“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
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
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Enjoy the first set of Thursday trinkets for March!
(1) Fake Feynman AI does a nice job here of being our Silicon Steve – explaining why [probably] Venus rotates BACKWARDS relative to the other planets of the solar system.
Watch for the typographical errors by the writing AI, which get sucked up into face-palm narration by the vocalization AI. It’s just stupid and cringe. Nevertheless, the science is good.
(2) An interesting chess rematch narrated by DrMike – check it out.
(3) Transitional hominin species Homo habilis gets a new set of skeletal remains, confirming the earlier ones, and our favorite junior anthropologist (Erika, a.k.a. Gutsick Gibbon) summarizes both the background science and the new paper on the new find. The real science can be a bit boring, but that’s often definitive for real science.
(4) Reaction video to (IMO) one of the best live rock performances from back in the mid-70s – by that band called Rush.
Yes, it’s annoying that she keeps interrupting the good parts, so here it is without interruption.
And if you’d prefer a shorter version with video, we have that, too!
(5) OK, how about more Rush, but with a SuSE twist? You may have heard this parody before, but it’s worth a listen to appreciate how well it’s re-done here.
(6) This is ….. different. An AI, heavy metal version of “The Old Rugged Cross”.
(7) You know, I think I’ll stick to the calming versions of these hymns!
This is a break from the news of the day, a break from Iran and media overload.
This is dedicated to our friend, pgroup2.
Is Earth “home” for mankind, or, just a stopover on our way to another place of existence?
Hebrews 11:13 tells us;
“All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen and welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.”
This opener is about a song.
Wayfaring Stranger
I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger, from the movie “1917”
[Verse 1] I am a poor wayfaring stranger I’m travellin’ through this world of woe Yet there’s no sickness, toil, nor danger In that bright land to which I go
[Chorus 1] I’m going there to see my Father I’m going there, no more to roam I’m only going over Jordan I’m only going over home
[Verse 2] I know dark clouds will gather ’round me I know my way is rough and steep But golden fields lie just before me Where God’s redeemed shall ever sleep
[Chorus 2] I’m going home to see my mother And all my loved ones who’ve gone on I’m only going over Jordan I’m only going over home
[Verse 3] I am a poor wayfarin’ stranger I’m travellin’ through this world of woe Yet there’s no sickness, toil, nor danger In that bright land to which I go
[Chorus 1] I’m going there to see my Father I’m going there, no more to roam I’m only going over Jordan I’m only going over home
Those are the lyrics of a uniquely American folk spiritual in the public domain dating back to pre-Civil War days. These particular lyrics are from one of many versions of the same song. It is one of many songs from the era of which there is no known songwriter credited. A version of these lyrics were published along with many others from the period in The Christian Songster in 1858. These songs were sung at camps, prayer meetings, social gatherings and revivals. Perhaps you know or have heard some of them.
When you review them they have common themes that center around the belief that this earth is not our home. The songs are filled with both joy and great sorrow. A strong theme of hope for better times and reunions with loved ones abound throughout. And of course, they speak to the Savior of all mankind, Jesus Christ, as well as the adversity of Satan. Below is one of my favorite versions that match the lyrics above. It is hauntingly beautiful to go with the war imagery.
The Historical Period
Since these songs were originated in America and primarily composed in the lead up to the Civil War, the themes would reflect the attitudes and beliefs of common Americans during the period. The songs pull back the curtain on what people thought, believed and experienced. It appears the commie leftists have not yet found a way to hide these truths.
With our nation being founded under God’s Providence by a vast majority of Christians in its growing population, we can gain understanding of how the two centuries evolved from the pilgrims arrival in the words of these and other songs of the period. What we discover is they are remarkably consistent with those colonial predecessors.
Perhaps they knew what was about to come to this great land as the drumbeat of the impending Civil War became louder. Wars, violence and hardship of some sort always seemed to be present anyway. They also knew they would be the ones called upon to fight those wars and suffer the great losses that were to come. They longed for a better future and many saw that as only happening when they went to their eternal “home”.
So let’s move this along with some quality versions of the song. Pick and choose your flavor, or all of them when you get time.
First, from the Man in Black…
For the hillbilly bluegrass fans comes this performance of the song from the Father of Bluegrass during his latter days on earth.
Emmylou brings her wonderful style,
A quality country sound, a more recent version with some lyrics modification from Travis.
Yet, the song is timeless and travels across the pond as Ed Sheeran demonstrates in his own unique style…
Conclusion
Our American heritage offers strong clues of who we have been and are destined to be. We just need to pay attention and look for the evidence. Today we found evidence in an American folk spiritual song from two centuries ago. What we learn from it and others from the period is that four centuries have come and gone since the Pilgrims arrival and we have been searching for peace that America gives us the opportunity to find… as long as we continue to fight for her and each other.
Meanwhile, Christians know this world is not our home, that we are Wayfaring Strangers. Through Christ we have a heavenly passport to our eternal home. We are just passing through doing God’s will while here. There is no place like home when we are born again citizens of God’s Heaven.
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Before all things and people – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan.
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Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
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Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
mungo
noun
shoddy cloth made from shredding old or waste woven material
material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted — a distinction often disregarded
low-quality wool
a slang term, sometimes derogatory, for a person who is rough, uncivilized, uneducated, unpleasant, perceived as inferior, etc.
one spelling of a Filipino dish made with mung beans (alternatively munggo)
additional proper names, including parks (2 kinds), people, and places
Used in a sentence
Retrosaria Mungo is a lovely worsted weight yarn made in Portugal. Mungo is made with 50% cotton which making it ideal for warmer weather knits. Mungo is entirely spun from pre-consumer waste generated by Portuguese spinning mills making it an amazing and sustainable yarn!
Shown in a picture
Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Mungo Jerry!
THE STUFF
This is a gift for Gail. It is about a Scottish explorer of Africa, by the odd name of Dr. Mungo Park. It is a brilliant bit of insight into the early days of the British Empire.
Up to my neck in “AI slop” videos about Dr. Park, I found this human-created GEM by pure accident. But it has a very different take.
Another “fun” day of living in hillbilly land happened a couple of days ago. Thought I would share. I am sure many of you have experienced fun days of your own through the years.
We were awakened at 6 AM by a call from Daughter. Oh no, was the first thought. Hope it is not something bad with Son IL since he is on night shift. Nope, wasn’t that. Hope one of their family is not sick. Nope, wasn’t that.
It was her telling us the Fire Department had just left. It had rained all night and was still raining. In that rain, three FD vehicles and 10 personnel had arrived on their short cul-de-sac street in all of their gear in the wet yard and mud before going into their home.
The house had filled with smoke and the alarms had gone off at about 5 AM while Daughter and grandkids were asleep before SonIL got off his shift at 6 AM and headed home. Scared the kids and mom as well. The FD checked the nearly new package unit heat pump we had installed when they completed their addition and remodel this time last year. They found the exterior circuit breakers were hotter than they should be and pulled the disconnects. The HVAC unit (good name brand) and new ductwork had been repaired twice under warranty as the installation had been improper by an inexperienced crew. So our first thought was, “not again.” But no evidence of related problems or fire was found anywhere they looked. The smell was plastic and electrical, but had dissipated. The FD gave the all clear and left the scene not long after SonIL arrived from work.
SonIL was worn out from a night of DUI’s, domestics, shoplifting, etc. He needed sleep. So ole dad headed to the scene with his morning coffee. But before SonIL went to bed and I arrived, he decided to check the crawl space; the area that the FD apparently forgot to check. There is a bit of new wiring there from the addition as well as a sump pump that had been installed by the original builder. SonIL quickly determines he most likely found the problem. It seemed to be near the old sump pump from the smell in the space. He also remembered the pump making some loud noises two weeks before, however, it had reverted to normal and was working.
Even after I arrived it is continuing to do its thing about every 15 minutes from the pooling from the heavy rains. Water makes its way in around the footer downhill to the spot because the original builder had made the opening of the package HVAC too low to the ground. We have attempted numerous fixes, but nothing has worked to completely stop the problem, which is typically minor. Until that “fun” day.
The family is on a contract with a really good HVAC provider that also has plumbing and electrical services. SonIL called them and gave me as the contact person. He then went to bed after I arrived to try to get some sleep since he had another work night ahead of him. They were two officers short on his unit and shift as it was. Calling in for a day off was not going to happen.
The first on the scene less than two hours later were the electricians. One headed under the house while the other checked the breaker panel. They talked on their phones and the one under the house sent photos of what he found. We were in luck because that guy is also good at plumbing and discovered the issue as the sump pump along with how the smoke and electrical burn smell got into the house. All new wiring checked out good and to code. However, he noticed the elbow on the dryer exhaust pipe to the exterior had fallen off the pipe leading inside the house onto the ground. The laundry room is right next to the return air duct in the hall. So, every time the HVAC had come on since it fell (within the past year), the system was creating a vacuum into the house for crawl space air. A bad thing had led to a good thing of finding a major issue that could have led to far worse outcome.
Funny how those things work out sometimes. It is as if a somebody is watching out for all of us during our “fun” days. But I digress. 😉
The existing sump pump had been wired to an existing non-GFI circuit to another part of the house. That is a problem. Had it been on a GFI, it would have likely tripped the breaker when SonIL first heard the noises previously. The pump was extremely hot to touch and it appeared to have burn marks where the wiring connected. Bingo. The electrician noted there was no check valve on the pump. Problem. That should always be there. There was no weep hole on the intake pipe. That’s another problem. Will not go into the whys here, just know you need them so yours will not do what this one did. All of that contributed to the pump burning its motor partially, probably 50%, which explains how it was continuing to pump a small amount of ground water.
So, a call is made after my approval to the plumbing department and they sent a pro out within an hour. He checks it out, confirms the need, shows the damaged and problem areas, determines the options, goes back to get the one I selected and returns right after lunch. Less than an hour later he was done. The electricians planned to return once that was completed. The office called me and said it would be an hour before they arrived. Daughter left work early and had arrived to take over while her husband slept. I headed back to the house to clean up and eat a sandwich before returning to answer questions of the electricians.
That’s when the truly funny stuff happened.
While at home I received another phone call. SonIL had awakened before the arrival of the electricians. I had left word with Daughter that the heat pump was not working and that it was getting cool in the house. So she sent him out to check the circuit breakers and it turned out the disconnects had not been reinserted. Since we knew the source of the problem was not the heat pump, he reinserted. Literally within seconds, the entire house lost power!
Panic ensued. He called me and asked what happened and what he should do. I told him that the first thing was to check with neighbors to see if they had power. The second thing was to not panic, the electricians would be there soon if it was something within the home.
Daughter checked with neighbors – they were all out of power. At this point SonIL thought he has caused a power outage in the entire neighborhood!
😂
Meanwhile I checked the power company’s outage map and there was an outage for 1300 customers in that immediate vicinity. SonIL is suspecting that, nah, he could not have caused that. Daughter calls a fire fighter friend and she tells her there had been a car accident, the FD was on the scene, and that it caused the outage. She lets me know, but SonIL is on the other side of the property and unaware. The electricians, who had been delayed by another 30 minutes getting there, pulled up into the driveway.
I caught them and told them what happened, that seconds after SonIL had reinserted the disconnects in the breaker the power went off for the whole area. They agree to play along. SonIL comes from around the house minutes later and they asked him, “What in the world did you do?! Don’t you know not to reinsert those disconnects until we have cleared the fault?!” Panic returned to SonIL’s face again. He began melting down.
😂
We all burst out laughing and let him up, told him the truth. He was a good sport, but very relieved. It was probably good all of his cop and personal arsenal were locked up. I suspect the electricians will get pulled over one day when in town where he works. Paybacks are hell, ask the Supreme Leader.
The rest of the repair went well. New circuit pulled with GFI breaker in the box as well as receptacle under the house. Problem solved. Another “fun” day in paradise.
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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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—Relax and consider…
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!
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Because of the very Pro-Israel stance of the Q-Tree I was going to stay out of this fight and had the article below this planned. However, despite the fact I am old with few years left & have no children, I do love my country and would prefer it NOT turn into a Commie-Islamic Hell hole. Unfortunately that is exactly what will happen if we lose the mid-terms.
Rich Baris of the People’s Pundit, is about the only legit pollster, I know of. He says we WILL lose the mid-terms and why. Given Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens and others I thought this alternative view should be explored. As Burning Bright says, we are in a ‘War of Stories’
We’ve been in the field every single day since before he [Trump] was sworn into office, and his approval rating hasn’t budged from its historical high.
Americans didn’t agree with everything Trump was doing in first term. They do now. It’s different..
Americans agree with what he’s doing and the Left trotting out an angry Morgan and crying Selena isn’t going to cut it this time. The Left is going to have to come up with a reformed policy platform, whether they mean it or not (almost certainly they won’t), instead of the outrageous and ignorance machine.
And less than a month later Baris says the voters mood has changed and we will lose the mid-terms. What happen in that month?
POTUS sent American military to the middle east and is now threatening Iran.
At 17 minutes Baris says what people here are NOT going to like hear. Remember this guy is polling people every day and he is telling us what Americans think.
The Israel First attitude in the senate is what is going to lose us the Midterms. Just like ‘RACIST’ is used to shout people down, Anti-semite is used to silence people. They may go silent BUT THAT JUST BUILDS RESENTMENT.
He says 30% of the republicans in SC will not vote for Miss Lindsey because of this.
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT
This is something very dark we are not allowed to talk about because every time you do someone calls you an antisemite. Mark Levin because of my polling [called me an antisemite] and said it is in my DNA because I am European… It [being called antisemite] scares people and they no longer want to talk about it and they [the Israel first crowd] are free to do what they are doing, go to the White House… Netanyahu has been there more than any body and there is a reason for it. The Ted Cruz & Lindsey Grahams & Bebe Netanyahu’s view the Trump presidency as the last chance to do what Israel has long wanted to do. That is why you heard Mike Huckabee as the US Ambassador say during the Tucker interview “It would not bother me if they took it all.”Because there is a very real agenda. They are already talking about Turkey next year. They want to take parts of Turkey. I kid you not. This is Nuts. They [the Israel lobby] put themselves ahead of you. It does not matter if you are pro-Israel or not. This is what happened. They put THEIR INTERESTS ahead of you.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to promote Palestinian emigration, annul the Oslo Accords, annex the West Bank, and extend Jewish settlements as part of the next government’s agenda.
….He [Smotrich] linked the coming political phase in Israel to the remaining term of US President Donald Trump, who began a four-year term in January 2025, calling it a “window of opportunity” to enact sea changes, including “dismantling the Palestinian Authority and disarming the West Bank.”
BACK TO TRANSCRIPT
19:30– They knew full well last year, with the bombing of Iran, it would have taken Trump’s peak presidency. By that I mean a certain amount of time during the first year when Congress will do big things. Because once we go into the second year, which I tried to warn people about, Congress will not do big things. The do not want to cast controversial votes. They do not want to take unnecessary risks during an election year. The donors are breathing down their backs.You really have 8 months and THAT’S IT. That is what you have got as a president to get your agenda through.
They [Israel Lobby] decided to hijack the last of that eight months because they figured their interests were more important than the American public’s. They don’t give a damn about you.
They figure the next time is a Democrat president and we will get nothing from them. So we have to get as much as we can from Donald Trump. AND THEY DID GUYS AND THEY WON. I hate to say this but that is the reality in Washington DC. A president’s agenda is a constant tug of war between the blob [Mike Benz’ term for the Cartel — GC] and the Donor Class and what the American people wants...
20:20 — You can not have 60% of the country since the bombing of Iran the first time last year, tell the president we are over this crap and get back to domestic policy. Then have him ignore it. Then Trump MOCKS PEOPLE with the make Iran great again posts on social media.
He did exactly what Rush Limbaugh in his final days warned him not to do… He broke the bond between him and the American People….
Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel after a closed-door meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington
Comment byGhostofBasedPatrickHenry:Like everyone I follow at Badlands, Ghost is a Christian. However he is not particularly fond of Israel. He is also well read historically, and IIRC has been to the middle east. He can lay out logically the point of view of Christians who want nothing to do with more war in the middle east.
Also I noticed someone yanked out the tired old “Iran’s a week away from having a nuclear bomb” Remember The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that served as a catalyst for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War? An incident that NEVER HAPPENED?
…There is always the possibility that a kinetic attack is imminent. If that’s what is in the cards, then President Trump certainly wouldn’t telegraph such plans or intent to the world beforehand.
But I have long asserted, and continue to maintain, that such calculus does not lead us to the Golden Age. The cycle of violence has to be broken, and Iran represents one of the longest-running pledges for large scale violence of my lifetime.
It has never been a question of ‘if’ we will have a war with Iran; it has always been a question of ‘when.’
Our beloved elites, of course, could never fully explain why such an idea would be in any way appealing to the American People. Why should we go give more of our families’ blood and treasure to fight an enemy on the other side of the world that poses no clear and present danger to America? (Spare me all of Mark Levin’s talking points. That’s all a bunch of NeoCon bullshit.)
They want us to believe that Israel doesn’t control our government. They say that I am an antisemite for suggesting such a thing. And yet, things like this keep happening that support—if not affirm—the allegation.
Can somebody explain to me why Iran needs a new government? Even if we were to assume that the people running that place were the worst tyrants who ever lived, in terms of how the government treats Iranians, why exactly is that our problem? Despite all the consternation and hyperventilating from the kosher crowd (Loomer, Levin, Lady Lindsey) there is no evidence to suggest Iran poses a threat to the United States or even to Israel.
Not to mention that Iran, which was once geopolitically isolated, now has strong international relations with a number of world powers, most notably Russia and China. Iran has also become a geographic centerpiece of the North-South Transport Corridor, which is a trade route developed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to compete with the Suez Canal.
The deep economic entanglement between these nations will actually keep Iran accountable as economic pressure from both inside and outside of the country will promote peace and deter kinetic conflict.
Put simply, there is absolutely no reason to believe that Iran wants to start a war with Israel or the US—even assuming that Iran harbors ill-will toward Israel and would prefer to see it somehow destroyed. The point is that Iran is not going to start or provoke such a war with Israel because it knows that it will end up fighting the US and Europe.
So why the hell are we allowing the Israel lobby to drag us into this situation?
Ghost does not say, but I will, If the USA attacks Iran on Israel’s behalf, it could be the beginning of WWIII given Iran’s entanglement with China and Russia. Of course nothing would please the Cabal more, than to plunge the USA & the world into another major war.
Here is a lengthy formal statement posted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:
These are the countries signing this document:
We the Foreign Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the French Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, Ireland, the Republic of Indonesia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of Norway, the State of Palestine, the Portuguese Republic, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Slovenia, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Republic of Turkiye
Continued from Ghost.
Allow me to demonstrate how disrespectful these Israelis are toward President Trump. Explain to me how this public statementfrom Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is not undermining Trump’s efforts for peace?
How about Ze’ev Elkin from the Finance Ministry yesterday asserting that Israel will not financially contribute to Trump’s Board of Peace? Is that disrespectful?
What about last month when all of the top officials in Netanyahu’s government—including Smotrich—formally rejected President Trump’s Board of Peace? Is that disrespectful?
Meanwhile, here is the opposition leader to Netanyahu’s government, Yair Lapid, declaring that he will stand with Bibi in a war against Iran. Because even this former news anchor turned “center-left” progressive politician wants a war with Iran, and is willing to give Bibi all the support he needs to carry it out. Lapid even went on (in Hebrew) to express empathy for the Greater Israel that Mike Huckabee conceptualized in his interview with Tucker.
And just as I thought, it looks like POTUS Trump may be pulling a peaceful rabbit out of his red ball cap despite the Israelis lust for more territory and war.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said Tuesday Tehran is ready to swiftly reach a nuclear deal with Washington, stressing negotiations in Geneva will focus solely on the nuclear issue and urging diplomacy to avoid regional conflict.
Now we need Ukraine to give up and actually come to the table before the midterms.
Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network
Excerpts from The Third World Traveler
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Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup-master [Iran, 1953] admitted in his memoirs that SAVAK was 100% created by the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency that acts as appendage of the CIA.
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No corporations profited more than US defense contractors [from the 1953 Iran coup]. From 1950-63 the Middle East received 3% of US military aid to the world. From 1971-75 it received 60.2%. [21] The bulk of it went to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia were the “Twin Pillars” in President Nixon’s 1972 Guam Doctrine. Nixon and his cronies saw these two nations as critical to ensuring a steady cheap supply of crude oil to the US. Saudi reserves are estimated at 261 billion barrels, while Iran sits atop nearly 100 billion barrels.
… Revenues received by both the Shah and his House of Saud counterparts were recycled back into US money-center banks JP Morgan, Chase Manhattan and Citibank. These banks own huge blocks of stock in the Four Horsemen [Big Four oil companies – Royal Dutch Shell, ChevronTexico, ExxonMobil, British Petroleum] and in the defense contractors which now jostled for position in both Tehran and Riyadh. Chase Manhattan owned Iran’s Central Bank – Bank Markazi. The international bankers were the main beneficiaries of this new oil for arms quid pro quo. In Iran the Shah was given carte blanche on US arms purchases. Iran came to account for 25% of US military sales.
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The State Department once called the Middle East, “a stupendous source of strategic power and one of the greatest material prizes in world history, the richest prize in the world in the field of foreign investment.”
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Oil revenues financed the Shah’s military procurement program. He agreed to recycle surplus petrodollars into US banks, mainly Chase Manhattan, which his good friend David Rockefeller chaired. Iran’s Central Bank, the Bank Markazi, acted as wholly-owned subsidiary of Chase Manhattan. Oil revenue also went to banks like BCCI where it funded CIA covert operations
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The Shah served as cop on the beat for the US in the Persian Gulf, while Israel filled that role in the Mediterranean. President Truman called Israel, “a stationary aircraft carrier to protect US interests in the Mediterranean and the Middle East”.
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Within a few years of the Iranian Revolution, the CIA was helping Ayatollah Khomeini identify nationalist leaders so he could target leftists who had formed the Committee of 60, which led the Iranian revolution. In 1983 the CIA and British MI6 supplied a long list of Tudeh Party members to Khomeini. The Ayatollah unleashed a reign of terror against the left; assassinating, torturing and imprisoning over 10,000 Tudeh members and supporters. In 1989 many of those imprisoned were sentenced to death.
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SAVAK used heroin money to finance counter-revolution in Iran. The CIA allowed wealthy Iranians to smuggle their heroin into the US using diplomatic pouches. Iranian revolutionaries cracked down on the heroin trade, which had thrived under the Shah.
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Zbigniew Bzrezinski co-founded the Trilateral Commission (TC) in 1973 with David Rockefeller… The stated purpose of TC was to form a triad of global influence consisting of North America, Western Europe and Japan.
The TC published The Crisis of Democracy in 1975. One of its authors, Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington, is a prominent writer for the CFR publication Foreign Affairs. Huntington, intellectual darling of the global elite, argued that America needed “a greater degree of moderation in democracy”.
The TC paper suggested that leaders with “expertise, seniority, experience and “special talents” were needed to “override the claims of democracy”. More recently Huntington has been pushing his “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, which argues that war between the West and Islamic nations is inevitable.
This part segues into the next about South America, drugs & banks.
p111 BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce International] would become the mixing bowl into which Persian Gulf petrodollars were stirred with generous helpings of drug money to finance worldwide covert operations for the CIA and its Israeli Mossad and British MI6 partners.
BCCI was the bank of choice for the world’s most notorious dictators, including the Somoza family, Saddam Hussein, Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos and Haiti’s Jean-Claude “Papa Doc” Duvalier. The South African apartheid regime used BCCI, as did Manuel Noriega.
… With branches in 76 countries, BCCI dealt in conventional and nuclear weapons, gold, drugs, mercenary armies, intelligence and counterintelligence… The bank had close relations with the CIA,Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, the Israeli Mossad and Saudiintelligence agencies… BCCI’s main stockholders were monarchs and wealthy oil sheiks from the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] nations.
… BCCI was founded 1972 in Pakistan by Agha Hasan Abedi, a close friend of Pakistani military dictator Zia ul-Huq… BCCI took its wings when Bank of America put up $2.5 million for a 30% stake in BCCI. At that time Bank of America was the largest bank in the world, controlled by N.M. Rothschild & Sons.
U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Colombian President Gustavo Petro for their first in-person meeting at the White House on February 3, lasting over two hours in a private Oval Office session.
The encounter, attended by top officials including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno on the American side, and Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio, Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez, and Ambassador Daniel García-Peña on the Colombian side, produced unexpectedly positive tones and visuals after a year of public tensions, threats, and insults between the two leaders.
Trump described the meeting positively, stating “We got along very well” and noting prior unfamiliarity despite past friction.
Petro called himself “optimistic and positive,” reporting discussions on “concrete problems and joint pathways,” and left with a modified MAGA hat reading “Make Americas Great Again.”
Trump gifted Petro a signed copy of “The Art of the Deal” inscribed with “You are great” and “I love Colombia,” which Petro shared on X.
Discussions focused on counternarcotics cooperation...
Present given to POTUS Trump by President Gustavo Petro
…While we don’t have any hard facts yet on what specifically was achieved during the meeting, both Trump and Petro have independently said in interviews they agreed to collaboration on operations against the cartels, as well as Trump looking into lifting the sanctions he recently imposed on Petro and his family.
I went and read the document from the Treasury that imposed the sanctions on Petro, and found a paragraph that stuck out to me.
So what is this organization? I asked ChatGPT.
So the Deep State literally has an international intelligence unit that tracks all the financial crime information that is shared between governments, and when Gustavo Petro—the one world leader that we know for certain is going after the cartels—shared privileged information about the group that he had obtained through official channels, it compromised the integrity of the organization and led to the suspension of Colombia from the team.
So where is this organization located? Where is their headquarters?
CANADA??? You have got to be kidding me! And this group tracks bank transactions and passes suspicious activity on to the FBI and DOJ.
The Mark Carney lore as the king of all central bankers has now significantly increased.
Canada may very well be the final boss.
Sidenote: I may do a stream this afternoon to dig into all of this. Stay tuned.
It is worth noting that after his meeting with President Trump, Petro held a press conference where he said that the next step in fighting the cartels is to target the major financiers and international structures that operate outside of Colombia.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he had evaded an assassination attempt when intelligence revealed a plot to fire on his helicopter, forcing an abrupt route change. During a government meeting broadcast live on the presidential administration’s YouTube channel, Petro stated that he had “avoided being killed” and described how the aircraft—carrying him along with his children—was rerouted to fly for four hours over the open sea before landing at an unplanned location.
The report, originating from Buenos Aires and published by TASS on February 10, 2026, provided no additional details on the alleged perpetrators, investigation status, or specific threats involved.
Petro met with President Donald Trump on February 3, 2026 and an assassination attempt happens on February 10. On February 11, 2026, the FAA abruptly closed airspace around El Paso, Texas, due to drone activity near the U.S.-Mexico border. An assassination attempt against POTUS Trump happens on February 22, 2026. Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho” is also killed on February 22, 2026. Sure was a busy couple of weeks!
“I didn’t land where I was supposed to because there were fears that the helicopter, in which my children were also located, would be fired upon,” he said at a government meeting broadcast on the presidential administration’s YouTube channel.
According to Petro, he “avoided being killed.” “We flew for four hours over the open sea and arrived where we didn’t plan to,” he said.
Our guy, Petro, has been on a heater lately.
Just last week, after meeting with President Trump at the White House, he held a press conference where he announced that he had proposed to Trump an international joint operation to go after the most powerful cartel bosses at the very top of organized crime— bankers, financiers, corporate executives, etc.
Then they tried to assassinate him.
At this same press conference where he disclosed the assassination attempt, he also called out a Colombian billionaire banker named Luis Carlos Sarmiento, telling him that he can “go F yourself” if he was going to stand in the way of a pipeline project with Venezuela that Petro had discussed with Trump.
Sarmiento is worth roughly $10 billion. [Note he is also a banker -GC]
No wonder they want to kill this guy. He is just about the most flippantly defiant world leader since… well, since Nicolas Maduro.
Assuming this assassination attempt story is real, who could blame Petro for having this attitude?…
The Trump Administration confirmed that “cartel drones” entered US airspace near El Paso, Texas, and were disabled by the FAA and the Department of War. Secretary Duffy (Transportation) posted on X:
“The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming.”
The FAA earlier issued a surprise notice shutting down the airspace above El Paso, a major city in west Texas on the US-Mexico border, and halting all flights up to 18,000 feet for 10 days due to “special security reasons.” The restricted area covered a 10-mile radius, and restrictions were lifted Wednesday night.
Business Insidercites anonymous officials claiming that the administration disabled the drones using counter-drone measures. The department did not publicly specify the exact technology used.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected reports of the alleged drone incursion, stating, “There is no information about the use of drones on the border,” according to reporting by Newsweek. The same article reports that Representative Tony Gonzales responded to the drone news:
“For those of us who live and work along the border, daily drone incursions by criminal organizations are part of everyday life. It’s a Wednesday for us.”
All the Fake News that Brave pulled up on its first page say it was just party balloons.
So Colombian President Gustavo Petro comes to town last week (nearly gets assassinated later on the way home to Colombia) and vows that he and Trump are working together to bring down cartels and the bankers that finance them.
Our friend, Eric Rice, presented an interesting question: Who sold Mexico the drones?
This is an interesting question, and I found an interesting article from 2015.
…First the FFA shuts down the airspace around El Paso. Then we get conflicting reports about an invasion. This is definitely an invasion.
It does seem like Mexico is the last bastion of these Hispanic narcotics cartels, and Trump has dropped plenty of signal that he considers the Mexican government in bed with cartels and therefore a threat….
For months now, I’ve been saying that Colombian President Gustavo Petro is the righteous actor—as he has spent the past three years going after the cartels.
Here is video that Petro posted to X yesterday recapping some of their operations.
Fueron a decir arrodillados que el presidente de Colombia era un narcotraficante, y que así otra guerra en Colombia.
They went kneeling to say that the president of Colombia was a drug trafficker, and that this would cause another war in Colombia. They always do the same thing. Look at reality.
This program that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent is rolling out with FINcen seems to streamline the bounty system while focusing on the critical evidence: the money.
“Follow the money” is a notorious refrain not only in the Q Research community, but in the entire cultural ethos of “criminology” as well. Whether you are talking about a crime drama presented as a work of fiction on Netflix, or academic detective work, forensic accounting is the ideal method of mapping out criminal networks because the money flow is objective and traceable.
If you’ve listened to the past few episodes of Breaking History, we have been discussing FINcen and the Egmont Group. While FINcen is the financial crimes intelligence unit in the US government, the Egmonth Group is an international network of over 170 of this type of intelligence unit from nearly every government on earth. The purpose being to share in this intelligence.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro was sanctioned by the Treasury Department last year, and in the sanctioning document Petro is accused of getting Colombia’s financial crimes intelligence unit suspended from Egmont for allegedly sharing information he collected from the Egmont servers.
It is fascinating that both Petro and Maduro have accused all of the most powerful banks in the US and Europe of literally being the cartels. Petro says that it is institutions like Egmont Group that allow the criminality to continue and prosper, because it covers for them.
Bessent’s strategy is brilliant because it creates a practical incentive structure and has a reliable source of reward money. It also inherently targets the core culprit in all organized crime syndicates: the financial institutions.
We are going to pay criminals to rat out their friends. We are going to pay bureaucrats and accountants to blow the whistle on shady stuff they see around the office. And we are going to pay them with the money collected from fines imposed on the guilty parties. The idea being that the investigations will lead to criminal referrals and indictments.
Scott Bessent is weaponizing the financial system against itself by tapping into base human instincts.
We’ve been speculating for months that Mexico would be the real target for a military operation. Here’s President Trump weeks ago explaining that the cartels control Mexico.
[Video]
Yesterday, President Trump affirmed that he did offer to send in US troops to fight the cartels, but was turned down by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
[Video]
This tracks, if the cartels do actually control Mexico.
However, two weeks ago it was reported that a Mexican Senate commission approved a proposal for SEAL Team 2 to go there and train Mexican special forces to fight the cartels.
Last week, Sheinbaum formally invited the SEALs—though this was only in a training capacity.
With all of this said, it is notable that the New York Post reported that over 100 cartel bosses—including El Mencho’s brother—were quietly handed over to the Trump administration prior to the Jalisco raid where El Mencho was killed.
It could be that things are not what they seem. It could be kayfabe to keep the cartels guessing. We should continue to withhold belief (h/t: Chris Paul ) until we have enough data to adopt an informed opinion.
Personally, I do think this particular war against the cartels is real, andI think much of the cartels’ infrastructure has already been severely hampered by the efforts of Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, along with Bukele of El Salvador, among others.
As Petro is calling for Trump to lead a crusade against the bankers and financiers that support the cartels, the [Mexican] military is going after them in Mexico.
H/T patfrederick said NebraskaFilly said Rodney posted this Tweet last night:
▪️THE SUPPLIER IS DEAD.
THE CLIENT LIST SURVIVED.
When Mexican Special Forces took out El Mencho, they didn’t just find guns and drugs. They found a laptop.
On it: a single encrypted file named “CLIENTES.”
Inside: 211 names. The elite clients who ordered children and organs…
THE SUPPLIER IS DEAD. THE CLIENT LIST SURVIVED. When Mexican Special Forces took out El Mencho, they didn’t just find guns and drugs. They found a laptop. On it: a single encrypted file named “CLIENTES.” Inside: 211 names. The elite clients who ordered children and organs from “The Supplier.” Hollywood actors. Tech billionaires. Wall Street executives. And 17 sitting members of Congress. For 48 hours, the Deep State tried to bury it. The CIA tried to claim jurisdiction. The FBI tried to seize the laptop. They failed. Trump’s people got to it first. The file is now in the hands of the same military intelligence unit that is preparing for the State of the Union address. This is the kill shot. The Epstein files were the blackmail network. The Client List is the customer base. Arrests are not coming. They have already begun. Pay attention to who disappears this week. This is not politics. This is war. And the snakes can’t hide anymore.
I hope this proves true because if so it will prove more important than the Epstein Files. 48 hr rule applies of course. So far I can find nothing.
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We don’t know what the next epoch will bring, whether or not it will be fortuitous for the American People. There is an excitement that is fueled by that uncertainty, but also burdens us with the anxiety that shrouds every future unknown. We end up choosing the devil that we know rather than charging into the darkness of that unknown. For too long, we were convinced that this anxiety was reason enough to never seek an end to this status quo, even as that status quo was quietly subverted and secretly altered in order to exploit the American People.
One day, after years of healing, perhaps the American People will have the courage, strength, and fortitude to stop these machinations dead in their tracks. Sometimes I wonder whether we were too broken psychologically to have actually saved ourselves, or whether we were lucky enough to be blessed by angels weaving divine providence. — GHOST
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This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
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The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
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Here we go again! More Thursday THRILLS!
(1) Before Amelia The Goth, there was Amelia Earhart. So what happened to her? Here’s one theory with a lot of evidence, but still…..
(2) America has an ace in the “critical minerals” game. What is it? WATCH.
(3) Fire ants. NASTY. Using flies to kill them? Also NASTY, bit seemingly necessary. DETAILS.
Let’s start the day with scripture from Paul that all of the Democratic Party and its unhinged wackos need to take seriously, but will not.
Romans 13:3-4:
“For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;” (NASB)
On with the show…
Women In Politics And Law
No pearl clutching by our wonderful female readers and contributors on here is allowed. Most, if not all of you, will agree with what I will be stating anyway.
What do you see in the info contained in this link?
We see famous patriots from ages 26 to 70. Only seven were 60 years of age or more. That is hugely different than today with so many being 70 and older. Each signed the document knowing it could mean their death and/or the loss of everything they had including families. Those are real profiles in courage.
Eight were actually born in Great Britain. An interesting thing is that 25 of the 56 were lawyers, about 45%. They had studied and were practicing English common law among other legal related aspects. Which leads to another interesting question. After 250 years, how many in Congress today are lawyers? My initial guess was that percentage would be even higher.
Nope, it is less.
For the 119th Congress there are 179 with a law degree out of 541 total members at that point. That means it is about 33% of the total. Unfortunately, that also means more elected officials are full time politicians. Which makes many into opportunists with minimal added value to the discourse in Congress.
From what I can tell from the recent past, this is a consistent representation, that about a third have a law degree. That makes the modern day Congress even more dependent on potentially corrupted political party controlled legal staff support for analysis of legislation, regulations, etc. Based on their media comments, many elected members appear to be clueless about the law and the Constitution. Others weaponize it using lies and distortions. That makes many of them no more than professional actors who are subject to massive manipulation because they do not understand what they are doing. Of course the Democrat Party desires no critical thinking from their members since they are given and generally follow orders to vote as a block and be mockingbird propagandists. Which also makes them operatives of the ideology of others and not leaders.
Anybody want to make the claim that corrupted Mad Max, AOC, Jasmine and other mental midgets in Congress really know their shiz? Didn’t think so.
However, there are more issues to consider lying below the surface. Since we know women were not active in the operation of government during our nation’s formation as well as for many years afterwards, what impact have they made on the discourse and operation of government today as they have become much more active? Currently, approximately 29% of elected members of Congress are female. That percentage has grown steadily in recent times. The political mix is interesting and unsurprising. About 62% are Dem, 112 in total. That means 20% +/- of all Congressional members are raging leftists who cannot focus on what really matters to keep this country afloat. With the demise of alpha males in the Dem party and rise of AWFL’s and Islamist plants, it was just a matter of time before their shrill, propagandist voices were heard much too loudly as we see from the Squad and others.
Please do not mistake this analysis to be anti-woman. It is not. It is anti-leftist ideologue woman as well as man. To refuse to see or ignore it helps the enemies of MAGA.
Now that we have determined the root of this major issue, how many of those 112 females are lawyers? It turns out there are 45 with law degrees. That is over 40%, which is disproportionate to the current 33% being lawyers among all members of the 119th Congress. This group represent 25% of all lawyers in Congress. This is a growing number as the traditional Democratic Party and its supporters are replaced by leftist progressives. An increasing number of beta men and foreigners with illegal immigration backgrounds have also been replacing the traditional segments of that party.
Think about the on-going year long campaign of tough, potty mouth talk from Dems led by Dime Store Obama, Cryin’ Chuck, Gruesome, Murphy’s Law, Pocahontas, AOC, et al. They know. They needed to counter and had nothing left to sell to the alpha males who were leaving and continue to leave the party. Gruesome hit Davos in January and tried to act tough while only increasing the alpha appeal of PDT in the process. The Rules Based Order crowd in Munich that Marco addressed rather directly felt the alpha sovereignty approach up front and personal. Leftists that preceded and followed him were shamed by their incompetence.
The Challenge
However, I think we America First MAGA types have correctly identified serious foes in their own special category of AWFL that we should be targeting in political races to keep this nation on the path to restoration and out of the hands of enemy combatants who have used infiltration over invasion as Q told us. There is still a large block of sheeple who will follow the left’s piper over the proverbial cliff.
Most are not serious people. Their focus is on social justice and minutia to gain power as good little commies do. The fact that they generally support radical Islamists, illegals, domestic criminals, perverts, woke, and the like is strange, but clearly in evidence daily.
We only need to look toward Europe to know where this originates as well as how it will turn out if left unrestrained. Many leftist women are dominating government activities there. The following link indicates that 27% of all parliaments around the world are comprised of women. The good news is the rate of increase is slowing.
In Great Britain the numbers are much higher. In 2024 there were 263 women out of the 650 total – 40%. This is up 6% in five years.There are also 25 Muslims. This tells us that the British culture and ruling government has been moving left at a rapidly increasing rate. We see the effects of that as censorship is on the rise along with related charges and arrests for thought and word crimes.
Cause and effect is on full display. More beta men along with more militaristic leftist women and Islamics. A similar plan has been underway for taking down America as a superpower and making it into the socialist shizhole they can rule in ease and wealth at the expense of the sheeple who do their bidding.
It is a tale as old as time itself.
Many in the leftist camp in America claim to represent the mainstream views of our population. They claim to be Christians, claim to be traditional, claim to be pro family, claim to be patriots, claim to be pro military, claim to be for the Constitution and law. They not only use the fake news, entertainment and social media; they use the institutions within the education industry and church denominations to further their causes. It is an all out, open attack 24/7.
Claims are not truth. Our response is and always has been unashamed, unrestrained truth leading to firm vocal responses and actions being performed openly for all to hear and see. It is not acceptable to be a coward or to shrink from this conflict.
Know the truth and it sets you free. If you fear death and destruction over living for truth, you have lost the battle before it begins. A 23 year old youtuber, Nick Shirley, has successfully taken on the ire of the Democrat criminal machine. He now gets death threats daily and needs security. His response to it all – go public and do more. Now that patriots are in charge, they used his information and went on the attack. That is what it takes from all of us. Be as brave as the 23 year old youtuber who values truth over personal safety and vocal attacks.
Take courage and be prepared to counter the bullshiz from the left anywhere and anytime. You will be glad you did. When I see former friends and family members who are sold out leftists turn and go a different way when they see me I know I have been successful in standing my ground. They prove they were never true friends by their actions. History will judge them. Those with different views who want to have dialog and discuss as adults still remain friends and can reason together as Isaiah 1:18 suggests.
Which was the way of Charlie. Never forget. Check out the TPUSA stats, it is now up to 6300 active chapters. Young people know. The rest of us need to have a similar resolve.
Yes, it is time for the KKKK. There is so much great subject matter in this wacky nation from which to choose. Since we are talking gubmint, let’s roll with a recent Jasmine Crockett take.
She ain’t pickin’ no cotton, y’all. 😂
Well, could not resist one more from Munich.
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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.
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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
