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Link to The Still Hour prayers
Link to the latest prayers and comments
Praying !
Praying.
AMEN
AMEN !!
🙏 🙏 Amen 🙏🙏
Amen
This brings a tear to my eye. Thank you.
In Jesus name, Amen.
Prayers for my Treehouse host, admins & my fellow Treepers. Especially too for Dutchman’s recovery.
God bless PDJT & God bless America. Happy Independence Day America!!
Amen, Mom!
Amen. Is there an update on our dear Darth Vader?
I haven’t seen/heard anything since Mrs Dutchman’s 1st post.
I’m sure that she’s doing her utmost to support him through his next battles so there’s probably little time for communication here.
Dutchman’s Wife
July 3, 2025 2:03 pm
Reply to Patience
-Open Thread
Thank you all — The sentiments are overwhelming!
I took screenshots of all these messages and will read each and every one.
Thanks for the update Patience.
AMEN to that MOM be well and have a great 4th
Amen !
Amrn
Amen!
Amen!
Amen.
Amen!
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
Amen !
AMEN!
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.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
Ukraine frontlines update ….
Military Situation In Ukraine On July 3, 2025 (Maps Update)South Front
Doomsday ☄️ Putin-Trump Talks Have Begun 🤝 Russians Have Breached the Defenses of Pokrovsk 💥 MS 2025.07.03
Powerful Explosions in Zhytomyr and Poltava 💥 Chasiv Yar is About to Fall ☠️ 🔥 Military Summary 2025.07.3
🧊 🧊 ICE NEWS🧊🧊
Statement from acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons on Rep. Pramila Jayapal calling ICE a ‘terrorist force’ | ICE
Ohio man gets multiple life sentences for murdering 3 victims, directing others to dismember & bury 2 of the bodies following ICE HSI criminal investigation | ICE
San Antonio man sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for transporting 25 illegal aliens inside tanker trailer following ICE Eagle Pass, federal partner investigation | ICE
👍 👏 👏 Thank you Tom Homan and LEOs for working hard
to keep our communities safer 👏👏👍
Yikes!😳😳
One day ago….
2 naked men men running down the street…….
they escaped.
This is not the first…or even the second time…
Polish Police Arrest Organ Traffickers After Shocking Migrant Incident in Poland – YouTube
Poland arrests Ukrainian woman convicted of selling 56 human kidneys | Reuters
Kremlin discloses content of Putin-Trump conversation (FULL STATEMENT) — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
From phone call today…
🤔 🤔 Wondering how long the Putin History Lesson was👩🏫
This is excellent article!
RIAC :: How Russia Saved the United States Twice
Even when the British promised
Catherine the Great an island…
she told the British -No.
And supported our American Revolution!🇺🇸🇺🇸
👏 👏 👍
This is also interesting article…
Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II had
a friendship. Just Six weeks before our 🇺🇸 Civil War,
Tsar Alexander freed the Russian serfs. Unfortunately,
both Abraham Lincoln and the Tsar Alexander met
the same tragic end…💔
Top Ten Origins: The Best Moments in U.S.-Russian Relations | Origins
Thanks.
It is amazing! Putin and Trump have full and completely honest discussions about every major issue / conflict in the World impacting Russi and America. Then when Trump asks about their War with Ukraine, Putin just says” Stay tuned. We are not done achieving our mission goals yet!”
Amen to that.
🎇🎆💥 🇺🇲 💥🎇🎆
Blessings to all on this 4th of July! 🙏
The BBB is across the finish line! 🦁👑
Have a safe and beautiful day! ♥️🤍💙
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: Mike Johnson announced ADDITIONAL new laws set to be approved to advance Trump’s agenda
“We’re gonna have a second reconciliation package in the fall, and a third in the spring of next year…”
Cont (and video linked)….
This sounds great, but, (yeah, you knew that was coming, didn’t ya!)…..It was a tough row to hoe when it was 220 R’s to 212 D’s this go around.
After September special elections(AZ and VA) the D’s will more than likely add 2 more to their ranks and another in November(TX) making it 220 R’s and 215 D’s. (all 3 districts lean D). That would leave just a slim 2 ‘Nay’ vote margin for R’s to win at 218-217.
If these packages have significant cuts, it may convert the two morons who voted no yesterday.
I’m praying these two morons along with several others are soon replaced with MAGA folks.
Hopefully so!
Yay. Got the ball rolling . I’m guessing Republicans needed someone to take Charge.
Today was the Apex of the Trump Presidency…
There may be more “apexes” – but today, was the heights!!!!
God bless America
Land that I love
🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
God bless President Trump and the first family.
God bless Sundance, Ad REM and all treepers.
On this special day I wish all Americans a happy Independence weekend. You have much to celebrate and I do it joyfully with you.
Blowout June Payrolls: 147K Jobs Added, Smashing Expectations; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.1%
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blowout-june-payrolls-147k-jobs-added-smashing-expectations-unemployment-rate-drops-41
Thank goodness ICE will be funded. Pray that we may be delivered from evil.
Deuteronomy 28:
43 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee.
For those 17 million Americans who will be deprived of food and/or healthcare… let them eat cake.
And of course everyone who’s on Medicare… you’re next.
Yeah, that President Trump, he really wants people to suffer and so he stays up nights thinking of ways to take away “food and/or healthcare” and when he gets a minute he works on taking out Medicare. What a guy!
Have you been imbibing lately? Maybe you should consider a vacation?
Yes, the “cake” suggestion won’t go over well here in the South..
Perhaps Peach Cobbler served with a scoop or two of ice cream?
NOTHING beats Peach Cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. NOTHING! Texas Tumbleweeds served up one of the best back in the day. Their Chicken fried steak was a winner as well. I miss that place.
I miss the Black Eye Pea restaurants in Texas. Lived there in the 80’s.
Yum! Don’t know if any are still in business.
Born and raised on a ranch near Laredo… Could throw a rock from my folks front porch and hit the Rio… American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!
I miss the Tlalpeno Soup with a side of rice and garnish at Danny’s. Sometime I think about making the Drive from Virginia to get my fix.
Howard Johnson’ s had the best ice cream sundaes
Well, yes… Now that I think about it, there is one thing that beats Peach Cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream…
Well, while considering the idea, it dawned on me that there are actually two things…. ooops… make that three things…
Just made a honey whiskey vanilla ice cream for later. Son and dil just came back with a new born grandson so no fireworks but corn on cob, brats dogs and more will be shared by all!
Personally, prefer the icing on the cake.
Depends on which cake you are icing!
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE
Myth vs. Fact: The One Big Beautiful Bill
The White House
June 29, 2025
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill is “just a tax break for billionaires.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history. The President’s legislation will put more than $10,000 a year back in the pockets of typical hardworking families. This is the most pro-growth, pro-worker, pro-family legislation ever crafted.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “takes from the poor to give to the rich.”
FACT: Low-income workers stand to receive the largest percentage reduction in their tax liability. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest tax cut in history for working-and-middle class Americans.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “makes life more unaffordable.”
FACT: The bill delivers bigger paychecks, expanding take-home pay by over $10,000 per year for a typical family.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “hurts low-income families.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill is the most pro-family legislation ever crafted. It will deliver bigger paychecks, giving more than a $10,000 boost annually to everyday families. We are also expanding Opportunity Zones, expanding childcare access, increasing the child tax credit, and creating newborn savings accounts.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “is just a handout to corporations.”
FACT: This bill drives a Blue-Collar BOOM with tax relief for workers, support for small businesses, and investments in American manufacturing. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “leaves American workers behind.”
FACT: This is the most pro-American worker bill in history. The One Big Beautiful Bill boosts pay for millions—and with no tax on tips or overtime, those working hourly and service jobs receive additional tax relief.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “hurts small businesses.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill will make the Trump Tax Cuts permanent, including the small business deduction—helping Main Street grow and hire. Failure to pass this legislation would result in a $4 trillion tax hike.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “kicks American families off Medicaid.”
FACT: As the President has said numerous times, there will be no cuts to Medicaid. The One Big Beautiful Bill protects and strengthens Medicaid for those who rely on it—pregnant women, children, seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income families—while eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. The One Big Beautiful Bill removes illegal aliens, enforces work requirements, and protects Medicaid for the truly vulnerable.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “cuts Medicare.”
FACT: Medicare has not been touched in this bill— absolutely nothing in the bill reduces spending on Medicare benefits. This legislation does not make a single cut to welfare programs—it safeguards and protects these programs for all eligible Americans.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “will close rural hospitals.”
FACT: Rural hospitals comprise just 7% of all hospital spending on Medicaid, illustrating that they have not benefited from the massive increase in waste, fraud, and abuse under the Biden administration. By strengthening Medicaid, we are making more resources available for vulnerable populations and safety net providers, like rural hospitals. We are expanding rural hospital protection, providing targeted funds for rural care, and giving states flexibility to support local providers.
MYTH: “People will literally die” from the One Big Beautiful Bill — “and millions will be kicked off their healthcare.”
FACT: This is one of the most egregious, deranged attacks from the Left peddling fear over the facts. The One Big Beautiful Bill protects eligible Americans on federal welfare – including Medicaid. By strengthening the integrity of Medicaid by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, its resources can be refocused on providing better care for those whom the program was designed to serve: pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, low-income seniors, and other vulnerable low-income families.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “will hurt people with disabilities.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill protects and strengthens Medicaid for Americans with disabilities. Rest assured, those with disabilities receiving Medicaid will receive no loss or change in coverage.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “punishes vulnerable Americans with work requirements to receive their benefits.”
FACT: Not true. The 20-hour weekly work requirement applies only to able-bodied adults without young children and promotes dignity, stability, and better health outcomes for families. The One Big Beautiful Bill restores the dignity of work with historically bipartisan work requirements for able-bodied Americans. We are implementing commonsense, Clinton-era work, volunteer, education, or training requirements with broad bipartisan support.
MYTH: “There’s no fraud in Medicaid — Republicans are just taking coverage away from vulnerable populations.”
FACT: In the last 10 years, CMS admitted that improper payments for Medicaid have exceeded HALF A TRILLION dollars. In just the past year, taxpayers spent $56 billion on benefits for able-bodied adults abusing the system—and over a million illegal aliens are receiving free health care on the backs of taxpayers. The One Big Beautiful Bill removes illegal aliens, enacts work requirements for able-bodied adults, and protects Medicaid for the truly vulnerable.
MYTH: “SNAP work requirements are unnecessary.”
FACT: Only 28% of able-bodied adults on SNAP work. The One Big Beautiful Bill promotes work, responsibility, and restores SNAP to serve the truly needy. SNAP enrollment remains high even in a strong economy, including millions of able-bodied adults who could work. In fact, almost three-quarters of able-bodied adults without dependents on SNAP have no earned income. The mission of the program has failed. SNAP was intended to be temporary help for those who encounter tough times—we are strengthening this program to serve those who need it most.
MYTH: “Illegal aliens don’t get federal benefits.”
FACT: Illegals burden taxpayers with billions in costs for free health care and welfare benefits. The One Big Beautiful Bill ends Medicaid and SNAP fraud and ensures these programs serve only eligible Americans.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “doesn’t actually end taxes on Social Security.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers historic tax relief to seniors, with a new tax deduction that, combined with other deductions, ensures the average Social Security beneficiary will pay zero taxes on Social Security.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “increases the deficit.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill reduces deficits by over $2 trillion by increasing economic growth and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse across government programs at an unprecedented rate. This legislation delivers historic levels of mandatory savings. President Trump’s pro-growth economic formula will reduce the deficit, increase wages, deliver American jobs, and drive down the cost of living.
MYTH: “But the CBO says….”
FACT: The Crooked Budget Office has a terrible record with its predictions and hasn’t earned the attention the media gives it. The CBO misreads the economic consequences of not extending the Trump Tax Cuts. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers real savings that will unleash our economy and prevent the largest tax hike in history, resulting in historic prosperity, while lowering the debt burden.
MYTH: “There’s too much ‘pork’ in this bill.”
FACT: There’s no pork in the bill. Every single provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill is a campaign promise the American people elected President Trump to deliver. The only new spending in the bill is to secure the homeland of the United States and save American sovereignty — which is fully paid for by increased visa fees on foreigners.
MYTH: “The One Big Beautiful Bill won’t strengthen national security.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers on President Trump’s Peace Through Strength agenda by funding the Golden Dome missile defense system and modernizing our military to prioritize lethality and readiness. It fully equips our war fighters with the resources they need while modernizing and revolutionizing our equipment and technology.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “helps ‘Big Oil’ and locks up U.S. energy resources.”
FACT: Quite the opposite. It unleashes American energy, refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and repeals the Green New Scam policies. The One Big Beautiful Bill unleashes clean, American-made energy and will reduce the cost of living for Americans nationwide.
MYTH: “Manufacturing jobs will still go overseas.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers 100% expensing for new domestic factories, revitalizes Opportunity Zones, and incentivizes companies to keep jobs in America.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “neglects rural America.”
FACT: This bill invests in rural communities, expands market access, and delivers historic support to farm families. The One Big Beautiful Bill provides the certainty America’s farm families need to continue operating and producing the affordable, safe, and abundant supply of food, fuel, and fiber that our nation relies on.
MYTH: “SNAP is being gutted and cutting food stamps for families, causing them to go hungry.”
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill protects and strengthens SNAP. Right now, almost three-quarters of able-bodied adults without dependents on SNAP have no earned income and the fraud rate is high. The mission of the program has failed: SNAP was intended to be temporary help for those who encounter tough times. Now, it’s become so bloated that it is leaving fewer resources for those who truly need help. We are committed to preserving SNAP for the truly needy.
MYTH: “Republicans are shutting Democrats out of the legislative process.”
FACT: This is not a partisan bill—Democrats shut themselves out by supporting higher taxes, open borders, and giveaways to illegal immigrants. The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers on Republican promises to lower taxes, secure the border, cut spending, and put Americans first.
MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill “border package is not necessary since President Trump has secured the border.”
FACT: We must ensure that the invasion we witnessed as a nation under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never happens again. The One Big Beautiful Bill’s historic investment in our border security ensures we permanently secure our border and protect our homeland by finishing the border wall, hiring 10,000 new ICE officers, and funding efforts to stop the flow of fentanyl.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/
Thanks for posting the list.
But I suspect there are some, even here, who will only be further confused by facts. 😆
Also, thanks Val 1 for your post. Perhaps you try too hard because Chris Samuelson already has his story and facts aren’t a part of it.
Thank you for correcting the statements of someone who didn’t bother to really understand the BBB.
A myth and fact section is great. But notice how it leaves out the “how”?
PR people wrote that.
MYTH: “People will literally die” from the One Big Beautiful Bill — “and millions will be kicked off their healthcare.”
FACT: This is one of the most egregious, deranged attacks from the Left peddling fear over the facts. The One Big Beautiful Bill protects eligible Americans on federal welfare – including Medicaid. By strengthening the integrity of Medicaid by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, its resources can be refocused on providing better care for those whom the program was designed to serve: pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, low-income seniors, and other vulnerable low-income families.
” … those 17 million Americans ….” are NOT Americans. Try again. If they do the right thing they get a free flight home and then $1,000. Where else but in America does the government let you off the hook for invading the country, mooching off of honest hard working America and sends you home without jail time and $1,000?
That’s not good enough for you though, is it?
I’m guessing Chris S. is either illegal or related to someone who is. or he may be a democrat. Either way, he/she is not MAGA or a patriot.
if your under 40 and an illegal SOMETHING IS WRONG.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/democrats-fake-news-media-are-hiding-this-american/
Democrats and the Fake News Media Are Hiding This from the American Public: Illegal Migrants Collect More Food, Housing, Cash Benefits, and Medicaid Than Natural Born Citizens
This frosts me.
Bless your heart!
😂
Who will be deprived? Ours is the most generous country on earth. Unfortunately, that has led to the largest population of freeloaders on earth too. You want to help, do it. Give your time and money. Forcing me to do it at the tip of a government spear is completely counter to the founding of this country.
There will not be any Americans deprived of food and or healthcare, you really super obnoxious liar. Only the illegal alien invaders will be removed from the welfare rolls that American taxpayers provide, you really super obnoxious liar.
Say HI to the Sea Islanders for us.
Happy Independence Day.
Strong statement Chris can you provide the facts to back it up?
That’s false and you know it. Medicare is not going to be harmed. Those who will no longer have coverages under Medicaid are those who should not be on it and they are NOT American citizens. Are you from CNN or a member of the Dem party in the House? Those are the words of the scaremongers in the media and the Congress. Nice try.
That’s false and you know it.
Clean your meth pipe, it’s Fourth Of July, for crying out loud!
Nice strawman.
Perhaps it might be interesting to look at exactly what the bill provides:
https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/
*Note: site may be subject to further update, but that was it as of 3 days ago
I see a lot of fraud loopholes closed…oh noes!
please stop peddling fear over facts
We do not do that here!
Millions here in leftist/ globalist controlled Canada are grateful that President Trump has risked it all.
Wow!
We were millimetres away from who knows after Butler P.A.
God has this..
Happy July 4 to America.
🥂
Seriously? Did tyou forget the sarc tag?
I’m thinking he forgot the r tag.
Why are you calling illegal migrants Americans? When I was an expat living in foreign countries, I would NOT be allowed to get visas to live in those countries without proof that I had my own medical insurance because the citizens of those countries were not going to be responsible to pay for any medical care I might have needed.
Aha! I knew it… you clearly have an agenda. However, as those before you, you will not succeed in your mission. Might as well pack up and move on.
Have a nice day! 🙂
You are aware that residents in America do not warrant being called Americans unless they are American citizens, right?
If people are being deprived of food, it is the height of lunacy for American fam land to be used for producing solar power.
Far from destroying Medicare for American citizens, it bolsters Medicare by removing those from its use that do not qualify, are not citizens and are wasteful within the system.
Think of it as a pie chart. Rightful recipients of Medicare now will have access to a greater slice of pie since those abusing the system through waste, fraud and abuse will not be getting their slice.
One of the best things that came out of the Clinton administration was a work requirement for certain benefits.
Guess what, when people actually get out and work, they feel more productive and often seek better jobs improving their lives overall.
PS You found CTH, whoever is feeding the mush into your skull that compelled posting your comment, consider dropping them as a “news” source. Your post reeks of indoctrination. Val1 gave you facts.
getting their slice? stealing ours.
Mexico has great healthcare. Called IMSS.
It’s a widely available system for Mexican citizens and eligible foreigners, offering a safety net for healthcare needs.
Doctors and nurses:
Many IMSS doctors also work in private hospitals, bringing a level of experience and professionalism to the public system.
Absolutely Awesome!
We here at CTH are adults carrying on intelligent conversation and enjoying each other’s view points. Respectfully, you are wrong. If you are up to it, try educating yourself by maybe reading the bill instead of parroting the communists and democrat (redundant, sorry), “talking points”. Go peddle your lies somewhere else.
Today, we celebrate our independence and liberty, which our Founders, lost their lives, fortunes, families, etc. to provide us with this Republic. Try to enjoy your freedom of speech to peddle your lies and your other freedoms courtesy of our signers of our Declaration of Independence and our wonderful Constitution. Respectfully, enjoy your 4th of July weekend.
Happy 4th of July to President Trump and all Patriotic Americans!
♥️🤍💙
💥💥💥
Good emojis! 👌
I asked before and regretfully, I forgot to check back. Would someone be so kind so as to post thes instructions for how to post a picture here in the comments? Thank you in advance.
For a link, just paste the http://picture.jpg on a line by itself, that ends in .jpg or .png
If the picture is on your phone or computer, you have to upload it to a server first, so it has a link.
Use an image posting site such as :
https://postimages.org/
You will get a selection of links to choose from after you upload your image. Select the one that starts with “https://” and ends with “jpg”. (Direct Link).
Happy Fourth of July, patriots!
I’m not sure I’m ready for this evolution in drug trafficking.
An unmanned sub with Starlink was seized by Colombia. They believe it was a test run for narco shipments.
The cartels are certainly embracing high tech and I can only surmise our adversaries are much better equipped.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-colombia-narco-submarine-starlink
If it has Starlink, surely it can be easily tracked as well?
Also does it have to surface for Starlink to work?
I hope it has screen doors.
Starlink is a transceiver connecting to an orbiting satellite.
Makes sense perfect sense for the Mexican Drug Cartels: Submarine Drones with all the latest technology to deliver drugs!
Legal expert reveals how Trump admin can deport major anti-Israel activist
Attorney Mehek Cooke argues immigration judges should overturn decision that freed anti-Israel activist
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-legal-expert-explains-next-steps-mahmoud-khalil-case
Robot soccer, anyone?
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/china/bumbling-game-robot-soccer-was-breakthrough-embodied-ai-rcna215780?utm_source=semafor
No. Took a boring game and made it worse.
Happy 4th! 🇺🇸 😁
That’s a great picture. Thank you.
Said last night he’s going to get a “wall” suit, referring to the brick suit guy. Pretty funny. “I’ll just sit there and look like a wall.”
@Osint613
1h
Happy 4th. A great time to pause and remember the freedoms America has sparked, not just in the U.S, but around the world, for people of all faiths and all backgrounds.
May God continue to bless America
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1941029562651234613#m
@Osint613
20h
On January 12, 2016, while Barack Obama was president, Iran’s IRGC seized a U.S. Navy boat. Iran released footage showing American sailors humiliated, some kneeling and others in tears before Iranian forces.
Five days later, on January 17, Obama sent $400 million in pallets of cash to Iran, followed by another $1.3 billion through additional transactions.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1940739706712424732#m
Obama was blackmailed and threatened by Iran
President Trump should include in any deal the WHAT they were blackmailing Barry with.
Happy Birthday, America! Have a great day too, Treepers.
Guess America got her birthday present early in November. Happy 4th of July Treepers, what a year, what promises lie ahead?
Always thought this scene captures a certain essence of the country.
Saw Moscow on the Hudson so long ago I’d forgotten. Thanks!
I loved 80s movies. So many were filled with actual storylines, plots, and intelligent dialogue. As opposed to the dreck in movie theaters today.
Greetings Treepers and Happy Birthday Americans! 🇺🇸✝️🇺🇸
EXCLUSIVE: State Department Ends Decades-Long Program Paying Under-Performing Diplomats
… Under the Annuity Exception, Foreign Service members have been able to remain on the State Department payroll beyond their scheduled departure from the administration, the internal memo explains. The memo states that the exception violates the Foreign Service Act of 1980, which dictates who receives retirement benefits.
“This program is unfortunately the perfect example of the corruption, waste, and abuse that has gone unchecked at the State Department for far too long,” a senior State Department official told the Caller. “This program had sent millions of unauthorized taxpayer dollars to underperforming diplomats and previous administrations simply turned a blind eye, but at the direction of Secretary Rubio this will no longer be the case. Under President Trump, this administration will be unwavering in their commitment to ensure Americans’ resources will no longer be squandered.”
Link: https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/02/exclusive-state-department-ends-decades-long-program-paying-under-performing-diplomats/
My standard deduction is now much higher than it was last year (and yesterday). What a year to turn 65!
morning TREEPERS…………………………BE WELL
Wow!
Good morning bjorkdream! What a stunning image.
Happy Independence Day. Thank You for your part in keeping it that way for us. 🫡🙏❤️
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Morning bjorkdream
Beautiful cotton candy clouds.
Thank you.
Have a great 4th of July. 🇺🇸
Good afternoon bjorkdream. That is beautiful, thank you. I pray you have a healthy, happy and blessed 4th of July weekend.
Live Long & Prosper.
Here is my rebuttal of Hakeem Jeffries’ magic minute speech:
In light of this momentous occasion of the signing of the Big Beautiful Bill into law today, I have cancelled all 4th of July celebration plans and am instead going to self-deport, die on Medicare, and pick fruits and vegetables instead of the migrant farmworkers that do it for me.
I might even clean the house, wash my windows, and power wash my roof in protest. I am worried there will be no one left to blow my grass clippings off my driveway.
Alas, we should not forget to hike through the Everglades today, so we can get ourselves eaten by an alligator in protest against the Republicans and the indignity of national border security.
Retired Magistrate here: I am so blessed to have been born in the United States. Where else could a girl born in the hills of Southern Ohio take business courses in high school, become a legal secretary, then a police officer, then go to night school, then night law school while running a business, then start the fraud division for the state insurance department, then start the fraud division for a health insurance company, then start her own law practice and finally become a Magistrate. No where else that I know of.
What a great time to be alive. All the glory goes to my LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
Amen!
You ARE an inspiration! Happy 4th!
A lovely post and inspirational.
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You didn’t build that (resume) without DIE
— Democommunist Party Leadership
That’s an amazing resume RM. Good for you and quite the American success story. That could only happen here, you’re right.
God Bless you, Marcia!!
Happy Independence Day!!
Good Morning and Happy Independence Day everyone! May God richly bless you and your families as you celebrate the birth of the greatest country ever to exist. May He richly bless and protect this magnificent Treehouse and its incredible team.
I sure hope Dutchman has a room where he can see the fireworks tonight. 🙏❤️☺️
Thank you God for your Love and Blessings. ❤️
Any word on how Dutchman is doing? Praying for him. Happy Independence Day to all!
Mrs. Dutchman left a comment here a couple of days ago….
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/02/wednesday-july-2nd-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-11913651
Thanks Puddy. I just saw GeorgiaMimi’s question. ❤️
Zohran Mamdani is turning New York City Republican
The Left-wing vote is likely to be split. That could give eccentric Curtis Sliwa just the opportunity he needs to win the mayoralty
https://archive.md/BdLAa#selection-2255.4-2259.138
Don’t believe the noise.
My wife and I still own RE in NYC from when we lived there in the early 2000s.
Adams has been terrible and has been running the city like a mobster!
There are worse alternatives than Mamdani. We certainly don’t mind paying a little more to help with social services.
I suggest you pay a LOT more to help the homeless people there and I sure hope that whatever you own in NYC is helping the homeless people and all the illegals.
a little more just turns into all of it.
you haven’t grasped the concept yet.
We’ve been paying more for years. And even go above and beyond that. That is the Christian way.
Those that say things like “a little more just turns into all of it”, speaking from experience, do very little to none.
We are all judged at some point.
New York deserves whatever it gets. The rest of us don’t.
That you can seriously believe there are worse alternatives to a communist Muslim running NYC shows just how left wing you are.
Unfortunately, that is not the way it will actually work. And Curtis is a decent alternative compared to the communist Mamdani.
Stupidity.
Spoken like a true liberal who believes the way to help other adults is to take care of them.
God Bless the USA!
Happy Birthday America!
Happy 4th Treepers! Many blessings and safe travels this fine weekend that God has truly blessed us with!
Independence Day Sounds So Much Better Than ‘Fourth Of July’–The Federalist:
“…the true meaning of the word “independence” bothers Democrats, so I like using it. It bothers them because they hate the concept of a person doing as he pleases without seeking permission or relying on authority. That’s why Democrats obsess over rules and regulations, reveling in their power to pass out permits for building, traveling, and anything else they can get their sticky hands on. It’s why they hate the American middle class — because the middle class might not have the influence and access to the powerful, but it doesn’t need to. Democrats prefer an underclass, dependent on authority providing rations and granting permissions. By the way, independence shouldn’t be confused with “freedom.” Freedom suggests a person might very well choose captivity, relying on others for their care. Independence is a rejection of dominance, servitude, and subjugation. It’s a repulsive idea to Democrats, so saying “Independence Day” to one of them is highly satisfying, kind of like offering a bite of your burger to an angry vegan.
Happy Independence Day!” ………….
The American Middle Class is a triumph of our civilization and a bulwark against Tyranny. The Left hates it because it is a competing power center to their God of Government. Hence their War on Prosperity.
“My idea of American policy toward [Communism] is simple, and some would say simplistic,” he said. “It is this: We win and they lose. What do you think of that?”
A: Amen!
Rest in the Vine: Decisive Victory versus Endless War:
Where Did He Ever Learn Such a Thing as That?
more:
Ditch The DNA Test, Learn More About American Ancestors:
“…I’m personally familiar with the contemporary American proclivity to chase one’s ancestry across the seas. As a young boy, I loved studying the Irish heritage of my mother’s side. I listened to Irish music, sought out Irish cuisine, and planned to visit the Emerald Isle as soon as I could.
In college, I studied abroad in Dublin. The first thing I discovered, as a recent Saturday Night Live skit amusingly parodies, is that literally millions of Americans have returned to Eire in search of their family story. In my case, like most, my Irish ancestors came to America during the Great Famine. Those forebears lost contact with their relatives, though one of my ancestors briefly returned to Ireland after serving in the Civil War to find a wife. Thus, even though I met plenty of Irish who shared the same last names as my mother’s side of the family, they could not have cared less about our distant connection. Though it is a beautiful country with a remarkable history (and delicious beer), that trip proved it was not my country.
As I got older and encountered the various expected difficulties of adult life, I became much more interested in those predecessors of mine who had made a new life in America. How did they find the diligence and fortitude to press on in the face of so many hardships? What was it like for my great-great-grandfather to serve as an Indian Agent in the West? How did my grandfather take a chance starting his own business as a middle-aged father with young children? These stories were far more proximate and meaningful to me than old, perhaps even apocryphal tales about ancient Irish clans. I wanted to understand my American progenitors, so I could appreciate their stories. …
If you’re a U.S. citizen, it means your family has an American story. It may have started in 1620, 1850, or even 1970, but it is still uniquely American. Almost always, there’s at least something to be proud of in that narrative, and it need not be a family member’s participation in a war. Hard work, entrepreneurship, or serving as a pillar of a community — these are all qualities of the American ethos worth celebrating. In a frustratingly divided nation, we need stories that unite us to a shared American vision of the good life based on our nation’s founding principles.” …….
Stroh Beer
Wow blast from past.
https://wgrd.com/strohs-michigan-history/
Prolly flat by now.
They sold it in 15 packs when I was in college, and the price was reasonable. Don’t know if they even still make it.
Anyone know what kind of beer Reagan is holding?
See above. lol
“Only dead fish swim with the current.” — Viktor Orbán
I love this quote
https://usdebtclock.org/
When the tariff money starts coming in beginning in August how do we know it will be used to offset the national debt of $37 trillion? The total national debt should start to drop correct? It should be reflected in the us debt clock shown above? If Congress gets their hands on the tariff money it will be spent and wasted!!!! JMO
We’ve been paying “tariff taxes” at some of our favorite online retailers for at least a couple months, so surely that process has already started and should be transparently displayed.
There is no such thing as a tariff tax.
Absolutely there is.
How do you think retailers et al are recouping the cash that they are paying to import their goods?
Do you shop online? A lot of retailers have already started implementing a “tariff surcharge” line at checkout.
For a lot of us, it’s just an annoyance, and we’ll pay it for now. But it can add an extra 15-20%.
Amazon just put out a statement that the tariffs are not affecting prices at all. They haven’t increased because of tariffs. They might have increased because the sellers moved them up and blamed tariffs but the people watching the tariff policies who are running Amazon said it has not impacted prices.
Typically, the mark-ups that retailers already add to imported goods are large enough to absorb tariffs. If I were a retailer, I would not add a “tariff surcharge.” I would not consider it to be good customer relations. Find another way to absorb it.
I don’t disagree with you, but the fact is, retailers are doing it now.
And the fact that they are being reasonably transparent about it – explaining the “why” and providing data to back it up for consumers – shows this isn’t some conspiracy or trying to make an extra buck.
We buy from Amazon almost every day. And you are right – prices there seem to be normal, for now.
I live alone and, naturally, do all the shopping, online, and at brick and mortar stores. I haven’t seen one instance of being charged a “tariff tax”? I routinely check receipts for mistakes etc. You are a leftist so I understand your being out of touch with reality.
It must be terrible to live each day with President Trump living in your head.
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No there isn’t. Tariffs apply to and are absorbed by the manufacturer. Not at the retail level. Any online retailers charging a fee and calling it a tariff are lying and profiteering.
I’ve been in every sector of retail my whole life.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
A tariff is “an import tax.” And what these cry-baby countries are neglecting to mention is that they have been charging us tariffs for many decades!
Remember that “schedule of tariffs” that Trump originally published? That was calculated as 50% of the tariffs that those countries were then charging us!
Tariffs are, and always have been and will be, a normal part of international trade. Ultimately, this and all other costs (such as “currency exchange fees”) are absorbed into the retail or wholesale price of the product. The rates which Trump is planning to impose are actually not exorbitant … well, most of them aren’t, anyway.
Not true. A tariff is a leverage tool. Nothing more, nothing less.
You are so full of lies.
As a former all-source analyst with an ICAAP certification and after reading the CIA/DA AAR, I can say with high confidence that:
1. The ICA was WH-directed
2. Brennan bullied his own agency into leading this ICA 3. The timeline was shorted to deny analytic dissent
4. The ICA overstated sources, evidence, judgments
5. IC agencies were omitted from ICA coord/review
6. IC agency heads inserted their own views
7. Information was compartmentalized to limit coordination, dissent
8. No other substantive views were considered
John Brennan should go to JAIL for this hit-piece abomination; the ICA isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
At our 250 Birthday Party our great Republic endured much and still standing despite the swamp’s (Washington DC) best efforts.
“They” the swamp rats are captured and operate at the behest of their “glo-bull-ist” master’s and have since our Founding been trying to destroy our Republic.
Slow at first 110+ years ago, then they hit their gettyup at the assassination of JFK. We began to see their evil grip tighten for 62 years. They used everything to destroy the foundations of the USA and out to the West.
Their goal is to deliberately keep murky their plans, cloaked by the mockingbird media as exposed by the Church Commission in the 70’s, Most of the “journalist” (Cronkite CBS News, Woodward WaPo etc.) were essentially C_IA operatives to sell a narrative.
Simply put, we were lied to and still are…me included. Why? This is the part that people have the greatest trouble understanding, why the heck would anyone want to destroy the USA? Who does this serve? It’s mystifying to me even though I’m naturally suspicious and as a kid I was Counterculture, Sex Drugs & Rock-n-Roll…Carter cured me.
From President Reagan forward I was diametrically opposed to the left and now this has morphed into opposition of the Uniparty.
In order for our nation to survive and thrive we gotta take out the hives, Federal, State and Local and service to the American people get back to the front and self-aggrandizement punishable by the very least prison.
There are so many inflection points over the last 110+ years, whereas a nation we should have zigged and not zagged, too much to put in a blog post.
God Bless the USA! God Bless our Great American President Donald J Trump and his family!
Ultra-MAGA! The only way!
Actually, there ISN’T! That’s why the right side of Lincoln’s head is unfinished. “Bad rock!” There was concern that some of his sculpture could break off if they continued. You can see a vertical joint above the eye.
Teddy should say “Bully!” That was his catchphrase.
” …for we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. Beloved, there is now set before us life, and good, death and evil … But if our hearts shall turn away so that we will not obey, but shall be seduced and worship other Gods, our pleasures, and profits, and serve them, it is propounded unto us this day, we shall surely perish out of the good Land whither we pass over this vast Sea to possess it: Therefore let us choose Life, that we, and our Seed, may live; by obeying His voice, and cleaving to Him, for He is our Life, and our Prosperity.”—Gov. John Winthrop, 1630
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those Rights which Heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”–John Hancock, First Signer of the Declaration of Independence
In today’s money the destroyed tea was worth $1,700,000 !!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#Destruction_of_the_tea
We are witnessing something incredible in the USA. The strength and depth of President Trump’s leadership, courage, perseverance and intelligence has inspired a renewed spirit of leadership and “CAN-DO” attitude throughout America. Problems believed unsolvable everywhere on Earth are now being knocked down like mere bowling pins as Donald Trump throws a series of strikes down the bowling alley in an astonishing display of epic greatness.
Here is a man delivered to praying Americans by the Power of GOD Himself. Be still and bow humbly before the Great Throne.
Is this true ❓ 🥳
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🚨 BREAKING: The first illegal aliens have been brought into ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1940803542954258866
People are disappearing. Ha, they are moving out of New York or back to Westchester.
People are disappearing?
great news !
my area is so over run with flea’s that
if I was in a coma for 10 years and woke up
I would think I was living in Peru not New Jersey
I go to a local store and I’m the ONLY non hispanic in the place
they even run and work the place
make it go away
Just like going to the local Social Security Administration office!!!
Does this mean the lines at the DMV and EmergencyRoom will be less than an hour?
Well… if they can just APPEAR… then they can certainly just DISAPPEAR…
Twenty million illegal aliens deported ha ha ha ha ha . Not happening , under the best circumstances we will be able to remove approx 850K illegals in Trumps three and a half years left .
Could be wrong… but they’re counting on self-deportation, and focused on the Real Bad Dudes and those with immediate long-standing removal orders… the “I’ve been here 7 years past my visa” crowd… IMO. I think 1 million have already self-deported?
If DHS et al are smart, they’d capitalize on Social Media… for example…
Anton breaks down some friendly advice from The Internet: leave now.
You need that except in Spanish… and lots of it. Ironically, Libtards running around with their hair on fire screaming “EVERYBODY’S GETTING DEPORTED!!!” actually helps the cause, if you think about it…
Yes… list to Ms. Purple Hair there… everybody is getting deported…
How do you know?
https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-bombshell-general-flynn-calls-for-obama-and-the-other-russia-hoax-coup-plotters-to-be-arrested-for-treason
America in Crisis: CIA Director Ratcliffe Confirms that the Outgoing Biden Administration Commanded an Illegal Deep State Coup Operation Against President Trump Starting in 2016
The same deep state operatives are now working behind the scenes to assassinate Trump and trigger a civil war.
Happy Independence Day!
We live in the greatest country ever in the history of mankind made possible by patriots determined to overthrow the yoke of tyranny. Never forget that the catalyst was excessive taxation.
Outside of the illegal invaders funded by Cartel drug money, excessive taxation remains my single biggest gripe with our current republic. Thankful for the BBB and recent reforms in my state of Ohio, but forgive me if I still feel the yoke.
Inevitable West
@Inevitablewest
🚨BREAKING: Dutch Parliament has passed the strongest asylum policy the nation has ever seen:
– Asylum seekers will no longer be allowed to get permanent residency.
– Leftist NGO’s will be punished by law for aiding the illegal invasion.
Netherlands is finally waking up…
Insanity, non mainstream news sources are the only sources that report the truth .
EU Rolls Out ‘Disinformation Law’ to Censor Americans Who Share Non-Mainstream News
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/eu-rolls-out-disinformation-law-to-censor-americans-who-share-non-mainstream-news/
There Is A ‘Plan to Vaccinate All Americans, Despite RFK Jr.’
Vaccine makers, pharmacists, professional medical societies and others opposed to recent changes in vaccine policy are banding together to create their own system for recommending and purchasing vaccines in a move designed to bypass government health agencies’ recommendations.
https://principia-scientific.com/there-is-a-plan-to-vaccinate-all-americans-despite-rfk-jr/
The can recommend all day until the cows come home. As long as no one tries again to force any crap into my body as some sort of a condition for being able to participate in society.
Migrants arrested for sex crimes at triple the rate of Brits – UK stats.
Yes, this is happening all over the USA, the only reason people aren’t hearing about it is because the media refuse to report it .
https://www.europereloaded.com/up-to-a-third-of-sexual-assaults-committed-by-migrants-in-2024/
Wow. I just uploaded a picture of my shocked face:
Migrants is leftist language. They are illegal aliens.
Maybe when and if we get a new and improved AG.
We need to deport way, way more than 1 million per year which is a drop in the illegal bucket.
That’s been been the plan since Reagan. Import millions. Deport a few for show and hope the voters forget. Which most always do.
Agreed but from what I’m told that figure would be possible only under the best circumstances . Most think by the end of Trumps term we won’t even be able to deport 1 million , more like 850K if everything goes well which is nothing .
Fact is the people responsible for this invasion need to be prosecuted because it’s a felony to bring just one illegal into the country . There is no way we can allow the people responsible to get away with that .
RICO, Treason and everything else on the shelf to be thrown. These are just armies w/o uniforms.
Dear Mrs. Dutchman, I want you to know I always look forward to reading Dutchman’s comments here at the Treehouse He is very well respected .I do hope he is doing well,and send him my prayers and Blessings .Stay Strong.
More calls of the actions of Brennan, Comey and Clapper as treasonous as exposed by CIA chief Ratcliffe.
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-cia-report-on-russiagate-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=746580&post_id=167517069&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ch1ue&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Exposure is not enough. We need convictions. We need to set examples so others will not attempt another coup d’etat.
We need the taxpayer funds used to target President Trump, his administration and the American people who supported him, taken from the bank accounts of the ill-doers.
We need accountability and a reckoning for suborning the will of our duly elected president.
Happy 4th of July!
This news just in from today’s Babylon Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/continental-congress-reluctantly-agrees-to-trim-down-name-of-big-beautiful-declaration-of-independence/
And there is this one:
https://babylonbee.com/news/breaking-chicago-man-not-shot