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More chaos God Bless
JUST IN: Illegal Alien MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia Asks Obama Judge to Silence Bondi and Noem with Gag Order
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-member-kilmar-abrego/
Where’s he getting the money for all this lawyering?
his democRAT handlers ??
“his democRAT handlers “
Seems to me that Kilmar handles them.
Democraps
A little late now. He’s a household name for many, as he should be. It’s not just our team, it’s his looney supporters too.
Here is another case about “silence”….involving an illegal, murder and an activist family member…
Wantonly breaking many laws…including committing murder…but its not “ok” to talk about it?
“Noem highlighted Shafer’s murder in a visit to Springfield earlier this year. Noem was denounced by Shafer’s mother, who joined a protest against Noem and complained she had not given permission for Noem to speak about her daughter.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/illegal-alien-boyfriend-arrested-mexico-brutal-2023-stabbing/
“To see her used by Secretary Noem and others to advance a cruel and heartless political agenda is not just deeply painful to us – it is an insult to her memory. Noem’s words are in direct conflict with who Emma was as a person. Emma built up community and stood with all members, including immigrants.”
So arresting illegal alien murders and bringing them to justice is part of a “cruel and heartless political agenda”! Wow these Democrats, liberals, progressives are truly pathetic, sick, twisted individuals!!! Even leftist virtue signalers aren’t exempt from the deprivation of illegal aliens!!! To me it’s good to know when murders are arrested and off the streets!!! JMO
That “Reeks of desperation” the end must be near, Kilmar is going to go no matter what they try.
Do believe its time for some people to start obeying the American constitution and American laws
Due to Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 signed by Clinton he has NO rights here. Garcia should never have been brought back to America after his LEGAL deportation which was actually done according to the act and our American Constitutions,
LISA IS COOKED: Embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Admits to Manufacturing Documents, Hints ‘Clerical Error’ Behind Mortgage Occupancy Fraud Dispute
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/lisa-is-cooked-embattled-federal-reserve-governor-lisa/
A 3rd Property!? Pulte Drops New Criminal Referral On Lisa Cook As Mortgage Scandal Widens
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/feds-lisa-cook-sues-keep-job-amid-mortgage-fraud-fiasco
Given the fact she treats her staff appallingly (a distinct pattern with these leftist women) I wonder if a whistleblower will give Pulte another thread to pull on?
I’m also wondering if these recent cases are partly being brought so that the corrupt DC court system inadvertently keeps providing evidence of their bias, therefore strengthening the case that any of the ‘big fish’ cases that may, or may not, be heading down the pike, cannot be held in their jurisdiction.
That would be the best outcome ever!
I assume this type of mortgage fraud also indicates an intent to unlawfully avoid paying tens of thousands of dollars in property taxes if and when the non primary residence is sold. As I understand it property taxes typically aren’t paid on the primary residence. I assume there are also potential State and City taxes being avoided here as well, depending on where the properties are.
I pay real-estate tax on my primary residence. I was thinking the tax scam was to not claim all the rent she’s collecting on the other 2 homes that she is calling primary residences, but collecting rent from.
That would be two different charges.
Income tax fraud from not paying taxes on income from rent. (IRS)
Property tax fraud from claiming primary residence to get lower property tax rates. (Local tax authority.)
Usually, property taxes are paid on a primary residence, but many jurisdictions allow a homestead exemption for a portion of the the tax.
The judge in this case is an Obama judge.
Perhaps worrisome, given the current corruption evident in the lower courts…however, the spotlight is on the situation and the evidence is pretty straight-forward, so a judge will have to really step over the line to find fault with the action against her.
Starting to “leak” her other issues of academic plagiarism, poor interactions with staff, excessive luxury travel, etc, to paint her less than stellar character will also help in the Public Court of opinion, and perhaps cause her to throw in the towel. She certainly had a nice gig!
This judicial activist already defied SCOTUS on deportations…
FTA (Update: 1532ET): A Biden-appointed federal judge who defied a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month has been ‘randomly’ assigned to the (Biden-appointed) Lisa Cook case, after the Federal Reserve Governor filed a lawsuit challenging her Monday firing by President Trump. Her complaint doesn’t deny the underlying allegations of mortgage fraud – and instead argues that she couldn’t have been fired ‘for cause’ over something that happened before she was confirmed to the Fed.
We should expect a nationwide injunction on mortgage fraud prosecutions then.
Not only an Obama judge but a sorority sister of Cook. https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1961253724312965613
No conflict of interest there 🙄
Classic case for ending DEI and the FED altogether. I’m sure Powell is dirty in other ways, including the massive rebuild of there headquarters!
Ah yes. She missed the clerical error when she signed the documents verifying their accuracy.
Should we start by handing her a legal document to see if she can read and comprehend it.
…maybe someones (cook) advice to powell to:
-lower interest rates as brandon / kamala / waltz sought high office in 2024
-not lower interest rates in 2025, after the election, that trump won, and as inflation drops…
is that also just a ‘clerical error’? ( someone else did it, therefore cook is not accountable? )
(having received favored pol status) Someone is still digging a deeper hole – that could be increasingly difficult to climb and sustain ones favor…
[ maybe a favored judge can lift one out of hole, but a rational judge may think otherwise. ]
Does someone see the whole perception game being played, or just their insulated, safe, selfish part?
hmmm….
I do not know
imho
Seeking the whole truths…
Praying !
Praying!
Thanks ed.
Happy Friday Sherry !!
Dear Lord, please watch over, keep, and protect Tulsi and her team as they do battle with the minions of darkness.
Amen.
Link to updated prayers and praises at The Still Hour
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/31/the-still-hour-part-6/comment-page-4/#comment-12019759
AMEN
And thank you ed your time spent watering our tree is much appreciated
be well and God Bless
R.D.
Good morning RD !! I had a rare 2 nights off from work, but back tonight, off Friday & Saturday nights (my usual schedule), and I’ll be back again all next week starting Sunday night.
Have a great weekend, be well and God bless too my friend !!
Your timing was impeccable Ed. I crashed hard last night before the moon rose over CTH and was thankful to see the church in all her glory this morn’. Blessings.
🙏🙏
Amen !
Amen!
Amen!! Grateful to see Dutch earlier this am!
that was a nice way to start the day Doc
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.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. His promises are bold and he keeps them like no other president has. He is making massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in our country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass. This term, he is weeding them out faster. No U.S. president has ever faced so much organized resistance and treason than President Trump
The purpose and goals of President Trump are plainly visible by his actions and consistent: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world. It is validating, even to our battered conservative skepticism.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating. He hammers actions based on truth from one direction, then another, and they cannot mount an organized opposition against him.
He has chosen to use his intellect and every skill he has to do what is right. He has tremendous faith that he can make a difference in this world. He has a confidence and courage such that he doesn’t care what others think, yet a humility to know he has to do it with the help of like minded people. Those people are the “common” people, and he ridicules those who think they are not common.
He believes people are basically good. He believes that God is real. He believes that healthy people are happy people, and they need to be able to create wealth freely for their labor, and have the freedom to spend their money on what is good for them.
He believes the United States, with its Constitutional Republic, is the best environment in the world to enable and give opportunity for people to be happy and prosperous.
He believes that we can be a light for the world, but we must demand that the rest of the world respect us and our right to life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness.
He believes the enemy of our country are the stupid, greedy American people who have been selfishly taking advantage of this country; who betrayed the trust and obedience of its people; and who diverted the people’s wealth for their own selfish gain, at the expense of the principles of this country. He’s not going to allow that anymore.
He has cultivated and focused the family of MAGA. Identifying those people whose goodness, industriousness, trust, and obedience have been taken advantage of and abused. He has opened our eyes to this abuse, and the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the healthy distrust of government and men with too much power held by our founders. He has recultivated the desire to reclaim our freedoms and rights, and is empowering us with a hope and pathway to reclaim our spiritual and economic freedom.
He wants the US to be a light of hope on the hill for all people. He will negotiate win/win agreements with those nations and countries who respect us; who respect the principles and intent of our Constitution. If you do not respect us, however, we are not going to let you take advantage of our goodness, or share in our wealth at our expense. If you as a nation are treating your people badly, you are going to be treated less favorably by us, until you show that you value your people as much as we value ours.
He is convincing those who are very wealthy (most of whom truly earned their money), that the best economic soil in which to build wealth is in a constitutional republic, which supports the ability of the common man to earn wealth in proportion to his efforts. The economic engine of the United States is the human spirit freed to enjoy the fruits of honest labor, and that engine has more natural and raw horsepower than any other governed economy.
The Trump Train seems to be remarkably aligned with universal principles of Truth, which reflect the will and design of our Creator, and are the best standard by which we should live. These same principles were what our country’s founders used to declare independence, and framed into the Constitution of this nation.
Our founders believed that a nation should preserve the right and freedom of an individual to seek, understand, and live by God’s principles. They believed that free individuals working together in humility would make a stronger nation than a government which dictates its will on the people. President Trump professes and seeks to lead and restore this nation back to these same principles.
These principles resonate deeply within all human beings, down to our DNA in every cell, in our spirits, and produce fruit that “miraculously” multiplies. Because we follow universal principles, we see the snowballing acceleration of momentum on day 222 of the 2nd term of this very stable genius in the history of the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2025.
Amen
Amen
Amen
✝️
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
@Rightanglenews
Aug 25
BREAKING – A Walmart executive has been fired after taking $30K+ daily in kickbacks from Indian staffing agencies, funneling jobs to Indian nationals while shutting out American workers and abruptly locking out 1,200 contractors.
https://nitter.poast.org/Rightanglenews/status/1960070874738172118#m
Yah.
It will be ‘Yah’ when they fire all of the people illegally hired and recover the money to give to a worthy charity.
That’s what I was thinking. $30 grand daily, for how long? The guy is financially set for the rest of his life if he did this for only one year ($10,950,000).
If there are no penalties it will encourage more people to do the same thing!
The Federalist: ‘Undercover’ Spy At Center Of WSJ Sob Story Is Actually A Public CIA Russia Hoaxer
By: M.D. Kittle
August 28, 2025
“The Wall Street Journal’s recent overheated piece on the Trump administration’s public revocation of an “undercover” senior CIA officer is ridiculously lazy. The CIA spook in question is a very overt member of the intelligence community. Just Google the name Julia Gurganus. …
“…Gurganus was deeply involved in the infamous and highly politicized Intelligence Community Assessment, the antecedent to the Russia Collusion hoax that the accomplice media played a leading role in. She actively oversaw the production of the politically driven ICA, a fact publicly known in 2020, well ahead of Gabbard’s unsealing of intelligence community records exposing the sham report.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/28/undercover-spy-at-center-of-wsj-sob-story-is-actually-a-public-cia-russia-hoaxer/
This was an odd thing I saw on youtube today – regarding Ghislaine Maxwell’s comments about Meghan Markle’s proximity to Virginia Giuffre and within the Jeffrey Epstein sphere of activity.
There was a photograph within the youtube video that included Meghan Markle and I think Ghislaine Maxwell, also, but the very interesting thing to me was that Christopher Steele of the famous Steele Dossier was in the photo too. Maybe it was not a real photograph, maybe Mr. Steele was photoshopped into the photo.
Of course, maybe it is all fake news in this spectacle of massively piling on and dragging Meghan Markle so incredibly; I am not a big fan of the young lady but it is mind-boggling the extent of the effort to break her down and discredit all aspects of her life and so if she DID know something about Jeffrey Epstein, etc., etc., will she not be heard? Why don’t the Obamas help her out and tell everyone to cool it; give a nice soiree for Harry and Meghan at Martha’s Vineyard and dial back the calumny.
Perhaps the Obamas might be choosing a low profile themselves right now. After all, what would they gain by helping her? From what I’ve concluded the lovely former White House occupiers rarely do anything out of the goodness of their hearts.
If Meghan doesn;t like to get dragged them maybe she shouldn;t Have lied about
the RF especially both the late Queen and PP when the queen was ill and PP on his
death bed and she shouldn;t keep whinning about her terrible time in the RF..and
demonizing them all the while using her ROYAL title. she says doesn;t matter.
Ive heard that too On Youtube theres a channel called Royal Grift and shes done a few exposes
She thinks Meghan is a Deep State asset sent to insert herself into the Royal Family. She has analysed the Ghislaine Maxwell interviews in 5 separate videos
Meghan Markle’s uncle Mike Markle was a diplomat in Argentina and he arranged for MM to do an internship at the US embassy in Argentina
But this one is interesting
Meghan Markle: The Details We All IGNORED
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Why? Because that Markle woman is an absolute nutcase.
Bram Stoker award……DRACULA…..some underlying darkness there. Call me stupid but as soon as I heard that, I stopped the video.
In recently released transcripts someone posted a comment that Ms. Maxwell made, that her father was British spy, so how is it not assumed like father, like daughter?
And while everyone obediently piles on to throw shade on ‘Epstein worked for the Israeli’s’ and nobody points that finger at Maxwell and the UK’s secret agencies?
How is it not assumed like father, like daughter, who may have indeed, with her employer’s help, have successfully pointed to Israel, the Jews, and Epstein, while the sole survivor in that little enterprise does a safe stint in a US prison, still misdirecting attention away from Britain?
All the while in keeping questions on that connection away from her, people continue to embrace a perverse voyeuristic interest that somehow President Trump was involved in the Epstein saga, even when proof is shown neither Trump nor his relations had anything to do with that place?
Then again, perhaps I have read too many spy novels as a child.
I’m never up at this time so…good morning fellow treepers!
Welcome to the all night Treehouse party BC Stev !!
@HowleyReporter
16h
SCOOP: The Trump DOJ Civil Rights Division under @HarmeetKDhillon is now investigating cases of H-1B discrimination against Americans and wants YOU to send complaints. It is TIME for a NEW civil rights movement in America
https://www.infowars.com/posts/scoop-trump-doj-wants-you-to-report-h-1b-bias-against-americans
For me…silence is golden…
The Federalist: Leftist Lawfare Shark Marc Elias Sues To Help Noncitizens Vote
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1961049961514025394
What a slimeball.
Think about just a few major players:
– Marc Elias
– Victoria Nuland
– Mary McCord
Does Blondi even know these “people”exist? How much more damage will we allow them to inflict on the embattled Republic?
Of course she knows they exist, they are on her “stay away from these people at all costs” list … she’s terrified of them. I’m no fan of Dhillon’s but at least she’s doing something.
It is Federal Law that you have to be a citizen to vote in a Federal Election.
https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/civil-rights/right-to-vote/what-are-the-requirements-to-be-eligible-to-v.html
Seems you would have to change the law to permit non citizens to vote. But, there are a lot of Federal Laws that are not enforced (immigration)
Thanks a lot Congress!
Seems to me that if states don’t show that their election processes do not ensure that only citizens can vote in Federal Elections then their votes don’t count.
@LauraLoomer
13h
Under Joe Biden, the US State Department @StateDept installed Islamic foot-washing stations inside their bathrooms. These foot washing stations are still there.
Did you know this?
Muslim employees at the US State Department even set up “reflection rooms” for Islamic prayer and they encourage Muslim employees to hand out Ramadan guides to their non-Muslim colleagues so they can learn how to be sensitive to Islamic holidays.
This is taxpayer-funded Islamification of America inside our government on YOUR dime.
Imagine being at work and watching your colleagues stick their dirty, crusty feet inside the bathroom sinks and toilets on your dime.
Why is this allowed in the United States government? We are not a Muslim nation!
https://nitter.poast.org/LauraLoomer/status/1961087870107574615#m
Baptists don’t ask for special considerations. Maybe we should get government-funded baptismals installed right next door.
Meanwhile, Catholics throughout our country (and our world)…are viciously attacked.
Turn them into urinals
They have them at Raytheon and all the major defense contractors too.
These people are so stupid. Don’t they realize when the muslims follow up with sharia law, those people who allowed this in America will be the first to die? Have they already forgotten “Death to America” and “Allah Akbar”?
Doesn’t the State Department have special pray rooms just for muslims? I could be wrong, just wondering? If so do they have chapels for Christians????
The Detroit health system I worked for has a chapel. In the call to prayer time, it was packed, shoes piled up outside the door
Start by banning the ideology of Islam in our country.
Only a few of us know what they will eventually have in store for us if we don’t do something about the muslims.
@LauraLoomer
11h
I went to the Darién Gap last year and warned that Chinese invaders and illegals were bringing flesh-eating screwworms into the U.S. Now it’s been confirmed that the first human case in the US in decades has been identified in Maryland. They call him a “Maryland resident,” but he came back from El Salvador. Is this person an illegal alien?? It’s time to clean up the open borders DISASTER that @JoeBiden left behind before this turns into a full-blown crisis.
https://nitter.poast.org/LauraLoomer/status/1961116025627295904#m
Back in the day, people with cattle running in the bottoms of east Texas had terrible problems with ticks. They would dig a narrow pit inside the corral with fencing and deep enough the cows had to swim. They would fill it with water with a tick poison in it then run the cattle through it to soak the cows all over to get rid of the ticks.
Maybe we need to start dipping some people.
I have already stated this story is BS and explained why.
By law, in 1930s Louisiana, cattle had to be treated for tick-borne diseases and parasites.
There are old concrete dipping trenches (“vats” they were called) out in the woods where I live.
A friend of mine’s grandad shot and killed the Parish sheriff and wounded a deputy back then because they were trying to force him to dip his cows.
He spent the rest of his life in prison.
@TheCharlesDowns
Aug 26
If Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s mortgage fraud shocks you, brace yourself for Adam Schiff’s housing scandals. Run, Adam, run!
https://nitter.poast.org/TheCharlesDowns/status/1960135105172680864#m
I’m sure the FBI will get right on that (destroying any evidence of wrongdoing before the case can be forwarded for prosecution.)
Oh, this is one I really, really do not want to be swept under the Deep State rug! Karma time!
More on Ariane Tabatabai:
@ChanelRion
15h
This story goes deeper and has been going on since @semafor and @LeeSmithDC broke it open a few years ago.
Tabatabai was “PROTECTED” after she was caught working as Chief of Staff for SOLIC (strat. ops. for low intensity conflict) and exchanging emails with Iranian leadership.
Emails so bad it triggered an investigation (UNDER BIDEN NO LESS).
My sources at Pentagon and DIA were shocked when they found out Tabatabai was sent off to Officer Candidate Training School…. To become a Navy Reserve officer — in Intelligence.
This, ostensibly, to protect her and her security clearance.
I’ve spoken to a past SOLIC head and they are baffled.
Something doesn’t smell right.
My DIA sources tell me they’ve seen her for YEARS visiting with a certain Admiral over coffee – in the open.
Makes sense if she’s being shielded by the Swamp branch of the US Navy Reserves.
https://nitter.poast.org/ChanelRion/status/1961054481690599625#m
Report: Cartel abducting pregnant women in Mexican border city, trafficking newborns to U.S.
A criminal organization is allegedly kidnapping pregnant women in the Mexican border city of Juárez to obtain their newborns and traffic them into the United States, according to an exclusive report from journalist Katarina Szulc.
The allegations were first reported on Thursday by Szulc, host of Borderland: DISPATCHES. She cited a senior Mexican law enforcement source who described the practice and said investigators have quietly begun to link it to recent homicide cases involving women in Juárez.
Szulc said she obtained photos of victims that, according to her, showed signs consistent with forced C-sections.
Szulc’s investigation is supplemented by reporting from All Source News, the Chief Intelligence Officer of the intelligence company Artorias, and this outlet’s journalist, the author of this article, who reviewed local media coverage in Juárez from July and August.
That review found multiple reports of women killed in disturbing circumstances, but only one case publicly confirmed the victim was pregnant: 20-year-old Leslie Godínez Carrillo of León, Guanajuato, whose remains were discovered in a clandestine grave in the patio of a Juárez home in late July.
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/08/report-cartel-abducting-pregnant-women-in-mexican-border-city-trafficking-newborns-to-u-s/
WHO IS PAYING FOR THOSE BABIES?
Dear Blessed Mother, deliver these mothers and their children and protect them from these evil doers!
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pour down blessings and stand between the mothers and their babies and the evil threatening them!
Amen !
To be frank I am revolted by being forced to share a Planet with such evil.
Here’s a question for the CTH community: Why has supermarket produce been absolutely terrible for the past several months?
I’ve visited multiple supermarkets—national chains, local chains, and small ethnic markets—across two states, and it’s the same bad produce situation everywhere. The produce on the shelf is either rotting, picked over, or out-of-stock entirely. One time when I went to the local Aldi, there was an entire produce aisle that was completely empty.
I’ve tried researching what’s causing this produce shortage. The best answer I could find is that the trucks that bring inventory to the supermarket aren’t as frequent and aren’t bringing much inventory as they used to. Okay, but WHY have the trucks slowed down? Nobody has an answer (or at least nobody is willing to talk about it).
Do any CTH readers out there have any answers to this produce problem that they’re willing to share?
Depends on your location. Here in Northern Nevada, produce is plentiful and of good quality. We have the major and local markets along with the weekly street farmers market.
You’re also much closer to California and Arizona, both of which largely supply the bulk of the country’s fresh produce. Is this an “East of the Mississippi River” issue?
Agree; the fresh produce here in northern Nevada is both plentiful and in great quality.
I have no answers for you but I’m having the same problem. Rotten produce is the new normal in my area. North Ga..
Rotten produce is a “store” issue. It has nothing to do with anything at the farm, packing house or trucking.
Before the “store” accepts the produce the store can “reject the load”. It is called, “Red-tagged”.
There may have been a problem starting at the packing house and perhaps trucking, but in any event, the store accepts or “red-tags”.
What happens when ALL of the supermarkets—national, local, independent—in two states (and more judging by the comments) have the exact same produce issue? I’m not trying to pick a fight here, but they ALL can’t have crummy management. There’s something else failing along the supply chain. I don’t know what specifically so I won’t speculate, but it’s not a singular “store management issue” and nothing else.
We have good looking produce in SW Missouri
We have good produce in Northern VA. Occasionally the cucumbers are rotten too quickly. But that’s about it.
What State are you referring to?
It is a store management problem and this sounds like one of those random ‘set a fear seed’ that sits in the back of the mind so the moment they go to their grocery store they immediate side eye all the fresh produce –
putting stuff like that into the minds of people, is how color revolutions get their first toe in the door; so to keep them on edge over something that is not real.
Curious question on Presidential daily thread instead of the open thread. Also, will see a tag team member provide an added “proof” with no actual proof comment. Links to actual news stories from local news feeds would dispel this reader’s question.
Ask a question about rotten produce.
Get accused of starting a “color revolution.”
Thanks for the laugh, buddy.
As a former produce farmer my thought is because of weather. I live within a 100 mile radius which produces 65% of all the produce for the United States.
This year all crops harvested are coming out “short” This is all do to adverse weather during critical times in the crop cycle “setting” period.
IMO, the reason for the produce shortage has zero to do with anything political.
Yeah everything from Cali like peaches, pears and oranges look ripe at the grocery but are barely edible this year.
If we could actually get our sh!t together in Florida we could easily give Califas a run for its money on vegetable and fruit production a we have 4 distinct growing seasons and our water and sunshine make sweeter citrus.
Don’t forget Florida produced more cattle than Texas at one point.
Good for you
I wonder why we never see Florida oranges in my Louisiana grocery stores. I hope one day.
I buy from CA when I find only international oranges around here like now in the Summer
There is greening and citrus canker in Florida.
The citrus industry is down 80% to 90% in Florida.
And, at one time I was told Hawaii had more than Texas, believe it or not. Several years ago…not sure if it was actually correct or still applies. Florida, like Hawaii, finds “ growing” hundreds of little houses far easier than the uncertainly of growing crops. Being a farmer or orchard owner is a thankless job.
In my rural Florida neighborhood, most families grow a few different things really well and we swap the excess fruits, vegetables and fresh eggs.
The flavor of the produce can vary from year depending on the weather.
Most people do not know how handle store bought fruit. they bring it home and put it in their refrigerator and eat it out of their refrigerator.
The way to do it is leave it set out awhile and them put it in the refrigerator. The refrigerator stops the sugar from developing.
By leaving the fruit out it will continue what we call “sugar-break”. Leave it out until the ripeness you desire and the refrigerator will stop “sugar-break” at your desired ripeness. It makes a huge difference with “stone fruit” such as peaches, plums, nectarines and apricots.
It makes a huge difference and you can control it to the point it fits you. You can have your own custom fruit condition even though you bought it from a grocery store. Its the closest you can get to as though you picked it from your own tree.
I remember the seemingly endless orange groves in central FL when I was a kid. Cattle ranches too.
This was in the early 70s when dad would take us there once a yr to visit family/vacation.
Thanks for the insight. Myself, I’m having the worst garden year in nearly ten years and the neighbors aren’t faring much better. There isn’t going to be much local relief this harvest season, I’m assured of that much. The produce supermarket issues went from bad-to-worse around June, which predates our local woes.
They call fruits and vegetables “perishable” crops for a reason.
I know nothing about farming.
That said…serious question here…
Is it possible that we are seeing an effect (feature or flaw?)…related to global corporate farms and GMO seeds and plants?
And the stuff imported, has a ‘programed’ life span for being in ‘cold storage’ and has passed by that peak time?
And is the shipper cutting corners on the ‘refrigeration’ during shipping, and that speeds perishing?
Most likely weather.
There has been a boatload of tornadoes in the midwest, flooding in places from Texas to the Carolinas; even out west we’ve had heavy rains where crops such as alfalfa, corn, melons and onions are a huge thing where major highways have recently been covered in mudslides.
Weather, normal, 10 year event, weather.
The small garden in the back yard, doing raised bed gardening this year, so far, is nothing but a bumper crop coming along beautifully. Had to let it sit for the last two years while treating the soil with amendments such as peat moss, other natural enhancements (high alkaline soil) so gave the garden area a rest to take in what nutrients it could and this year, gangbusters!
Bringing political reasons into the fruit quality game is all bullsh*t.
Not sure on the zero.
Canadian wildfires seem to have been a cause of bad weather most of the year in blueMA. Too much rain alternating with none. The few veggies I grow did badly and flowering plants barely did so.
Wildfires are at least partially the fault of bad forest management. Canada and California are two peas in a pod on that, I’m guessing.
That said, my yearly raspberries are thankfully abundant yet again – just smaller than usual.
Supermarket produce is a bit substandard, some items not always available, but local sources are improving here all the time. Haven’t noticed rot on shelves at store but some things go over pretty quickly once home.
I was interested in your final sentence about fresh produce going quickly once purchased. Hadn’t thought about it, but realize it’s absolutely true. I have had to quickly use it even throw away produce almost immediately, especially fruit. I find myself going to the grocery store more often for much smaller quantities of fresh produce.
The one thing we’ve found good and reasonable this summer is watermelon…but, how much watermelon can 2 people eat! LOL (BTW, the secret to choosing g a good watermelon…
Sorry, hit wrong button….select a whole melon that has a yellow area on the outside, it means it ripened in the field and not harvested too soon while still unripe. This advice from local farmers.
Wait until the GMO scientists figure out how to create a watermelon with a ‘yellow spot’ that mimics ‘vine ripening’….
Here in IL, Jewel grocers cut up the watermelon (and other fruits) and sell it in individual containers…and the watermelon is not a dark pink but rather has an ‘anemic’ pale pink look to it.
Teagan: Same here! I need to reduce the amount of produce that I purchase at any one time to a supply of just a few days, at most. Otherwise, the produce goes bad. Also, watermelon has become a staple of my summer diet.
Our grocery stores have abundant veggies and fruits. Namely Food Lion. Although we also have a Harris Teeter and a Lowes Grocery store + Walmart. This place is awesome. Everything available within 5 miles + the ocean 8 miles. Beats the heck out of where I was. I am happier now…..living my best life finally.
well, ok, that sounds reasonable.
but why the comments from some specific geographic areas that their produce supply is good?
stores asking top dollar for inedible product, when available at all,
has been the standard here all year, and it’s getting on my nerves!
Not a problem in central NY with Aldi or other major and local supermarkets.
Fresh produce is also plentiful in East Texas with the exception of CA strawberries, they don’t look very good right now.
same in ‘burbs of chicago.
had to try two stores just to get a lemon – and still went home empty handed.
i assume that pritzger and his cronies want life in illinois to be as difficult, expensive,
and stressful as possible during PT’s term.
can’t have we residents thinking kindly towards this administration.
Here in east Alabama the local Sam’s and Walmarts have had sketchy produce for the last 5 months. I asked the produce manager what was going on. He said he didn’t have enough help to get produce out timely or maintain it once it was out on the shelves. Publix produce is good, but pricey.
Ronin: My pet peave is that much of the produce sold in California is imported from Mexico and Central and South America. Trader Joe’s sells kosher beef from Argentina. Can I please have some food from my own country!
Very clear discussion from Col. McGregor, interviewed by George Galloway. First few minutes are about Middle East. Most of the rest is about Ukraine. Last ten minutes are bigger picture.
Mr. MacGregor doesn’t seem to take into consideration that President Donald Trump is fighting battle after battle right here in this country. The progressives won’t leave him alone and let him get the job done. I use to think MacGregor was a pretty smart guy but I’ve changed my mind about that. He is short sighted where Donald Trump is concerned and way too critical. JMHO.
Special Reports
Massive! Minnesota Trans Cult Member’s Father Has Worked For 29 Years As A Top-Level CIA/DOD Contractor
https://www.infowars.com/posts/massive-minnesota-trans-cult-members-father-has-worked-for-29-years-as-a-top-level-cia-dod-contractor
Minnesota transgender shooter’s father worked for 29 Years as a top-level CIA /DOD contractor. Coincidence?
https://x.com/1GrahamDaily/status/1961224757568815259
Transgender promotion is a psyop war on traditional values to undermine America brought to you by the same folks as MK-ultra.
Don’t slam the screen door times it was illegal to cross dress except on Halloween.
They were Queers, not gay, not trans anything.
Just Queer.
Is that why the mother isn’t speaking or cooperating and has lawyered up to protect her silence?
I read a story last night that Mama hired a criminal lawyer and disappeared.
I don’t know if it is fact nor do I make any assumptions about what it means.
Bill Gates…
RICO Not-so-Suave Gates…
And RFKJ just purged dozens of high level Gates embeds from CDC.
The worm is turning.
Good news that it is being stopped. Bad news that he is not being prosecuted — there are probably many crimes — difficult to tell among the lack of credibility among social media authors on both right and left.
We need to teach good logic, journalism, citizenship, and basic morality to our children, but more importantly among our own citizens.
If Bill has done and said so much that has been attributed to him, lets expose it, verify it, and take apporpriate action. Whats the difference between not acting on what he or someone like Ilian Omar has said before it takes root — than taking serious the words of a potential trans shooter making half threats on social media.
Too big to RICO.
And Gates gets a sweet deal, laws for thee not for me.
Charge the smarmy POS
President Trump announces a $825 million arms sale to Ukraine. 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ukraine-us-weapons-sale-trump-russia/2025/08/28/id/1224343/
F***!
I KNEW IT!!
He really IS Vakks injured!
“Sale”….not foreign aid.
Big change in policy.
Whos’ money are the buying the weapons with?
The Big Beautiful Bill and its $5T deficit debt bomb.
No Sir, Trump demanded Europe buy it, and they are struggling to find the money, Germany is the number one economy in Europe and has destroyed their industry, is talking about borrowing the money, cutting social services, and talking up the draft. (Expect protests and refusals to join and many replays of Donavan’s Universal Soldier.) Trump basically said not one red cent from the US, and Europe must buy it. It may not happen.
I heard you but I don’t think many others did as the bitterness keeps rolling along.
So much for wanting to end the war.
I suppose that you want gun dealers to be prosecuted for selling guns to people who turn around and give them to another person who then commits murder. It’s the gun dealers’ fault, right?
We sell arms to the EU/NATO crowd. They choose to give them to Ukraine. They could choose to keep them for themselves but they don’t.
Should auto dealerships be responsible for selling a vehicle to someone who had a DUI and may go out and drive drunk again?
The EU/NATO/CIA are part of the War Pig crowd. If they stopped giving Ukraine weapons then discussions to end this war would commence.
Where is Ukie getting the money? If this is true this is hard to accept. Own fault. It was said, over and over, “no troops on the ground” and programmed narrative in internet comment sections manipulated discussion until the simple truth was not heard. “Boots on the ground,” became to be heard and believed as no support, withdrawal.
First hundred days. Trump
Second hundred days. Trump
Third hundred days. Usurpers
So the EU pays for it via Ukraine. Nice way to milk the EU!!!
Washington Post confirmation of drone facility next to the buildings housing the EU and British delegations in Kiev
This report comes from David L. Stern, Siobhán O’Grady and Serhii Korolchuk | The Washington PostAug 29, 2025
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer was listed online as having offices in the building struck near the foreign facilities. It was not clear if that was the intended target, but the listing suggested a security lapse for a company tied directly to Ukraine’s war effort. A phone number listed online for the firm was disconnected Thursday.
The paragraph appears to have been removed from US version of the article.
https://www.postguam.com/news/world/eu-furious-as-deadly-russian-attack-damages-its-kyiv-offices/article_2b4062a0-90d3-409e-a012-ef35fe3e2a38.html
Why are these anti-Trump judges always Black?
Don’t they make “white” judges anymore?
Judges are lawyers that cannot make it in private practice. When you have been DEI’d through law school and the bar exam this is the result.
That’s not really true.
In most situations, the old quip applies: “Judges are created when lawyers and politicians have dinner together.” Those lawyers are usually the most powerful ones.
Most judges have historically been picked for political purposes (even in an electoral contest), typically from the ranks of established and successful lawyers who have been active politically, and wish to retire from the pressures of running a law firm.
The appointments for the federal bench have become increasingly politicized in the past 25 years, and it has become, particularly under Democrat appointments, one big identity politics game. But they are still ‘successful’ lawyers, in that they have developed enough political gravitas to make the short lists.
We are just starting to see the DEI impacts on the legal profession, and they are not good. The profession itself has been taken over by the most liberal elements. But other than then at the federal level where it is most politicized, it has not yet permeated the state judiciaries.
Some of the best Judges I have been before over the decades have been minorities. And Justice Thomas is a terrific jurist.
Plenty of corrupt judges on state judiciaries.
Corrupt and DEI are two very different things.
I was addressing your DEI and weak lawyer theory.
Many very powerful lawyers are corrupt. And some make it to the Bench.
I bet half of them don’t even know what DEI means.
“Joe you don’t have to do this”.
The transformation of America continues.
Boasberg?
DEI hires.
Judge Boasberg is very white.
Fangdog: I would say that anti-Trump judges have been “equal opportunity.” There are plenty of white anti-Trump judges. The color seems to depend on the venue.
Why do they all weigh >200 lbs??
Good question Fangdog. I personally resent that they can’t find any white people anymore and it seems all the black females are out to “GET” President Trump. And they are SOOOOOO entitled and arrogant.
So Lisa Cook’s sorority sister is the judge taking the case..
Wow..
What a coincidence !!!!!
Well, is she merely part of a national sorority or actually in the same chapter? If they merely share national membership it would be like saying a Baptist has to recuse if the defendant is also a Baptist.
Didn’t this same thing come up with Michelle Obama in regards to a very lucrative contract handed out by Obama to a sorority sister of Michelle’s?
However, there’s no question these powerful black women do tend to have each other’s backs. And they talk about the Masons! LOL
Your last paragraph nails it. I’ve personally witnessed two separate occasions where I knew one of the black women in each scenario that goes out of their way to have private conversations with a sorority sister that’s a complete stranger. They where jewelry, clothing etc., to make connections wherever and end up in the same churches and end up expanding their presence in the government as well as high paying private sector.
Frat boys and sorority sisters are more related than true brothers and sisters.
I’ve always found that to be a weird occurrence.
A Friday Court Circus, for weekend talking points.
Cook is cooked. Late last night, after Eisen’s ridiculous Petition, Pulte released a THIRD instance of mortgage fraud on a THIRD property. And another referral to DOJ.
A swift indictment will being this Cook Circus to a swift conclusion. Get to work, Fox News Bondi.
It would be nice if they could find a way to sanction Norm Eisen for all his frivolous lawsuits, too.
The slithering snakes are being forced to come out from hiding and expose themselves from hiding in the bushes and crawling in the grass
Cook’s Sorority sister?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/600k-chinese-student-visas-revoke
On Thursday, the White House clarified his statement.
“President Trump isn’t proposing an increase in student visas for Chinese students. The 600K references two years’ worth of visas. It’s simply a continuation of existing policy,” the statement reads.
I guess nobody remembers the ChiCom asset at U of F that ordered a bunch of test samples of narcotics to calibrate Gas Chromatography/Mass Spec analysis machines, under the guise of being a faculty member of the Chemistry Department.
The rub is narcotics are illegal in China, the operative needed the samples so the drug super labs in the western end of the PRC could test batches of dope for purity before mailing shipments off to The States.
“Nothing To See Here, Shuffle Along”..
Greetings Treepers! ☝️✝️☝️
Good morning, Frank!
Early morning to you again Frank.
Best to you, Frank.
in vain…..
The War Economy twitter/x posted this link
which leads to this exclusive NY Post article of President Trump notifying Congress late last night he will be using a Pocket Rescission to end $5Billion in foreign aid (USAID) money going to various programs.
Here is the NY Post article:
https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/trump-scraps-5b-in-foreign-aid-in-rare-pocket-rescission/
The article makes note that the last time a pocket rescission was used was in 1977.
Prepare for Friday news show anchors heads eXpl0ding! going into this Labor Day weekend
I didn’t know that the USA is asking for “contact tracing”.
– Explanation From Delta Airlines website
“What is Contact Tracing?
Contact tracing is a process to identify and alert those who may have been in close contact with someone who has contracted a contagious disease, to help reduce exposure and transmission. Contact information is mandatory for all travelers entering the U.S., including U.S. citizens and residents.
You will be asked to provide your address while in the U.S. and a phone number. This information, in addition to contact information you provided during ticket purchase or at check-in, will be shared with the CDC via U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Please refer to Delta’s Privacy Policy for details. For more information, go to http://www.cdc.gov, or http://www.cbp.gov, or see CBP’s Privacy Impact Assessment for the Advance Passenger Information System.
Who must participate in contact tracing?
Delta and our global partners are working diligently with our respective government agencies, health officials and aviation authorities to offer safer travel at every point in your journey.
The CDC requires contact tracing for anyone traveling to the U.S. as their final destination or connecting through, including U.S. citizens and residents.
For other international travel, you and those in your itinerary can voluntarily participate if you are traveling on a Delta operated flight or flying on a global partner airline ticket with a Delta operated segment.”
“CDC” and “contact tracing”…should not be used in the same sentence of paragraph….of anything involving US citizens on US soil.
This sounds like a scam out of the Patriot Act and another back door violation of the ‘unlawful search and seizure’, that the “Public and Private Partnership” espoused by Bush, to remove our freedoms to move freely and without fear of government intrusion.
It is from the “Covid era”. I thought they were finished with that. Or are they planning a comeback?
Gretchen Whitmer, the wicked witch of Michigan, did that to me when i crossed the state line to Michigan during covid in 2020. I was with a friend from Michigan and he didn’t get a notice but we were driving my car and I got that message.
This was to alert me that I was entering territory that could be detrimental to my health. Although it didn’t make me feel that they were concerned for MY health. Just theirs.
I thought the emergency regulations had been discontinued….?
Don’t fly Delta? Go complain to Robert F Kennedy Jr and Sean Duffy?
What?? I’m just informing people here about what is happening. If my comments are not welcomed here anymore I hope the TreeHouse management will let me know.
FYI, it’s not Delta. It is from CDC.
I’m not arguing with you. I am just offering how we can fight them.
From your quotation it sounds like Delta is very happy to comply with the CDC.
Oh OK. Sorry, I’m a little on the edge here lately.
Yes. Delta is very “progressive”. Unfortunately, it is the only airline that has direct flight, in my case.
I understand. I despise these people and their faux pretending about disease transmission. Especially since they FLEW ON AIRPLANES into this country all kinds of illegals from all kinds of countries and then placed them into our cities and towns.
All without given one d@mn about the spread of disease.
That’s why I thought of Duffy (transportation) or RFK Jr (CDC).
I think this contact tracing began after that one airplane landed and a passenger had Ebola and it became necessary for the airlines and CDC to be able to contact the passengers so they could get tested.
Think this was in the last years of the Obama era, and remember that was a very real concern.
Probably stayed as a program to make it easier to contact relatives should there be an airline disaster, so don’t see this as sinister, just common sense when dealing with an industry that flies people from all over the world.
I’ve been traveling abroad of the United States every year for the last 4 years. 2021 was the only time they asked me to do so. Why they started requiring again now is beyond me.
The problem first arose in 2014, this notice put out by the CDC in January of 2015 is when I first became aware there was going to be a system put into place for contact tracing, most likely revived, as you say, in 2021 after the Covid thing.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6403a5.htm
It’s possible, with the Europeans and their world health organization putting out test news stories about potential new airborne viruses, the airlines want to stay ahead of things.
Just a guess, but do remember those Ebola stories when they were desperately trying to contact passengers; with relatives in the airline industry so that perked up my ears when news like that comes out, and sits in the old memory bank.
maybe more fearmongering Val1 ?
“Boy, it’s great that little boys and little girls can finally choose their sex” /s
If I lived to be a hundred, I never thought that this level of sickness would be a thing, but this would expose my ignorance. What did I/we think would come out of “if it feels good do it”? especially those same morally vacuous nitwits who are now in positions of power.
Though I believe much of what we are being exposed to is through election fraud. This all backed up by their blow horn at the enemy MSM. This has been seeping into every strata of our lives, our entertainment, sports, businesses, even restaurant chains like Cracker Barrel…you know these demons get a hardy laugh out of that one. They get to mock free America and Christians.
I tried to be one of the cool kids back in the day, with emphasis on “kid”. But, if we look at the reality of our world there is a direct correlation to the Counter Culture horse squeeze where debaucherous lifestyles have become the norm, conveniently forgetting the fact that God will not be mocked.
The good news is that this does not really represent our Great Land, the real USA, have you ever heard anyone clamoring for a sex change for their kid?
This has been allowed by our apathy and fear of being called names by petulant brats who have been screaming for a long overdue spanking. Outside of the blue hives, where I exist, we still pray to God, fly the flag and try to live as Proud Americans who cherish our Founding.
While we were busy raising families, operating our businesses, minding our own business, fighting their wars (This could be an entire thesis of deceit from blowing up The USS Maine in Havannah Harbor (1898) to 9-11 were, I now believe, false flags etc. to move us to their end the destruction of the USA.
However, we as free people must enforce our Constitution a binding contract from the Founders to the future. The Good Lord has given us a brief reprieve MAGA and our Great American President Donald J Trump…anything else right now is a loser.
Unlike Abraham and the Biblical Sodom & Gomorrah, there are more than a dozen good men in fact we are the vast majority probably 10-1, and if we act like the majority that we are, all this sickness will come to a screeching halt.
Where war, pestilence, privation, deviancy, will cease returning us to our Christian Founding and our country and the world will be filled with light & right again.
Stop falling for their frauds, like that freak shooting up a “Catholic/Christian School”. The demons on social media were filled with glee, sick little monsters. The Prince of Peace Jesus Christ, would be the first to stand in the way of anyone trying to harm one of these sexually confused kids, “love the sinner hate the sin” not so much for their demented parents, Mathew 18:6: Millstones and the deepest sea…”
Keep God and family close, believe and enforce our Constitution and we will prevail. Fall for the lefts snow job and we’ll drift away into their dark oblivion.
Ultra-MAGA!
Older and ancient Treepers may remember this one…Reader’s Digest…used to have a monthly anatomy type article….”I am Joe’s…” and fill in the blank.
StanH….I was always an avid reader, actually, OCD, anything I could get my hands on….the full Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew series and dabbled in the Hardy Boys….and then when nothing else new to read, my mom’s Reader Digest….
There were three articles in RD that impacted and influenced me…one was about a new surgeon…another about burn healing and the last was about surgery or something closely related to gender dysphoria (can’t remember the full detail on that one)….but it was quietly discussed prior to 1967. The bigger medical news was the heart transplant.
All that said….the world seems far worse than the days of The Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah…I think God and Jesus are being patient with humanity.
We must ‘love the sinner’ as they too are God’s children (misguided) and entitled to our Lord’s forgiveness…God did not say it would be easy.
Aggiegirl: Ah, yes, “Readers Digest.” That was the little publication people used to read when people could read.
What do all three of these people, Cook, Cobb, and Caesar, have in common?
How does 7% of the population fill all three in this particular situation?
Oh, it’s goberment. That’s where they flock. Another uncomfortable truth.
I am guessing you are not talking salads here..
Hypertension and stroke is a very real thing among some demographics.
But their talons, I mean nails, are gel perfect.
Well played!
An ethical judge would recuse themself for a close tie like that. Liberal activist judges have no ethics (or morals).
Here we go again. Why do government workers think they can’t be fired?
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Democrat Board Member of Surface Transportation Board Refuses to Leave Post, Threatens Lawsuit After Trump Fires Him
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/democrat-board-member-surface-transportation-board-threatens-lawsuit
Although a bit more formal it sure beats sagging trousers and pajamas in public, The era of keeping up with the Jones seems to have met its demise. As a nation we could use a bit more taste, Tact and decorum to instill a sense of pride in country and self.
No dreadlocks and other kinky things in their hair. And somebody please tell me what is with the hair on the white girls on fox. I really want to grab the hair hanging down on each side of their faces and pull it off because it looks false.
Fashionable, clean, standards.
The technicolor films being produced then were typically light-hearted and enjoyable. What a time it was.
sync: Today, my typical street scenes in Los Angeles include crazy people, tents, more crazy people, cardboard “homes,” more crazy people, people wearing masks in 80-degree sunshine, student-age girls wearing baggy sweatpants and house slippers, people covered in tats and pierced with nose rings, more tents and crazy people, and also, tents and crazy people.
“Los Angeles…people wearing masks in 80-degree sunshine”
I was there three months ago and noticed that.
I was thinking they do that because people cough on pollen that doesn’t often get washed out of the air by rain, or perhaps because China might have a Covid problem still.
” people covered in tats”
We have lots of people with lots of tats here in Florida, and probably less than $100 when filing out welfare forms.
morning Treepers……………..be well
I’d have the “safety off” on my sidearm in those woods. That looks like mountain lion habitat..
It occurs to me that one would feel much safer in those woods than walking through many urban areas in this country. Let yourself see the peace and beauty.
I grew up in the woods around Yellowstone and in the woods of Florida. I was taught to never go into the sticks without a firearm..
Musings: .308 scout rifle with long eye-relief scope.
Ahhh…is the path diverging up ahead… to the one less travelled?
Have a great day…and thank you once again for the peaceful pix!
Good morning bjorkdream. 🙏❤️
A lovely path for a morning stroll.
Rwanda has received seven migrants deported from the US under a new bilateral agreement that could see the East African nation host hundreds of people Washington has declared ineligible to remain on its soil.
“Three of the individuals have expressed a desire to return to their home countries, while four wish to stay and build lives in Rwanda,” Makolo said, without disclosing their nationalities. Washington reportedly reached a deal with Kigali in June for the landlocked country to take up to 250 deportees whose home states refused to receive them.
The Department of Homeland Security has already deported five people it described as “barbaric criminals” to Eswatini, and eight others to South Sudan.
In a statement late on Tuesday, the DHS said people deported to the tiny southern African nation of Eswatini are “so uniquely barbaric” that their home countries refused to take them back.
The latest flight to Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, carried five men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen, convicted of crimes ranging from child rape to murder, according to DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.
I hope the Swazis/Eswatinis finish them off
Well, it was just a matter of time. The slippery slope has begun.
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/health/medicare-prior-approval-health-care.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hk8.L_ZA.095JZYck6sPh&smid=url-share
It’s great to be young-ish, healthy, and have the ability to self insure my family’s BCBS PPO plan. Sorry to the 65+ folks, but you asked for this.
🤣
Yeah well the best thing that ever happened to me was losing insurance in 2008. This gift has forced me to change my lifestyle as crawling to “doctors” to give me a magic pill to “fix” problems caused by consuming poison disguised as food is a slow and painful death sentence. Have fun with your merchants of misery.
Most ‘system’ doctors are pill pushers and data entry clerks now. The food and vaccines make you sick, and they have the pills to ‘help’.
RFKJ’s declaration yesterday that NUTRITION will now be a required area of qualification for new doctors was a giant breath of fresh air. Eliminating the disabling vaccines and toxic foods is going to threaten big pharma and their pill mills like never before.
Nutrition was a full 3 credit course that was also a ‘pre-requisite’ to moving on into clinical levels of my BSN.
And one had to have a grade of “B” or better, to advance to the clinical levels…
Oldersoul: I attended a naturopathic medicine meeting last weekend, with my doctor wife. Non-pharmaceutical alternatives deserve much more attention. Pharma and biotech products have a legitimate role, but, not for every malady, and not for conditions largely invented by marketers. Foods and natural remedies should be the foundation of healthy living.
No misery here. I am happy for you!
Let’s hope all of those folks who actually believed “he’d never touch my Medicare’ have the same mindset. They’ll need it. ☺️
In my junior year of college, in 1977, it was called “poly pharmacy”…take one pill for a problem, take another for the pill’s side effects and the problem cascades and you need a third pill for the side effects of the second which will interfere with the first pill, causing the same problem again…
These are not new problems. We should be outraged.
Gov Bless ya, Jinxy.
As far as my personal experience, Medicare has always required prior approval, especially for expensive, border- line procedures. The really expensive ones are such temptation for medical fraud by doctors, so I’m not truly opposed to prior approval. What I’ve observed is that many multi-physician practices get approved almost instantly…good reputation and no issues…but it’s the individual physician offices that see closer scrutiny.
Again, personal experience…have never had a requested procedure denied.
My understanding is a bit different; that Traditional Medicare has approved procedures. If it’s not on the list, it’s not approved.
As far as I know, the Doctor, hospital just has to check to see what is approved or not. Supposedly it’s a blanket list, and not patient by patient, but may involve needed support regarding statement of medical necessity.
I did NOT ask for this.
I did not ask for the tens of millions of illegal aliens to enter this country, get on social services, bankrupt the services, force austerity on legal citizens that earned the services and then listen to whiney commies try to blame President Trump for the crap sandwich they made.
“Dan Sawyer” is our newest TDS troll who wants to pretend that Medicare was FABULOUS up until 2025 and thanks to the bad orange man, it has all horrible now.
I’m surprised he’s still here
Rix Six: I approve this message 🙂
When you have that feeling that no one notices you..
2010 Happy – apparently, people voted them into office
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Oh, look, it’s our little ray of sunshine
Total B.S.
“In announcing the new model, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Medicare agency, said the goal was to root out fraud, waste and abuse.”
They refuse to shut down the looting of Medicare/Medicaid by foreignors who come to America, steal billions and fly home in their private jets
My favorite photo lineup:
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/?type=health-care-fraud#results
P.S.
Just another big scheme:
“Oz had at times been paid to promote Medicare Advantage on his television show, and in 2020, he wrote an op-ed with former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson advocating “universal” health care coverage through Medicare Advantage for “every American who is not on Medicaid.”
Well that is what he just started, an entirely new infrastructure with intermediaries.
“Our government doesn’t directly administer standard Medicare today, and doing so would require an entirely new infrastructure with intermediaries. More important, that would continue the highly dysfunctional approach of buying every item of care by the piece, which incentivizes abuse and cripples systematic process improvement.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2020/06/11/medicare-advantage-for-all-can-save-our-health-care-system/
Not good: These guys will sell or use our data
The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures, like certain spine surgeries or steroid injections.
A spokesman for Health and Human Services, which oversees the Medicare agency, declined to identify which companies had submitted applications for the contract.
This little girl is Braveheart. A scene from Scotland and the gangster migrant who thought it might be fun to film her. He has shown himself up, not her.
She is a child and where are all the British men who decide she broke the law, by showing her weapons, when she is threatened by this bad man. If he raped her or her sister, would he go free? How dare he approach a child!
I say, she is right to weld a knife and ax. This jerk can decide if it is worth the risk to take her on again. Unfortunately, little girls are fair game for this grown man to taunt in Scotland and England. Shame!
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/08/28/the-knife-and-axe-girl-was-right-n3806262
Also not commonly reported there was a recent murder in the area.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-flesh-eating-screwworm-will-enrich-america/
May all Treepers have a grand relaxing weekend…..
God’s Fall Palette…
Thank you. I hope you do as well.
Breathtaking ❤️🧡💛
America Only..
The markets are down this morning, and the MSM explanation is the incoming PCE figures, but the truth is everything turned negative last night within minutes of the Pulte drop about Lisa Cook having secured yet another mortgage by telling a bank she was purchasing a second home but then turning right around to rent out what was in fact an investment property.
Who’s losing right now in this battle of narratives?
Democrat Black women, who look more and more unethical by the day (Jia Cobb is now on deck for being wrecked and doing her part to put a bad taste in everyone’s mouths). The near top of the DEI pyramid of victimhood ain’t looking very sympathetic, to say the least. Claudine Gay thanks Cook for making her the least bad apple in the room.
The Fed – insider trading times three and now Lisa Cook
Anyone defending mortgage fraud being okay because of DEI, so some people ARE above the law
The markets figured the removal odds last night at approximately 10:30 pm, and the odds of a Trump controlled Fed rose to well above 50 percent.
Thus the downturn.
Wall Street just got a clue.
Special thanks to Our Boy Blue for elevating such a dead to rights example of victimhood privilege sleaze to the Board of the Federal Reserve. Awesome move.
Oh, and the operations of the Fed may end up being frozen, for lack of a deciding vote, if I understand how the Board of Governors works, which perhaps I don’t.
September meeting on freeze?
I have seen some stock prices rise over $20 a share in the last many months…the stock I am thinking about, pays a dividend of 85 cents per share…so making up that difference, if buying, is going to be hard…the pps is producing a dividend that won’t catch up to the prior pps of months ago. Sorry guys, not a finance person, I know how I am thinking but not sure if it makes sense…lets just say “creative accounting”…
…is it causing a long needed correction? The average retail investor needs a bigger ‘correction’.
“BREAKING: The White House released a statement clarifying that Trump is not letting in 600,000 Chinese students — he’s continuing existing policy while negotiating a trade deal.
600,000 references a two year extension of the current 300,000.
There is no increase in visas.”
I wish he’d limit it to undergraduates. It’s the graduate students that get into the research that the Chinese want to steal.
Perish the thought. I wish he’d just send them all home. ALL OF THEM EVERY LAST STINKING ONE OF THEM. MUSLIMS, SOMALIANS, HAITIANS, INDIANS, AND DEMOCRATS. 😎
All the hair on fire over that was kinda silly. Do we not understand Trump yet? Of course it was a bargaining chip. I still don’t like it in the end though.
They should also have to agree to full serveilance and periodic questioning. Won’t stop everything, but if they are caught lying or being deceptive, they are gone.
I even commented a few days ago that this will be used as a tool against the Chinese in negotiations for Trade Deals.
” The Trump DOJ Civil Rights Division under @HarmeetKDhillon
is now investigating cases of H-1B discrimination against Americans and wants YOU to send complaints. It is TIME for a NEW civil rights movement in America”
Dutchman,
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-be well
💞
Here’s some good news which anecdotally reinforces the claim I’ve read that the commies (Dims) have lost a significant amount of the youth vote. Here are geriatrics protesting:
Pathetic
Speed bump! /s
Former hippies now looking for relevance and end up embarrassing themselves. That demographic plus Muslims, the media, and trannies is all that is left of the democrat base
Embarrassing.
…and likely paid.
They are all elderly.
That means MSM-brainwashed from decades of watching the 3 State Media networks.
It’s obvious none of them have long to live so they don’t care. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with the congresscritters. They are screwing up everything because they won’t be around long.
Stating the obvious.
BTW, where is the Babbitt shooter who should be, as any fair evaluation of law enforcement use of deadly force would find, in prison. How about a “Swap him for Derek Chauvin” protest movement?
MAGA HERO EXECUTED in U.S. Capitol on January 6 BY US CAPITOL POLICEMAN will receive military funeral
I’m sure President Trump means well but it’s been 8 months. Anybody think she’s not already buried.
Correct, those are the goals of any neo-Maoist/Marxist movement.
“It’s What Happened in the Cultural Revolution in China” – Dr. William Jacobson on Laura Ingraham (5:18)
11 Jun 2020
Maybe Miller should be a 2028 presidential candidate
Immigration
Moratorium
President Trump revoked former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection. Former presidents receive lifelong Secret Service protection, while former vice presidents, like Harris, get six months post-office, ending July 21. Biden had extended her protection for another year via an undisclosed directive signed before leaving office.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1961398616834060343#m
She was about to go on a book tour. Guess she’ll have to drive herself around. Heh.
The name of the book is ” 107 Days”?
Kek.
Troll of the year.
IYKYK
LOL!
Only two dozen? We can do better than that!