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Good luck Z-man!!
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1947768577693782463
Finally!
The answer is no! We don’t!
You may have missed the implied /s
But…yup…you are spot on!
History is not going to treat the Big Z well.
Is honorable neocon gen.Kellogg still in the sooo glorious Kyiv ????
He left early!
On the 21st.
He was scheduled for week long
visit that was to end on 24th.
🤔 🤷♀️
Keith Kellogg Heads to Ukraine as Trump Considers First New Aid Package | NewsX World – YouTube
BS headline…scheduled /reported to be week long…14-24th
🛑 Kellogg LEFT UKRAINE EARLY! The real reason for the US special representative’s visit! – YouTube
Closed caption change for English …July 21.
It appears he left before the 21st. 🤷♀️
affraid of Vlad’s drones??????
To be honest – haven’t heard much on him even from my mil sources.
The news blanket/whitewash on Ukraine throughout this whole evolution (except for the celebrity/politico photo ops) has been thorough.
I continue to be astonished that the man is still alive. I would have expected his people to have, long ago, done what the Italians did to Mussolini. (The Italians always did have a certain flair for theater …) 💀
Me too, I prophesied his demise 2yrs ago
Me too!
I thought he wld have met his maker late last year/early this year.
Same here!
What is interesting is that
Martial law is in effect until
August 6th.
The vote by Ukrainian parliament
is said to have happened yesterday-
to extend it to November 9th.
Interesting 🤔
But it is amusing, is it not, that the same people who opine abt PDJT being an autocratic tyrant heap endless love on the Big Z?
Yes!
The “humor” and 🙄🙄 watching
them fawn over the little tin cup dictator
is pure entertainment. ..🤡 show level.
They are so engulfed in their own
propaganda bubble..🤣 they don’t
realize….how much they are mocked.
And the Sicilians had a back up plan…
Poot is laying in wait for the right opportunity .
SN..who is Poot…???
Hard to do the Mussolini thingy when the target spends so little time in the Ukraine.
Z-Man is smart enough to NOT be in the Ukraine, unlike Mussolini who was not smart enough to head to Switzerland after the King of Italy fired him and switched sides in 1943, when the allies landed in Sicily.
Zelensky dismantles Ukraine’s anti-corruption infrastructure, brings law enforcement agencies under his thumb
Kyiv Independent
Yup….people really don’t like it when
Government officials appear to be getting
rich, while the people are sacrificing and
sending their loved ones to die on the
battlefield.
🤷♀️ 🤷♀️ 🤷♀️
Miss Lindsey. call your office NOW.
“This is Kiev right NOW
Crowds chanting anti-Zelensky slogans in the capital
Furious over his law destroying autonomy of key anti-corruption agencies
Do you see this on Western media?” …….
Despite the Media Brown-Out, many Euro-cities are in revolt.
Absurdistan: Civilian Hero Mode Activated. The Rise of the Citizen Wrenching Back Power:
“The fighting Irish are going to bring down their government again and again until they reverse the migrant invasion. The flag of St George is carried down the streets in Britain, followed by actual Christians who are fit to be tied. The Spanish are out in the streets in the hundreds of thousands, demanding the resignation of their hated socialist leader. Migrant crime is the unifying issue, but beneath it is Trump’s greatest achievement, which is to demonstrate that the grind, the way we live will shift, the decades we lost to our glorious leaders are all going to be returned.” …….
Because Trump.
Agreed. All the world’s populist movements, giving power back to the governed, started with PDJT opening the eyes of Americans to the globalist authoritarians.
Read any European news and it is not a populist movement, but a right wing nationalist racist movement. Europe has already turned into a hell hole where dissent is quickly punished.
European crackdown on X/free speech deserves utter derision
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/european-crackdown-on-x-free-speech-deserves-utter-derision/ar-AA1oI6G4
UK Encryption Crackdown Imperils Privacy, Security & Free Speech
https://www.techpolicy.press/uk-encryption-crackdown-imperils-privacy-security-free-speech/
The EU’s Digital Silencing Act Undermines Free Speech in Europe and Around the World
https://netchoice.org/the-eus-digital-silencing-act-undermines-free-speech-in-europe-and-around-the-world/
UK government issues warning: ‘Think before you post’
https://www.thefire.org/news/uk-government-issues-warning-think-you-post
Europe’s Free Speech Crackdown Could Be Coming For Americans Next, Advocates Warn
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/europe-s-free-speech-crackdown-could-be-coming-for-americans-next-advocates-warn/ar-AA1pBJsb
German Police Conduct Nationwide Raids Targeting Online Dissent, Sparking Outrage Over Free Speech Crackdown
https://yournews.com/2025/06/25/3543391/german-police-conduct-nationwide-raids-targeting-online-dissent-sparking-outrage/
France is not the free-speech champion it says it is
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/11/france-is-not-the-free-speech-champion-it-says-it-is-2/
Samantha Power in the house?
Lost in the details of this protest is the singular statement that Nabu and Sap are a product creation of FBI guidance.
Guidence during a time of very questionable political motives of a corruption lead State Department acting in concert with political appointee holdovers of the Obama administration that were running interference for the likes of Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
So question very much why on this green earth was the FBI inserted into the equation of a purely domestic Ukrainian issue.
How about start with if the FBI was being tasked with helping Ukraine piece together an independent task force to help Ukraine again direction on corruption oversight.
Then how in the world did the FBI not catch the fact that the political ticket for Ukraine’s elections supported by Podesta following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity did not flipping catch that many of the candidates on the slate following the events of 2014 were in fact strawmen of the bums the Revolution of Dignity just threw out of office.
The corporations are 100% pro-globalism and only a blind idiot would claim “our” government isn’t corporate OWNED. That’s why Trump, the guy having to do anything significant via transitory executive orders, is a speed bump for them. See the 9 Jul Bannon rant correctly pointing out that we don’t actually control the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and DOD and who has also said relatively recently that there are perhaps 20 to 30 true MAGA in all of CONgress.
I’ve previously explained my thoughts on the reason for the shift of those agencies from fighting commies to fighting nationalists:
Since the world is and always has been basically a continuing conflict between competing oligarchies with some, like ours, having the calming illusion [see the 2014 Princeton study] of voter control and a large, stabilizing middle class which is now going away thanks to the export of manufacturing jobs and artificial asset price inflation due massive, debt-based money “printing” which, as I have shown, overwhelmingly benefits the 1%, here’s my take:
In the 50s and 60s when most manufacturing was located in the US and US products dominated the WWII-destroyed world, the oligarchy was nationalistic and the targets of the FBI and CIA were the anti-nationalists (communists/leftists). Also, the boards of directors of those major corporations which were mostly not multi-nationally owned were mostly patriotic Americans.
Now that so much manufacturing is outside the US, mainly in China, and even US-based corporations are far more multinational with many board members who aren’t even US citizens, the oligarchy’s desired path is globalism, so nationalists are targeted and they, at least in the US, naturally tend to be anti-collectivists (anti-communist/anti-leftist) while authoritarian government enthusiasts (leftists) are not.
Also, those brainwashed with neo-Marxist Postmodernism pseudo-intellectual garbage during their “higher” education have reached positions of power in our gerontocracy. In 2021, the average age of a U.S. senator was 64. The same Postmodernism effect is also seen in lower levels of the educational system because teachers were also indoctrinated with that garbage in college. “The long march through the institutions” has been highly successful.
The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup
By Jeffrey A Tucker
July 11, 2024
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-pandemic-excuse-for-a-corporatist-coup/
We’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023, but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the US, abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional law. It is right there in plain sight for anyone curious enough to dig.
There is nothing in it that you haven’t already experienced with lockdowns. What makes it interesting are the participants in the forging of the plan, which is pretty much the whole of corporate America as it stood in 2007. It was a George W. Bush initiative. The conclusions are startling.
[snip]
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The Corporate Veil
America’s Hidden Transformation
Joshua Stylman
Mar 12, 2025
https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-corporate-veil
What if the America you pledge allegiance to isn’t the one running the show? This investigation examines how America’s governance system fundamentally transformed since 1871 through a documented pattern of legal, financial, and administrative changes. The evidence reveals a gradual shift from constitutional principles toward corporate-style management structures – not through a single event, but through an accumulation of incremental changes spanning generations that have quietly restructured the relationship between citizens and government.
This analysis prioritizes primary sources, identifies patterns across multiple domains rather than isolated events, and examines timeline correlations – particularly noting how crises often preceded centralization initiatives. By examining primary sources including Congressional records, Treasury documents, Supreme Court decisions, and international agreements, we identify how:
Legal language and frameworks evolved from natural rights toward commercial principles
Financial sovereignty transferred incrementally from elected representatives to banking interests
Administrative systems increasingly mediated the relationship between citizens and government
[HUGE snip]
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America, LLC
The Corporate Takeover We Were Never Taught
Joshua Stylman
Mar 13, 2025
https://stylman.substack.com/p/america-llc-tldr-version
Most of you didn’t read my 12,000-word analysis yesterday. [the one I just posted a link to above – W] I get it. Who has time for a deep dive into obscure legislative history and financial arcana? So here’s the “wait, what?” version:
Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you that you could be anything in the free republic of America? Well, plot twist: what if America isn’t exactly a republic anymore, but something closer to… a corporation? And what if your role in this business arrangement isn’t as a shareholder, but as inventory on the balance sheet?
Here’s the absurdly short version:
[snip]
“The World is a Corporation” (Network, 1976) (6:18)
“You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no third worlds, there is no West…there is no America, there is no democracy, there is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and Dupont, DOW, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today…We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies…”
Almost forgot to mention:
Make money CREATING a military adversary, China, by heavily investing in and moving industry to it and then make even more money OPPOSING it while STILL investing in it’s further strengthening by the need to buy products manufactured in China that we no longer produce domestically!
The perfect, accidental or intentional self-licking MIC ice cream cone.
Council on foreign relations “New World Order” you nailed it Winston. Best enemy money can buy
Schwab is gone supposedly. Is that creep Harari around still? Who is running the show at WEF these days.?
UNDER CONTROL OF WHITE HATS ???
Yes, our representatives have become nothing more than paid wh… I mean paid lobbyists for the competing interests of multinational corporations, mobs, cartels and interests of other nations such as China, etc.
It seems hopeless sometimes but if Trump is God’s servant, then I wonder if the rising nationalism facilitated by Trump’s efforts can reset the boundaries of nation states whose competing interests will work toward the advantage by making them accountable to their own people, much like the competing interests of the American government, as established by our founders, can restore America as a government of the people.
I suspect that facial recognition will play a role in securing which nation one belongs to. While a scary thought, Pandora cannot be put back in the box, so my hope is that AI. (which also cannot be put into the box), can be designed to help prevent government abuse rather than to consolidate the power of a few
I know this sounds as stupid as, “My wish, as winner of this pageant, would be to promote world peace, feed all children and end poverty.”
The devil is in the details, but so too is God.
stop it then.
contaminate the perception with fire fighting fire.
ex. child porn AI is allegedly ( remember the game) using iphone camera sniffing to capture children images and reareanging the into generate images.
Ugh. The worst part is that it will make it MUCH harder to identify and arrest those who are actually abusing children.
AI is really going to bend our ability to determine reality. Scary stuff.
Starting to understand why Adam and Eve were told not to partake of the Apple smart-phones.
I certainly do not like what our reps did to.. no tax on tips… none on SS…not extending the Ocare credits in the BBB. I can’t understand why republicans think it is a good look to always sh!t on everyone but the rich who got their SALT deductions.
Toss in the covid cocktail and it’s a party.
That SCOTUS ruling about contributing money to campaigns certainly did not help.
I lived it…..saw it…..felt it…
No One … Is Above the Law’
Just days before the 2016 election, Obama, at a campaign stop for Clinton, his former secretary of state, warned North Carolina voters that the “fate of the republic” rested on their shoulders. Electing Trump, he insisted, would put democracy in peril.
“I am not on the ballot, but I tell you what, fairness is on the ballot; decency is on the ballot; justice is on the ballot; progress is on the ballot; our democracy is on the ballot,” the Democrat said.
He sounded more insistent campaigning for his former vice president, Joe Biden, during a disjointed Democratic National Convention in 2020. Obama scolded Trump for his failure to hold “reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.”
“…[N]o one, including the president, is above the law…,” the former president said.
Those words may come back to haunt Obama, as the declassified intelligence community docs show just how little “reverence for the democracy that was placed in his care” the former far-left president demonstrated. His apparent interference in the 2016 election and the consequences of that meddling were definitely a threat to representative democracy.
And the perversity of it, if you will, is that those carefully-recorded and then-classified words are his own. They confessed to a crime and plotted it out in detail, dutifully recording everything. On the assumption that it would never see the light of day. They could have simply had that meeting, and taken no notes, and no one today could know that it ever happened. Wouldn’t that have made more sense, when you are plotting a seditious conspiracy?
I think that we need to re-think this entire thing we call, “classified.” For example, we are now told that there are 208,000 classified documents regarding the MLK murder. That’s a helluva lot of writing, ostensibly “never to be seen.” So, why write all that, and then seal it in an Indiana Jones warehouse? For “good men?” 🤡
“Classified” priorities, 1) Coverup government corruption and criminality 2) cover up government embarrassment 3) a valid national security concern
Numbers 1 and 2 can be distinguished between “government” actions and those of individual employees covering up their own corruption and criminality, and sometimes just incompetence or poor performance, which their own agency or chain of command (“government”) might never have approved of or tolerated if they had known of it. Of course, if they are all doing some form of these things and are simply turning a blind eye to the misdeeds of each other, then there is no need to distinguish.
Perhpas they recorded it because they believed they would prevail in their struggle against America and her Constitution + Bill of Rights.
As Victors, the fawning Public would want the story of the Heroes who saved them and all of humaity.
Lots of hubris involved with this risk taking, but I believe these persons have the egos to support it.
We need only look to the 1930’s regime, who also recorded their crimes in obsessive detail to statistics on gold teeth extracted, to see that this overwhelming hubris (I see it as Satanic and demonic) is a feature of those Posobeic calls the UnHumans…
…not a bug.
Hubris on steroids and meth. They recorded it and thought they had it stashed away for posterity. They didn’t imagine the AI revolution that could uncover their egregious misdeeds.
they will hide behind the evidence being recently provided and thought to be new and after the determination of no collusion. sensitivty made then rush
Obama was trashing himself with those words. GOOD! I LOVE IT!
I am offering this because of comments yesterday that “guilt about the Crusades” (i.e. Leftist/Communist-promoted and fertilized guilt) might be involved in Europe’s suicide via Islamic immigration.
I wrote it in a somewhat different form about 10 years ago for “Red State,” but some may find it of interest here.
The History of the Crusades cannot possibly be addressed properly in an essay for a website. The purpose here is to give quick summaries of what the Crusades were, and especially, in general, what they were not.
The Crusades were not a sudden invention of the pope to attack peace-loving Arab Moslems minding their own business. The Arabs and Islam had been on the march since the 600’s, and their long-term goal was always the destruction of the Christian state of the Byzantine Empire. Arab fleets and armies would be seen outside of Constantinople several times throughout the centuries, to be replaced later by the Turks.
If spreading Islam was only one of many goals of these invasions, it cannot be said that it was ever totally absent. Similarly, recapturing the Holy Land for Christianity was only one of many goals for the Crusaders: for some, it was not the goal at all, and certainly it was not the goal of the Byzantines at the time!
One of the most striking features of Byzantine History is the nearly constant necessity of warfare plaguing that state, usually defensive in nature. Surviving the initial onslaught of (mainly) Germanic and Hunnic tribes, who had brought down the West, the Byzantines were then to face throughout the centuries assorted hostile and migrating tribes of Vikings/Normans, Slavs, Arabs, and Turks, along with wars against Persians, Crusaders, and the Venetians. (This list is not necessarily complete!)
The last Latin-speaking emperor based in Constantinople was Justinian, who tried to reconquer the West from the Germanic barbarians in the A.D,500’s, and partially succeeded. The problem was that the wars were so expensive and the manpower needs so great that he was in the long term causing problems for the Byzantine state.
Unable to pay its usual tribute (i.e. bribe) to the Persian king, the empire found its eastern provinces invaded by the Persians, with Armenia at the center. After a period of civil war, a Byzantine emperor named Heraclius, one of the greatest leaders in Medieval History, finally defeated the Persians, a process lasting roughly from the 570’s to the 620’s. (Imagine Americans supporting and enduring and paying for an off-and-on war for 50 years!)
Unfortunately for both the Byzantines and the Persians, Arab tribes were just then organizing themselves to burst forth into the north. Although their numbers were not particularly large, the Arabs were not exhausted from such warfare across generations, and were able to sweep into both Persian and Byzantine territory, as well as head across the north African coast toward western Europe.
Many reasons are given for their success: the exhaustion of Byzantine resources and manpower, the high taxation of the Byzantine government (especially disliked in Syria and Egypt), etc. But divisions inside of Christianity were also a major factor.
It is not commonly known, but Byzantine theologians at first considered Islam a heresy of Christianity: they saw the roots of Islam coming from the Christian sect of Arianism, and one modern historian (F. W. Buckler) saw Nestorianism, a Christian sect based in Baghdad, as being highly important for Islam. Since the Arabs were a minority in the areas they had conquered, they were often content to keep what machinery of government had been left behind. Christians were taxed for not converting: “Convert or be taxed” was probably more often heard than “Convert or die!”
The Arab advance was not stopped until the Byzantine victories of 674-678 at Constantinople. After a truce of 30 years, the Byzantines attempted to retake what the Arabs had conquered, but lost more territory. Another siege of Constantinople occurred in 717, and again the Arabs were pushed away, as they were pushed out of France in 732 by Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne. This Arab expedition was not a full-fledged invasion of France by any means, but the defeat was enough for the Arabs to remain content with Spain.
Thus by the mid-700’s an uneasy status quo had evolved, with Arabs and Byzantines nibbling away at each, and dealing with their own internal conflicts, while in Spain the Reconquista began almost immediately in 718. Christians and Jews were tolerated in Islamic lands, but were deliberately socially and politically persecuted for not converting, parallel with Catholics in England after the formation of the Church of England. And to be fair, one must note that the Byzantines allowed mosques to be built, including right inside the city of Constantinople.
300 years later the Turks were on the march, conquering their fellow Moslems and leading a new charge against the Byzantines, who had – again – followed foreign policies in Armenia which let them open to attack in the long term. In 1071, the Battle of Manzikert (or Mantzikert) left the Byzantines devastated and the Turks in charge of much of what is today Turkey. They would go on to capture Jerusalem in 1077. Within 20 years, Turks (the Patzinaks) were outside the walls of Constantinople, but were defeated.
Besieged in such ways, the Byzantine emperor, Alexius Comnenus, appealed to the pope for some military aid. Pope Urban II, seeing an opportunity to tame the growing number of unemployed, landless knights, and to harness the energies of constantly feuding aristocrats (it was not called the “feudal system” for nothing) for something worthwhile, decided to answer the Byzantine appeal in his own way. Alexius was expecting perhaps 5,000 mercenaries who would join the Byzantine army.
What he got instead was The First Crusade!
The Byzantines were shocked when the crowds of uncouth Westerners appeared, with the goal of liberating the Holy Land! To be sure, the Byzantines had not controlled that area for hundreds of years, but still considered it their own problem, and not the concern of all of Christendom! Also, one could find Christians living under Moslem rule, who preferred the infidels to the Byzantines, and especially to Western Christians, who were just one step out of barbarism.
The main point here is that religious fervor was not the motivating factor for the Byzantine Christians, and was not the main factor for many of the Western knights and their aristocratic leaders, most of whom were French. Economic, political, social, and even cultural factors were involved, and that is especially true of the later three “official” crusades, all of which were failures.
The Fourth Crusade, for example, was a complete disaster…for the Byzantines! Arabs and Turks had nothing to fear from that crusade, since the Venetians had plotted to turn the Westerners into a proxy army for themselves to dismember what was left of the Byzantine state.
The First Crusade, however, was an amazing success, in that Jerusalem and the Holy Land were in fact captured by a polyglot army from the western Mediterranean! Also amazing is that relations between the infidels and the Crusaders were not always hostile! Syrian Moslems in fact welcomed them because of threats from fellow Moslems: the Turks and the Egyptians. The Islamic leader of Tripoli had supplied the Crusaders with provisions and guides. So the Islamic world, then as now, was subdivided among competing interests.
Were these Christian soldiers immune to the temptations of warfare? No, and the capture of Jerusalem is the best example of the worst of their behavior. Enraged by Islamic soldiers desecrating crosses on the walls of Jerusalem during the siege, the Crusaders might in fact have been energized by such sacrilege finally to break through the walls. Estimates vary, but somewhere between 25,000 and 40,000 residents were slaughtered, men, women, and children.
The few Jews left were herded into a synagogue which was then ignited. One might think that “noble knights” would not have indulged in such behavior. The sources show that a good number of the “pilgrims” accompanying the military men were in fact criminals of all kinds, including supposedly repentant murderers. But there is no evidence that the knights did anything to stop the massacre, or that there was regret afterward. To be sure, Moslems and Jews had conspired a hundred years earlier to massacre Jerusalem Christians, but it is unlikely that any Christian with a sword in his hand really wanted to avenge that atrocity. Archbishop William of Tyre, writing a history several generations later about the event, expressed horror at what the Crusaders had done in Jerusalem.
Crusaders went on to establish Western European style fiefdoms, some of which lasted longer than one might expect. With such beachheads, the hope was that a Reconquista might be possible, but the other crusades failed for many reasons.
To conclude, one can see that the Crusades were a highly complex phenomenon involving assorted issues in the West: social problems (primogeniture, for example, whereby the oldest son inherits everything, was a tradition which caused the growing number of landless, warlike knights errant), political problems between the pope and the increasingly powerful aristocracy (an aristocracy still more pagan than Christian in its clinging to the warrior ethos of Germanic mythology), political and religious issues between the pope and the Byzantines, and as always economic factors. Ignorant people who think that the Crusades were an unwarranted, out-of-the-blue attack on Islam, and therefore are to blame for our current troubles, are easily contradicted by someone who knows the facts.
Without the Byzantines constantly acting as a buffer against Islamic advances, without Charles Martel in 732 in France, without the Crusades, without the men under Don Juan at Lepanto in 1571, without the men under Nicholas of Salm at Vienna in 1529, and without the men under John Sobieski of Poland again at Vienna in 1683, all of them blunting the advance of Islamic armies, it is indisputable that our present lives would be quite different today, and not for the better: this is true even with accepting that spreading their religion was not the primary aim of the Arabic and Turkish armies.
For it is the Western Tradition of freedom for the average person, first practiced by the Greeks, Romans, and the early Celtic and Germanic tribes, and not always practiced perfectly, but always evolving to include as many people as possible, which would have disappeared under such an Oriental force as Islam.
To conclude: There should be no ridiculous “guilt about the Crusades” in our modern era!!!
While my own historical knowledge is very weak…Eleanor of Aquitaine might have something to say about the Third Crusade, with regards to Saladin…
Well done sir. Sobieski’s winged Hussers were always a fav when playing Cossacks the computer game. St Lazar and the Serbs at the field of the blackbirds
Thank you Ausonious!
I do so miss World History Class from high school..
Always appreciate your take on historical pathways and the events therein.
I, too, loved those classes, but only many decades later did I realize those classes were “silos”, as Sundance is fond of pointing out. None of my classes ever really connected how events in history, that we memorized dates for exams, very much impacted every day life. As a “senior” now I have the luxury of taking several enrichment classes at a University…..opera, as an example. A wonderful professor I have always connects the opera we are studying with what was going on in “history” at the time and how it either influenced or restricted how an opera was written and performed. Same with the art (heavy on the religious themes), how people dressed, how nursery rhymes and stories were disguised as subtle political statements, etc. For some of the true geniuses of the times, it was only long after their deaths (often in poverty) were they recognized as visionaries.
I saw a great video once about the scale of The Crusades versus the onslaught of moslem invasions
We (Christians) attacked (Crusades) to defend certain areas and people that requested help 50 times or 50 Battles
Islam attacked some 29,000 times
As laid out in this video
I will see if I can find it one day and post
(If for no other reason to be sure I remember the numbers correctly)
🤷
I’ve copied this to my documents; its an excellent summary! Thank you, nicely done.
You are quite welcome and thanks to all the others who have commented here.
For further reading, let me recommend a classic history of the Crusades by Hilaire Belloc, The Crusades: The World’s Debate. Although c. 90 years old, it is not out-of-date and contains a warning about we have seen, i.e. the return of an aggressive Islamic consciousness.
Also recommended is Defenders of the West by Raymond Ibrahim, with a Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson.
I feel that the 1920s/1930s creation and push by the Marxists of the use of the word, “Racist,” as a useful cudgel in preventing any protest to their social changes is huge, much bigger than people realize, and a century later its influence is still felt in bowing to and paying for our complete demographic change.
The 2010s/2020s tool of equal weight is sanctimony, seen in the ubiquitous virtue-signaling. Those who are approving of taking YOURS purportedly for the benefit of others (and possibly themselves off the top) never stop to consider whether the TAKING itself is American, constitutional, fair, or even beneficial in the long run.
Always… ‘Larnin’ continues at the Treehouse School. Thanks so very much.
The Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in Massachusetts has a number of learned titles on the subjects of Hellenic civilization and the Orthodox Church.
Stupidity or evil…your choice
‘Microsoft no longer allows its Chinese-based engineers to work on DOD projects.’
Right after Pete Hegseth learned the Pentagon was on a Chinese cloud.
It’s not a choice at all. It’s Treason, straight up.
“Yes, Massa. Right away, Massa!”
ps: Pete; the last I heard, Obama had put the Chi-Com election company Konnech in charge of the military’s overseas ballots. That’s why China Joe won 326% of the military vote.
Might want to take a look at that, too.
Rest in the Vine: True the Vote Fraud: Konnech the Dots
I remember an advertisement which showed a wide-awake geek in bed with his wife (who was asleep). He had a horrified look on his face.
Caption: “It’s 2:00 in the morning. Do you know where your data is?”
“The Cloud™” is so very convenient. “Out of sight, out of mind.” But, do you know who has access to those servers of yours? Do you even know where in the world they are? Do you know who can steal your data – or, tamper with it – or maintain a copy of it – such that you would never know? Simply because you are much, much(!) too “trusting.”
People talk about “hackers.” Uh uh. It is almost always “an inside job.” I have counseled clients: “Start at the CTO [Chief Technology Officer] and work down.” No one walks into a building at random and walks out with the Crown Jewels of England. Unless they already knew where to find them. “Motive, means, and opportunity.”
I do my best to teach people to say “someone else’s computer” instead of “the cloud”.
Good idea.
Probably would be accurate as well to say big computer in Utah.
Which I fervently hope contains all the information the Weinstein/Eisen/Mueller type folks think they have erased.
Recall took an extra minute…
From the Tulsi disclosures – T1 Tech Executive 1 – Rodney Joffre
Refresher here : https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/a-curious-development-in-2015-related-to-sussmann-indictment-and-alfa-bank-saga/
Think of all his influence and power and yet, he was really a grifter and common thug….
They all are….
Say it isn’t so.
He was so cute in his satanic suit.
Call in the fembots…
I read he and his wife bought a “home” for $30 million and subsequently paid another $20 million to remodel it. Now, that’s a home I’d love to see!
It should be confiscated, sold, and the money given back to the Swiss, cuz you just know he stole every penny.
Is it in the Zelinsky neighborhood?
THIS IS A THREAD YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS:
A thread about the corrupt and dishonest United Nations. This thread will offer just a small glimpse into how disingenuous, corrupt and dishonest the United Nations is when it comes to transparency and accountability. I’m going to focus on just one thing that really says it all. I would urge EVERYONE to read this and share it everywhere.
https://nitter.poast.org/CherylWroteIt/status/1930000838426001918#m
I’m wondering, kind of rhetorical, if people believe someone will break? Not just the cover-up of Biden, but the Russia collusion hoax of President Trump?
Because it doesn’t feel like Tulsi is stopping.
Maybe some already have and there is a growing canary chorus.
It, of course, will be those low lying fruit on the tree….still with many years of working ahead and deathly afraid of going to prison, being disbarred or certainly not having the financial means to pay big-time attorneys to defend them. Probably some with families to support, as well.
The public, of course, aren’t even interested with names and photos of support staff whose names you’ve never heard of..it’s the fruit at the top…the big guns…that they are demanding. 🔫🔫
I surely hope so….someone unexpected with irrefutable goods.
Hopium?
hope so…
Trust no one. Will there be indictments?
The FireAid benefit concert was promoted by industry heavyweights Irving Azoff, Live Nation, and AEG Presents, with the event itself produced by Azoff and his team.
Tickets to the FireAid show were sold through Ticketmaster, with sales going live on January 22, 2025.
Funds from Fire Aid concert went to non-profits—not LA wildfire victims: report
https://thepostmillennial.com/funds-from-fire-aid-concert-went-to-non-profits-not-la-wildfire-victims-report
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How many people would not have paid for and gone to this concert if it had not been billed as for “Fire Aid”? And of those people, what portion of what they spent on their tickets did not get a benefit (concert) in return.
And, with regard to the “fire aid”, how clear or not was it regarding how the funds were going to be used and exactly where they were going to be sent. If all the funds were sent to some ostensibly charitable purpose, rather than being kept as profit, will be tough to find fraud.
I don’t have a lot of admiration for people who instead of giving directly to charity do virtue-signaling charity dinners, balls, concerts.
Meanwhile, for the organizers, these are self-promoting and tax deduction shams.
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There wont be indictments if it is up to the California AG. It will take AG Bondi to assign federal prosecutors to investigate it. If any of the strings can be tied to the Cal Governor, his presidential aspirations is over. Bondi needs to file an order for all documents and communication records to be saved and make that order now.
Bondi has several tasks that should have been done yesterday.
In addition to the documents protection orders for at least 100+ evildoers, she needs to pull their passports and security clearances immediately.
National security dontcha know!
bondi being placed, helped the uni feel like they arent bring targeted.
few people saw the lesson in bondi’s dressing down on trayvon.
it showed she does what she feels gets her viewed positively.
not that she hates you and loves the uniparty.
( watch every apprentice, and you will never have to read about PDJT again)
I spoke about this last week. I am glad others with time and presentation skills are fleshing it out.
Someone should check to see if the money is being spent to help the squatters that are moving onto the burned-out lots and claiming them and the owners can’t get rid of them.
A Louisville Slugger and a good dog at 3am is an excellent eviction team.
Could do a heavy mosquito spraying late one afternoon, too.
Lol
The trouble is … it’s not a “theory.” These are actual(!) now-declassified documents, authored by the “perps” themselves.
You would expect that a group of people who were planning a seditious conspiracy would simply meet, with no notes being taken. Wouldn’t that have made much more sense? Instead, they recorded everything, then stuffed them into the “Room of Requirement” known as ##CLASSIFIED##.
So, now, they are “hoist with their own petard!”
Which is to say, propelled by their own flatulence.
Special hat tip to Susan Rice for taking minutes on the Jan 5 2017 meeting.
Which one of the meetings included the comment “We’re doing everything by the book!” ?
I always thought they meant Alinsky’s book, dedicated to Lucifer.
To me, that’s the biggest tell in the whole thing. Who puts something like that in notes they write days later? Complete ass covering lie.
Warner is still a worn-out obama whore.
With Tulsi’s releases showing obama heading up and running the Russia hoax against President Trump when will the mockingbird msm start reporting “the walls are closing in on obama”, “the beginning of the end” , “a tipping point”, “a bombshell???? Just wondering???
Sorry. Obama doesn’t have orange hair . . . 🤡
Its time for the “Orange Man Bad” sheeple to become
“Obama really is Evil” Sheeple!
Instead they say, “but Russia DID attempt to get Trump elected, it’s proven they spent money on Facebook to influence votes, Mueller established that!”. The elephant in the room, i.e. the conspiracy to deny Trump the presidency and then the ability to govern, they never notice that elephant, not even now.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/20/sunday-talks-rep-jim-himes-attempts-to-retain-disproven-trump-russia-talking-points/
(4) Russians did not “buy reams of Facebook ads”, there was an indication that someone, who was likely Russian, spent $4,500 dollars on one ad promoting Jill Stein. – Sundance
lawsuits of media
weakness is the media bird.
weakness targeted ends in gaining control of the brainwash tool.
drive it down their heads until they beg to arrest
President Trump should issue immediately an EO banning all Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines from Federal Presidential elections!!! Its been proven those voting machines can be hacked and the vote count altered!!! JMO
What we need – and I don’t know why we don’t already have it – is an open source election system that could be used world-wide. Every aspect of the system, including all hardware and software, would be open for inspection and modification by anyone. No secrets. Everyone has a copy of everything. The entire data-processing workflow is fully mapped out and verifiable.
We already know how to execute and manage such projects. We do it all the time. The security software that puts that “padlock” on your browser address-bar. The browser itself. The web servers and database servers that your browser is talking to. The communications “stack” that connects you to the internet. Entire operating systems. (Linux, MacOS [Mach …], parts of Windows, mainframe stuff … mobile phones …) They are all open. Distributed under battle-tested license agreements which guarantee openness.
This proven strategy works like nothing else could. Why hasn’t it already been done? Professionals from around the planet could contribute to it and use it, to the provable betterment of all. (Just as we do now.)
I’m an old man and not very high tech!!! It sounds to me like the voting machines would become like Wikipedia? Anyone can alter them? I’m sure that’s not right! But something needs to be done before 2026 or the Democrats will continue to steal elections!! It’s how Democrats which are about 30+% of the electorate can achieve 50+% electoral counts!!! JMO
We absolutely have the capability to have 100% secure, 100% transparent elections with results nearly instantaneously.
We do not, because TPTB do not want that.
No problem putting serial numbers on money and lottery tickets.
Can’t return a tube of school glue at Walmart without a receipt.
Yet, ballots are beyond the pale.
Interesting what’s considered critical to track, and what’s not.
The only purpose these machines serve is to give someone accurate to the moment counts on how the election is running. Using this data someone can infer before the closing or know exactly after it, how far ahead or behind their preferred candidate is and either try and and get out legitimate supporters or stuff the ballot box with exactly the number required to win.
The machines I’ve seen all have a counter displayed on the screen somewhere that tells you how many people have voted so far on that machine. Knowing this, a party activist can estimate the vote split knowing the demographics of the precinct. They can use this to raise an alarm within their network and get out the busses to try and bring in more voters. After the election the computer can tell you exactly how far your candidate is behind so you can very quickly pull out the exact number of fake ballots needed to change the results. This helps prevent over stuffing which would look suspicious..
Then the bus takes you back to the church for a free meal and $20 cash. I’ve seen it here.
No…they we just need to get rid of them and mail in ballots. Clean up voter rolls. Then we will have the confidence of the voters again. One day voting, hand counted, proof of citizenship, ID so it proves you live where you are voting.
Why just presidential elections? Ban them from ALL elections until they can prove they’re safe and reliable.
I agree but President Trump would only have power over Federal elections not State elections was my assumption. But I could be wrong?
Elections are the SOLE PROPERTY OF WE THE PEOPLE.
Not the CIA.
Not George Soros.
Not Crooked Election Officials.
Not Dirty CheatWare Companies.
The People.
And the People ALONE.
They will only be safe and reliable to steal elections.
THAT IS THEIR PURPOSE!
They are reliable, that’s the problem.
CIA
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/?s=Nellie+Ohr
Today (5/28/25), Senator Chuck Grassley declassified and released the FBI research files into Nellie Ohr [SEE FILE HERE], proving everything CTH previously asserted in our research. Chuck Grassley’s press release IS HERE.
Nellie Ohr lied to Congress and almost 2 months later and nothing? AG Bondi are you on it? If so announce something??? You have the evidence!!!
Now you’ve got it! Nellie!!
She can sing!
A face only radio could love; and this time she can’t hide behind spousal privilege.
Why isn’t there a FULL STOP?
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/pandemic-crimes-suppression-of-early?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Q: What time is it?
Joel 2
25
The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost
to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts,
the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts.
It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.
26
Once again you will have all the food you want,
and you will praise the Lord your God,
who does these miracles for you.
Never again will my people be disgraced.
27
Then you will know that I am among my people Israel,
that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other.
Never again will my people be disgraced.
28
“Then, after doing all those things,
I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
Your old men will dream dreams,
and your young men will see visions.
29
In those days I will pour out my Spirit
even on servants—men and women alike.
30
And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth—
blood and fire and columns of smoke.
31
The sun will become dark,
and the moon will turn blood red
before that great and terrible[f] day of the Lord arrives.
32
But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved,
for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape,
just as the Lord has said.
These will be among the survivors
whom the Lord has called.
Yes, Lord!
Rest in the Vine: The Good News: Father God, You are Sending the Former and Latter Rains
for a Great Overflowing Harvest, Restoring the Years the Locusts have Eaten
and Pouring Your Spirit Out on Your Peoples, Hallelujah!
My British husband, jack of all trades and master of each one, has always carried a pocket knife. He carries one just like this which belonged to my grandfather and a larger one. If he were still in the UK, he most likely would be in prison for carrying a “weapon”.
This is true.
Amen, Amen 👍🏻
Same with my husband and now my oldest son – they always have their SOG on their belt!
Mine, too.
My husband too.
Funny story, for his birthday the year before we got married my dad gave him a pocket knife; he told me that meant that Dad didn’t like him. Over the years I’ve been gifted excellent kitchen knives by two good friends.
Abe Lincoln had a folding knife in his pocket when he was murdered. Dwight Eisenhower routinely carried a pocket knife during his years a POTUS as did the first US President George Washington.
I routinely carried one as an elementary school student in the late 1950. It was unremarkable at that time. It remains legal to do so in several states. Visit akti.org if this topic is of interest.to you.
Indispensable, mom. It may be a long time between uses, but oh boy!! When you need one 👍🏻
Betsy, my dad carried one too…
Old school, Aggie 💕
Same here…..all the men carried them!
And what I also remember, was almost
all who had a truck had a gun rack in
the cab. And that rack almost always
had a rifle or shotgun in it!
I thought it was great that my community
college here in town just opened an indoor
…shooting range!!!👏👏👍👍
They are giving concealed carry classes
and marksmanship….a whole range of
classes and activities!
👏 👏 👏 👍
Operative word, gypsy…men.
Real ones, and God bless them.
😉 😉 👍
For real, Betsy. YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN.
Every place I’ve ever been in rural America nearly 100% of men have one clipped into the front pocket of their jeans.
I have a fixed blade in a leather sheath that hangs from my belt. I use it at least 10-20 times a day.
The beating heart of America. Of course they do 🇺🇸👍🏻
Our high school Ag shop instructor would set aside day just prior to hunting season for us bring our hunting rifles to class for a safety check. The bolts or clips would be removed for safety purposes before getting on the bus. Mine was a pre 64 Winchester 308 feather light.
Yes!
My brother was supposed to take
his brother in law….who is over 50 years
old….and teach him how to shoot.
He had never held a gun before.
😳 Yikes!
Oh boy…. I think I put my brother in an
awkward position trying to defend his
brother in law. 🤣🤣
I was like…Wut? Someone needs to take
your brother in laws man-card….I had a field day.
All in good fun. 🤣🤣
My advice to him was to take him to a
class run by a qualified professional,
that would teach him safety and how
to handle a weapon.
Good times and memories.
Absolutely verboten now, to our detriment m
I have carried a pocketknife similar to that since I was old enough to have pockets.
They never checked in grade school.
In high school they were not allowed. One day they were having a knife check. Coach walked by and asked if I had a knife. I said I have my pants on don’t I. He looked a little weird like he did not know what to do and kept walking.
Clever clever and quick thinking. Bet your coach got it eventually.
Reminds me of a cartoon. I saw recently.
Doctor in exam room asks patient if he has any guns at home.
Patient replies, “Doc, I have one in your office.”
Love this post, dear Betsy … and know exactly what you mean!
My hubs has carried pocket knife since a boy.
He goes into a tizzy if he misplaces it.
Especially since our son gave him the current knife when he was a teen. Sentimental attachment.
Now my son’s boys (12, 7) have multiple knives, too. I use to worry about it, but had to let that go.
Funny story (I think) …
The seven y/o grandson loves tools, doing anything outdoors.
Several months ago, he was using a small machete for a project.
He did accidentally cut his hand a little … parents took care of it.
He went to school next day (1st grade) with bandaged hand.
The teacher asked him what happened to his hand.
He told her he cut it with a machete.
Teacher told him, don’t you know you’re not supposed to be playing with a machete?
He politely, seriously said: I wasn’t playing with it – I was working.
😁
That is exactly like the pocket knife my late husband carried for the 47 years we were married.
I STILL HAVE IT.
More on corporate ownership of governments.
Covert Action Without USAID: Nature Finds A Way.
Mike Benz
3 Jul 2025
It’s almost 5:00 a.m. here on my birthday and I have no motivation to fall asleep. I have these racing thoughts and I feel with what’s happened this week with USAID formally terminating and moving into the State Department that something is seriously missing in Washington as we are doing these touchdown dances about a kind of mission accomplished in terms of serving redress on a very very rogue agency and that is I don’t see any sort of north star doctrinally enunciated by the administration or really any part of it to replace the function that USAID filled and if you don’t have a north star to fill the power vacuum that USAID played that power vacuum will be filled. It will be filled by other actors. It will be filled by private entities. It will be filled by rogue employees at state. It will diffuse into the private contractor world. You know, in Jurassic Park there’s that line that nature finds a way. Covert action finds a way… There will be people in various pockets of government who will simply do what happened in Iran Contra when Democrats passed the Bolan amendment and said you can’t spend government resources to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. What was set up was something called the Enterprise, a private self self-sustained standalone off-the-shelf way of accomplishing US foreign policy in Nicaragua without spending US aid dollars doing it, without spending State Department dollars doing it. What they ended up doing was cultivating drug networks because they couldn’t get the money through development funds from USAID and working with various criminal gangs and private companies who benefited from the regime change because they didn’t have USAID money to serve as the slush fund for it. Nature finds a way. When big dollars are on the line, nature finds a way. And people want a quick a quick fix on how to address this problem. But what I find is before you can even have the conversation about the quick fix, you sort of need to understand the structure of the world you live in.
[snip]
DC is not where the power is. I think if you talk to any person who’s been in DC a while, you can almost feel it. The power is projected here. It’s projected here from New York City in the hedge fund world, from London in the banking world, from Houston in the oil world, from San Francisco in the tech world. That’s where the power is. And in DC, you’re effectively not so much wielding power in most unless you’re the president of the United States and even then if you’re running for reelection you need donor support, but anyone shy of the president you have a boss, you are not on your own pirate ship and the bosses are the donors and and I refer to this structure of the Blob where in the center of it you have the policy-making institutions When I talk about the blob, I’m talking about the foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon, USAID. Below that, these government-f funded NOS, nonprofits, public private partnerships with for-profit companies like a tree, they branch out roots, tens and tens of thousands of them to accomplish various government purposes. But on top of it is the donor drafter class. which donates into the campaigns of politicians and often co-sponsors government initiatives but then drafts off the policies set by that government to make more profits for themselves than they had to pay as a donor.
[snip]
You have, you know, to use a a phrase that’s usually associated with leftists, you have oligarchs in every country. In every capitalist country, in every communist country, you have oligarchs. You have a you have government, but then you have high net worth private individuals who usually control a corporation or a set of corporations or a hedge fund or a network of funds. And those network of funds will have portfolio companies. And what donating into a political apparatus does is it buys you favors for that government to set policy that helps your portfolio companies. So take someone like George Soros. I don’t even think about George Soros’s ideology. I think about George Soros’s hedge fund. When I see the Open Society Foundation that is doing Rent-a-riot street protests or buying up the media or engaging in destabilization campaigns or promoting something really extreme on climate, on energy, on some sort of social value, on technology, techology usage on agriculture. I look to see what the Soros management fund is invested in. I don’t even see the NGO’s anymore. In a sense, I feel like Tank in the Matrix, you know, where he says, “I don’t even see the zeros and ones.” This one’s a hamburger. This one’s a French fry. This one’s a a woman in a red dress. When I see these NGO’s, I don’t see it as along the ideological line very often. Where’s the funding coming from? What companies are they invested in?
[big snip]
Survival+:
Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation
by Charles Hugh Smith
[author’s link broken]
Excerpt:
The human mind harbors a bias for what I call independent agencies, a bias which finds full flower in conspiracies both real and imagined. Ancient humans saw an independent agency of fickle gods who punished or rewarded human supplication with drought or rain. All human groups form loose confederacies, alliances and “secret societies” (such as cliques in high school) which outsiders rightly identify as conspiracies formed for the benefit of the members.
This bias to perceive independent agencies has a selective advantage: the ability to discern causal agents and agencies offers substantial advantages over a passive perception of chaos/randomness.
Why bring this up now? Only to note that The Plutocracy is not a conspiracy in the formal sense of a membership which gathers like the Bohemian Club or even an informal assemblage such as the Bilderberg Group. “Membership” is granted solely by great wealth and control of productive assets; political influence flows from that.
People who control, say, $100 million or more (via family ownership or managerial position), tend to meet one another socially or to do business, and while they jockey for advantage within a group like the rest of us, they form a small class of citizens possessing virtually unimpaired political influence.
Thus in describing a Plutocracy [or oligarchy – W] I am not positing a semi-formal conspiracy but simply a financial elite which controls some 2/3 of the productive wealth of the U.S. This is simply a statement of fact. Their collective self-interest is in maintaining the conceptual, legal and financial systems which enable their continued dominance of wealth and influence.
Yes…below is a troubling account…not sure it is true but if it is, highly troubling and disturbing.
https://substack.com/profile/108557136-dan-roach/note/c-136581191?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Our good friend, JWoo who understands Machiavellianism and has on occasion mentioned, abbreviated…that when the system is facing big change…and those in it…will do all they can to maintain their system which aligns with the following quote from above posted broken linked, article:
“Their collective self-interest is in maintaining the conceptual, legal and financial systems which enable their continued dominance of wealth and influence.”
They will not go quietly, IMHO.
Happy Birthday Winston!
May the year ahead unfold wonders and answered prayers!
God shower you with blessings. 🙂
Thanks, but that text is sections from the transcript of what Mike Benz is saying in that video which is why I italicized it.
Unlike Mike, I don’t lie awake fretting over things I can do absolutely nothing about.
Life is much more balanced if you can follow that philosophy, Winston! We used to call it…compartmentalization.
I’m convinced successful people in their fields of choice..whether it be business, politics, many social services and health care, law enforcement, etc….are able to do just that.
If I could only convince my other half! I bought him a tee shirt years back that said…”so Italian, so intense”. I’ve told him if he couldn’t find something to worry about, he’d go out and find it, even if he can do absolutely nothing about it.
its such a thrill for him.
name a few, speed up with it.
or you can just google it and be ahead of him
The death of the Dimocrat party has been greatly exaggerated because this country is chock full of useful idiots (real and fraudulent) who vote.
Instead, the endless money printing which has, as I have documented, primarily benefited the top 1% has raised asset prices for things like homes so high that youth can’t afford them and the middle class is being gutted by same. When that happens we have a Marxist nominated for NYC mayor and Trump winning in 2024 by only 1.5% of the popular vote against a well documented as heavily Marxist/Maoist adjacent duo of idiots.
The certainty of this title is excessive, but this is Rasmussen after all.
SHOCK: Democrats Are Going to Retake the House, ENDING MAGA
Rasmussen Reports
21 Jul 2025
The forces the left ALWAYS USES to provide the easy, but WRONG answers:
“A Christmas Carol” … Dickens masterpiece and one of the greatest works of fiction. I watch one version or another every Christmas season but usually the 1951 Alastair Sim version.
We The MAGA People are still armed so there is always hope to end the tyranny of the communist Democrats should they regain control and “rule” like communists not govern according to our Constitutional Republic! JMO
In any armed revolt here, 50% or more of the country would not be on your side and in our surveillance state good luck organizing one.
Anyway, this would be your task to get us back on track in a nation where most don’t even know what’s in our Constitution in any detail. Even in a collapse, I’d instead expect that a national mass formation psychosis would occur. “Please save us at the cost of our remaining rights…which we don’t even know!”
Only a Collapse and Total Reboot Can Fix Our Bloated Government System
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tony-corvo/2016/11/14/only-a-collapse-and-total-reboot-can-fix-our-bloated-government-system-n48938
Excerpt:
Conservatives keep voting for candidates thinking that they will fix the bugs, but let’s look at what this approach would take. In one form or another we will have to:
1) Elect at least a generation of conservative supermajorities in both chambers of congress. They have to be supermajorities because parliamentary rules allow for political minority actions to stop simple majority legislation.
2) We will have to elect a string of conservative presidents to work with the conservative congresses. We can’t have activist presidents who govern by executive actions in order to bypass congress. [which Trump is limited to to accomplish anything significant – W]
3) True constitutionalists must be nominated and approved to the Supreme Court.
4) Conservatives will have to control at least 37 state legislatures, because sooner or later we will need to make constitutional amendments.
The armed MAGA People endured every unconstitutional thing the Autopen administration threw at us without firing a shot. If anyone was going to take drastic action that would have been the time. Unfortunately, without a military organization of some sort, such action would be very difficult. You can’t just start taking pot-shots at government officials and getting enough people organized to be effective would probably be impossible without having some sort of command structure in place.
Now, if society devolved into total chaos, it might be different. And maybe that would happen if the communists regain control. And, if they do, the country is toast anyway.
President Trump winning with a 1 1/2% popular vote margin in 2024 is the result of Democrat cheating on a massive scale in only about a dozen ways. The cheating was, probably, on a lesser scale than 2020 and it will be less in 2026. The Democrats can NOT win the House or Senate without MASSIVE cheating. There will many more eyes on 2026 than there was in 2024. There will be many more Democrats on the fence after another year goes by making Democrat cheating harder still.
We should take nothing for granted … nothing!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1948007534960198036.html
Looks like DNI Gabbard has done another document drop…let’s see how long the MSM will try to bury this story! It’s not just Obama, Comey, Brennan, and Clinton – it is ALL of them whose reputations are on the line as well, and they know it!
Dems using the SSCI report and Rubio to deflect the facts presented by the DNI. Rubio needs to speak up.
There are 9 Republicans on the SSCI Committee.
Richard Burr (now retired) was Chairman when the coup began. I think John Risch (ID) and Susan Collins (ME) are the other members remaining from 2015/2016.
Now might be a good time for Risch and Collins to be asking Warner and the other Dem’s on the committee: “What did you know and when did you know it?”
Their silence is deafening.
Perhaps he is.
But it’s closed-door testimony to Blanche.
The SSCI report was based on docs and testimony produced by the very same people that orchestrated the coup.
They are literally making a circular argument. The SSCI report actually makes everything worse.
Correct, but MSM continues to deflect using the SSCI report and Rubio as chair. This is their defense and they are sticking to it. The DNI is counter-punching. Rubio needs to do same.
Matt Taibbi was on Megyn Kelly’s show (first half) and he pointed out the smoking gun about the Dec 9th 2016 Obama meeting.
That is the meeting after the PDB was pulled where Obama tasked his intel community to do a new assessment (politicized) about Russia interfering in our elections.
The main stream media was reporting on this Russian interference conclusion the very next day after the meeting based on leaks…
In other words….the outcome of the “new Russia meddling” directive was leaked before it was even assessed, written and presented in a new PDB.
The prior pulled intel (no Russia election interference) was also withheld from the Trump national security team (ie Michael Flynn).
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Source:
This is not surprising the IC run mockingbird msm was a very important coconspirator with enormous public access/reach in the Russia hoax!!! The mockingbird msm had President Trump convicted with no evidence just leaked anonymous IC sources!!! Just a despicable “free press”!!!!
Not a “scandle”, Megyn. Crimes, Honey, Crimes.
It appears rumors of Trump’s flushing of Zelensky may have had something to them, as tonight the knives have come out for Zelensky and his gang. What started as gripes against push back on some irrelevant NGO-run organs has turned into a fledgling ‘Maidan’ against the now unfavored Ukrainian leader.
Sensing the plan, Zelensky moved to preemptively begin hamstringing the corruption watchdogs. He arrested the ‘head of detectives’ at NABU under the trumped-up suspicion of spying for Russia, not long before submitting the bill to the Rada to effect a ‘hostile takeover’ of these “independent” organizations, putting them under total state control.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/echoes-of-maidan-mark-zelenskys-sudden#media-6ff9c662-8ae8-438e-8f03-0dcde4e6201f
If its Maidan-style the IC is behind it. They’re either backing him or flushing him down the toilet he came from. Wonder who they plan to prop up next.
Barbara Boyd analyzes the explosive documents released by Tulsi Gabbard, demonstrating a coup against Trump linked to the current Ukraine conflict
https://www.prometheanaction.com/the-monday-brief-obama-busted-gabbards-shock-files-reveal-the-2020-election-scam-behind-the-ukraine-war-july-21-2025
Link to the video on yt.
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Everything is a distraction right now.
https://www.rt.com/news/621847-trump-questions-kiev-aid/
https://justthenews.com/government/security/steele-dossier-cited-2016-ica-claim-about-putin-seeking-help-trump-win
FTA “A newly-declassified House Intelligence Committee report alleges that the Obama-era intelligence assessment on Russian election meddling used the discredited Steele Dossier to underpin its conclusion that Vladimir Putin aspired to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election, directly challenging the testimony of officials like CIA Director John Brennan, who denied that had happened. The report, released Thursday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after years of being locked away at the CIA, also alleges the December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment “glossed over” evidence that Putin may have instead favored (or at least fully expected) a Hillary Clinton victory nine years ago. “The judgment that Putin developed a ‘clear preference’ for candidate Trump and ‘aspired to help his chances of victory’ did not adhere to the tenets of the ICD (Intelligence Community Directive) analytical standards,” the report found.
The ICA “offered no reliable intelligence that indicated or implied that Putin issued orders to conduct influence operations that denigrated Clinton with the goal of electing Trump,” the declassified report said, and, “moreover, all of the Russian leak operations could be attributed to Putin’s objectives to undermine U.S. democracy, or to weaken the expected, and possibly preferred, Clinton Administration, without regard for Trump’s fate.” The new House report said that as the 2016 presidential race narrowed in October, with Clinton suddenly not having a lock on the Oval Office, Russia seemed to scale its meddling efforts back rather than pushing hard to try to get Trump across the finish line.”
No one here at CTH is surprised, this just confirms Sundance’s years old posts!!! The real question is will the Republicans do anything significant about it??? I have my doubts!!! JMO
And let’s not forget that John McCain was the bagman used to launder the Steele dossier back to the FBI –
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/387012-mccain-defends-giving-dossier-to-comey-i-would-do-it-again/
once again fulfilling his Uniparty role of providing bipartisan cover to the Democrats.
So the House Intelligence Committee knew the truth and allowed it to be buried?
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-07/House%20Intel%20Report%20-%20ICA.pdf
No I think he House Intel Committee relied on the Steele Dossier and said in the report that Putin and the Russians preferred President Trump and “aspired” to help him!! Total fiction and total bull💩! The report is the link above.
Maybe I’m being slow today. The report you linked to IS the House Intel Report right? It details how the ICA was mishandled. This House Intel Report was written in 2020. To me that says that the House Intel Committee knew in 2020 that the whole thing was garbage and was happy to let it slide. Am I just confused here?
what month
The Democrat Party was in control of the House in 2020 and Nancy Pelosi was Speaker so I don’t think you’re right. But no worries FYI I’m slow every day!
Tulsi and David Hogg both having had the same job, one of those “the world is sure strange” things.
Good grief! 🤦♀️
👩🏫 👩🏫 Even during the negotiations during
the Korean War—which took 2 years-
the fighting never stopped.
And every time a ceasefire has happened
with Ukraine….Ukraine broke it…or as in
the case of proposed Christmas ceasefire-
Zelensky wouldn’t even discuss it.
Forget a ceasefire…just end the conflict.
😖 It appears to be just another way to
prolong it all…..ceasefire..ceasefire…ceasefire 🤪😜🤪
Unrealistic expectations. Aka—- 🦄 🦄 🧚♀️🧚♀️ 🧚♀️ fantasy land.🤪
Russia launches 42 drone strikes on Ukraine overnight, hours after agreeing to Istanbul peace talks – as it happened | Europe | The Guardian
Korean War – Armistice, Negotiations, Conflict | Britannica
See also “Paris Peace Talks” during the Vietnam War. Pure Von Clausewitz, depending on which side you’re looking at.
Exactly!
👍 👏 👏
President Trump even said it to Zelensky
face during his White House visit.
You. Are. Losing.
Somehow, Zelensky and his handlers
have this idea that…..
The loser gets to dictate the terms.
Or, that when you are losing – just call
for a time-out….ceasefire…ceasefire! 🙃🙃
Sheer madness. 😳🤪🤪😳
Just end it. 🤬 unconditional surrender by Ukraine.
🤷♀️
I can’t wait for the new thread from Sundance on all of this. Go Tulsi Go……..
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1948007534960198036.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/breaking-dni-tulsi-gabbard-releases-reports-proving-barack/
Do they all have foreign passports and plan to leave under the veil of night to a “safe” country – or do they plan to brazen it out?
Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Wilbert Castañeda was released on July 18 after being detained in Venezuela for nearly a year.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/sailor-venezuela-released/
Flashback to Diosdado Cabello, the nation’s powerful interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government and kill several members of its leadership
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-plot-maduro-us-spain-696768e00bf22f5747062a4a8b662fcc
Thanks!
👏 👍
Thought the reference to the December
hostages release and “fat Leonard “ being a
”former defense contractor “ interesting.🤔
Further supports my belief that most-if not all
of the “hostages “
being released were caught during covert ops…
and Color Revolution activities.
We have been doing some Really dirty dealings for
decades in Venezuela.
Costing us taxpayers millions of dollars 💵. 🤬
Always glad to see the hostages returned…
but they shouldn’t have been there to begin with.
🥴 😵💫 😖
On my First Cup of Coffee – i CAME ACROSS an Article,
( Hat tip to The Gateway Pundit – The Rightward Swing of the Political Pendulum, Reaching Critical Mass, and Rescuing Art – ‘Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws’ Creator Dan Fleuette on the Cultural Cutting Edge ),
WHICH Highlighted THE DIVERSITY And TOLERANCE of VIEWS in the ” RIGHT ” —> Brothers and Sisters, REVEL In COALITION for a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
and OUR CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
DO NOT BEND in OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH, But WORK For TOWARDS OUR END REWARDS and a SOLID
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
Articles:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/rightward-swing-political-pendulum-reaching-critical-mass-rescuing/
https://politicom.com.au/study-more-diversity-of-thought-on-the-political-right-than-on-the-political-left-and-its-not-even-close/
SOURCE:
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12665
I just want to say that I back Trump a 1000%.
Whatever is happening with that Epstein affair does not change anything. What is changing is that the globalists are losing badly and that is the objective.
I’m with Trump!
Finally? getting rid of these scum is one thing. Why is it that there are never any repercussions for the person(s) who appoints them?
Be careful with that. President Trump has appointed a lot of scum during his first term and probably some during this term as well.
On the recommendation of whom?
For your reading pleasure; Jeff Childers sends a clear legal message.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/benedict-obama-wednesday-july-23
Entertaining read.
Would really like to believe that Trump is dead serious with this. That he’s not just “trolling”.
He has accused Obama of TREASON. In my opinion, correctly.
But if he is serious about this, he needs to pursue with all dispatch, vigor, and determination.
Accountability is desperately needed if the Left is ever to back off.
You underestimate President Trump.
I agree with Childers on this one; President Trump would not have even approached this topic in the Oval Office, with his Cabinet present, in front of Foreign Dignitaries, because HE respects the Office of the Presidency.
When President Trump says “We have Proof”; “We caught them all”…he’s not trolling on this matter.
He is a very serious man on matters such as sedition and treason.
DNI Gabbard releases more documents confirming that the Intelligence Community assessment about Russia prior to the 2016 election, was that Putin was actually WITHHOLDING damaging evidence about Hillary…
Meaning, that the Obama admin lied.
Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election or “hack” the election for Trump. If anything, they helped Hillary Clinton.
Meaning the entire Russia collusion story is a lie, concocted by Obama and his intelligence heads, in an effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election, and remove the duly elected POTUS.
This was a soft coup. A regime-change operation. It’s TREASON!!!
https://truthsocial.com/@Clandestine/114903363825265345
In 2008, long before Donald Trump was on anyone’s political radar, engaged and informed conservatives were screaming from the rooftops trying to warn the country, but we were called racist and told to STFU. . . . . . . . but we were right all along.
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You bet we were screaming and we were a big group united in doing so. 2009 Washington DC rally with 1 million of us together(estimate by police that day) in peaceful protest. Came up out of the metro station onto the street and the beauty of thousands of people, waving state and American flags, dressed in American themed shirts and hats was something I will never forget. We marched to the Capitol shouting “Can you hear us now?” Loud, peaceful, informed, from every state in the Union and we cleaned up after ourselves. Talked to some police on security duty that day and they told us they couldn’t believe how orderly and peaceful and happy this many people were for a rally in DC. It was an epic day.
That being said, the media totally ignored us. I was so naive then about the media. I thought they would cover this all day. Barely a mention here and there. The American people were informed that day that the Obama regime and their complicit media friends thought we were trash.
It was the beginning for me of truly losing my trust in anything govt. related or media related. The stars went out of my eyes about American federal and state govts being on the side of the people, that America was the land of free speech and liberty protected by our elected officials’ oaths to our Constitution. The first lesson of just what we were facing as a nation was this rally and the subsequent passing of Obamacare.
Now we are nearly 18 years from that day. Look at what has happened and the fight we have been in since the tea party days. Keep going people. God landed PDJT in our unworthy laps-twice-to make sure we know what to do. We cannot stop being vigilant and proactive because the enemy will always be ready to pounce and take away our nation and our way of life. Keep being true Americans and patriots every day.
I was there that day , too. I still have the tee shirt. It was a day that I will never forget. IMHO, based off of reports I had seen afterwards, there was 1.5 to 2 million of us that day. We cleaned up after ourselves too. No trash anywhere with all of those people.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1948007534960198036.html
From DNI Gabbard……
This from the Washington Post:
“Under federal law, interim appointments for U.S. attorney posts last 120 days or until the Senate confirms a presidential nominee to the role. If a nominee is not confirmed within that window, district court judges are empowered to appoint someone to serve until that happens.”
This law is blatantly unconstitutional. The judiciary cannot appointment executive branch officials. The Supreme Court’s Olson decision, respecting the now-lapsed Independent Counsel statute, was also unconstitutional and I have no doubt that the majority on the Supreme Court, if the issue were to arise again, would hold this violation of separation of powers unconstitutional.
https://truthsocial.com/@marklevinshow/114903041932862953
Tulsi Gabbard truly did us proud today…
LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election
——TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.
LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election
—— TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.
LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.
—— TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.
https://t.me/candlesinthenight/85062
Russia had hacked info suggesting Hillary Clinton was in a mental & physical health crisis but did not leak it. Obama officials did not mention this when trying to make it look like Putin’s goal was helping Trump. If that were true, Putin would’ve leaked the most damaging stuff.
We saw that “uncontrollable twitching” when Hillary stood onstage at the 2016 Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia, that moment when her eyes rolled back in her head.
Sub cortical vascular dementia….wonder what the MRI showed…..?
And yet she still lives.
found this to be a great conversation, 1 hr. 20 min. the Thoughtful Money host Adam Taggart talks with Macro Maven’s Stephanie Pomboy; they cover the recent tariff agreements, monetary policy, gold and other natural assets vs paper/stock holdings and what they think the President, Treas. Secretary, Fed Reserve may be up to. Just a nice conversation throwing out ideas.
I’m sorry I haven’t had time to read all the comments, but I assume you’ve all seen the news (no surprise) that apparently the Biden Regime also spied on the 2024 Trump campaign.
I think the Kenyan ALSO spied on the Romney campaign; I recall during 2012 the Obama Regime was doing something which was appalling – sorry I can’t remember what – kept waiting for Romney to mention it, and the next thing I knew Obama came out claiming that Romney was doing it!
Of course Romney couldn’t protest, he’d been pre-empted.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/reporter-matt-taibbi-hints-big-story-did-biden/
Do the People have grounds for a class action claw back suit to get back all the money spent on outside consultants for Mueller investigation? It was based on fraud.
AND………….with the Dem party being in total disrepair….no leadership….they must come to a decision on who their 28 candidate will be. The party apparatus does not want an AOC type representing the progressive left. I think JFK will make another go at it with a much more receptive DNC.
I assume you mean RFK Jr?
As to your primary point. Dems in dispair. GOPrick RINOrats are doing their best (as normal) to lose big in 2026 and 2028. They hate being in a position they have to produce and not be able to whine and complain.
True, why should they have to work hard for their salary and bribes.
I wish I could give your comment a thousand likes.
The Republicans voted and passed Trump policies, and the USA is doing better.
All the Dems voted against Trump.
The Republicans went home to campaign on their voting.
Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. are the shining stars of the Republican administration.
They’re actually doing their job and what the American people voted for them to do.
The Dems have failed policies and insane brain-dead leaders.
Dems run from cameras and questions.
Republicans get criticized for being on news shows too much.
Sundance actually keeps a count for us. hmm.
I’ve read different things, that Buttigieg, the nation’s worst Transportation secretary ever, is polling the highest, and also that Newsome, the nation’s most pliable, grift-iest, and possibly most incompetent Governor ever, is polling the highest.
I guess it depends on the poll. Both of these stun me, until I remember the left rewards failure.
Read ‘Diamond Age’ by Neal Stephenson. Written in the late 80’s I recall, describes globalism precisely.
Where were all these supposed whistleblowers “disgusted” with the IC assessment 8 years ago? They could have debunked the entire narrative immediately. They didn’t come forward during ANY hearing. President Trump would have protected them.
They’re all part of the “resistance” and the only reason they’re coming forward now is because Trump means business this time and they’re fleeing the sinking ship.
Of course, they wouldn’t come forward when a dirty Democommunist is in office.
Actually, the Obama Regime has the worst ever record on protecting whistleblowers, violating federal law and punishing them.
There have been whistleblowers, but they’ve been ejected from their government offices, and heard only rarely on the mockingbird media, when they could even speak around their clearance levels. Everything the Whistleblower Protection Act was designed to protect against happened to them, every kind of retaliation.
I meant in 2017. They were so outraged they sat and did nothing
It’s fascinating to watch the so called masters of the dark arts be revealed to be bumbling bullies, who’ve relied on a bent ref and fixed game to win the victories their MSM cronies endlessly crow about. Six ways to Sunday, this lot couldn’t get to mid-Monday without an assist.
As I said over a month ago the phase two tactic was to overwhelm the fractured DS defence with echeloned revelations, the response to this growing assault is tediously predictable:
The Democrats are on course to win the mid-terms, really? There’s a good chance there might not be a Democratic Party by the time this is over (the AOC wing will seize the opportunity, created by any investigation, to demand the people who backed Obama are sent fleeing into the wilderness).
Or , there’s evidence that Hegseth is losing the confidence of senior Pentagon officials. Good, they’re the same officials who oversaw numerous humiliating failures.
Finally the Epstein files. Old news that suddenly the Democrats and media are interested in, the self same people who are being revealed as using fake evidence to smear Trump with the Russia hoax. Gee, I wonder what’s in the newest version of those files?
What next? Accuser comes forward to claim Trump did something that they can’t remember what it was, or when it happened, but it was really awful and definitely illegal and probably helped the Russians.’
‘Z-Man, this is Bearclaw Control, control, are you listening? We need you Z-Man, if you can hear me Z-Man , initiate Operation Desperate Measures, over’.
True, this pattern seems to repeat…
its to.influence elections legally
Let’s hope that it’s being done and when it’s seen it’s all at once.
The libtards not only won’t believe it….they won’t understand it either. They don’t have the brain power to work from the facts.
(I know because my brother and SIL are two of them + a whole town of 4000 libtards, both black and white) who won’t understand any of it. They are totally blinded by TDS and won’t even listen to reason.
What they do understand is fight fight fight when their masters demand it. JMHO.
I’ve made my position known that based on past behavior I have very serious doubts about real accountability but other forums members keep saying this time it will be different for a variety of reasons including the assassination attempts .
I hope they’re right
In this episode George explains details of the Idaho FF Massacre, President Trump’s interest in the Idaho 4 case, Miss Tulsi’s interest in George’s research data from years ago, and the mass psychosis connection to Palantir.
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You can listen to George on 1.5, 1.75, or even 2.0 speed.
He doesn’t use graphics so much.
He does use graphics from his Substack in his videos for clarity or you can see the graphics on his Substack essays.
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Are you the one that’s been suggesting the Idaho murders were a set up? If so, I’ve been meaning to ask, what would be the purpose of this set up?
I believe Webb was implying that Kohberger was a driver for drug traffickers who got away.
Are you the one that’s been suggesting the Idaho murders were a set up? If so, I’ve been meaning to ask, what would be the purpose of this set up?
I’ve suggested people review George Webb’s videos where he shares his research.
As for anyone here suggesting the I-4 murders were a set-up, I’m not aware of anyone suggesting anything of the sort.
Was it a set up?
There’s no telling what happened with those poor kids.
What is apparent is that there’s more going on than what the local and mainstream media have shoveled out there.
Do you believe the media accounts? Does anyone?
Here’s a video that gets into an idea of a backstory.
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God Bless and protect Tulsi! She is fearlessly speaking truth to power.
May her tribe increase, may the borders of her lands increase.
Comics say a tough crowd is one that has to be told the same joke three times before they start to laugh.
Here’s the joke:
Obama, Obama, Obama
Treason, Treason, Treason
Sedition, Setition, Sedition
Red-handed, Red-handed, Red-handed
If you’re not laughing, maybe that’s because it’s no joke
Obama isn’t laughing
Brennan isn’t laughing
Neither is Comey, Susan Rice and a host of other co-conspirators
18 U.S. Code 2381 looms