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Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour
Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour
Praying !
Pine Chapel in Iowa
Thank you Sepp. That is a beautiful image! Have a blessed day.
AMEN
SO SAY WE ALL!!
🙏 🙏 Amen🙏🙏
Amen !
AMEN!
Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏 Praying for President Trump and our country 🙏🙏🙏
Amen
Amen 🙏🏼
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
AMEN! Bless our Troops everywhere and bless our country and our President, his family and his cabinet and administration.
THE GAME PLAN
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.
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.
By the truths they stomp on shall ye know them.
Ukraine frontlines update…..
Military Situation In Russian Kursk Region And On Ukrainian Frontlines On April 7, 2025 (Maps Update)South Front
Thunder ⚡️ Markets Crash 📉 Kupiansk Breachg: Katerynivka Has Fallen 💥 Military Summary For 2025.04.07
🧊 🧊 🧊 ICE NEWS 🧊🧊🧊
😬 40 year old female 😬😖 She doesn’t look too happy about being arrested😀
ICE, law enforcement partners arrest MS-13 gang member in Virginia, wanted in El Salvador for extortion, blackmail, terrorist affiliation | ICE
ICE, federal partners arrest illegal Guatemalan sex offender in Northern Virginia | ICE
ICE Boston arrests Guatemalan alien charged with assaulting child with injury in Massachusetts | ICE
👏 👏 Thank you President Trump,Tom Homan and LEOs for working to keep our streets and communities safer👏👏
Window shopping is always fun
in other countries…the fashion and
trends! And people watching!
The mall looks so clean.
NightLife of IRANIAN Girls and Boys 🇮🇷 IRAN 2025 Night Walk ایران – YouTube
The indoor farmer’s market- the fresh veggies 👏👏 Now I am hungry.
IRAN Today 🇮🇷 Life in the World’s Most SANCTIONED Nation!!! ایران – YouTube
They certainly look prosperous and happy enough. Guess life isn’t so bad over there unless you are very poor, like everywhere else in the world.
These people do not belong here.
Agreed. “Religion of peace”, my rumpsky!
🤜✝️🤛
🤷♀️🤷♀️
I don’t think they really would like it……
They don’t drink alcohol
Don’t believe in drag queen story hours
No same sex marriage
No sending your boy to school and he comes home-a girl.
We are viewed as the Sodom and Gomorrah by many.
😉😉People in glass houses should not throw rocks 😉😉
Did Homan arrest the woman that was bragging about being here illegally at the Don’t Touch rally yet? She should be easy to catch!
By the light of truth they shall be overcome.
“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
But we who love the resurrected Christ do!
😎✝️😎
Blessings to Stillwater, Maquis and Dutchman! 🙏💕
Blessings to ICE, baby, ICE! 🧊
Expedite the uninvited return to their home countries! 👋
(Then increase their tariffs!)
Donald Trump told us exactly what he’d do with tariffs 𝟭𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼
So beautifully stated by our favorite President.
This clip is from 2012. There are others from the 1980’s where Donald J. Trump was pissed off that Japan and Kuwait were ripping the U.S. off. He wasn’t made at them. He respected them. He was upset with the stupid people in the U.S who were allowing it to happen.
He’s been saying the same thing for a long time.
So glad we finally have someone in the White House who simply doesn’t like getting ripped off.
How simple!
The media kept telling us that we were ‘behind’ the Japanese because Americans are lazy.
Not yet but still praying
American company makes widgets and supplies the retail sector for $1 each.
Along comes a foreign company and supplies similar widgets for only 80 cents.
“Great” say the book learnin’ economists. “People get cheap widgets, and we now have 20 cents to deploy to more efficient sectors of the economy”
But that’s not the whole story. The USA widgets have cost inputs. Possibly as high as 70 cents or more (labour, raw materials, services, capital expenses etc). So sure, we now have 20 cents to deploy elsewhere, but the US economy loses 70 cents (in fact more. The lady who parks the lunch truck in front of the widget factory has lost all that revenue).
The book learnin’ economists will tell you that these people will retrain and redeploy. However the reality is that many can’t redeploy, especially if the widget factory was in a rural area close to the suppliers of raw materials.
The USA economy not only loses that 70 cents, but governments at all levels lose tax revenue and also expend more on social services for the newly unemployed and unemployable.
The economy also suffers from a drop in GDP (that 80 cents sent overseas) which has downstream effects of its own.
And that’s how you get a rust belt, repeated throughout The West.
p.s. I haven’t even included the velocity of money. We can easily multiply the above losses by up to 3X
End rant
Awhile back, a leftist economics professor did a study and wrote a paper, ‘proving’ that illegal immigrants lower EVERYONES wages, even if your company doesn’t hire any, its universal and across all sectors.
I wonder if this isn’t also true about out sourced jobs?
Supply and demand, with more workers laid off, increases the supply of workers, lowers their wage.
So, we had both outsourcing AND illegals, keeping wages low…its a wonder we have survived to this point.
A lot of American workers manage the product development in these overseas factories. I personally do not think it is more efficient but we are American companies producing in foreign lands and bring these goods back to America.
It takes a very small amount of people to do procurement / sales versus manufacturing. So the wealth is now concentrated in a small number of “services” jobs. The “goods” side sees wage stagnation, as they compete for fewer domestic industrial jobs, while the importers (Walmart, Amazon, etc) see massive growth potential.
We survived because of the inner value system of average everyday law abiding Americans. Who kept moving to feed their families and pay their bills in spite of the boots on their necks.
An unpopular reality is the increase in the labor supply that was fueled by feminism. Is the country better off when both parents work? What’s the micro/macro take on working mom’s, troubled kids and broken marriages?
My nephew changed majors at Engineering School to Logistics instead of being shut out by H1Bs and Attempted Intelligence.
Wages are kept low and the quality of employees drops.
Good rant!
Your rant was dead on. 🙌
and sort of why I refuse to shop at Walmart based on principle
I don’t care how cheap their goods are
and will never forget all the mom and pop grocery, hardware, etc.
stores that went out of business
Also the products they ruined by demanding lower prices from vendors. The vendors reduce quality to their meet demands. Several items I always bought and now no longer once they became a big box vendor.
Rant on!
Disingeuous is a euphemistic way to describe the ChickenLittle refrain coming from those who’ve been scalping the middle class for decades while sending out their shills to tell us Magic Wand Story Time is over (on to Drag Queen Book Revue)
FWIW, I hope anyone trying to get a concise, ELOQUENT 60,000 overview soundbite to share with others still trying to understand the whats and whys of Trump’s motives and goals should check out Trump’s #1 MAGA Liberal Fan Girl, Batya Ungar-Sargon
Gurl knows how to stoke a bonfire, baby, just by LOOKING AT IT
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371145271112
Nice theoretical rant. Might have applied to pre-1970’s USA, but can it really apply in the year 2025? And unfortunately it’s not going to be a choice between $1.00 and 80 cents.
Today I turned on my Mr. Coffee machine, made in China by sub-$4/hr factory workers using 100% foreign-sourced parts,. It cost about $25 retail. I was wondering what that same machine would cost if it was made entirely in a US-based factory (likely using union labor at >$20/ hour plus benefits) with entirely localized parts (also made in US-based manufacturing plants by union workers), also throw in crazy US regulations plus taxes at every step in the supply chain… would it be $50, $75?
Sure, in a perfect world, the American factory workers are going to spend like kings and buy those American-made products. The lunch truck lady is going to be able to afford a new house with a built-in swimming pool. The tax revenues would be YUGE and the communities would be building new libraries, police stations, etc.
But… in reality, who’s going to pay double or even triple for the American-made machine when a similar product (and yes, of similar quality) is sitting next to it on the shelf in the store? Even if the tariffs are increased to 200% the Chinese-made coffee machine will still cost under $30 retail. You can argue that wages will go way up so that the workers can afford to pay more, but will they still pay 2-3X for the same product? Certainly those on fixed incomes (social security, pensions, etc) won’t.
So in the real world (2025) what’s the solution? How can those American-made products be made in order to compete with much cheaper foreign-made goods? Completely protectionist trade policies (like ban the Chinese products)? That will just increase the product cost, still making them unaffordable to many Americans. Government subsidies in order for the products to be able to compete? Nobody wants that. Most likely the companies will be forced to fully automate their factories (i.e robotics), but who benefits? The lunch truck lady won’t be able to sell many lunches to the robots, and the robots don’t pay taxes.
Not such a simple situation anymore.
I am on a fixed income and will scrimp and save and do without until I can buy an American made product I want. I have been doing this for years, buying only USA made products. If it is not made in the USA, I will simply refuse to buy it.
I am sure there are many others just like me.
Have a wonderful day.
Hmmm… Not even one single foreign-made product? Seems quite, difficult, in this day and age.
Do you own the device (cell phone, computer) that you used to type your comment? If so, where was it made?
My dad has an American made coffee maker from the 80s still brewing. How long does the cheap China shit last? My experience is about 3 years. So which is less expensive?
Don’t know. Maybe he got lucky. I have had several Mr. Coffee makers, never had a problem with the units themselves… just the stupid glass carafes keep getting smashed.
And every one of my appliances (not sure where they were made) from the 80s are long dead and gone.
me
You?
Yep.
me.
No it’s not.
Lock him up. Forever.
American billionaire granted USAID funds for Gaza project allegedly funneled cash to Hamas for ‘terror tunnels’
In a bombshell lawsuit, Palestinian-American billionaire Bashar Masri is being accused of using United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and international-funded Gaza infrastructure projects to help Palestinian terrorists build their terror tunnel network.
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Masri allegedly rebuilt the Gaza Industrial Estate (GIE), a 480,000 square meter industrial park that had been established in 1997 with support from USAID, turning it into a hub of Hamas operations including for the terrorist tunnel network, which was used to cross under the border to attack Israelis.
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The families of the Oct 7 massacre victims are accusing Masri, who sits on the board of Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and his companies of working with Hamas and contributing to the 2023 attack, and are seeking to hold him accountable under the US Anti-Terrorism Act. (Emphasis added)
I hope they take every penny he has, strip him of every single asset, prosecute him as the murderous terrorist he is and lock him in a maximum security facility for the rest of his miserable life.
I’d actually prefer a firing squad, but that’s probably asking too much.
https://thepostmillennial.com/american-billionaire-granted-usaid-funds-for-gaza-project-allegedly-funneled-cash-to-hamas-for-terror-tunnels
“I’d actually prefer a firing squad, but that’s probably asking too much.”
Not too much at all.
Make em PUBLIC, which is why I prefer hangings, you can leave them to hang for awhile for everyone to get a good look.
Agree. 👍
And also enjoy the bonus of the buzzards pecking at their carcass, which in my humble opinion, is well deserved!
And then feed ’em to the hogs.
An even better option might be to just feed him to the hogs.
Save the bullet. A rope can be reused.
Hemp is good for the Planet..
Good point.
I am going to mention something I’ve heard/seen from the “Q” world.
I haven’t really followed that stuff as I simply follow what our President says and does.
There is a repeated phrase I’ve heard. It’s, “Save Israel for last.”
I was hoping someone could shed some light on this phrase.
What does that mean? And why would they be last?
I am also aware that the military was preparing/training for tunnel warfare. There were past articles about the military spending $572 million on such prep.
I hear so much about the “tunnels” in Gaza. Wondering if and/or how this may be connected.
Thoughts?
“There is a repeated phrase I’ve heard. It’s, “Save Israel for last.”
IIRC, that was in reference to bringing ME countries “in line” (my quote, not Qanon’s).
Qanon has not posted since November of 2022.
Very interesting. I wasn’t a Q reader, and hadn’t heard that phrase before now, so I don’t have anything to contribute at this point.
But I’ll ask someone I know who knows more about such things than I do and if I learn anything I’ll give you a holler.
Trump said Doge and Musk found something so “horrible”
Trump wants Musk to stay with administration, says DOGE found something ‘horrible’ today
Trump open to appointing Musk to new position after ‘special government employee’ designation expire
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-wants-musk-stay-admin-says-doge-found-something-horrible-today
It will be hard for Trump to give Musk up.
PDJT: “I need the moon and the stars.”
EM: “I’ll be right back…”
I’m very grateful for Elon’s efforts and commitment. It’s good to see the President speaking so well of him, and I do hope there’ll be a way to keep him as an active member of the team. It’s asking an awful lot, but he’s one of a kind and an inspirational leader in my view.
I agree Ma McGriz re the firing squad and damn the demonRats for helping him with USAID funds.
It was awfully hard to read all that horrid stuff, wasn’t it? Can you imagine the tortured minds and hearts of the victims’ loved ones knowing that murdering scumbag is still out there walking around?
We have to keep reminding ourselves that “vengeance is mine, said the Lord”
Yes, I agree with that, Dixie. It’s especially true at this time, when the offenses are so devastating and egregious that only capital punishment is sufficient to the crimes. I do not relish the idea of having to dish it out, regardless of how evil and deserving of it the offenders might be. Killing is hard.
…” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide, adding that he’s assembling a task force to focus on the issue.”……
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-says-plans-tell-cdc-stop-recommending-fluoride-drinking-water-rcna200127?
So, if the courts do manage to force the President to rehire all those government drones here’s what he should do.
I am certain that even government employment agreements have the verbiage “and other duties that may be required of you” or something similar in them.
That being the case the following is what should be done:
They must report to a specified building at 8:00 AM, Monday through Friday.
Upon arrival, as they come through the door they must put their personal cell phone in a locker assigned to them. The only time they may use their personal cell phone is on breaks and lunch.
They will then be shown to an open office floor (no cubicles or dividers) where they will be given a desk.
Upon this desk is a stack of documents on the left in an In Basket, on the right an empty Out basket along with a desk bell. Nothing else. No telephone or computer.
They will be instructed they are to review the documents for errors, highlight the errors in yellow, then place the completed document in the Out basket. Upon finishing the documents and placing them in the Out basket they will ring the bell and another employee will come with a fresh stack of documents and take the finished documents.
Let’s see how long they can last.
Oh and fire them if they can’t find errors at a reasonable rate.
This has a Oompa-Loompa feel to it… I like it…
That pretty much describes working in a SCIF.
Time to let the courts know they are not superior to the executive.
I bet if you just made them come to the office and then they were measured by the same systems used in most call centers (clock out to go to the bathroom, clock in when get back) , and weekly supervisor reviews, they’d leave pretty quickly, or could be fired for poor performance. The key to a lot of this waste is no one cared.
“The key to a lot of this waste is no one cared.”
Those who did care were labelled, given poor performance reviews and/or hostile work environments, until they were either terminated or quit of their own accord.
The message was clear: do not upset the status quo, or suffer the consequences.
One either became a true believer (marked in the forehead), or acquiesced and didn’t stand up against the lack of ethics and morality (marked on the right hand).
That’s why I don’t defend the quiet “good” bureaucrats or FBI agents – they kept their jobs solely by either being the true believer or refusing to take their stand – neither side really cares for doing what is right.
I love it when people here say “Here’s what Trump should do”, as if they know better than PDJT what to do.
Sometimes we do.
And?
None of us is smarter than all of us put together.
I threw out an idea, your option to just ignore it or snark.
I like the way you think. That is a great approach.. It would be interesting to see how long they would last doing it this way! Probably not a very long time.
I was looking at the unfortunate portrait of President Trump painted by Sarah Boardman. Yes, its rather amateurish. Puffy face, and two distinctly different eyes.
On purpose? I would say no.
Broadman has trouble with eyes for sure. Look at her Bush painting, for example, the eyes are looking in different directions.
Yes, working from a photo has challenges: Distortions, sub-optimal lighting, skin tone off, etc. But the eye problem reflects deficient anatomy skills.
Her pet portraits seem much more successful.
Doesn’t even look like him, let alone capture any of his qualities.
Not defending her painting, but attempting to capture the beady shifty nature of GWBs eyes would be akin to trying to focus on a goblin from Mordor in the Lord Of the Rings films. It would mess with my mind’s eye..
SCOTUS tells BOASBERG he lacks Jurisdiction, evades whether Nationwide TRO’s are valid.
Entrapment via “process crime”, like every other scheme contrived in the sick mind of LawFare’s ringleader…Julie Kelly nails it again–>DIRECT A NON-OFFENDER INTO BUSTING A TRO
Cue the Forrest Gump memes: “And that’s all there is to say about that.”
Would you like some chocolates?
Drop a Bus load of illegals off at Boasberg’s front door. He’s responsible for them, out of his own pocket. See how long he lasts.
….” A former federal employee and his wife, an executive at a green energy nonprofit, have been charged with defacing multiple Tesla vehicles in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.”……
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/green-energy-executive-federal-bureaucrat-arrested-vandalizing-multiple/
Another Bureaucrats whose livelihood is fleecing taxpayers?
Millions of these lunatics runnin’ around out there…
I am beginning to wonder what is worse. Being a guilty Deep Stater waiting for Pam Bondi to lower the boon. Or being a MAGA American Patriot waiting for Pam Bondi to lower the boon?
The guilty Deep Stater may have a crooked judge lined up, but all a MAGA American Patriot has is a hope and a prayer.
At the very least Pam Bondi should announce everyday she caught another gang-banger. At least we would all know she is doing something besides twiddling her thumbs.
I’ll take being the MAGA American Patriot any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I can continue living my BEST life worry free.
The guilty Deep Stater and a crooked judge? Not so much.
You seem to underestimate the power of “a hope and a prayer”. That’s all any of us has when it comes right down to it. It’s what you do while hoping and praying that matters.
The Deep Stater isn’t really worried. 1% of them will be hung out as examples of how Bondi is getting so much work done in cleaning up government; it’s acceptable losses.
Kash Patel promotes dirtbag
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/kash_patel_promotes_an_fbi_agent_who_called_j6_patriots_and_moms_at_school_board_meetings_terrorists.html
This has been debunked as incorrect.
Some of the words attributed to him have been incorrect, however, he has indeed been given that position.
Russia Planted Sensors to Spy on Britain’s Underwater Cables and Nuclear Submarines: Report
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/04/07/russia-planted-sensors-to-spy-on-britains-underwater-cables-and-nuclear-submarines-report/
Take any information coming from Britain re Russia with a big grain of salt.
“Turn about is fair play”
unseen1
@unseen1_unseen
The big win for Trump in the scotus today was not the resumption of deportations under the AEA(alien enemies act) (but that was big also). The major win was the court narrowing the federal district judges’ jurisdiction They once again narrowed the apability of the APA (admnistrative procedure act) which is the main law the vast majority of these unconditional judicial rulings have been made under.
The left is using the APA like Macgyver used bubble gum to get them out of sticky situations. Without the APA, they can’t judge shop as much. They can’t make class action lawsuits that have national injunctions attached.
Cont reading….
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to Enforce Deportations of Gang Members Under Alien Enemies Act
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/07/supreme-court-allows-trump-admin-deportations-gang-members-alien-enemies-act/
“Supreme Court Allows..”……..nope, the Constitution RULES, and can not be overruled by any treasonous, politically motivated not-so-supreme-court jurists.
President Trump’s oath demands that he “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
As such, it doesn’t require of him to do the same for the unconstitutional administrative-state’s rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists in the legislative and judicial branches have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens and states defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.”
@Cactus-The US Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Judge Bichberg along with the other judges were promoting national acts of suicide.
Everything you said is correct. I like to keep things simple.
President Trump and team have such respect for the Rule of Law and the U.S. Constitution that they allowed to process to play out.
They didn’t simply ignore this judge and the judge’s un-Constitutional actions. They allowed the process to play out and allow the Constitution to prevail over these un-Constitutional actions.
Revolutionary acts would be acts that attempt to reject the current rule of law and attempt to redefine/reinterpret the Constitution. That’s exactly what this rogue political activist disguising in a robe was doing. He’s not a “judge”. He’s an activist and should be treated as such.
Counter-revolutionary acts would be acts that attempt to restore the rule of law and uphold the Constitution. That’s exactly how President Trump and team handled it. It’s a return to Normalcy.
That’s why the President Trump/MAGA Movement is considered a counter-revolutionary movement.
MAGA is simply a return to Normalcy.
“GTFO”-Skid Row
The Afghan online news service, Khaama Press, reports that the United States has reassumed control of Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan, to the north of Kabul, at the request of the Taliban Government; with several C-17s arriving last week at the base, carrying military vehicles, equipment and senior intelligence officials, including the Deputy Director of the CIA, Michael Ellis.
The redeployment of American service members to Afghanistan following their withdrawal in 2021 has yet to be confirmed by U.S. or Taliban officials, though flight trackers did manage to confirm the arrival of several U.S. Air Force C-17 military transport aircraft last week at Bagram.
Though this move likely makes no sense to some, Bagram Air Base and Afghanistan as a whole remains an extremely strategic location for staging future military operations in a war against both Iran and China. According to some reports, an official announcement of the U.S. military reassuming control of Bagram is expected to come in April, possibly as early as this week.
https://nitter.poast.org/sentdefender/status/1909464893146755377#m
Is anything left on the base?
Interesting development, if true.
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
Good morning!
Hiya, Frank!
Taliban denies reports of Bagram Airbase handover to the US
What is the truth?
https://www.khaama.com/taliban-denies-reports-of-bagram-airbase-handover-to-the-us/
Trump’s comments in yesterday’s Oval Office sitting presser, calling out Biden’s dispatching $$$$$ to Afghanistan
https://www.khaama.com/trump-on-halting-afghanistan-aid-we-support-out-allies-not-our-enemies/?amp=1
Not Europe but don’t forget the murder of the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.
Jorge Haider.
Saved image to “Downloads”… I was poking around for a nice little summary…
Market Crash Fearmongering BACKFIRES When These Financial Legends Speak Out
(MAGA Mark Dice)
I don’t think speaking out against Trump’s trade war is backfiring at all. Quite the opposite. Members of his own administrstion are starting to speak out against it, too.
Ted Cruz may be a snake, but he knows how to play a game.
I lnow folks here will disagree with me on this, but unless Elon is playing games in 2026, I suspect Republicans will get a generational thumping in the Midterms.
True, we shouldn’t fool ourselves that this is a risky strategy. It took 50 years to destroy our industrial base; it’s hard to believe we will recover in 2 years before the midterms.
We are in a “cold turkey” phase, where we have to break our addiction to foreign imports. We know it is collectively killing us / the US, but we just can’t seem to quit. And that can lead to anger over being cut off from the globalism drug, denial that this is the new norm, then violence.
In the long run, trade resets are the healthiest path for the American worker. But we are not a country known for thinking long term, 4-8 years out past a 1 term president. I think by midterms, we will lose some republican areas, but by year 4 we’ve at up the conditions for an industrial revival, benefitting the next president in the way that the market gains under Biden benefitted from Trump’s policies 6 years later. So then it’s up to the GOP establishment to determine how much a commitment they have to MAGA (hint: zero), which means we need to continue to work every election cycle to try to weed out these frauds in our Primaries.
If we want to keep the midterms, we should be working NOW to set up next year’s candidate pool.
Try not to feed the Attempred Intelligence trollitos.
Ted Cruz is on President Trump’s team?
I don’t think so.
Ted Cruz is for Ted Cruz only – and he still chaffes at President Trump for destroying his own presidential hopes in the primaries of 2016.
I wouldn’t trust
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/07/supreme-court-allows-trump-admin-deportations-gang-members-alien-enemies-act/
The Supreme Court of the United States lifted a block from U.S. District Judges James Boasberg, which prevented the Trump administration from deporting suspected illegal alien gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg is a POS that will continue to harass the President until Congress stops him. His maneuvering to get himself these cases is ‘bad behavior’ and grounds for Congress to remove him with a majority vote. Let’s hope that happens.
Another take on this Supreme court order:
Since 1799, the courts have held that Congress intended to vest in the president all authority and discretion under the Act, including the right to make a mistake. After all, the president can be kicked out of office every four years; the judges cannot. The Supreme Court last affirmed this vast power in 1948’s Ludecke v. Watkins.
This Supreme Court, while slapping down Judge Boasberg’s ruling, concluded that the courts still have power to determine matters under the AEA but that the power must be exercised in the jurisdiction where the declared enemy is located.
In this particular case, Boasberg had no such jurisdiction over the detainees already on the plane, while those who haven’t yet been shipped out are in Texas, far from Boasberg’s courtroom. So, those cases go to the Fifth Circuit courts, which are more conservative.
The real problem is that the Supreme Court emphasized that every person named as an “alien enemy” under the AEA is entitled to judicial review. This is insane because it means that the judiciary will, once again, take unto itself the power to control foreign policy.
While this standard currently applies to the 18-20 million ordinary illegals that Biden let in (something no legislator or judge ever contemplated when immigration laws were passed or reviewed), it cannot possibly apply to the AEA, which is a question of foreign policy solely under the executive’s purview. (Sadly, though, Bondi’s DOJ actually gave the Supremes this opening, so part of the responsibility for this ludicrous holding is on her.)
And keep in mind that the AEA’s purpose is simply to send enemies back home, not to execute them or even imprison them. It just gives the president the power to repatriate people he, in his constitutional foreign policy discretion, believes are dangerous enemies. The only reason these Tren de Aragua guys are going to a prison in El Salvador is that Venezuela, as part of its predations against the U.S., is refusing to repatriate its own citizens.
The big fight now is going to be over detained Tren de Aragua members who claim to be younger than 14, the statutory limit in the Act. Since none have papers, there’s no way to know their ages. And while the Fifth Circuit probably won’t let this go by, it’s still an easy opening for leftist courts to say that bearded men with basso profundo voices are under 14 and must stay in America—and every man gets his day in court.
Many are celebrating, but I believe this is a bad decision.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/the_supreme_court_affirms_justice_boasberg_lacked_jurisdiction_over_trump_s_deportation_decision_under_the_alien_enemies_act.html
There are medical ways to tell a young man’s/teen’s age
A common method used by the customs agencies in some countries is a dental X-ray. Also, wrist X-rays can sometimes be helpful because they will look at the cartilage between the bones in the wrist, which eventually fuse together as you age. There are also a variety of DNA tests that can be done to estimate ages.
“The Supreme Court ALLOWS TRUMP Administration....”
Does that sound odd to anyone else?
They allow nothing. The black robes are getting too big for their britches.
Yes, it does.
Credit to Seth for originally posting this that most missed. Taxes are tariffs on us, tariffs are taxes on the countries that have been allowed to rip us off on trade by our Liberal-Marxists enemies for decades.
(President) Donald Trump’s tariffs will fix a broken system. Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports
https://archive.ph/O73PD
Judicial overreach,usurpation of power, tyranny etc has been decades in the making. How do you think much of the “De-Christianization” of our country happened?
Kim Davis vs. Judicial Tyranny
https://buchanan.org/blog/kim-davis-vs-judicial-tyranny-16520?doing_wp_cron=1744105637.6567950248718261718750
Grassley has had, what , 30+ years to make a difference? He’s pandering. He knows which way the political wind blows. Eff Grassley. He has capitalized on the system and supports it to sustain himself. We all know it.
Yes at the same time he is saying the President has to much power on tariffs and only congress should have that power. Then he backtracks and says many former presidents too. The problem with congress having any powers is they never get anything done, and when they do they screw it up (i.e. the patriot act) Hence the rise of Executive orders. Presidents don’t have 20 or 30 years for congress to decide to do something.
What I would love to see congress do is at the end of Trump’s term when things are straightened out put a time limit on all Executive orders. They last a specified number of days, say 90 or 180, if not passed into law by congress they expire and the president cannot issue the same or a like order the rest of his term. That would give presidents emergency powers but limit them unless the eventually get turned into a Bill from Congress.
Putting a time limit on executive orders just gives the opposition a great opportunity to Delay, Delay, Delay until the EO’s expire. The President MUST have the power to act or there is no reason to elect a president.
The problem in American government is TOTAL CORRUPTION. Most politicians are bought and paid for.
And, unfortunately, that also includes the presidency.
Obama and Biden proved the office of president is a bought and sold commodity.
Looking back over the last 25 years…the ONLY president not bought/installed by the global oligarchs…is President Trump.
I would say it is a discussable point to say the last President who wasn’t a bought/sold commodity…was President Reagan.
That is why they hate him.
What we want is to see justice served. We’re all waiting for it. No justice, no morality. You cannot have a just and moral society if the dollar is King. Unsound money produces immorality. Not everyone can articulate it, but we all intuitively get it.
Where are the arrests? No arrests means the system is being perpetuated. We all know it.
congress should have less power in my opinion
they do little while waiting for lobbyists to tell them what to vote for
they are mostly compromised anyway
and, again, how did they become multi millionaires?
Search and read 545 vs 300 million. It’s a fine example of the uniparty hegelian dialectic political circus system they call democracy
and that is the issue with most politicians
ethics be dammned
Sure, but is it fair to say that tolerating such types is more a reflection of us who elect them and, thereby, perpetuate the cycle? I mean, they couldn’t exist if we didn’t want them, no?
“I mean, they couldn’t exist if we didn’t want them, no?”
Well, yes, they could and do exist because of two words:
Election Fraud!
No, bro, they exist at our expense because we’re more comfortable with lies and don’t love truth enough. They know it and capitalize on it.
Blame yourself but I am going with election fraud.
🎯
All of GenXer’s, Millennial’s, GenY and GenZ, etc., are going to know you’re full of crap and do not care about justice, your assertions to the contrary. No arrests? You’re only concerned about money. Where are the arrests? Why aren’t you demanding them rather than worrying about your stock portfolios performance?
Stock portfolio performance is way more important than arrests. It is not even close.
Then again, I am not a conspiracy theorist. Just a regular guy who works hard, saves a lot of money, and wants to live a great retirement in 30 years.
No worries. I sold 40 bitcoin at ~$109k each. I’m not complaining. I just know that without arrests of people we know are guilty of high-crimes, the system is being retained, intact and will be used against us in the future.
I want justice, not money or credit.
Never. Sell. Your. Bitcoin.
Lol. Too late. I made ~ $4.5 million. I’m happy.
I call BS…
That seems to sum up Richard rather well.
Lies and deception are unacceptable in a moral and civilized society. Period.
This whole charade is going to blow-up in our faces very soon. We thought we had time, but we were wrong.
Concern noted.
Your meme has worn-out its life-cycle. Your response is actually a non-answer.
Put another way, we would all know that we were ruled by decent people if justice was meted-out properly. We don’t see it, so we know it’s all fabricated lies and deception toward a certain goal. Who is profiting?
morning Treepers………………………………be well
Good morning! And your beautiful pictures never disappoint!
Morning bjorkdream
Beautiful…”purple mountains majesty…”
Thank you.
God bless you.
Good morning bjorkdream. Beautiful as your pictures always are. Have a blessed and wonderful day.
Funny how Pam, Kash and Dan’s duties have faded from from the public eye now they we’ve all been hyper-focused to tariffs. Propaganda much? Lmao.
What you call propaganda is a promise the POTUS made to the American people.
The lies are liberal manifestations of doom from them when the money stops and so does their graft.
Your trying to blend topics to try and obfuscate the ass whipping the lying liberals are taking.
I disagree. Sure, the libs are taking an ass-whooping, and rightfully so, but have you seen any arrests? No? Should tell you all you need to know.
The only people who who were pumping their tires are those that label themselves “American Patriots” and have a Trump bumper sticker on their car.
The sane rest of us knew that nothing would ever happen with them.
I don’t disagree. We’re all watching how PJT’s administration is playing out. We’re getting played again. It’s business as usual.
Ohhh! …..THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
Getting tired of reading your tripe, your not doing anything but digging yourself a very deep hole but by all means double down and when you get tired of digging someone will come by and fill up your hole of despair and doom.
Solid prosecution’s take time to build cases and with the judiciary being what it is the cases HAVE to be airtight.
Right. Because if you or I would have committed the crime, we would have been imprisoned immediately. But, since we’re not part of the political-class, the terms of justice are different. Why are you defending them?
BTW, do you honestly believe they’ll be prosecuted? You must be a Boomer.
Not a Boomer, in fact i fit into no “Label”, I believe that the wheels of Justice turn slowly but inevitably.
You on the other hand are easily identified by those who have been here for any amount of meaningful time and as such will be treated like the “influencer “you are.
Keep digging, don’t stop now because you only have one way to go… deeper.
You want frog marching in less than 80 days? What exactly do you expect to have happened already? BE SPECIFIC!
It’s going to take years to uncoil the DC/Globalist/Communist snake that has been suffocating this Republic for the last 60 years.
Is it fair to ask if we actually do enjoy lies?
2 Timothy 3:13
Read and weep, for that is the whole of the American culture today.
If you say this couldn’t possibly include yourself…then you’re part of the problem.
Ron Paul consistently told us what was coming. We accepted lies because they felt better than the truth. PDJT cannot, and is not, going to save us.
forced out of market or via some starting place…. to long term treasury bonds is the manipulation you should focus on.
the result is rates dropping ( no cover for Fed). if they want to screw around, then the next confrontation starts.
mentioned already –( military build up.fortifying power supply and building electric plants scattered across the country)
electricity… safe, cheap, and there ( fortified to evade strategic or weather events) in almost all situations (endless jobs, labor, tech, ai, robotics, including all suppliers and related services)
repurchase debt at almost 0% ( similar to how the big corps raped us during covid)
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mortgages drop. ( income targeted later to align with a better purchasing environment for Americans)
not getting/knowing this is the root of disliked or bypassed comments on the progress in progress.
long term bonds hits the stability/ uncertainty argument.
arrest the idiots after securing a foundation we can thrive in during a constitutional crisis.
Lol. Nice.
Coulda gone either way… glad it worked out…
SMH….don’t feed those who live in basements or under bridges.🖖🏻
Jesus is The One who saved us.
America’s richest banker says Trump is on the right track with ‘shock and awe’ tariffs
Andy Beal says, ‘Bill Ackman is wrong. We don’t need another moratorium for 90 days.’
April 7, 2025
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-richest-banker-says-trump-is-on-the-right-track-with-shock-and-awe-tariffs-e34bbae1
Billionaire Andy Beal, the nation’s wealthiest banker, said on Monday that President Donald Trump should stay the course with “shock and awe” tariff policies that have roiled financial markets.
In an exclusive interview with MarketWatch, Beal said Trump’s tariffs are designed to bring the world to the negotiating table, foster free and fair trade, and recalibrate the role of the U.S. in the world economy. Beal said Trump should ignore people like hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who are arguing for a pause in the implementation of some of the tariffs the White House announced last week.
“Bill Ackman is wrong. We don’t need another moratorium for 90 days,” said Beal. “The opportunity is now. Don’t let this opportunity pass. We have been living in a fantasy world for decades.”
Beal said Fed monetary policies that resulted in low interest rates and unlimited supplies of money have for years masked inflation, while federal-government deficit spending covered up the poor state of the U.S. economy. The gross domestic product of the real economy has actually been shrinking, Beal said, while the headline published GDP has been showing growth due to government spending.
Unfair Free Trade is economic treason
“The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allows the government to detain and deport individuals from enemy nations ***without providing them due process***, meaning they can be targeted without a hearing or the opportunity to defend themselves.”
NOT such a huge win as touted.
Supreme Court Sides With Trump Over Venezuelan Deportations, ***But Requires Due Process For Each Case***
Apr 07, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-sides-trump-over-venezuelan-deportations-requires-due-process-each-case
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So the senile CCP puppet pervert can illegally let in 12 million or more people, give most of them court dates 8-10 years in the future and the right to stay until then, but a real President, in his right mind and clearly elected, cannot simply eject them for being inadmissible illegal alien invaders let alone for being members of a criminal gang?
BTW, I don’t want to hear another peep about Barrett being a conservative. She was a PC selection based upon her reproductive plumbing that the UniParty fooled Donald into nominating. Son of CIA daddy Bush gave us the Roberts Deep State plant.
BTW, very, VERY interesting JFK assassination related stuff in the following video peripheral to the main subject of the video.
Excellent documentation in this documentary proving beyond a reasonable doubt that GW’s daddy was most definitely a CIA asset.
George H.W. Bush and the CIA (44:36)
4 Apr 2025
GHW Bush is reported to have said he didn’t recall where he was when Kennedy was assassinated.
I was only 10 years old that day and I recall it like it was yesterday.
I have seen a picture of someone supposed to be him inDallas that day.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” -Thomas Jefferson, 1787
A reminder that the left’s most effective tactic is violence.
Keep your powder dry folks.
Just saying that we cannot legitimately cite the Founders as authorities if we aren’t willing to follow their example. Shit or get off the pot. We aren’t stupid, Boomer.
You don’t read the Rules do you Attempted Intelligence? Ageism don’t fly around these parts. Most of the fine folks here are “Boomers” pal. Quit wasting bandwidth.
Let him do his thing, he will get fed up and leave but come back with a new name, that’s ALL they have….
This is true.
It is fun, in a weird sorta way, though, to call out the inconsistencies of the thought processes behind the rants.
You really don’t know your American history, do you Richard?
The 3 decades leading up to 1776 were fraught with repressive efforts by Britain to put down the American colonies – up to and including massacres of colonial citizens by British troops.
British troops were required by law to be quartered in colonial homes when demanded.
Read the DoI again.
We haven’t nearly approached the same conditions the Founding Fathers were under when they finally pulled the trigger.
The exact same psychological argument was used then against pushing back against the British, as we are suffering under today: the accusation that, if we rebuff their tactics with violence, we are just lowering ourselves to their level.
Overton
@overton_news
NOW – Stephen Miller Declares Supreme Court Ruling Trump’s Biggest Legal Victory To Date—Boasberg HUMILIATED, Deportation Powers UNLEASHED
Cont (and video linked)…
The tag team of Roberts and Barrett making sure the Left gets something in every ruling. Roberts will never allow a 6-3 ruling, trying to prove its not a conservative court. Constitution be damned.
Mike Benz Peels Back the Curtain of the Globalist’s Agenda (1:20)
Mike Benz
Apr 7, 2025
The call is coming from inside the house (0:06)
Whoa Doggy…
This twitter feed is revealin alot more than just BetrayUS 😛
David BetrayUs is on 20 boards…
The boards of David Petraeus.
I am not surprised. Collecting a generous pension from the Army (taxpayers) while collecting a nice salary from each of these worthless boards.
This is the part of politics I HATE!! Thanks Trump now The whole of America has to put up with another Rino! Is there NO one else in N.H. Sununu will be there a lot longer than Trump. If elected, he’ll be another Mitt. I thought we were going to drain the swamp not add to it.
You heard wrong. We were going to “maintain” the swamp.
He is going to back him if he has a strong chance and he does. It is far more important to get the seat.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
EXPOSED: How BlackRock and big finance hijacked corporate America—$200 billion to BLM wasn’t enough, they demanded censorship.
Anson Frericks was inside the belly of the beast.
As president of Anheuser-Busch during the COVID–George Floyd era, he watched the takeover unfold in real time.
“George Floyd dies, and now all of the sudden the next existential crisis that every single company in the United States is looking to solve is ‘systemic racism,’”
But it wasn’t organic, Frericks explained how the entire thing was engineered.
“Their largest so-called shareholders—BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard—told them, ‘We need you solving societal issues now.’”
So they fell in line.
“You had 70 companies donate over $200 billion to Black Lives Matter—that’s more than the GDP of Portugal.”
And it didn’t stop at donations, next came the censorship.
“Even Zuckerberg at Facebook donated some eight-figure sum.”
“But then that summer—Trump had the famous tweet about ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts.’ Then everyone wanted him to take Trump off of Facebook.”
“Because it just wasn’t enough to donate. You actually had to silence folks as well.”
Why does this matter?
Because the same asset managers control nearly every major U.S. corporation—and they’re dictating the agenda from the top down.
“They have disproportionate power to advocate for policies.”
“And most importantly, to vote on shareholder proposals—where if you own $25,000 in any company, you can put up a proposal all shareholders vote on.”
Activists took that mechanism and turned it into a weapon—using it to force companies like Apple to bend to their political will.
This wasn’t a cultural shift. It was a hostile takeover.
Video linked (3:26 mins)…
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1909346529955176585
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And…full interview:
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1909350632831459406
And…
Full thread reader app link:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1909346529955176585.html
Those funds should not be allowed to vote our proxies.
When we invest in a mutual fund, we allow them the right to vote on our behalf.
Buy individual stocks and keep your vote.
Time to dust off those anti trust/monopoly buster laws!
Mike Waltz
@MikeWaltz47
During his first joint address to Congress, President Trump vowed to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry, including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding.
After a meeting at The White House the largest ship builders in the U.S. and South Korea signed an agreement to work together to maximize production and innovation in shipbuilding.
Cont…
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Article linked:
Huntington Ingalls, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries sign MOU for shipbuilding collaboration
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/huntington-ingalls-hd-hyundai-heavy-industries-sign-mou-shipbuilding-2025-04-07/
Make Norfolk great again!
Maybe we can get another ocean liner built in America and call her ‘The SS United States II”.
And resurrect the ‘Blue Riband’ rivalry….after ‘running up’ a few brooms!
Yes, make Norfolk great again! I loved going there to watch when the Air Craft Carriers, my dad was stationed on, came back from their tours of duty all over the world!
Awesome! I bought HII during yesterday’s market swoon.
Same 2 U TeenyBobber 😛
I’m GenX, bro. Not a teeny-bopper. Another Boomer feeling the heat.
U sure missed out on an era that was great…that is so sad
And there it is, a self-confessed “GenX”, you think your a man but you haven’t really grown up yet, like all young men you think you know it all when in fact you know very little. You have not lived long enough to understand how the world really works, all you know how to do is play games and when things don’t go your way you just start over and load the last saved game.
There are no saved games in life, you make mistakes and learn from them and move on. When you think you know it all, you stop trying to learn and thus after time can not learn because you can’t see the forest thru the trees.
The post and the mail are trotting out the same U of Chitown economist to manipulate the math.
More fake news, everyone now takes with grain of salt.
In China, bloggers who make unapproved “leaks” disappear, so these are at best BS threats from the CCP without making them official.
“Tariff War Just Begun”: Beijing’s Counter-Tariff Options Against Trump Leaked By Bloggers
Apr 08, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tariff-war-just-begun-beijings-new-tariff-target-list-leaked-bloggers
China’s President Xi Jinping has ‘boxed himself in’ with tariffs (3:33)
7 Apr 2025
Intense infighting at the top of the CCP with PLA moving against Xi
5 Apr 2025
Well, I am practicing for retirement. Cleaning out. Throwing out or donating. If practical, anything I need will first check garage sales and second hand shops. And cash and carry.
Mark Kelly should resign from one of his positions.
No one in AZ likes Mark Kelly. We all want to see him perish.
….Cease to exist Politically, legally, and humanely obviously.
Now your comments are dangerous. I don’t believe you are legit and an admin should take a closer look at you.
Why not both? Asking for a friend….
“Pricing the future” is a good example of “not reality”…
US Conference Of Catholic Bishops Ends Refugee Program After USAID Funding Cut
Apr 07, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-conference-catholic-bishops-ends-refugee-program-after-usaid-funding-cut
AP News reported that the USCCB’s move to end its 50 years of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees comes after USAID slashed funding for refugee resettlement programs.
“As a national effort, we simply cannot sustain the work on our own at current levels or in current form,” stated USCCB President Archbishop Timothy Broglio, adding, “We will work to identify alternative means of support for the people the federal government has already admitted to these programs. We ask your prayers for the many staff and refugees impacted.”
USCCB does not plan to revive existing federal government agreements for refugee resettlement programs.
The NGO sued the Trump administration earlier this year, claiming the president’s order that suspended refugee grants was illegal and asked for millions in what it claimed was owed to Catholic charities. However, a federal judge denied USCCB’s request.
What traitors this organization turned out to be! Bought to destroy the US that allows them to exist.
Awe, poor babies.
Can’t do the dirty work without other peoples’ money.
If they really thought it was that important…they’d cough it up out of their own Catholic budgets. That would cause too much rancor within the ranks, dividing the ranks of the laity. Can’t have that.
Same goes for every other “Christian relief ministry” dipping their hands into the public till in order to do this kind of work.
I want to set the record straight on tariffs and my POV.
Yes, I am currently a part of the laptop class.
Yes, my retirement savings have been brutalized in recent days.
Yes, I’m very near retirement age.
Yet I have not lost sight of my working class roots.
Further, like everyone else, pro and con, I do not know with certainty what the outcome will be of the Trump Tariffs.
Unlike many, I am willing to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt and support his actions, until he proves my trust to be misplaced. He has yet to do that.
Finally, I am entirely sympathetic to fixing the scourge of unbalanced globalism because it’s the right thing to do, even if it causes me personal pain.
I really wish more “conservatives” thought like me.
I love her, lol
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1909393053900849580
Hilarious.
But smh. Who has bought him? We are done being ripped off and taxed into oblivion.
If Bacon wants to be President and take on global trade and foreign policy he should try. He of course would fail miserably.