Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour

Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour

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.

BIG NEWS: Romanian Judge Defies Globalist Overlords—Overturns Deep State’s ‘Coup d’État’ Annulment of Anti-NATO Candidate Calin Georgescu’s Win

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/big-news-romanian-judge-defies-globalist-overlords-overturns/

UK Trade Chancellor Reeves holds ‘positive and upbeat’ trade talks with Bessent | International trade | The Guardian

Rachel Reeves discussed what she called a “prosperity deal” with the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, in a meeting her team claimed was “upbeat and positive” on Friday.

“Today I met with Scott Bessent to discuss the UK-US economic prosperity deal and our goal of reaching an agreement that is in both our national interests,” Reeves said, after meeting the treasury secretary.

The UK has been negotiating hard in the hope of securing exemptions from some of Donald Trump’s harshest tariffs, including the 25% levy on car imports, but Reeves left Washington without being able to claim any tangible progress.

The US has made fresh demands in recent days, including calling for tariffs on car imports to the UK to be cut; and the chancellor was forced to concede earlier in the week that she was “not going to rush a deal”.

UK Treasury sources said trade negotiators from the two countries would continue to work hard on a deal.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/25/reeves-highlights-importance-of-eu-trade-to-britain-before-us-tariff-talks

Following the removal of most of U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s senior advisors recently, after several of them were accused of leaking information to the media; the Pentagon yesterday named a number of individuals who will now serve as senior advisors to the Secretary of Defense.

These include Sean Parnell, who is already serving as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman; Justin Fulcher, a former employee of DOGE who was working at the Pentagon; Patrick Weaver, previously a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; and finally Ricky Buria, a Marine Corps veteran who has became very close with Hegseth since the removal of Caldwell, Carroll and Selnick, previously working under Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

https://nitter.poast.org/sentdefender/status/1915837071555715558#m

Prosecutions? Still waiting. Just one or two easy ones, please. Like Tony Fauci or Merrick Garland. Just a simple request.

Wowee!

Twitterville

White House

Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/

Dr. Oz Uncovers Billions in Medicare and Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse: ‘If You Thought USAID was a Problem, This Will Bring a Little Shiver to You’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/dr-oz-uncovers-billions-medicare-medicaid-fraud-waste

Face the Nation: “Should we expect a deal this week?”
Lavrov: “You don’t trust the word of the President of the United States?”
Also Lavrov: “President Trump is probably the only leader on earth who recognized the need to address the root causes…”

US MSM is interviewing Russia’s FM. This is a big deal.

There’s a video clip with the post:
https://xcancel.com/AXChristoforou/status/1915655695057252859#m

APPORTIONMENT: There is no simple or “exact” answer to how many additional seats Republicans would hold in the House if illegal aliens were neither present nor counted for congressional apportionment. Using Grok, I was able to estimate that Democrats effectively gain about ten seats from the current system, meaning Republicans are at a 27-seat disadvantage. Getting to that number was not straightforward, Grok does not allow you to simply pose the question and receive a direct answer, as it searches public sources like political articles and Wikipedia. It took over an hour of carefully framing and refining prompts to extract a reasonable estimate. Most people focus only on state-level effects, but the truth is that illegal aliens overwhelmingly cluster in Democrat-controlled districts, even in red states. When you drill down to the district level, the shift is at least ten seats, and likely even higher. This is exactly why we must both deport as many illegal aliens as possible and reform the way House seats are apportioned, namely, by ending the practice of counting non-citizens.

It isn’t only the federal Congressional apportionment, there is also the effect on state level elections – as well as the astronomical costs to the US taxpayer in both funding and crime.

Readers added context
On December 1, 2024, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes covering nearly 11 years of “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Canadian elections are just days away and if the circus Carney wins, what Truedumb did will seem like positive things in comparison.

One of his significant desires:

So how are we all feeling about Mark Carney’s plan to tax our home equity? All those seniors out there who worked hard and lived frugally for decades to pay off their homes (the only real asset many of us have)… Now we’ll owe money on it again.

And for those on fixed income who can’t keep up with the Home Equity Tax, the govt will put a lien on your home to collect from your estate after your death, which will halt the ability to pass a home down through the family…

Which is the goal, right? The end of private home ownership in Canada. You will own nothing, and you will be happy. Thanks Mark Carney!

https://xcancel.com/KimPigSquash/status/1915471640282227171#m

Los Angeles local News Media, immigration activists and mayors hit panic button over LA work place raids and separate judge arrests in Milwaukee and New Mexico this week….

Answer to a reader question puts a large kibosh on the fake financial media’s propaganda about a massive flow of money into the EU and out of the US. (This is just another example of their desperate attempts to use psychological tactics to cause bad economic events to thwart PDJT.)

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/capital-flow/capital-flow-flight-to-quality/

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 IT HAPPENED – THEY DEPORTED THE WHOLE FAMILY!

Democrats are currently losing their minds that Trump’s administration deported a child *with* the Honduran-born mother and sister.

She’s 2 years old and a judge says she got “no meaningful process.”

The mother said she wanted to take the young girl with her, POLITICO reports.

Cont reading…

Animals, land, and no climate change…

Someone used Grok to condense the hour+ discussion between Luongo and Caitlan. Note that Caitlan is the CEO of Custodia Bank.

I asked Grok to give me a summary from the speaker transcript to help me digest this valuable input:

Summary of Gold, Goats and Guns Podcast Episode #213 – Caitlin Long and the Financial Crisis that Wasn’t

In the latest episode of the Gold, Goats and Guns podcast (Episode #213, aired April 17, 2025), host Tom Luongo and guest Caitlin Long dive into the seismic shifts reshaping the U.S. financial system, spotlighting its decoupling from European influence, a failed attempt to destabilize U.S. markets, and the transformative potential of stablecoins. From monetary policy to geopolitical strategy, here’s a clear and engaging summary of their discussion, packed with key examples and insights.

U.S. Financial Dependence: A Historical Struggle
Tom Luongo argues that the U.S. has never fully escaped the financial grip of European banks, particularly those in the City of London, since its founding. He points to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, noting that even after the American Revolution, European systems like LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) kept the U.S. tethered. “If you don’t have financial independence, you don’t really have political independence either,” Luongo says, framing 249 years as a fight against this colonial legacy.

LIBOR to SOFR: Reclaiming Control
The shift from LIBOR to SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) is a game-changer. Caitlin Long explains that LIBOR, set by 18 London banks (with only JP Morgan’s London office representing U.S. interests), was an unsecured rate that fueled the eurodollar market through unlimited rehypothecation. “You could create an infinite amount of money without any backing,” she says, citing Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse as a consequence of London’s loose rules.
SOFR, a secured rate tied to U.S. repo markets, was fully implemented by January 2022. Tom Luongo marks the end of synthetic LIBOR contracts on March 31, 2025, as a clean break from London’s control. Caitlin Long credits John Williams of the New York Fed for driving SOFR’s rollout from 2017, noting that all new U.S. debt—car loans, credit cards—is now SOFR-indexed.

Eurodollar’s Origin: Soviet Distrust
Caitlin Long traces the eurodollar’s roots: “It goes back to the nineteen fifties when Russia didn’t want to hold during the Cold War its dollars in a US bank because it was afraid they’d be confiscated. So it got the European banks to agree to take US dollar deposits.” This Soviet distrust birthed a massive offshore dollar market, often larger than the onshore market, historically controlled by European banks.

Jerome Powell’s Pivotal Role
Tom Luongo highlights Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, appointed by Trump in 2017, as a key architect of this decoupling. A monetary hawk, Powell resisted the 2% inflation target and tightened policy, unlike Janet Yellen’s yield curve control. Luongo points to Powell’s 2021 reverse repo rate hike to stabilize dollar markets, enabled by SOFR.

Caitlin Long cites Daniel DiMartino Booth’s book, revealing Powell’s opposition to Ben Bernanke’s inflationary policies. Powell’s weekly lunches with Scott Bessent, such as Bessent visiting Powell, contrast sharply with Yellen’s clashes with the Fed, signaling tight coordination.

A Failed Crisis in April 2025
Tom Luongo recounts a market event around April 9, 2025, where European entities (likely Brussels and Ottawa) sold long-dated U.S. Treasuries to spike yields and paint Trump’s policies as chaotic. “The U.S. bond market is off twenty basis points, the German market is flat, and the euro is up five percent,” he notes, ruling out Chinese or Japanese involvement since their markets stayed stable.

The SOFR futures market saw wild swings, with one-hour bars moving 20-30 basis points (vs. a normal 2-3), timed with New York, London, and Sydney openings. Yet U.S. Treasury auctions (10-year, 30-year, 20-year) shone, with Luongo saying, “We had a stellar ten-year auction that day.” Caitlin Long agrees: “The U.S. had no problem with the ten-year bond auction,” proving the crisis attempt flopped.

Supplemental Leverage Ratio (SLR) Reforms
Caitlin Long discusses plans to relax the SLR, which forces banks to hold capital against “risk-free” U.S. Treasuries. She calls this illogical, quoting Martin Armstrong: Treasuries are “a dollar that pays interest.” The Fed lifted the SLR temporarily in 2020, and Powell recently confirmed permanent changes.

This will unlock bank balance sheets, especially for giants like JP Morgan, to buy Treasuries, boosting liquidity. Long notes regional banks’ $300 billion in unrealized Treasury losses from 2023 rate hikes, showing SLR’s burden. Banks are “front-running” this reform, driving fixed income rallies, a move Long ties to Scott Bessent’s aim to lower yields for Main Street.

Stablecoin Bill: A Two-Tier Dollar
Caitlin Long outlines the stablecoin bill, which distinguishes onshore and offshore U.S. dollar stablecoins. Offshore issuers like Tether face lighter KYC/AML rules than banks or onshore FinTechs. Backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether’s 400 million users channel dollars into emerging markets, recycling funds into Treasuries. “Those are not going to be panic sellers,” Long says, explaining U.S. tolerance of Tether.

The bill risks a “two-tier system,” potentially undermining “par” (equal value) without Fed swap lines. Long sees stablecoins as a “killer app” for fast, auditable transactions, citing Custodia’s tokenized dollar deposit on a permissionless blockchain as a banking breakthrough.

Geopolitical Strategy: Breaking Europe’s Grip
Tom Luongo casts Trump’s policies as a geopolitical push to free the U.S. and Commonwealth nations from Europe, weakening the EU. He cites Trump’s bilateral trade talks, bypassing the EU: “I’m not negotiating with the European Union because I don’t consider them a government.”

Caitlin Long highlights Europe’s blunders—negative interest rates and Russian oil sanctions—slashing the euro’s trade settlement share from 35% to 13% by 2022 (SWIFT RMB tracker). The UK’s stablecoin fees drove Tether away, ceding ground to the U.S. dollar.

2023 Bank Failures: Orchestrated Chaos?
Caitlin Long references Nick Carter’s Pirate Wires article, alleging the 2023 Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures were engineered. The Fed pressured Silvergate to liquidate, sparking Silicon Valley’s run. To bail out uninsured depositors, the Fed invoked a systemic risk exception, targeting Signature despite Barney Frank’s claims of its solvency.

Long notes Nancy Pelosi’s alleged White House call to protect San Francisco interests, including her husband’s business. Governor Michelle Bowman’s dissent from the Fed’s 2023 crisis self-assessment signals reforms, aligning with Bessent’s regulatory restructuring push.

What’s Next: Risks and Resilience
Tom Luongo warns of European escalation within six months, citing the 2019 SOFR crisis (rates hit 11-12%) and 2020’s crash as precedents. Caitlin Long sees stability in SLR relaxation, stablecoin growth, and central Treasury clearing, reducing dealer constraints. Both envision a U.S.-centric system, with Trump, Powell, and Bessent recapitalizing America, possibly with a distinct domestic dollar.

Conclusion
Tom Luongo and Caitlin Long paint a vivid picture of a U.S. financial system shedding European control via SOFR, thwarting market manipulations, and embracing stablecoin innovation. The eurodollar’s 1950s origin—born from Soviet distrust—highlights Europe’s historical hold, now fading. With Trump’s bold geopolitical moves, Powell’s steady Fed, and Bessent’s influence, the U.S. is poised to dominate global finance, despite looming European counterattacks. Listen to the full episode for a masterclass in financial strategy!

The full discussion:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-213-caitlin-long-and-the-financial-crisis-that-wasn-t–65627011

RINO Removal Project Launches Nationwide Effort to Promote Voter Engagement and GOP Candidate Accountability

https://www.kron4.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/806006349/rino-removal-project-launches-nationwide-effort-to-promote-voter-engagement-and-gop-candidate-accountability

Scavino always has the perfect soundtrack!!!

God bless you two.

Nov 6, 2024

Watch: Auburn students roll Toomer’s Corner, chant ‘USA,’ sing national anthem after Trump victory

https://1819news.com/news/item/watch-auburn-students-roll-toomers-corner-chant-usa-sing-national-anthem-after-trump-victory

“To God be the glory”

😯

“Susie Rice is REALLY upset after she got ousted from the DoD.”….

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

🚨BREAKING: James O’Keefe Announces Massive BOMBSHELL Dropping Next Month, Gov’t Officials Caught On Camera, BILLIONS of Dollars In Corruption Exposed:

“Billions in government corruption. Five or six tapes… Lead to indictments.. Have them breaking the law.. on camera.”

Video linked….