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Thank you ed.
Stillwater continues to update daily the prayers and scriptures at The Still Hour thread.
Link to the January 02, 2026 updated post.
Thank you Val for posting the link to the updated prayer. I have no idea how to get there!
Amen
AMEN
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
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 348 of the 2nd term of this very stable genius in the history of the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2025.
Amen
Amen
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
Amen
Amen
For those still pretending not to know things…
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/did-cias-secret-aiding-of-ukraines
Something that is worth watching! 💥
Limit our First Amendment?
I checked and even found the CNBC x post.
😳 😳 😳
Money Movers on X: “”I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the first amendment in order to protect it.” @CatoNetworks Co-Founder & CEO Shlomo Kramer dives into the cybersecurity risks on social media platforms as AI technology continues to advance. https://t.co/qTKLLVJfVo” / X
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews): “Israeli billionaire Shlomo Kramer’s New Year’s resolution is to eliminate America’s First Amendment. “I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it.”” | XCancel
Hey, Shlomo, pound sand!!!!!!
You worded that much more gently than I would have.
My message would include an extension of my middle finger.
You mean like Sundance’s Mickey Mouse 😂?
😉
Well, there is the second amendment to prevent that.
Ahhh …the jooz! 🙄
In context,
“Shlomo Kramer has publicly argued for limiting aspects of free speech on social media platforms to combat AI-driven misinformation and bots, stating that democratic countries may need to regulate content—such as requiring source disclosure, removing bots, or penalizing repeated lies—to preserve liberal democracy. In a 2025 interview, he warned AI could “destroy humanity as a liberal society” by eroding truth, suggesting governments intervene despite the tension with First Amendment principles.”
Based on this interview: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1xcifaolg
Just another reason for the Insurrection act the cya will not let peace happen…..have military dismantle the cya here in the US and forbid them coming back. The cya are responsible for so many in our military maimed and dead.
Nationwide Drug overdoses are collapsing since the Trump Adm vlosed bordercand started blowing up drug boats…
And
Z from you crane needs more $$$. Wonder if he thinks moving to his crib in Miami will lower cost??
Why are they furious with increased profits?
On second thought, maybe they are the purchasers and the republicans are the sellers.
Increased profit per unit is being offset by declining sales leading to less overall profits and maybe even losses after operating expenses. Boat coxswain pay has increased dramatically lately for some unknown reason and the boat coxswains want to get paid up front and give the money to a family member to hold until their return. This all leads to less money in Democratic coffers.
Simple economics.
Be Honest.
Biden’s former White House staff are furious!
And his son is going broke.
Unreal times……..
Somalia just installed as President of UN Security Council.
https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2026/01/01/somalia-assumes-rotating-presidency-of-u-n-security-council/
Oh the things people buy with stolen American money.
Somalia’s ambassador to the UN is a…. Daycare administrator in Ohio… You cannot make this up
Omg wait till you hear this
Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Abukar Dahir Osman was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There is another healthcare company in the SAME SUITE as his with a different name, and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names Of course…
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/2006811230837883277#m
Holy smokes you will never believe this
Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs owns a home healthcare company in Ohio. There’s two other healthcare companies in the same suite as his and multiple others at this address with Somali owners What are the odds…
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/2006852684771664087#m
But wait it gets MUCH worse
Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ business partner in his healthcare company is Abdul J Surey. It appears to be the same Abdul who works for a Somali money transfer who are accused of financing islamic t*rrorism. Nothing to see here…
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/2006856923199774805#m
Maybe it’s part of that international ring of daycare paper thieves. 🤔
Suspicious Fires Twice Destroyed Key Sharpton Records | National Review
Al burned down his offices twice. Once in 1997, and again the day after he filed to run in 2004.
NOTE: Blame the Somali junior partners and Democrats all you want, but this a UNIPARTY FUNDING MECHANISM.
ALL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS NOW ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO LOOT THE GOVERNMENT.
Republican party has two options…
They will have to take all 3 branches to pass legislation once the filibuster is nuked. I don’t see them doing that for quite some time. All these states showing Republicans gaining registered voters and Democrats losing them doesn’t bode well for them in coming elections, as well as the Republicans picking up many more seats than the Dems through redistricting. And if the SCOTUS ends up throwing out race-based redistricting in June, the Republicans could pick up close to 20 seats, mainly in the south.
In a free and fair election, you are probably correct. However, can we now say our elections are free and fair? I think not, thus I fear what will happen in the next election unless they are made free and fair. Am I alone here?
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There continues to be investigations and additional evidence of a ton of irregularities, fraud and corruption in the Georgia 2020 election. Election officials, state government officials, courts have all been involved in this corruption.
The Establishment Media doesn’t even mention this, the Establishment UniParty RINOs don’t seem to notice the obvious corruption. They won’t even pass the SAVE ACT to improve election integrity.
This is just one state of many that have shown tons of evidence of the 2020 corrupted election. So our Congress is doing nothing, the courts are delaying and running out the clock and states are expanding their rules to further improve their ability to cheat, no I.D., no citizenship, illegals vote, etc.
So you are so right! This must be fixed like so many other things in our corrupted systems of governance.
JMHO
You are not alone. Far from it.
Sometimes it feels like I am. Very little has been made of the Generals open letter to our President. The information in that letter was priceless in my view and it should be used as a road map to set things right. Yet little mention has been made here about this. Curious, that.
June will be too late for 2026. Last minute changes always get postponed till next time.
And they are still trying to sell everybody on how a couple elections nobody cares about mean the Republicans will be slaughtered. And that nobody believes Trump is making things better.
And while the potential of redistricting is huge, how many states are not helping Trump, like Indiana?
To win, we need to get the good news past the information gatekeepers.
Maybe so, but if the Dem’s take the house we are looking at one impeachment after another until 2028.
Not as I see it just the Senate….
JMO.
Below is the list of 24 republican senators who voted against eliminating the senate’s unconstitutional, globalist, filibuster rule.
Eliminating the senate’s unconstitutional, globalist, filibuster rule is a key to President Trump’s America First policy.
These 24 senators are globalist, a title they have earned by their vote against eliminating the senate’s globalist, filibuster rule and their lack of energetically supporting the MAGA / America First administration’s record this year.
Especially disappointing is the presence of so-called leader Thune’s name on the list of 24 globalists.
There are other globalist RINOs not on this voting list. Most likely, they are like corneeeee from Texas who is being primaried in 2026 by a real MAGA / America Firster, Ken Paxton … corneeeee is hiding his true voting record to try to get reelected.
Mitch McConnell,
Shelley Moore Capito,
Lisa Murkowski,
Rand Paul,
John Barrasso,
Susan Collins,
Tom Cotton,
Kevin Cramer,
Pete Ricketts,
Mike Rounds,
Rick Scott,
Dan Sullivan,
John Curtis,
Joni Ernst,
Chuck Grassley,
John Hoeven,
Thom Tillis,
**********John Thune,**********
Roger Wicker,
Todd Young,
Jon Husted,
John Kennedy,
James Lankford,
Cynthia Lummis.
President Trump is reshaping the political battlefield and it is become clear to this 2025 – 2026 RINO class of senators that their globalist safe haven in the democrat party doesn’t exist anymore.
Their MAGA mask has been removed exposing their globalist / communist democrat voting record.
When MAGA’s hear Senator Kennedy telling one of his folksy stories, he will be seen, not as a MAGA, but as a democrat.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Senator Kennedy is most vile as he smiles 😁 for the camera and “heh, heh, heh” shares yet another “winky, winky” 😉 —
🐂 💩 anecdote.
How few in Congress actually do NOT need to be primaried?
I expect numbers of those who will bail before the midterms to greatly increase.
Isn’t it called -Take the Money 🤑 and Run?
I cannot hold back commenting about this clown. His schtick, Sen Foghorn Leghorn. Loves the sound of his voice. Loves Fox News falling over themselves laughing at whatever he says. The man is joke. He sounds like a joke. And he is the perfect representative of the Republicant Party.
He’s become exposed!
We aught fund social media ads against this senators for betraying MAGA. Fund commercial during FOX prime time wouldnt that be a hoot.
The RINO, Neocon, Uni-party, Deep State is in charge of the Senate and will remain so regardless of any elections.
Where is the press core on the right? As Sundance puts it :Ask the right F***N questions.
Did Mamdani do a nazi salute?!?! Literally shaking rn I’m sure CNN and MSNBC will be all over this
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/2006902139000394034#m
Mamdani
@NYCMayor
Just UNDID previous executive order which adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
IHRA protects from discrimination Jews who believe in self determination and provides clarity on the definition.
@GovKathyHochul
Knew all along that Mamdani was going to eliminate IHRA on day one, (it was his top campaign promise) and yet she REFUSED to take action.
In June of 2022, she signed a NON-BINDING PROCLAMATION adopting IHRA, but never signed an EO.
@GovKathyHochul
Can fix this with the stroke of a pen! Will she stand up to Mamdani or will she cower to avoid a Mamdani primary? The Jewish community is watching!
https://x.com/InnaVernikov/status/2006876588579709000
Large segments of the NYC Jewish community voted for this guy. You can’t make up how suicidal some parts of the USA are.
Given the state of our elections, how do we know who voted and how they voted in the last election? The integrity of our electoral process is in doubt, isn’t it? Look at all the evidence that has been coming out about how the 2020 election was rigged. General Flynn addressed this issue in his letter to President Trump. I hope our President takes this to heart and does what is necessary to make our elections free and fair again.
I wish more people on here watched Promethean Action. They have three podcasts each week that replay.
Every Thursday they post a two hour live podcast. They also have two ten minute podcasts on other days. Check out their website.
If more people followed those who have been politically involved for decades in preserving our Republic (who in addition have a deep understanding of history) — there would be a much smaller audience listening to the “sky is falling” merchants of b.s.
Wow! Just wow!
Swallowed, hook, line and sinker.
And regurgitating good sounding nonsense almost word for word.
You do realize that one of our problems is that all the politicians make a life of it? Which of the country destroying creeps can’t say that they have been politically involved for decades? Piglosi? Chuckles? Bidet? McConnell? Thune?
I guess only half the creeps claim they are preserving the Republic. The other half say they are preserving Democracy.
Frankly, when they make careers out of it, and this includes Prometheus Action, the one thing we can be sure they are preserving is their income.
What specifically have these two women from P.A. stated that you disagree with?
Be specific.
You are actually responding to a very specific disagreement, pretending I haven’t done so?
Maybe you missed my response to OldDog yesterday?
If this is a serious request and you want more, check it out:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/01/01/anonymous-u-s-officials-say-ukraine-didnt-target-putin-with-drone-attack-russian-officials-say-they-have-drone-flight-plan-from-navigation-unit/#comments
I seem to no longer know how to link a specific comment. it was at 10:24 p.m. but it is under a 7:33 p.m. post by Slumgullion
Also,
History shows that while WW2 was a continuation of WW1’s game of empires, the losers were all the empires.
The last empire standing was Russia. It’s empire grew in WW2. That empire is gone now.
France failed to accept that and the result was Vietnam. And fighting in Africa too.
Britain folded. India the crown jewel of empire, gone in 1947.
The rest took a while. With most of it gone by 1968.
And the last symbolic end was Hong Kong in 1997.
All that is left is English speaking countries with independence but still loyal to the throne.
I also find that the World gives Churchill too much blame. I saw recently that idiots were blaming him for starting WW2. Hint, he was put into power as a response to Hitler attacking Poland, and elevated when Hitler attacked the West. But there is a persistent communist accusation that Churchill started the Cold War. Once again, he was out of power and just drew attention to communist aggression.
Look at this description of Churchill’s speech. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/winston-churchills-iron-curtain-speech-march-5-1946 It points out Stalin’s aggression but still says Churchill ushered in the Cold War.
Of course, Britain is trying to preserve whatever influence it can as it descends from power. There is part of this Worldview that calls that evil and exaggerates it beyond all reality. Much like Jew haters blame Churchill for Hitler’s crimes and Commies blame Churchill for Stalin’s crimes, these people are blaming Britain for all that ails the world. Nobody has responsibility for their own failures, it is all a conspiracy.
Did you notice that they try to bring people in by putting Britain in power over other popular conspiracies like the CFR?
The truth of the matter falls somewhere in between. Churchill really was playing a gentlemanly game of empire against Stalin. That is why he wanted us to invade the Balkans. And he had his planners position his forces in the invasion of Normandy so that they could control all the ports after the war. We were clueless until we started planning the occupation and wanted to switch so that we could control northern Germany. We lost that debate. I am convinced that Operation Market Garden was a reckless rush to beat Stalin to Berlin. And did you ever hear about his naughty document? Planning with Stalin how to divvy up Europe. Stalin won that game and Britain lost.
Yep. Britain lost. Lost the power of the Sterling to the US Dollar. Lost the game of Empire to Stalin. And lost its empire after the war. Britain declined so much that Thatcher had to rise to salvage it. And then they went back to decline. Even submitted themselves to the EU. And refuse to honor Brexit to stand tall and free once again.
Maybe these ladies would be more believable if they included that reality in their analysis.
Free Masons, llluminatti, evil bankers, CFR, Bilderbergers, CIA, Davos, etc., step aside. The British Empire controls all.
Mega Dittos.
Maybe they are voting for who they think they can control R? D? doesnt matter.
Well, an elected Democrat keeping his Jewish hating promises doing real Jewish hating actions.
Meanwhile, everyone is distracted by vile hate filled torrents spewed out upon any Republican who doesn’t genuflect to Bibi.
Sure looks like it. Wow, in his inauguration, he combined the symbols and language of the two worst pestilences of the 20th century, the other being Soviet collectivism.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/01/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-1-1-2026/#704458
He said that he was “elected as a democratic socialist” and will “govern as a democratic socialist.”
“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it,” Mamdani said.
Let’s give the guy a chance. Everyone deserves a chance.
EDIT: When was the last time you were in NYC, Chris?
How many chances has socialism had? How many have been successful? What is Islam leadership like in foreign countries? How about Iran? Iraq? Afghanistan? How is Islam leadership doing in Michigan and Minnesota? How are the Muslims in Congress doing? How is Mamdani different?
I just don’t see him being a success.
Exactly right.
“But it will be different this time!”
NOPE!
That is what Mao Ze Dong. Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Min, Kim II-sung, Pol Pot, Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega all said after Lenin and Stalin tried it first.
It didn’t work out for any of those countries.
That’s fine.
Unless you are a NYC resident, though, maybe sit this one out.
But your concern is noted.
Your crappy posts stink.
Go someplace else.
Not concern but predictions.
It was a decade ago. Honestly, I did enjoy my visits to New York, mostly for business, and sometimes for pleasure.
But that was in the wake of Rudy cleaning it up and it being a livable city.
Given the economic cancelation and rampant lawlessness of the Son of Satan’s 3rd term, I had decided to opt out long ago.
Now I will sit back and observe from a distance as those who can, escape from New York
P.S. I have enjoyed my visits to Texas and actually did some business there even coming from Massachusetts.
OK, but I have seen this movie before I know how it ends.
Besides the fact that I dont like his ideology it is un American….I can’t stand the fact that in my later years I must put up with an ever growing, overtaking of my country by people whose names I cant pronounce or spell. Much less one who has only been a citizen for 8 years and is barely out of diapers.
What? Socialism, Collectivism, a chance? Are you serious with this post?
And he chose a Hamas tunnel as the venue.
His supporters were kept in pens and frozen collectively.
That is freshman bull session-level rhetoric.
ps: “Mamdani” means “messenger of Mohammed”!
From what we’ve seen from NYC “leadership” (air quotes intentional) over the past 25 years, I am happy to see something different happening.
This feels just like when Trump rode down the escalator.
Wow, you are happy to see an Islamic Soviet govern the country’s largest city?
Hope and change?
NEW
As per an anonymous law enforcement source a recent NYPD recruit who was hired in December and currently in training at the police academy has submitted a reasonable accommodation request, asking to: “Be exempt from saluting the American flag”.
According to the source “the recruit claims saluting the American flag is against his reglion, and he may only praise Allah.”
It should be noted that as per the NYPD’s Administrative Guide, saluting the American Flag is a requirement.
If in fact such a request was made it should be DENIED.
Saluting the Flag is a sign of respect, it is NOT idolatry or worship. Enabling blatant disrespect to our country should be considered an undue hardship.
Remember the NYPD had no issue violating the law and arbitrarily deciding who was religious or not when it came to forcing their members who already were previously infected to take the COVID vaccine.
GOD Bless The NYPD
https://nitter.poast.org/JohnDMacari/status/2006888131706999168#m
Soft jihad.
On track to become a very hard and very dangerous jihad!
Mayor Mom-dummy will of course exempt the “fine young recruit” from saluting any and all things “American/infidel”. Within the year, Mom-dummy will be swearing in the upstanding mozzlem officer to NYC Chief of Police…
Maybe a decade or more ago…
Does anyone remember the NYPD turning their backs, en mass, on a certain elected official?
Of course, that was at least a half a generation ago, or maybe more…times are a changing, whether we like it or not…
Not that long. 11 years on Jan 04.
Dozens of New York City police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio during services Sunday to honor and remember a police officer who was killed while on the job last month.
The protest defied a request from the city’s police chief not to use the funeral to protest the mayor.
They will not assimilate. Thus they should be sent back to their home nations.
ditto from a dittohead
miss Rush
They are here to conquer and either we submit or we will be eliminated. Cold hard truth.
and peaceful co-existence seems to be getting more and more problematic every day.
Are Finance capital and tech capital moving to red states?
Austin is no real improvement.
Anything is better than dealing with San Francisco junkies and homeless for businesses, even Austin.
Austin does not represent Texas.
🙂
Nor Dallas Fort Worth…..major TX cities have recruited big Business but with them came young liberals.
So true! One has to root out the corruption in the Oil Industry and the Texas Railroad commission before there can be a “real” improvement.
I 100% agree. I wish it wasn’t so…but it is.
The “new” Muslim stronghold in the US? Right behind Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio and California?
But Austin’s a big blue enclave and the capital of Texas. The money flight there will make Texas more vulnerable to Dem persuasion.
There are currently a lot more registered Democrats in Texas than Republicans (check it out for yourself).
As someone who works in Finance – Dallas has a better chance over the long run of beconing *the* financial capital than Miami.
Texas does not require voters to register by political party, so official party registration statistics are not available.
A June 2024 survey of registered Texas voters found that among likely voters, 21% identified as strong Democrats, 12% as not strong Democrats, and 8% as leaning Democratic, while 27% were strong Republicans, 14% not strong Republicans, and 9% leaning Republican. This suggests a higher proportion of Republican identifiers compared to Democratic ones among the electorate.
In the 2020 primary elections, Republican turnout was 80.3% of registered Republicans, while Democrat turnout was 58.5% of registered Democrats, indicating higher engagement among Republican voters during that cycle.
I don’t live in Texas anymore, but what I’ve seen reported about the Republican controlled state legislature is very worrisome. They seem to act like Establishment UniParty Rinos than true conservatives pushing conservative policies.
JMO
Bet you miss Texas. Love living in Texas but I am 45 minutes from the nearest Walmart so you see I am in the burbs… deep.
Some of the hedge funds from Sh!tcago and NY have already relocated to Miami and some are moving to Palm Beach area.
It’s taxes and more taxes driving them out.
When Toyota moved to Texas years back they explained to the office persons how much more they would take home as a selling point for moving with the company.
Smart move as it looked like a raise but didn’t cost but actually saved the company money.
Nothing personal against Texas, I had to moved to Houston area for company I was working for about 10 years ago, was happy when it was over and got to move back to FL.
Way to many people for my liking and no blue ocean with it’s clean air.
Have a great year.
As a Texan, I went to Galveston one time. Said I would never go back to that stinking place.
Anywhere east of the Mississippi is better than west of the river.
Houston 10 years ago was a paradise compared to what it is now. Particularly the don’t go there places.
Houston in the 1950s & 1960s was a paradise compared to now…
Walking down S. Main St, the ladies smiled at you, the men tipped their Stetson and said “Howdy neighbor”…
Now, if you walk down S. Main, you better have a Colt .44 and know how to use it.
Lived in Houston when it was a cowtown… West University was a small section city of its own where I lived.
Now in a small town north and lost nothing in Houston.
Worked in Houston, lived on Lake Conroe.
The drive was the pits, the office was NW of downtown, accounts were ship channel, buffalo bayou, Baytown, LaPorte what dumps.
Texas will turn blue –that is the goal.
Guess it will be the Big Orange instead of the Big Apple!
Austin? How is that an improvement?
Just a historic FYI: The Silicon Valley was created in a Red State, that promoted Low Taxes and was Business Friendly.
That all changed in 1992 when California turned a corrupted Blue State. The Tech industry in California flourished in spite of the Socialists in charge not because of them.
Blue States naturally destroy growth of any industry, it’s only a matter of time until the Business Leaders in Tech that still have their heads screwed on right realized the Socialists were never their friends and move to any Red State.
Heck, it happen in 2020 for folks during the Exodus from repressive Covid Policies during the Pandemic where folks moved to lower cost of living areas with saner Policies.
Martin Armstrong has been saying the financial capital was moving from NYC to Miami for years and years. Linked is an article by Kerry Lutz, Armstrong’s close friend of about 40 yrs, detailing what huge financial institutions have already made the move over the years. THe list is impressive. Per Lutz, the financial heartbeat is from Miami up to Jupiter. NYC is surviving on fumes.
And President Trump’s MAL is smack dab in the middle of the $$$. It makes me chuckle. Post ‘28 he’ll still be where the action is.
https://khlfsn.substack.com/p/wall-street-has-moved-south-and-its
Imagine using that phrase to describe Bush or Obama.
It could only be used sarcastically to describe Bush’s Waco ranch. Where the action is.
And used in Obama’s Chicago, it conjures up Al Capone.
Chicago was a much safer place when it was run by Capone’s mob.
Good Morning America, how are ya?
The train pulls out of Kankakee, 21 degrees and 25 sacks of mail…
☃️
I feel like I am riding a yo-yo.
Grabbed my coat and went outside and took it off. 57 this morning.
PS.
Everyone was fighting flies at Christmas, and it continues.
But: Only one Conductor per train!
Wasn’t just 312 votes. It was a suitcase of ballots found in the trunk of a car.
Very similar to Gregroire “winning” the race for governor in WA state.
Let’s not forget Franken was the 60th vote for Obamacare. They were going to get him elected BAMN
Taxes…
Just another great argument for small government
PSA!
There seems to be a ‘go around’ for the loss of illicit drug products….
Linked from our friends at TLD, behind an Epoch Times paywall, but the headline says it:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-zombie-drug-hits-california-with-4-fatal-overdoses-in-2025
Also known as ‘rino tranq’….its been around a while…Brave Search reveals it is also:
“Despite its dangers, medetomidine is not federally controlled under the Controlled Substances Act, and no state has scheduled it for regulation, raising concerns about its continued spread.”
This needs to be given the same respect that carfentinil is given, by the FDA, IMHO of course.
They want our treasure dead.
I meant DEA…
I saw some show that claimed the feds required that wood alcohol have poisons in it during the depression.
But people still got blinded or died because they had to have booze.
Setting aside the claim that it was intentional harm, the need for drugs can be worse than the need for alchohol.
Wood alcohol *is* poison. 4 milliliters will blind you and 10 mL will kill you. Ethanol (booze alcohol) is just the least lethal of the alcohols.
As long as one man or societies try and control people’s personal choices for their own personal use….it will be defiance.
“Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years”….
And
And
“The Minnesota Child-Care Laundry Company.” 💰
(Don’t act surprised …)
MAGA Storm
@MAGAStormX
🚨 BREAKING: A MASSIVE new scam just blew open in Minnesota
Regular single-family homes are being rebranded as “assisted living facilities” to drain taxpayer money. And the numbers are insane.
Here’s what investigators found 👇
Cont…
“Even WSJ admits Trump’s tariffs crushed it!”….
There was an issue about 3-4 months ago, down in The Lowcountry restaurants….they were using shrimp from outside the region while advertising that the shrimp on said menus were from Charleston…local shrimpers blew the lid off of that one.
Been lucky here have a young lady that Thursday – Sunday brings fresh Key West pinks and stone crab to a nearby location.
She’s been doing it for years, line of people every day until she sells out, does it thru stone crab season, then goes to Colorado to be with her twin and new baby.
Sounds like a plan for today.
We had a run of rock shrimp a few months ago there were so many we were even getting them during the day. Hard to peel but worth it.
Edink, you are missing out if you haven’t had green tail shrimp from Harkers Island….or maybe you have and don’t like it as much….or maybe you know something I don’t ?
Aggiegirl, we had (have?) the same problem on the Gulf Coast with shrimp, redfish, and snapper.
Venders were kicked out of the Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores in 2025 when DNA proved they were selling imported seafood.
Same with where I live . Theoretically the shrimp are Gulf shrimp only imported from Mexico. Big chain restaurants like Landry’s fish? If you ask where it came from and what it was…..not local at all frozen from up North or Farm raised.
Nick Gerli
@nickgerli1
Austin TX is now back to pre-pandemic apartment rents.
Down 21% from peak in summer of 2022.
$1,636/month –> $1,288/month
(I’m now even seeing 2BRs in some apartments at sub-$1,000)
Cont….
Or full thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2006872715316121750.html
Howard Lutnick
@howardlutnick
In 2026, the United States of America will be ascendant. We will see the launch of the greatest manufacturing boom in history, creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs across our nation. This massive growth begins with construction jobs, which roll into high-tech manufacturing positions across industries and our nation. This new growth will employ millions of workers in great, high-paying jobs.
Cont….
You have left the retired seniors behind in every case.
Sure you pay no tax on Social Security IF YOU WORK.
IF YOU DONT WORK SAME TAXES ARE TAKEN OUT EVERY MONTH.
Completely effed up that you are taxed twice on money YOU contributed. So illegal leeches who want to destroy our country can get free handouts. Gonna have a dang heart attack over this stuff.
Not to mention Obammycare where they pay little to nothing for family of 3 or 4 but seniors must pay $360.00 for 2. Just not right …..
Not only in this situation but also when interest rates are lowered it hurts seniors. The $6000 plus cap on years is piddly and shows the R’s hate to give money back to the people.
OSZ
@OpenSourceZone
Donald Trump Net Approval Among Independents November vs December
November 2025: 🔴 Disapprove: -23
December 2025: 🔴 Disapprove -4
Insider Advantage poll | 11/21 | 12/20
DT in other polls 38% approval.
The somali tiktoker who mocked Americans had a meltdown over Elon Musk and appeared to threaten his life: “I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He about to die.” . @FBI should definitely look into this
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/2006782977855070590#m
I commented on your Twitter X post with this.
Epstein, Kirk, and Ukraine/Israel wars are going to cost Trump the midterms. Just improving the economy will not be enough. MAGA is in a crisis of faith
I hope you take my concerns seriously. I am a Gen X woman and these 3 priorities are even more important to those younger than me. Trump is a vibrant and brilliant man. But he is the same age as my dad and born the first year of the Baby Boom. I am not sure the Boomers completely grasp the generational shift in opinions on stuff like Israel, for example. Kirk was the lynchpin of getting that message to Trump. and it would appear that TPUSA was lynchpin of foreign money laundering that Charlie was just beginning to discover, whether it was related to his death or not. Still brought sunlight to the Turning Point organizations.
And everyone I know has cold fury about the continued corruption in Deep State , like the “Justice” Dept. (FBI).
Our president needs to get back on podcasts that target younger audiences.
He needs to outline the specifics that he has (and is implementing) that impact younger Americans. He IS accomplishing great things for America. This younger (and even many older) groups are unaware.
The election is 10 months away.
Save your concerns until September.
My three teenage kids feel zero connection to Israel, and we are Jewish! We go to shul almost weekly.
I can confidently say – a very small percentage under 21 actually care about Israel. Both my parents are 74 – they are really the last gen to care deeply about Israel.
It’s a wierd place to be as a Jew, but here we are.
Proud, have you taken them to Israel? Maybe they need to see it from the ground floor.
Don’t miss the weekly Fri-Sat Shabbat at a local hotel.
My wife and I were all set to travel there (money sent, reservations booked), when 10/7 occurred. I am trying to convince the little woman we need to make new reservations. –Shabbat at a local hotel will be added to the bucket list.
Yep Damn Younger Generation much more upset about “No Justice” then affordability but yet someone told PT to spend his time on rallies Pep rallies about affordability. The Bubble really hurts PT.
I politely disagree that “MAGA is in a crisis of faith.” I think that’s what the media wants you to believe. The easiest way for a propagandist to defeat you is to tell you incessantly that the war is already lost.
“MAGA,” furthermore, must not simply be an acronym on a red hat, nor the name of a “movement.” To “Make America Great Again” takes real work and focus. And, given the sixty or eighty years that this nation has been in self-caused decline, it’s not going to happen quickly. Furthermore, it cannot be simply the work of “any one man,” and it’s got to continue beyond “four years,” because the task will take longer than that.
If the nation seriously wants to be “great again,” the nation is going to have to make that happen. In everything that it decides and does.
Problem is….we don’t decide…we have no representation…Hello.
Haven’t you noticed how this game is played?
Jumping from one manipulation to another. Intent on always having something else to use to drive people from Trump.
Fixing the World. Not good enough, why aren’t you fixing America?
Look at the Great economy I gave you! Not good enough, why aren’t you imprisoning those who broke the law to abuse you?
Comey, that NY AG, … not good enough, Epstein!
I put out all the papers. Not good enough, purge your ranks of anyone who ever listened to Fuentes.
Meanwhile Trump has done his job and done it well. He has achieved great things.
But the victims of the game are stuck in a doom spiral. Trained to dismiss all the good Trump does. And trained to break apart Trump’s support.
And if successful, you will never ever have any good done for you again.
And you will be lucky to avoid direct persecution for having dared to support Trump.
The Never Satisfied™️ Tribe. Full of sock puppets and their friends eager to come here and tell us all about it.
Well said.
I had to laugh at the TM.
Exactly.
“But, Joos!”
I think you have your priorities backwards. I have been here since before Trump came down that escalator. I voted for Trump 3 times. I love the guy. However, he still refuses to do what is necessary to save America. He wastes so much of his time on foreign matters (building legacy) when he should be arresting hundreds of criminals in & out of government. Without those arrests America cannot be saved. He cannot save the nation while those criminals who are destroying it remain free to operate. Example, obama, the clintons, the bidens, the soros’s, sunstein, power, rice, brennan, clapper, comey, jarrett, pelosi,. schumer, mcconnell, shiff, and many many others should have been arrested on Day 1! THAT, is THE most important thing. Yes, a good economy is great, deportations are essential, tariffs are great, but they will quickly vanish as soon as he is out of office. No lasting good can or will happen unless the entire swamp is burned to the ground FIRST! President Trump has apparently decided he will never go there. As a consequence, 2 minutes after he leaves office, we will be right back to where we were just over a year ago…only MUCH worse! And there will not be a second chance! Wake up people! Trump only has until the mid terms, not 3 more years. Election integrity is still a dream unfulfilled. Presidential Emergency Action Documents is the only answer. Brute Force is all we have left. He can’t make deals with the deep state, he must destroy them all, NOW. But he won’t. See why MAGA is frustrated now?
You finally got someone who is actually trying to save America, and THIS is how you support him?
At this rate, you will never get this close again. And you are a big part of why.
My priorities aren’t THIS backwards.
I can’t promise Trump’s efforts will succeed. But I can admit he IS making strong efforts and achieving good things.
Your path is straight to NOT Trump. And NOT Trump is going to be horrible.
I can want everything on your wish list too. But I don’t know that they can happen. And I don’t know that they will deliver good results.
And I can recognize that Trump is achieving a much broader agenda of good things. Things we all want too.
So that is your choice.
Good things from Trump. But not all that you want.
Or,
Horrible things from NOT Trump. And nothing you want.
You missed my point. It’s not about “wants,” it’s about literally saving our nation. You seem to be in denial. I do understand your points, and I know you want the best we can “get.” My point remains that so far, his “best” won’t even be close to saving the country. What part of “you can’t save the nation while our enemies still remain free to operate” don’t you get? This isn’t a game of “wants and perfect is the enemy of good.” We are in uncharted territory now. Good isn’t good enough. With good, the enemy still wins. They must be totally destroyed so they can never exist again. We must have an entirely new government. All three branches. Why? Because it’s all corrupt top to bottom except Trump. Look at the corrupt rogue judges. Trump is allowing them to stop him, or at least slow him down to run out the clock. Trump insists on playing by the rules that the deep state made up to stop a POTUS like him. Nothing short of Trump taking over will work. Nothing. There are no rules anymore! Only victory. Whatever it takes.
I do. Common sense.
All that he has done is for nothing if he doesn’t get rid of the DS. Are you so hard headed that you can not see that?
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Americans are outraged Zohran Mamdani swore in as Mayor of New York City on the Quran. This only leads to Sharia Law
“Zohran Mamdani just swore in on the Quran — Let’s learn what the Quran says
Cont…
Mamdani will try to make socialism work by begging for federal money.
The Russians calling Zorro Mandingo a Commie. heh.
Solzhenitsyn and Putin ~ The Imaginative Conservative, 2022:
“Discussing the cooling of relations between Russia and the West, Solzhenitsyn’s analysis of the history of the previous fifteen years highlighted the sharpness with which he viewed contemporary events. When he had returned to Russia he discovered that the West was “practically being worshipped”. This was caused “not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda”. The positive view of many Russians towards the West began to sour following “the cruel NATO bombings of Serbia”: “It’s fair to say that all layers of Russian society were deeply and indelibly shocked by those bombings.” The situation worsened as NATO sought to widen its influence to the former Soviet republics. “So, the perception of the West as mostly a ‘knight of democracy’ has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusionment, a crushing of ideals.”
As for the West, it was “enjoying its victory after the exhausting Cold War” and was observing the anarchy in Russian under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It seemed as though Russia was becoming “almost a Third World country and would remain so forever”. In consequence, the re-emergence of Russia as a political power caused unease in the West, a panic “based on erstwhile fears”. It was “too bad” that the West was unable to distinguish between Russia and the Soviet Union.
At the beginning of August 2007, barely a week after Der Spiegel had published the interview with Solzhenitsyn, during which he had made reference to the Christian martyrs killed at the hands of the communists at the Butovo cemetery outside Moscow, the Russian Orthodox Church sponsored a commemoration of these very martyrs at the cemetery itself. President Putin and his government were conspicuous by their absence at the event, a fact for which they were roundly condemned in the Russian press. Three months later, in an apparent act of penance for his earlier sin of omission (if one can use such language about the motives and actions of politicians), President Putin visited Butovo and issued a statement about the evils of ideology and about the millions who had perished at the hands of the communist regime. On the same day the Orthodox Church canonized hundreds of victims of communism.
Solzhenitsyn died on August 3, 2008, a few months short of his 90th birthday. Only two weeks later, it was announced that Moscow’s Great Communist Street (ulitsa Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya) was to be re-named “Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street”, an honour bestowed by a personal decree from President Putin.
On the first anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s death, Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Solzhenitsyn’s widow in which he described Solzhenitsyn as “a global individual, whose creative and ideological heritage will always hold a special place in the history of Russian literature and in the chronicles of our country”.
In October 2010, it was announced that The Gulag Archipelago would become required reading for all Russian high school students. In a meeting with Solzhenitsyn’s widow, Putin described The Gulag Archipelago as “essential reading”: “”Without the knowledge of that book, we would lack a full understanding of our country and it would be difficult for us to think about the future.”
What more need be said? In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the greatest classic of anti-communist literature is now compulsory reading in all the high schools of the nation. If the same could be said of the high schools of the United States, we would not have the endemic historical and political ignorance that has led to the widespread sympathy for communism among young Americans. In the light of this, and in the light of Putin’s evident admiration for Solzhenitsyn, let’s not try to pretend that Russia is a communist nation. We don’t need to like Vladimir Putin. We don’t need to admire him. But we do need to acknowledge that Russia has moved on from the evils of socialism, even as we are in danger of embracing those very same evils.”…….
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974
I feel ya’.
Rest in the Vine: “Solzhenitsyn Predicted America’s Current Plight in 1983”
by Emerald Robinson
Grown-ups don’t talk that way. Only college kids and Learing Center students.
Just kidding–there are no Learing Center students!
If he gets the scams going found in MN then he won’t need to beg. He’ll have plenty of $$.
Perhaps NYC needs to have a book burning party.
Let them learn the lessons from the books first.
“men may have up to 4 wives whom they have complete authority over”
Where do I sign up. I have one little, short redhead that is feral.
Most men can’t “handle” even one woman, let alone 4 of them…
Why do they need to be handled? Aren’t they adults?
They need to be handled because the Lord God Almighty made them that way…
Some women are adults, some are not… age is not a factor here…
Only way to find out for yourself is: Go out there and find yourself a woman, you will quickly find out that either you handle her, or she will handle you!
Do you think that was really his point or a bit of sarcasm? And besides that, you should’ve paid attention to Muslims marrying pre-pubescent girls until they are “ready” for sex, I’m guessing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now, party-time is over. Let’s watch him walk into the actual office, and try to do the job. Grab your popcorn. 🍿
Will the public exposure of widespread and systematic fraud, in Minnesota, have the same historical significance as the Soviet Union’s acceptance of Solidarity? Will one small event lead to the eventual collapse of an entrenched, decades old, system of control because it simply dared to challenged the status quo at the right time?
Is this a pivotal moment of history, that helped to unleash an unstoppable force for change, or just another, ‘what could have been’, damp squib that unfortunately litter the path of history.?
If we actually look, we’re gonna find fraud of similar scale probably in 49 other States. With officials who pretend not to see, and local judges protecting the racket.
“The love of Money is the root of all Evil.”
I love how that actor in those movies played that utterly greasy part . . . You’ve gotta be good to play a real schnook with no redeeming virtues. And, to me, he ‘aced’ the role.
(Just ask Johnny Depp in Murder on the Orient Express.)
CNN: The picture shows only 4 lazy workers. Bigot!
Do we count the hand holding the cash?
Snswer to CNN:
The picture shows your lazy hand holding all the stolen money.
Of course you paid yourself.
They learned math sat the Learing Center.
Too lazy to draw the fifth one.
How did the Nazarene Christian’s do the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula?
What the Nazi-Nato, Globalists, Clinton Admin did in Bosnia was their test run for not only a once Nazarene Christian America, but the EU nations as well. If not for PDJT, where would we be at now?
It started with a fraudulent Hawaiian birth certificate.
Weird how John Brennan’s Analytics Company broke into the State Dept.’s computers 3 times to access Obama’s birth certificate.
And then he becomes Director.
John Brennan: Obama’s Muslim Convert Stooge for Jihad » Sons of Liberty Media
“Brennan was the CEO of The Analysis Corporation following a Christmas blunder which ended his CIA career as chief of staff to George Tenet, then director of the CIA. The Analysis Corporation (TAC) was the Intelligence Solutions business of Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. (“GTEC”), now renamed Sotera Defense Solutions, a defense contracting company.
In 2006, a northern Virginia firm, Stanley, Inc., was awarded a $164 million contract to print new U.S. passports. In 2008, an employee of The Analysis Corporation, along with two employees from Stanley, Inc. breached the US Passport Office and “improperly accessed” the passport record of Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Sidney McCain, III.
The motive for the break-in was initially chalked up to a supposed “exploratory” mission. However, it is now believed that the access of the files of Clinton and McCain were a cover-up to gain the valuable information on Obama, including his personal and diplomatic passports, his real birth certificate, his passports from Indonesia, his college transcripts showing a “foreign” student visa, and other information.
All three employees were fired. However, a month later an employee of the State Department shared the passport information with a man who has been identified as Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr..
Harris had been working with federal investigators with regards to the passport information that had been accessed earlier and he had obtained via a co-conspirator in the State Department.
Harris was later found shot to death inside a blue car in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church.
So what does this have to do with John Brennan? Namely this: Brennan was the CEO of the company at the time of the break in, in which one of his employees accessed Barack Obama’s passport information. That information left a man murdered and the question has to be asked, who has that information? Does John Brennan have it and did he use it as leverage in order to get back in the CIA and become its director in spite of the number of votes against him? Did Brennan blackmail Obama with this information? Or is John Brennan just a stooge for jihad? It has yet to be seen.” …….
It was seen at Khobar Towers, where he was Station Chief.
btw, the computer story was widely covered at the time, including by CNN. At first, Obama blamed BushHitler, but then swept it under the rug when it was found to be Brennan.
It also was reported that Biden was head of the committee that had access to Obamas personal info and that is why biden was selected VP.
“We have accepted today the existence in perpetuity of a permanent underclass of scores of millions who cannot cope and must be carried by society — fed, clothed, housed, tutored, medicated at taxpayer’s expense their entire lives. We have a dependent nation the size of Spain in our independent America. We have a new division in our country, those who pay a double or triple fare, and those who ride forever free.”
— Suicide of a Superpower-Pat Buchanan (The book that got him fired from Mockingbird MSNBC)
And a colonizer. Deportations, which should make the “Green” Climate Change Nazi’s happy as deportations lowers America & Global Green House Gas emissions, pollution, and protects our Flora & Fauna! So called fraudulent Environmentalists should be 110% behind PDJT & Trump Republican deportation efforts. PDJT & ICE are the real environmental protectors!
Saint Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (+ 420) please pray for and protect the remaining Christians in the Holy Land.
Mamdani will provide more housing by enabliing squatters to live in abandoned building. It’s the only way I see this working out in rent controlled NY city.
Hours after taking office, NYC Mayor Mamdani targets landlords, moves to intervene in private bankruptcy case
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hours-after-taking-office-nyc-mayor-mamdani-targets-landlords-moves-intervene-private-bankruptcy-case
Three orders create tenant protection office and task forces to accelerate housing development
Mamdani announced three housing-related executive orders, starting with the revival of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, which he said will focus on resolving complaints and holding landlords accountable for hazardous conditions.
“We will make sure that 311 violations are resolved,” Mamdani said, adding that the administration will hold “slumlords” accountable for “hazardous and dangerous threats” to tenant well-being.
Most “slumlords” exist because of rent control and unjust laws the disproportionately favor the tenant’s rights over landlord rights. In other words, leftist gov’t policy creates slumlords.
As for the few slumlords that exist without the oppression of bad gov’t policy, those slumlords deserve every bad thing that happens to them.
The bad leftist policy is designed to remove private landlords from the system. Once the gov’t takes over as the landlord of everything, then everything will be a slum.
Absolutely agree. But the slumlords will walk away before putting a penny into those buildings. And who is going to buy them at auction and fix them up in Mamdani’s New York with his new codes and rent controls? A sure money losing proposition.
I admit it. I didn’t have the g-u-t-s to sign up.
Greetings Treepers! 🤜✝️🤛
Good morning, Frank!
Chicago ended the year of 2025 with 433 homicides.
This is down 29% from 2024.
The Explanation and all the statistical data are at Hey Jackass.
https://heyjackass.com/home/
Harassing ICE agents takes time away from killing each other.
We had nearly a foot of snow just after Thanksgiving. That slows things down.
Roads were treacherous…
After all that snow, we had many days of real feel temps of about 0-5…that slows things down.
And big wind.
Give it time, they will make it up.
This week, still in progress…
20 shot, 3 homicides, per the website…”Week in Progress” ends Jan. 3…
Per the website, 75.5% were black and 19.6% were hispanic. and about 4% were ‘white or other’….
Male to female ratio was 5.06
The Slum Times headline:
But has the Slum Times thought about this interpretation of facts on the ground?
Completely plausible….probable even. Criminals go to where Law Enforcement isn’t – even if the law enforcement isn’t local.
https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
Hey Jackass and CWB Chicago are the only real #’s and honest reporting in Chicago.
Even with the reduction Chicago still “wins” with most homicides.
What is the change in the State’s Attorney office that the website describes as no longer as pro-crime as before?
Kim Foxx is gone, the Cabrini Green Queen, AKA Crimesha, known for not allowing prosecution of “her” folks.
It was a revolving door, the perps were out the courthouse back on the street before the paper work was completed.
It is easy to bring down the number of homicides, just reclassify them…
If they knew each other before one was murdered, not a homicide, it was domestic.
If drugs were involved, not a homicide, it was drugs.
If they were not dead when the police arrived, not a homicide…
Effective yesterday the “owners” of the illigitimate Somali child care centers (you know…the ones with no kids) don’t even have to show up at their empty buildings to collect a paycheck. Employers/Employees in the in the Land of 10,000 Frauds is paying an added 0.44% payroll tax to cover this new Waltz scam.
Enough already.
Huh. I thought this was already FEDERAL law?
Family and Medical Leave Act | U.S. Department of Labor
This law applies to all employees, not just Federal employees.
It does apply to all employees, but not the paid part.
Yep when taking FMLA you got paid your vacation time where I worked. And after that you got no pay.
Anyone else notice the great improvement in our culture from the somalis?
Question their stealing rights and they are ready to kill you.
There should be a million man march from all over the country on the Minnesota capital calling for Walz to resign or be tarred and feathered.
Just as Trump’s poll numbers are starting to recover from his escapades in the middle east last year he posts stuff like this.
Ukraine, Russia, Nigerians killing Christians, church being burned…Iran…(was once a nice modern westernized culture where female kids went to college…and did not live in fear of the mullahs)….then they took down the Shah…
Venezuela and drugs, China and drugs…
I am all for this if it brings regime change. It will be one less Israeli boogeyman for us to be involved with.
Weren’t we attacking our own peaceful protestors not too long ago?
@JinWis: Y’know, a leader like Trump cannot be led around by “poll numbers.” A public opinion poll exists to influence public opinion, not to measure it. The President is tasked to be a decisive and wise executive, but that necessarily does not mean day-to-day “popularity.” Every single day, executive decisions must be made and he, alone must make them. Not always knowing what the outcome will be.
It’s the world’s loneliest chair: “Sit down, sir.”
Its nuts. We have no ability to aid the protesters over and above what our CIA had done for them. It appears at timed he wants to lose the mid terms
“Peace through Strength”.
You are still here looking for attention? Sad
I like varied opinions rather than echo chamber. Dont be running posters off. Numbers are already down by half around here.
The world would be a much better place without the Mullahs.
Easier to use our military on their criminals than ours……
In my opinion, the massive fraud that is occurring is a threat to national security and the president should declare a national emergency and use all available resources to put a stop to it and bring the perpetrators to justice.
This ^^^^^^^^^ would be incredible !
JMO.
Our founding father’s never planned on having communist, anti-American, criminal scum, ….. aka the 2025 national democrats, ….. being in charge of any of the states / cities that the founding fathers chartered under the Constitution.
The states / cities are not independently operated entities that can form communist, suicide, pacts setting their citizens on a road to self-destruction with fraudulent elections resulting in anti-American, criminal administrations.
Nope, they were organized by their federal charters within the US Constitution’s protections and rights ….. including the right “to petition.”
The citizens of blue states / cities can petition the Executive Branch of the federal government to seek immediate, emergency assistance in removing the criminal, anti-American, state / city administrations from their elected / appointed positions for their failure to fulfill their responsibilities, to the American citizens within their boundaries, under their legally binding Charter of the state / cities.
It was common in the late 1800’s for local citizen groups, in the newly established western territories and states, to petition the federal government for assistance when criminal elements had taken over the local governmental administrations.
This week’s gathering of the 90+ mayors in Minnesota could be a start in the 2026 petition process to the Executive Branch to stop the massive lawlessness in Minnesota.
Other citizen organizations in other blue states / cities need to follow the 90+ mayor’s lead.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
What do you call 271000 fewer government Employees in a year, 9% of the Federal workforce?
A GOOD START!
The Federal Government Has Shed 271,000 Jobs This Year. That’s Great.
When President Donald Trump took the oath of office for a second time in January, more than 3 million people worked for the federal government.
Tuesday by the Department of Labor, shows that federal employees numbered about 2.74 million in November. The total number of federal workers has dropped by about 271,000 in the past 12 months,
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/4403539600535-the-federal-government-has-shed-271-000-jobs-this-year-that-s-great
https://www.aol.com/news/federal-government-shed-271-000-201037350.html
In January 2025, there were a more than 3 million federal workers.
In November, there were 2.74 million
The bulk of the departures happened in October — when 162,000 people, mostly those who took Musk’s “fork in the road,” were officially off the books, per the Labor Department.
The fork became known as “deferred resignation,” meaning these folks quit and in exchange continued getting paychecks through Sept. 30.
Most who left the federal workforce weren’t technically fired, they were pushed out: either taking the fork or choosing other more traditional voluntary retirement programs or other incentivized departures.
Only about 25,000 of the more than 300,000 people the Trump administration expected would be gone by the end of 2025 were actually terminated, Scott Kupor, the current head of the federal government’s HR agency, the Office of Personnel Management, said recently on the Statecraft podcast.
Those who were fired included probationary employees with fewer job protections, and those impacted by so-called RIFs, reductions-in-force, where agencies formally decide to permanently reduce headcount.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/01/trump-federal-workers-jobs
Under President Joe Biden, the federal workforce grew by approximately 6% during his term, totaling around 3.02 million employees by the end of 2024.
It’s why it is only a good start. Many more deep state and slacker employees need to go.
Jake,
Good point:
“It’s why it is only a good start. Many more deep state and slacker employees need to go.”
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No doubt, the total number of “pre-1/20/2025 federal government employee” firings has to be HUGELY increased.
But, who gets fired is also an important factor. The DOJ / FBI still have thousands and thousands of carryover, weaponizing biden thugs still sitting at their desks, plying their evil wares and being paid with our taxes.
Bondi and patel have refused to fire the carryover thugs.
“Under Autopen Joe, the federal workforce grew by approximately 6% during his term totaling around 3.02 million employees by the end of 2024.”
Excellent information to keep the reduction in force hysteria in perspective.
Gracias
Shutdown another lost opportunity to lay off fed employees……always chooses to be too conservative to plz the RINOs. Looks like our President has turned out to be a moderate RINO Republican.
NYC is already experiencing the warmth of socialist collectivisation, though in this case the warmth was purely metaphorical in nature.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/us-news/mamdani-fans-disappointed-by-disastrous-block-party-inauguration-with-no-food-bathrooms/
Although millions will suffer, who never wanted the fool as their mayor, this guy and his communist advisors are going to be a gift that never stops giving, for President Trump, and a never-ending nightmare for the increasingly fractured Democrats.
In less than one day…
At least they got to listen to 3-home Bernie preaching about taxing the rich. That will keep em warm through the winter when there is no food.
That ‘warmth of collectivism’?
Or porta potties.
Y’know, this Mamdani fellow is “utterly wet behind the ears” when it comes to learning actually what it means to be: “Mayor of New York City.” He is so young, and idealistic, and radical by nature, that he really has no idea what the Office of the Mayor is tasked to do in a major metropolis. Many of these tasks are both dutiful and unpleasant, yet they have to be done, and you have to do it and/or see it done. He doesn’t know any of that. Yet.
A wiser man would have gathered former Mayors into a closed meeting and said to them, “Tell me how to do this. I don’t know how.” You know: humility, and wisdom. I don’t think that he has even an ounce of those virtues in him. Yet.
I think the next few months are going to be a “big eye-opener,” and he won’t like it. Starting with this – a big public gathering with no food-trucks and no porta-potties. They say that “experience is the best teacher, but she runs a very hard school.”
There’s a long distance between a (foolish …) campaign promise, and reality.
I wish this young man the best of luck, for the sake of the city. He’s going to need it. 🤡
Is there such a thing as a “humble” muslim?
Asking for a friend…
and healthy, brakes etc…
How do you know he hasn’t consulted with past leaders and people with more knowledge of NYC politics than him? Just because it’s not in the news?
You’re simply projecting. He’s a smart guy. I’m sure he’s continuously doing homework.
You mean like Bill DeBlasio?
Rudy on Bannon-he was not invited/consulted
He’s a grifter. 🙄
Fox is reporting that Maduro wants to make a deal on whatever terms President Trump wants.
Guess: “Step one. Leave town and don’t come back.”
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
“If only the Democrats had something to offer to the GOP in a trade for a vote to extend the Obamacare subsidies.
“How badly do the Democrats want those subsidies to continue?
“What about Dem votes in support of mandatory voter ID?
“What about Dem votes in support of including a “citizenship” question on the Census, and counting only citizens for purposes of apportioning electoral votes among the states?
“Any other ideas for what the GOP could take in trade for an extension of the Obamacare subsidies?
“Put you ideas in the comments for everyone to see.”
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/2006863904014737639?s=20
Demonrats don’t have to offer anything when enough GOPrick RINOrats are actually democrats. I can almost guarantee subsidies will continue on the ever assured 1-2 vote margin. Not enough to override a veto, but there will be 1,000+ sob stories forcing Trump to sign/not veto.
The items listed are of zero concern to the right wing of the vulture.
If either side has an “issue” they are pushing it’s good odds they really don’t want it “fixed”.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/31/despite-it-all-they-will-continue-to-vote-for-democrats-n3810378
Nothing says “saving Democracy” like voting for corrupt politicians who steal billions of dollars, commit massive voter fraud, break laws with impunity, use the power of government to attack and censor their critics, and work to keep their political opponents off the ballot.
morning Treepers…………..be well
Good morning!
It’s a new YEAR! Let’s see some accountability this year. Happy New Year to all
A commentor over at TGP, made the observation of why Kamala wanted Walz for her running mate…the $omali $$$ corruption would have paid campaign debts…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/newsnation-reporter-finds-assisted-living-facility-funded-millions/
The Russian press speaks thoughtfully and analytically about their opponent’s status. I found this piece very informative and interesting, as I very often do on this site.
https://www.rt.com/russia/630244-beginning-of-end-for-zelensky/
There is considerable political analysis here, with reference to history and political philosophy. Also, very candid observation. (It is tagged as “Analysis,” and rightly so.)
Example quote: (lifted out of surrounding context for brevity)
“Here lies a crucial contradiction: Zelensky attempted to assert a sovereignty he never truly possessed. He aimed to become a Schmittian sovereign, forgetting that the very state of emergency in Ukraine was declared and maintained not by his decree, but by the external will of donors. His authority resembled a kind of “pocket sovereignty” – an imitation of independence that, in reality, was completely reliant on streams of military and financial aid.”
And this highlighted quote from a Ukranian political analyst:
“The war has not birthed a Leviathan, but rather spawned a hundred petty, vengeful hydras now fighting over the remnants of resources beneath the rubble of the project called ‘united Ukraine.’”
This is a good one. I leave it to you now to read it all.
“Dearlove is now doing podcasts with Andy McCabe, whom he knows personally. The podcasts are a pretext for communications among the co-conspirators.” The conspirators are still at work!!! If they aren’t brought to justice then expect more conspiracies against President Trump, MAGA and America Firsters!!! These leftists won’t be stopped unless they’re in jail!!! JMO
Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists To Stop Investigating Somali Daycares Or Face Potential Hate Crime Charges
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/washington-state-ag-warns-citizen-journalists-stop-investigating-somali-daycares-or-face