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The Autopen makes a news comeback…
DEMS in Congress on the T.V. news: “REPUBLICANS ARE TAKING AWAY HEALTH CARE FROM MILLIONS OF AMERICANS: AND REPUBLICANS KNOW THEY ARE DEEPLY UNPOPULAR!!!”
Sure, Republicans like and want to be “deeply unpopular” because they are deeply stupid, and so they are “taking away health care!!!”
The DEMS continue to amaze!
How many fronts does the CIA have?
– CIA
– State Department
– USAID
– USIP – United States Institute of Peace
– how many of our other 20-25 intell agencies are run by the CIA?
Amuse@amuse
DOGE: The United States Institute of Peace was anything but peaceful. When Trump’s team arrived the agency fought tooth and nail to prevent entry. Once the DOGE team was inside they found crew served weapons, pallets of cash, and witnessed agency officials deleting terabytes of evidence. Trump-hating Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the president had no right to shutdown the CIA front agency operating in the heart of Washington DC.”
Musk’s team recovered the terabytes of information. What’s there?
https://x.com/amuse/status/1924562110811627778
The problem is the uniparty voted for The United States Institute of Peace, and benefitted from it. They do not want it closed. They also funded USAID.
I’m just here to add to your daily dose of outrage.
Yesterday I received a solicitation from my law school Alma mater, The University of Missouri at Columbia. On the front is a picture of a smiling young woman wearing a hijab.
”Your Gift,
Their Journey,
Our Future.”
I don’t think so! Says a lot about who is employed at UMC and where they think we’re headed.
(Instead of focusing on fees, I was able to focus on my grades … Tasneem Huq)
Hopefully you plan to respond to their solicitation appropriately?
Perhaps a check written out in the name of “Anti-American Futures” for $0.00 with a note in the memo, “Highway to Hell”
Just two of the many benefits to the CCP I’ve previously listed for the release of the CCP/PLA/USAID Covid virus: it prevented the reelection of Trump to be replaced by the Senile Manchurian Puppet and stopped cold the worst revolt against the CCP since Tienanmen Square then happening in Hong Kong.
THAT fits with THIS. These were NOT policy “fumbles”:
Unpacking Trump’s Trip to the Middle East & The $400M Plane From Qatar | Mike Benz & Benny Johnson (35:27)
Mike Benz
19 May 2025
“Trump was a pressure on Iran maximalist during his first term. got out of the Iran deal, put maximum sanctions on Iran, decimated completely decimated their economy, forbade foreign countries from being able to buy their oil and gas. Uh famously, he fought off China’s ability to get oil and gas from uh from Iran. But then when Biden won, two months into his term, China signed a $400 billion oil and gas deal with Iran, which you know is one of those things that they got bargain basement discount prices for the world’s second largest supply of oil. And you know, it’s another one of those foreign policy fumbles from Biden world. It’s almost like they want China to win in Iran. They want China to win in Brazil. They want China to win in Europe. And Trump is slowly turning the tide on about 50% of that.”
How does communist ideology manifest in the current political landscape? How did Marx and his followers endeavor to rewrite history? (1:06:34)
Aug 2, *2019*
What are some major misconceptions people have about socialism and communism, and the end results of these ideologies?
What are the origins of Antifa? And what is the purpose of the violence they frequently engage in?
And where does political correctness originally come from?
In this special episode with a studio audience in Laguna Beach, California, we sit down with The Epoch Times’ award-winning investigative reporter and senior editor Joshua Philipp. He is a recognized expert on unrestricted and asymmetrical hybrid warfare, subversion, and cyber security, especially in the context Chinese Communist Party.
We discuss Marxist revisionist history, the end goals of communism, Antifa violence, and the spread of political correctness. We also examine the Chinese Communist Party’s global ambitions and its extensive influence and warfare operations in the US and around the world.
European Powers Blocking Ukraine/Russia Peace?
Australians about to get slammed with a tax that the insane left was talking about for all of us here – capital gains tax on the appraised value increase of your home – without any sale taking place. To top it all off, it’s said to be 30%! Talk about “You will own nothing….”
American Liberal Socialists are no better than Communists. Both will take our freedoms and take away our hard-earned wealth. Both will use a corrupted “legal” system to take away from the hard-working citizens and waste upon their own pleasures and lusts. The overwhelming corruption that is being revealed in our governmental institutions cannot stand. Commonsense knows that when the parasites drain the producers, we all go down. We also need to take a hard look at our local governments and the way they use our taxes to support a system that could do more with less, if wise heads owned the day. If we don’t wake up, the day is soon approaching when we will find ourselves holding empty bags.
They just had an election. I don’t know what’s next for them, they can’t vote their way out.
It’s a race to the bottom among British commonwealth nations and at the moment Australia may well be in the lead, although the UK is giving them a run for their money.
Personally think Australia has crossed the line and there is only one way back for them.
Not possible as they have let themselves be disarmed.
My county does that now. Doesn’t everyone pay property taxes based on some made up value from the county assessor?
You don’t pay taxes on the increase in made up value every year.
Yes, actually I do. Every other year the county decides how much they think my property has “improved” and they tax me on that amount. How is this any different? There are a number of new fancy developments being build nearby (HOAs, pools, etc) and that somehow improves the value of my property. I pay more taxes because some else built a fancier neighborhood nearby. Taxes on unrealized gains without changing anything.
Same where I live. Around here, if you make an improvement to your house, legally you’re supposed to pull a permit (not everyone does). Thus, the county knows about your improvement, and they increase your appraised value and your taxes. Personally, I don’t think property taxes should exist at all, but I’m not sure how this is different.
No, you don’t.
They assess the current value of your house and then they tax you a small percent (millage) on the assessed value (amount varies by state/county).
They do NOT assess the value of your house, subtract what you paid for it, and then apply a capital gains tax of 30% on it.
Very significant difference.
Very simple example: Your house is assessed at $300,000. The millage in your area is 1%. You pay $3,000.
The new law in Australia takes that same $300,000 assessed value and subtracts from it the $100,000 it was bought for. They then apply 30% on the $200,000 difference. You would now pay $60,000.
Note the difference now? Yes, both are taxed by some method – but the amount taxed is very much different. Now do the same math on a house in somewhere like L.A. where someone bought a house 30 years ago and paid $250,000 where it is currently assessed for $3,000,000…
That said, all property tax is theft.
So the difference in your example (mostly) is that they are charging 30% instead of 1%. Both taxes are based on some estimated value which is out of the property owner’s control. In the AU example, people paid 100k for their house and that price doesn’t change as long as they live there (let’s assume no upgrades for simplicity). In both cases, an outside party tells you you owe money on something you have never received and possibly never will. If there is a market crash in the year you happen to sell, you have paid taxes all along on a value you never actually earned.
I think we both agree though – theft.
FYI – the new tax is in ADDITION to their regular millage like tax – i.e. they are paying a property tax plus a capital gains tax on unrealized gains.
Likely next up will be the same type tax on their investments…
Sounds like they are running out of other people’s money.
It is them wanting us to run out of our own money.
I believe the term that some Liberals us is ”tax the equity” on homes people own. Equity in a home is a tax grab that many governments look at. Here is an article from Canada which discusses the impact of a home equity tax. https://www.deeded.ca/blog/the-home-equity-tax
This is above and beyond Property Tax. This is capital gains tax even if you did not sell the property. If your property value went up $75,000 in one year then you will pay property tax on the new assessed value AND you will pay capital gains tax on that $75,000 value gain even though you did not pocket that $75,000.
Next year, if your property drops $75,000 in value well, too bad. You don’t get the money that you paid back.
This is a tax on UNREALIZED gains in the value of an asset that you did not sell.
The people out in the Los Angeles area are finding that they are going to replace antiquated sanitation systems that their tax dollars should have paid for a long time ago, before they can begin to rebuild their houses.
Their property taxes were stolen, and now their land may be stolen as well.
I posted several weeks ago about that issue. It really sounds like the “government” trying steal land. That’s what Californians get for allowing electoral steals for so long.
We don’t do that here, yet.
What state is that, so I can stay far away? My guess would be Demonrat, but there are some sad excuses in the Republicons.
Never heard of Florida? You should do a ride along with the Orange County Tax assessor..
I used to live there.
Yes….
That is exactly how our County taxes
are determined.
Appraised value
🙄
Yes, my property value was recently assessed
and went up and so did my property tax. I just got a letter stating I owe $750 more from this past year and another $1200 increase per year going forward. It’s outrageous!
Ah yes Aussie Captain Binghamton got re-elected and now dumb Aussies are going to pay. To be fair Dutton was a terrible candidate so Albanese had very little to do to win
And yes Im Aussie.
It was similar to how we got stuck with Dopey for his second term in 2012…
Colorado is doing the same tax. My home will either go up 6% a year or down 6% a year depending on a market value determined by a Vanguard AI program that replaces an independent elected Assessor. The Assessor will now just send the bill.
I tried to tell people in my neighborhood what was coming and I was dismissed as ‘crazy’. They still do not read the little card we get and just assume ‘Trump” is a dictator while ignoring the creeping communism taking away ‘private property’ 6% per year.
Nobody understands when you try to tell them things like this.
Many don’t even know who they are paying their taxes to.
AI makes it even worse, people seem to believe it’s magic, like when we first started using PCs.
There are some dumb people in Colorado, real true believers.
And when your property value decreases? Will the government owe you? Of course not.
I would expect landlords to increase rent based on their Capitol gains also.
Will the Aussies stand for this?
Reminds me of the H. L. Mencken quote, the Aussies deserve to get it good and hard.
After Trump finished his speech last night at the Kennedy Center Marco Rubio got up to speak, maybe a little to long so the waiters started serving food, blocking some of the camera shots.. People were hungry.
Funny thing, Little Marco kept on blathering.
Rubio has been probably the biggest POSITIVE surprise of any of Trump’s appointments in this second term.
So what’s with the “Little Marco” BS at this time???
Hear, hear!
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1924894908856299546
Sad.
‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams says he has the same prostate cancer as Biden
The cartoonist said he may only have a few more months to live.
May 20, 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-says-he-has-the-same-prostate-cancer-as-biden-141045731.html
“The disease is already intolerable,” Adams said about his experience with this level of prostate cancer. “Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse.”
Methylene Blue! Ivermectin
https://www.onedaymd.com/2025/01/mel-gibson-tells-joe-rogan-ivermectin.html
Actor Mel Gibson told podcaster Joe Rogan that three of his friends were cured of their stage four cancers after taking the drugs ivermectin and fenbendazole. (video below)
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxqmqMhE3bcSVg9CQR3ayH8C2D1-PLAn9e
I took four drops of the Blue yesterday.
You take it every day, correct?
The Western world is on the most convoluted journey to rediscover why countries exist in the first place.
Hey… sometimes you need a little reminder… as long as it doesn’t end in some messy divorce, then nothing wrong with that…
Its called treason from within…
Who was running the country? Obama. It was always Obama.
Giving an enormous amount of credit to a well spoken dunce.
Fwiw…..
In my current framing of screen world events,claiming that Obama was ever actually in charge of America is similar to claiming that Kiev Z has ever actually been in charge of Ukraine.
In other words, in both cases, in some ways, perhaps the claim is accurate but in many very profound ways the claim is not accurate at all and instead, by design, is VERY misleading.
I’m reminded that the essence of all successful magic tricks depend on one or more”OMG look over THERE (not over here” deceptive DISTRACTIONS.
Now reveal who was running Obama and we might get somewhere.
George Soros?
maybe…but for sure ..neocon banksters…
If the CIA was Obama’s creator, then……
Actually, I’m not convinced it was really Obama…he’s just not that smart. IMO, he has always been the puppet for a Master elsewhere….for Big Bucks, of course. Go back to his college days and his now covered up trips abroad.
Yes his one talent is, as Tucker Carlson says, making people hate each other. That’s it.
He will have nothing positive in his library if it ever gets finished. IMO, I think he is by far the worst president ever in American history.
It’s pedal to the metal now for countries’ who recognize that the fates have aligned their tyrannical Marxist powers and long planned agendas.
The problem as usual, and as Margaret Thatcher so succinctly explained, is that they’ve run out of other people’s money…and so must dig deeply and creatively into the pockets and lives of those they have always considered the Untermensch.
In Australia, an overwhelmingly elected Labour government has instituted a 30% (!!!) “Wealth Tax”, otherwise known as a capital gains tax on ” unrealized” income.
From the linked Substack…and comments.
“Taxing unrealized gains is equal parts outright f*cking mathematically insane and cut-and dried authoritarian.”
Australia…another Petri dish for despotism where its citizens, blindingly believing the lying Leftist liars’ black lies, will soon be sitting down to that recycled banquet of unpalatable and poisonous consequences now being placed before them.
This is what we would be dining on had, but through the Grace of God, Harris and Walz been installed.
Counting our blessings every single day.
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/australias-unrealized-gain-tax-plan
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/australias-unrealized-gain-tax-plan/comments
And let’s not leave out Britain and its tyrannical PM Starmer.
Each political party lays out a “manifesto” prior to a general election. Starmer’s Labour Party did not include the complete undoing of Brexit. After he was elected with barely 30% of the popular vote, he continued to bald face lie about his intentions and now has destroyed what little British sovereignty Britain still had by selling out UK fishing rights to the EU until 2038…as well as handing all decisions concerning “climate” and defense to Brussels. (A “Common EU Defense Treaty” in all but actual name which Brussels has always denied was part of voting for the EU.)
On such decisions, Britain will be consulted but will have no vote on any of them.
Upcoming will be, no doubt, conscription for the war so necessary to prevent a complete financial and economic collapse of Western Europe.
I’m wondering how much longer, if ever, it will be before Britons get off their knees…
Is this the proverbial “last straw” after decades of betrayal by “Conservative” and Marxist Labour Parties and their complete destruction of their nation?
To be determined.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/de-brexit-uk-pm-starmer-accused-surrender-britain-pens-new-agreement-brussels
It’s much worse Betsy…for starters, no limits on youth visas and he also is said to acquiesced to the EU’s demand that family can accompany them. Basically it’s full on open borders again – caliphate here they come.
I wonder how long these people feel they can appear out in public…..If I were them ..I would be looking to have eyes installed in the back of my head.
Forever – just as they do here. They don’t seriously believe that anyone would dare do anything – and if they are too considered, there are always their armed security guards…
Then there is the elimination of all public dissent…
More like millions are. In the US they couldn’t be quite so blatant about it – but the same thing was happening with all of the cancel culture crap ruining people’s lives, coupled with the weaponized government using financial ruin by lawyer fees.
Harrison, there was also a story this week of a woman from Gambia given leave to remain (as it is styled) who smuggled a couple of million pounds of an illegal substance into Blighty, was arrested, and tried.
The judge dismissed her case.
Her barrister offered as mitigating circumstances the excuse that she “was saving to buy a house.” It was accepted.
Compare and contrast with the abomination of Lucy Connolly’s arrest and Stalinistic imprisonment.
The moral collapse of a country I once lived in and loved is complete.
Ruling by fear is not a recipe for long term survival.
I think the term “Orwellian” has been replaced by a grotesque, nightmarish rendition of “Kafkaesque “.
Waiting for that one match which will set their whole abberant house ablaze.
Why is it that non-white immigrants are seen as needing houses and college educations more than citizens of Western countries?
You know, Clarion, that’s a question which for me has no satisfactory answer.
The only reasonable,even half plausible one is that like the whole of continental Europe the godless antichristic globalists are simply executing their demonic agenda. One which has been decades long the works.
Britain has an apostate king and Anglican Church (both of which have surrendered to Islam and immorality); and I’d sugggest Charles’ heir is cut from the same cloth.
It’s the speed of its descent into authoritarianism and capitulation which has astounded me.
I’m sorry…
I wrote the above post before I watched the video. But I hope I added a bit more information to the Gambian woman’s case.
Do they have a “justice system” in Britain?
Of sorts…it depends on one’s race and melanin content
Starmer received his knighthood after he had served as the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Ghost of Beria lives on.
No worries, I’ll only charge you a fresh blueberry scone or two. :-p
If it isn’t the same for everyone, then it isn’t a justice system but instead a government terrorization system.
We have the same thing here, just not to the same degree. Think about it. If you or I had done what Hillary was shown to have done, we would never get out of jail. Yet PDJT said, “He didn’t want to prosecute a former SoS due to her position.” *spit*
Then there is the recent case of the mayor who repeatedly assaulted and hindered federal officers in the performance of their duties. If you or I had done that (especially me being male), we would likely be in the a local federal dungeon. Look at what happened to people who TRESPASSED in the PEOPLE’s HOUSE… Instead, it was decided that “in the interest of moving forward”, she was let off scot free, without even a formal public apology.
The “common person” is abused in the extreme. The politicians and connected (for example antifa) are let off without so much as a slap on the wrist. Then there are the illegal aliens who commit absolutely heinous crimes and aren’t charged. Or the lawyers in NY who firebombed police during the summer of love and had all charges dropped.
Let’s not kid ourselves, justice exists nowhere anymore – it’s simply a matter of degrees.
I agree, dear friend.
The Biden government was in every respect a terrorist organization. The same certainly for those in Europe, save for a couple in countries which will not capitulate to Brussels. Add Australia and New Zealand and Canada…
As for the US government as it now exists under President Trump, the bad seeds have no doubt gone to ground for the moment, waiting for a time when they can resurface.
Heaven forfend that time cokes again.
The concept of justice, equal in the eyes of the law, has become to people (?) such as these who have deliberately inflicted their worst an anachronism. Worse still, the judiciary has chosen sides and ideologies and has elevated itself to the supreme branch. Thus destroying the Republic as conceived and formed. The Constitution is no longer considered the sacred framework for our nation, reduced to an antiquated parchment on which is written in beautiful calligraphy outdated notions of freedoms and rights and truths.
Where arrogant “judges” who foreswear their oaths on the Bible (I assume this is still done) pick and choose who they favour based on political preferences.
The law be damned.
“Where the Rule of Law Ends, Tyranny Begins.”
Obvious as we look throughout once free countries.
We have a chance to avoid that horrific existence if…a big IF…the judiciary here is either smacked down or made to stay within its boundaries where the Founding Fathers placed it.
Everything to lose if this existential problem isn’t sorted.
(As for that blueberry scone, I’m baking as fast as I can!! 😉 💕 )
Audiences.
Puppets.
Puppet Masters.
Their Employer/Patrons.
Repurposing a famous Baga Vad Ghita line, “the names that can be named are not the real names”.
Imo, embracing this reality of life makes it easier to resist what I now often refer to as “Gordian Knot” temptations; temptations that have become almost constant since the global spiritual/psychological war has entered such an overtly vicious phase
Another pearl of wisdom that’s helped protect against the temptation thats its imperative to figure everything out aka Gordian Knot temptations, is a pearl, attributed to Socrates, about what it means to have wisdom.
“He who is wise knows how little he actually knows as well as how little he will ever actually know, no matter how hard he tries and no matter how long he lives”.
Perhaps thats at least one reason why the bible refers to ALL human beings as Gods CHILDREN and why Christ encouraged His followers to address God using a loving child’s term for their Father.
Your pathetic attempts get more feeble with each passing post…
Stupid lecture bot.
Deep State showing its claws again, in response to truth:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14731269/trump-new-doctor-mass-walkout-staffers-covid-lab-leak.html
Meet the new situation, same as the old situation.
The people responsible for the virus that never should have existed along with the associated jabs that never would have existed which killed so many millions with “tens of millions” who still suffer with Long COVID brain fog and other damages and caused so much more damage via the draconian measures against it WALK.
USAID = CIA.
Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab? Taxpayers financed the creation of deadly pathogens
8 Jun 2023
https://unherd.com/2023/06/why-did-usaid-fund-the-wuhan-lab/
Excerpt:
The reality is that Predict was doing more than detecting dangerous pathogens: it was helping labs make them. In May 2021, the office of US House Representative Guy Reschenthaler released a report showing that USAID had funnelled $1.1 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) through the EcoHealth Alliance. Among the work funded by USAID was a 2015 study jointly conducted by Shi Zhengli, the infamous “bat lady” of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the University of North Carolina researcher Ralph Baric, which used reverse genetics to insert a spike protein from a wild coronavirus capable of binding to a human receptor into the SARS-1 virus. The new lab-made virus was shown to bind to the human receptors and replicate “efficiently”, according to a House Foreign Affairs committee report.
The 2015 study — which the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists characterised as a “prototype” for making SARS-CoV-2 in a lab — was considered so dangerous that its authors did not upload the resulting sequence to GenBank, the NIH’s genetic research repository, for fear it might “fall into the wrong hands”, as Baric, its lead author, would later attest. But the study also omitted one other critical piece of information: USAID had provided funding for the study. Nature Medicine, the journal that published the paper, was forced to add a “Corrigendum” clarifying that the aid agency had in fact funded it.
Funding this kind of research in China added a whole other dimension of risk. According to the State Department, the Wuhan Institute began collaborating with the People’s Liberation Army no later than 2017. NBC News reported that in spring 2018, the Wuhan Institute’s Shi collaborated with military scientists specifically on coronavirus research. And in April 2020, it was revealed that the Wuhan Institute worked with Chinese military researchers to conduct research on Covid in humanised mice cells for the purposes of investigating the new disease. (US government investigators later found that the mice cells used specifically for Covid testing would have been created in the summer of 2019 — months before the pandemic began.)
There is little doubt that the US had, and still has, a global premium on the equipment, expertise, and ambition to do this type of research. So why would the NIH, let alone the USAID, fund such research in, of all places, a lab in China?
Among the four pillars of “Biodefense in the 21st Century”, Bush’s strategy that gave rise to programmes like Predict, was one called “Threat Awareness”. It indicated that the US was “improving the Intelligence Community’s ability to collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence [on bioweapons]”. Of all places, China would almost certainly be at the top of any list of bioweapons intelligence targets.
While failing to anticipate, or even identify, the Covid pandemic, Predict could have given American intelligence access to the findings of virus researchers such as Shi Zhengli, not just in China but around the world. In which case, given the sums associated with America’s defence and intelligence budgets, the project’s hefty $200 million lifetime budget would have paid for itself.
It wouldn’t have been the first time that international aid programmes have been used to gather intelligence. In 2014, it was reported that USAID had been caught trying to create a version of Twitter in Cuba that would help the CIA influence the political situation, with an eye to overthrowing the government. “USAID, perhaps, is the new CIA here,” Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive’s Cuba said at the time. The programme backfired, eventually allowing the Castro government to spy on the 40,000 Cubans who signed up.
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Please note that in the recent “White House” 557 page limited hangout report on COVID and its origins, while there were justifiably MANY mentions of EcoHealth Alliance and some of its other funders, its largest funder, USAID (CIA), wasn’t mentioned even ONCE.
Those aren’t claws – their pitiful tantrums by babies.
Reading that, I’m a bit surprised and disappointed that Dr Bhattacharya is still at the “not sure if it was a lab leak” stage of the “pandemic,” when most sane people know by now that it was a bioweapon. He needs to catch up fast.
I think he was trying to break it to them gently.
It didn’t work.
Sure hope he took names of those that walked out.
BREAKING: President Trump plans to name Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein to lead the “Golden Dome,” a new missile defense system aimed at protecting the U.S. from advanced threats like hypersonic weapons and low-flying missiles. The system would blend existing interceptors with satellite-based defenses.
https://t.me/insiderpaper/35717
Chucky Cheese attempting to follow the “Never let a crisis go to waste”…
DOGE meddled in the Mexican Navy.
Can you believe the sheer audacity of it all! Why, I think I’ll go faint…
I think someone else in the Dem Party leadership has dementia.
Ports come under DHS with USCG and FEMA having certain roles. In NYC, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is in charge and has a Board of Director muckety mucks.
The Port Engineer position is currently open.
The Port Captain position is listed as being held by a Captain Zeita Merchant based on info from 2023.
Back to the Port Engineer:
The selected candidate will serve as Port Engineer in the Marine Section, primarily tasked with assisting the senior Port Engineer in the maintenance and repair of a fleet of marine vessels, coordinating and scheduling repairs, and managing a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
All of the above info per Brave search.
AS I recall, the assigned Post Coastie serves at the pleasure of the Commander in Chief. Perhaps there was a qualifications issue?
Do the Ports fall into Schumer’s jurisdiction of constituents/responsibilities? Asking for my hamburger grilling maritime friends.
Still healthy. Not suicidal.
And back to the Port Captain…the last name has a familiar ringle jingle to it.
Orelia Merchant of the Eastern District of NY…nominated by President Biden and approved by the Senate in 2023. Wondering if they are related….
I have allowed for the possibility that there is no deeper conspiracy, that’s why I listened for Dan and Kash to confirm it.
Which they did not do.
If they had given a short rundown of the concerns that people have with the official narrative, and why those concerns aren’t valid, then yes, I’d take their words for it.
They didn’t do that, though, and being as I am not stupid or gullible, I am wondering why they didn’t take the opportunity to dispel the rumors.
Why come on TV and tell us they reviewed the evidence, without telling us what they reviewed?
Also, it doesn’t have to be a major Deep State conspiracy in order to be a coverup.
For example, the Secret Service is hiding something in the Kristi Noem purse-snatching. Do I think that’s a deep dark conspiracy?
No, but it’s our government hiding something from us that we have a right to know.
Many people seem to believe that Patel and Bongino are either lying (corrupt) or being deceived (captured by Deep State). They don’t even allow for the possibility that there’s no deeper conspiracy attached to the Trump assassination attempt. An unfalsifiable conviction (dogma)
Sorry, there is absolutely no way that the Butler incident was just some random dude stumbling into the situation, getting within point blank range, and coming within a fraction of an inch of blowing up PDJT’s head while being filmed with a special high speed camera.
If they did REALLY believe that, they would sit down and go through the entire event with maps, videos, and explain every implausible angle of it to prove to the people what “did not” occur. Instead it’s “trust us, we looked at it…”
So, “howcum” a special high-speed camera was even there in the first place?”
Everybody in the media fully expected to film a “JFK moment,” and they were all poised with their stories just awaiting the gruesome film.
You don’t need anything more to tell you that the entire situation was fully planned. And, that the only one who intervened was … God.
The fact that the media knew also speaks volumes about the corruption, cooperation, and coordination…
Even more reason to fire Patel and Bongino for their lies. This is JFK conspiracy coverup all over again, that’s why most Americans scoffed at their comments in that presser.
After William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel, I cannot believe Trump would hold on to these guys. Start over for crying out loud.
Essentially, they are saying:
I know something you don’t. I can’t tell you what it is, but you should trust me because I know something you don’t know.
Uh…. yeah…. this sort of logic makes me distrust you entirely…. not that you care.
Exactly.
What I wanted to know was, what kind of evidence did you evaluate, to lead you to your conclusions?
The FBI doesn’t have a good track record, I’d be stupid to just trust that they did the job right.
Yes, if it is so obvious they are 100 percent sure it is a nothingburger, why can’t they explain the evidence and logic that point so directly at their conclusions?
Never trust anyone that says “Trust me!”
I may suspect he was murdered but have absolutely no proof. Just like everyone else here.
The discussion regarded the attempted assassination of PDJT at the Butler rally – not the blackmailing pedo that was likely murdered in his cell. 🙂
Democrat Senators are an abomination!!!
A toss-up between MD and VA senators.
That was our SOS as a glorious Homanesque pitbull!!!
Even Booker looked a little incredulous at the yeller.
I wouldn’t have been anywhere near as nice as Rubio was…at some point would have told him he was an utter disgrace and a pathetic excuse for a human being.
And to STFU. Seriously, whoever the chairman was (I’m sure another republican eunuch) should have told Van Hollen to STFU, his turn to speak was over.
Can’t the chairman at least turn off his mic?
Don’t think chairmen have control of the mics for anyone but the witnesses. Don’t think almighty SINators would tolerate such diabolical deeds…
“That you had a margarita with …”
Loved it.
That MD Senator is a BUFFOON!!!! Good grief.
But a war which the US’ Blob intentionally laid the groundwork for.
“What would it take, to get you to sit back and watch WWIII happen?”
What???
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonfleetwood/p/congress-will-vote-to-strip-states?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Possibly at least as concerning was the other bombshell in that article…
That same month, the FDA finalized a rule allowing Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to waive informed consent for “minimal risk” studies—meaning your genetic data, blood samples, and private medical records can be collected and used without your knowledge or permission.
Coupled with…
classified evaluations on how AI can accelerate the development of chemical and biological weapons—and the Department of Homeland Security is openly warning that AI-driven DNA modification could soon be used to target specific groups of Americans.
Here are two aspects that aren’t even covered by the article btw…
AI centers consume MASSIVE amounts of power and water. If this bill passes, there is absolutely NOTHING that states will be able to do to prevent the draining of both the grid and the water supply for use by AI centers as the language explicitly includes “AI SYSTEMS” in it’s blanket protection. Free reign to consume all of those things we need to survive (which would also include things like farm land).
The inclusion of “automated decision systems” is quite concerning as well.
So begins the Butlerian Jihad…
It also makes me concerned about past perceptions kept quiet…
All HIGHLY concerning…
These large Omnibus bills have got to go!!! No one knows what they are voting for…to our demise! 😳
so i guess its just nothing more than coincidence that amazon is peddling garbage with the same “cute political statement with artistic flair” that was posted by james comey in his pic.
these people are sick and need to be more than just questioned by the secret service.
amazon should be called to account.
but they won’t.
none of them will.
SERIOUSLY need to add the CCP/PLA/USAID virus and the clear examples of an American variety of Mao’s cultural revolution intentionally disruptive cultural effects.
Welp, hard to believe anyone could fit the last 4 years into one paragraph- but there it is.
The Parliamentary Motive Behind the J6 Fedsurrection
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Who’s been holding on to this recording for the last four years while innocent people suffered in prison, losing their jobs, homes, families, businesses, even their lives????? WHO?
What’s going on.
https://open.substack.com/pub/debbielerman/p/the-deep-state-goes-viral-is-the?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
US Masters Swimming under investigation after trans athlete takes five women’s gold medals at Texas event
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/us-masters-swimming-under-investigation-after-trans-athlete-takes-five-womens-gold-medals-texas-event
https://healthfreedominstitute.com/mmr/
“What remains unspoken is the fact that combining shots takes away choice. The classic example is when a person is told in an emergency room they need a tetanus shot for a wound, but not told tetanus is available only in combination with diphtheria and maybe pertussis too.”
At this point in time – and likely for the remainder of my life – they won’t be allowed to inject ANYTHING into my veins. Tetanus is not required – it’s a “precaution”, just in case. For myself, septis infections from hospitals would be a far larger concern and there are no “vaccines” for that…
And then there is Prevnar 20 made just for you, by Pfizer.
470 miles line with a max speed of 75mph, predominately for freight.
Meanwhile Newscum has spent more money on a train system that spans a gran total of 22 miles. <—hysterical
Listening to the political talking heads and reading the conservative print media during the past several weeks, I have noticed that the language supporting PDJT’s BBB has changed from “no tax on social security benefits” to “tax relief for seniors.”
My friend in the HoR advised that the “relief” will likely be significantly less than the tax free promise.
Anyone have intel on this potential shortfall in expectations?
Just change “no tax on social security benefits” to “no tax on social security benefits for illegals” .
It will sail through Congress.
Good afternoon.
All I have seen is an extra 4k deduction for seniors. Unless there is a separate bill, it appears social security will
still be taxable but the “no tax on tips” is included in the BBB.
Maybe someone else has more information.
The IRS is the first 3 letter agency I would eliminate.
I believe I saw a mention that the $4k deduction was limited to those earning under $75k. And that to eliminate taxes on SS it would take legislation specifically to address the taxation.
Thank you for the details. 👍
It’s ironic. A crumb dispensed to poor seniors, to be phased out at about the level they would pay above the 10 or 15 percent bracket. Kind of insulting IMO. Probably hoping the target audience will think they get 4,000 rather than 10 or 15 percent of 4,000.
Slight correction. Under $75k single, $150k filing jointly.
There is currently a law the prohibits changes to taxation of Social Security. The work around is a tax credit of $4,000.00 and meanwhile Congress is working on a bill to change current law.
Exactly what I had heard. Thanks!
Working? Lol…lol…
Am hopeful.
Well, we need a Big Beautiful New Law.
With all the fraud in SS, 4k is a drop in the bucket, just saying…
Why is it always…the hard working American, forgotten again…
…is like Dorothy when she tells the Wizard “I don’t think there is anything in that black bag for me”….about the three minute mark…
Thanks to all for the informative replies.
Collectively, they confirm what my friend told me.
Promise unfulfilled, for now.
How can Trump stop this?
https://healthfreedominstitute.com/mmr/
He likely can’t – but individuals can by refusing the entire lot.
Stop this? … This is old SOP… example:
10: Sencer, David J. MD, H. Bruce Dull MD, and Alexander D. Langmuir MD. “Epidemiologic Basis for Eradication of Measles in 1967.” Public Health Reports 82, no. 3 (1967).
{ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1919891/pdf/pubhealthreporig00027-0069.pdf. }
RFKII is in process of putting Sunlight onto every bit of pHARMa’s malevolence – it is a gargantuan job because there is a medical deep state and their demise isn’t going to be done all at once (else they will see to it he is “died suddenly”) just as was Dr. Buttar, the real doctor who identified & treated RFKI’ Vx injury) so make friends with that as thoroughly as you can.
Take each win as it comes; the cumulative smaller wins will eventually be significant.
“… the New York Times ran a story headlined (linked), “RFK Jr. Defends HHS Overhaul as Democrats Denounce ‘War on Science.’”
… But the real story was, Kennedy tossed out newsworthy claims like he was sitting on a box of rhetorical hand grenades. Of course, the media studiously ignored nearly everything newsworthy that he said….”
{ https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pipelines-thursday-may-15-2025-c }
Continue reading through the turtle metaphor to the end, where he brings it back around.
However I disagree that incentives will change the parasite into something less harmful; we can hope that it’s phase one of phasing out… slowly slowly then all at once the scorching Sunlight sucks the very life out of the parasite for Good.
About 6-10 months ago, there was news on Al Gore’s internet, that Pfizer was losing money due to vaccine booster reluctance. So something will come along because I am betting they over hedged their bets and have lots of ‘product’ components that are not being used and sold. And they need to be used.
RFKII is the antidote to germ-o-phobia…
“… Kennedy, barefoot in a sewage creek, looks like a gladiator compared to the media’s fearful, bleach-your-groceries worldview. Our new Health Secretary is literally wading through Washington’s crap — a metaphor made manifest. And that, more than anything, is why they can’t stand him….”
{ https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/wokescolds-tuesday-may-13-2025-c } a very short read about the spin on RFKII’s Mother’s Day insta-post
The games afoot…
I’m sick of hearing about minerals. We had an arms race, a space race, and now we are in a dirt and rocks race, which is going to keep us in places we have no business being.
The minerals or other resources isn’t why I referenced it – but due to the UK/EU being involved in starting yet another war… 🙂
I get that, but minerals trigger me.
President Trump speaks about progress with The Golden Dome Missile Defense System
and takes a few questions from the assembled presstitutes.
Thanks for posting!
I second that. Thank you🙂
Unfortunately, the government has publicly taken the position that no video footage exists of either suicide attempt. They “accidentally” deleted the first one and the camera wasn’t working for the final event. And they haven’t released any maintenance or repair records for the “broken” cameras. As much as I love and trust Dan, I’d still like to see as many source documents as possible made part of the publicly-available historical record.
https://x.com/15poundstogo/status/1924825007802257636
…
I met briefly met a white girl from Johannesburg, South Africa a while ago & asked her about living there.
The things she considers normal are so batshit crazy that it sounds like fiction. It’s one of the most dystopian places I’ve ever heard of
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922335481615851993.html
It has been months since PDJT’s appeal of the NY kangaroo court’s felony convictions.
What is the reason for the delay in the appellate court’s decision?
Can the appellate court delay its decision indefinitely?
Has PDJT diminished the immediacy of his interest in the matter since his election?
Lovely Rita has both, some classic Lefties Losing It tragically… AND… POTUS clips that will – guaranteed – cause even more Lefties to Lose It;
we are so Blessed to have her attention and especially, her favor
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Smith College should be shuttered.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/betrayal-womens-college-awards-degree-man-attacking-womens-rights/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell
Democrats’ protest at NJ ICE facility ‘backfired,’ says public policy expert
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373137224112
What a head fake. I’m sick of head fakes.
We’ll pretend this is a win.
FDA Unveils Inept Plan to “Limit” COVID-19 Vaccine Use — Keeps Deadly Program Alive
Harmeet Dhillion suing mayor of Chicago for racist hiring practices.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1924918839063503143
Hunter Biden was in charge of the White House – MSM.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1924937336149643275
RFK JR is roasting these smug Senators!
This is a major FAIL on the part of Dr Makary, RFK Jr, FDA, HHS.
They are all compromised, likely by promises made during confirmation. I get that getting into administrative positions in order to do SOMETHING might be better than the previous status quo, but is is so horribly disappointing when we consider the ongoing deaths and destruction from the mRNA shots.
https://nitter.poast.org/EmbracingTara/status/1924882691763154994#m
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-unveils-new-plan-to-limit-covid
This is a substack. From the comments:
Dr. Kevin Stillwagon
5h
How long will it take them to figure out that the vaccine eligible “high-risk” infants and elders and others with comorbidities are the people that are the most “high-risk” for experiencing severe adverse reactions?
They got Vioxx and fen-phen off the market pretty quick…this should not be a problem.
Had to laugh, was just reading the Daily Mail comments on the article about Joe Biden responding to doubt about his diagnosis:
”It will come out in six months that Biden has just been diagnosed with dementia …”
Lol
JMO.
Newsmax is the goto channel for the never-trumpsters Ron Johnson and Chip Roy ………. from the House.
Newsmax ……. built their reputation on being MAGA but when the time comes to support President Trump’s Big Bill, they run with the two main never trumpsters who are carrying the water for the democrats…. Ron Johnson and Chip Roy.
Continue on and they will drop their viewership like CNN did.
I watched for a while but don’t anymore. Their chyron reads like it was typed out by a third grader.
They already lost me.
Ruddy is no fan of Trump.
Witness Makes Shocking Claim to Hawley about What Allstate Told Him to Do after Assessing Damage
-Forbes Breaking News
-May 19 2025
Wow…should be required viewing for all….
Biden seemed more confused at times than at others. Perhaps his confusion wasn’t entirely due to dementia but also to “chemo brain”. Maybe his frequent trips to his Delaware home was for chemotherapy.
Weird, house behind the Obamas was on fire last night, said to be electrical. Then it burned up today, no one home and no known cause. Beautiful historic home.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14732243/dc-mansion-near-obama-home-destroyed-fire-kalorama.html
Climate change?? Like Hawaii??
The article said that the night before, the fire dept had been there for a fire. Supposedly the house is undergoing renovations.
Uh oh
This is concerning if true. Casey Means promotes wearable technology to track your biomarkers.
Hmm…
https://peggyhall.substack.com/p/beware-trumps-surgeon-general-pick
Nobody cares what she promotes – or says for that matter…
considering the Dems track record. Has anyone confirmed that Biden actually has cancer? A good chance it is another lie to distract the media and public.
Not sure how much crazier this world can get! Come Lord Jesus!
https://open.substack.com/pub/seemorerocks/p/canada-wants-to-kill-its-vulnerable?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
That started a while back. Here is a commercial one company actually deployed back in 2022…
[video src="https://ia601301.us.archive.org/35/items/simons-commercial-all-is-beauty-canadian-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-commercial/Simons%20Commercial%20All%20Is%20Beauty%20-Canadian%20Assisted%20Suicide%20Euthanasia%20Commercial-.mp4" /]
It’s rough being Tommy Robinson! The Brits LOVE nothing better than to put him in jail at the drop of a slight* towards a Muslim! [* treating someone with disdain or indifference, implying disrespect or disregard]
Tommy Robinson to be freed from prison within days
The far-Right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed in October after admitting multiple breaches of an injunction made in 2021, which barred him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee.
On Tuesday, Robinson was told his sentence would be reduced by four months after he agreed to remove a film which contains the libellous allegations from his social media profile.
The film, Silenced, was pinned to the top of Robinson’s profile on X throughout his imprisonment but has now been taken down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tommy-robinson-to-be-freed-from-prison-within-days/ar-AA1F7sQU
Tommy Robinson to be released within days as sentence reduced
The sentence comprised a 14-month “punitive” element and a four-month “coercive” element, with sentencing judge Mr Justice Johnson telling Robinson he could have the latter taken off his sentence if he were to “purge” his contempt by taking steps to comply with the injunction.
The 42-year-old, who was previously due to be released on 26 July, applied to purge his contempt at a hearing on Tuesday, with his lawyers telling the court that he had shown a “commitment” to comply with the order.
In a ruling, Mr Justice Johnson said that there was an “absence of contrition or remorse” from Robinson, but that he had shown a “change in attitude” since he was sentenced.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/tommy-robinson-to-be-released-within-days-as-sentence-reduced/ar-AA1F7TgA