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“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
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Whenever the possibility presents, throw sand into the machinery…
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WASHINGTON (Feb. 13 1998) — For President Bill Clinton, getting through the past three weeks will go down in history as an amazing feat of political survival. But he didn’t do it alone. He had help from an unlikely source, one that dooms presidents more often than it saves them.
Within hours after news of the Monica Lewinsky scandal leaked out, the press was ready to declare Clinton a goner.
“If these allegations are true, the president is in very deep trouble,” predicted political analyst Robert Novak.
“If he gets out of this, he will be Houdini,” theorized CNN Senior White House Correspondent Wolf Blitzer.
“We’re in a completely different league than some of the kind of stories that we’ve seen in the past,” suggested U.S. News & World Report’s David Gergen.
Syndicated columnist George Will said the Clinton presidency was dead, “deader really than Woodrow Wilson’s was after he had a stroke.”
Then all of a sudden, everything changed. The national press got blindsided by shocking revelations from an unfamiliar source, the American people.
“The week that started in full crisis mode for the White House is ending with an air of, if not relaxation, at least relief. The president’s public approval rating is higher than ever,” reported CNN’s Judy Woodruff on Jan. 30.
The polls reported a remarkable surge of public support for the president. These were not polls taken for the White House or the Democratic Party. These were polls taken by the news media.
Clinton went from a 60 to 69 percent job approval in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. His approval jumped from 59 to 66 percent in the CNN/TIME Poll, and from 57 to 72 percent in a CBS News survey.
A poll this week showed the most dramatic result of all. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll gave Clinton his highest approval rating ever of 79 percent.
“It almost defies the law of gravity,” said pollster Peter Hart. “Even Republicans, 55 percent of them are giving the president a positive job rating. Unbelievable.”
The polls silenced Republicans and rallied Democrats. Did the polls have an effect on press coverage? You bet. A whole new conventional wisdom sprang up overnight.
Novak changed his tone, saying, “So what’s going to happen, right now, I would still bet against impeachment. I would bet against resignation.”
The Wall Street Journal’s Al Hunt said on CNN’s “Capital Gang,” “I think we can say that legally, or on the question of impeachment, that is de minimus. I mean, it just simply isn’t going to happen.”
The people have spoken. God bless the people! And they forced the press, baying for Clinton’s blood only a few days before, to submit. The polls became crucial players in this episode. The polls saved the president, and poll-takers earned themselves the political Play of the Week.
Critics have sometimes charged polls create their own, artificial news. But in this case, the situation was reversed. The press was living in an artificial news environment, driven by its own imperatives to “get” the president.
It was the polls brought the press back to reality, and compelled them to cease and desist.
Note: This is a great example of how the enemy MSM rallied to save their chosen CFR/NWO/WEF stooge. This is when it became okay for 50 + year old man to diddle his 18 year old intern and oral sex was not sex any longer. What the meaning of “is” is? Polls are crap, designed to effect public opinion not gauge it. Everything that emanates from the swamp is fraud.
FYI.
Purr-fect!
I feel it’s important to understand that anything that touches the swamp is a fraud. Polls = fraud, MSM = fraud, Politicians = frauds, all alphabet agencies = fraud, republican/democrat/uniparty = fraud, red wave of mostly rinos = fraud, Wars = fraud and on and on it goes.
Hmm,…and Fraud vicciates EVERYTHING!
So, how is it that we still have a contract, between the Gov and the People, aka the Constitution?
And, if ONE party to a contract considtently violates the terms of the Contract, thru FRAUD, at what point is the OTHER party relieved of ANY obligations, UNDER the contract?
That’s been my contention since 11/2/20. This is not a little fraud but massive fraud. It must be corrected.
What does it tell you about the validity of Polls taken by the two major Press Services conducting them…The Washington Post/The New York Time won Pulitzer Prizes for fabricated stories on Russia-gate.
Lewinsky deflected off of the ChinaGate treason which should have taken out much of the Clinton Administration and Democrat Campaign Finance Committee with charges ranging from high treason on down. It also deflected off the election steal and another project he was working on with Rabin who was assassinated
There are no coincidences in the swamp.
Sure,…but this story, as reported demonstrates WHY Impeachment is a POLITICAL, not legal process.
The Senate can only vote to convict, if the American people will accept that verdict.
If the POTUS’s popularity is in the toilet, like Brandons is now, he CAN be impeached for any reason, should Congress WANT to.
If he is very popular, Congress won’t impeach him, even if he is guilty of numerous crimes.
The Insurance Policy “muh Russia” was an unsuccessful attempt to “Watergate” PDJT, by finding an excuse to appoint a Special Prosecutor, to anally probe him, his family, etc. and leak “revelations” true or not, to a willing press, to steadily beat down his popularity, while forcing him and his admin into a defensive crouch.
It didn’t work, in large part because PDJT didn’t “fall for it” or play the role as they planned.
He fought back, AND pushed forward his AmericaFirst, MAGA agenda, and despite ALL the negative press, actually increased his popularity.
The end game of the plan was for Graham to see PDJT, and inform him “they have enough Republicans in the Senate, to vote to convict. For Country and Party, you must resign!” which, notice means no Republican Senator actually HAS to vote to convict.
IF PDJT’s popularity had dropped like Nixons did, such a scenario “They have the votes” would have been believable, but the DIDN’T.
ALL that work, to coup PDJT out, for nought.
President Trump’s achievements are remarkable considering the forces arrayed against him.
Glad to see you posting again, Dutchman!
1998 Iraq Liberation Act signed by Clinton, was cited by Bush in the 2002 AUMF.
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Maybe when FJB is in Buffalo tomorrow exploiting and inflaming the situation, he’ll mention a few of these fine folks in one of his speeches?
FJB/FIB
People with American flags and MAGA hats will be beaten and jailed untill a case is built against them.
How nice of him to use this tragedy as a Dem. campaign stop. Ugh, he’s just awful in so many ways. FBI will be propping him up so he doesn’t fall over.
No one will mention any of the real facts about anything. It will all be geared towards gun control and blaming every person right of center for this incident. They sure won’t mention the guy was a lefty by his own words.
Was the ‘counselling’ the shooter was receiving MK Ultra training?
Wonder if potatus will mention the Ukrn. azov
n a z i symbols on the killer’s clothes?
I’m sure we’ll hear some Ultra Maga references.
Exploiting and inflaming is exactly correct, Niagara.
All swept under the rug. Nothing to see here.
All out on low bail?
You can the Mass Killer at the Christmas Parade that ran down a dozen White people with his van!
White Supremacy is our biggest domestic threat according to the DOJ.
I thought our biggest domestic threat was the DOJ according to the American people?
Why does a grocery store require an armed guard? To thwart crazy white kids committing mass murder? Uh … no. It’s to thwart blacks robbing blacks. How about we focus on that!?
PS … NONE of the grocery stores in my beautiful lilywhite (and Asian) suburb have security guards. None of em. Why? Why is violent crime tolerated in black cities?
According to the FBI who does everything it can to conceal Black and Hispanic crime almost 70% of homicides in the United States are committed by Black males between the ages of 12 and 40 which comprises only 4% of the population. On top of that the FBI lumps Hispanic gang murders in the White category. These people actually work for us?
I took my daughter to a soccer tournament in Long Beach (the LBC, yo) … and went looking for a liquor store to take a cold beer back to my hotel. Well … I just randomly drove until I found one … in a rather *ahem* sketchy neighborhood. I bought my beer by passing cash through a drawer to a man enclosed behind steel bars and bulletproof glass. Not my people. And NOT my country … or it shouldn’t be.
Years ago my wife took our daughter to a soccer tournament at the Pompano Beach High School after the match she left and started to drive home there was a Broward County Sheriff’s car that followed her block by block to the I-95 entrance ramp. My wife waved a big THANK YOU to the deputy and he honked back!
And every single grocery store in my area of Seattle has multiple security guards and some also have police stationed outside.
Rosa Koire was dedicated to uncovering public policies intended to strip people of our individual rights. She passed away in 2021
As you can see here many of her youtube videos were taken down
https://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
Agenda 21 – Rosa Koire – Behind the Green Mask
Talk from 2014
Many thanks for posting this extraordinary bit of prophecy!
She speaks at one point about a “war on rural people,” which is something I believe absolutely is happening, and, in this regard, one should add that a failure to manage forest areas (leading to powerful, unstoppable infernos in CA and elsewhere) IS OF A PIECE with the aforementioned war.
As in many other and sundry instances, leftist ideology has proven to be a crazy, unreliable blend of weirdo futurism and whacko primitivism.
We can observe this in CA’s fire abatement philosophy which seems to embrace indigenous peoples’ original fire safety practice of inflaming huge areas as control burns. Of course, with the advent of modern civilization (something the left only embraces when it enlarges their sphere of power), such control fires will burn through entire rural communities, thus forcing relocation to urban areas, also known as propaganda and reeducation centers for the left.
You see, the ultimate goal is to return all rural areas to the indigenous peoples, and coup up the rest of humanity and Western Civilization in liberal wonderlands like Chicago, where, apparently, in the eyes of most people there, everything is absolutely cool, and just the way they want it, AND, APPARENTLY, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY!
I guess when you live in a place like Lightfoot’s Chicago, the thing people really need to worry about is TRUMP.
How do you fix that kind of an attitude?
Maybe the US Senate could hold hearings about making the greater Chicago area a protected federal penal colony.
At least that would be constructive improvement.
That was the policy during the Vietnam war, get the peasant rice farmers out of the rurai areas and into the cities where they can be controlled. Same old playbook, use it till it doesn’t work anymore.
I think you have your history a little skewed.
The US Agency for International Development (A CIA front group, by the way) initiated the Strategic Hamlet Program in order to, it was believed, group farmers together in fortified locations where they could be trained to defend themselves from the Viet Cong. These fortified hamlets were out in the countryside near rice fields, not in major cities.
The problem with the program was, the farmers were Buddhists who believed that the spirits of their ancestors resided in their former homes. Thus, the people felt lost and abandoned and never adjusted to life in the fortified hamlets.
For reference, read David Halberstrom’s A Bright Shining Lie. Or Stanley Karnow’s Vietnam.
I regularly encounter people FROM Chicago, and they invariably are seemingly very proud of being from Chicago,…
The thing is, none of them I meet LIVE in Chicago, I meet them, they are living in Arizona?
If Chicago is as great as they seem to think it is, WHY aren’t they living there?
I grew up on the South side of Chicago, 1950s-1970s. I went to a Chgo Public School, traveled on the Rock Island train regularly to go downtown– then ride the elevated train in the Loop, walked the streets of downtown and N. Michigan Ave., went to museums and parks along Lake Michigan. Never was accosted, threatened, or scared.
Now the city’s milieu/atmosphere is totally different. I do not live there, and no longer go back for museums or shopping. Sad, and tragic actually.
The city had so much to offer, but I cannot recommend it to anyone now for a visit or even a driving tour. The unbridled thugs have made the nice places danger zones.
every city, town and state run by Democrats / progressives becomes worse than a dangerous third world ****hole
Same thing here in Georgia.
Central Bank Digital Currency: A country by country guide
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/cbdc-a-country-by-country-guide?s=r
Good post. Any thoughts on how to turn this around?
Constitutional amendment securing the people’s right to a physical legal tender.
“a physical legal tender”; AMMO.
Gold IS useful for wealth PRESERVATION, in that it can be used to, in effect “carry” your wealth THRU “bad times”, so that you or your progeny will have your wealth, AFTER the bad times have passed.
However, gold is TERRIBLE for seeing you through hard times,..are you really going to trade a krugerand for a can of beans, when your starving?
Ammo is practically speaking not counterfitable; if you have any doubt, select one round and fire it.
Properly stored, retains its function and value indefinetly.
Comes in different denominations, equivilent to 1’s, 5’s etc. .22,.38, etc.
And infinetly divisible, from one round of .22 on up to a case of .45.
And, it has INTRINSIC VALUE, unlike fiat currency which doesn’t even work for toilet paper.
Well, in that case, I’m a pretty wealthy guy.
That didn’t take long.
NY Governor calls for social media censorship after Buffalo.
@Zerohedge
Folks are not allowed to discuss a tragic event.
That governor looks like one of the 3 witches stirring, and hovering over, the bubbling cauldron.
Creature? The two pictured in the photo above don’t even look human.
You need special sunglasses to see what they really look like.
Pelosi died several years ago. Death becomes her.
Who is pelosi one to call anyone a creature.
SHE is the Creature from the Black Lagoon AKA “The Swamp”!
She is a complete nut job who is way past her sale date. She needs to retire!!!!!!!!
….or be retired – permanently…..
AND her effective date. FLUSH.
You mean her sell-by date, as she is bought and sold.
When Trump finally released that list of judges, it was praised by Republicans, Democrats, and the Media. Someone should get the video of Schumer praising the list and posting it on twitter with Pelosi’s comment.
The origianl list was pretty good – https://www.cato.org/blog/donald-trumps-terrific-list-fabulous-judges
Then the Uniparty got a hold of it – https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-supreme-court-list/
That’s how Pelosi views We The People as “creatures” no different than Hillary calling us deplorables!!! The Democrats hate patriots, hate America first, hate whites, hate the Constitution, hate our Founders, hate borders, hate Biblical marriage, hate life for the unborn, hate God, they have become the Party of hate!!!
“The UNIparty hates,…”
Fixes it.
If you look at your list, everything you list, McConnell, McCarthy, Graham and the rest hate and have contempt for, every bit as much as “the Democrats”.
Pure communist move – dehumanize one’s opponents. No longer a human now a creature.
If Pelosi and her ilk insult you, rejoice! You have been insulted by a minion of Satan, what higher praise is there.
And Trudeau saying the non compliant ‘take up space ‘ Same disgust they feel.
Well, this didn’t age well.
If Dims didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
“We’re all God’s children. There’s a spark of divinity in every person on earth and we all have to recognize that as we respect the dignity and worth of every person.” “Does he not believe in the spark of divinity?”.
Of course, she was talking about President Trump calling MS-13 members animals.
https://www.air.tv/watch?v=BmyYwq8bTjuvVUwjSFnnDw
‘Creature’, says the reptilian cretin.
Reptilian is an apt description, Marc.
One of the synonyms for reptilian is serpentine.
There is a serpent in the Bible.
“Undermining trust again in our government, Madam Speaker, like when you tore up the President’s State of the Union address before the Nation and the world. What message did that send about our democracy?”
” Do you remember there are three branches of government that specifically act as a check on each other? And, come to think of it, why shouldn’t you be on an insurrectionist watch list, then put under surveillance, and declared by the IC as a national security risk in light of your power which you have continually abused (remember the illegal, second impeachment without the Chief Justice who refused to preside and in regard to a president no longer in office?)?”
The list of atrocities committed by Pelosi in the name democratic government is, in every sense of the word, infinite!
ROTFL…says the creature from the black lagoon.
…and Pelosi is not a ‘boomer’… have to say it for those who like to include her from time to time.
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He missed one.
“YOUR FAULT”
How many times has he or his maladministration told us it was our fault? We are hoarders. Hoarding gas, ammo, guns, food, baby formula. We want too much therefore are driving prices higher. We are causing death because we won’t take their arm drugs. Blah, blah, blah.
Meme perfection.
Build Lies Better.
we about to be flooded again with how bad the white man is…..expect many false flag shooters this summer…
here is a video by Beck done a long time ago about the horrible murder of Newsome and Christian..a must see .
there is much evil in every race…much covered up.
Yep, that was truly evil. And they had to try them twice because the first judge was found to be illegally buying pain killers.
here is a summary or recap from the liberal paper in the involved area.
5 things to know about the Christian-Newsom torture slayings (knoxnews.com)
at least they made decent laws forbidding the trashing of victims by the defense in response.
warning this video is hard to watch…..not for kids
Another racist black on white mass murder people forget about is the Wichita soccer field slayings.
https://fox4kc.com/news/death-sentences-upheld-for-brothers-who-terrorized-killed-4-people-in-wichita/
I lived in Rose Hill KS (Wichita burb) when that happened, and knew the lady that survived that horror (she was a teacher). Glad they will get introduced to their maker sooner then later
Absolutely. These two were born bad. They need to get a one-way ticket to H E L L.
They’ll never be put to death. Kansas Supreme Court won’t allow the death penalty to be enforced.
I was just thinking about them the other day.
That was horrific case.
Evil, pure evil.
Not to be outdone by New York or California, this past weekend in Chicago:
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/teen-charged-fatal-shooting-boy-the-bean
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-imposes-6pm-curfew-teens-millennium-park-boy-murdered
It is not a gun problem. It is a heart problem. No love or consideration for others. No comprehension of the fragility of life.
Well, Bezos is white and he is starting to notice that biden’s economy will force people to buy fewer items from Amazon and it will then affect his pocketbook.
Everybody is leaving California
https://theloadstar.com/us-container-imports-up-7-in-april-as-coastal-shift-continues/
Last month also saw significant import increases at other east coast ports, compared with declines at west coast container terminals, according to the Blue Alpha Capital data.
Savannah imports for the month were up 11%, year on year, to 262,586 teu, Houston was up 26.5% to 162,965 teu, and Charleston saw a massive 34% increase, to 140,730 teu. Meanwhile, on the west coast, Oakland saw a decline of 15.8%, to 84,303 teu, and Seattle/Tacoma was 20.1% down on the year before, at 96,033 teu.
Combined US east coast ports saw laden import throughput of 1,148,687 teu in April, 18.7% higher than the year before. In contrast, Blue Alpha Capital data recorded import volume of 1,041,057 teu at the top US west coast ports, a 3.4% year-on-year deficit.
Even the Richmond, VA newspaper is bragging about the Port of Virginia’s (Norfolk/Hampton Roads) increase in traffic.
Dmitry Medvedev predicts a global consequences from current conflict.
1) A number of global supply chains of goods will collapse
2) The energy crisis will intensify
3) A full-fledged international food crisis will come
4) A monetary and financial crisis is possible
5) New regional military conflicts will arise
6) Terrorists are becoming more active,
7) New epidemics will begin
8) There will be a decline in the activities of international institutions
9) New international alliances will be formed.
10) A new security architecture will be created
11) The collapse of the idea of an American-centric world
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whats-next-former-russian-president-warns-wests-self-harming-sanctions-mean-collapse
He’s not wrong
Sounds like an American liberal wish list.
I was thinking their action list.
One would have to be a bit dim to not see the collapse of the American system coming. The globalists and leftists are doing everything possible to bring it about.
I heard Newt this morning on F&F saying that the first 3 Candidates in PA are so beat up that he has been making calls for the 4rh Candidate, Sandy, to see if the undecided voters would go her direction instead of the other 3. All the dirt you use in the primary, your opponent will use in the general.
I saw her on Hannity last week with the 5th candidate. She’s a Christian conservative.
If she has already been on Hannity, then GOPe is behind this new candidate. Beware.
$96 to fill my car yesterday…Midgrade…it was “only” $4.72/gallon. Today?
Filled up my daily driver subcompact yesterday–14 gallons cost me $68. I used to fill my full sized pick-up for that amount. I have to see what it will cost to fill the truck now.
pickup cost 170. to fill a week ago….tractors a lot more
On Friday the local gas station it was $5.14 a gallon, it was also receiving fuel from the tanker truck at the time I drove by; Sunday the price, for regular, was now $5.59 a gallon – jaw dropping how swiftly the prices are being hiked up.
Just filled up for $3.76/gal for regular in SW Missouri
We see it every year, at least once, on Survivor, since 2000. 😉
For the idiots around me, that would probably be an effective ad to run.
hilarious
DANGER: The WHO’s Death Trap for the US, see Gatestone Institute article. We must vigorously fight this.
TIME BUSINESS NEWS – Forensic Investigation Deals Death Blow To Election Fraud Myth
(interview reprint)
By JovanHuttonPulitzer
16 May 2022
https://jovanhuttonpulitzer.substack.com/p/time-business-news-forensic-investigation
The original article is here:
Forensic Investigation Deals Death Blow To Election Fraud Myth
Startling 2020 Election Forensic Investigation Findings Released
By T. Bradbury, Washington, D.C.
28 Apr 2022
https://timebusinessnews.com/forensic-investigation-deals-death-blow-to-election-fraud-myth
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
It’s 1984 all over again!
“You are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command you therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! You venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!”” …….
We should rename NATO as “ACTON”:
A.bsolute power C.ontrol-freaks T.yrannizing O.ther N.ations.
In WW II, Finland allied themselves with the Nazis and let the Germans launch attacks on Russia. Russia later agreed not to retake Finland if they maintained neutrality. Forever.
We lost 400k in WWII to Japan and Germany. Russia lost 20-30 MILLION to Germany alone. This is no joke to them.
Our Gangster Government does not believe Russia because they don’t understand patriotism anymore. They don’t defend their own countries, so why would anybody else? Ironically, they serve an expansionist, aggressive internationalist New World Order–that’s what the old Soviet Union was. We–not the People, but the Occupation Government–have become the old Soviet Union.
We do all the evil shit the Soviets used to do.
We rig elections
We sponsor terrorists.
We censor the news.
We overthrow governments.
We start wars.
We build Bio-Weapons and ignore Treaties.
All to usher in the Radiant Future’s One World Government.
We even have a Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement with our Axis NAZI allies.
We are the New Evil Empire.
Rest in the Vine: When Cromwell Met NATO: “A Speech for the Ages:
Oliver Cromwell Describes the Corruption of the Western Elites” by Vasko Kohlmayer
It was Russia that defeated the German Army (which included Italian, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Ukrainian and Polish Regiments) in massive battles where more Russians died in a single battle than the United States lost in the entire war fighting Germany and Japan. Yes, they are very concerned about it happening again!
They need to do one thing at Azovstal. Pipe in Katyusha rocket noises 24/7 at full blast.
There is an unconfirmed rumor floating around that the Russians captured from Azovstal one retired Admiral Eric Thor Olson, now on the Board of Iridium, a maker of satellite technology, including satellite phones.
Ret. Admiral Olson, age 70, has quite the resume, that spans from Mogadishu to Iraq to the downing of the Seal Team 6 helicopter 2 days before he transferred command.
Again, just a rumor and completely unconfirmed. But potentially the reason for the ceasefire request by Raytheon Austin?
I read that about Olson. I understand there were at least 7 US mercs in Azovstal. All were KIA according to the Russians. They were showing off their IDs.
there’s also a high level Canadian officer. might be officially out of Can military at the moment though
can’t wait to see Putin perp walk them out
Russia just needs to end this now instead of playing games. They get no credit trying to save Ukrainian lives!
they may will…soon
And the Russian army liberated Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps.
They celebrate victory over n a z i Germany in a big way every year on May 9. The western media and leaders have mocked and excoriated Russia today for continuing to celebrate~to show patriotism, pride, and support for their country.
So voting a corrupt Democrat out of office and voting in a corruptible RINO “is useless”!!! Who knew? Thomas Jefferson did!
PTrump almost pulled the US out of NATO at one point, I believe, when he wanted them to pay their fair share. I so wish he would have done it.
It would have been immediately reversed by Biden, as will everything else that benefited the American people.
Biden would have re-entered NATO and paid penalties for our withdrawal, all the while blaming President Trump.
Oliver Cromwell also starved some of my ancestor’s from their homes in Ireland.
The corrupt English king and his French Catholic wife were secretly plotting with the Church to land an Irish army in England to force the English back to Catholicism. It cost Charles his head and the run-of-the-mill Irish untold misery.
Religious wars are so stupid.
Yeah–History is mixed bag.
Captain Deplorable 45/Shawn just started a podcast
In the first few seconds, I’m already laughing.
I figure we could all use something fun.
After advocating for further support for Ukraine, some knuckle head guest on Fox Business then says that this proxy war between NATO/US and Russia could lead to nuclear war. Immediately following this says we need to deescalate. The war mongerers are in control. The Uniparty, WEF/NWO are all cheering for this war, and they have a track record of programmed destruction.
Here is a video of THE First Lady, Melania Trump, being interviewed on Fox.
I miss her intelligence, compassion, and beauty she brought as First Lady.
Melania is still helping children as she is focusing on America’s aged-out children of the foster care system.
She is truly an inspiration!
💛❤
A true Joy to hear her speak and with such grace!! Her positivity is very embracing. Truly miss her!!❤🌹
And I give Pete Hegseth a shout out for doing a good interview with
FLOTUS Melania not bias or snarky or rude
Mrs. Trump is a shining example of dignity, grace, and everything you would want in a First Lady.
Not any qualities I would attribute to a first “lady” like HRC who couldn’t imagine needing a Foster Care system because she is such a staunch believer in snuffing out the lives of inconveniences like children.
This. You see the young professionals have been fully employed during the scamdemic and also had a pay raise by not having to pay on their student loans. I guess that is why they are always on vacation and all drive new SUVs. SPIT~!
Another meme: “My mortgage identifies as a student loan.”
“Everything government touches turns to crap.” – Sir Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr)
Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition
Grey Gordon, Aaron Hedlund
September 28, 2015
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf
Excerpt:
“These results accord strongly with the Bennett hypothesis, which asserts that colleges respond to expansions of financial aid by increasing tuition. Existing theories can fully explain the increase in net tuition between 1987 and 2010. Our model suggests demand-side theories have the most predictive power. In fact, our results show the Bennett hypothesis can fully account for the tuition increase on its own.“
The Bennett Hypothesis: “Increases in financial aid in recent years has enabled colleges and universities blithely to raise their tuition, confident that Federal Loan subsidies would help cushion the increase.”
They also massively increase professor and administrator pay.
But the biggest increase is in administrative staff.
Just defy this stupidity. Enough. Fed TF up with the ‘rona.
It is only active between the hours of 11pm and 5am…. It is not active in abortion clinics, but it is extremely active in churches
And Republican super spreader events.
Endless wars. Biden sending hundreds of troops back to Somalia. Trump brought them out.
@ElectionWiz
Omg..truly sickening
Ilhan Omar approved? Some of her cronies gonna make bank
What just happened?
EU Commission set to allow the purchase of natural gas from Russia under the Moscow payment scheme, satisfying Putin’s demands.
European Gas Prices Ease as EU Drafts Plan for Russian Payments
https://archive.ph/mvB2H#selection-3341.0-3359.57
Looking more and more like this was a plan to destroy the dollar. Almost like US/UKR/RUS are all working together to help destroy the dollar. When I say US, I mean this fraudulent administration and all the commies in office and bureaucracy.
When you get time listen to this podcast. It explains a lot about what is going on with the $dollar
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revenge-of-the-dollar-the-meltdown-in-global/id1205359334?i=1000561541181
The linked podcast pretty much explains why this is happening in South Korea right now. Maybe North Korea will buy the whole country and turn it into farmland
South Korea’s Finance Minister Choo says he will hold a meeting with BoK Governor Rhee to discuss the economy and FX. Choo says the economic situation is dire while Rhee says the BoK need coordinated policy with the government.
https://archive.ph/0fwhe#selection-489.0-489.227
This ^^^
To believe putin is a good guy is akin to thinking musk is a good guy. When do we stop with the “abused wife syndrome”?….
A: Reality.
As it turns out, many Europeans don’t want this madness either, oddly enough.
Yeah, but it has been a long time since ‘democratic leaders did what the people want.
This morning KITCO shows the Russian Ruble to be 64.6250 for one US dollar. Back on April 5th it was 80.25 rubles for one US dollar.
So guess that money FJB’s son got from the Russian lady has paid off for the Russians.
It’s obvious to anyone paying attention the central planners want a war between US and Russia.
Has anybody asked the Swedes and Finns if they want this? Their governments are sure quick to jump, but I have seen nothing from the people who will be most affected with Russian troops massing on their borders and nuclear weapons placed in their countries along with US troops.
A friend of mine, fully vaxxed and boosted, just received some bad test results. Her calcium score was 38 which is two points away from a diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Just five years ago her score was ZERO
She attributes the rapid deterioration in heart health to the vitamin d she has been taking. But she is also concerned that it may be due to the vaxx
Anyone have any insight into this ?
I have been taking a lot of vitamin D and am going to get my calcium score taken soon. Has me worried a a bit
She has now been prescribed statins.
It’s really important to add K2 if you are taking higher doses of D3. Most supplement stores sell the two in a combo.
She should do a full nutrition panel and fix those holes first before taking anything produced by big pharma.
Been recently reading about the negative effects of overdosing on Vit D as it relates to plaque build up. We do very little in research on vitamins/supplements. IMO, they can be as dangerous as pharmaceuticals.
As is the case with pharmaceuticals, “more is not better.”
However, if I were your friend, I would not take any statin drugs. A doctor once tried his damndest to try to get me on Lipitor, and I told him to go pound sand.
No to statins also. More is not better can apply to many vit/supplements.
It is extremely hard to od on Vitamin D (one would have to take 10,000 I.U.s/per day or something in that range to od.). However, Vitamin D utilization depletes Magnesium and Vitamin D needs K for optimal absorption and to prevent arterial calcification.
Not sure what your definition of “OD” is as it relates to vitamins. Also, unless you know exactly how much to take, in addition to appropriate dosing K (another vit with potential to cause problems), it can create serious side effects. IMO, your reply supports the need to have more clinical research on any agent we consider taking into our bodies.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and is stored in the liver. Too much is a bad thing, so you should not be taking it unless you need it. Monitor your levels and have them checked annually along with your regular bloodwork. The test is simple and inexpensive.
5 years between tests is not rapid. It could be due to diet or hereditary.
But is she also taking a Calcium supplement..that could be part of the problem
that on top of the Vit D.
I urge her to do a web search for the drug, visit drugs.com for a list of side effects and possible complications – including things to avoid.
If she does use the drug at least she won’t be blindsided when problems start to develop.
Is my bias showing?
After this conversation, I have decided to give up my vit., except B and C which I know clears the system!
Statins are a real problem but the Big Pharma and Big Medicine love statins; they are expensive drugs. Statins often raise your blood sugar and push you into pre-diabetes category or diabetes. They have other side effects that must be watched closely necessitating frequent lab and doctor visits ($$$ for all).
They cause brain damage over the years that can result in higher risk of dementia. Dad was on statins for years. There was no dementia in his family and all lived to be nearly 100. He developed dementia. My research pointed directly to 20+ years of statin use.
Libertybella
John W Jones, MD (retired) has written lots of information on the use of nutritional supplements. This one he calls his ‘Basic Protocol”.
https://jjconsulting.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/a_Minimum.pdf
bottom line: Our diets DO NOT supply what the body needs to function well. If you are going to supplement you need to cover all the nutritional basics – it is never a good idea to take one nutrient in isolation. In other words, we sometimes cause our own problems by self diagnosing and self prescribing.
If you are interested in more from Dr Jones please visit https://jjconsulting.net/
I never get tested, so I never worry.
My Latin program has died, a victim of many forces in our declining country, mainly cultural, but also economic.
Over 50 years ago I graduated with majors in Latin, Ancient Greek, German, and History, for even then I knew that schools were closing down Latin and Ancient Greek courses, and also German courses, to save money.
History – a requirement – was my lifeline in emergencies, so to speak. Yet for more than 50 years I was always able to find employment either as a German teacher or a Latin teacher with History or Ancient Greek sometimes filling out my schedule to give me full-time employment.
Now in my 70’s, my school cannot find a Latin teacher to replace me in my retirement.
I have been teaching Latin to the youngest students in my career (6th-8th Graders) for 15 years at a large Catholic parish here in central Ohio. Every year a majority of my students have scored above average on the National Latin Examination, where the competition is almost all high-school and college students. A few students have attained perfect scores (40/40) and this year two came very close (39/40).
For those who wish to continue with Latin in local high schools (two Catholic high schools still offer it), they usually enter Latin II or even Latin III, and can take university level courses as Juniors or Seniors.
This program died today: my principal needed to make a decision today about Latin’s future, and with no applicants for the position, the decision was made for him.
I have written to major universities and even minor ones where a Classics Department still exists (you see, the Classics have been dying away on the university level as well) to advise them of the opening.
And so, a small Latin program, founded by a Catholic priest in the 1960’s, finding great academic success up until this year, will be defunct.
Is it an overstatement to say that the demise of my Latin program is part of America’s long-term decline, one of the thousand cuts which eventually bleed the victim to death?
Possibly schools exist which are still founding Latin programs…but where do they find their teachers? Columbus is a boom town, supposedly attractive culturally and inexpensive enough to draw young and old alike…and it has been so for a good number of years now.
And yet, we could find few qualified applicants: only one qualified man was interviewed, but he took employment elsewhere. Even one not really too qualified turned us down.
Umberto Eco was an historian who used semiotics – the study of signs and symbols in a society – to analyze the health of our civilization. He thought that even small signs could be a signal of problems, e.g. the rise of America’s gated communities from the 1980’s and beyond showing a neo-medieval outlook toward crime and class warfare.
I know that all three of the languages which I have taught are dying away in the schools, and that even the teaching of Western Civilization itself is under assault for being “racist,” “imperialist,” etc.
So, perhaps I am not overstating things at all. I would like to keep teaching, but the reality is that the end of my life is much nearer than ever before, and my wife would like to have some kind of a retirement to see and do a few adventurous things, which cannot happen while we are working, before the graveyard summons us.
America’s founders valued the learning of Ancient Greece and Rome and of the Renaissance which resurrected and built upon that learning. America’s inheritors, however, during my lifetime, have been throwing it away.
The world needs a new period of Enlightenment. It seems all the illumination generated from the original Enlightenment has been extinguished.
No. Absolutely not. We are seeing the consequences of ‘the enlightenment’ (human reason and humanism) all around us., now reaching its logical conclusion and crescendo in incoherent emotionalism leading to inevitable self-destruction.
Those self-titling it “the Enlightenment” should be a tip off … a marketing phrase filled with conceit and delusion, designed to suppress all contrary understanding, and the entry-point for pure evil.
The “Enlightenment” was born and nurtured and marinated in lies, just as Eve was “enlightened”.
I beg to disagree. Many of our founding principles emanated from thinking during the Enlightenment. Like the idea of the social contract and natural law, the idea of separation of powers greatly influenced the Founding Fathers. This was used when James Madison and other Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution, the guiding document for our government today. You might benefit from reading the personal writings of Franklin, Jefferson and Washington. You will see that the foundation of American government lies squarely in the 17th and 18th century European enlightenment. But that’s beyond the scope of this “Presidential” thread, so in deep respect for Sundance and the CTH rules, I’ll end it here. All the best.
Oh my goodness, no.
They were certainly products of their time and enlightenment had not yet reached its natural conclusion, but “natural law”, (that unchanging moral principles provide the basis for human conduct) emanates from the understanding the God has written his commandments in our hearts and minds.
Something utterly rejected by elightenment thinking and rennaisance humanism.
Separation of powers was observation of other governments with the understanding that power should be distributed to prevent intrincisially sinful/corrupt individual humans from gaining too much power.
Again,not the Enlightenemnt at all, which rejects that, believing that if people are only properly educated the right way, human reason is sufficient, because there is no original sin and people are intrinsically good.
Now the French Revolution, that WAS the Enlightement thinking being expressed. The US revolution was an anomaly.
You say US principles emanated from thinking “during the Enlighenment”, which is unremarkable, but they were not so much OF the Enlightenment. They avoided much of it. The French Revolution did not.
I took Latin in high school. Always wondered why it was taught. Will I meet an old Roman on 125th street in NYC by chance and have to communicate?
Wasn’t till years later that I learned it’s true value
Tragic.
Much of the basis of western civilisation was inherited from the ancient Greeks and Romans.
A couple of examples I can think of offhand include Philosophy from ancient Greece, as well as legal and scientific terminologies borrowing heavily from Latin.
Thank you, Ausonious – my dear Mother was #1 in her class in the one-room schoolhouse in rural Georgia during the 30’s, and I have had an ambition to learn since I was but a wee bairn. Any advice or pointers on how a retired person could approach and learn Latin? I seem to have nothing but time left now, and a need to be happy.
Many thanks for the comments!
The Cambridge Latin series has an online/home-school service:
Follow the links on their website:
https://www.dl.cambridgescp.com/home-dl
Cheers, I will check it out!
How does one say ” online in Latin”?
How about “Lingua Latina per Machinam” ? 🙂
This is depressing. My children’s high school requires four years of Latin. The Latin teacher is in his early 30s, so hopefully they will have another 30 years of Latin at this school.
I took Latin for a couple of years; I find it very useful in reading the Latin-based languages, such as Spanish and French.
It is so sad that so many classes are no longer taught like how to sign your name; basic math tables, and spelling….I guess no one needs to know how to spell anything because of spell check and don’t need math because of calculator, and you can use a computer to sign your name. Have you seen how the 20-somethings sign their name? It looks like me in first grade. They can’t add anything on their own, make chance, or spell…or sound out words…pathetic dumbing down.
I took Latin as well. This presages a dumbing down of English too. So much of English has Latin roots.
Hebrew, at least, is kept alive through synagogues and bar and bat mitvahs.
I suppose Greek has a safety net, in a way, in Modern Greek.
Another concern is for the Church. Try going on Bible Gateway, pick a passage from Exodus, and check out the differences in the numerous translations. There are very serious issues there.
What does it mean that Noah was the most blameless of his generations? What did the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew versions say? Dud “blameless” read as without blemish? In the sense of morally good, or in the sense of genealogically pure from the line of Adam?
It is a point of discussion that has come up recently. If almost no one can read and understand the original, or even the first translation into Greek, we are losing some of the essence. That’s a problem.
All three of my children have been fortunate to have been taught Latin I and II, and then gone on to other languages. All at a local prep school which focuses on The Great Books and Western tradition. Two are now on full tuition scholarships and grants at top 50 universities (private, Christian) and our youngest, a high school freshman, is the smartest of all three. A standout in computer programming (currently re-writing the code for the largest middle school robotics company in the world at 15 years old), in Improv, and active in piano and cross country and track. Latin sets the stage for a deeper understanding of not just language, but culture and history and a certain way of thinking this generation lacks.
Thank you for all the children you taught!
I took 2 years of Latin in high school because the hot chicks took it
Heh-heh! You remind me of one of my Master’s degree student-teaching episodes from the early 1970’s: One of my classes at a suburban high school in Dayton was “Latin for Vocabulary Building.”
I am not making this up: for 9 weeks I taught this class where the students were 23 absolutely gorgeous, “Mr-DeMille-I-am-ready-for-my-close-up” Senior girls…
…and one Senior boy!
Yes, that boy was indeed the smartest boy in the school! 🙂
I don’t recall anyone being particularly attractive in my Latin class. The class was very small.
That is a sad state of affairs, Ausonius.
I had an English teacher in 8th grade who included Greek and Latin in his lessons. Learning Greek and Latin roots greatly expanded my vocabulary and enabled me to become an excellent speller.
Nowadays, it seems, the foreign language most taught at American schools is Spanish.
So sad to hear this. I had four years of Latin in High School. It was wonderful. I never fully grasped grammar until I took Latin. Latin is so straight-forward and logical. I wish we still used it in everyday life.
Hi Ausenius, I’m sorry for your, and society’s, loss.
Perhaps you could turn your attention to similarities between our times, and the period during which Western Europe fell from the Roman high culture into the Dark Ages. Then, the widespread ability to read and write was largely eradicated, except for select elites. With it went much of the capacity for critical thinking, let alone the joy of discovering and teaching the classics, and the influential role they played in critical decision making in times of import.
Today, it feels as though an insidious elite is deliberately working to enslave the populace, in part through Soviet style destruction of all core institutions of society. Do records exist informing how this prior descent onto darkness occurred?
I took Latin in my first year of high school. I think it helped me with my reading comprehension because it enlarged my vocabulary. But I switched to Spanish for my last 3 years. I thought it would be more practical. Unfortunately, I didn’t retain most of it. I am still impressed with people who can speak fluently in any foreign language.
Congratulations on a long career! I think you and your wife deserve to relax and do some adventurous things.
Many thanks to you and all the above for the nice sentiments!
Knowing that their careers are over in Latin in two weeks, unless they attend a high school with a Latin program (two local Catholic high schools still offer a 4-year program), I intend to offer them some great works of music with Latin texts, which I could not play earlier (2020 until this January) because of the stupid strictures in school from the stupid Chinese Flu.
e.g. Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony which uses Veni Creator Spiritus and then (in German) the last act from Goethe’s Faust with the hymn to Das Ewig-Weibliche (The Eternal Feminine).
Mahler saw a connection between the two works:
An interesting and riveting performance with a “youth orchestra” from Great Britain delivering a slam-dunk of this massive work!
I think they are both Dirtbags?
Pence to Campaign with Dirtbag Brian Kemp Today in Georgia
By Jim Hoft
Published May 16, 2022 at 9:30am
Mike Pence with Brian Kemp in 2018 campaign
Mike Pence will campaign with Brian Kemp Monday in Georgia. Kemp is running for reelection in the state. The only way Kemp can even come close in the race is with voter fraud.
Mike Pence refused to audit the results of the fraudulent 2020 election in January 2021. We now know that Democrats used ballot trafficking to steal every battleground state for Joe Biden.
And now Pence is campaigning with the Georgia Governor who fought election fraud investigators following the stolen election in his state.
Cleveland19 reported:
Kemp’s campaign announced Friday morning that Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Kemp on Monday, May 23rd, the day before the vote. That puts Pence in direct conflict with Trump-endorsed candidate David Perdue, who has been trailing in the polls. Kemp is one of Trump’s top targets this election cycle because of his refusal to cooperate with Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“Brian Kemp is my friend, a man dedicated to faith, family and the people of Georgia,” Pence said in a statement. “I am proud to offer my full support for four more years of Brian Kemp as governor of the great state of Georgia!”
The news comes as Pence has taken steps to distance himself from Trump as the former congressman and Indiana governor considers a 2024 presidential run that could put him into direct competition with his former boss.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/judas-pence-campaign-dirtbag-brian-kemp-today-georgia/?ff_source=email&ff_medium=thegatewaypundit
I only see a pack of globalist privilege dirtbags in that pic?
at least Jeb! got the hint and disappeared forever.
Jeb…..”Please Clap”!
These 2 are the real insurrectionists!
IMHO, Kemp and his Secretary of State Raffensperger were instrumental in orchestrating the most corrupt election in GA history. There is so much evidence of corruption and these sleazy politicians would not allow an honest investigation or advocate for indictments. Now Pence is right there with them which confirms what we have been thinking about him.
I believe Pence believes that Kemp will win and because Trump is against Kemp and for Perdue he will have beaten Trump. The RINOS will tout that Pence beat Trumps pick and Trumps influence is fading and Pence is a rising possibility for the 2024 presidential election.
2 heads on the same snake.
So, let’s summarize for a second. The Fed has no ability to accomplish their goal. They know that they have no ability to accomplish their goal. We know that they have no ability to accomplish their goal. They know that we know that they cannot accomplish their goal, but they’re going to go ahead anyway and likely to make the supply problem worse.
https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2022/05/16/the-fed-is-fuct/
All meant to confuse us….
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We went from we can run above over 2% inflation for a while because Equity, to well 7% inflation is transitory, and now believe us we are all about fighting inflation. The same FED that printed off $ 9 trillion to fire up demand while simultaneously assisting the government in closing businesses, firing people and destroying the productive economy. The FED is another failed 3 alpha government agency.
Happy Monday!
LOL! HILARIOUS Remix Of President Trump’s Router Speech! (Must Watch)
By Where Truth Is Set FREE
Published August 11, 2021
https://rumble.com/vl0fod-lol-hilarious-remix-of-president-trumps-router-speech-must-watch.html
That is simply amazing, generally I don’t care for that style of music, but that was hilarious.
Information about Dr Oz which explains why President Trump trusts him!
“In September 2016, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump appeared on The Dr. Oz Show.[60] In the lead-up to the show’s taping, Oz promoted Trump’s appearance with a claim that Oz would assess medical records submitted to the show by Trump and reveal his assessment on the show.[61] CNN speculated that Trump’s appearance aimed to appeal to The Dr. Oz Show’s large female viewership.[62][63] In 2018, Trump appointed Oz, athletes, and The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno to his Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Trump’s selections of pundits, rather than experts, for the panel was criticized.[13] Trump appointed Oz to a second term on the council in December 2020.[64][65]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Oz’s television appearances influenced Trump’s decision-making, and he became an informal advisor to the Trump administration.[66][67][68][69] Oz had promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a cure for COVID-19 on more than 25 Fox News broadcasts in March and April 2020.”
Gotta like that PDJT does not abandon those who helped him in the past.
Not a fan of Oz myself, mind you.
Also, if Dr Oz was the Leftist hid critics here say he is then why was he helping President Trump so much to get elected?
Until the PA senate race, I didn’t even know who Oz was so his “help” was never noticed.
I would never vote for Chris Christie but I would bet Christie actually did more helping Trump than Oz. Christie is currently proving why his prior help to Trump did not indicate a sincere alignment with Trump’s policies. Just opportunistic aggrandizement.
A vote for Kathy Barnette is really just a vote for Fetterman!
And there it is. The RINO one way street.
And the “electable” argument to boot.
I would say a video showcasing sex change surgery for children is a vote for Fetterman. Unless Oz actually won. In which case a vote for Oz is a vote for sex change surgery for children.
Do you live in PA?
Keep your eye on freight
Another clot shot lottery winner:
Sen. Chris Van Hollen Recovering After Suffering Minor Stroke
I wonder if the party leaders laugh at their rank and file being stupid enough to take the real shot?
H.R.5723 – Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust
Well the libs and boomers and RINOs are at it again
This bill is just a further extension of the “cradle to grave socialism”. This bill, among other things, wants to insure that when a spouse dies the
surviving spouse will get at least 75% of the total both spouse’s Socialism Security benefits. Conservatives have been good at stopping expansion of Socialized
Medicine (aka Medicare) , not allowing negotiation of drug prices, no eye dental or hearing benefits or combatting the recent premium hikes or allowing Medicare to chase you into your grave for payments and having an impact on how COLA calculations( not including energy prices).
The “sunsetting of programs” is now being openly talked about . Mitch says nothing will happen(until after mid-terms that is wink wink).
Conservatives need to make sure this bill never leaves committee . These programs make up 40% of the Federal budget , 40% of the deficit and 40% of the debt.
Let’s have children take care of their parents instead of the government.
Fine. Give me what I paid into SocSec, then, and let me invest it.
Medicare(Socialized Medicine) is where the real money is.. Drop the payroll tax and let kids take care of parents.
Conservatives have stopped negotiating drug prices , enable price increases , no new benefits etc. Openly talk of “sun setting” these programs..
Vote for Conservatives not RINOs
Socialism Security money ..GONE
Reagan spent it on star wars
and what your employer invested in SS on your behalf.
Social Security and Medicare are paid for by the recipients their entire working life. What does socialism have to do with these two programs?
I think it would be fair to allow a widow/widower to receive a percentage of the combined, earned and paid for, contributions. Or is it okay to allow the spouse who earned less over the joint venture of marriage to be unable to even live meagerly on his or her own SS distribution because the major earner of the family unit dies?
What should be done is to STOP the misuse of those programs by those who did not pay into it 😉
Edit to add: Some families don’t have children, thus you are condemning the surviving spouse to abject poverty.
I have a friend whose wife has passed, and he is currently receiving 100% of what she would have received. Since her income was higher, her benefits were higher, thus he receives her benefits and will not collect his benefits when he retires. There is no combination of benefits, rather it is a choice of whose benefits to receive.
“A surviving spouse can collect 100 percent of the late spouse’s benefit if the survivor has reached full retirement age, but the amount will be lower if the deceased spouse claimed benefits before he or she reached full retirement age.”
Sources: https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-answers/social-security-spouse-dies.html
Go to Survivor’s Benefits Amount: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/survivors/ifyou.html
Thank you.
The issue is don’t make my kids pay someone who did not have kids. It is not the government’s responsibility.
When you paid Medicare taxes it went to your parent’s generation , nothing to do with your benefits. It is pure
socialism , your Medicare is mostly being funded by your children’s generation and you will take out , at your children’s expense , 20-30 times what you paid in.
This bill would insure that 75% of both incomes would be the minimum as opposed to just the higher income , of course paid for by our children
Vote conservative and there will be more cuts to these socialist programs
It is well known in the prison community that claiming mental illness results in monthly SS disability payments. Also that claiming any type of child behavioral – ADD/ADHD/Autism etc can also result in payments for the child. SS is a great give away program for anyone willing to game it…look sometime and see what you and your employer contributed and then see if you will ever receive even a small portion of that amount back.
Problem is a lot of Boomers didn’t have children or only 1 or 2. Then many divorced so how can 1 child support 3 households or even 2 if they take in 1 parent? Then Gen X had even fewer children and Millennials are having almost none.
When people used to have 5 to 10 kids those kids could all help out to take care of elderly parents, but we as a society decided we liked contraception, abortion on demand and divorce.
I’d like my lifetime contribution back then cut me off – I never expected to get SS anyway, but I’ve been making the max or near max contribution for years and want back my premiums.
Hopefully some of our 6 will help their mom out. I’m not planning on taking SS until she goes on Medicare. Right now we’re helping them out as we are a drop off point for kids and dogs at a moments notice!
The life choices you mention are not the governments (tax payers) responsibility to fix
Medicare taxes went to your parent’s generation and you can buy insurance other than medicare if you want to.
Having the government pay you back what you paid into Medicare taxes ( not your employer’s) and getting you off Medicare would be a bargain for the government
I’m more concerned with illegals with 4 or 5 kids getting thousands a month on an EBT card. They haven’t paid in anything to FICA like my family and I have.
We worked for the money the government took out of our checks every payday for social security and Medicare. It’s unfortunate the government squandered the revenue for the last 40 years or more. But, I regress.
Terrified, Susan Collins calls 911 Emergency for police after receiving Copy of the Constitution in the mail!
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/susan-collins-calls-911-after-receiving-copy-of-constitution-in-mail
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/16/cortes-warriors-v-warmongers-the-america-first-candidates-using-ukraine-against-washingtons-war-machine/
I have to say, the young MAGA warriors are not only brave and patriotic, the are stunningly handsome. That includes Grietens (spelling) and others.
Just as conservative women are “lookers” themselves!
Jake Bequette gets my vote
Questions to ponder when you see an exposed RINO drop all pretense of having conservative principles.
-have they actually changed or did they always have this ideology
-how were they different than your “typical” GOP politician before being exposed
-are they still defended and even financed by their GOP colleagues despite everything
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/liz-cheney-attacks-gop-leadership-buffalo-mass-shooting-leftist-white-supremacist/
Cheney’s post on Twitter:
“The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
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Of course the above quote should be obvious as to who “those” are with views she doesn’t like.
The shooter was a leftard. He was a hardcore NAZI and authoritarian. Liz needs to FOAD. She evidently neither read nor understood anything that POS said about his motives for murdering innocent people. His motives had zippy zap to do with the GOP or anything they have or have not said.
This hag is just virtue signaling to bask and preen in leftarded, wokepanzee approbation. B!TCH!
Just found out my college buddy died Saturday, suddenly. He wasn’t feeling well and he went to his mom’s house to help her with something. She ended up taking him to the hospital where he died a few hours later. So far all we heard is he died from a blood disease that came on from nowhere. Not sure what the “blood disease” was. He was recently boosted.
Condolences.
Thank you
Sorry to hear that. Everyone one I know that has gotten really sick (or died – 4 people) has had the vx and/or booster.
Pure evil.
Same situation here. I know 19 people now that either have heart issues, cancer, and two are dead. That’s since last July. I’ve updated CTH each time something happens. It was very busy the months of July through November, then it seemed to taper off. Now my buddy, 41, dies out of nowhere. Our other college buddy had a scan done on a lump in his hip just this morning. Praying it’s just a fatty tumor. And one of our partners wives at my office has cancer. That’s 2 or 3 new affected people after a few month lull.
Actual pure evil.
I got the two Moderna shots over a year ago. Less noticeable reaction than a flu shot.
The only thing I’ve noticed is that bleeding from minor cuts stops faster than before. Usually, it took long enough for me to think it was unusual.
I’m pushing 80, have respiratory allergies, in good health, and not over weight even a little bit. So, I was theoretically somewhat at higher risk.
Not even a cold in the COVID era.
I got my shots at a hospital, which I thought increased the chances that the doses would be maintained at the proper high temperature.
No way to know if I’m lucky, had useful anti-bodies from common cold coronaviruses, or if the Grim Reaper is gonna gleefully surprise me next week.
Never took a single COVID vaxx shot.
Don’t know if I’ve had COVID or not. If I did, I didn’t notice. I work out at the gym and there are enough huff’n puff workout freaks to fill the air with whatever they are carrying.
I don’t worry about clots or immune shut downs and I won’t have to in the future. For me its something other people have to worry about.
Quite an interesting view of strategy and motives in the Ukraine.
https://thesaker.is/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-where-is-the-wests-ukraine-strategy/
Death by a thousand cuts is the defensive strategy Ukraine had to adopt when faced with much superior numbers and fire power.
Fighting on the defensive usually inflicts a proportionally higher damage rate on the offensive army.
It’s Ukraine’s only viable strategy, not a “western” strategy.
It has allowed Ukraine to survive into the third month of war, instead of getting steamrollered in a few weeks, as many “experts” predicted.
Retired Magistrate here: An update from Central Ohio with regard to farming. The fields are plowed or are in the process of being worked up. I am seeing fertilizer tanker trucks everywhere; the Winter Wheat crop in this area looks good. No field around here is lying fallow unless the farmer is going no till and is waiting for a little warmer weather.
Just got back from the garden store; the place was packed and it is a Monday! The manger of the family owned store said it has been this way since the weekend before Mother’s Day. Most of the people I saw were buying flowers and not vegetable plants. People are out and about enjoying the lovely Spring weather.
Don’t know about where you live but around here it is a normal Spring with people out spending money. No masks; except for a few die hards who will probably wear them for the rest of their lives. The real estate market has slowed down somewhat. It used to be as soon as a house went on the market it was in contract. Now it is taking several weeks and I am seeing price drops which I have not seen for a while.
Enjoy this wonderful Spring day.
My wife and I ran by the garden store that has all the good plants Friday and it was packed too. I wanted to buy some superhot pepper plants, along with “normal” habanero, serrano, and jalapeno pepper plants. It was hard to even find a parking place. A fellow in overalls ahead of us had an entire cart loaded up with flowers and ornamental plants. I bet he had at least $400 in that cart.
If I were Putin and saw those countries not in NATO who now want to jump into being a member of NATO I would take a long hard look at the USA. I would note how both political parties in Washington, DC are clamoring for those countries to join NATO as they authorize more weaponry to be sent to Ukraine. As I attend funereal services for my fallen Russian warriors I would note how my fellow citizens in Russia are taking this fight in the Ukraine. Do they stand with me and my aims in this conflict? I would then gather my senior advisors both from the military and government to argue what we, as a country, should do with this changing dynamic.
I would ask them all if a small nuclear bomb dropped inside Ukraine where limited death would occur might somehow have a greater impact on Western thinking than anything else toward my Russia in the sense of just how serious I am about this incursion on our borders and how as a country with a rich history of independence would never tolerate such behaviors, never.
I wonder what the answer would be from those Russians invited to give their opinions to Putin might choose.
The really scary part is how this Biden administration and our Congress might respond to an event where a small nuclear bomb was detonated inside Ukraine with limited death. With this rush into Ukraine by America’s so called leadership, I sense they would make even more tragic mistakes leading into a nuclear holocaust. I don’t want to keep such a thought at the forefront of my thinking but it is in my brain that we have elected some serious dummies who think their views of the world are right and others who think differently are wrong, really wrong.
The desperation coming from the politicians in DC stinks to high heaven. They are losing their minds over what is coming out. The Russians have found bioweapons lab information (Hunter Biden’s Metabiota) in English and have plans to present it to the UN.
There is also credible evidence published in the “French newspaper of record,” Le Monde, that the Ukrainian army are torturing Russian POWs in violation of the Geneva Convention. All we ever hear from our “news” is that the Ukrainians want to take Russia before war crimes tribunals. For what?! All I ever see is Russians helping wounded Ukrainian soldiers, bringing food and water to the civilians of Donbass, disabling landmines (anti-personnel mines–I though that was forbidden?) placed by the Ukrainians, and getting the power back on in Mariupol.
Trying to grasp Putin noticing, much less being influenced by, what the Russian people think.
OUCH!
Something just popped in my brain. I must stop trying to imagine totally BS things as possibly real.
Oil back up above $114/barrel
Regular unleaded gas new record @ $ 4.04 BEFORE taxes
Lizzy musta forgot jimmy hodgknson, who wanted to kill as many repubs as possible. BTW, lizzy, the shooter is an authoritarian leftist and green nationalist.
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So unfortunate that liberals do not see how dangerous this is. They don’t like free speech.
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O’Keefe never disappoints.
Every person charged in connection to a mass shooting 2021,
Just look at all the right-wing white people in that picture!
Weird, doesn’t exactly mimic the “race” make-up of the US population. They all should be put to death, just like the Buffalo shooter. I don’t care what their politics or race is, it’s heinous to shoot people who are no threat to you.
You can all stop worrying about Buffalo. Benjamin Crump is now on the scene.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099206250/relatives-honor-ruth-whitfield-86-as-a-devoted-mom-wife-and-grandmother?ft=nprml&f=
this is where they light the spark for this summer’s riots….
Mighty strange looking white supremacists there.
So this will make things even more interesting for the PA senate race.
I’m not saying it was the vaxx. But it was the vaxx.
https://iotwreport.com/pennsylvania-democrat-us-senate-candidate-fetterman-suffers-stroke/
Democrat US Senate candidate Fetterman suffers stroke
Uniparty acceptable: McCormick, Oz and Lamb.
Not uniparty acceptable: Barnette, Fetterman.
Scenario: After the primary if Barnette wins; because of health issues and what is best for Pennsylvania Fetterman will withdraw, Lamb will be his replacement. 😉
Interesting developments. Bulgaria announced that it had found a source for cheaper natural gas. From the United States. So, we’re going to be sending natural gas from the US to Bulgaria? What about using some of that “surplus” natural gas for lowering the price of natural gas for US citizens?
In addition to all the shortages of food in Sri Lanka (due to going “green” and using organic-only fertilizer), the Prime Minister has now announced that they are completely out of fuel.
Price of wheat reached $453 per ton today.
Some of the wounded are leaving Azovstal.
Turkey says that it will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
What would the dem street thugs do if it happened here?
As I said yesterday. There is a difference between yellow vests marching in Paris and Sri Lankan politicians being liquidated and homes burned. The yellow map of lackadaisical folks and the Grey map of action folks.
My money is on the mob.
There would be such chaos and protesting in the streets that Biden would call for martial law; there would be no elections this fall.
Be assured, no matter the shortage of products such as gas, food and baby formula, the US will continue to export.
They want our destruction.
I haven’t recognized the world we live in for years.