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Do you sometimes feel forgotten, that the world is cold and hostile? Are you lonely or ignored by loved ones or friends? Does it sometimes feel like God has totally forgotten or forsaken you, left you without experiencing His touch on your life?
Welcome to the story of Joseph. Yes, Joseph was a real person per religious as well as secular historical text. He was a Hebrew and his story is found in the Book of Genesis beginning in Chapter 39. From privilege and being the apple of his deeply respected father’s eye as a child in what is now called Israel; to being sold into slavery by his own jealous brothers; to a prison of Pharaoh in the foreign land of Egypt after being wrongly and evilly accused of attempted rape by the wife of the Captain of Pharaoh’s guard, Potiphar; to being forgotten until the royal Cupbearer told Pharaoh that Joseph could probably interpret his troubling dreams; to the highest position overseeing all of Egypt while reporting directly to Pharaoh due to the Godly wisdom he provided the nation while being held captive. He goes on to forgive his brothers who forsook him and sold him into slavery after making them sweat spear tips for a time. His wisdom and actions not only saved his family from starvation, his faith and actions save everybody in the nation of Egypt as well as all people who came there to trade or stay to avoid the great famines in that region of the world.
Many of you will already know that story. To others it is nothing but that, a story, and they could care less whether it was true or not. However, the reality is that it aligns with known living conditions of the period in Egypt from other archaeological and scientific evidence as well as texts and narratives in that nation’s history. The lesson taken from it is extremely valuable to our lives today no matter whether we believe in God or not.
OK, Trade, why are you bringing this up now? I am doing so because the story about Joseph is one that clearly illustrates what living under God’s Providence in America is also about as the Declaration of Independence states. It seems appropriate to apply its principles today just as it was during the times of its author, Thomas Jefferson. My hope is some will see the important benefits of living under God’s Providence that includes remaining faithful no matter what we face. Doing so should settle their MAGA spirits.
In my opinion we MAGA types need to slow our roll sometimes. Getting all out of sorts, huffy, fearful and impatient will not make justice happen faster. Being diligent and doing our parts as needed and without complaint will get it done in time. We need to remember who is calling the shots in this clean up and it is not us. Whether you personally believe in God or not, many of the people doing the major work successfully do. They have been placed in positions to do so by God and his assigned American redeemer, which is currently Donald J. Trump, along with the leaders of his cabinet, law enforcement and military forces. As long as they do things by the book (Constitution/laws) and THE Book (Holy Bible) it will all turn out as God wills it. Even unbelievers will benefit from the efforts of those who do believe and are faithful.
The Way It Works
Submit to God’s will as Joseph did. Despite being forgotten, lonely, falsely accused, abused, and in prison – he did good works for his captors and never failed to be in communion with God as well as to do His will first and foremost. In the end of the story he forgave his treacherous brothers and saved them from disaster and death. The family was restored and the people of Israel continued to develop.
That’s the secret sauce. It is not enough to acknowledge the God of Joseph exists or that He is powerful. You have to personally place Him first and ONLY in your submission. There can be no other “gods” before Him.
Your freedom comes from your submission to I AM.
You remain faithful and true. You say and do what is right the best ways you can daily no matter the circumstances. You seek God’s face, guidance, forgiveness… and… WAIT. Good things come to people who wait on the Lord to move mountains for them. When it happens, not if it happens, you realize you are never alone. You realize you matter and are loved by the Creator. From that understanding comes freedom and the formerly paralyzing fear dies.
From Psalm 27:14,
Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.
It feels good to be faithful to God because He is faithful to us without fail. Again, this world is not our home, we are just wayfaring strangers. No matter how far and long we have distanced ourselves from God and other people, there is time to turn it around as long as we are above ground and breathing. If we are honest with ourselves, we all have a prodigal son bone in our bodies that tempts us to stray from these universal truths that are built into our existence of which Jesus addressed in Luke 15. All we need to do is throw off our pride and humbly return to the Father just as Brandon sings below. This song has a personal connection for him per his past comments. It also represents my life all too well – a prodigal son saved from ruination and death by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
THIS is how it works in America under God’s Providence. Return to the Father, I AM, and be healed. Find peace as people and as a nation. Those that foment hateful rhetoric and violence are serving the wrong master. Pray for their change of heart and repentance. May God’s will be done.
Over the next couple of months I will begin tying the loose strings of this series together as we approach our nation’s founding. You will read the words Providential Restoration often.
Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.
Before all things and people – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Entering Into God’s Rest
The concept of entering into God’s rest comes from Hebrews 3—4. What is this “rest” the Hebrew writer is talking about? How do we enter it? And how do we fail to enter it? The writer to the Hebrews begins his discussion of God’s rest in chapter 3, where he references the Israelites wandering in the desert. In giving them the land of Canaan, God had promised them that He would go before them and defeat all their enemies in order that they could live securely (Deuteronomy 12:9–10). All that was required of them was to fully trust in Him and His promises. However, they refused to obey Him. Instead, they murmured against Him, even yearning to go back to their bondage under the Egyptians (Exodus 16:3; 17:1–7; Numbers 20:3–13).
The particular “rest” referred to here was that of the land of Canaan. Into that rest God solemnly said the Israelites who disobeyed Him would never enter (Hebrews 3:11). They had been rebellious. All the means of reclaiming them had failed. God had warned and entreated them; He had caused His mercies to pass before them, and had visited them with judgments in vain; and He now declares that for all their rebellion they should be excluded from the Promised Land (Hebrews 3:16–19). But, eventually, the next generation did place their faith in God and, by following the leadership of Joshua, they, some forty years later, entered into God’s rest, the land of Canaan (Joshua 3:14–17).
Using the Israelites as an example of those who were not resting in God’s promises, the writer of Hebrews goes on in chapter 4 to make the application personal, both to the Hebrew Christians and to us: “Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it” (Hebrews 4:1). The promise that still stands is the promise of salvation through God’s provision—Jesus Christ. He alone can provide the eternal rest of salvation through His blood shed on the cross for the remission of sins. God’s rest, then, is in the spiritual realm, the rest of salvation. Faith, the author goes on to assert, is the key to entering God’s rest. The Hebrews had had the gospel preached to them, just as the Israelites knew the truth about God, but the messages were of “no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith” (Hebrews 4:2). Some had heard the good news of Christ, but they rejected it for lack of faith.
Hebrews 4:10–13 explains the nature of this faith. The kind of faith that enables us to enter into God’s rest is a faith that first demands that we rest from relying on our own works. Then the writer seemingly contradicts himself by telling us to make every effort: “For anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience” (Hebrews 4:10–11). What this apparent paradox means is that such biblical faith involves our submissiveness to God, and our efforts in that area.
Though we desist in our self-efforts to earn salvation and the promised eternal rest, we also “make every effort to enter that rest” by choosing to depend solely on God, to trust Him implicitly, to yield totally to the promises of God through the free grace of His salvation. Why? So “that no one will fall by following their [the Israelites’] example of disobedience” (Hebrews 4:11). We either trust ourselves to save ourselves, or we trust God to do that for us through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. By failing to trust God fully in His promises, we become disobedient and fail to enter the rest that is eternal life, just as the children of Israel became disobedient when they failed to enter the Promised Land.
So how do we stop trusting ourselves? How do we place our full trust in God and His promises? We enter into God’s rest by first understanding our total inability to enter God’s rest on our own. Next, we enter God’s rest by our total faith in the sacrifice of Christ and complete obedience to God and His will. “And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief” (Hebrews 3:18–19). Unlike the Israelites whose unbelief prevented them from entering the Promised Land, we are to enter God’s rest by faith in Him, faith which is a gift from Him by grace (Ephesians 2:8–9). xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/enter-Gods-rest.html
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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.
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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.
The vintage image of a vaccination record from 1867 for today’s offering header is courtesy of iStock and Google Images.
Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; theRules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: AI-generated items in today’s offering will be cited as such. If readers wish to post AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Today’s offering begins here: https://icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/125742_S1_M2_26_pharmkin-tabulated-summary.pdf, “MODULE 2.6.5 PHARMACOKINETICS TABULATED SUMMARY“, FDA Approved on 21 January 2021 at 23:22 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time.) This is the report regarding biodistribution data of the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine”, BNT162b2, for which the FDA had granted the initial EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) for use in the United States on 11 December 2020. The experiments performed by Pfizer-BioNTech to produce the report, using BNT162b2 injections, were conducted on Wistar Han lab rats, Sprague Dawley lab rats, Cynomologus monkeys, and human liver microsomes and liver fractions. Data were extracted from in vivo and from in vitro results. The formulation of BNT162b2 used in the experiments was the same as that which was granted the FDA Emergency Use Authorization of 11 December 2020 for use on human beings in the United States.
Yours Truly presents images of page 7 and page 8 of this report:
Note: the above data are the results from the injections given to the Wistar Han lab rats. Note also the accumulations of the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), ALC-0159 and ALC-0315, used in the BNT162b2 formulation. Again, this is the same formulation that was granted the initial FDA Emergency Use Authorization on 11 December 2020, for BNT162b2 to be used on human beings in the United States. LNPs are the tiny fat molecules-based, lab-created “delivery system” that encases the “vaccine” ingredients to protect them from being detected and eliminated by the natural immune system of the body. Instead, the LNPs facilitate the entry of the “vaccine” into every cell of the body. Look at the highest accumulation amounts:
Adrenal Glands: 18.2. The adrenal glands release hormones, such as, adrenaline, directly into the bloodstream. These glands are crucial in the proper function of blood pressure and the body’s stress response. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23005-adrenal-glands
Injection Site: 165. The injection of COMIRNATY into the arm of a human being results in the following: The body immediately sends “alarm signals” that there is an “enemy invader”, and starts the natural immune system process of fighting it / eliminating it. This is manifested in several ways, including: pain at the injection site, and/or a “rash” at the injection site. However, these immediate reactions can also indicate early-warning signals of anaphylactic shock — and must be closely monitored. Establishment Medicine explains this away by, first, stating that this reaction is “rare”, then proceeding to minimize the situation: https://ubiehealth.com/doctors-note/rash-after-covid-vaccine-causes-serious-warning-49121exp1, “Why do some people get a rash after the COVID vaccine and when is it serious?”, Yoshinori Abe, MD, 17 December 2025. This situation is called “COVID Arm.” In fact, Establishment Medicine minimizes “COVID Arm” reaction even if it occurs DAYS or a WEEK after “vaccination”: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/19970.htm. “Arm Rash After COVID-19 Vaccination”, updated by Linda J. Vorvick MD, 1 January 2025.)
Ovaries: 12.3. The female ovaries make and release eggs for fertilization. They also produce hormones. At birth, a female has all the eggs that she will ever have. The ovaries constantly “communicate” with the brain. https://axiawh.com/resources/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-ovaries/
Spleen: 23.4. The spleen creates white blood cells and stores red blood cells. It helps to regulate blood platelets (which assists in proper blood clotting.) It filters out old or damaged blood cells. https://www.healthline.com/health/what-does-the-spleen-do
The above report, in Yours Truly’s opinion, needs to be required reading for any healthcare professional who is still “recommending”, let alone administering, COMIRNATY. And, in case a healthcare professional raises objections, such as, “The new COMIRNATY formula is different”, the facts that ALC-0159, ALC-0315, N1-Methylpseudouridine (all which were in the original BNT162b2 formulation), and the S1 spike protein (that can be traced back to the original Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 strain) are ingredients in the “2025-2026 COMIRMATY” version of the injectable.
There is a reason behind why the accumulations of ALC-0159 and ALC-0315 are so high for the above body areas and organs: these lipid nanoparticles ensure that the ingredients and mechanisms of COMIRNATY enter these areas and organs: with the result that said areas and organs are interfered with, and/or damaged, and/or that the body’s ability to properly use them is destroyed. Example: over 60% of the lifetime supply of a female lab rat’s eggs are either damaged or destroyed due to it being “vaccinated” with COMIRNATY: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-covid-19-mrna-shots-destroy, “BREAKING: COVID-19 mRNA Shots Destroy Over 60% of Female Non-Renewable Egg Supply”, Nicolas Hulscher, 9 May 2025. If this is what happens with female Wistar lab rats being injected with these “vaccines”, the potential for damage to human female eggs is ALSO THERE: and, in fact, the Manniche, et al., study demonstrates this: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202504.2487/v1, “Rates of Successful Conceptions According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: Data from the Czech Republic”, Vibeke Manniche, et al., 29 April 2025. Note: this paper is a preprint — therefore, it can be Removed, Retracted, or Withdrawn at any time. Yours Truly urges interested readers to download or otherwise archive this paper.
Before leaving the discussion of ALC-0159 and ALC-0315, please see the following images from the MSDS Safety Sheets for these lipid nanoparticles, below. First, from https://cdn.caymanchemical.com/cdn/msds/34336m.pdf, for ALC-0159:
Note that both compounds are for research only. In fact, both compounds rate as a carcinogen (ethanol content.) In particular, the Cayman Chemcial MSDS for ALC-0315 reads like a textbook example of a very dangerous compound.
**** Note from the images of Page 7 and Page 8 above, that BNT162b2 crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier, as seen in the accumulation data images above: the “vaccine” accumulates in the Brain and in the Pituitary Gland. In addition, there is BNT162b2 accumulation in the Skin and in the Kidneys — this indicates that the “vaccine” ingredients can be “shed” from the skin and/or excreted via the kidneys into urine.
The Appendix 1: List of Adverse Events of Special Interest section of this report about BNT162b2, also given to the FDA by Pfizer-BioNTech (April 2021) has the reports listings of over 1,200 serious / fatal side effects induced by this “vaccine.” The report is found here: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf, “5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021“, FDA date-stamped 30 April 2021 at 09:26 GMT. This, in Yours Truly’s opinion, also needs to be required reading for any healthcare professional who is still “recommending”, let alone administering, COMIRNATY.
The COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” are actually gene-altering injectable therapies: they are not, strictly speaking, vaccines. Please see: https://academic,oup.com/intimm/article/33/10/521/6194108, “Development of COVID-19 vaccines utilizing gene therapy technology”, Hironori Nakagami, 27 March 2021. Every single person who has ever taken an injection of COMIRNATY has had a gene-altering therapy “cocktail” (under the guise of “it’s a vaccine”) injected into their body: something that “vaccinated” persons were never told about, nor for which they never explicitly granted permission to have put into their body.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is not being allowed to do his job — and, in fact, to quote another blog writer, he is being “muzzled.” The COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” have been, via the American Academy of Pediatrics lawsuit and subsequent “ruling” by Federal Judge Brian E. Murphy, are now fully back into the CDC Childhood Immunization Schedule. The new nominee to head the CDC, Dr. Erica Schwartz, is an Establishment Medicine “vaccine” proponent: https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/the-queen-of-mandating-vaccines, 18 April 2026. A screenshot from this article is below:
RFK Jr. drops the truth bomb on the COVID era: “They had to DESTROY ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine… because if they admitted it worked for ANYONE, the entire $200 BILLION vaccine enterprise would have COLLAPSED.”pic.twitter.com/rEEjSXrYPf
THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE HUMAN BODY FOR AN mRNA, A modRNA, AN saRNA, OR A taRNA PRODUCT OF ANY KIND.
THERE MUST BE MUCH MORE RESEARCH INTO THESE DELIVERY PLATFORMS, WITH EXTENSIVE TESTING AND DATA ANALYSES, AND WITH THE RESULTS BEING MADE PUBLIC.
THE COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “VACCINES” (GENE-THERAPY INJECTIONS) — ALL OF THEM — MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW.
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Today’s opener is primary about two children, grandsons #1 and #2. Updates on both follow. Granddaughter – #3 grandchild – is perfect of course. She is two years old going on fourteen and thoroughly attacking the terrible twos in the most bossy way possible. Any references to mamaw and her mom along with apples and trees do not usually end well.
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Grandson #2
Starting with #2: There are no lingering issues after having his leg run over by his dad with the family car at the drop zone at school a year ago (#2’s fault – see ADHD that follows). Dad even got over his fear and will drop and pick him up occasionally. 😂
Per his pediatrician #2’s leg is perfectly fine – a God miracle. The growth plate seems unaffected. Along the way ADHD has been diagnosed by the pediatrician for some time. It has been obvious to our entire family as well. He does well in his academics, yet, struggles to stay focused while being somewhat disruptive and getting in mild trouble along with his buds at times. Very recently he was diagnosed with mild to moderate food allergies – wheat and dairy primarily – as well as excessive glucose readings for his age. It also added to some restless legs and poor sleep. In short, his nutrition sucked, which further fed the ADHD. Mom and Dad realize they were too easy on it and have to do better as they rebuild his diet and more disciplined eating patterns.
He is in the 97th percentile on height and 85th on weight. Big dude for his age and very strong. Since he is only 9 years old, his reboot should not be a major challenge. He wants to play middle school football next season, so he knows he has to get his act together. He is the type child that if you explain why he needs to change or do something he accepts it readily and does his best. His parents must cooperate and remove as many temptations as possible, which they are committed to doing.
Intuniv (Guanfacine), a mild non-stimulant med has been prescribed for the ADHD and so far the results have been good. It is mild and acts purely as an enhancement for focus while taking out some of the excess motion. The teachers have all raved at how he has responded in class and with the other kids now with no disturbances and great focus. We have also noticed a return to his creative artist side at home, which has been welcome. We will continue to monitor closely along with follow up blood labs to see how the med and the reworked nutrition does with his system. The Intuniv use will be as short termed as possible, especially if the revised nutrition works well as he goes through puberty.
Grandson #1
The results for 6th grade with the Miacademy homeschooling curriculum are in. Grandson #1 blew through it with flying colors. Four A’s and one B. He also had an A in one course with the previous Time 4 Learning curriculum we left. Once again, science was his B (Earth Science). Language Arts, Math, American History, Biblical Studies and Life Skills (Typing) were the A’s. We are going to switch with his parents taking World History and me taking on Science this next school year. We want to see if a different voice and orientation toward science can help him excel like he is doing in the other courses.
That said, for the past two months he frequently completed the course videos, lesson questions, quizzes and final tests unassisted. We made ourselves available for any questions about the work, but for the most part left the room for him to figuratively go to school. His average time range spent per day was 3-3.5 hours. The exception was his parents providing assistance conducting experiments in the science course. He took short breaks in between segments to get a snack, something to drink or go to the bathroom. To see his confidence grow has been priceless.
His parents and I monitor the course content from the parent’s portal. We know in advance what he will be studying. It is no wonder so many who use this curriculum go on to college. It is thorough and well taught by interesting teachers in videos that generally last ten minutes per segment on average. The method and presentations keep the attention of the student.
Following each video the student goes through an extensive series of questions about the presented material that are in multiple choice or fill in the blank form. Students are not allowed to proceed with wrong answers. For every wrong answer the lesson segment adds two more related questions until all are answered correctly. If needed, the student can go back and rewatch the teaching video, consult PDF’s, and restart the lesson questions. After watching the video and completing the lesson questions; a quiz is given that counts for their score in that particular subject matter’s segment. There may be as little as four segments to as many as a dozen segments per chapter in each subject. There may be as little as five chapters for an elective course or more than a dozen for core subject courses. All subjects have additional PDF provided material in each segment that can be printed that supports and even goes beyond the video content should a more in-depth look be desired. In several subjects I found the PDF’s to be very helpful for better comprehension.
The curriculum’s emphasis is the opposite of many public schools today. The schools tend to teach for students to test well and are losing their minds over state required student assessment test requirements. This curriculum teaches for the students to simply learn well. As a result their students also test well. With less distractions than in a normal school environment, the student learns more in a shorter period of time because they remain focused on the material and not on what may be going on around them. Student social interactions can be provided through local homeschool support groups as desired.
There is some flexibility with selecting subjects. There are at least a half dozen electives for each grade level. Students can accelerate into higher grade level core subjects if desired. For example, #1 loves American History and we wanted to strike while the iron was hot. With this curriculum that course is a 7th – 8th grade subject. He took it anyway and aced it. He will take the normal 6th – 7th grade subject of World History as a 7th grader. There are a few choices for each grade level even within core subjects.
To complete the balance of his 180 school days to meet the state requirement, he is doing an outside subject of cursive writing, continuing music (vocal) lessons, library time, field trips, golf, tennis, etc. Since he started this school year in late July of 2025, there are not many days left to finish it anyway as he worked on subjects during Christmas break when he had nothing else to do. That’s flexibility. No matter where you are and what day of the week it is, you can have school if you have a computer and internet access.
The primary caution for parents with any curriculum that is selected is to monitor for objectionable content. Each have their own methods, so parents can choose the curriculum that best suits the child. Below is a reminder of what parents must navigate for their children both in schools and even in some homeschool curriculums.
It was the school provided language arts Taylor Swift dream story trans images that ignited our rapid departure from 4th grade public school with #1. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
A handful are much easier on subject matter content, which fits academically challenged kids. However, most users prefer academically challenging subjects that have ample content. We found this with Miacademy with the bonus of them using teaching methods that work well for #1 and many kids. We found a couple of narratives and woke type lessons that we addressed with him as they happened. There were not nearly as many or as obnoxious as Time 4 Learning, which is the largest curriculum provider in the nation that we used previously. They have also begun using AI totally for grading purposes. It was a nightmare with the written responses to questions for many students and parents alike. That ended for us with the switch and we now wish we had always used Miacademy or a similar curriculum and system because #1 remained interested in the subjects and learned well. MUCH better video presentations, methodology, testing, etc. in our and his opinions.
I have continued to update #1’s progress periodically to make a point. No child should be left behind. That slogan from the government was true. The methodology chosen to deliver it in many public schools stunk. More were left behind than in the past as the progressive narratives and methods took root. That has led to crap results and American school children falling well behind peers around the world. The good news is that it is now easier than ever before to educate your child, or have your child basically educate themselves. Academic achievement generally soars. Homeschooled children have been documented to collectively test higher on college entrance exams than public school peers. Students tend to take ownership of their performance much better as there is nobody else to blame for getting distracted or refusing to complete assignments.
We chose to use an umbrella school at a low annual fee for reporting. They then report his progress and attendance to our county school system. This umbrella school has its own private school and is accredited in four states. When #1 is finished, he will receive a high school diploma just like all other students in public and private schools with a transcript for submission to colleges and universities as desired. He can take the college entrance exams, submit all of it and go from there just like everybody else.
Some remember #1’s health story. He was born three weeks premature with birth trauma as he was stuck in the birth canal for three hours until an emergency C-section was performed. He did not have many motor skills. He never crawled normally and had therapy for over a year to learn to walk. He suffers from Dyspraxia that contributed to the condition, which presents body awareness and coordination issues. He had a full set of teeth by age 15 months. Had tubes in his ears as well as adenoids and tonsils removed by age four. He was diagnosed lactose intolerant, which had contributed to GERD. That condition went away as he aged fortunately. He has severe sensory issues from the birth trauma that will be long lasting and includes foods. This condition worsened when the schools forced masking during COVID. His anxiety went off the charts, which triggered the sensory responses.
I discussed his binocular vision issues previously, which were resolved through eye therapy – another blessing. However, his eyes are still very sensitive to sunlight. We are using a good pair of wrap sunglasses to help with that as needed. What was once observed and misdiagnosed to be absence seizures, a form of pediatric epilepsy, turned out to be focal events triggered by anxiety associated with the sensory issues. As he has matured and become more confident they have subsided and he has learned to manage them on his own.
Many of these issues have contributed to ADHD type symptoms that persist, but are subsiding as he matures. The condition did lead to hyperfocus on things he likes to the exclusion of those he doesn’t. This is addressed by family and therapy regularly. The good of hyperfocus is revealed with his high degree of intelligence that when focused, manifests itself in excellent learning and academics as well as music, golf, etc. performance. The negative is the over focusing to the exclusion of what may be going on around him.
Fortunately, his height is normal for a 12 year old, but his weight is well below due to the food sensory issues. We encourage him to eat anything and everything he likes while exposing him to other foods to try. He continues to have monthly chiropractic adjustments, which have been essential for helping his CNS develop normally. Some will recall how horribly his spine was out of alignment until discovered at age 8 after we took him to an excellent chiropractor who had years of additional medical training on brain and CNS functions. This has reduced the effects of the Dyspraxia and helps him be much more coordinated with a more even keeled personality, which improves his confidence strongly.
We have addressed all of this as a family with the help of professionals and found that at NO time were medications helpful for #1. In fact, as I posted previously, when we agreed to use prescriptions from physicians they had moderate to severely negative effects. Chiropractics, Physical (OT), Vision and Eating therapies have improved or resolved many of the issues. It seems he has been through every test possible – MRI. scans, scopes, biopsy, blood tests, EKG, allergy testing, etc. Traditional medicine was helpful in the testing and eliminated some potential medical causes of the issues he faces. But as for providing cures – nope.
Throughout it all #1’s behavior and attitude have been exceptional. He loves the Lord, family, church buddies, and neighbor friends. His friends think he is the coolest, most fun guy on the planet, which strokes his ego. The golf and tennis have strongly helped coordination as well as assisted with sensory issues. He sings from his heart and is making good progress as a vocalist. In a year or so he will add back guitar lessons as his dexterity has improved greatly.
In less than three years starting from abysmal public school IEP reviews per teachers and administrators at the time that had him being a first grader academically, he has advanced 6 grade levels academically. He would have been a total failure if left in public schools. They are not equipped to honor “no child left behind” as they are manufacturing type facilities built on widget production. We cannot cast all the blame on them, his health issues would have made it difficult to thrive in that type of environment even with more dedicated assistance. We do blame them for not honoring the conditions of the IEP’s and the law by refusing to provide the required services without us pursuing legal remedies. Instead, their initial refusal and our decision to do it ourselves turned out to be the biggest blessing we could ever imagine. We give thanks and praise for all God has done to heal and grow #1. We know He has been involved in directing his path. Along the way we would hit a wall and not know what to do. Then when it was needed most there would be a clear answer that worked. We would then proceed down the path that led to the next solution to a problem. Some of those answers came from QTree members along the way. We are eternally grateful.
In summary, we have learned and worked hard to improve his lot in life. He has responded by giving his all and truly appreciates all of the help and attention. Very few if any people do not like #1. He is a light unto the world, but he is not an angel on earth. The teenager wiseazz is kicking in, which can be very funny or exasperating depending on the moment. Have no idea where that comes from.
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There are keys that open doors to living and learning well for all of us, to achieve more that we thought possible. Find the keys, ask God to help, then use them to unlock and open doors. Pay attention to what God lays on your heart and do it, He will equip you. This is one old guy who never dreamed he would find complete fulfillment in helping homeschool a child, yet, here I am blessed beyond measure and still learning.
Some scripture to help us,
“When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.’” – Mark 10:14
“And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” – Matthew 18:5
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” – Matthew 18:10
“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.” – Psalm 127:3
“Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 18:4
““Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?” – Matthew 21:16
“Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.” – Colossians 3:21
“All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.” – Isaiah 54:13
Finally, strive for the following with your own children and grandchildren,
“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.” – Proverbs 17:6
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
God Hates?
Seven things that God hates are a catalog of sins summed up in Proverbs 6:16–19. While these aren’t the only sins that should be avoided, they do sum up most of the wicked things condemned by God. The seven things God hates are the sins that deal with the deep heart motives of the individual. The writer of Proverbs points the finger straight at our hearts and our sinful thought processes.
This is in line with our Lord Jesus Christ’s elaboration of the Ten Commandments during His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:21–48). Sin is committed the moment it is conceived in the heart, even before it is actually committed. Avoiding the seven things God hates will help us expose our hidden intentions and motives.
The following is Proverbs’ list of seven things God hates:
Arrogant (haughty) eyes: This describes a feeling of pride and looking down upon others (Philippians 2:3, 5–11). When we begin to think of ourselves more highly and with unparalleled importance, we are forgetting the fact that anything good in us is the result of Christ living in us and that the old self is now dead (Galatians 2:20). Often, believers feel superior to other believers when they receive godly wisdom and display amazing tenacity against sin. We fail to realize these gifts were given by God through Christ and fanned into flame by the Holy Spirit and are not due to our own goodness. This sin of pride is so detested by the LORD that Paul was kept from committing this sin by being provided with “a thorn in the flesh” to humble him (2 Corinthians 12:7).
Lying tongue: A lying tongue is one that speaks falsehood, knowingly and willingly, with an intention to deceive others. Lying can be used to impugn the character of a brother or to flatter a friend. It is a most detestable evil to God, who is a God of truth. Nothing we do causes us to more closely resemble the devil, who is the father of lies (John 8:44).
Hands that shed innocent blood: This refers to cold-blooded murder. We may never have orchestrated killing someone or never have touched a gun or knife, but in Matthew 5:21–24, Jesus says that anyone who is angry with someone else unreasonably without offering room for forgiveness commits a sin equivalent to murder. John reiterates this concept in 1 John 3:15.
A heart that devises wicked schemes: This encompasses thinking or conceiving evil against any individual or group for personal benefit or other misguided objectives, like modern-day terrorists indulge in. Any sin is basically a wicked scheme. David’s sin against Uriah the Hittite and Bathsheba comes to mind (2 Samuel 11). The heart of an evil man continually contrives schemes to bring others to ruin, whether physically or spiritually.
Feet that are quick to rush into evil: Those whose feet are quick to rush into evil display no resistance whatsoever to sin. Having many examples in the Bible, and having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30; Galatians 5:16), we are expected to be wise in this regard (Romans 6:11–14; Ephesians 5:5, 11). In the Garden of Eden, Eve had the first experience of temptation. She displayed no resistance to the serpent’s temptation. Instead, as soon as the devil attracted her to the fruit, she “saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye” (Genesis 3:6). Eve had sinned at that moment itself. Contrast this with the attitude of Jesus: when tired and hungry after forty days and forty nights of fasting, He refused to yield to the devil’s tempting and killed the temptation in His mind without allowing it to grow into sin (Matthew 4:1–11). “Resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).
False witness who pours out lies: This is similar to the sin of the lying tongue mentioned earlier, but this form of lying is given special mention as it could send an innocent person to jail or even lead to him being stoned to death as happened to Naboth, thanks to false witnesses instigated by the wicked Jezebel (1 Kings 21:8–14). The prohibition against bearing false witness is the ninth of the Ten Commandments, and the New Testament is equally condemning of it. Colossians 3:9–10 explains the reason for the continued prohibition against lying. Christians are new creations in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), and, as such, we reflect His nature. We have been released from our “old self” with its evil practices such as lying and bearing false witness.
A man who stirs up dissension among brothers: Brothers are created by God to live in unity (Psalm 133:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:9). Believers are brothers and sisters since they have one Father God and one Brother, Jesus Christ. The Church is also the Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:25–27). In many situations strife among brothers and even within the church seems unavoidable, but anyone who purposely causes disruption to peace in the body of Christ will displease God above all, since that person gives room for others to sin and for himself to sin further (1 John 2:9–11; 4:19–21). Moreover, Jesus pronounced a great blessing on peacemakers, the privilege to be called “sons of God” (Matthew 5:9). xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/seven-things-God-hates.html
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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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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.
The vintage image of mass vaccination for today’s offering is courtesy of Google Images.
Health Friday is a series on information regarding Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: AI-generated items in today’s offering, if any, will be cited as such. If readers wish to post AI-generated items in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Yours Truly begins here: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hhs-funds-gain-of-function-influenzacovid, “HHS Funds Gain-of-Function Influenza — COVID ‘Frankenvirus’ Combining Influenza Entry With SARS-CoV-2 Human Cell – Binding Domain”, 10 April 2026. Two screenshots regarding this are below: the first, from the Fleetwood article; the second, from the paper itself (published December 2025). Thanks to Mr. Fleetwood for this information:
By the way, NIH grant P01-AI165075 (going to Rockefeller University, New York) has multiple “permutations” in the https://reporter.nih.gov/ listing. **** The “permutation” that helped to fund the paper below (cited in the Fleetwood article) is 3P01AI165075 – 01S1, Sub-Project ID: 6568, awarding entity NIAID, total funding: $983,100. (And this is only ONE “permutation” of P01-AI165075.)
**** What this lab-created “combo virus”, called X31 H3 S-RBD in the paper, contains:
The RBD (Receptor Binding Domain) from the Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 virus (the original COVID-19 virus); plus
Seven other viral RNAs (vRNAs) from the H1N1 (Influenza A) Puerto Rico/1/1934 strain (PR8)
The Abstract of this paper is below. It is a clear statement that Gain-of-Function was used to lab-create this “combo virus” (lines 28 – 35):
Let’s take a look at the involvement with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) in the study that produced this paper. The paper states that Tiong Kit Tan, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences – Oxford Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, is one of the researchers/co-authors. CAMS is a collaborator with the Chinese Communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA.) CAMS is one of the “Top 5” domestic (Chinese-based) collaborators with the PLA. Please see: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/china/people-s-liberation-army-pla/555c2052140ba014648b456b; scroll down the page to the list of “Domestic Collaborators.”
Further down the page, there is the list of “International Collaborators” with the PLA. It is interesting to note that NUS (National University of Singapore) is ranked as Number One here. It is also interesting to note that NUS has a large medical school that is a “satellite” of Duke University (Chapel Hill, North Carolina;https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg.)
The question arises: How much research data, analyses, lab samples, and more, from these “international collaborators” with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, wind up in laboratories run by the People’s Liberation Army in hospitals and universities throughout Communist China?
The NIH grant that helped to fund Dr. Kawaoka’s work for the above cited paper is 75N93021C00014. The grant contract information is found here: https://www.highergov.com/contract/759321C00014/. An image of the Government Description of this grant, from the website, is below:
Note that sentence about, “Includes international and domestic basic and clinical influenza research…” — in other words, covering “collaborators” like CAMS. Note that “studies of viral evolution, transmission, and immune responses in animal models and humans” covers Gain-of-Function work.
CEIRR stands for Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response. The website description of this research division of NIAID is here: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/centers-excellence-influenza-research-response. Scroll down the page to “Main Areas of Focus” to this statement: “To support projects to determine how influenza viruses evolve, adapt and transmit between humans and at interspecies interfaces”. This is “code” for supporting Gain-of-Function research on influenza viruses. There are multiple “permutations” of NIH grant 75N93021C00014 listed at https://reporter.nih.gov/search/6vlkhZH5302zeKPiGnsO5g/projects, most of which were awarded to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (one of the CEIRR main hubs of research.)
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Yours Truly turns to what might be, in her opinion, called a “permutation” of Gain-of-Function research: experiments on human beings to further a Patent invention.
The Patent in question is: US11369675B2, “Broadly protective inactivated influenza virus vaccine”, held by Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, MD, Acting Director of NIAID. The Patent declaration is found here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11369675B2/en. The application for the Patent was filed on 12 October 2020; the Patent was granted on 28 June 2022; the “Adjusted expiration” date of the Patent is 24 January 2039; and, the Patent was assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS.) Dr. Taubenberger, during this timeline, was an employee of HHS, before he became Acting Director of NIAID. He, in fact, is a career HHS (NIH) employee.
It appears that Dr. Taubenberger is working to further the Patent regarding the development of an intranasal “universal influenza vaccine.” His most recent published paper in this regard is here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12375958/S#23, “Nasal and systemic immune responses correlate with viral shedding after influenza challenge in people with complex preexisting immunity”, Jeffery Taubenberger, et al., 6 August 2025. This paper describes a very small study of 74 persons (originally 80 persons) that was conducted in 2019 per the cited paper above (NCT01971255.) However, the ACTUAL study dates of NCT01971255, per https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01971255, indicate a timeframe between September 2013 and September 2015. In addition, the referenced paper number 11 in the cited paper above describes the same experimental study, but via a paper published about it in 2024 (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article/PMC10865821/, “Mucosal correlates of protection after influenza viral challenge of vaccinated and unvaccinated healthy volunteers”, Jeffery Taubenberger, et al., 9 January 2024.) This, to Yours Truly, raises questions regarding the timing of the publishing of these papers, since the actual study was conducted over 10 years ago. What goes on here?
The bottom lines of NCT10971255: there were 80 enrolled study subjects; half were vaccinated with a licensed influenza “vaccine”; half were unvaccinated; ALL subjects were then given an intranasal LIVE VIRUS H1N1 (swine flu), called Ca/04/2009/H1N1r Challenge Virus; ALL subjects were then tested numerous times via a middle turbinate nasal swab (this means that the swab samples were taken from well inside the upper nasal cavity each time); apparently, ALL subjects became ill with flu symptoms, some of which were severe; 6 study subjects withdrew for various reasons; all testing using the “intranasal challenge virus” was performed at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland; the study subjects were brought there for the “challenge” (and likely had to stay there or in the immediate area, as they were assessed daily for a minimum of 9 days.)
Dr. Taubenberger is the recipient of NIAID research funding related to Avian Influenza viruses, his “universal influenza vaccine”, and to the SARS-CoV-2 virus — in the 2025 fiscal year, among other years. However, 2025 is the year in which Dr. Taubenberger became the Acting Director of NIAID. The “umbrella grant” prefix number is either 1ZIAAI00 or 1ZIAAI000, each followed with the suffix number: for example, 1ZIAAI001372-03, “Universal Influenza Vaccine Development”, for $2,153,677. This grant, as at least one other per https://reporter.nih.gov/ (search: Jeffery Taubenberger), lists NO contact data; NO Project Start Date; NO DUNS number; NO Budget End Date; among other lack of public information. What goes on here? Is Dr. Taubenberger perhaps granting NIAID research funds to himself?
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Finally, is appears that HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is going to start a podcast:
Sec. Kennedy, Jr., states that he will “…ask the questions and lift the taboos and expose the hypocrisy and the conflicts and the corruption…We’re going to follow the evidence wherever it leads, and we’re going to name the names of the forces that obstruct the paths to public health.”
All well and good. However — will Sec. Kennedy, Jr., “name the names”, such as: the person who invented the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself — Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill? Such as, the person who could have stopped the entire COVID-19 “vaccine” disaster in the United States in December 2020, but who instead signed off on the CDC’s “recommendation” for the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine”, BNT162b2, without any further investigation — Dr. Robert Redfield, then-Director of the CDC? Such as, the person who was responsible for the NIAID funding that produced the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself — Dr. Anthony Fauci, former NIAID Director? Such as, the USAMRIID personnel responsible for working with PfizerUSA (Pfizer-BioNTech) in the development of BNT162b2? Will Sec. Kennedy, Jr., “name the names” of the products that, by far, have obstructed, and continue to obstruct, “the paths to public health” — the COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines”?
ALL GAIN-OF-FUNCTION WORK IN THE UNITED STATES, OF ANY TYPE, MUST BE STOPPED. NOW.
Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA
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In honor of a day in America that led to slavery of all tax paying citizens, April 15, we dedicate this opener. It will not delve much into the history of the income tax’s origin, Gail has already handled that quite well and I urge you to read her works related to it. In them we revisit the period around 1913 and its many federal government related acts of aggression against We the People with the income tax being a big one.
I want to focus more on the way out of it, which #47 and Scott Bessent are orchestrating, now that we know tariffs are going to stay in play. We know the Fed is in process of being neutered and in the process, our petro dollar based fiat currency reserve will change to a version closer to what we had pre 1971 when gold was still the standard bearer and markets were less volatile with their bubbles and busts. Those were the days that brought us these immortal words that are still how it all should go,
#47 already told all of us how our nation can earn it – by him and future Presidents using tariffs.
So, let’s focus on how Trade thinks this may be positioned to go.
National Piggy Bank
Very few people will deny that it seems the entire world has used us as one. My goodness, the tossing money at illegal aliens, NGOs, fraudsters, foreign nations, and a sundry of criminal causes and enterprises of the moment for decades has been mind blowing. Most of us had no idea that trade imbalances were being built through unfair trade practices as long as that cheap shiz from China, Bangladesh, Meh-i-co and such kept showing up on our doorsteps. Once it was starting to be exposed, most of us could not get it off our minds how we have been lied to and used continuously for questionable to horrible purposes that had less than zero long lasting benefit to us. The worst part is it has resulted in a $38+ trillion and climbing national debt. We have all been paying excess taxes to support thieves and war pigs the entire time going back to the Vietnam War.
That is coming to an end. Many simultaneous actions are being undertaken by #47 which will stem the tide and then seemingly all at once, eliminate it. Our role is to keep the pressure on elected officials and the judiciary. We need to help Trump be Trump, to be followed by Vance being Vance, Rubio being Rubio, etc.
Who holds the largest amount of the debt? The same entity that will have #47’s hand pick take over as Chairman soon. Expect things to radically, but quietly change at the Fed and with the changes the national debt picture. Besides lower interest rates, it will probably include the spin out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into private entities that removed contingent debt from our collective books, marking our strategic reserves of gold and silver to market, market moves internationally to sell some debt, and possibly bankrupting a few complicit mega national banks and even Fed banks that have insufficient cash to meet their requirements.
That is even leaving out the effects of the potential use of stablecoin with blockchain tech.
All of the planned and already staged actions reduce inflation and interest rate volatility. So why is that so important? Simply, for every 1% reduction in the fed funds rate, there is a reduction in debt service interest of $500 – 600 billion. The current rate is 150-200 basis points (1.5 – 2.0%) higher than debt markets, economic activities, employment, and inflation indicate it should be. This has gone on for the entire first plus year of #47’s term. That tells us that at the time of this post that close to $1.5 trillion of our annual deficit is bogus just on that one issue. Why? The Fed has been doing it because some large international banks, their masters, have been running out of cash liquidity. Cutting to the chase – it has been an ongoing manipulation that hurts We the People in exchange for propping up their elitist scum bucket friends.
The dirty, not so secret, secret is they are upside down on derivatives in the big banking world. The Fed with their mega bank cronies, including the Euros, are trying to keep enough cash in the connected banking system to stay afloat. They do that by keeping the Fed Funds rate higher than the economics indicate plus while rolling the currency printing presses. You do not have to be a financial expert to tell which banks are most endangered. Just consider the individual responses to #47 and Bessent’s policies and statements. The move away from fiat currency puts holes in and in some cases sinks many of their boats. Even with that, many nations and mega banks are capitulating worldwide starting in Switzerland and progressing through the EU as Bessent turns the screws. Add in the effects of taking Iran out as a lever of their power and it seems tough times are ahead for many EU globalists. Spain has been particularly offended of late. Oh well…
The obstruction led by Jerome Powell has been criminal and even treasonous in my book. He has been screwing all of us, not just #47, in an effort to save the globalist cabal’s kingdom. America Last has been the Dems and Fed’s mission for many years.
The major ratings agencies have been telling the world for years that our growing national debt is a huge problem. It has not been a secret to anybody. Despite knowing that, the world invested into the debt of America, Inc. Instead of seeking funds from selling debt, It seems that the #47 generated trillions in investment into America to avoid tariffs. That spikes fed revenues over a relatively short period of time and leads to the win in The Golden Age that follows once the old guard’s thieving is kaput.
So what does all of that mean for We the People?
Trump Accounts & More
Now that we have identified a relatively easy solution to $1.5 trillion or more in annual deficit just with Fed interest rates being normalized, let’s look at another big ticket annual cost. How many reading this know how much of the federal budget, not the annual overspend (deficit), is comprised of the entitlement program of Social Security?
It is approximately 21% ($1.5 T) of the expenditures annually. Funny, that amount appears again.
One way to look at it is that it is a pretty big chunk that makes up much, if not all of the annual deficit even with the efforts of DOGE and other savings have kicked in. You do understand that the feds do not really lockbox your Social Security contributions, right? It all goes into the same pot and is used for the same grifting even with the separate accounting. They are Ponzi scheming. They are using a growing population’s contributions (including a previously exploding illegal alien population using fake ID’s/SS numbers) to fund existing enrollee funds allocations. Please tell me you remember they just removed over 12 million SS account recipients over the age of 110 or so. All were recipients of monthly checks and likely “voted” in our elections. You do know that most of that money was going to fake ID illegals who funneled it back to their handlers who fund the crooked politicians and government criminals.
Which is one major reason why the cabal members wanted a lot of older people to die with the COVID plandemic (scamdemic, hoax, whatever you want to call it). Scare enough of the sheeple into taking clot shots that accelerate the death rate to improve the actuarial tables to help fund the projected outflow to the criminals.
The problem they experienced has been that more people began to be skeptical about all of the COVID boosters and the fear porn they used. Fool me once applied as the resulting health issues of jabees became ill and died. The first two clot shots did some damage to the 70% or so of Americans who took them. However, to achieve the full kill effect they targeted, they needed far more sheeple to have 5+ shots. You know that is the number from PAVACA’s incredible research.
Meanwhile, MAGA patriots saw through it even when our germaphobe leader still backed his Warp Speed program. He read the tea leaves and backed off somewhat. He went on to have Bobby take over HHS and fully supported him to complete his personal withdrawal from weighing in on the issue, thankfully.
Now, a large number of younger MAGA patriots are doing what Charlie Kirk said to do all along – love Jesus, love country, get married and have babies. #47 along with JD became close to Charlie. They believed in him and the mission of TPUSA. So after he was elected he saw that TPUSA could help save America short and long term. Now the only defense that have are paid fake MAGA influencers who are rapidly declining in influence as their shilling is revealed.
We all knew the enemies of America would drink their own kool-aid and kill themselves off eventually, they always do. The Karens and Kens of baby making age are not into having kids anyway. Most Karens cannot even get a Ken interested in them. much less a MAGA male. Once the illegals were heading home, the left has effectively been isolated and continues to destroy themselves in incredibly stupid attempts to stay relevant.
Enter Trump Accounts and increased BBB child tax credits. Trump Accounts are rewards for baby making to encourage a return to understanding capitalism and the American Way. Funding initially will come from entities and private business people such as Michael Dell and wife. Promises from #47 indicate there is more on the way and it appears funding can even come from future “dividends” he declares from the coffers of America, Inc. Those revenues would undoubtedly come from, drumroll please, tariffs.
If families also invest funds in to their children’s accounts and the feds manage the funds as proposed well, the index accounts they use to produce anticipated historical returns of 8-15% over time will allow our young people to roll the dice and leave the funds invested. Or they can use for education, buy a home, and so on. Program details will be coming in advance of the July roll out.
But wait, there is MOAR!
Back To Social Security
Building Trump Accounts into the psyche and lexicon of the American public opens the door for younger adults to seek personal investment and private retirement funding exclusive of the current Social Security methodology and delivery because they doubt it will exist when they get there. For the record, I doubted as well some four decades ago and yet, here we are still receiving benefits.
For some of of us oldsters, we remember when many employers stopped offering defined benefit pension plans as 401-k style plans were first developed and approved by the federal government. The standard bearing, universally employer offered Defined Benefit Plans are very expensive for employers to maintain and as the average American lifespan increased, even more so. To protect recipients who worked many years to earn good ones, the federal government established an agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), to insure all plans. Employers pay fees to the PBGC that insures all recipients will receive their pensions even it there becomes a situation that there are insufficient funds available in each employer pension plan.
Employers sought a less expensive answer for retirement and the 401-k was devised along with other similar plans. Most employers stopped offering defined benefit plans and offered 401-k plans to replace. Benefits for existing participants in the former were frozen at their current levels for existing employees. The employees then began contributing to their own retirements in the latter. Many employers began offering some level of match of the amount an employee contributed subject to individual plan parameters and federal regulations. The better the employer did financially, the more some would contribute. The employee would choose their investments from a smorgasbord of options in mutual funds, bond funds and money market rates. Over time the vast majority of retirement plans have evolved to this type.
At this point, you should be seeing what may be coming with “Social Security” in the future.
Trump Accounts are the educator, the government does the investing for you, just in index funds instead of interest starved Treasuries. So, instead of the low risk, low ball fake SS investment model; they get to prove themselves worthy of the new method that will still be regulated. Unlike Social Security’s Ponzi scheme, Trump type accounts are actually invested into equities and bond markets using index funds. That helps fuel our capitalism based economy. Win-win applies. The returns people receive based on historical performance of index funds far exceeds inflation, treasury bond rates and bank interest on savings instruments.
Again, the current Social Security program is nothing more than a Ponzi weirded Defined Benefit Pension Plan with the federal government tax revenues funding it based on antiquated ways to take care of the income needs of senior citizens. By giving all adult citizens the option to go with a federal government version of a 401-k, which is what a Trump Account resembles, the government no longer has to fund the SS program for those who seek to have better returns and control over their money and futures. The SS funding gets shored up as needed through tariff revenues as all of the old users pass away.
Independence matters. Making market returns is important. Fueling education and investment into capitalism is crucially important. We did not become the greatest nation on earth by being Marxists and compliant sheeple. Patriotic Americans are bold innovators and hard workers.
Your Budget
I hope I do not have to tell you what lowering the interest rates and increasing the fuel and power generation supplies in America does to the costs of household budgets. Then add in what the BBB did to personal income taxes. The snowball rolling downhill has already begun.
It matters to us in flyover country what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. Destroy the sponsors of terrorism and the world gets flooded with oil that we already have more than ample supply of domestically. What does that tell you about future energy costs, which flows into the cost of products and services?
Lower interest rates do not just apply to home mortgages, car loans, and credit cards; the lower rates apply to funds borrowed by businesses as well as government. The fuel and power costs lowers prices the same ways including transportation costs. Less taxes paid are obvious. All of if increases available consumer spending for more and more American made products, which increases jobs and related wage rates and benefits. Meanwhile illegals are going home, who have been taking many jobs at below market wages without paying taxes, yet, voting and receiving government and medical services
All of the activity increases fed tax revenues, reduces government borrowing (bonds), and reduces the interest cost in the federal budget. That accelerates the elimination of the annual budget deficit as well as national debt over time. More international business investment and growth decreases wars just as all of PDT’s economically driven peace deals have done.
Conclusion
By supporting common sense moves the entire annual deficit at current levels should be eliminated at a good, measured pace. The moves even leave ample room for the support of PDT’s proposed military budget increase as the funding flows into job creation as well as preserving our freedom. That expands our national influence and prevents foreign aggression for decades to come. Peace through strength again proves to be the best deterrent there is.
The war pigs still lose along with all of the forever war politicians aligned with them.
Is that lead AI generated pig Lindsey Graham?
Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.
Before all things and people – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan.
