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Link to The Still Hour updated prayers and praises by Stillwater 11/09/25
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/30/the-still-hour-part-7/comment-page-4/#comment-12208270
Praying that the madness will end.
Thank you ed.
Fall Walk – Trees and woodland wildflowers for Treepers. Photo taken by me this past September in Northeast Ohio. All 50 states have something in them that make them part of America the Beautiful. Wishing you a wonderful day in your beautiful part of America!
After speaking with Bob Marley, President Trump said:
‘I got the tariff…
But I didn’t loot no equity’ 🙂
Greetings, Woodman!
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Good one WORDMAN ~ 🙂
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“Three Little Byrds”
It is very beautiful. The downside is leaves to rake. My daddy gave me wise advice, but I’m sad he never told me to buy a home without trees. Live and learn.
I have about 5 weeks of leaf battle left. Hate it, but love the forest I live in.
Same, lol.
Some rain or snow should bring the rest of mine down. Until then everyday is leaf day.
Our trees are Red Oak and they are the last trees to shed and their leaves take forever to compost. I rake them when they are wet because they pack better.
Yep. I have to remind myself how beautiful it is and how I love the sound of rustling leaves….as I carry the bags out to the curb…..One hundred and one, one hundred and two, ……….
PS-How I wish I could just burn them like we used to do growing up.
Yes, ThorII. The good ole days of burning rubbish in the back. Keep counting those bags…
Thanks….I miss the smell as well. Brings back those days you mentioned.
Raked up 20 bags yesterday. That was enough.
There is a big difference between 20 bags of wets leaves and 20 bags of dry leaves. You can get more mass of leaves in 20 bags if they are wet.
Worth every minute! Some things you can’t buy.
I “leaf” them alone until they all fall (or until my wife says, “”Enough!.”). Then we rake them up onto big tarps and drag them to the forest behind the house.
The Ozarks are rife with oak, hickory a black walnut trees.
As noted below, the Red Oaks hang on stubbornly to their leaves.
Love Fall.
and the wind blows them back. 😎
I think we highjacked the thread…… we better LEAVE!
😎 SORRY!
Amen!
Amen
Amen
Amen.
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
AMEN
Amen! (A 3/4 days late.)
Interesting read…videos in article
😳 😳 Bolivia…
.. Al-Qaeda in the Oval Office: A New Phase of the Global Disorder
Simplicius76
Oh… the daily dooming from Simplicious …. 😏
👇an antidote
(Retweeted by Sundance)
Agree SD. That was all true right at the beginning, but I’d say some things have changed since that victory and not in a good way for our side. To not recognize our danger right now would be foolish and we can never stop fighting or being on top of everything the enemy is doing to stop us and grab their power back.
Waiting instead of conscious planned actions is going to get us in the same fix we were when Biden was installed and a coup happened against our duly elected Pres. Trump. They succeeded that time by using criminal and unethical means and they won’t stop trying to do the same things. They already pushed the judiciary into the mix as a roadblock to stop Pres. Trump.
So yes, we won unprecedented victories in Nov. 2024. Congratulations to us. Now we have to keep them going and we cannot sit back and brag about what we did. What are we going to do going forward is the priority.
Right you are.
The recent elections were not a good sign; I’ve yelled about domestic policy and Constitutional protection but the energy on many sites is inward and self inflating.
The enemy does not sleep, our side throws parties and can’t get in to last years blue jeans.
Mid-terms should be planned for months ago, but I hear no strategy from any source. There is only so much room to retreat.
You realize that the recent elections were just blue states?
Blue politicians winning elections in blue states. Oh Rs are doomed!
Polls lying that the Rs were closing the gaps in blue states?
Democrats shut down government to help Ds win! In blue states.
Democrats openly voting for death wishes on enemies, all sorts of criminals, a communist Muslim, and a man who emblazoned the NAZI SS Deaths Head on his chest much larger than the actual SS did.
There is a lot to worry about D voters and blue state future, but there is a lot to use against them too.
Just in blue states??? Nothing could be farther from the truth.
We got killed EVERYWHERE. From governorships down to school boards.
Sure, the democRats won in blue strongholds. However, not just won but won by YUGE margins. Virginia governor by 15 points. New Jersey governor by 14. Not even close. Same for the down ballot races. We were told these were going to be nailbiters. California prop 50 margin was almost 2:1.
They won in purple states… Pennsylvania was completely swept by the rats including three state Supreme Court justices.
They won in red states… check out Texas…. the Latino voters who turned out for Trump in 2024 have now abandoned the Republicans. Mississippi… Republicans no longer have a supermajority.
Feel free to list ANY significant Republican victories.
JD tried to put lipstick on it, but it’s still a pig.
Turnout
Somewhat true… The left turned out, the right did not.
However, a huge factor in last week’s election was that Trump has been shedding his base faster than my dog sheds her coat in the springtime. He’s rapidly losing support among young voters, ex-military, evangelicals, and Latinos, all of whom were essential voters in 2024.
His approval ratings are way underwater, almost at Term 1 lows… RealClearPolitics currently has it at 42% approve, and the trajectory is in the wrong direction.
There’s still time to turn the ship around but unless things change real soon, next year the republicans are in for a big “thumping” (as George Bush would call it).
Suggest today’s Coffee & Covid post.
Sorry, I guess I’m just one of those doomers but whoever that Pro_Trading person is certainly wasn’t paying attention to the results of last week’s elections.
And no, “the greatest Republican victory in 40 years” wasn’t “just won”… it ocurred more than a year ago, and does not indicate the current reality. A lot of the voters that contributed to that Republican victory have been turned off and wouldn’t do it again.
Suggest you read today’s Coffee & Covid post.
Justice, I am dooming over the lack of justice, because without it we are a banana republic.
Marching Powder?
I somehow added Cocoanre to my handle lol
Bolivian Marching Powder is a slang term for cocaine.
Very good interview with Sec Bessent…
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Sec. Bessent reveals new plan blue states are fighting against | Rob Schmitt Tonight
*Enter through the narrow gate to salvation*
Matthew 7:13
Enter through the narrow gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases Wednesday, scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. east coast time; on the link there will be an audio icon that can be used to listen:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/
The questions before the court in quote marks are verbatim as provided by the Court’s website.
The first case is Fernandez vs United States; background information provided is that district courts have broad discretion to reduce the term of imprisonment in any case if it finds that ‘extra-ordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduction.’ Congress put one limitation on that discretion, when it decided rehabilitation of the defendant alone shall not be considered an extraordinary and compelling reason.
The question presented is “Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exist extraordinary and compelling reasons warranting sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. s 3852(c)(1)(A).
The second case – which consists of two cases consolidated into one, also references that same 18 U.S.C. s 3852 as above but adds (i) .
The second case is Rutherford vs United States consolidated with Carter vs United States. This involves changes due to the First Step Act of 2018 and guidelines to be used now to reduce a prisoner’s sentence.
There are two questions for the Court, the first is “Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act’s prospective changes in the sentencing law when deciding if “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warrant a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. s (C)(1)(A)(i) and
the second question is “Whether the sentencing commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circumstances, a nonretroactive change in law in determining whether “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warrant a sentence reduction.”
The next scheduled cases to come before the Court will be the December 1.
Thanks Bessie. I appreciate that you keep us up to date on the SCOTUS cases and their procession. I’m sure it can be tedious at times. Information is important. 🙂
Sounds like SCOTUS work less hours than Congress and I didn’t think that was possible and still get a paycheck. Perhaps ALL govt employees should be paid on an hourly basis.
Supervised by a true Conservative Economist.
The Next Trump Immigration Rule Aiming To Restrict H-1B Visas
https://archive.is/jLsqk
Trump administration’s 3 sweeping changes— H1B visa, work permit and green card—to affect Indians the most. Here’s how
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/trump-administrations-3-sweeping-changes-h1b-visa-work-permit-and-green-card-to-affect-indians-the-most-heres-how-11762049073129.html
Good.
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Hopefully, it will affect Americans the most by giving them jobs. I have a friend that lost his job in the tech field. At one time that was a great field to get into for a secure job.
Unfortunately that is how things have gone in the 2000s. Every time an industry seems like the next big growing industry for a young person to go to school for and become employed it, it all gets outsourced or given to H1Bs. Just a bunch of rugpulling then blaming the person who got rugpulled for being stupid enough to not invest in whatever the current “big growing industry” is for that year.
Greetings Treepers! 🤜✝️🤛
EU CRAZINESS
EU country ‘imposes speed limit on PEDESTRIANS’ – fears fast walkers could face €100 fines
Slovakia has rolled out plans for a maximum speed limit for everyone using pavements – including pedestrians, cyclists and skaters as well as scooter and e-scooter users.
The new limit, just 3.7 miles per hour, has sparked scorn and fury – with locals on social media warning of fines for walking.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/slovakia-eu-speed-limit-on-pedestrians
This is what Socialism gets you a, complacent populace set up for the kill. A true Faustian Bargain sold their freedom for security and now they’re being force marched into oblivion.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say ‘peace and safety,’ then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as labor pains travail a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
But marched at 3.7 mph or less!
Heaven forbid that somebody run. A 4 min mile is 15 mph. Bolt runs the 100 m dash at over 27 mph.
3 mph is still leisurely, but 4 mph is more forced.
Olympic level speed walkers do a mile in 5-6 minutes. My forced 4 mph is 15 minutes a mile.
You caught my meaning. : )
Yeah 3.7 is very brisk…I hope one of my relatives didn’t think of this
Where does a pedestrian get a speedometer installed? Will they be using radar to track speeding walkers? What nonsense.
No jogging allowed.
They can jog slowly
Jogging backwards stops ‘speeding’, and avoids fines… but not necessarily collisions.
They will put a gps tracker in the chip on your forearm or forehead.
And a whole new bureaucracy to be employed and paid!
A TSA for the sidewalk. They will limit what you are allowed to carry in a purse or a pocket.
The first two years of high School I walked 4.95 miles home in 1 hour 15 minutes. That is very close to 4 mph
Likely slower on your way to.
TURKEY PLANE
Nato military plane seen in ‘death spiral’ before horror crash – as 20 soldiers confirmed dead
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/turkey-c-130-crash-nato-plane-death-spiral-urgent-search-crew
O…M…G….
RIP to the 20
The Turkish personnel on board had been in Azerbaijan to provide support for F-16 fighter jets participating in Azerbaijan’s recent Victory Day military parade in Baku. This mission was a bilateral military cooperation activity, not a NATO one.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey is cracking down on drug-ridden properties by having them bulldozed.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1988280704418148676#m
@Osint613
11h
BREAKING
CNN: Britain has stopped sharing intelligence with the United States on suspected drug-smuggling ships in the Caribbean, citing concerns that U.S. military strikes on those vessels are unlawful.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1988270592379023518#m
They let them in….we blow them outta the water.
I love our President !!
..and UK ships too ???
I seriously doubt that “Britain” has anything to do with our knowing where the drug boats are . . .
And: What is “unlawful” in your caliphate has nothing to do with here.
Something about not having a King here?
A little thing called The
Monroe Doctrine.
“in your caliphate”… love it!
Like the Steele Dossier?
In 1814 we took a little trip.
Along with col Jackson?
It wasn’t Col. Vindman!
In a C-130 flying down the mississip
Showing your age, Gipper.
Think
I thought about it, really bad idea. He got suckered into making that move by his buddy Bill Pulte the builder, looking out for his own self interests.
Same with letting 600.000 Chinese in.? Really bad idea.
Those two moves are not receiving rave reviews from anywhere at all.
Especially among MAGA supporters. He’s losing his part of his support group.
“johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Nov 11
Replying to @disclosetv
Here we go again.
The 600k number that Laura Ingraham references is 2 years worth of visas for the 300k currently attending colleges.
You can dislike the policy of having them here, but Trump is NOT advocating bringing more foreigners here.”
Thanks.
It is so disgusting to see so much hating on Trump based on lies.
What are we here?
Communists?
Democrats?
National Review CON-servatives?
Voter hating GOP RINOs?
President Trump Won!
Ignore the haters!!
Gracias Dios!!!
thx Val1 for bringing the facts
I realize PDT probably leveraged this to gain something.
But the People didn’t elect President Trump to continue existing policy.
In the interview with Laura Ingraham President Trump pointed out cutting the students would cause the universities to take a big hit and he didn’t want that to happen. Along with DEI in recent years universities build a business model of foreign students. The universities are where we need to focus to get change.
President Trump must balance his decisions by considering tech demands. I’m not saying that is right or how things should be. It’s reality and if he does too much too fast he will find himself fighting that enemy. Now they are attacking him in stealth mode and he needs to avoid ramping that up. He has incoming on all fronts and works to keep it to a dull roar.
I expect he will find ways to help solve this as time goes on. You have to agree that no one is better at thinking out of the box.
We all need to have a serious discussion with ourselves about our expectations. Lofty aspirations are great. But so is factoring in the hard cold facts of reality.
Correct.
Some patience is warranted… it is still an uphill battle for this ONE MAN, who has thousands against him in the halls of power.
Rates would likely drop to between 2 and 3 percent, to get payments more affordable. This could be an option for people looking to get in and they could always refi to a shorter term later.
The affordability comes from the longer repayment period. Longer terms are likely to be accompanied by higher rates.
You are right. I should have had a cup of coffee before posting.
An interest rate is just a reflection of lending risk. It represents an “opportunity cost” to the lending bank, which has to look at “what else could I have done with that cash”
I, the bank, have $500,000 in customer deposits to lend to buy a house. A buyer comes to me wanting to buy a $500k home, so I originate a loan and take the house as collateral.
AI tells me “A 50-year mortgage for a $500,000 loan with today’s representative interest rate of approximately 6.25% would result in a principal and interest (P&I) monthly payment of around $2,664.
For comparison, a 30-year mortgage with the same interest rate would have a monthly P&I payment of approximately $3,078.” So the homeowner cuts $400/month off of their monthly bill.
But total interest paid goes from $600k to $1.1 million. The 2x rule will become 3x in total payments. So, we are sacrificing wealth building for house ownership.
The bank now has this money locked at 6.25 for a long time, so depending where the Fed goes, this could be valuable (the yield). The house will likely appreciate over a 50 year term, so total repo risk is lower if the buyer defaults.
I guess now we have to work in a factor of the buyer dying before paying off the mortgage, so if the mortgage isn’t assumable, we have to factor in either paying the balance off with insurance, the estate, or a higher likelihood of the bank taking ownership of the house.
Banks sell off the loans to investors who sell derivatives.
And people counting on real estate only going up get caught up when bubble prices crash.
That was only 15-17 years ago.
That bubble was because TPTB allowed banks to originate horrible NINJA loans which were basically a scam to collect the origination and servicing fees from people who could NOT afford them.
As you note, the banks bundled them and money was made in the stock market and when so many homeowners couldnt pay or sell, TPTB made money on foreclosures and then qualitative easing.
That is not the same as extending the payment for qualified buyers.
Yes, it will create a temporary bubble and cause some inflation, but since these people can afford their payments, most will eventually profit by the raise in their home values.
Thanks. Never had a mortgage. Built our own home over a period of several years… saving for a time to accumulate enough to buy some materiel.. and so on…
(detest debt.)
A lot longer to build equity as well,
Because interest is paid first, there will be a lot of interest paid to banks.
If I can afford to get into a home, that I could otherwise not afford to get into, why do I care if others also profit from the arrangement?
It’s called a win/win
Thanks for the info and reasoned opinion.
The thinking/planning of “start small and work your way up” should be reinstated into the process of home ownership.
I am not convinced Interest Rates are the real issue.
Property taxes are still going up.
Today’s home buyers DO NOT have the 20% down to avoid PMI.
Property Insurance Rates are still going up as companies amortize their disaster payouts due to inflation as well as for homes insured in FIRE AREAS and Weather Related Natural Disaster Areas.
Affordability discussions must also include outlandishly high property taxes along with insurance companies socializing their losses with increased premiums.
Yep. And more. Make whoever has the mortgage, enforce the mortgage. Look at Letitia James. Hope she gets the maximum punishment, but there are probably millions of people you did the exact same thing.
Maybe there are millions but most are caught. If Letitia wasn’t a Democrat with a big appointment working for a Government Bureaucracy, she would not have lied in first place.
Prop 13 is the way to go. It allows people to afford their homes and allows the market to control sales prices.
Yes, the 500,000 dollar home ends up costing 2 million or more with interest.
Doesn’t make any practical sense, lower interest rate maybe, but your still paying off 50 years of interest, so that doubles what your paying on interest. any which way you look at your losing more of your money in the long run than your going to end up putting into the investment.
Virtually the same as renting and saying good bye to your money,
https://wolfstreet.com/2025/11/11/a-50-year-mortgage-does-nothing-for-affordability-is-a-terrible-deal-for-homeowners-and-a-superb-deal-for-banks-investors/
I have bought several houses over the last 50 years. Six years was the longest I ever held one before I sold it. Sundance’s tweet above makes sense.
“you’re still paying 50 years of interest.” Wrong! Interest is paid on the outstanding principal *until* the date that you sell or refinance the loan.
The average mortgage is held for 7 years. Not 30. Not 50.
Homeowners are always looking for a better deal. People sell and move all the time, and their mortgage is simply settled at the closing.
Your not making any sense, hope you know that?.
Why would you need the offer in the first place under your assumption that your in a seven year mortgage?.
Go for it then if your that niave.
Is the offer for a 50 year mortgage? While under the terms of the originating offer you will have gained virtually no equity, no matter what you do.
Virtually the same as renting and saying good bye to your money.
That is only true if you keep paying the same payment for 50 years and never make additional principal payments as your income increases or refinance.
But the biggest misunderstanding you have is that home values rise over time due to inflation. Renters NEVER gain that equity.
You’re Incorrect. All depends on the market, I’ve seen people lose big time when the bubble popped last time around.
Now is not a good time to gamble on the market.
“Now is not a good time to gamble on the market.“
To the contrary, the trillions in money printing by Dems means inflation is inevitable.
If Trump brings jobs home, salaries will rise
If they make 50 year mortgages a thing, prices will likely temporarily rise as more buyers enter the market.
It might be a good time to get in
My 140,000 home is now almost 800,000. My first was 42,000 and I have owned four. I have had several mortgages including adjustable ones. Refinancing is always and option when your situation changes.
I also think Trump knows more about real estate and financing than the average person.
To afford the bloody payment. Just like people took adjustable rate mortgages, hoping either to move or refinance if interest rates got better.
I understand why you think that, but that isn’t how it actually works.
It allows people to get in the market. You can always pay more principle and pay off early. The KEY is that if you do pay more monthly principle to shorten your term, you lost nothing.
The banks will win because they originate more loans.
Go ahead an bet on that see where it gets you.
The banks right now are in panic mode.
Looks like you might be aware of that.
I am aware of that. But not sure I understand how banks making it easier for me to buy real assets would be a bad thing for me.
It just an option for many to move from renting to home ownership.
And will banks make a 50 year loan to a 45 year old person when it wouldn’t be paid off until the buyer is 95? How about a 60 year old? Only young would benefit.
Kindly refer to the various posts stating that “7 years” point. Housing is just another item in “the marketplace”.
I know plenty of people who think it’s a great idea since they own starter homes and don’t plan on a 50 year mortgage for 50 years!
Suggest you read today’s Coffee & Covid post. Kindly do not promote the msm propaganda.
Wouldn’t this lead to higher house prices? Or doesn’t that matter? 🤔
If a good deal creates higher demand, then yes, it creates a sellers market. Like anything else, the more people want it the more they are willing to pay.
But prudent lenders have always appraised the property and stipulated limits for their loans, requiring borrowers to fork over a percentage for the down payment and so forth.
If I say I want a million dollars, but my home is appraised for a lesser value, the bank will not lend a million dollars to buy the house.
Prices go up and down with interest rates as at any given time, people in an area are dealing with that moment in time’s supply and demand.
They will rent the home. Never own it. I would never authorize a “fifty year” mortgage for someone who is not likely to live that long.
Equal Credit Opportunity Act does not allow discrimination based on age. Perhaps that should change.
During the 2008 housing nonesense I was looking at foreclosed homes. Looking at the public records along with public information gives you interesting stories. On foreclosed home, (just looking at it) if it was worth 200,000 dollars in 2008 that would be very very generous. Anyway, it had a 2007 refinance mortgage of over $400,000. The owners / mortgage holders were in there 80s. This was all accomplished by their son. 🙄
Would like to add the above property sold in 2018 for $63, 200.
We see the “true scam” as we drive down the road every day. Former pastures are being turned into “housing developments,” filled with identical housing. Nevertheless, some are “from the mid-$200’s,” while others with identical hardware are “mid-$400’s” and so on. Almost every scrap of real estate is being “converted” this way, as fast as they can do it. And, most likely, pickup trucks are being parked in the driveway, and the interior lights are being turned off and on. Remotely.
At the economy of scale that all of these companies enjoy, the actual cost of the structure is probably $30-80K. The rest of it is “pure gravy.” As usual: “Very good until it lasts, until it doesn’t.”
So: What’s the “official government response,” including from “you know who?” A fifty-year mortgage?
You can see it coming, folks! The “billionaires” are not as smart as they think they are! Grab your investments, or turn them into cash, and run for cover!
That’s probably because they sold it to their son at that price to avoid capital gains or some other tax reason.
If the bank wrote a 400,000 loan on a home in 2007 that sold for 63,000 in 2018, (mortgage crises recovering by then) then maybe the house has burned down or something. That makes no sense at all
I’m missing the problem here. If it was refinanced at 400,000, then the bank was saying it was worth more than 400,000.
By refinancing a loan for 400 thousand for a home that was originally worth 200,000 – he put that extra 200,000 of cash into his parents pockets to fund their retirement. Sure, they had higher payments but the bank obviously thought they could afford those higher payments or would not have made the loan.
When they died, the house sold and the loan would pay off.
Everybody won on that deal
Why not? When they die, you sell it and pay off the loan. Their heirs will be the ones who get stiffed, not the bank.
Only if you keep it 50 years and refinancing to shorter terms is a very real option as the mortgage rolls along. Or selling the house when it appreciates in value.
Oddballs tossed on slow news days, and still wanting to own the news that day ?
Oddballs tossed when something quite hidden and big and important needs to stay that way?
What is the percentage of things we don’t know amongst what we do know ?
What do we read, and believe, and is false ? What do we read, think it’s false, and it’s true ?
Remembering Nixon’s, Now More Than Ever, my brain changed for me.
The Bible, Now More Than Ever.
Any bank can already create any term they want, it happens in commercial lending all the time. Then I found out that Dodd-Frank (that guy again) created “qualified mortgages” regulations which affect Insurance on lending, and the ability to sell mortgages to each other (creating origination lenders like Rocket). A 50-year term is not a qualified lending length today, which exposes the bank to more risk.
Trump’s proposal is actually about getting longer terms into the regulations to lower the monthly payment. The flip side is an owner will gain less equity per year, and total interest will be higher over the life of the loan. But nothing is stopping you from getting a shorter term, this is just adding more lending options.
Does anyone remember the ballon payments that happened on mortgages? Now that was probably the reason for alot of forfeitures in the past.
I’ve done it before on a land contracts. When I used to buy homes fix them up and sell them. Worked out good for me.
Says it’s still done by banks in some circumstances. Looks like it depends on collateral. Balloon payments are not allowed in loans deemed a “Qualified Mortgage”, with some limited exceptions.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-balloon-payment-when-is-one-allowed-en-104/
Common sense….
It’s really not that bad an idea. Most people don’t live that long in a home. They sell and upgrade. Smaller payments gets more people in homes. Is it any different than paying rent your whole life? The biggest problem is paying high rents keeps people from saving a down payment.
Factor Average Time in Home
Overall Average 13 years
Age (Under 35) 7 years
Age (35-44) 10 years
Age (45-54) 12 years
Age (55 and older) 16 years
Urban vs. Rural Urban: 9 years, Rural: 16 years
Now if you are financially literate you would understand there are ways to reduce the term and interest rates. Just pay extra, especially in the beginning when your payment is mostly interest.
Average Loan
Loan Amount $240,000
Interest Rate 6.12%
Monthly Payment Approximately $1,465
Amount to Principal (Year 1) Approximately $1,080
So you pay off $90 dollars a payment. Now pay an extra $90 – 100 a month so about $1,565 a month and you start immediately reducing the interest rate and term. You are basically paying two years of payments in one year, one year with no interest. Years on that will make a big difference as to when the principle really starts to decease every month.
Never borrow the most the lending institution tells you that you can afford. Buy a lesser price home and pay down early so if you run into a financial problem like a short term job loss you can still make your payments. At that point you can always drop back to the lower payment, or negotiate with the lender as you are payed ahead on your mortgage.
I payed my 30 year mortgage off in 10 years by paying extra every month and putting extra money like tax refunds and work bonuses toward my mortgage. I also refinanced every time interest rates dropped over 1%, the amount you need to cover the closing costs. I also reduced the term once during that time. Even an extra $20-$50 can help.
We should be teaching kids that kind of financial literacy in school instead of woke politicos.
The downfall I see is thinking that making the minimum payment is enough and inflation will solve the problem for you. Remember the negative amortization mortgage of the early 2000’s that when the home price, inflation bubble burst in 2007-2008 people found themselves upside on their mortgages and lost both their money paid and their home.
Nice drill down. Most young people have no idea about things like this nor even what compounding is. This is the stuff that should be taught in schools to everyone not just economic majors.
“We should be teaching kids that kind of financial literacy in school instead of woke politicos.”
You are 100% correct but if young people were actually taught financial literacy, it would be much harder to manipulate them and socialism would not be nearly so appealing!
I was in consumer banking for many years before I left the workforce to homeschool my children and even in the late 90s/early 2000s, the lack of any financial savvy was apparent to me. No one discussed the actual long term cost of extending loans out for years. It was common practice for many people I worked with to rest a hand over the box that showed “Total Interest Paid” while highlighting the “Monthly Payment” box instead. I would talk honestly to the people that came to me looking for car loans, HELOCs, investments, etc. My customers loved and appreciated me, although my manager would occasionally pull out his hair when he would hear me telling someone that they didn’t need a higher line of credit but a lower level of spending on unnecessary things!
I believe that Thomas Sowell’s “Basic Economics” should be required reading for every high school/college student in the country. He even created a student edition that has questions at the back of each chapter! Highly recommend!
Thank you!
Both you and Jake are 🎯.👏👏
Excellent points!
yup…fiscal literacy and financial responsibility were
the terms I heard the most growing up!
And Thomas Sowell book is excellent.👍👏
Another good post, Vikingmom. Yes, Sowell’s writings are Gems. Thanks.
I was talking to a relative who is married and well off.
I told her I was trying to remember how many houses she’s lived in since she got remarried .
She had to stop to think. She said it was 5.
She’s in the middle of moving to the 6th house.
This time it’s so her dad’ll have a couple of rooms and she can help with elder care.
They were nice houses in gated communities, wine sellers, swimming pools, Jacuzzi and country club memberships .
….
If you make too much profit on the sale of a house you are penalized in taxes, she said.
Have not heard this discussed.
I was given to understand that if one lived in a house for a number of years (3? 6?), there is no tax penalty when selling. Is this correct?
As long as you apply the home equity towards the purchase of another home within a certain time frame (1-2 years?) there is no tax owed on the home sale. The concept is similar to moving pension funds. Taxes are not owed when pension funds are rolled over to other pension funds. Taxes are collected when the funds are distributed to your wallet.
In simple terms, this capital gains tax exclusion enables homeowners who meet specific requirements to exclude up to $250,000 (or up to $500,000 for married couples filing jointly) of capital gains from the sale of their primary residence.
Home Sale Exclusion
Lots of home sale profit isn’t even taxed. That’s because of the home sale exclusion. If you have owned and lived in your main home for at least two out of the five years before the sale date, up to $250,000 ($500,000 for joint filers) of your gain is tax-free.
Any gain above the $250,000 or $500,000 exclusion amounts is taxed at long-term capital gains rates. Losses from sales of primary homes are not deductible.
The previous “once in a lifetime” exclusion has been replaced by this more frequent exclusion option4
Eligibility Requirements
To qualify for this exclusion, you must meet the following criteria:
Ownership and Use: You must have owned and lived in the home as your primary residence for at least two of the last five years before the sale.
Frequency: You can only claim this exclusion once every two years.
Graham’s an even keel kinda person. He does a good break down on the 50-year mortgage.
Also, the Eric Trump interview is excellent and insightful.
In Texas, if property taxes to the CAD and school taxes were not highway robbery then your monthly mortgage would be reasonable. Even after the mortgage is paid the property taxes are ridiculous and you never know what they will be. I think it sounds like a great idea. How many times will Governor Abbott run on the issue that he will lower property taxes? If the taxes are lowered then the CAD raises the value of your home. You end up paying more.
Abbott did lower property taxes…but not by much…and yes property values are going up in certain sectors of the state….which increases the value of your home…as such you will pay more.
So what do you want? Have Abbott not lower property taxes and have the value of your home go down?
I am not a huge Abbott fan. But to be fair to him, the legislature has to do it. Much like Trump can promise things but some of them require Congress to support.
Property tax in Texas is a major issue. I would like to see it completely replaced with a sales tax at time of sale, wrapped up into your mortgage. So as long as you live there, that portion of your mortgage never changes. They get their taxes immediately, but you pay it over time at a fixed rate. When you sell they get to do it all over again. How to keep the insurance vampire’s rates under control is another issue.
To be fair, the “Insurance Vampires” are just as much a victim of legislation and government regulation as the home owner.
As was presented earlier … Insurance Companies make policies betting the ROI made by investing your premium(s) will exceed the payouts on the policy(s) issued.
In the past Insurance Companies were not forced to recover ALL their Payouts by amortizing 100% of losses due to payouts across ALL policies.Plus, the Companies had allot more discretion on whom they insured as well as the terms and condition in include d in individual polices.
Today they have very little if any choice … short of fully abandoning a Market Region, essentially an entire State.
They now have to amortize ALL losses across policies.
They now have sign up to State No Fault Insurance.
They are required to follow stricter State Requirements for Cancellation.
They now have to amortize a bad policy they have to write or face Federal and State laws for discrimination.
They now have to amortize payments into State Disaster Pools.
They have to amortize rates to ensure a certain ROI to keep their company financial under writers happy.
Insurance is also subject to the impact of inflation on the value of the assets covered or services to rendered as part of the policy.
It is not all the fault of “greedy” Insurance Companies.
There is no free lunch … what sane person (under writer) would invest knowing they were automatically going to loose more than the investment??
Do you want insurance or NOT?? If you do, then you get what ever is offered by Companies navigating the risky environment created by the GOVERNMENT.
Governor Abbott’s efforts are nice but what about all the other regulations and laws and inhibit Insurance Companies from cutting losses or avoiding a bad investment??
Governor Abbott did get to lower property taxes somewhat. Remember it isn’t all on him, the state also has those pain in the butt Reps that have to agree. But it also depends on where you live. City people pay much more than rural people. I have 32+ acres, a 2800 sq ft home, barn, greenhouse and 2 out buildings. My property tax due in January 2026 is $198.21 granted with over 65 and Veteran discount. But in Houston, Dallas, Austin or any other big city my house on just a half acre would be nearly $10,000 a year instead of $198 a year. Plus I’ve lived her 26 years now. So you must live deep in a blue city.
Texas has high property taxes because they have no state income tax to pay.
Yes I live in Wisconsin where we have high income tax, high property taxes and high sales taxes. Our original sales tax was 3% which I remember, which is now 5%, and counties can add another half a percent if they want to do that. Not all do. I unfortunately live in Brown county and we were forced to pay another half a percent for years to finance the stadium upgrades. It doesn’t seem like much until you understand that added cost of buying a car or truck. And it doesn’t matter where you buy it because it’s taxed on the county you live in and have to register it in.
The excuse is inflation, which is BS because inflation raises wages, prices and home values too. Again it’s to much spending.
I feel your pain brother, also in WI. Live in Racine County, but helped to finance the Brewers stadium in Milwaukee County, for 23 years! We’re hoping to eventually escape to the Ozarks for much needed property tax relief.
Well, Abbott can only do so much. Finally, Dade Phelan is leaving. Now let’s dump burrows into the dustbin of history and get a conservative speaker in the TX who will stop killing bills.
And let’s stop trying to get RINO Roy to replace our wonderful Ken Paxton .
It’s also homeowners insurance. Ours will all be going up because of California. Those companies that insure in California all reinsure with other companies in other states and geographic areas to spread losses. If they didn’t every major catastrophie would bankrupt the companies insuring in that area. So California’s negligence and stupidity will be costing us all more money.
At least now in my state the financial institution has to pay interest on escrow accounts. That is not the case nationwide. About 15 states have interest paid on escrow account laws
Prop 13 is the way to go.
Decades ago car loans were 36 months now they are 72 months or people lease. Why not 75 years for home loans.
You can always take any argument to an extreme.
50 years creates an option that would work to help many younger home buyers. Let’s say a 30 year old makes mortgage payments until they are 80.
They still lock in a 50 yr low purchase price and gain 50 years of equity to fund retirement. Far better than renting for 50 years.
Let’s say an 80 year old gets a loan and croaks a year later. How is that any different than a young person getting a loan and selling a year later?
There is no way to spin this.
50-year mortgages are a stupid idea.
Not really, they make sense for some people
50-year mortgages are a *depressing* idea. Say you are doing well enough to buy at age 30. You can expect to pay it off at age 80?
Inserting the idea that you don’t stay in a given house for more than about 7 years obscures the fact that you are not gaining much equity in any house, but rather you are paying mostly interest to the bank!
Gone is the notion that you could downsize in your golden years to a smaller house by paying for it outright with the equity in your present house. You haven’t got a ghost of a chance of having sufficient equity, that is, ownership.
We are not ignorant of the rule of 72!
To me, this is just another version of you will own nothing and be happy.
You can hope to sell in 7 years, gain a profit on the sale price and put the down payment on a new house with a better mortgage term. That would be the hope for sure. To plan on staying in a house long term will not be great in a 50 year mortgage because the interest paid will be huge and the principle would take forever to get anywhere near paid off until the near end. This type of mortgage would only serve to lower monthly payments while the property hopefully appreciates and a move is then made with a new more favorable mortgage.
Equity comes with inflation.
When the homeowner sells in 30 years, they will have made from 2-5% per year of equity JUST from inflation alone. Plus they will have earned 30 years of equity.
This is a great idea for young home buyers who can make lower payments to get in the market and who can choose to put more to the principal payments as their income rises, thus shortening the term of the loan.
Well, then don’t get one. However, it should be an option for those who disagree with you.
So is paying rent your whole life. Even stupider is causing a housing crisis by letting 20 million illegals into the country for political purposes while tanking the economy and housing starts like Biden and the Democrats did. Also printing about $11 trillion in money between covid relief and green energy bills and then complaining about the high cost of rent and home ownership.
The tradeoff is renting vs buying. When renting you are paying the mortgage, insurance, property taxes, repairs, and profit for the owner. The benefit is repairs aren’t your problem, and it’s easier to just move.
You’re almost certainly not saving on a monthly basis by renting, just avoiding large cash payments for down payment and repairs.
Assume a $100,000 dollar house to keep the math simple. (For a $500k house multiply everything 5x).
At a typical 3% annual increase in property value, in seven years (typical length of home ownership), it’s now worth $123k.
Assume that monthly payments are basically a wash and you have not meaningfully paid down your principle. When you sell you’ll net about 92% of sell price. So you’ll net about $13k plus your down payment back.
If you put 10% down, you invested $10k and got $23k back ($13k profit) in 7 years. Not bad.
This is a great idea!
Brilliant as usual
Any homeowner can make higher principle-only payments (at any time) to make the loan pay off in 15 or 20 or whatever.
The banks win because they make their money on the origination and servicing fees.
More people being able to afford homes, means more movement in the housing because they can use their equity to move up when young and down when retiring..
Bank. Credit. Creation.
How much more currency do we want to double entry into being?
I understand the desire not to have crushing 1930’s economic deflation and not to hit the Boomers and remaining Silent Generation with a 40 percent crash in house prices.
Still,
I don’t think inflationary 50 mortgages to support the tulip bubble house prices that are the Frankenstein monster baby of world wide money laundering into the US plus “printer go brrrr” is the answer.
Better answer:
Seize the country’s largest “farmer’s” assets as a reparation for his crimes against humanity and also all CCP owned farmland for their election theft (EO 13848), and then Homestead Act all of that land out to married US citizens (both citizens and citizens only) who had at least one minor child claimed as a dependent on their tax return in 2025.
Instant economic growth, instant incentive for family formation.
Not inflationary. Not a communist land seizure either because here we are talking about criminal penalties for crimes against the US (and its citizens).
Do.we really want to give the government unchecked power to seize land? What starts out as a good idea always becomes abusive in the government’s hands.
It’s a fair point. Sigh.
Wave if you have ever seen a case caption that reads
In re: U.S. v. $10,000
Or
In re: U.S. v. 2023 Land Cruiser
The federal government seizes assets that are alleged to be the products of the drug trade or money laundering every single day, and twice on Sundays.
I didn’t write the rules, but I don’t see as Bill Gates or the Clinton’s or the Bushes, Cheneys, Schiff’s, etc. should be exempt from them.
“The federal government seizes assets that are alleged to be the products of the drug trade or money laundering”
I would be much more inclined to agree with your proposal if they hadn’t shown us that they just might consider misgendering someone’s pronouns a crime against humanity.
My prediction is that the next crash will be in all these multi-unit apartments they built EVERYWHERE.
TPTB probably used printed money to build them and planned to fill them with their “you will own nothing and be happy strategy”, as well as they millions of immigrants they flew in to live free on our dime.
When the multiunit bubble crashes, they could turn those into condos and make it easy for the young people to buy in.
It would prevent the multiunit crash that is no doubt coming
AND
prevent single family home prices from going through the roof because of inflation.
A win win for all.
I don’t know. Money is relative and we need to shrink the relative value of the debt.
I can see the wisdom of kicking the economy into gear by generating wealth through actual production instead of printing.
A rising boat floats all tides. Higher earnings for younger people funds social security payments for seniors.
Saw a comment on X today from Pulte mentioning his dept. is looking at the variables involved in making mortgages transferable so think this initial idea posted by the President about 50 year mortgages is the opening move in a new game of remaking how the mortgage industry works, so
am not going to get all upset or excited until we see what is really going to be rolled out as these initial forays are simply to get peoples minds wrapped around the idea of change, that change is possible, to remake the system, how the govt and/or private industry do things that can work for the up and coming generation of home buyers.
@Osint613
2h
President Trump says he plans to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC, stating, “I guess I have to because they’ve defrauded the public. This is supposedly one of our great allies.”
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1988513687053771189#m
IRAN DROUGHT CRISIS Iran is running out of water — and fast.
Tehran’s main reservoirs are down to less than 10% capacity.
19 major dams across the country are nearly dry.
Rainfall is down 40% — the lowest in 60 years.
Some regions are sinking up to 1 foot per year from groundwater collapse.
For three weeks, mosques across Iran have held special “rain prayers” every Monday, pleading for divine intervention.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/1988511242995061130#m
I guess Allah the moon god of the fertile crescent isn’t listening
You should listen to Tucker Carlsons podcast from yesterday. It addresses this just by chance. Think military weather control. Which is the real climate change threat. If what the guest was saying is true, then we are in big trouble.
Yep.
Raises hand.
Yup, still feeling the long term impacts of Helene here in the US.
Never forget: The people who own the voting machines that run the fake elections hate us and want us dead. Just not in a way that is transparent enough to cause us to know at whom to strike back.
If the military is able to control weather why doesn’t the US have rain one day a week and summer growing season the rest of the year?
You assume the NGO’s and Government-Military Agencies with the ability to impact weather have the good of the US or MAGA at the forefront of their.
Not so sure that is a good assumption.
Well, that’s what it means sometimes to live where they do. (Reading assignment: the story of Joseph.) (Reading assignment: Elijah’s cloud, the size of a bed sheet.)
Here in Georgia we were in a serious drought, and Gov. Sonny Purdue called in Indians not sure the tribe probably Cherokee to do a rain dance and by George it started raining. Just a fun anecdote. : )
Israel solved its water crisis years ago. Iran spent all its money on terrorism, nuclear enrichment, arms and attacking Israel and Jews.
I’m making the executive decision that today is smartazz Wednesday.
Maybe Iran should seek Israel’s help in developing their water infrastructure.
Would be interesting to know if the Iranian Government actually has enough expertise to understand this issue as well as present it to the Mullahs to actually get a share of the money needed.
Gee … look at the clowns who headed the Auto-Pen Biden cabinet. They even had an Auto-Pen and were too dumb to know how to use it.
Then there is the example of CA.
Incompetence and corruption can be a deadly combination.
So give the task to the Mormons instead of the Jews. They did a great job in Utah.
Interestingly, for Muslims,…one of the signs of the coming of the Dajjal…that is, the equivalent of the Antichrist in Islamic eschatology…is that” Allah” will send a great drought upon the earth…
After decades of Allahu Ackbar and Death to America, a little taste of an old phrase seems fitting – Deus Vult!
France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, stated on Tuesday that the country is concerned about U.S. military operations in the Caribbean, citing violations of international law
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1988573923957780707#m
England and France think a million American Fentanyl deaths comply with International Law, but doing something about it does not.
Translation: “Le Cartels pay for my mistresses and my 3-month vacations on ze Riviera!”
France should mind its own shoddy business.
morning Treepers………………..be well
Beautiful!
Good morning bjorkdream. That looks a bit warmer than where I am. So beautiful, thank you. 🙏❤️
Ahhh…
U.S. House of Representatives: 11/12/2025
12NoonET 11:00amCT
The House will vote on the Senate-passed legislation to reopen the federal government, shutdown for 43 days. The House last voted on Sept. 19. Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ07), who won a Sept. 23 special election, will also be sworn into the House.
I want the house republicans to load the bill up with pro-MAGA legislature and then send it back to the senate. Don’t let the democrats get away with their shutdown without paying a big price. Come on republicans Fight Fight Fight. I don’t expect it though from the republicans, we all know what they are.
The Democrat party is going to keep government shutdown until…they win by changing what was passed in the Senate. The house rules committee meeting is a disaster 🙁
She is getting ready to lead the charge to keep shutdown happening 😛
Is she the daughter or wife of the previous Aztlan Grijalva?
I have no idea lol
Duh The House is in Recess…
U.S. House of Representatives: 11/12/2025
https://live.house.gov/
Domestic Policy.
Do that first.
A President has to do everything.
And this President has been doing everything, domestic and international.
And most of the international has been aimed at improving things here at home.
I really hate how impressions can so easily get warped from reality.
He is doing domestic work. The problem is you think his work with other countries has nothing to do with our domestic situation.. That is incorrect.
If you want to learn more, listen to these short videos. They are excellent summaries of his strategy and how what he is doing is changing the economic and financial foundation of our country.
https://www.prometheanaction.com/the-midweek-update-republicans-lost-because-they-abandoned-trumps-economic-nationalism-november-5-2025/
https://www.prometheanaction.com/the-monday-brief-the-shutdown-truth-trump-destroys-obamacares-insurance-cartel-november-10-2025/
small detail …. We have a president and not a dictator or king …. remember.
The president has set the domestic table full of things that CONGRESS has to PASS … and … that Congress as well as Supreme Court have allowed democrat activist judges to stop.
I once read that the Chinese are entrepreneurs. They don’t create things, which is why they steal our IP. Here is a clip of a massive bridge collapsing. It’s only a few months old. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen things like this. Similar to the boat launch in N Korea and the boat turned over – all in front of Rocketman. Can’t wait until “Made In Chyna” disappears from our product lines.
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1988245412822560788
Licensed professional engineer here. There was a massive landslide. No bridge is going to survive that. The bigger question is whether it should have been built there in the first place. The engineers may not have done sufficient ground stability studies, or the politicians may have told them to quit worrying and build it anyway. We’ll never know.
All that said, yes. We can’t shut off the pipeline from China fast enough to suit me. I can’t believe the insanity of allowing our enemies to manufacture our medications.
Thanks for this update. I didn’t see an article on any real facts, which are hard to find in our news. Ditto on the medications. Having been to Chyna 30+ yrs ago, I love their history, but the current protocols are downright scary.
Similar to the decision years ago to build the Fukashima nuclear power plant on the beach in a location known historically to be ravaged by tsunamis.
It’s only insane if you don’t want to destroy a country. They did exactly what they hoped to achieve.
The only thing standing in their way is President Trump. Yet many here stamp their feet and shout because he hasn’t fixed everything already. And fixed it in the way they like and can understand. They seem to believe he really is an all powerful king.
News flash: We are in a war. “They”are busy creating destruction and have been for a long time (they’ve built many fortifications).. Our man in the arena is our best hope. If we turn against him, we are finished. Think on that.
They steal, resell materials that are necessary – building foundational materials; steel, cement, etc and pad the empty areas with some other; if at all. Buildings globally built by Chinese companies have suffered sudden collapse for a long way back when overseas contracts were awarded Chinese companies. It’s not just a single individual. It is common to find inspection officials, demanding bribes for good reports, many suppliers and construction companies and workers consist of family members and extended family. Politicians top the corruption chains.
Not to mention, and live here and spy on us.
I’ve gone to a wonderful traditional Chinese born, 5-generation trained, herbal – acupuncturist doctor. He is great. Chyna has much to offer in some area, but some areas are scary.
should read “aren’t entrepreneurs”
Other than inventing gunpowder, noodles and the very first nation to create and use paper currency, agree, China steals ideas of others.
They are indeed copiers, even their governmental system is a copy of Karl Marx’s ideology so agree, but people should not forget historically, along with the above inventions, they were renown for their business acumen – for centuries.
President Trump is correct in his description when he references his team negotiating with the Chinese and like you say, with the collapse of the bridge, they are cheap.
It’s that cheap copying, whether govt systems similar to their use of lower quality building materials, skipping corners, not people of their word will be their undoing, because none of it is based on truth, to their real culture. Just a matter of time before their whole nation self-implodes.
After that happens and the dust settles will be looking forward to see what real, creative, positive things the people of China come up with once their collar of submission to cheap copy of govt. system is removed and they can fly free to come up with original ideas.
SO true! IF allowed to fly free…who knows what they’re capable of doing! After all, they did build that Great Wall and it’s still standing!
The once great Dynasties – Different generations .. very different mindset.
Capitalism China under Communistic rule – lots of corruption and stealing ensued
Capitalism China under Communistic rule – lots of corruption and stealing ensued
That’s Chyna, to a T. Oddly, most still think it’s still a communist country…they just retained the party name, CCP.
“Turkey’s Islamist regime is obsessed with suppressing the Kurds in its own country and in those areas that its ruler, Erdogan, wants to expand into to rebuild the Ottoman caliphate, like Syria. During the ISIS war, Turkey covertly backed Al Qaeda, ISIS and other Jihadist groups to attack the Kurds. Erdogan did not go to all this trouble just to leave the SDF intact and operational.
The ISIS camps contain at least 9,000 ISIS Jihadis and around 30,000 ISIS family members, who maintain their own mini-ISIS state within the camps, with mothers preparing their children for an endless war. They all pose a significant national security threat wherever they go.
The Trump administration might have insisted that Erdogan leave SDF alone enough to be able to control the camps and keep those inside from breaking out or detain ISIS inside Turkey.
But the man in charge of our Turkey and Syria policy is Tom Barrack, a major Lebanese Arab donor and Jeffrey Epstein associate (Epstein reportedly gifted Barrack an $11,000 watch) who had previously been in court for acting as an unregistered foreign agent of a Muslim oil country (he was acquitted) and whose speeches can be hard to distinguish from Turkish propaganda.
Barrack bemoaned that under Western colonialism, “Sykes-Picot divided Syria” by which Arab nationalists generally mean Greater Syria, but at the same time insisting that federalism for Kurds and Druze is a non-starter because “you can’t have independent non-nation states within a nation.” Barrack reportedly purged American diplomats supportive of the Kurdish militias.
SOURCE :
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/11/america-is-spreading-isis-around-world.html
There are so many fake news reports and tweets it’s hard to keep up with them all!!!
The election was fake and Tapper is fake but the electors were real.
Alternate electors are a perfectly legal and accepted means of challenging elections, used by Democrats, too, until they outlawed Donald Trump.
It is odd that the 2020 AZ ballot audit proved that over 110,000 ballots were not even counted until after the governor certified the election results and appointed the electors to vote the results. Amazing that they could predict those results in advance isn’t it?
Those audit results proved the fraud and of course nothing was ever done and this was from a Republican governor and Republican election commission and state Republican coup.
This is the stuff that never makes it to the mainstream Americans who listen to msm and left leaning media reports because that’s all they can manage to or want to access and they don’t even read the entire reports most of the time, just the headlines. Whatever slant the media puts into their headlines and the first few paragraphs or minutes of reports is the flavor the people absorb.
The republicans need more media coverage that reaches mainstream Americans everyday. They need truth like this to be given clearly to them straight up. Until MAGA and republicans get after the media more, the wrong messages and information will continue to infiltrate the minds of the voters. It must be a priority from the President on down to the local levels of the Republican Party. Get the truth out first and don’t play catch up with explanations.
I will trust corporate media before I ever trust anything on X.
Here are the stats of what this shutdown costs everyone. ArmstrongEconomics.com article entitled “Schumer Shutdown Ends in Ruin for Democrats”.
FTA: The longest government shutdown in US history is officially over. Seven Democrats and one Independent broke party lines to reopen the government. There will be no extended subsidies for Obamacare. Chuck Schumer encouraged his party to protest against the American people in favor of absurd policies that would not benefit the majority. Was it worth it?
Estimates suggest that the shutdown added between $15 billion and $30 billion to the US national debt per week. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that a four-week shutdown would cause US GDP to drop by 1% for Q4 2025.
Over 670,000 federal employees were furloughed, while another 730,000 were forced to work without pay. The average federal worker lost around $10,000 during this shutdown. Congress did not go a day without pay despite their refusal to work. The shutdown expanded to 4.5 million when accounting for federal civilians and military members. Approximately 1.3 million active-duty troops experienced financial stress. Over 750,000 National Guard members were forced to continue working without pay.
American military families were sent to food banks for assistance after the politicians they fought for refused to fight for them. An anonymous donor sent the Pentagon $130 million to assist the military during the shutdown. Generous, patriotic, but also dystopian. The Pentagon could not even immediately receive the gift without going through the appropriate Ethics Official regulations, since the gift was in excess of $10,000. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration reallocated $8 billion from defense research to pay military personnel.
Over 40 million people lost SNAP food benefits. Airports came to a near standstill, impacting numerous sectors. The nation’s division became a global spectacle. Yet, at no point during the chaos did the Democrats agree to back down on their stipulations. Their temporary resolution still demanded an extension for Obamacare subsidies, among other outlandish items, and in the end the negotiations completely backfired—they walked away with nothing.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/schumer-shutdown-ends-in-ruin-for-democrats/
LIVE Q&A: Trump Reposts Our Show – The Healthcare Revolution That Shut Down Washington
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115531069050814016
Or go to uTube if you can’t access X
I follow this channel, thanks to someone posting about PA a while ago. Great videos and they are very well informed. In fact SD even posted a video. Thanks for posting it.
Hate to sound as jaded as I am, but I don’t foresee the budget bills being properly passed before the end of January. The next shutdown could be three times as long … or not.
Are you talking about a real budget bill? I don’t know if we’ll ever have one again
I’m not optimistic either. Who was the one R who voted against reopening on the last vote? Rand Paul? I could find out who it was. thx.
Martin Armstrong has another good column from Nov. 9: “Deep State-Neocons & the Takeover of America.” In this, he pegs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as a Deep State embed. I think it is notable that Bessent, who spent his previous career either working directly for or financed by George Soros, now has so much in common with Zohran Mamdani, who is said to have been financed by Soros also.
Why should we be concerned? The left diligently puts their pawns in place, then they suddenly all act together. Pay attention to new people on the scene, financed by deep pockets.
I saw that. It was an eye-opener for me. So far I think he’s done a good job. We’ll be watching, though.
Not sure I agree with all this. A bit over stretching the truth. I know a number of friends who traveled during the last 40 days, some multiple times, via air to different parts of the country and had no issues whatsoever other than a couple slight delays in certain places some of which was weather related. . So all airports did not nearly ‘come to a standstill.’ As far as pay goes, yes it stopped for many but they will get it all back. It’s not like they won’t be compensated for working or getting furloughed. Snap was not completely shuttered and food banks and private charities helped out tremendously for those in need which is what should happen. SNAP has the highest fraud rates of nearly any govt. assistance programs. It was a good time to reset that program but unfortunately the govt didn’t do it. So yeah, it was not a great deal from the Dems to shut down the govt., but not the heart wrenching disaster that this article seems to be insinuating.
The whole issue was Obamacare subsidies in the end and the repubs stood their ground, did their jobs, and let the Dems twist in the wind over their pet project which was a failure from its illegal passing as a tax item and now everyone will know how bad it really was and how it’s been propped up with billions of their tax dollars while they also pay for ridiculous healthcare costs on top of it.
. What the republicans are going to do about healthcare insurance remains in the dark. They had better get something out there quick that people can understand, like and can afford. A lot of angst over healthcare costs and the rising prices of other necessary goods is making for a very restless and angry group of voters who will go to the polls in 2026 and vote for their wallets.
They will double down in Obamacare if they elect another Democrat Socialist of America. Maybe a wimpy Republican will give them a chance and they should take it.
It’s hard, if not impossible, for us to verify his stats, but that’s his area of expertise (all areas of economics), and per him, he believes his database data could possibly be more data or at least vies with NSA database data. Having followed him for 15+ years, he has a mind that I believe is in the category of an Einstein thinker, in his own areas of expertise, which he totally connects with each other. Does he stretch his thinking, to us, probably, but to his way of thinking and connecting all cycles, probably not.
Nothing about this shutdown affected me. I saw a video Atlanta new headline stating 10% of the flights had been affected by the shutdown. So 9/10 people still traveled unaffected, but some people’s flights were canceled. Then there are the air traffic controlers’ problems, which the shutdown worsened. SNAP needs to be purged by DOGE. Ocare abolished. I liked PT’s suggestion to give them the $$ and they purchase their own.
No matter if his stats are spot on or a stretch, he’s on point as far as the aspects and analogy. We know the gubmint numbers are a mess.
We’ve been waiting YEARS for a Republican healthcare solution. I won’t hold my breath.
Instead of passing all 12 at the same time,
it could be that it becomes sequential, 1 at a time.
12 separate budget bills
https://simpson.house.gov/appropriations/12appropriationssubcommittees.htm
By getting some of them passed and signed before mid January,
it can help to mitigate some concern if someone is scheming another shutdown.
p.s. those budget bills apply to the FY ’26 that started last Sept. 2025.
Very shortly, there would also be the 12 different bills for FY’27 that starts next Sept. 2026.
imho
This would be best. How very logical. Just common sense, which means it probably won’t happen, again.
I fail to see how government employees contribute to the GDP. What products do they produce?
Well, the anti-Trump moles produce chaos, illegal activity, promote insurrections, color revolutions, etc….
Biden-Appointed Judge Poised to Order Mass Release of Illegal Aliens Detained in ICE’s “Operation Blitz” — Thousands Could Be Dumped Back onto Chicago Streets
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/biden-appointed-judge-poised-order-mass-release-illegal/
“Attorneys representing the Department of Homeland Security have argued that Congress stripped federal courts of their authority to grant parole to large groups of immigrants in ICE custody.
In their filings, government attorneys argue, “Congress has vested the authority to grant parole solely with the Secretary of Homeland Security… Federal courts cannot order the Department of Homeland Security to release any aliens on parole because Congress has stripped them of that authority.”
But that is exactly what the Immigration Act of 1965 does!!!!! It’s the basis of the browning of America!!! POC from third world hellholes are given preference in immigration!!! They won’t assimilate and are creating pockets of third world hellholes here in America!!! Will no one repeal this odious Act and replace it with one that gives preference to our European ancestry once again??? JMO
Our European Ancestry is Communist too.
Succinct and correct as always. Stephen is the best!
Germany to Start Deporting Syrians Now Civil War Is Over.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/11/11/germany-has-started-deporting-syrians-now-civil-war-is-over/
It is time for this garbage to be removed from his seat in Con-gress for residency fraud:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/disqualified-congressman-eric-swalwell-names-washington-dc-home/
Sounds like another mortgage fraud case.
The Chinese sent Eric a girlfriend when he was just a dinky city councilman.
Which means Beijing ordered Feinstein and Pelosi to “elect” him and place him on the Intelligence and Technology Committees.
$100 Million Corruption Scandal Rocks Ukraine; Zelensky Associate Flees Country Before Police Raids
https://rmx.news/article/corruption-scandal-rocks-ukraine-zelenskys-close-associate-flees-country-hours-before-police-raids-targeting-70-properties-at-least-100-million-stolen/
….Everyone include members of CONgre$$ should read this…….VSGPDJT ..it is time to review all direct or undirect flow of military aid and $$$ to Ukraine ..this is perfect excuse to shut it all down…VSGPDJT …. do it !!!!!
(it’s only a $100 million ukr scandal tentatively found?)
2022 USA Congress happy to send billion$:
Image:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/12/22/zelensky-ukraine-flag-congress-address-sot-vpx.cnn
Why is President Trump touting H1Bs in the Laura Ingraham interview? Does he not care about our young people , especially with STEM degrees?
It’s crazy.
For example there is a made in Oregon industrial scale battery. No lithium, no Chinese. Promote American made and support it.
Instead of touting H1Bs why not study what can be made here and support that? Then import if needed but there are alot of college grads looking for work (granted some of college education sucks). We have the capacity to do so much more than what we are doing .
Rush said Trump is the only one who could destroy Trump. It’s been a very rough few days. Please sir, right the ship.
Touting “we have no talent here” was the nail in the coffin.
JMO but stop funding these colleges that are a disaster with 300,000 chinese spies until the COLLEGE stops with their DEI crap!
When the College turns out a decent, employable product, a college degree might be worth something.
As an engineer this has been a frustration for decades. We tell our kids to major in STEM then hire foreigners instead
And, sometimes, when a parent engages with the student-child
to help with child with (the systems’) math,
the child goes,
‘that’s not how the teacher teaches us math’,
the parental help gets difficult.
( and, untold, some ‘schools’ like that affect (inability of a parent to logically, common sense, communicate ) )
imho
So, you are telling me that you are an engineer and can’t get a job? Because that is what it sounds like to me. And if you can’t get a job, maybe that is because we have outsourced all our jobs to foreign countries. That is what the man is trying to stop.
And like Scott Bessent said, if you basically think we can train individuals on things we have not had in this country for year is a fallacy. We need these people to train Americans and then send them back to their countries.
That is what he and the President have said. Believe it or not.
I do not know.
Over the course of 20 to 30 years +/-
is there factual information about the u.s. education system(s) that indicates that quality of education in the u.s has been reduced, watered down or compromised
in relation to the education systems of other countries?
One might want to take a look
( not that it would fit ( today, or years ago )
the media narrative(s) so,
some people would not know. )
But, people know.
Is it fixable?
Does artificial ( or watered down, or compromised )
intelligence help or hinder, intelligence?
People know.
Imho
One should think that if we spend the most,
then we get the best achievements.
But, that is not what happens, in some cases.
It is not just about relative ‘spending’
it is also about verifiable, relative efforts, performance.
(compared to others doing similar, and maybe spending relatively less, but achieving relatively more…)
July 2024 ( a year ago )
Comparing results with other countries education systems:
“These relatively low scores mean that U.S. students may not be as prepared to take high-paying computer and engineering jobs, which often go to foreign workers.”
Link
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-advantage-3306225
Catching up, takes diligent efforts over time.
[ it, turning a new leaf, a new page, etc. may be way past due, but, it may also be beginning… ]
As many did years ago,
you start working with low paying, heavy work effort jobs…(whatever the ‘education’)
…and gradually upon proving one’s competence through performance,
work your way to other (incrementally) challenging assignments – and re-prove the competence through performance to another person or company …
(and one does not, for whatever other thing comes up… then adapt to change…and start anew..
imho
a new NY Post Miranda Devine Pod-Force-One episode, she has Judge Jeanine Pirro, 54 min. in length.
This episode titled “Judge Jeanine: Keeping Streets Safe by Battling Killers, Terrorists, AND Soft on Crime Lefties”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/12/mamdanis-victory-proves-mass-legal-migration-is-just-as-dangerous-as-illegal-migration/
FTA “For decades, Republicans have banged the “Illegal immigration is bad, but legal immigration is good” drum. As a result, we’ve brought in millions of immigrants that neither care for nor believe in republicanism, self-governance, personal liberty and limited government. And nowhere is that truth more apparent than in Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race. Mamdani, a Ugandan-born communist, doesn’t believe in personal liberty or limited government. He said as much during his victory speech: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” Similarly, anyone who voted for Mamdani also therefore does not believe in personal liberty or small government. And what is difficult to ignore is that Mamdani pulled in a lot of support from foreigners.
Alexander Hamilton cautioned in 1802 how it is “extremely unlikely” that foreigners “will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential to real republicanism” and that foreigners will “entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived.” When America imports persons from places who have never lived in a republic that depends on self-responsibility and personal liberty, it’s unlikely they will adopt or want those things when they arrive here, as Hamilton pointed out. Immigration therefore isn’t merely a policy issue, it’s the issue that will decide all others. No matter how great our principles sound, they mean nothing to a population that doesn’t understand or value them. Importing people who don’t believe in republicanism won’t help you keep a republic — and Mamdani’s victory made that crystal clear.”
Is anyone listening in Congress? NO! Stop all immigration NOW!!!! Until what has come in has assimilated or removed for failure to assimilate!!! Become Americans culturally or be deported!!!
I can not agree more.
Robert Kennedy III: Dr. Fauci’s Final Confession Connecting Metabiota, USAID & Hunter Biden To Pandemic Outbreak + Marc Morano From UN’s COP30 Climate Change Conference – Ask Dr. Drew (1:08:11)
11 Nov 2025
“USAID [aka CIA – W] was shipping bat coronaviruses to Wuhan through a now-defunct firm called Metabiota… and the #2 investor? Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca.”
https://rumble.com/v71k2hs-robert-kennedy-iii-faucis-final-confession-metabiota-and-hunter-biden-marc-.html
That is a must listen.
I’ve long thought that the US is basically a banana republic that is so wealthy because it can create from thin air massive amounts of the world’s reserve currency thereby making it the optimum target for “skimming” which won’t be noticed by most citizens unlike in poor banana republics where the skimming is obvious. That is a major topic within this interview.
So, you’re married to a national security or national intelligence expert, a CIA agent. How has that shifted your understanding of the world?
When we got married she had done basically 10 years uh undercover China, Iraq, Afghanistan. She wrote a best-selling book and the agency actually tried to uh stop us from publishing it at the last minute. She went ahead anyway and now she’s in charge of their entire budget. So, ha. So certainly um I’d say her role um not just as Tulsi’s deputy but at the OM the office of management and budget uh allowed her to kind of really look into this weird NGO to uh you know private company slash foundation weird circle of cash moving around and just see how much gets siphoned off and it’s a horrifying amount much more than people think.
I think it’s more like just they just take a lot of the money you know through every single subcontractor somebody takes a bite of it and uh probably 95% of the money is ending up in somebody’s pocket. Some would argue that gets washed back into our politics… people that would say like, well, the CIA was dirty in the 1960s and the 1970s and the 1980s, but it’s not dirty anymore. Ridiculous.
…the US government is really good at not leaving a trail of crumbs. I mean the crumbs are there but you know there’s not a directly provable in court uh chain of command it’s distributed.
Why is Fauci not in prison? Add him to the coup conspirators. Because that’s exactly what happened in 2020. Usher in the age of mass mail-in ballots with no id required.
Winters: U.S. Tax Dollars Funded Chinese Lab Researching How To Dominate Rare Earth Trade (21:46)
Bannons War Room
11 Nov 2025
https://rumble.com/v71kt5m-winters-u.s.-tax-dollars-funded-chinese-lab-researching-how-to-dominate-rar.html
This is an interesting video of White House renovations – I wonder how the wall of fame will hold up outdoors in the brutal winters? Its hard to watch beach friend Ingram knowing she is a weasel –
Add: PDJT Oval Office tour from a month ago here: http://www.youtube. /watch?v=6vkxE7BIZg8
November 12. Embrace change. Amen!
Republican Senators Include Provision in Shutdown Bill That DOJ Cannot Subpoena Senators Phone Records – You/Me, No Such Protection
This needs to be revisited as the House Rules Committee Met on Senate-passed Government Funding Bill.The House Rules Committee considers the Senate-passed government funding bill on the 42nd day of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
If you would be interested in reading the funding bill here is the link:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5371
The Senate has placed a poison pill into legislation to open the Government that could payout up to $3million to a Senator and the House members are hoppin mad about it.
When a diplomat to your nation says this about your leader….cut off that dirty neck.
“Declaring China’s consul general “persona non grata” would safeguard Japan’s political institutions and affirm the boundaries of acceptable conduct for a diplomat.”
https://japan-forward.com/chinese-diplomat-who-makes-violent-threats-must-be-expelled/
Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent before the Treasury Market Conference:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0314
Pulte looking into portable mortgages…
Now this is much better than a 50 year mortgage. Once again the President throws and idea out and then you get the pros and cons.
The AI bubble is about to burst and nuke a lotta people.
Everyone’s betting the farm on artificial intelligence. But that farm might be in big trouble.
Wild speculation in financial investments, history repeating itself.
https://revolver.news/2025/11/the-ai-bubble-is-about-to-burst-and-nuke-a-lotta-people/
You would be e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y … w-i-s-e … to listen to this wisdom.
Slightly before “dot-bomb,” do any of you remember “Y2K?” Because, as a computer consultant working at that time, I can never forget it. Patiently explaining to my clients that they already received mortgage bills which were due in “the two thousands.” In other words, computer systems were not going to “melt down.” But, at the time, the “hype” ruled king. It was difficult to be the honest man, but I persevered.
Less than ten years later, we went through “dot-bomb.” I actually worked for a company at that time, received “stock options” “woo hoo!” and ultimately received nothing. (Nor did I expect any.)
“Same song, third verse.” This time, “everybody’s gonna lose their jobs, and ‘AI’ will provide all of the world’s creative content.”
You were warned . . .
P.S.: Notice how this “hype” is specifically being used (this time …) to fuel “massive hardware purchases.” Therefore, it is trying specifically to “cross over.” Be warned. Chip makers, “cloud” computing providers, they’re all now within range.
Yes, you have been here before . . .
“Scott JENNINGS: Trump is trying to find a balance, to do what’s best for the U.S. He thinks there is SOME role for H-1B visas, but he has THROTTLED it with the application fee.”
Video linked…
Antifa is a laughable HOAX. It’s just another HOAX in a long line of democrat HOAXES like climate change and covid. Their goal is to ENSLAVE you by calling you fascists when in fact, they are tyrannical revolutionary nut jobs. Put a target on their backs & do some target practice.
“Antifa,” actually, is a much more dangerous thing. It began in Germany in the 1930’s, and it was pivotal in bringing Adolf Hitler into power. One of history’s curious paradoxes is how an “anti-” Fascist movement was a key to advancing fascism. As it is today.
“thepostil.com,” which is not a political website, can provide you with a lot of very-blood-soaked “background history.” Fair warning: it is dense, scholarly reading.
Secretary Bessent:
“You’re gonna see SUBSTANTIAL announcements over the next couple days for things we don’t grow in the U.S. Coffee, bananas, other fruits, things like that. That will bring the prices down VERY quickly.”
Video linked…
Bananas prices have been the true survivor of no matter what hit (covid, tariffs, etc,. etc,) Still hoovering at 49 cents a pound around me.
Not in major stores in central Oregon.
So what happened to the “Tariffs don’t raise prices” claim he and others have been making for months?
If the media does not say it repeatedly, does it ever happen? [ they count on that circumstance ]
If a tree falls in forest, and there is no one present hear, does it make a sound? (Ans. yes)
ON X
They got Trump now he is going down.. Dems released some email from around 2011
Between Epstein and Maxwell sasying Trump knew (about the girls) and the he spent
time wiht one of the victims(doesnt says what they spent time doing of course_
(according to Dems) it said “Trump is the dog that doesn;t bark..”
They are convince this is it he is guilty…yep ok.. and this was from 2011 and they release it now
yeah ok…They got him now..for like the millionth time.. lets see if any reporter ask about this.
Face it: If you are rich, and powerful, then [men and …] women are going to be attracted to you like flies.
Either you “pay them off,” which is like leaving sugar on the countertop, or you don’t. (Which costs more.)
…and now you have shared it with hundreds of thousands more who otherwise wouldn’t have known…those who hate POTUS surely appreciate your contribution and will share it with all their friends…
It better to know the game then hide your head in the sand.. We know POTUS didn;t do
anything wrong but that is surely how this will be spun and you can be sure the Mainstream
news will report on this…
Nonsense, garbage
Go back to bluecry
What is bluecry? and I assume you posted as such on the other posting where they
actually printed the email….
“Chicago shootings are at their lowest in FOUR YEARS after President Trump surged resources to the city”.
Cont…
Trump is proving you can significantly reduce crime with proper law enforcement.
re: political blames or credits
It would not be the first time
that politician
-did nothing helpful, but
-blamed someone
-then later takes credit for improving a circumstance.
With some peoples short memories, or loss of concentration,
the political words / irony works on the people at each point in time – to the benefit of politicians.
i.e.
stay tuned for someone in Illinois to take credit for crime reduction.
imho
p.s.
but, what’s more important is that, crimes reduce.
(or is that there is less ‘reporting’ of crime -which alters the statistics, and peoples’ perception (by not sharing the truths)?)
I do not know
This will really get Trump this time /s:
Epstein emails released by Democrats say Trump ‘knew about the girls’ and spent time with a victim
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2011 email that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to communications released Wednesday
More:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/epstein-emails-released-by-democrats-say-trump-21168749.php
Haven’t you noticed the other “girl blackmail” issue that “this very rich man” is also fighting? She couldn’t remember where, and she couldn’t remember when, but she still won millions – and thirty-seven counts. Until the “rich man” fought back.
Likewise: A known blackmailer. Said he had “spent hours,” that he “knew about.” Yeah, yeah, yeah. The usual blackmail. Pay me millions to shut up and go away.
We have heard it before.
The victim he spent time with was Virgina Guiffree(sp?) she already has said
she never saw POTUS do anything inappropriate but of course they redact the victim
name…so no one know that.
and since she unfortunately committed suicide, they use her, because she cannot defend herself.
These people are a mess. The House was supposed to start on the shutdown and immediately called recess subject to the chair.
Republicans are such a disappointment. We need a stronger speaker. I can’t help but wonder how soon Johnson would have caved if he was in Thune’s place. I will say this for leader Thune, he has a steel backbone, for which I am grateful in this instance.
A shutdown….snap benefits running low…
for safety reasons, some flights get canceled, connecting flights get complicated…
Irony,
And Congress people are to get to dc (via travel) to vote, to end a shutdown, but the 40 day shutdown complicates some things…
p.s.
after 38 days,
the Senate finally said that they were staying ‘in session’ through the weekend and until the shutdown ends…
( a couple days later, the Senate votes to end the shutdown )
hint,
on Nov 1, someone could have said that the Senate is staying open until…
So, ummm…what was the reason for the shutdown?
JMO.
Thune is helping the globalists kick the “eliminate the filibuster” can down the road.
He didn’t support President Trump America First’s priority policy of eliminating the filibuster.
It is time for a loyal MAGA / America First senator to replace him as leader in the Senate.
The filibuster must be eliminated. Globalist Thune be damned.
Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune …
Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune … Dump Thune …
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
The “silent” filibuster needs to end.
.
That would a least make a filibuster cost personal time.
.
BTW, the silent filibuster ended in the 1970s.