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Link to the Daily Scriptures and prayers posted by Stillwater at the Still Hour thread for 12/18/25.
Thank you ed.
AMEN
Amen!
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
Amen
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
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.
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
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 333 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!
President Trump’s Address to the Nation
video: https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/president-trump-delivers-an-address-to-the-nation/
As I was listening, I thought — this is the state of the union address. And he is unimpeded by the usual filters that surround the Jan SOTU address. I wasn’t aware of all the pre-speech head fake that got him there.
But I remember thinking — this is unusual — to have an opportunity to hear him speak to the Nation without a lot of the usual noise.
Awesome wasn’t it!!
Not according to Liberal NEWS.
Ryan Fournier
@RyanAFournier
🚨NEW: Rolls-Royce is reportedly looking to move a $1.6 TRILLION jet engine project and 40,000 jobs from Britain to America.
This is massive.
Cont….
From early in the Obama regime, I remember a quiet report of Immelt transferring GE’s turbine manufacturing and IP to China. The globalist’s cash cow has had enough. Trump is a bull.
The TRANSFER Of TECHNOLOGY by ” our betters ” to CHINA Has GIVEN the CCP the Ability to Produce TURBINES that are only a Generation Behind the U.S.
BOEING Doing ” Final Assembly ” in the CCP Gave them the TECH to produce their own designs – NO LONGER Relying on the RUSSIAN Turbine, Electronics, Metallurgy.
METALLURGY and Transfer of Manufacturing Tech HAS ERODED the Advantages of
the United States
SARCASTICALLY ->
KEEP ON allowing the CCP to Send THEIR PARTY MEMBERS to be EDUCATED in Purdue, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), …
16 PERCENT of STUDENTS of STEM Students in the United States…
https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/estimating-the-number-of-chinese-stem-students-in-the-united-states/
LOOKS LIKE a BOEING…
Oh goodie, another foreigner giving Americans jobs. Whoever owns the jobs own the people.
I won’t even begin to try to explain it to you……….
OSZ
@OpenSourceZone
Republicans vs Democrats On Policy
Crime: 🔴 R+15
Immigration: 🔴 R+11
Economy: 🔴 R+7
Cost of living: 🟡 Even
Healthcare: 🔵 D+12
Reuters/Ipsos Poll | 12/-12-15
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Morning consultant poll the same…
I remember the TV news putting on people hiding out in caves in the 1960’s to prepare for the end of the world.
What always amazed me with all these doomers if you have to sell everything and give the money to dear leader to prepare for the end of the world. What good will money be if the world ends? Stupid followers.
Fake poll from Morning Consult showing Dems leading Republicans in 2026 midterms. How do they square that with an 18% approval rating for Dems in a Quinnipiac poll?
A: “It’s as easy as lying because it is lying.”–G. K. Chesterton
We are losing the midterms. Check out The peoples Pundit by Richard Baris, he is the best pollster in the country and a Trump supporter and he is sounding a huge alarm daily.
We need our head out of the sand or we lose.
Good pollster but not exactly a Trump supporter. Fools a lot of people.
He supported Trump during the last election. His numbers were accurate as well. Ignore his concerns at our peril.
There is no truth any more.
He supported Trump. He tries to be as unbiased sounding as he can so his company has credibility in the info they publish. He’s no liberal that’s for sure.
I have no idea about the accuracy of these polls, but I do believe we should not assume we are winning. I think we should have an attitude that we must go all-in to win the midterms because, if we lose Congress, it will be a disaster for our country.
Just scanning X and Facebook this morning the left is posting about 90% of the political posts.
They are painting Reiner as a saint posting what a wonderfully talented person he was and his contributions to entertainment- I think Netflix is producing a documentary. No doubt they will trash Trumps disrespectful comments about Reiner as many are doing now.
There many posts questioning Trumps health and mental capability.
There are many Post about Epstein and Trumps association with him with pictures of course. And, Trump calling it a Hoax.
There are posts about Wiles Vanity Fair interview focusing on Trumps Alcohol personality.
There are posts about the economy, cost, job creation and Trump saying it’s better than ever.
My point is that the left, which includes the Establishment Media and Establishment UniParty, are going wall to wall to demonize President Trump.
The we have an ineffective Congress, many/most Establishment UniParty politicians, that will add fuel to the fire- The House just passed a Healthcare Bill that will reduce cost, they say by 11%. I have no idea what the cost will actually be with reduced ACA supplements. However, I expect the cost will rise significantly for some and the Democrats will do a much better job blaming the Republicans.
Anyway, it’s going to be a war of messaging to affect the midterm elections and the ant-Trumpers have a huge advantage with media resources.
So, polling means nothing. We need to just assume we are going to lose if we don’t go all-in on convincing voters that the country will be a disaster if we don’t retain Congress,
JMHO
Yes, polling is just that, snap shot of time. However, I believe we fight to win- and damn the polls- because one ought never underestimate the opposition nor over estimate your standing.
eGOP wants to lose the midterms. don’t forget this, otherwise you’ll be in shock the morning after….
This is why I continue to say the repubs are worse than the dems. The dems spit in your face while the repubs stab you in the back and then they put away their scripts and go hang at the same parties.
Probably naked, with lots of drugs and maybe some underage cohorts. Congress is disgusting.
At least that’s what is out there.
Baris is good. He runs a fair and unbiased stats and polling company. If If I would trust any polls it would be his. He’s right to sound alarms over 2026. People need to make sure they know the truth and that they get out and vote, lots and lots of them.
The RNC and all conservatives working on election reforms and election integrity under our current laws should be sending out this message everyday in different ways.
Hard to rally the troops when the GOP wants to lose and many of the voters see it.
Whether or not that first part is true, the part you fail to remember is that the people of Congress (are supposed to) represent we the people and it is we the people that make the determination on win/lose/draw.
Poll: Newly popular Harris builds momentum, challenging Trump for the mantle of change
A double-digit increase in popularity, rising Democratic enthusiasm and an early edge for representing “change” have vaulted Vice President Kamala Harris forward and reshuffled the 2024 presidential contest, according to a new national NBC News poll.
With just over six weeks until Election Day, the poll finds Harris with a 5-point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered voters, 49% to 44%. While that result is within the margin of error, it’s a clear shift from July’s poll, when Trump was ahead by 2 points before President Joe Biden’s exit. – cnbc – Published Sun, Sep 22 202410:01 AM EDT
Updated Mon, Sep 23 20247:51 AM EDT
Sure that poll wasn’t made to manipulate anyone. There is almost a year for Trump’s policies and Mamdani’s policies to take effect before the mid-terms. A lot will happen between now and then.
Liberal logic:? We can vote for the people the screwed everything up, or the guy fixing it, just not fast enough to our liking, who should we vote for? The people that screwed everything up of course!!!!
and you wonder about the validity of polls?
Only poll known TDS suffering Democratic voters. Check voter registrations and drive around neighborhoods looking for political yard signs. Also poll the best known liberal universities. Only poll your own students! Quinnipiac University is generally considered to have a more liberal reputation.
Polls are made to influence, not to inform.
One word, Uniparty. It’s a big club and we’re not in it. Forget that D vs R theater. Manipulation.
BS – who are they asking? No one has ever asked me!
Reverse the margin of error and the Republicans are winning. Do you think the way they list the margin of error is deliberate?
Where’s the corruption issue? Which party is most corrupt?
Well, the least corrupt party isn’t willing to fix anything.
Do you think the most corrupt party will fix anything? Or will the most corrupt party likely make things even worse?
Unfortunately we only have two choices right now. Up until last election when I voted for Trump I had never voted for a Democrat or Republican before, only independents and third party candidates. Where did that get me?
If people are dumb enough to think the Dems have the best answers for healthcare, Medicare, abortion etc. they haven’t paid attention to the Dem policies. The mess on healthcare, while a lot can be placed on the republicans too, was driven by the Dems. Obamacare was their brainchild and the SC let it happen because Roberts caved and called it a tax. The Dems love them some big Pharma money and that’s how covid and the vaccine became a scourge on all people.
Wake up America. The Dems definitely do NOT have the best answers for these issues and definitely don’t have your back. They just want your votes and your money to keep flowing in. Don’t be suckers for them.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Democrats are livid after local news in Las Vegas was just forced to show working class Americans CELEBRATE President Trump’s plummeting gas prices
They’ve dropped 45 cents in ONE MONTH.
UBER DRIVER: “I can probably save roughly $60 a week!”
Cont and video….
Costco Stuart FL
Reg $2.59
Prem $3.19
No diesel at this store, other local stations $3.49 for diesel
I think it was WaWA, 2.79 in Stuart, a month ago…2.89 near I-95 in PSL.
it’s $2.17 at Buc-ee’s this morning! Of course the IC run mockingbird media is silent because it’s all President Trump’s doing!!!
Was at house in NC about a month ago, Walmart in Blairsville GA was cheaper than FL.
The further south I drove the higher the price became.
That’s because of distance from main pipeline and what local market will bear .
N Tx
Sams Club $2.04
Walmart $2.07
Just paid 2.09 in east texas
Membership has to have some benefits or no one would ever buy a membership.
My Kroger in east Texas has $2.09 yesterday
WNY, Southern, seeing as they looped us altogether during COV, $3.19, but 2.99 at the reservation.
How long before we see stickers of Trump on the pump saying, “I did that.”
Still have a left over Autopen one.
$12.00 a roll on Amazon
lol! Isn’t capitalism great! It would take the government a year to get that done 🙂
Paid $2.35 in Tucson, AZ yesterday, and $2.65 in Duluth, MN today.
Fight, fight, fight!
May the creator of all continue to bless and guide President Donald Trump as he attempts the near impossible to lead us like Moses back to the state of the promised land. America was the land of milk and honey, the envy of the world. The remnants are still sweet but we better rise up if we wish to keep.
Lambs must become lions and rise and rise again.
Do whatever it takes and get involved in the future by fighting today.
🥊🥊💪
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏🫵
Howdy!
The US is discussing the possibility of providing Ukraine with expanded security guarantees, including the use of F-35 fighter jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles, in the event of Russia violating the ceasefire – The Telegraph
https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/26714
They ask. No matter what the answer is, any answer is the US discussing the issue.
F 35s would mean Americans flying them. I don’t think that will happen. Tomahawk are 5o year old sub sonic missiles.
i SEE SEVERAL PROBLEMS –
The Telegraph
ukr_leaks-eng
Italian Prime Minister Meloni refused to send troops to Ukraine.
To ensure Ukraine’s security, among other things, the deployment of a “multinational force for Ukraine” led by the “Coalition of the Willing” based on the voluntary participation of countries is proposed. I reiterate that Italy does not intend to send its soldiers to Ukraine,” she said.
https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/26712
Wouldn’t the deployment of a “Multinational force for Ukraine” be essentially Ukraine being part of NATO without calling it that.
That is the primary purpose/benefit of being part of NATO isn’t it?
Only if the US is part of the security guarantee..
We are not obligated by NATO to come to the rescue of European troops located in a non-NATO country
Note that PM Meloni is standing with the US team not the Brusselites in the recent group shot. I don’t think that’s a coincidence on her part.
I noticed that the first time I saw that picture.
“3I/ATLAS will be close enough on December 19 for amateur astronomers to photograph directly.”
https://slaynews.com/news/nasas-mars-probe-mysteriously-goes-dark-close-encounter-interstellar-object-3i-atlas/
The reporting on this story is so poor it detonates credibility. The people doing actual science are run over with a bulldozer then ignored as they try to crawl out of the mud and compose themselves.
Avi Loeb is a self-promoting crank from Harvard who demonstrably doesn’t know diddly about the topic but is constantly turned to as a source because he provides deranged conspiracy quotes for clickbait. Slay News disgraces itself with pieces like this.
Collapse of commonse-sense not to mention intellectual rigor. And they don’t care. Can only imagine how bad they are with other reporting.
To be fair, the field consists of self promoting cranks who have nothing better to do than organize meetings to deny Pluto is a planet and immediately run to the cameras to claim they have found the ninth planet.
Statement can’t be matched to reality, yet five thumbs up?
Hmm. I would guess “science is pursued by people who develop expertise, often funded by governments. Experts are elites. Elites, especially those funded by government, are bad. Therefore, people with expertise should be attacked because they are bad. Reality is less important than consistent ideology.”
Got it.
Statement can’t be matched to reality, yet five thumbs up?
Hmm. I would guess “science is pursued by people who develop expertise, often funded by governments. Experts are elites. Elites, especially those funded by government, are bad. Therefore, people with expertise should be attacked because they are bad. Reality is less important than consistent ideology.”
Got it. Populism’s future.
Prove they didn’t hold a meeting to demote Pluto!
Prove that they didn’t self-promote while celebrating the demotion!
But remember Degrasse Tyson was there. He’s kind of like Schumer with cameras. We’ve got video.
claims of new planet.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planet-x/
https://www.astronomy.com/science/have-astronomers-found-planet-nine/
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planet-9-iras-akari-survey
It’s one of the new crop of ogres Jim 😉
Thanks for the heads up!
I don’t usually pay attention but my son grabbed a picture with his poor resolution this morning, of a huge light in a straight line for less than a minute. When I blew it up, I could see all the tiny stars in the sky and how much bigger it was. Pretty amazing. Anyway I have no idea how to upload it to this site from my phone.🤷
“The law that allows President Trump to take out drug boats was authored by none other than Chuck Schumer.”….
I never thought I would say or type this, but…..
THANK YOU CHUCK SCHUMER !!
Similarly, Biden was Pro-Life back then.
Then Castro gave Chavez Voting Machine CheatWare and the need to serve the People was severed.
Poor Chuckie, he can’t keep himself from stepping in it.
Hard to be consistant on policy issues when your only moral compass is your own net worth.
Uniparty minions decades ago never anticipated their comments being archived forever and easily retrievable on the internet.
Bwahaha. I want to see some reporter bring this up to Chuck and see what the old fool has to say. He dances almost as well as the rest of them when caught in this kind of hypocrisy. Hope someone asks him about this on camera.
Lolol
I have no idea why I missed this article dated 12/14…but here it is…link embedded into the tweet.
No way Zelenskyy should walk away from the actions he has taken against Ukraine.
Umerov Prepares Life for Zelenskyy After Ukraine
Umerov’s secret meetings with the FBI in Miami suggest he’s preparing Zelenskyy’s personal security and life after Ukraine, not negotiating peace or state-level solutions.
The Washington Post, citing four informed sources, reported: Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, head of the Ukrainian delegation at the “peace talks,” was simultaneously holding private meetings with the FBI director and his deputy.
Oleksandr Bryhynets reveals versions “why”.
the article proceeds to list an itemized list.
Then comes to conclusion:
Because when the matter is no longer about the state, but about responsibility, guarantees, and escape from history, negotiations become personal, not diplomatic.
As we can see, the stage is being prepared for Zelenskyy.
Now it is only a question of the price of that stage and whether he will be allowed to pay it.
Meanwhile…we have another embezzlement investigation brewing. 😛
Over $14 Million “In the Shadows”: How Funds from Defense Contracts Were Embezzled
It seems Investigations in Ukraine has it own special link. 😛
https://empr.media/opinion/investigation/
That is funny.
Z turned down Biden’s asylum offer.
What makes anyone think that giving Z and his stolen assets protection would stop his Crime wave?
Z is now a criminal dictator with massive support from Europeans.
The life Z needs is a life sentence.
I know what history books say about people like him. I fully expected the Ukranian people to give him the “Mussolini Treatment” … 💀 … long before now!
Bully Target Nurse Fired? Enloe Health CEO Responds (UPDATE)
I followed Lem yesterday and watched the update first thing this morning. They’re not positive she actually got fired but a confirmation would be nice.
Typical corporate CEO offering an outlet to vent frustration…because they have a black eye?
The woman has already violated the corporate policy…because I will be my SS check that there is a clause/policy in the employee handbook that speaks to behavior that reflects upon the organization, in a poor or negative manner.
As of Thursday, December 18, 2025, Enloe Health has not issued a public statement confirming the termination of Michelea Ponce, the nurse involved in the viral incident at a Chico Target store. While a report from X (formerly Twitter) claimed that Ponce had been fired, citing a source within the organization who saw termination paperwork, Enloe Health has maintained its policy of confidentiality and has not verified or denied the report.”
Some of these big hospital corps have their nurses unionized, out of necessity (for the nurses, for the work load problems in health care right now…so hospital contracts may interfere, and “progressive discipline policies”, may be in play….of which the org. always has a ramp, to expedite their agenda.
She needs to go.
A word about professional nursing and workloads…hospitals, more than any other field of employment, represents the idea of balancing an internal budget on the backs of those it affects, in order to “save money”. They do so with the idea of 12 hours shifts, full time for the nurse…while being reimbursed by the feds for a full time 40 hr a week staff nurse.
This is one area that needs to be addressed when CONgress speaks to waste, fraud and abuse in health care.
I am a bit slow. I don’t understand the point you are making.
I understand the point of the hospital using it’s personnel to make money but what is the point about full time and staff nurses?
Full time 12hr. shift is technically 36 hours a week-when I did them we were required to stay 30 minutes each shift to overlap the new shift coming on while we gave the hand off report-so 37.5 hours. Feds are reimbursing for 40 hour weeks-Hospital is pocketing the difference. I think that is what is meant.
Well, sure, the hospitals are pocket the difference, or rather, the hospital executives are because they can’t be without their multimillion $$$$$ bonuses. /s
Yes, it is. Thank you.
My stepdaughter works 36 and gets paid for 40 as a RN. It must not be universal. It is the same in the power industry where I worked but about 15 minutes and no government reimbursement. One of the hazards of rotating shift work, which I did for 40 years before retiring.
In that clip it is stated she is a Medical Assistant. Medical Assistants have taken the place of RN’s and LPN’s to save money, and no special training program is required, only a High School Education. MA’s are responsible for important information that the clinician needs to assess, diagnose and treat patients, including thorough medical record, history and obtaining the results of studies/blood work etc. and placing that info on the chart. Clinicians are hamstrung by MA’s that do not know what they are doing or are too lazy to do it. This also needs to be addressed.
I thought i had heard that Ponce was an ma or pct. The ACA was also making the nurses “prove” their benefit to health care/hospitals, because the hospital bean counters did not want to pay the nurses what they were truly worth. The department of nursing budget is still pretty much the largest budget within a hospital.
And about those MA’s…they pretty much work under the guidance or shall we say, the license of the RN who is also caring for the patient so it is the RN’s job to make sure the MA or PCT do theirs and make sure that she knows of something that her own clinical education might consider important and be missed by the other.
That was one of the reasons I quit the MSN program…I was so diametrically opposed to everything that was being pushed…CRT, DEI etc…
30 years ago, there was a push for the nurses to have a BSN. It was shown that the BSN prepared nurse contributed to a hospital’s improved patient outcomes.
Now that the focus is on costs and affordability and the changing landscape of health care, that concept has been, shall we say ‘deep sixed’. Its all about the money.
While I am ranting….it behooves the consumer to know the number of hospital days that their health insurance company allows for, with relation to an admission and diagnosis….questions to ask the ER doctor if being admitted. There are guidelines for admission, transition to a lower level of care and discharge. The hospital wants you there for the allowed time. The insurance company wants you out. The biggest offenders are Medicare and Medicaide.
Amen. The guidelines for nursing,, physicians via DRGs, etc are mindboggling..
The damage I have seen MA’s do was in the clinical office setting–and they were not supervised by an RN, their mistakes had to be corrected by the physicians who had minimal time as it is with patients. The MA’s could not document accurately the drugs a patient was taking, past medical history and were not willing to track down results of studies like MRi, CT etc. They all had massive fake hair and gel nails though. Heck, on several occasions they refused to go get the patients from the waiting room and put them in a room! I do remember the push for Nurses to get their BSN, I went that route myself. Can’t say I noticed any difference except BSN’s got administrative positions more readily .
NAILED IT !
MA’s vs LICENSED MA’s and the INDIVIDUAL STATE Requirements ARE IMPORTANT to KNOW !
a local Clinic was / is talking about MA’s doing urinary catheters ( rumor ) …
( illegal by my research )
SORRY
( and i DO NOT get my Shots from a Pharmacy either )
MA fancy name for a nursing assistant. It’s been that way for decades.
Part of the ‘on the nurses back’, is management refusing to hire aides. None of my colleagues know where the aides are, and those few hired, maybe 1 per floor, arent doing the work or can’t keep up.
Haven’t heard a nurse tell me since covid, that a hospital is safe or tolerable.
I concur. I could write a book on outrageous, not accidental, patient care, treatment, and discharges.
Epstein files was just another Democrat-IC Russian Collusion Anti-Trump Psyop attempt that failed.
Switzerland has always done this from what I read. Certain regions go back 10years. I wonder if this applies to refugees too?
Triggered me ya did….
I just finished my annual credential updating, including the federal or Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals…it is full of “cultural competence” and DEI, hidden behind ‘health care disparities;.
Culture is defined as a pattern of learned beliefs and behaviors that are shared among groups. It includes: • Thoughts and beliefs • Styles of communicating and interacting • Views on roles and relationships • Values, practices, and customs Culture is shaped by various influences, including: • Race, ethnicity, nationality • Language • Gender • Socioeconomic status • Physical and mental ability • Sexual orientation • Occupation….”
and….
According to The Joint Commission, five essential components of cultural competence for healthcare workers are: • Valuing diversity • Assessing one’s own cultural competence • Managing cultural differences • Incorporating cultural knowledge into care • Adapting to diversity…”
Assessing one’s own “cultural competence”, is a back door to Critical Race Theory, which is still alive and well, just hidden in different jargon….demanding I assess my own alleged internal biases. I think the tools used in my recent experience are way outdated. And maybe not…it seems there is still argument on the topic, at policy levels. In education and health care. IMHO, “valuing diversity” is discriminatory towards me. RANT over.
At the end of my day, I treat everyone in the manner in which I want to be treated. The population I favor, is the incarcerated, who are basically ignored at and by all segments of society.
I don’t see or hear too much about them and their needs….
The incarcerated have Free room and board, free medical and dental and free education. Then when they are released they can go to college for free with all supplies free, plus other free stuff to help them “to get on their feet”. I learned this 45+ years ago when I wen back to college for some computer classes and there was a woman there that had just finished serving her time and she was touting all the free stuff she was getting. They aren’t ignored. While inside they Learn how to beat the system and get their share of the bounty.
Sherry, yes, no argument from on that and beating the system…
but, a big one, the AF male is prone to a lot of serious life threatening chronic illnesses related to heart, strokes, kidneys and diabetes…yet, more often than not, they are not afforded patient teaching for the needs for their antihypertensive medications or other meds…or the importance of sticking to the diabetic diet and medication. I cannot tell you the number of persons I have done patient teaching, who did not understand that they could have a stroke if their blood pressure gets too high…or fry their kidneys…and then need dialysis.
They don’t know the questions to ask. Many are functionally illiterate. So there are obstacles faced.
The commercial correctional health care providers aim to do the least for the most and many times the patient is lost in the system.
Im sure you hear what I do, their care is awful on most shifts with many prison staffers
Yup. Feelin’ the pain with ya….
They’ll probably make an exception for gold teeth like they did during the WW II…
That is actually supposed to be the way it works here.
’bout darn time too.
I am old enough to remember VOTING on a state wide ballot to remove rent control, which was in place in Boston, Brookline and Cambridge back in 1994.
Sure enough, the Communists are attempting to go back to the future, with a ballot measure which would affect municipalities statewide:
https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-rent-control-signatures-2026/69513064
“Everywhere we went, we heard about how high rents (translation: importation of hundreds of thousands or a million illegal aliens) are displacing workers and seniors,” Rose Webster-Smith, director of Springfield No One Leaves, said in a press release distributed Tuesday.”
vs.
“Real estate industry groups, which unsuccessfully urged Attorney General Andrea Campbell to block the measure earlier this year, are preparing for a high-profile fight. Critics argue rent control would suppress badly needed housing production and conflict with constitutional protections for property owners.
“The risks of this ballot question for our economy cannot be overstated. It is not an opt-in: this question creates the most restrictive rent control program in the entire United States and forces it on every city and town across the Commonwealth. It will unquestionably make our housing crisis worse and significantly reduce the supply of quality homes on the rental market,” the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Massachusetts Association of Realtors and NAIOP Massachusetts said in a statement.”
Morning friend Chris,
In the Cultural Marxist Utopia of NJ, the NJ Supreme Court Edomites ruled that every town had to provide “Affordable Housing” so they could bring in Democrat-Marxist voters and ruin the towns like they did to Newark NJ as Jack Cashill exposed so well in his great book “Untenable” using the town people’s extorted taxes to pay for their own destruction!
The irony is many of those towns have residents whose parents/grandparents/great-grandparents fled from their homes in the once great and beloved city of Newark that the Alinsky Democrats-IC destroyed and are now going to see their towns destroyed again. Their immigration invasion is a big part of this.
“For what is taking place, what has taken place, is a bloodless coup by judges who have arrogated to themselves the powers of legislatures to make laws and remake society in their own image–without recourse to referenda or free elections.
When judges in New Jersey can order legislators to write new laws that conform to their ideology, laws the people have not only not demanded, but viscerally and violently oppose, we have ceased to be a free country or a democratic republic.
“Who rules?” That is what is at issue in New Jersey.
For 50 years this nation permitted the Warren Court, and its successors and imitators in the state courts, to create a body of judge-made law that has altered the character of our country, very much for the worse.
Again and again the people have voted for candidates for president, Congress, and governor who promised to ring down the curtain on this half-century of judicial tyranny. But still the judges persist in issuing orders that have no basis either in precedent or in the written constitutions they have sworn to defend.” Pat Buchanan
Why Submit to Judicial Tyranny?
http://www.stcroixreview.com/index.php/past-issues/item/149-why-submit-to-judicial-tyranny
Good afternoon, Colkitto.
If rent control is passed it will directly adversely impact my fiancé and me.
Sometimes, Massachusetts residents are discerning in rejecting the bull fecal matter put before them.
Congratulations Chris. May you and your fiance’ have a long and fruitful life together. Remember to keep God in your marriage and you’ll do great.
Eva doesn’t pretend not to see things, thanks for posting.
Cheers SM.
To kill off the West they must first destroy your comfort, you know, housing, food, medical, belief system Christian vs Isalmo-Goonism.
Open the front door and invade the 1st world with the 3rd world, voila, you’ve created chaos and inside of the chaos re-imagined, Build Back Better 15 minute cities, digital ID horse twaddle.
We must fight back, Fight, Fight, Fight!
On the money as usual friend StanH.
De-Christianizing America
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/06/de-christianizing-america.html
The communist and the Islamist will work together to defeat the west, but eventually they will have to battle for control if they are successful. Communism and Islam cannot coexist. It make one wonder if Mamdani is a communist or Islamic. I think he is and Islamic using communism for his evil purposes.
See my rant within this thread about Joint Commission’s statement of culture as related to health care….if i am not mistaken, a lot of this became ‘codified’ from the (un)Affordable care Act.
Those ideas have been around health care, for quite a while. And emotionally, there seems to be an attitude of entitlement amongst many of the third world…entitlement to the benefits that we the people provide via our tax dollars.
There is NO Way In Hell that any Bush would allow common people to provide any part of a solution.
They are much more like the WEF slob. Just less honest about it.. Make us do whatever they tell us to do and make us be happy about it. Or Else.
🎯
California solved the affordable housing crisis:
California’s tent encampments for the homeless, often referred to as “safe sleeping villages,” can be extremely costly, with San Francisco spending about $61,000 per tent annually. These costs include amenities like meals, security, and sanitation facilities, making them more expensive than traditional housing options.
Only in Kommunist Kalifornia!
Wh.y do they not create camp sites and use pre owned travel trailers?
Not as much graft in their pocket…
Remember When Rob Reiner Helped Launch The “Committee To Investigate Russia”?
https://connecticutcentinal.com/remember-when-rob-reiner-helped-launch-the-committee-to-investigate-russia/
https://investigaterussia.org/
Rob Reiner’s Legacy as Democratic Power Player Rivals His Hollywood Stature
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/rob-reiner-politics-hollywood-stature-1236452086/
The last thing the enemy wants is Christianity united, and an alliance with Orthodox Christian Russia & its allies would do that.
They’ve been trying to exterminate us since the days of the Essene Nazarenes (and before)
“Donald Trump’s ascendance to the White House — first in 2016 and then again last year — challenged Hollywood’s liberal political establishment. In 2017, Reiner and his wife helped launch the Committee to Investigate Russia, focused on compiling information about apparent Russian interference in American elections, which the president has often referred to as a hoax. Reiner later revealed he was developing a limited series about the relationship between Trump and Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.”
Brennan has sent out many Trans killers.
This one tidied up a mess for him personally, didn’t it?
Our President Donald J Trump was right, and John “Prayer Mat” Brennan is a proven liar and coup plotter. This creep is long overdue to face justice.
Trump slams outgoing CIA Director John Brennan
Is AI rewriting history, I just did a Brave search that is saying he is not a muslim and has discussed his catholic upbringing.
So, am wondering ‘what is the truth’….we need a wolverine flashlight.
I’m a dork that prints things like that.
An old adage from one of my 2nd job gigs as an insurance agent:
If it isn’t written down, it didn’t happen.
Same as that old saying “if it doesn’t have a date, it doesn’t exist”.
So, they rubbed him out?
Confirmation on that feeling I’ve had since I heard about the Reiners being murdered. Never trusted commie Carl at all, and seeing that lying Col. Clapper (as I knew him way-back-when) in his contacts list is extra confirmation.
Thanks again CK.
Also remember Ms.O said, he and Barry were having dinner that very evening with said ” producer ”
I wonder how many other producers get both O’s for dinner?
Here’s my answer to Tucker’s ignorance. ~
They have all the terrorists in the world, why can’t they defend themselves?
Tucker is ignorant on soooo many things.
But I couldn’t stick with this.
Didn’t even start with Tucker’s ignorance, just jumped to essential ally, and started arguing place.
When you make claims but don’t deliver,
When you bore even those who want to agree with you,
You are not winning the argument.
The average everyday American doesn’t realize how much the anti-America Marxist/Communist has taken over the minds of the People. The “Bad Guys” use TDS as a weapon against the weak-minded making them willing subjects for what ultimately destroys them.
The next 3-years will determine the kind of America it will be for the People of the United States. The option becomes more vivid each day. The final outcome remains to be realized. At this point in time it is a War of the minds.
The Rapture is a happening thing.
Without a doubt they are employing some kind of “indoctrination” tool (not just plain old propaganda) throughout all media. What’s that saying? “The media IS the message”. Anyway I’ve personally witnessed (so have most) that the covid era was the dividing line (possibly the grooming had already been done during the deplorable era), and I’ve witnessed friends whom I’ve known for 30 years, now become hostile even angry if any topic regarding covid/vax, Trump, Israel, Russia, climate change, comes up. Like a switch, a wall is thrown up and there’s no space for discussion. People I’d known, got drunk with, cried with over lost loves, attended weddings, buried relatives, and never before ever got so divisive over any issues (except girlfriends).
One thing I do find in common however is, every last one has and does receive ALL their “news” from the MSM. Very seldom do they seek any “other” source to verify. Ask them if they trust politicians, governments, financial worlds, and they’ll say (hesitantly as if they’re not sure) No.
Yet when it comes to it, they’ll obey without question any “official” instruction they receive via their “news”. The very definition of sheep.
Though, you can be sure they view us as Lost.
I actually feel sorry for them. – sometimes!
That ranting nurse is one very good example…where she kept mercilessly hounding that poor lady who worked for Target.
I wonder if that lady has a civil rights case?
A guest in Target’s house…psychologically and emotionally abused that poor woman. I hope at the bare minimum, that she is banned forever, from Target.
Society has gotten very mean…it is evident in the non verbal in the grocery stores to the road rage on highways…and its far more than ‘holiday stress’.
The younger generation has lost all respect for anyone…anything…
I remember days when we respected the elderly and where polite.
People are standing by this older woman.
I believe almost $100,000 has been raised for her by the community.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Zephaniah 3
The Rise Of The Pollyannas -Johnny Enlow Unfiltered – YouTube:
“… She was, best we can tell, not a real person. Pollyanna came is it was a best-selling 1913 novel by an author named Eleanor Porter and then she had over 10 sequels that she wrote. Her books and her writing became very popular and they were called the Glad Books.
So Pollyanna Whittier is a young orphan who goes to live with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly in Vermont. Pollyanna’s philosophy of life centers on what she calls the Glad Game. Like in whatsoever state I am, I can be content. She learned from her father. The game consists of finding something to be glad of in every situation. I don’t know where else you get it, but from Paul. Paul said in whatsoever state I am there to be content. With this philosophy, Pollyanna transforms her aunt’s dispirited New England hometown and it becomes a pleasant place to live. She changes a whole town with this disposition. She teaches some of the town’s most troubled citizens to play the Glad Game and it transforms them.
Glad Clubs formed everywhere. People would get together, it was really popular on Thursday nights that they’re having a Glad Club and so everybody goes to the Glad Club to tell something good that is happening in the midst of a testing, even while that’s taking place. Pollyanna has a buoyant refusal to be downcast. Her aunt is the slowest to be won over. But Pollyanna’s robust optimism is given an ultimate challenge when she is hit by a car and loses the use of her legs.
As it sets in, what this means, she begins to lose her joy because day after day after day in bed, she can’t find anything to be glad about. My goodness. This time she begins to reap what she has sowed in a good way. As town’s people begin calling and telling her Aunt Polly how her previous encouragement improved their lives. Pollyanna decides she can be glad that at least she still has her legs. There is a happy ending and she regains usage of legs and learns to walk again. She is now glad she went through what she did because she appreciates walking more than ever.
This story had anointing on it for us, but again, it’s become badmouthed over the years and it’s become badmouthed in the body of Christ and I’ve actually been accused of that. Who of us haven’t said that a hundred times in our life? I don’t mean to be all Pollyanna on you, because we’re apologizing for being optimistic about something, being able to find the silver lining, find the Lord, find out even though I’m walking through the valley of the shadow of death, I don’t have to fear. That’s what David’s saying in Psalm 23.
This evil thinking against Pollyanna persists today. The Lord told me 12 years ago “I want a Pollyanna bride and a Pollyanna people.”
So Pollyanna became known as the Glad Girl. Parker Brothers had a board game for over 50 years. They had a board game called the Glad Game. It was implementing this kingdom truth. Never called it kingdom truth. I’ve never had a heard of a pastor or minister praise this at all. And it’s always been looked down at. The Holy Spirit’s telling me to hang on this for just a minute right now. There is way too much validation in the body of Christ for what the 10 spies do. The 10 spies go and become experts on what the enemy is doing. And we have a whole lot of ministries. We have a whole lot of Christian influencers who are building audiences. And you have ministers building audiences or being 10 spies where is you highlight how you can see the enemy.
The 10 spies were slain before the Lord for causing the people to be disheartened from what the Lord actually had for them. If we go to the Biblical storyline, Caleb obviously is the ultimate Pollyanna. Caleb says, “They will be bread for us.” He’s like, “I see them. Yeah, they’re big. Um, yeah, they’re ferocious. But listen, we can be the head, not the tail, because that’s what He wants us to be. Look at these grapes. They’re all ready. Again, that’s the Glad Game. Here’s the grapes. Yeah, it’s a land that has no Christian presence, no Jewish presence for them. These are Nephilim. These are the worst of the worst idolators, religious corruption, and evil at its highest. And this is who they are. Again, we have to be careful. I hear the Holy Spirit saying, “Hang on this just a little bit, Johnny.” There is there is a real danger right now in the body of Christ of us hanging on [to the bad report].
It’s one thing to expose the lies, which we do need to do, but the other is just hanging on it, making that our reality, and forgetting to add “It will be bread for us, the Lord is for us.” This is where the Lord wants us to make an adjustment today.”
Philippians 4:8
Yes, Lord!
Rest in the Vine: “The Rise of the Pollyannas” and “Getting On God’s Feed And Algorithm”
by Johnny Enlow
I request that President Trump make a national address arguing why Americans must continue to make personal sacrifices for A.I.
My electric bill had a 20% price hike this month on a top of a 10% price hike in June. The PC market is out of control. There are rumors of going back to 4G phones and 8 GB laptops. The gaming industry is facing an existential crisis due to A.I-induced hardware pressure.
And for what benefit? Why are we making these sacrifices? Why are we reducing our quality of life? So that big corporations like McDonald’s can waste our sacrifice making demoralizing, anti-Christian commercials with A.I.? So that Mark Zuckerberg can make “sensual A.I. chatbots” for teenagers? I’d rather have my old electric bill.
This isn’t WWII or Cold War America. Trust in the federal government is gone. If there are tangible A.I. benefits to be had, they aren’t reaching the average American. We need a strong message on this issue and we needed it yesterday. I’ve 100% tried to be optimistic and keep an open mind on the A.I. issue, but I’m staring down an expensive electric bill, losing my hobby, and downgrading my devices for it, AND FOR WHAT? Please explain.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TRUTH SOCIAL about it:
“The Wall Street Journal has another ridiculous story today that China is dominating us, and the World, on the production of Electricity having to do with AI.
They’re WRONG, as usual!
Every AI plant being built in the United States is building its own Electric Generating Facilities.
The approvals are being given carefully, but very quickly, a matter of weeks.
Any excess Electricity being produced is going to our Electric Grid, which is being strengthened, and expanded, for other purposes than AI, like never before.
In other words, AI has far more Electricity than they will ever need because, they are building the facilities that produce it, themselves.
We are leading the World in AI, BY FAR, because of a gentleman named DONALD J. TRUMP!”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115702734737677434
And China uses cheap plentiful coal. The green weenies are preventing that here, along with building new cheap energy nuke plants.
The United States leads the world in coal reserves, holding approximately 273.2 billion tons of coal. This accounts for about 23.2% of the total global coal reserves.
In the last 25 years, approximately 500 coal-fired power plants have been retired in the United States. This trend is largely attributed to:
Economic Factors, Environmental Regulations and Market Changes
Remaining operational coal plants: Approximately 180 (as of 2025)
Nuclear Facilities in the US Over the Last 25 Years – Since 1998, only two new nuclear reactors have been built in the United States:
Vogtle Unit 3 – began operations in 2023.
Vogtle Unit 4 – was expected to start operations in 2024, not yet operational.
(permitted in the 1990’s)
In the last 25 years, China has built approximately 41 new nuclear reactors.
The problem IS OUR government.
*I worked in both industrial and commercial generation in my career. Burning Oil, Coal, Wood fiber and Natural gas.
Let’s look at this a different way Val. We’ll pretend that in fact every new data center and AI center will generate their own electricity and have an overabundance of it to sell cheaply to the grid.
The fact of the matter is that there are already hundreds of such centers which most definitely do NOT generate their own power.
Then there is the water issue.
Sorry – but there is NOTHING worth the price of unaffordable power and unobtainable water.
When it all shakes out you will find it is all about control, nothing more, nothing less. Both parties are on side and it will continue unless the people put a stop to it. It is part of the global control of people.
And it starts with controlling the narrative.
Always does, Aggiegirl, always does….
One of the things that frustrates me is the disconnect between cause and effect.
Trump embarrassed Obama by proving him wrong.
Trump delivered a great economy.
OBiden responded by making it hard for anyone to do that again. And ruining the economy.
Trump, reelected is working hard to undo OBiden’s roadblocks and restore the great economy.
Undoing EO’s is easy, good results though take time to happen.
Undoing harmful regulations is hard.
Undoing harmful laws, like the Green New Deal disguised as the Inflation Reduction lie, is even harder.
Yet despite the hurdles, Trump is improving the economy.
Your increased energy costs are not due to AI.
Remember, as the OBiden’s were going out the door, they ordered the killing of chickens to save us from the potential of avian flu, and then immediately blamed Trump for the high price of eggs and claimed he couldn’t fix inflation.
Remember, Democrats voted to end the emergency Covid expansion of Healthcare subsidies. Twice. Now that Covid is not a threat and the emergency is over, it is Republicans to blame because they are ending.
The real blame for increasing Healthcare costs is Obama’s (Un)Affordable Healthcare Act. Subsidies are to mask the pain as the system crumbles.
I don’t know why your electricity went up. But that stuff is always public. Look it up.
In the mean time, we all need to take the media ring out of our noses so that we don’t follow the deceptions.
And to AI.
Turing called his test an Imitation Game.
Deceiving observers.
Most of the so called benefits are impossible to achieve hype.
Computers do what they are told (programmed). Period.
This AI hype is covering up significant increases in what computers can be told to do.
Remember that picture of some STASI sitting by a bank of tape recorders spying on all the east Germans living in an apartment building. AI can do that so much more efficiently. So the Stasi can just ask it who to arrest. And it can spit out evidence it got by spying on you.
Computers don’t know what words mean. They can cite a definition, but the words are empty.
Computers can’t judge good VS bad.
Computers have no morals.
And computers can’t think.
But they can be told to lie to you. To deceive and mess with your teenager looking for love. To make videos showing you saying something you never said. To substitute itself for all your future thinking.
And they are really good at plagiarizing.
I’m sorry you feel that way. The rise in my electric bill has been due to the green energy push in my state. They claim they’re redoing the grid but over the past four years, the push for windmills and solar panels has laid waste to our rural area and the only ones profiting are the politicians, lessors(leasees?) who move and the out of state companies! Our poles have been completely neglected and the entire electric grid was bought by none other foreign countries, who are unaccountable to anyone! The whole intended purpose of the green agenda!
It is a literal arms race sadly. As with all arms races, there will be collateral damage. Likely this time the impact will be on all of us in ways we could have never imagined.
There is no way to unring that bell. Sorry, it is what it is.
There needs to be a push for modern modular nuclear reactors. Let the server farms for the AI produce there own energy. Keeping things modular will also have massive impact on national security and help protect the grid in case of attack or disaster.
Turns out Mr Reiner was a bigtime Op Mockingbird agent. A major force in the Russian Collusion Psyop & Coup.
What Is Operation Mockingbird, The CIA’s Alleged Program That Infiltrated America’s Top News Organizations?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-mockingbird
The Reiner grandfather was born in Ukraine. (Possibly related to Bill Barr’s grandfather and the Vindman chap, among others.)
Liberal Karen at a border checkpoint. Op Mockingbird has warped millions of mentally ill Liberal minds.
Karen Refused To state her US status and now suffers Consequences
Those shorter vids crack me up! Thanks for posting!
Don’t shoot off your mouth at any law enforcement officer. If you live in a border state, put a laminated copy of your passport card(s) or other documentation clipped to the driver’s side visor, for any unexpected roadblock you might encounter on some country road. When actually crossing, you will need to possess the original and have copies, for instance in your luggage.
And, be certain that you have one, and that it’s always a little more than a year from expiration. (Some countries won’t let you in, if it’s six months or less away.)
If you are here on a lawful visa, or you have swarthy skin, have a laminated copy in your wallet at all times. (Any office-supply store can make one on the spot.) An ICE agent walks up to you, or your place of employment gets checked, and you say, “here you go, sir … I have the original at home.”
They do have the right and the duty to verify your legal citizenship status. Don’t make their job more difficult than it already is. They can “put the fear of God in you” before they let you pass, and you’d deserve it.
Yep! NY, we lost a seat and redistricted a Republican(RINO) out!
MNN BREAKING…
* EDUCATIONISH EXPURTS SAY STATE COLLEGES HAVE FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH THEIR PREMEIR LEGACY UNIVERSITY COMPETITION
“WE FEEL THAT STATE COLLEGES LIKE UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY ARE NOW PRODUCING YOUNG TERRORISTS EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS OUR IVY LEAGUE TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP- COUNTERPARTS,” SAID STATE COLLAGEN SPOKESWOMAN LANG LI-LANGLEY
Manufactured News Network: “There is No $1776 Christmas Bonus if You Served as First Chemist on a Venezuelan Fishing Boat!”
Thrilled that President Trump decided to have a nationwide address last night. Glad he laid out facts on the economy and immigration. Don’t at all understand the frantic pace or the tone bordering on yelling at the nation. It was a lost opportunity to calm people because of the tenor of the speech which dragged down the impact of the facts.
A response to the attempts to divide MAGA…he needed to do this…the charts shown, give it reality…
Thrilled that we are supporting Trump.
Oh wait. Never mind.
Keep on attacking him and trying to drive away his supporters.
You do you.
Supporters since the escalator. Never attacked President Trump and never will. Last night was an address to the entire nation and it was a miss. Came off as angry and lost a great communication opportunity. MAGA doesn’t need reassurance but there were lots of people who did. Gave way too much campaign material to the Dems with mid terms lurking.
You do know that is a standard NeverTrump tactic.
Say you support him.
Call him frantic.
Describe him as yelling.
Say he is angry.
Say he failed.
Say he wasted his opportunity.
We have watched years of attacks on Trump.
We have watched years of attempts to drive us away.
A long time ago, I had to purge myself of being concerned.
Concern breeds concern. It spreads like some zombie virus.
You don’t have to be a troll to function like a concern troll. Every troll’s victim becomes a troll too.
And nobody reading your concern can tell the difference.
It is also difficult to find the right balance between Pollyanish hopium and Eeyore like doomcasting.
Realism requires both optimism and pessimism.
You need hope to move forward. And problems need to be seen to be fixed.
And criticism needs to be constructive or it will be destructive.
But seriously, we have experienced over a decade of these tactics being used against Trump. Against us.
I finally reached that point today. I can’t fix the overall problem so why get upset about it.
Great post! Sums it up beautifully.
You forgot they also say he is an alcoholic, which is a new one for 2026.
These r3t4rds out themselves here everyday and they can’t help it. Take names
Go back to Bluecry. He was phenomenal
President Trump had every right to be angry. He is human, you know.
Ever notice that EVERYTHING President Trump does is “a lost opportunity”?
I still think that we need to look at “MAGA,” not as an acronym on a red hat, and not as a “Tea Party” like “movement.”
In his National Security statement, Trump said it typically clearly: We are going to put America First, and we expect every other nation to do the same with their nation. If every nation is putting itself first, then good negotiations and good results will follow. (Remember Dr. Chester Karrass in those in-flight mags, back when airlines still published them?)
This has to be: “something that America does, all the time.” Both when Trump is in the WH and forever after. It takes a certain amount of skill to negotiate, and Trump of course has that in spades from a lifetime of business experience. He wrote a book or three about it . . .
If you don’t put [your_nation] first, no one else on earth ever will. And, why on earth should they?
Oh my. You want a “kinder gentler” Trump.
I voted for a bull in a china shop.
The tough dude from Queens….
Chy-Na
No doubt He voted for Biden
morning Treepers…………..be well
Good morning bjorkdream. 🙏❤️
Good Morning.
VA Director Collins firing back at the rabid-leftist Washington Post:
Point One — WaPo trying to “mislead people into thinking VA is going to fire 35,000 health care workers. That’s false, a lie. No VA employees are being removed”…
https://x.com/SecVetAffairs/status/2000642662152503602
The December European Council summit is underway in Brussels. EU leaders are expected to address Ukraine, enlargement, the geo-economic situation, and more. Follow Euractiv’s liveblog for continuous updates
i doubt participants ate french fries for lunch today 😛
Farmer’s protest escalates outside the European Parliament as some protestors throw objects – including potatoes – at the police, who have responded with tear gas and water cannons.
A quick question. Has anyone ever seen Charlie Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson and Beto O’Rourk in the same room. The dudes are twins.
I said that waaaay back when this all first started. Glad somebody else sees it.
The left refers to everything and anything that is not pro communism as “Far right” .
“Far right” = Patriotic and Just.
Everything is politics..it’s just that people die because of it
Why is this guy even involved in a murder investigation? Something stinks….
The last occasion that I took notice of RI was when Texas sent a plane load of illegal immigrants to Nantucket. The people of that sanctuary state promptly gathered the illegals and transported them to a controlled site away. from that enclave of “superiority”.
Now they seem to prioritize a murderer avoiding justice because the intended target / victim was a young conservative with a promising future. Every RI official who steps into the public eye is an embarrassment.
Rhode Island doesn’t have much “curb appeal” from my perspective here in Appalachia.
“Shuddup,” Sheldon explained.
“When we have our alibi completed, the peasantry will be informed. Unless I have a regatta that day.”
Trump drops receipts on US savings since Biden’s Oval Office exit
President says wages rising faster than inflation for first time in years during Wednesday speech
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-drops-receipts-us-savings-since-bidens-oval-office-exit
Liberal attack, no liberal media can think, they can only parrot talking DNC talking points:
MSN“Trump plays the blame game in White House address. Here are 5 takeaways
AOL: Daily Briefing: Trump plays the blame game
Political Wire: Trump Plays the Blame Game
Good Authority: Why the blame game finally turned on Trump
Cloaking Equity: The Blame Game: How Trump, University Leaders, et al. Dodge Accountability
The Columbian: Letter: Trump plays blame game
Pressreader: Trump Plays the Blame Game
US News: Trump Plays the Blame Game and Harris Climbs Aboard the Swiftie Train
Lee News Central: Trump plays the blame game in White House address. Here are 5 takeaways
Need I go on? There are pages and pages more of Trump Plays the Blame Game’ on DuckDuckGo, No conservative opinion in sight. Seems the talking points were out before the speech.
No Trump told the TRUTH and Democrats can’t handle the truth. Biden and the Democrats screwed up the economy. Obama and the Democrats screwed up healthcare. Biden and the Democrats screwed up the border. Biden and the Democrat’s corrupted the government. Biden and the Democrats caused all the crime and violence.
The liberal media is hoping you are stupid enough to put the people that screwed everything up back in power and take the guy out still fixing things. Sadly there are a lot of people that stupid.
Diabolic plan.
Screw up the economy.
Make it even harder to fix.
Blame Trump.
Accuse Trump of playing the blame game.
…
Remember. You’re suffering is all part of their plan.
Elon sidelined the censorship, but they still deliver the Pain and Propaganda.
You’re on fire today! Great posts and so 100% true!
Thanks for the heads up
Embarrassing. I meant this for Harrison way up above.
But still, Thanks MSWords for your encouragement.
New York City, meet Joliet….
I reserve my opinions…The Joliet Diocese recently has had two, one for sure that I know of, Catholic schools close down, which seems to be a national trend. Is it leadership at the schools? Or the Diocesan levels?
May God Bless this man of God, guiding him in all his ways, as he enters the mess of NYC.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pope-leo-appoint-bishop-ron-hicks-new-york-archbishop-replacing-cardinal-dolan-source
it would seem the Catholic Church is on the wrong trajectory.
Recent data indicates an overall stability or slight growth in non-Catholic parochial schools. Here’s a breakdown of the trends:
Private School Growth: According to a 2024 Private School Enrollment Survey, 40% of private schools reported enrollment increases between the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years, exhibiting a positive trend for many schools.
Stable Figures: Enrollment in non-Catholic religious schools was approximately 2.0 million students in fall 2021, up from 1.7 million in the previous decade, suggesting a slow but steady growth.
I suspect that trend is partially due to the unsustainable and nonstop requests/demands for money. 30 years ago, while my kids attended, it was budget braking, and that all comes after the monthly tuition payment. From candy bars to extra collections and other events requiring ‘donations’…
Some states are making state education funding (from taxpayers)
available for K-12 students whom choose to attend private schools.
Jan. 2023
https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2023-01-24/gov-reynolds-signs-students-first-act-law
[ before 2023,
if someone wanted to have K-12 education at a private school,
then taxpayers paid:
-property taxes that were distributed to public schools only, and city budgets
-tuition for private school, if that was their choice.
[ i.e. taxpayers paid for k-12 education, twice, if they chose a private school ]
Beginning in 2023, taxpayers only pay once for tuition, AND they have a choice.
Not all states have gone along that path.
In Iowa,
the public schools are learning to become competitive (with better education) so as to help their enrollment numbers..
[ and there are tools to measure – and verify – the quality of education – at each school. That information is made available to the public.]
Its a win, win scenario…
Freemasons have been diehard (to put it mildly) opponents of private and religious K-12 schools for decades in Iowa.
Public schools aren’t a lot better. The grandkids and neighbor kids are constantly asking us to buy unneeded and unnecessary things for fund raisers. I asked my daughter can’t I just donate to the fund? No, you have to buy something to donate. Of course the people providing the merchandise are skimming off 80% or 90% of what is coming out of your pocket. Fundraiser companies have a good scam going there. Obligate your friends, families and neighbors, because it’s hard to turn the kids down and they all think they will sell the most and win the big prize that is offered for selling the most at a school.
“It’s Unbelievable”: Taxpayers’ Money Still Flowing To Indicted Fraud Suspect
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-unbelievable-taxpayers-money-still-flowing-indicted-fraud-suspect-minnesota-lawmaker
A Minnesota lawmaker alleged on Dec. 17 that a man awaiting trial on federal charges that he laundered $1.1 million in taxpayer dollars and his wife continue to collect payments from other government programs, a state lawmaker said Dec. 17.
The fraud is massive and has been going on for years and allowed/encouraged by politicians.
At this point the extent of the fraud is incalculable. Think NGOs and USAID.
the reason it was allowed was because some of that dough was coming back to the political machines, their candidates, and the candidates inner circles. It still is and everyone involved is just waiting on Trump’s departure to resume all of it on steroids.
The GOP hated what Elon Musk was doing just as much as the left did. His DOGE team was the camel’s nose under the tent. They didn’t ID but a few percent of what’s going on.
How much worse can it get. Sometimes I wonder if we even have a legitimate government anymore.
One doesn’t have to wonder if it is a legitimate criminal organization.
I’ve seen comments about POTUS’ head fake to get on national TV and give basically a list of all his accomplishments so far. Pretty brilliant.
In the social news feed there are still many saying, I love Donald Trump …. but what he said about Rob Reiner was awful and classless.
I have learned to trust Donald Trump to be much smarter than me. Usually his “awful tweets” that make the left go ape, accomplish something much more effective. We just have to wait.
The Reiner comments are another example. I knew Riener was a crazy leftist. But I had no idea how vile the things were that he said about Donald Trump and MAGA. The daily trashing of Trump and MAGA. Far more awful than anything Donald Trump said.
But as a result of the presidents Truth post about Reiner far more publicity has come to light and far more discussion about the real truth of Riener:
— he was a talented director, made some good movies
— he used his influence to state his opinions and called for the death of our president many times
— his son was homeless, a drug addict, and transitioning to “change genders” and Rob was supporting it
— it was not going well — about as well as common sense would expect before the world went Woke/DEI
— Riener was contributing to many questionable causes that were abusing and trafficking people, exploiting people, and associated with extreme sexual perversion
The American people are waking up, but we still have our heads pretty deep in the sand. The degree of abuse, perversion, manipulation, killing, stealing, extortion that is being done in our country is worse than most of us know and can even accept in truth.
Donald Trump is feeding us the truth as fast as we can pay attention and listen.
There is no room or place for presidential “decorum” in dealing with the destruction and evil ravaging of this nation that is happening. We need to wake up.
The biggest limiting factor to the goals of MAGA is not our enemies — it is the inability of We the People to see and comprehend what is being done to us, and THEN react appropriately.
This is not the time for gentlemanly discourse. We need our Trump Lion — Not to be Royal and Regal. We need him to be in full bore ravaging mode — but We the People must be with him. He needs us. Anything less will not be effective.
I think President Trump was spot on of his comments about Reiner. In fact, I think he toned it down.
There is a time and place for everything. That was not the right time nor the right place.
I can only imagine how Reiner would have responded if Trump’s assassination attempt was successful. Reiner was brilliant in his field but was always a lowlife dirtbag.
Reiner was a leftist asshole. Presidents should rise up to a higher level. Anyone who feels proud of what President Trump said is setting a very low bar.
I was just surprised he responded at all…that he thought it was worth his time, other than the trite offers of condolences.
Anyone surprised by President Trump’s posting on Reiner’s murder hasn’t been paying attention for ten years. I too wish he wouldn’t post/say things like that because punching down is rarely effective and always comes across as bullying. But this is who Trump was, is, and will always be. Everyone who voted for him knew this was who he is when they cast their vote. I disagree that a ravaging tone increases effectiveness as President even in these dark times, and there is always room for Presidential “decorum”. But I also know we will never get that from this President and I am fine with that.
You win the Gold Medal for the most passive-aggressive post on this site.
But no one cares what you think. This site is dedicated to saving our country. There is no room for people who get their jollies tearing it down.
We get truth and decorum everyday lib
You’re pushing it….
Presidential decorum would not have brought sunlight.
People want the truth but then are uncomfortable with it. They clutch their pearls while claiming support then fall apart when they get it.
They mention people disloyal in the cabinet while being disloyal in their support
President Trump’s remarks put Reiner under a microscope.
Had President Trump remained ‘gentlemanly’ the majority of the country wouldn’t have a clue as to the nefarious activities of Reiner and would have continued to think of Reiner as just some old, funny, and sometimes mean-spirited liberal loudmouth.
President Trump risked drawing negative attention to himself in order to help us understand reality.
He knew his comments were going to be scrutinized.
Speaking of reality, go look up Billy Crystal’s and Al Franken’s ‘comedy’ remarks those two made to Reiner at that celebrity roast.
Try not to vomit.
If people want to jump on the liberal bandwagon and scold President Trump, then knock yourselves out.
0.o
“Albanese outlined five key reforms in Canberra, including aggravated hate speech offenses for inciting violence, tougher penalties, and visa powers to block hate promoters.”
https://twitter.com/i/trending/2001635052472734192
https://x.com/Matt_Camenzuli/status/2001566996165800309
The emergency situation in the Odesa region, caused by massive russian attacks on the energy infrastructure, has officially acquired the status of a state-level emergency.
Meanwhile, the Verkhovna Rada is on a month-long “vacation”.
No Minister of Energy has been appointed.
The entire Halushchenko vertical remains in place.
The President is on a trip.
So I went looking for Zelenskiy and found him giving a news conference in Brussels while the EU is holding the December European Council summit is underway in Brussels.
Settings have been made to translate to english, hope it works
Office of the President of Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/live/z24b62bG7Os?si=NfgfTDvmvlTpJcFo
So Ukraine will not cooperate with negotiations until it if forced into an agreement, first I believe that the US and Russia should negotiate a Treaty between the two nations. Then deal with Ukraine. 😛
In the video above CC must be applied to view the English
https://www.euractiv.com/news/using-frozen-russian-assets-for-ukraine-absolutely-just-says-zelenskyy/
Using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine ‘absolutely just’, says Zelenskyy
The Ukrainian president said he told Bart De Wever “everything” he could to persuade the Belgian premier to drop his staunch opposition to the €210 billion ‘reparations loan’
Excerpt:
Zelenskyy, however, pushed back on this argument on Thursday.
“Of course, the money is needed so that Russia and anybody else in the world does not use these Russian assets as a leverage against us,” he said. “We want these assets so that they are not a part of the negotiating process.”
Asked what he told De Wever during Thursday’s meeting, Zelenskyy said: “I think that he told me everything he wanted to tell me, and I did as well.”
“Was it productive? We’ll see. We just need a bit more time,” he added.
Glenn Youngkin just made the biggest RINO misstep of his career…
“This week, that pattern was on full display inside the US Capitol, where a statue of Robert E. Lee was replaced with one honoring civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns. And standing front and center, smiling ear-to-ear for the cameras, was Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin.”
https://revolver.news/2025/12/glenn-youngkin-just-made-the-biggest-rino-misstep-of-his-career/
Never heard Of Ms. Johns. Hope Youngkin is NOT planning on running for President in 28.
I live in VA. Youngkin never got rid of DEI as he claimed. My wife is a public school teacher and she has sent me the BS she is required to follow regarding LGBT and Illegals. Some truly sick sh-t. He completely failed. He was a bandaid on a bullet wound. And it was a generic crappy brand of bandaid. Spanberger is going to make life horrible in VA. I need to gtfoh asap.
That state is cooked, sadly. Might become even crazier than Cali.
Yup.
My SIL works at one of those VA schools. She told me last night that they got a notice from the Virginia governor to shut down the school if any ice agents are seen on the school campus. THIS after replacing all the windows with bullet proof glass about 3 years ago. She and my brother are crazy moonbat liberals and think this contradictory move is A-OK.
I am also in VA and I already got ran out of Cali. I have run out of road.
Youngkin personifies the Republican party. A country club RINO. The last gubernatorial election effectively squashed whatever future political aspirations he may have.
Trump administration takes the ICC to the sanctions woodshed once more.
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/rubio-says-us-sanctioning-icc-judges-for-targeting-israel-ce7d50dcdf8eff24
One citizen in the Philippines would like one more thing. Let Duterte go.
https://politiko.com.ph/2025/12/17/robin-padilla-on-us-sanctions-vs-icc-judges-day-of-reckoning/headlines/
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/18/ex-fda-commissioners-6-million-covid-vaccine-makers/
But the FDA is an independent agency and regulatory capture isn’t a thing, right?🤡
My Word 😛 He went for the Pants Suits…
AfD’s MEP Tomasz Frohlich calls out von der Leyen for her destructive policies
“Frau von der Leyen, you have made Europe a laughingstock for the entire world. You are corruption, censorship, deindustrialization, and geopolitical dysfunction”
He adds that von der Leyen damaged relations with Russia, ruined relations with US and China
I think he took a flame thrower to her pants suit. He was speaking truth
It turns out we don’t need to build millions of new apartments to bring down rent costs. We just needed to get rid of several million ILLEGALS who were living in already existing ones, many as “guests” of our government.
Not only were they living in those apartments, the government was helping to pay for it and when the government subsidies something, the price goes up, just look at college tuition.
It’s amazing what you can’t find when you’re not looking. This Brown U murder was clearly a targeted hit and was facilitated by many, including the university and maybe even people inside government in some way. I trust no one, including Blonde and Bollywood. They are both FoS and just protecting thoroughly corrupt gestapo government agencies.
The table is fully set nationally for more and more of this. You can’t walk down the street anywhere in America today, including most very small rural towns, without being on a dozen or more HD cameras 24/7. The people doing this aren’t deranged, they are confident because they know what’s supporting their efforts.
The people that did this at Brown are long gone and won’t be charged. I doubt it was one person on the scene, but likely a few. Same with Charlie Kirk. No way one person worked alone on all of that. The FBI might find a patsy and then crow about it at a press conference, but the real culprits are safe. Expect much more of this. I’m totally tired of the thoughts and prayers and vigils crap. It’s all presenting very cowardly to me.
“Experts warn that the $1 trillion surplus also enhances China’s economic leverage in Southeast Asia, influencing trade negotiations and geopolitical balances amid ongoing China-US competition.”
https://www.thailand-business-news.com/asean/268629-chinas-1-trillion-trade-surplus-what-it-means-for-asean#google_vignette