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Praying.
The Still Hour – Verses and Prayers for Sunday (The daily devotional is a great one today)
Thank You Sundance for providing and maintaining our church.
Thank You Dear Lord for providing us with everyone who makes this such a wonderful refuge.
And Thank You for guiding Our President Donald John Trump.
Thank you Harrison.
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 34 of the 2nd year 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.
Hear, hear. We are blessed to have this man as our CEO.
Yes we are.
Amen
Amen.
Amen!
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
@ArthurMacwaters
7h
Highly ironic:
> in 14 states, you don’t have to show **any ID at all** to vote in federal elections
> requiring ID to vote is “Jim Crow 2.0” according to Schumer and other politicians
> but to shovel snow in NYC you must show 2 forms of ID + social security card
This is an IQ test for our civilization It’s paramount that we see through manipulative and highly idiotic rhetoric and pass the SAVE America Act.
Proving citizenship to vote is one of the most popular policies in history (84% support across both parties).
https://nitter.poast.org/ArthurMacwaters/status/2025334513128407381#m
UPDATE: To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC you must present two forms of ID, plus a social security card
2 small photos
2 original forms of ID plus copies
social security card
https://nitter.poast.org/TheChiefNerd/status/2025304764989280653#m
Can you imagine the liability claims Mamdani is opening the city up to?
Maybe they have to sign a waiver?
But do they have to be US citizens? Do you have to be a NY City resident or is your CCP Spy ID or Iranian terrorists ID valid?
How much does it cost to piss on the snow bank, instead? 🤡
Poor Mamdani. He’s in over his head so far he can’t see sunlight. But, he’s so radical that he hasn’t figured that out yet. You knew this was going to happen, and that it wouldn’t take long. It didn’t.
I count every mile between my house and New York City as a blessing . . .
EXC: The Chagos Files – Powell Visited China and Spoke at ‘Front Organisation’ Conference While He Was Starmer’s Chagos Negotiator
https://order-order.com/2026/02/19/exc-the-chagos-files-powell-visited-china-and-spoke-at-front-organisation-conference-while-he-was-starmers-chagos-negotiator/
EXC: Hermer Blocks Release of Minutes of Secret Meeting With Chagos Lawyer Philippe Sands
https://order-order.com/2025/09/03/exc-hermer-blocks-release-of-minutes-of-secret-meeting-with-chagos-lawyer-philippe-sands/
EXC: The Chagos Files – Powell Visited China and Spoke at ‘Front Organisation’ Conference While He Was Starmer’s
ChagosNegotiatorIs he talking about the Chagos Archipelago?
we got the British to expel the native people (where did they go) so that we could build a base there, the Diego Garcia base
It would be ironic if that was done all those years ago so that it could then be ultimately GIVEN to the CCP-PRC at some point –
slip it into their Christmas stocking –
I am sure they would like to have it.
If any are still upset with the SCOTUS tariff ruling, maybe read this commentary from attorney Jeff Childers (a worthwhile blogger to “follow”)
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…”The reason progressives were more excited than a new puppy yesterday is that they CORRECTLY perceive that President Trump’s tariffs are the economic engine behind America’s booming economy. Stop the tariffs, they reckon, and then the economy will fizzle out— and Trump will become a spent force. It was a good plan. Too bad it failed.”
A DIFFERENT “TAKE”:
– A FIREWALL FOR AMERICA
– A SHIELD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP
– A SHIELD FOR THE COURT
– AND A MACHETE
by attorney, Jeff Childers
[…a key moment from November’s oral arguments that lifts the curtain, letting us see what’s really happening behind the scenes. In paraphrase, at page 69 in the transcript, Justice Gorsuch asked, “If we let THIS president use IEEPA for tariffs, what stops the NEXT president from declaring a climate emergency and taxing gas-powered pickup trucks out of existence?”
Here’s the thing: don’t miss this. When Gorsuch asked him about the peril of future presidents, the DOJ’s lawyer —Trump’s lawyer— AGREED. If IEEPA allows TRUMP tariffing, then a future Democrat president could also use it, for whatever insane progressive agenda they felt like, just by declaring a “state of emergency.” Nobody disputed that; everybody agreed.
The Firewall. And that, as they say, was that. The ambiguously worded statute was a disaster waiting to happen, like handing a chimpanzee a live grenade, or worse, giving a toddler a permanent marker. When they stripped tariffs from IEEPA, Justices Gorsuch, Roberts, and Barrett weren’t BETRAYING Trump. They were PROTECTING America from the next Democrat president —a Warren or Newsom— declaring a climate emergency and using IEEPA to impose the Green New Deal by fiat.
So they built a “firewall”…]
See more:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/tariff-turnabout-saturday-february
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Very interesting to note from this article that the IEEPA does not contain the word, “tariff.”
When that Justice asked if this law could be used to outlaw gasoline pickup trucks “by fiat,” he was on to something.
No he was not the Roberts Court is NOT pro-US …. .name one instance when this court actually DOES NOT rule in favor of anything important to the Puppet Masters, 2009 to date.
They ruled vs Donald Trump and not to protect the US. If the IEEPA was so fraught with danger the Courts would have struck the IEEPA in total and instructed Congress where it needs to be fixed.
Reminder … a precedent is NOT a law nor a does it require every applicable case be decided per the PRECEDENT.
Precedents can and have been overturned and modified from the start of the Republic.
This court would do the very the same if ORDERED to do so … for the benefit of their Masters. One cannot argue that the CURRENT Judicial System is corrupt but then has magically gone patriotic, in a nebulous manner, on a single issue.
This was a CYA finding aimed specifically at Donald Trump and there are MORE cases coming as the President moves forward to protect the US.
I think on the plus side of this ruling is it shows the Justices willing to nitpick over each word in the statute. This bodes well for their ruling on birthright citizenship, which has, in recent times, somehow allowed casual visitors to America to drop a baby here and gain citizenship for the child.
This was never the intention of the amendment.
Childers mentions birthright citizenship later in your link as well, only to say that this ruling against Trump on tariffs perhaps gives them room to outlaw birthright citizenship.
Nitpicking with a bias bodes ill towards ending birthright citizenship.
Nitpicking for the original intent bodes well towards ending birthright citizenship.
It is amazing to me that without a constitutional justification, or any laws directing it to happen, or even solid regulatory actions, that birthright citizenship was fabricated and defended as if all those things existed.
Like contraceptives hiding in the shadows (penumbras) of foul poisonous clouds (emanations) becoming a right to mass slaughter of babies in the womb, becoming the right to gay marriage, becoming the mass mutilation of confused children, with bias, there is no limit to what can be fabricated as constitutional.
Don’t count on Roberts.
Or ACB
What a load of BS.
Not to put too fine a point on it but …. the democrats, with Uni-Party support, DID declare a “Climate Emergency” and were putting regulations in place that increased costs and taxes or gave tax breaks to products that they claimed redressed the Emergency …. at State and Federal Levels. The US Government was dumping $100’s of MILLIONS into UN and International NGO’s based upon that “Emergency”.
Plus, the IEEPA … INTERNATIONAL Emergency Economic Powers Act deals with FOREIGN THREATS to the US, Economic and Security. Gorsuch is asking a “Domestic Issue” questions NOT covered by the IEEPA.
By the way … the democrats and Uni-Party were allowing CLIMATE EMERGENCY declarations to TAX gasoline and diesel engined vehicles out of existence. This question was soft one that the Government’s Lawyer should have knocked out of the park.
The court fabricated the right for the EPA to regulate green house gasses out of the Clean Air Act. Massachusetts v EPA (2007)
https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency
Obama’s EPA gave the justification with the fraudulent endangerment finding. And thus the regulators were off to the races to destroy our economy.
But the court has very timidly been rolling back the abuses.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1103595898/supreme-court-epa-climate-change
As with everything Democrats do, expect a LAWFARE attack on the EPA rolling back this finding. Even taking it to the Supreme Court like they did with this IEEPA Tariff stuff.
Trump’s performative tirades – gnashing of teeth, rage and vexation, indignant scathing rebukes – were in fact Industrial Grade Savage Trolling – before the stung discover The Sting.
In private or in public, a select few or the masses… The Donald knows how to entertain.
Some of the best parts, imo, of that essay linked above:
“… 90 minutes to work up a new executive order? Come on. That was a stage wait. They obviously had Plan B ready to go without skipping a beat.
…
while the Court slowly considered it, it let President Trump use IEEPA for almost 8 months to get his Tariff Dashboard up and humming
…
Trump was ready. The SCOTUS decision barely registered on the ((foreign income)) needle
(‘Tariff Ruling Brings Little Comfort Overseas; ‘trading partners expect *TARIFF MAN* to stick with favorite policy tool’).
That was just the first disappointment Democrats haven’t yet grappled with. There were more.
⚖️ But the firewall was just the appetizer. Now behold the two shields and the machete.
…”
Conservative majority SCOTUS is a good thing; ‘laying out the procedural steps in a dissent that POTUS needs for his win’ AND “…Instead of a weaponized decision rebuking Trump as an out-of-control dictator, Democrats got a 6-3 split with a 40-page dissent explaining exactly why the 2025-26 tariffs could have —in good faith— been considered legal…”;
“ironclad” is also in there somewhere ICYMI.
Even better:
usurper-classmates who can’t be bothered to read 40 pages of legal wisdom because “Yay SCOTUS shot down the BadOrangeMan WE Win and he’s finished now!!!” will self delay their realization of being stung by SCOTUS & Sunlight *again*… even further cooling this Divine dish…
as in ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’.
Righteous Vengence is the Lord’s… God is So Good.
The more globalist+uniparty intensifies their crime-centric-TDS-war against him and US and MAGA…
the hotter & deeper the Troll burns he legally, lawfully, & Righteously inflicts.
An *Historic Master Class* is what watching him is – an included Bonus with our God-Given free ticket ride around the sun this year (and all the others).
Gutfeld’s reminder: “We really don’t deserve him” – yet God Loves US enough anyway – is never wrong.
This song by Amara Grace has ministered to me in times of trouble. Same Amara?
I’ve never heard that Beautiful song before – but the words & sentiment resonates perfectly.
Thank you for sharing it with me.
“All that I have seen teaches me to Trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”
RW Emerson
JMO.
There are two anti-MAGA / America First senators who are creating roadblocks to passing the critical “election integrity” legislation —— the Save act and also getting rid of the senate filibuster rule. The two globalist, communist, RINO senators would be the “turtle mcconnell” and “rand paulllie.”
It may be just a coincidence but those two senators are from the same state.
Now what could be done to motivate the two senators to quickly pass the critical MAGA / America First election integrity legislation? They are hardcore globalist / communist RINO senators …. they want to be able to cheat in elections so they aren’t easily swayed.
However, their acceptance of election fraud may not be shared by the citizens and businesses in their state.
The state they are from is Kentucky. Kentucky is the home state of the famous Brown family.
You know who they are, they run the famous alcohol product manufacturer, Brown-Forman Corporation:
“Brown-Forman Corporation is an American family-controlled publicly traded company, one of the largest in the spirits and wine business. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, it manufactures several well-known brands throughout the world, including Jack Daniel’s, Old Forester, Woodford Reserve, GlenDronach, BenRiach, Glenglassaugh, Herradura, Korbel, and Chambord. Brown-Forman formerly owned Southern Comfort and Tuaca before selling them off in 2016. As of fiscal 2024 the company had gross sales of $5.32 billion and net sales of $4.178 billion. “
No doubt, if the Brown’s wanted their two senators to support some legislation, they would do it.
Now what could influence the Brown’s to get the two senators to quickly vote for the election integrity legislation?
Hmmm. Look what initiative has just been initiated by President Trump, at the end of January ….. an EO against alcohol addition … no doubt it is just a coincidence.
“Great American Recovery Initiative
On January 29, 2026, an Executive Order was signed to create the Great American Recovery Initiative. This initiative aims to coordinate a national response to the addiction crisis, particularly focusing on substance use disorders, including alcohol addiction.
Key Objectives
Coordination of Efforts: The initiative will align federal programs and set clear objectives to address addiction.Awareness and Treatment: It aims to increase awareness of addiction as a disease and improve access to treatment for those in need.Community Involvement: The initiative will consult with various stakeholders, including states, local organizations, and the private sector, to develop effective strategies for treatment and recovery.Impact on Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol addiction, classified as a substance use disorder, affects millions in the U.S. The initiative recognizes the need for comprehensive treatment approaches, similar to those used for other chronic diseases.
Statistics
Approximately 48.4 million Americans suffer from addiction, with many not receiving necessary treatment.A significant percentage of adults with substance use disorders do not perceive they need help, highlighting the importance of awareness campaigns.”
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Does the 48.4 million include the illegals causing auto accidents?
Alcohol addiction goes much further…how about cirrhosis or liver failure? Heart failure? Portal hypertension? Many also don’t know but Atrial Fibrillation is often a side effect of serious alcoholism. Not exactly inexpensive ailments when one considers the issues later on, such as clotting disorders and massive blood transfusions…or platelets or plasma products?
And the medical industrial complex knows recidivism is high…just ask AA….its a quick buck for the hospitals…bring in the patient, observe him till he ‘sobers up’ and discharge…discharge with consults or appts. to an addictive medicine specialist.
Rinse and Repeat.
Many of the Pain Management Doctors that owned a large franchise of Pain clinics in the Mid Atlantic and South also were owners of Addiction treatment centers and touted themselves as addiction specialists. Never understood how that was legal, much less ethical.
I agree….
Ativan, one of the benzodiazepines, is often used in alcohol withdrawal.
One of the highly addictive and abused substances.
When I did my covid gig in FL, I would ask the inmates, what substance they abused, hands down…cocaine and Ativan.
Where ‘recidivism’ is high, the medical industrial complex does just enough to say they “are doing something”….but what they do is essentially cheap medicine and ineffective.
It’s a turf war Aggie.
The battle is between the street crack and the government crack.
What you describe is that they do enough to keep that customer on the government crack so that the government is the one profiting and not the dealers on the streets.
If you are going to do drugs, the government wants you doing their own drugs.. they want that money.
So the goal here isn’t ever to fix you because why lose that customer?
They want to keep you well enough to just keep you hooked into their own system.
Lol, the inmates are the ones that understand all this the best, who do you think taught me all about it.
Insurances don’t pay for rehab. Now “grants” from the money of the Pardue (Oxycontin) lawsuits are supporting another racket — lifetime use of suboxone — paid for by insurance (our tax dollars or our employer dollars or our own heatlthcare dollars).
Not only is it one of the most highly addictive substances but also one of the most difficult to get off of as it causes a protracted brain injury if not done very, very slowly with tapering. This can last for 2 years and upward causing debilitating conditions.
My daughter is also on a benzo for mental health condition unrelated to addiction. They are prescribed for everything it seems.
i suspect that in a few years, it will go the way of the overprescribed pain relievers.
What will be sad, although addictive in itself…it works…tapering must be done under a doctors\’s care…risk of complications to withdrawal is great…
Most people are either unable or too lazy though to make the necessary entire lifestyle changes required to get it all done and maintain it though, and that is quite a large part of the problem too.
You can’t completely remove yourself from that lifestyle, that pattern, all those people, this is a hard issue to get on top of given their financial issues and the price of trying to create an entirely new life somewhere else in this day and age.
They need a complete reset.. they and their families, they need to be willing and able.
The evil part of this is those that need the medication are being lumped into the group that uses it for escape purposes. I would maintain it is their lifestyle that causes them to use drugs.
Yes, what ALL these drugs do is considered a brain injury- if you read about it all in the right places.
And this point make me laugh too.
We see this country is a flat out disaster as far as the mental state of people, well lets talk about how many people are out there right now with what is a an actual brain injury.
Newsflash: people with brain injures are not okay !!
How is the oxygen atop of that very high soap box? Careful it causes brain injury. I think it would be more productive to talk about the SSRI’s I mean the ones that you have to take every day. The ones that you cant stop abruptly. They have actually moved people off of the take as needed Ativan..Klonopin ,of course these can be abused, but you do not have to take everyday and many are able to do this. They actually work vs. the SSRI’s but everything government gets involved in creates more problem.
As with many things that can be abused it is the person who has the addictive personality trait that gets into trouble. Sorry to seem defensive but have had people close to me requiring help with pain and anxiety. Both are debilitating. I remain hopeful that alternative treatments can be found but for the time being it is what it is.
Would you worry about “brain injury” “addiction” if you were to experience a sever injury or had cancer eating you up? Be careful of All this propaganda that has vilified certain drugs because TPTB will use it to deny use in every and all circumstances. Everyone will some day fall victim of this denial that is except the elite few. It has already begone.
Maybe you better get off the soapbox before you fall over.
There is very little support for afavorable benefit to risk ratio in using ativan (or any benzodiazepine: valium, xanax, clonazepam) for addiction, and really even other psychiatric conditions. All cause death rates go up, and we “can’t discover” the reason. But the medical industrial complex or alcohol industry doesn’t want to discover effective treatment for addiction or the cause of death of benzodiazepines.
My Mother who needed pain management was also on ativan for years……help manage her anxiety. These drugs and the people that need them have been so vilified it has become evil unto itself.
When you understand how this all works, you can then understand the extreme pushback that RFK Jr. is getting.
They don’t want this all ended, they don’t want us healthy, they don’t want us all knowing what we need to know to solve all this, to not fall for all this.
This right here is literally the ‘Trillions At Stake” part that Sundance often refers too.
Continuing this dirty economy all onward that is killing us and greatly profiting from our entire trip down the drain from the toxic food supply to the meds we then take- this right here then gets into why they work so hard to keep us dumbed down and deprived of information.
THIS is the entire cycle here of the Trillions At Stake that they fight to keep in place.
We are absolutely under attack by all this and it’s been going on for decades.
They can’t just shoot us all anymore so they poison us with everything from the vaccines to the food supply and then profit off where that all goes too.
Those that go to pain management need it…..that has nothing to do with addiction.
It’s not black and white, though, gulf addict. Even in many pain clinics, there is a high proportion of addiction.
An ideal pain management clinic should focus on function, physical conditioning (no matter how crippled), hope and support. The physicians and providers are paid well for procedures, but after all the “billing opportunities” are used up — (surgeries, injections, physical therapy, pain pumps, nerve stimulators) the patients are left on maintenance doses of pain medicines — with very little support in continuing to focus on function and minimizing narcotics.
Instead, those patients on maintenance meds cannot get meds from their regular docs because the docs are afraid of being targeted for “overprescribing”, but there is not reimbursement for the intense lifestyle support that leads to maximum function and minimized/optimized narcotics and adjunctive medicines.
Even less education of professionals and patients of the body’s natural compensating abilities if people focus on function, diet, smoking cessation (which worsens all injuries and the healing from it).
There are huge numbers of people falling through the cracks in the U.S. due to the shortcomings of the medical industrial complex, and the catering to those who sell junk food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and many nutraceuticals.
The money obtained from the lawsuit against Pardue (makers of Oxycontin) went to the states, and the states are recycling this money back into “Medication assisted Treatment” programs MAT for short. So the money from the suit based on the profit of addiction to oxycontin is going support centers that dispense Methadone, suboxone — again physicians prescribing addictive substances.
The scientific marketing of this is that it keeps the addicts off the street and enables them to function productively rather than stealing to pay for illegal street drugs.
But money is paying for grants given to physicians who are not necessarily part of the spiritual process of recovery, but may feel is subtituting one legal addiction for another. There is not a lot of effort put forth at stopping the suboxone, and very little support for developing the networks that support total abstinence from alcohol or being clean from substances.
The racket continues
Most also don’t know the mental illness that comes along with cirrhosis of the liver and even the fatty liver that is the start of the cirrhosis.
If your liver is not working correctly, then neither is your brain. The brain is particularly sensitive to the high ammonia levels that happens when the liver isn’t working right.
What is all presents as is often called ‘alcoholic dementia’ for the need to label it as something, but it’s the decline of the brain because of the decline of the liver.
We look around today and all see a huge mental health crisis and it likely is largely related to a poor liver health crisis.. and that can happen from anything to using drugs and alcohol to the obesity issue and what all the toxins in our food supply then do to the liver and kidneys. It’s all interrelated.
I’ll also add Aggie, the rates of addiction are so high in large part because I’d say that most all our ‘addiction programs’ are scams. There is very little effort to genuinely solve all this.
It’s quite surprising that the Somalis haven’t gone into this scam yet (I say with a laugh and an eyeroll)
When there isn’t any genuine effort to solve things and fix things, nothing then gets fixed and the problems just continue to explode. When you are on the side of government expansion, this is all great stuff!
What is happening here is that we’re seeing a whole lot of the monetization of these issues and mistaking this as a solution, it’s not a solution, it’s a Jobs Program.
Last: I’m not one that believes that alcoholism is a disease, it’s the symptom of disease, it’s most often people self medicating for mental issues they’ve got already. It’s also poor choices being made because of the inability to properly assess risk.
It’s largely called a disease because that is what the insurance industry requires we call it so that they can get insurance coverage to then deal with it and the results of it- and there is more issues!
I also believe you should never own a disease -but to not make this post a mile long, I’ll leave it here.
That rockefeller ConMedpHARMafia industrial-complex system isn’t broken… it was designed this way;
you’re touting a key feature not a bug.
Why does anyone think “cure” is a dirty & illegal word, AND Orthomolecular Medicine is a *verboten* concept,
in that paradigm?
{ http://www.doctoryourself.com/alcoholcure.html }
JMO – Both Rand and Mitch have deep ties to the CCP. Rand accepted a $20 million donation a couple of years back from investor in TicToc’s parent company (read that in Peter Schweizer’s well sourced Red Handed) and the ship has long sailed on Mitch. Do better Kentucky!
I think Massie does as well. He was a full throttle Mitch supporter not long ago.
Peter Schweizer is a jewel. Purchased several of his books.
I know more people planted in the graveyard from alcohol that any drug, with young people it’s fentanyl poisoning downstream from the vote. The Save Act would lessen both, with honest elections. A happy, prosperous people with God will do less of both.
Good catch Cactus revealing one of the Kentucky puppeteers $$Brown-Forman$$.
several months ago someone on CTH posted a link on YT to Texas Pictures Documentaries which is focused on cannabis vaping. It was an eye opener for me and I also found out my 12 year old grandson had already been exposed to vaping–not sure if it was cannabis but quite alarming nonetheless. My daughter who has a mental illness also bought THC gummies which resulted in psychosis. The outcome of these drugs is like alcoholism on steroids–end result the same–locked up or covered up but at a much younger age.
There is NO coincidence in this world, only synchronicity!
I am praying. and reading His merciful Word. But I’ll take a sabbatical from all digital feeds until I’m strong enough to stop seething. at all the commentary and clacking, from every corner of the world, and every arbitrary peoples. who collectively look into their phones and say ‘oh of course the United States Supreme Court ruled against Trump Tariffs. They were weaponized. and he was out of control.’ and blah, blah, bleeckh!
On the positive, I’m going to be voting this November, come hell or highwater -twice if still possible here in RI. But honestly, I just can’t. take it at the moment. Peace and prayers to all Treepers!
Understand Jflaherty…Not easy.
May you feel the peace beyond understanding of the Holy Spirit /\
God bless, Flaherty!
You are not alone in this be-wilderness!
🙏🇺🇸💕
Elon Musk: “They put like five or six hundred January 6th protesters in prison and not one person on the Epstein’s client list.”
https://nitter.poast.org/ThomasSowell/status/2025193795076153416#m
‘they’ being democrats and rinios. Rinos hide behind democrats who just don’t care who thinks what if the act is getting things done. On the other hand is the rinos and republicans who never want to look bad so they all hide while /pretending their trying so very hard to do.
There is the shining truth writ large. Do they care? Apparently not very much at all and no regard to the American citizens who take the brunt of the harm these elected fools cause everyday.
One follow up to last night, then I intend to go dark about it.
I moved up to the $18/mo Business Workspace account and switched to Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview via AI Studio.
This is no parler trick. What I am doing with it is both amazing and terrifying. All legal, but trust me, you dont want to know. My head hurts.
The capabilities of what Our President has access to, combined with his inherent genius are beyond most human’s comprehension.
The changes due to this stuff are going to make the rona disruption look trivial.
Buckle up.
I just want my printer to stop going off line…LOL…
But I do want to know.
JMO.
With the roaring economy picking up steam, things are going to get busy this spring and summer.
President Trump related some recent news given to him from a manager of a Georgia plant …. they were getting so much business they would be going to 3 shifts, 24 hours per day.
Just a reminder ….. as a MAGA / America Firster, you have to make time to vote in the 2026 primary election to replace any RINOs you have in your district with MAGA candidates.
We are at the start of the primary election season in America.
The primary elections are held at the state / local level.
Know your state’s schedule so you can plan to cast your vote in time.
Here is a link that shows all of the states primary election dates.
There may be a few special elections that are announced locally. The local Republican party will have all of the details for your area.
https://ballotpedia.org/2026_election_and_voting_dates
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Putin comments on the murder of Charlie Kirk.
RFK Jr on Gates…
Is this a revelation to anyone?
Nope – just further confirmation. ‘Tis good to see Kennedy come right out and say it.
now…..normies ….knows that too…..
Most people don’t remember that Gates-GAVI was kicked out of India entirely for maiming & killing thousands of girls with the HPV Vx ‘trials”… the deception was discovered eventually with the outcome rates (thanks to Puliyel et al).
They wormed their way back in just a short while later – probably with bribes.
Veritable & Bona Fide demon spawn that one.
I;m getting zero time to edit lately pretty frequently…
anyway…
Puliyel’s tip of that ‘GAVI Poisons India’ iceberg – more than just HPV
{ https://jacob.puliyel.com/results.php?s=gavi+hpv&searchbutton=Search }
Yep the Senate voted to give GAVI access to funds in the BBB after Kennedy shut down Gates usual funding. How much are those crooks in the Senate willing to ignore for money for donors. Not a stinking shred of decency.
IKR?, ga –
and their State-Dept.-end-run will backfire – God’s Divine Boomerang will turn it into rocket fuel for the MAHA & MAGA usurper-extraction op.
I’m praying Gratitude for the sane people for seeing & activating the most efficiently Divine Way to either block OR claw the usurped money back. Divine Sunlight be upon it and its Traitorous usurpers.
God is So Good.
Thanks for confirming that RFK. We all pretty much agreed that was the case during Covid after realizing his involvement in vaccine creation and distribution and that he and Fauci had been in the vaccine business for decades.
gates and fauci should be in the slammer for decades…
Just think ….if they wont go after the too big to fail guy…they will go after no one in that economic class. Beside outright deaths have you noticed the grotesque deformities that plague those people.
Regardless of your view on the potential effects, call your Senators, along with Thune and Turtles offices and push hard for them to pass the Save Act. Please pray about the matter as well.
Amen to your comment above Harrison, now is the decisive time to act!.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Federal crimes. No one going to jail. The beat goes on.
Everybody knows 2020 was stolen from the American people and the proof is coming out, now is the time for the remedy…JUSTICE NOW!
As long as bondi is AG, it is of no consequence that the “proof is coming out now”…
Truer words were never spoken jjoy. So far, she has been another Sessions or Barr, absent from her job.
Yes, the communist dems and the rino’s stole the 2020 election…we all know that. My 2 concerns are: 1. who were the foreign countries involved and 2. what is going to be done about it?
We are definitely headed into uncharted territory on the scope and scale of the crimes committed.
Wonder why Sundance doesnt ask Tulsi why there seems to be a problem. I am sure she has an opinion especially since she stuck out her neck to give Bondi all that evidence and said what she said on national news. But yet she is/was made to look like a fool. I wonder if she directly discusses this with PT since he was involved in her pressers? One has to assume he knows of Bondi’s inaction.
Thanks for the update. Everyone at TCH knows this happened – and worse. We also need where the data is confirmed – sources and references if they are available.
My mom use to say ‘doo doo or get off the pot’. Seems a lot of pot sitting and little doo doo going on.
Sidney Powell and “the Pillow Guy” (I forget his name) had this evidence shortly after the stolen “election”, but the corrupt courts refused to hear it…
Then we have to take the courts out of it. We have to demand our rights be upheld by showing those who are against us that we are the many and we are the ones who will serve justice. We really need to be one voice, one action, one force for ourselves. We did it in 2024 and got Pres. Trump elected overwhelmingly. We now have to do the same in every state we can, all of them.
Get out and support candidates who are like you in thought and deed. Americans first. Campaign for them, get donations for them. Get people out to vote for them. The democrats will do anything to win so make sure you remember that. To beat them the message has to be loud and clear from a lot of patriots. Present the evidence we have, present the mandates we want. Get the job done. Join in with people like Scott Presler. Make news orgs responsible when they lie about everything politically against the Trump and MAGA movements. They are a giant road block with a lot of clout and exposure to the average people. We have to negate their power any way we can by getting the facts out there, all of the facts that the media chooses to leave out.
Shout the truth with facts in hand everywhere you can do so. We have only a few months before the ‘still allowed everywhere’ early voting starts and even less time to the primaries. It has to begin now. We can do this if we make enough people aware of the truth and get them out to vote.
Pressler is on the wrong path…..it is the voter rolls. Get out the vote doesn’t matter if they manufacture the votes needed from the rolls. 2024 they knew eyeballs were on the Presidential so they went after Senate and some House seats.
Also, POTUS had a meeting with Powell and others at the WH on December 18th 2020 I believe. They laid out exactly what happened and all the proof necessary for prosecution. POTUS appointed Powell as Special Council with office space in the WH. When she tried to gain access, she was rebuffed by the Chief of Staff and refused entry and never was her office opened. And POTUS did NOT countermand this, and order her admittance. By then, everyone was ignoring his orders, even his own WH staff. THAT’s how bad it was then. It isn’t much better now. POTUS is extremely insulated and has no idea that the economy is NOT booming. The biggest problem with prosecutions may not be Podium Pam, it may well be the WH Council. POTUS NEVER goes against the WH Council. And that is yet another deep state safety measure.
Podium Pam is a problem in that she is an embarrassment to PT’s authority. I believe that smiling idiot Mark Meadows was a block to Sidney. All his chiefs of staff have been disaster . Wish his PS now was his COS.
Mike Lindell who is now running for Governor of MN.
All this evidence and yet, not much in any state has changed. Mail in still allowed, early voting still allowed, no voter ID with proof of citizenship is allowed, banning late vote counting hasn’t been put in place, machines still in place….. The proof is there, the whistle blowers are there, the evidence is coming in with major numbers being shown for false voting.
Nothing has changed in the process even when Americans are demanding in the majority than a simple thing like the SAVE act be passed and their elected representatives are telling them to get lost. It’s the crime of the century to let our votes be tossed around like papers on the wind and be used for fraud by those we supposedly elected to protect our voting rights and our Constitutional Republic.
Why are we letting this happen? What can we do? Expose, reveal, speak up, get out and vote in every election you can. Overwhelm their criminal actions. Then vote them out.
We ain’t gonna fix this by voting…
The DOJ, FBI, CIA, courts, and our “congress” are corrupt to the bone… They are aided by a corrupt, communist controlled, national “news” media…
Only the President has the clout to fix it, and he can do it by declaring a National Emergency, declaring Martial Law, and let justice be handled by Military Tribunals…
I suspect they won’t go to legal action until after the integrity of elections is resolved, as that is a higher priority, long term goal, and one without which success could be fleeting.
The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
—calls out every single member of Barack Obama’s national security syndicate, one by one, by name:
JOHN BRENNAN. JAMES CLAPPER. JAMES COMEY. AND SUSAN RICE.
Each deliberately and maliciously falsifying intelligence as a means to overthrow the United States government in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
@DNIGabbard “The most powerful people in our country were directly leading at the helm under Barack Hussein Obama and his senior national security cabinet—James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice—essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people, who in November 2016 delivered a historic victory to Donald Trump, defeating Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama and his team’s goal was essentially to not accept the decision of the American people and to use this manufactured, politicized intelligence as a means to enact what would become, essentially, a years-long coup against President Trump. You have gone into great detail over these years about the effects this document and this decision have had.
JMO.
When President Trump is faced with proof of treason at all levels of the federal government in DC, he has a Constitutional workaround path to follow.
He can Constitutionally proceed, within his Executive Branch powers, to transfer the investigation, prosecution and sentencing of those cases against treasonous federal government employees, both present and past, out from underneath the corrupted, treasonous “DOJ / FBI / SC” DC complex over to Pete at the Department of War at locations outside of DC, avoiding its corrupted jury pool.
All functions staying within the Executive Branch under overall control of President Trump, who is The Executive Branch, “lock-stock-and-barrel.”
All appeal processes would stay within the Department of War structure, none going back into the DC appeal systems, including the not-so-Supreme Court. The 2026 DC judicial system is corrupted with treasonous traitors. It wouldn’t make sense to send appeals to them.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Keep in mind…a U.S. citizen…who deliberately and maliciously…falsifies intelligence…with the intent…to overthrow the U.S. government…and aid foreign enemies engaged in armed conflict…such as ISIS…Taliban forces in Afghanistan…U.S. operations in Iraq or Syria…or other global counterterrorism campaigns…could face treason or espionage charges.
Supreme Court precedent…particularly Ex parte Quirin…establishes that acts occurring on U.S. soil…including Washington, D.C…..can functionally qualify as part of a “combat zone” if they materially aid hostile forces…for treason under Article III and 18 U.S.C. §2381…the prosecution would still need to prove an overt act…and obtain testimony from two witnesses to that same act…or a confession in open court.
Depending on circumstances…such a defendant could be tried by military tribunal…if captured abroad or in a combat zone…or classified as an enemy combatant…additional statutes like espionage (§794)… or seditious conspiracy (§2384)… could also apply…if all elements are met…including intent…aid to the enemy…and overt acts…convictions could be obtained…with treason or espionage carrying…potential death penalty exposure…while lesser offenses would carry substantial prison terms.
Oh yeah…she is also in the middle of an investigation…with a grand jury empaneled…FBI raids have taken place…there are international connections…intentional and malicious intelligence falsification…to overthrow the duly elected US Government…what is missing?
Gabbard is doing her job. She’s fearless and organized and she is gathering the evidence.
Who is going to actually take action against these traitors is the question of the century. We have so much evidence in all the criminal actions from those on the left in almost every aspect of the incidents against our laws and against the people. What we don’t have is anyone to actually go get these criminals and their funding parties and put them in jail any time soon. Our Congress can’t even pass a simple bill to make voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote a law. It’s shameful how much we now know is able to be proved as crimes against America and how little we have done with the evidence.
What raids and where did you read that…..would give hope.
Declare a National Emergency, move to Non-Article III Courts and clean out the traitors in a bipartisan way.
MAGA! …with God the only way.
We have only two ways in which to save our Nation:
1.) What you outline in your post above…
2.) Civil War II
in this stage is only way to deal with those traitors…..
He can also (in the correct order) declare a national emergency, invoke the Insurrection Act, then invoke PEADS (which is part of COG) which would give him total power over all of it. He could simply remove all deep state actors from the entire government using any means he desires, (including the parts of the military that remain loyal Americans,) including SCOTUS, congress, judiciary and others including the MSM. Then rebuild the government correctly. And it would all be 100% LEGAL! THAT, is the level of action that is necessary to save America. Working within the crooked system has not and will not work. Period.
Great. So let the indictments commence.
Any questions?
Justice Now!
One of the things wrong with Fox, is that they do not show the current date when interviewing.
This allows people like this RealRobert to re-air interviews months later as if they were current.
Worse, he fabricates Gabbard making accusations about 2020, and 2024, which she did not make. Not in that Hannity interview. Not ever.
And when we swallow his slight of hand tricks as true, we undermine ourselves and our allies and our cause.
There were Democrat shenanigans run against Trump ever since 2016, including 2020 and 2024. But the people who kicked them off in 2016 that Tulsi names dropped into the background. We have no evidence that those five people, “Each deliberately and maliciously falsifying intelligence as a means to overthrow the United States government in …, 2020, and 2024.“. Just in 2016.
Robert has taken a true statement and modified it to an untrue statement. Not very Real.
It is apparent that the President thinks going for justice now will cost him support in the mid-term “elections”…
The truth of the matter is: going for justice NOW will insure the win of the mid-term elections…
Tulsi and RFK jr, both Democrats, doing the job…
Meanwhile, bondi and kash, both republicans, seem to be AWOL or MIA…
Brilliant move by feds – not so bright one by radical leftists.
well that’s a good start for a day.
Remember, If you shovel snow in NYC you need 2 forms of ID per Mamdani.
I should have picked this one.
There is a lot on his feed tonight.
https://xcancel.com/MarioNawfal
The other concern is that IDF has gone into southern Syria, miles from Damascus. Is our build-up in the ME about Iran or Israel and Syria? Interesting times.
Damascus has always been a couple miles from Israel
Al-qaeda seems to be ok while Assad-Syria/Hezbollah/Iran not so much. Considering we were told Al-Qaeda did 9/11 does not more people around the world question the whole 9/11 story?
Imagine if they had shown the same vigor that they have used with Hezbollah, against who did 9/11 Al-Qaeda?
do not get too over excited over those planes…there do not will be war……
Dr. John Cambell on the clots. 18min
Beautiful!
The Olympic gold medal game in men’s hockey starts at 8 am EST. US v. Canada.
The US women’s hockey team already beat Canada for the gold.
Womens game was fantastic. Go USA!!
The historicals for wins against Canada…not good…however, the USA topped Russia way back…
Herb Brooks: “Not tonight”.
Good morning America, how are ya?
A Texas short that says it all!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6zCqbCQy3Ng
Good morning Aggiegirl. Have made that long haul across Texas on I-10 and I-20 to and from El Paso to Louisiana…..its an all day run if you run hard with minimal stops.
As a kid…. on cross country road trips with my parents, my most frequent inquiry was, “Are we outta Texas yet, Mommy?” 💕
I used to think the drive from Denton/Dallas to Shreveport took forever…
Hey Neighbor! My folks were both born and raised at Sherman!
Yes bring back memories of all the teeth that were lost on the I-10 bridge between Breaux Bridge and Baton Rouge.
Hard to get thru there with out seeing a wreck.
I made that run monthly from late 1996-late 1997.
It was 14 hours from El Paso to west-central Louisiana.
Frigid 6 degrees in Minneapolis, With temps like this we will have Ice for quite a while.
Just got done with a 4 day blizzard up here in the Arrowhead. We were snowed in for all four days and it was wonderful. When the wind wasn’t howling it was peaceful and quiet with no traffic on our little country road.
Hubby used the bobcat to clear our long driveway yesterday of the three feet of snow that fell. Now we have 6 foot piles of snow lining our driveway.
Snow is too deep to get to the birdfeeders in the back yard; even the deer are getting a workout with the snow being high enough to almost reach their bellies.
We like the cold, and we most definitely love ICE here in Minnesota!
Grits. What’s a grit?
Not a southerner I take it?
It is humorous when people find out it’s corn.
The ones that won’t eat a grit will pay for polenta at an Italian restaurant.
Must cook per instructions but I like mine thick….at the end add in some milk or cream, to give a nice texture still thick not soupy , and of course plenty of butter.
Sharp cheddar garlic and replace water with chicken broth. Serve with favorite blackened fish.
A staple at any meal.
Something you serve with butter, a side of extra bacon and a hot pan of biscuits. 🥰
Mix in a little cheese… Cheesegrits with fried Opelousas Catfish… mmmm, mmmm, GOOD!
I think this might be referencing Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny……….humor it is.
Good morning. N Minnesota here. 4 degrees. We now have over 30″ of ice on the lakes. Getting hard to drill holes to catch fish. Texas is one of my favorite states. Usually spend time on the coast every winter.
Not sure where this is:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tutunNfSSG4
Or this, Brits seeing the Great Lakes…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mHxgeS1o4ho
Ah yes!
Love to take visitors down to “the lake,” Lake Superior, to a spot called Stony Point (look up Stony Point Overlook). It is just an area of the lake where you can walk down to the water, and play in the water if you’re willing to go into temps that are just above freezing — even in the heat of summer.
It is fun to play on the large, flat and warm boulders in summer, and to use discarded Seagull feathers and waterpools from large waves to write love letters on the same boulders — that you know will be private since they’ll soon evaporate.
It is fun to walk along the stony shore, too, especially in winter — if you have the right shoes/ice grippers on. The waves crash up on shore evetually covering all the rocks. If you go there when the water is calm you can pick the ice off the rocks, turn it over and have beautifully sculpted “rock” ice bowls.
One year we did that with three little girls and when we left the shoreline was covered with amazing crystal bowls
It’s all fun and games until the ice starts to melt. This happens on big lakes.
America’s President Trump’s popularity and strength are much stronger among the people than we the people are led to believe. The Left-wing Democrats and “Deep State” are in desperation panic and it is only getting worse for them.
The Media and Pollsters are in their camp and it is at total War against President Trump as well as MAGA. The Left-wing knows it is “Do or die” for them.
What America was meant to be by the Fore Fathers is in the minds of People like never before. It is becoming a clearer distinction which more People are able to understand. Not just the United States, but all over the World.
I agree. The American people have been locked in a dark dungeon where all information is spoon fed and many suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.
Through their lives they’ve seen very little light, and when they see a little ray of light it’s quickly tamped down and called a “conspiracy theory”.
The door of the dungeon have been flung open in 2016-2026 but many still hid in the corners of their dungeon. Even after the 2020 steal they still were being exposed to very bright light and many rejoiced the steal, squinting and shielding their eyes not wanting to leave their comfortable dungeons.
Present day, more are at least standing at the door, their eyes becoming acclimated and are looking out, one simple step across the threshold and they will be free, sadly many still retreat hiding in the corners and will be doomed.
We must save the savable. Wave bye-bye as the Karen’s fade into darkness and oblivion.
MAGA!
morning Treepers………….be well
Good morning bjorkdream. Oh my goodness, that is beautiful. And powerful. Thank you so much🙏❤️.
🌄 🙏
lovely morning
walk with me in meadow weeds
where blossoms bloom and blows
walk within the grass so green
and mercy overflows.
Just glorious!
Wishing you a day to match.
Beautiful!
Morning bjorkdream
Thank you for the perfect reminder.
Have a blessed day.
Alysa Liu won gold, but her father’s story is remarkable
FTA – Many people saw the triumphant figure skater Alysa Liu win gold for the U.S. yesterday. Liu skated a nearly flawless program to become the first American woman to claim the gold medal in 24 years.
Most people don’t realize that Arthur Liu, Alysa’s father, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest as part of the 1989 democracy movement, which led to his persecution. At 25, he went into exile in the U.S. as a political refugee and shortly after became a lawyer. Alysa is the oldest of his five children.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/02/alysa_liu_won_gold_but_her_father_s_story_is_remarkable.html
From an Instapundit post yesterday:
I think almost everything that can be said about Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu has already been said, but when I step back and look at the full picture, I keep getting blown away by how reality handed us a script far more perfect than anything fiction could invent.
On one side, you have the cold, elitist “I’m the most decorated” athlete, raised in one of the wealthiest and most exclusive neighborhoods in the country, Sea Cliff, who gladly sold out the country that gave her everything in order to became the PR face of a brutal dictatorship in exchange for a few suitcases of cash.
On the other side, you have the happy-go-lucky, “That’s what I’m f****** talking about” girl from working-class Richmond, coerced by Communist Party operatives, refusing to bow to them, and proudly representing the United States. And that does not even begin to touch on the tortuous path Alysa’s father had in getting to the United States, compared with the easy route taken by Eileen’s mother, or the many other layers of this story.
And then, perfectly, one wins both her competitions and the other loses both. If anyone tried to make a movie out of this story, no one would believe it.
What an amazing story. Thank you for posting.
Oh the irony: there must be a budding dissident in NYC who will write great satirical literature about the caliphate and kommunist junta that has been elected in the country’s once greatest city:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/02/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-2-21-2026/#712417
“Snowcialism has hit The Big Apple.
Lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani opposes requiring ID’s to vote — but mandates no less than five forms of identification in order to shovel snow.
The New York City Sanitation Department website says that in order to register as an emergency snow shoveler, an applicant must provide two small photos sized 1-1.5 square inches, two original forms of ID plus copies, and their social security card.”
Mamdani Blasted for Requiring 5 Forms of ID to Shovel While DSA Opposes
Voter ID
guess they don’t want the snow shoveled as it covers what the vile stuff is underneath.
“Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes a rose…”
by: Amanda McBroom
“Just sit back and watch the show,” folks. They elected an incompetent but radical young man who made radical promises. But who knows utterly nothing of what it means to be Mayor of a very large city. You knew that this would happen, well before they elected him. And, you saw that he didn’t see it coming. I don’t give this man a year before he is thrown out: the City has very little choice. “Incompetence” is one reason why a Mayor can be removed.
Are they handing out hazmat suits to these people before they shovel? No telling what they will scoop up along with the snow.
Did anyone think the “The New York City Sanitation Department” was gonna allow the hiring of illegals? Yessir Mayor, we’ll hire all the snow shovelers you want, the Union President said.
+ + +
Saint Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (+ 420)
and
Saint George the Holy Great-Martyr and Trophy-Bearer (+ 303)
please pray for and protect the remaining original Christians in the Holy Land and the Levant, especially the village of Taybeh.
+ + +
A commenter early this morning had this clip of Tuksi Gabbard naming names on Hannity, including Susan Rice. And we had Susan Rice telling us a few days ago exactly what they would do when demonrats got back in power. I know the demonrats have the media and judiciary (especially in DC) in their pockets to make good on Rice’s threats.
I sure hope Tulsi knows something we don’t (of course I know she does) but something that prevents what Rice has threatened. Not to sound condescending, but Tulsi talked pretty big for someone who, at least on the surface, only has the support of the American people and not the machinery to fix things. Rice has the media and judiciary (Biasbutt for example), she couldn’t care less about the American people. Who needs the American people when you have the judiciary?
https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/2025310000286236865
Wagering that Tulsi has a lot more than MAGA on her side. President Trump for one and that’s a big one. Marco Rubio seems to stand against what has happened and what could. Behind the scenes we can only hope she has the cia director, dhs director, and somewhat of a support from doj. Would add fbi but they’re not much of anything anymore.
She could have the support of Trump, Rubio, every MAGA in the country. Trump could sing her praises on Truth Social every hour of every day until January 2027 (if “Republicans” lose as planned). It all means nothing without the machinery.
Is this Eyeore thinking? Sure, whatever. But reality is reality.
The only “reality” is the one a person makes for themselves. The judges and the media ultimately don’t mean diddly squat, especially the “media”.
One and only one thing ultimately matters – and that is the PEOPLE, through which ALL political power flows.
We all have a choice – create self-fulfilling visions of doom to wallow in and turn the nation over to the relative handful of radicals – OR – making the conscious choice that this country and her people matter, then getting the heck off your backside and DOING something about it, instead of waiting for someone else to rescue you.
Choose wisely.
I don’t know ….do you reckon Trump constantly praising Bondi while barely mentioning Tulsi may be a ploy. A ploy to make the enemy think that doing nothing is perfectly fine with him while keeping attention away from Tulsi…..there’s that hopium again….what else do I have.
Nobody knows what’s cooking on the DOJ back burners – what’s up front might well be obfuscation.
“Appear weak when you are strong” ~ Sun Tzu
It sure did work/ is working with the tariff opinion…
the dims really (probably still) think he suffered a blow by the way he’s drawing attention to the SCOTUS leftists’ 6-3 opinion *instead of* the remedy he had fully locked & loaded by decision day…
“So his program will not only be fully reconstituted, but it will be EXPANDED.”
~ Stephen Miller
“the president’s fury at the decision was a performative display. In fact, he got everything he could have hoped for”
~Jeff Childres
It took 90 min. to make the seamless shift…
Who saw that coming???
Not the dims by the sound of their euphoria over the decision “crushing Trump’s tariffs”.
Classic Trump
President Trump posted about on Truth Social, with a screenshot from a post by Laura Loome4:
“Netflix should fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences. She’s got no talent or skills – Purely a political hack! HER POWER IS GONE, AND WILL NEVER BE BACK.
How much is she being paid, and for what???
Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”
https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/2025252727580692717?s=10 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116111073840858395
He should really quit the tenper tantrums.
1 – he’s not 4 years old
2 – it’s embarassing, especially when he makes those silly threats
3 – it only adds fuel to the fire that he is too old and senile for office
Sorry, I disagree with you.
President Trump is right. What they’re doing is intimidation and propaganda.
Did you hear Susan Rice’s threats?
Yes, intimidation. You should ignore it. And make damned sure they can’t cheat again.
These people are very plainly telegraphing exactly what sort of people they are. Exactly what they would do to every American they could catch. Let this be an eye-opener that these people must be removed from power and never allowed to get close to it again.
Yep, and they will do it because they have the doj in their pocket.
Susan Rice belongs in a prison cell down the block from Mary McCord, Sally Yates, Loretta Lynch, Valerie Jarrett, the Hildabeast and Liz Cheney. I am sure we can come up with a better list but its a start.
After what Tulsi just put out, that whole administration should be in jail.
If this is what the Trump administration has been doing to Democrats over the past year – which it very clearly is – I don’t see anything wrong with Democrats returning the favor and evening things out.
President Trump has been projecting unusually hard the past year. US citizens deserve to know why, and who exactly is behind the projection.
Wow!
I see what President Trump is doing as justice. He was persecuted, his home was invaded, banks were told not to do business with him, his family, his friends.
Please, show one thing that he is doing that is illegal.
Doing exactly WHAT to the communist dems??? Projecting is NOT action.
Are any of them in a jail cell? How about had their jobs erased? How many committed suicide? How many have been indicted by a grand jury? The grand jury in Florida was convened but we know nothing about the outcome(s) and potential indictments. Please explain what the Trump admin has been doing over the past year, not just the “projecting”.
I don’t see anything wrong with Democrats returning the favor and evening things out.
So, “love” for party – but not America, huh?
Politico is way over there
<———<<<
To the left.
/s
You’re a clown 🤡. And I assure you, it will be a helluva lot more of us evening things out than PDJT. The reckoning will continue and accelerate at least for the rest of your useless life. Keep your head on a swivel.
Name the dems that have paid a price…….you need to take a break from whatever news sources you’ve been frequenting and venture out to get another perspective. People here regularly do that and at the same time realize they have no facts for the allegations….usually unnamed sources and such shit as that.
Yes Trump is right. But Rice still walks free. She should already be in some off the books craphole of a prison eating spiders she finds on the floor, in an undisclosed location overseas…with obama, brennan, clapper, biden, val jar, comey, the clintons and the rest of them. Thousands of them.
That is an old interview. Tulsa made the 2016 accusations some months ago. Gabbards never extended the accusations to 2020 and 2024.
Be very careful about even fellow MAGA ‘falsifying’ the record. What RealRobert did may as well be sabotage of MAGA. Repeat his lies and open yourself up to attack.
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
salutations
US scores the first goal of the Olympic gold medal hockey game.
I wish at the next SOTU address that President Trump would have a big screen TV set up at the podium. Stand there and play all of the Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, etc clips about welfare, border, immigration, tariffs, election integrity and then simply walk out.
I rarely post a link to another article, but this morning’s post by Clarice Feldman at American Thinker is an excellent analysis of the impact of the latest SCOTUS tariff decision that everyone should read…and enjoy.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/tariff_decision_setback_or_boon.html
Ms. Feldman lays out in detail why the decision can be seen as an overall win for President Tump and all of us who support his efforts.
“… “The court also affirmed the president has the authority under section 301, section 232, section 122, section 338, and many other provisions of federal law, that the president can levy tariffs on foreign nations.””So his program will not only be fully reconstituted, but it will be EXPANDED.”
… It should come as no surprise to those who marvel at the competence of the Administration that during the long delay between the filing in the Supreme Court and the decision this week, Commerce did conduct such an investigation….
the President has broad discretion to determine what constitutes a “national security” threat and to act, with no legal cap on the tariff rate….
“Trump is brilliant. Anticipating all along that the initial tariffs wouldn’t stand eventual scrutiny, the Department of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, started the required review on day one and the 270 day review has been satisfied. It’s a done deal…. ”
Jeff Childres (Coffee&Covid; quoted by Ms Feldman) similarly did reveal the Brilliant-Right side’s MAGA fuel too;
without as much detail on the 232 option that POTUS – & Howard – had locked & loaded. Howard was so exquisitely well chosen & appointed… We The People are *So Blessed* he accepted and is there with 47 for US.
(in my best inscrutable voice and with a bow)
Thank you Grasshoppah.
Mamdani has no intention, ability or actual desire to help people by implementing a Socialist system.
His one and ONLY mission is to destroy the current system.
And enrich himself.
His goal is to become the president.
Aren’t both just actions to harm and destroy the people?
Where is ICE?
Breaking news.
Armed man shot and killed at Mar-A-Lago.
He had a shotgun, and a can of gasoline.
Am waiting on inside sources….
Guessing the renaming of PBI was just a bridge too far for the dude.
Just an FYI – you can delete everything after the first question mark in the address bar and the link will still work.
Who said this????
“If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy.”
Bernie Sanders. They just mess with our head every day. Yeh, it’s the right wing who want opens borders. Nothing but verbal garbage from these politicians
http://www.thecritique.com/articles/bernie-sanders-the-koch-brothers-open-borders-2/
https://archive.is/55gAC
bernie:
The only obligation a democrat has toward the poor, is give them stuff for votes.
JPMorgan Admits Closing Over 50 Trump Bank Accounts After January 6th
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/jpmorgan-admits-closing-50-trump-bank-accounts-after/
All quotes:
Banking giant and CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon made claims over the weekend that his bank doesn’t “debank” or politically-discriminate against account holders.
That claim is simply untrue. And NSSF has the receipts.
Dimon appeared on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” with Maria Bartiromo to address claims by former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who now serves as the chief executive of Trump Media. Nunes explained that despite Dimon’s claims that they don’t debank entities for political reasons, Trump Media was a political target under the Biden administration.
“People have to grow up here, OK, and stop making up things and stuff like that,” Dimon said, according to The Hill, adding “I can’t talk about an individual account. We do not … debank people for religious or political affiliations.”
Dimon then attempted to qualify his statement, explaining, “We debank people who are Democrats. We debank people who are Republicans. We have debanked different religious folks. Never was that for that reason.”
But that’s not true. And you don’t have to take my word for it. You can take Dimon’s own words for it.
https://www.nssf.org/articles/j-p-morgan-chases-dimon-says-bank-doesnt-discriminate-nssf-has-receipts/#:~:text=Dimon%20appeared%20on%20Fox%20News's,chief%20executive%20of%20Trump%20Media.
AND in other news:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/armed-man-shot-killed-after-unauthorized-entry-mar-a-lago-secret-service
I wonder what form of crazy this will turn out to be.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/armed-man-shot-killed-after-unauthorized-entry-mar-a-lago-secret-service
JMO.
It is encouraging to see some sheriffs in blue states starting to publicly “buck” their state’s communist politician’s seditious policies and actions, …… aka in Maryland: “No politician … is going to tell me that I can’t communicate with another [LE] agency on matters of public safety in my community,” Carroll County Sheriff James DeWees said.”
Back in the 1800s, out west in the US territories and new states, it wasn’t unusual to have the illegal actions of crooked, local politicians being challenged by the local sheriff …… going to the extent of calling in the federal marshal to clean out city hall.
The plots of many of the famous western movies and TV shows were based on the struggle of an honest sheriff against a corrupt city hall. The sheriff, out numbered, would call for assistance from a US marshal, the Lone Ranger, Hop-a-long Cassidy, etc.
Until President Trump sends in the 101st calvary, sheriffs in blue states need to step up and protect their citizens from the likes of the Minneapolis mayor.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
🎯 Excellent!!
My speech at the UN Security Council
Professor Glenn Diesen presents at the UN Security Council: “The Information Dimension of the Ukrainian Crisis: How Media Narratives Shape Conflict”
https://rumble.com/v7624y4-the-biden-regime-lied-about-coordinating-mar-a-lago-raid-new-emails-reveal.html
Sure Pam!
JMO.
Here is the link to President Trump’s primary endorsements by year.
He doesn’t endorse in every race.
You can tell a lot by who President Trump doesn’t endorse, like incumbent senator corneyyyy in Texas.
He endorsed him in 2020 but did not endorse him in 2026 because corneyyyy, in the past 6 years, showed his globalist / RINO credentials.
https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
But what about Miss Lindsey?
I’m curious as to why Susan “Bengahzi” Rice would choose such a time to raise her head from the Black Lagoon to threaten all who support President Trump.
It is a rhetorical question on my part, however, it appears to be conspicuously coordinated with Obama’s reappearance in the news feeds.
Dark machinations under the irridescent sheen of slime on the surface of the dank swamp.
We must remain observant and above all: Be Prepared!
Olympic men’s hockey at the end of the second period – now tied between US and Canada, 1-1.
Now in OT…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15582455/secret-service-mar-lago-man-shot-killed-trump.html
FTA “An armed man was shot and killed by the Secret Service in the early hours of the morning after unlawfully entering the secure perimeter at Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The white male, in his early 20s, was holding a shotgun and a fuel can as he tried to enter Trump’s Palm Beach residence near the north side around 1.30am on Sunday, the Secret Service said.President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were in Washington, DC, last night attending the Governors Dinner. Two Secret Service agents and one deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office ordered him to drop his weapons. ‘They confronted a white male that was carrying a gas can and a shotgun. He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him,’ Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a press conference Sunday morning. The suspect put down the gas can, but raised his gun into shooting position, prompting police to fire.
The deceased man’s identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin.”
This is how the left deals with those they disagree with it’s called assassination!!! Praise the Lord President Trump and First Lady Melania were not there!!! The left is at war with MAGA and America Firsters!!! They want to kill us all or put us in indoctrination camps, these leftist are sickos!!! JMO
Many psychos out there are being urged by the media, communist politicians to kill. And not just the President, they want to kill anyone who resists their manifesto.