has Always Been AND Remains The Answer.
Donroe Doctine a huge plus. for America AND Western Hemisphere.
Understatement of the day, week, month, year thus far.
We Are Witnessing, An Emerging, True, New World Order.
As for Slow Guy. Donroe Doctine, is tailor made for America, in these times.
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Enough of the serious stuff.
Warning Will Robinson…
Put down the coffee, tea cups, juice and carefully scroll down…
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Well. I laughed out loud over that one. ^^^
As some may have noticed. Past few weeks, I’ve stumbled on some keepers.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Speaking of embracing…THIS.
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
KK
Fresh Stuff. May be worth a read, listen, watch or scroll on by.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $5,294.20. Silver $94.52. Bitcoin $65,885
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
NOW – Trump: “We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.”
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Great hearing Trump give Brandon Gill a shout out.
islamies need to be sent packing. (Slow Guy speak)
🚨 BOOM! President Trump gives MASSIVE SHOUTOUT to Texas Rep. Brandon Gill, who has been pushing HARD against the Islamification and 3rd world degradation of America
BOOM! President Trump gives MASSIVE SHOUTOUT to Texas Rep. Brandon Gill, who has been pushing HARD against the Islamification and 3rd world degradation of America “You’ve been fantastic! Thank you, Brandon!” “I endorsed him!”
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It’s Saturday
Assuming the scroll wheel has not been engaged.
Kitchen or small home fire? What the hell to do.
Nah, NOT going there. Fire extinguisher handy, 911, secure fire source…Yada…
Scenario shifts…
Different, WHAT IF…Well Worth Thinking It Through…
Guthrie. Yea, NOT going there.
Related concept…
The victim(s) could be anyone, anywhere… Typically, simple theft. Though could be much worse.
Middle of the night. Hell, middle of the day.
Knock on the door. Doorbell rings.
Open the door or not?
Porch camera, checked?
Surveillance cameras checked?
Personal protection available?
As for Slow Guy. Rarely open the door. Unless I am expecting delivery, or friend. In every case, BEFORE, opening the door, I will always look out a window. Surveillance camera, IF I have one. (Presently don’t)
Personal protection always available, as no kids are in the house.
When Grands were in the house, personal protection in small safe(s), readily available.
With 84 yo Guthrie in mind.
Now think what if it is you, in your home. Plan To Survive.
Related. Stumbled on this Hickok45 PSA – Public Service Announcement.
Is This The Wake Up Call Everyone Needs?
The comments are excellent.
FYI. TMI. Hickok45
WELCOME to HICKOK45 ! You’re at a drama-free, “family-friendly” shooting channel! Please see the short FAQ Videos before asking questions. My son and I do shooting videos of all sorts: Occasionally, a silly shooting video might pop up; sorry if you’re “sense-of-humor challenged.” Life is short. 🙂
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Trump, The G.O.A.T.
Trump just gave a Marine a challenge coin and then turned to the other Marine and told him that it was because it was the others’ last flight.
Trump just gave a Marine a challenge coin and then turned to the other Marine and told him that it was because it was the others’ last flight. It’s amazing how much he cares.
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Another tangent…
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AI.
Like it or not, AI is going to be imposed on each of our lives.
What do retired folks need to learn, know about AI. Learn on the fly, I spose. Yea, hybrid approach I spose.
Children, Grands… Talk about paradigm shifts. Flexibility while planning the future.
Robots are already here, now accelerating. Where do we end up?
I do hope that we avoid the SkyNet scenario, but it is not at this time clear that we can or will.
A brief overview of the world we are already in with A.I. and humanoid Robots:
AI ROBOTS Are Becoming TOO REAL! – Shocking AI & Robotics 2025 Updates
1:45:51
4 months ago, so already out of date… A LOT of stuff of importance in the video. Where we end up and when? Happening now.
Moving up to 1 month ago, we get more advanced reasoning, no need for human coders, and even better robots, along with a first ship to factory work / production:
AI Shocks Again: Synthetic-Skin Robot, Microsoft KOSMOS, GPT 5.1, Gemini 3, Human-Level Unitree…
1:12:08
Clearly the field is in an exponential speed of change mode and I’m way behind…
Then again, maybe nobody needs to catch up anymore, as an A.I. has written an A.I. all the way from GPU low level code to top level Python interface code… and iterated it, testing and improving. Oh, and it is now open source.
AI Just Built Its Own Deep Learning Engine… And It Actually Works
11:27
And catching up to about now, China shipping 20,000 production worker humanoid robots this year to factories, while on stage they can use Nunchucks without hitting themselves (something hard for people to do…)
So exactly what work can a new high school graduate look forward to doing? Or even a college graduate? (Forget the Grievance Studies folks, they are already useless, I’m talking about junior coder or programmer Electrical Engineer…)
Happening NOW. So get ready for the world to change.
BREAKING: After an INCREDIBLY successful week, President Trump has just STEPPED OFF Air Force One in Florida for the weekend The man has NOT slowed down!
47 will head back to the White House Sunday night KEEP WINNING, MR. PRESIDENT!
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.
AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.
Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…
In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Pass SAVE Act
Pass banning Sanctuary States and Cities
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Speaking of embracing…THIS…
If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.
KK
Fresh Stuff. May be worth a read, listen, watch or scroll on by.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $5,122.60. Silver $85.34 Bitcoin $67,929.
Looks like metals and Bitcoin in a trading range of sorts, going on a couple weeks.
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Road To Liberty. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
JUST IN: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just STUNNED the “Experts,” he and Trump have been making big plans and it’s FULL-STEAM AHEAD
Tariff revenue will be *unchanged* in 2026. Boom.
“Let’s be clear about what today’s ruling WAS and what it WASN’T. Despite the misplaced GLOATING from Democrats, ill-informed media outlets, and the very people who gutted our industrial base, the Court did not rule against President Trump’s tariffs.”
“Six justices simply ruled that IEEPA authorities cannot be used to raise even $1 of revenue.”
“This administration will invoke alternative legal authorities to replace the IEEPA tariffs.”
“We will be leveraging Section 232 and Section 301 tariff authorities that have been validated through thousands of legal challenges.”
“Treasury’s estimates show that the use of Section 122 authority, combined with potentially enhanced Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs, will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue in 2026.”
(Above. Bessent spoke of 2026 revenue. I assume AND would bet, applies equally to 2025.)
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Thomas, Alito and Kavanugh, take six dopes to the woodshed.
Three Justices WARN Majority Is Handcuffing President Trump’s Ability to Fight Foreign Threats — Here’s What the Three Justices Said in Their Dissent
Key Quotes from Justice Kavanaugh (Joined by Thomas and Alito)
Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent focused on the statutory text and the historical understanding of the President’s role in foreign affairs:
On Statutory Authority: “In light of the statutory text, longstanding historical practice, and relevant Supreme Court precedents, I would conclude that IEEPA authorizes the President to ‘regulate . . . importation’ by imposing tariffs on foreign imports during declared national emergencies”.
On the Majority’s Reasoning: “The Court’s decision today cannot be justified as a matter of statutory interpretation”.
On the Major Questions Doctrine: “What is new and rather extraordinary is the approach embodied in THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s opinion for three Justices, which would extend the major questions doctrine into the foreign affairs realm for the first time”.
On Practical Consequences: “The United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs… the refund process is likely to be a ‘mess’” .
On Global Uncertainty: “Because IEEPA tariffs have helped facilitate trade deals worth trillions of dollars—including with foreign nations from China to the United Kingdom to Japan… the Court’s decision could generate uncertainty regarding various trade agreements.”
Key Quotes from Justice Thomas’s Separate Dissent
Justice Thomas went further in his separate opinion, arguing that the “core legislative power” was not at stake because importing is not a “core private right”:
On the Nature of Importing: “Importing is a matter of privilege” and “A person had no core private right to import goods at the founding”.
On the Nondelegation Doctrine: “the nondelegation doctrine does not apply to ‘a delegation of power to make rules governing private conduct in the area of foreign trade,’ including rules imposing duties on imports”.
On Separation of Powers: “Therefore, to the extent that the Court relies on ‘“separation of powers principles”’ to rule against the President… it is mistaken”.
On Historical Precedent: “Early Congresses often delegated to the President power to regulate foreign commerce, including through duties on imports”.
More from Thomas via Eric Daugherty:
“NEITHER the statutory text nor the Constitution provide a basis for ruling against the President.”
“Congress authorized the President to “regulate . . . importation.” Throughout American history, the authority to “regulate importation” has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports.”
“The meaning of that phrase was beyond doubt by the time that Congress enacted this statute, shortly after President Nixon’s highly publicized duties on imports were UPHELD based on identical language.”
“The statute that the President relied on therefore authorized him to impose the duties on imports at issue in these cases.”
“Because the Constitution assigns Congress many powers that do not implicate the nondelegation doctrine, Congress may delegate the exercise of many powers to the President.”
“Congress has done so repeatedly since the founding, WITH THIS COURT’S BLESSING.”
Moving forward, from the moronic NOT Supreme Court decision…
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Surely ICE has an “anonymous” 800 Tips number.
State, county AND local LE, jailers, call the 800 number. Report shitheads (illegals) will be released at xyz prison on a specific date and time frame.
Several Sheriffs in Maryland have told the governor to pack sand. They’ll enforce the law. (As it should be.)
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Maryland Sheriffs are going BERSERK after Democrat Gov. Moore abolishes 287(g) agreements with ICE
"This is the BIGGEST BETRAYAL to law enforcement and public safety I have EVER seen." 💯
HOLY SMOKES. Maryland Sheriffs are going BERSERK after Democrat Gov. Moore abolishes 287(g) agreements with ICE “This is the BIGGEST BETRAYAL to law enforcement and public safety I have EVER seen.”
First Lady Melania Trump’s full remarks at the Smithsonian museum today where she donated her 2025 inaugural ball gown. 2/20/2026 pic.twitter.com/xyzyfdoMbm
Florida is becoming the most compelling state in the USA. 0% income tax rate; soon to be 0% property taxes, runs a budget surplus; has $15B in reserves. It will become the fastest growing state in the next year. States should take note of what is working there and try to emulate.
Florida is becoming the most compelling state in the USA. 0% income tax rate; soon to be 0% property taxes, runs a budget surplus; has $15B in reserves. It will become the fastest growing state in the next year. States should take note of what is working there and try to emulate.
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Duffy is doing a Great job.
🚨🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT on new plans to secure our roads and crackdown on illegal truckers, including:
🚛 REQUIRING English only tests 🚛MODERNIZING an ironclad registration system 🚛CRACKING DOWN on fraud 🚛 STRENGTHENING driver safety
