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During her appearance on The Sage Steele Show’ Kathie Lee Gifford recalled an incident from 31 years ago in which Trump played a crucial role in ensuring her safety after she received a death threat from a dangerous individual.
This is the side of PDJT very few people get to see or know. Love the way he presented the reason he was sending her his helicopter and the security he provided for the following days!
https://x.com/ourascal/status/1893120071150567534
The realities of being Jewish in Australia as antisemitic attacks dominate headlines
The same as it is to be a white Christian Patriot in America.
Italian PM Meloni celebrates Vance’s speech to Europe during CPAC – ‘These ideas are not new’
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it.
He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough.
They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it.
You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
Flashback – who started things…
The green and yellow areas are probably what most of us remember as historic “Ukraine”. The olive green was stolen by the USSR and given to the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine from predominately Poland and a little of that from Romania? The pink and lavender areas, I believe, came from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia.
The Ukraine has certainly not minded helping itself to other nation’s lands. The Crimea had not been under Ukrainian administration for even 40 years when the Soviet Union disbanded.
What a mess!
@sentdefender
4h
NBC News is reporting that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has removed his Senior Military Advisor, Air Force Lieutenant General Jennifer M. Short “effective immediately” for a reason not currently known. Lieutenant General Christopher C. LaNeve, Commanding General of the Eighth Army, is said to be in consideration for the position at the DoD.
https://nitter.poast.org/sentdefender/status/1893491776645677371#m
“For a reason not currently known”? Does he need a currently known reason?
no.
@BensmanTodd
Feb 18
“The Haitians ripped away every window sunshade, bent luggage compartment doors, tore up seat cushions, destroyed anything destroyable as pilots cowered behind locked cabin doors, the beginning of a rampage of hijackings, attacks on ICE agents and mutiny.”
Riots and hijackings — why ICE cuffs and shackles some deportees
https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/opinion/riots-and-hijackings-why-ice-cuffs-and-shackles-some-deportees/
If they want to act like animals, then treat them like animals.
Hog tie them, put them in cages, stack the cages in freighters and send them home.
SCOOP:
Per WH official on background, later tonight, President Trump will sign an executive order designed to terminate any & all federal taxpayer benefits going to illegal aliens.
The order will direct every federal agency & department to identify all federally funded programs currently providing any financial benefits to illegal aliens, and “take corrective action”, ensuring that any federal funds to states and localities “will not be used to support sanctuary policies or assist illegal immigration.”
Additionally, the executive order will mandate improvements in eligibility verification to prevent federal benefits from going to anyone in the US illegally. A WH official tells @FoxNews the executive order will show Trump is committed to prioritizing that federal public health benefits go towards American citizens, including veterans.
https://nitter.poast.org/BillMelugin_/status/1892338394413613472#m
More at the link
That order needs expanded to cover all aliens, illegal, legal and those not living in the country.
Breaking down US NATO spending
$860 BILLION
Germany spends the most in the EU-A paltry $68 Biliuon
Trump’s Great Communicators
https://americanmind.org/salvo/trumps-great-communicators/
How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe
At least $1.5 billion was disbursed for immediate humanitarian aid, while another $3 billion went to recovery, reconstruction and development.
Of the at least $2.13 billion in contracts and grants for Haiti-related work, less than $50 million, or 2% went to Haitian organizations or firms.
By comparison, $1.3 billion, or 56%, has gone to firms located in or near the US capitol. Little wonder USAID is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny.
USAID is not alone in the lack of accountability. One of the largest non-profit organizations involved in the Haitian emergency response, the Red Cross, raised an impressive $500 million for Haiti following the earthquake.
Yet, five years later, many, including former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, questioned whether most of these funds actually reached the Haitian population.
For instance, the Red Cross claimed they provided housing to over 130,000 people, but the organization only constructed six verifiable homes.
The Red Cross has refused to make available a list of the specific activities they conducted in Haiti, only providing a breakdown of the funds into large and non-descript “sectors” on their website.
One of these sectors, shelter, proved to be particularly misleading, having promised residents new homes, health centers, and sanitization systems in the Campeche neighborhood. But three years later, none of these promises were kept.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/opinion/how-usaid-squandered-billions-in-haiti-and-around-the-globe/
The Clintons were involved in the money that was donated to Haiti. I remember thinking it was going to be stolen at the time.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/bill-clinton-once-enjoyed-bright-legacy-haiti-then-2010-earthquake-struck
Mike Dewin Ohio give has many hati charitys .Wonder if that’s why Ohio has 10 percent of hatis population.
Where is his offshore account?