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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 second term, he is weeding them out faster and choosing like-minded servants who multiply his effectiveness. 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 to the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the same healthy distrust held by our founders of government and men with too much power. 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 believes that nations who treat their people well will also be good economic neighbors with us.
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 77 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.
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
Amen
April 29, 2025
Democracy Now: Trump Appointee Harmeet K. Dhillon Leads Gutting of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
“Over two-thirds of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division staff are expected to leave their jobs, accepting a resignation offer as the Trump administration moves to drastically reshape the agency. The new director of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet K. Dhillon, has ordered employees to turn their attention to combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and so-called woke ideology. As part of the division’s overhaul, senior positions overseeing the Justice Department’s work on voting rights have been removed, and attorneys have been directed to dismiss all active cases.”
10 years ago today Trump said he would eliminate the national debt, but today it has doubled to 39 trillion,
citizen free press^
10 years ago no one knew communist Judges would be legislating from the bench, if left alone he could have done it , even with the tariffs and DOGE, what is the point CFP is trying to make , they’re starting to sound like Drudge ,
Just think about a trillion a year in fraud, legislated out of Congress, being given to the non-working miscreants in our society, since circa Obama, then get back to me on that. Obama had people working 10 or 20 hours a week with no set schedule so they could not go get another part-time job. This was done at the behest of “corporations.” Fake voters were sent from solid blue counties, given fake jobs by these same “corporations,” registered to vote in red counties and then leave. By the tens of thousands. I saw it with my own eyes. There was a constant flow of people in and out of Lee County, Florida, during the years of 2008-2011. Did you really think Obama won his elections fair and square? Obama completely eviscerated our emergency medical supplies then foisted a World Wide Plandemic™ on us. Decimated our military and turned them all queer. Did the same to our schools. Emptied our reserve fuel supply, cut off all drilling and now “supposed” disgruntled MAGA have soured on President Trump’s economy. Give me a break.
I expect he counted on help from Republicans.
Trump would love to sign a balanced budget.
Paul Ryan, Pelosi, Ron Johnson — won’t give him one.
We need a Newt Gingrich who handed one to Epstein’s pal Bill Clinton
“And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms“
“President Trump is OFFICIALLY holding his Iran press conference in the White House briefing room at 1PM ET Monday, with the military”….
JMO.
Smile ….. You know its coming!
4/6/26 ….. The sun is rising on a new day!
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Inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp death cult: How henchmen brainwashed in ‘violent and extremist’ training camps oversee prison rapes and mass executions to maintain Iranian regime’s stranglehold
Despite all of this effort, the IRGC is believed to be ‘under severe and accelerating internal strain’.
According to a source who spoke to the Daily Mail: ‘There are many reports of IRGC soldiers being executed for desertion.
‘It’s happening constantly. IRGC leaders are also regularly executing subordinates for refusing to carry out orders. This is not isolated turbulence but a nationwide condition.
‘Personnel across multiple branches [of the Revolutionary Guard] have fled or attempted to flee. Manhunts have been launched for missing members, and families of those who fled have been placed under house arrest.
‘Resignation requests across multiple provinces have been rejected outright, in some cases under explicit threat.
‘The idea is that all this paves the way for uprisings in the future.
‘When the smoke clears, people will be surprised at how degraded the regime’s machinery of terror is. It’s only a matter of time before it starts breaking down.
‘No one seems to understand just how much trouble the regime is now in.’
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15700647/Inside-Islamic-Revolutionary-Guard-Corp-death-cult-henchmen-brainwashed-violent-extremist-training-camps-oversee-prison-rapes-mass-executions-maintain-Iranian-regimes-stranglehold.html
Countries that currently designated IRGC a terrorist organization:
United States (2019), Canada (2024), the European Union (Feb 2026), Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and Ukraine, several Western Balkan nations
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State Dept:
Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
https://2017-2021.state.gov/designation-of-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps
Shocking discovery of secret China-linked biolabs housing vials of COVID, HIV and Ebola… amid fears America is a ‘sitting duck’ for bioterrorism
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15678197/Secret-Chinese-biolab-California-Las-Vegas-bioterrorism.html
Thought piece…
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The Iran Question Is All About China
https://www.zinebriboua.com/p/the-iran-question-is-all-about-china
Yes, this article is correct. Iran has been China’s Cat’s Paw. China is supplying the Islamic Republic regime. That is why destroying all of Iran’s air force, navy, ballistic missiles and launchers, and drones is insufficient. China will resupply the Iranian regime. If the IRGC is left in power in Iran, the problem will not go away. Regime change is therefore necessary, and that must be our objective.
Now –> TAKE OUT The TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILWAY
https://kashmirobserver.net/2021/01/01/iran-turkey-pakistan-plan-to-revive-railway-line-report/
Which brings up the timely topic of Tibet. China built a railway to Tibet, the highest in the world. The people of Tibet were excited it was coming. It came, and it was glorious. Then China started unloading trainloads of troops. Soon Tibet was full of Chinese troops. Then the people realized they had been enslaved.
@BernieSanders
14h
One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday. These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.
https://nitter.poast.org/BernieSanders/status/2040808411609088163#m
US Democrats seem more worried about a leader who says fu*k than a terrorist regime that mass murders its own people.
But the Democrats have all been using the F word to oppose President Trump and for their campaigns ever since Trump began his second term. Just more Democratic hypocrisy.
I’d rather my president said it rather than acting on it against our country — like former eff heads –Biden, Obama, etc.
On the other hand, Bernie was cheering when Biden blew-up the Nordstream Pipelines! 🤔
I wonder from which of Bernie’s 3 homes does he make his statements?
He sure has a lot of money for someone who has dedicated his life to public service.
As a socialist/communist Bernie believes the earnings from your LABOR should go to the state to be redistributed.
Now you have to remember Bernie has never had a job and Bernie has never labored thus the money he gets from lobbyist for his influence in Congress and the money he gets from his graft he feels free to keep for himself. Liberal Socialist logic!
Don’t they all? Public pilfering.
Thought the F word was de rigueur for Democrat politicians now?
Gangster thugs only understand a certain language, that doesn’t change when they takeover a country.
Yes, he belongs to us and we hoist him on our shoulders!
Mr. Ogligarchy, This guy makes me nauseas.
This sounds like Bernie who is a proven dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual and should never have been allowed anywhere near our government.
People who think like Bernie, don’t think.
People who think like Bernie covet and envy what others have built. So they dedicate their lives to stealing from others what they haven’t earned themselves.
A big bonus for them is fake news is knee deep in on the graft and runs cover for all of them, painting all leftists as charitable while they create fronts like “Learing” Centers to conceal the theft of BILLIONS from the American people.
Bernie Sanders is a raving individual. He completely fell for the Russia, hoax and constantly complained about how much Trump loved Putin.
In 2020 he said that major cities were gonna go underwater in eight or nine years. I think you and Crazy Bernie are projecting.
JMO.
Bondi’s firing may signify the needed change in handling the treasonous cases that have been ignored by Bondi for the first year of the administration.
As usual, it would be the right move at the right time by President Trump.
The evidence continues to mount rapidly against the blue states / cities and their dangerous, treasonous, unconstitutional “sanctuary policies and organized fraud from their election systems to their handling of the federal safety net programs.”.
The treasonous Governors, AGs, mayors and other public officials involved must be removed from office, constitutionally.
As President Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.” (one),(two)
footnotes:
(one) Jefferson, Writings (Washington Ed. of 1853), vol. 5, p. 542.
(two) Brest, Paul; Sanford Levinson; Jack M. Balkin; Akhil Reed Amar; Reva B. Seigel (2006). Processes of Constitutional Decision making: Cases and Materials (Print) (6th ed.). New York: Aspen. pp. 65–67.
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Thomas Jefferson knew that at some point in America’s future, treasonous traitors would take over the law-and-order and judicial functions of the DC centered federal government and some territories / states (so-called blue states/cities).
That “point” has been reached.
The treasonous, unconstitutional “sanctuary policies” of the blue states / cities must be stopped, post haste.
While leaving all of the routine cases at the current DOJ / FBI, President Trump could move all “treason crimes” out of the fraudulent DC judicial system with its fraudulent jury pools.
At the appropriate time, the investigation, prosecution and sentencing of all treason cases could be moved by President Trump’s orders over to Pete’s JAG in the Department of War.
The JAG court proceedings will be at locations outside of the physical and procedural control of the infamous DC judicial system with its corrupt jurists and jury pool.
All functions would be staying within the Executive Branch under overall control and direction of President Trump, i.e., Constitutional.
Time is of the essence. The destruction of the local treasonous election systems and policies must be mandated by the Executive Branch or actual legislation before the 2026 midterms.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Agree! In essence every sanctuary state has succeeded from the Federal Union and must be brought back into the Union by force if necessary!!! JMO
SECOND U.S. PILOT RESCUED WITH HELP FROM IRANIANS – IRGC HUMILIATED
U.S. special forces pulled off one of the most audacious extractions in recent history hours ago, rescuing the F-15E Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) deep in the Iranian mountains after his jet was shot down on Friday.
The WSO evaded IRGC hunters for nearly 48 hours using survival training. Iranian civilians in Dehdasht flooded the streets, physically blocking roads and delaying IRGC and Basij convoys racing to capture him.
Anti-regime locals bought precious time amid widespread hatred for the mullahs. U.S. teams set up a temporary forward base inside Iran for the high-risk operation, which involved firefights and heavy air cover.
When two transport planes got stuck, commanders flew in replacements and destroyed the disabled aircraft on-site to prevent them falling into IRGC hands.
Both crew members are now safe. Trump called it historic.
https://nitter.poast.org/TousiTVOfficial/status/2040714216307400907#m
EXECUTIONS RISING: At least 657 Iranians have been executed in the first three months of 2026, putting the regime on pace to exceed previous records, according to the Iran Human Rights Society. The numbers point to a system intensifying repression as pressure mounts
https://nitter.poast.org/TousiTVOfficial/status/2040146859935555981#m
It‘s actually outdated ! now on 04.04.2026 at least 659 were executed by the Regime !
Mall of America in MN (video repost)
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116355876706114702
Welfare pays pretty good in Minneapolis because it’s the Number One career choice in high school!
Wow….The Mall of Somalia….
That should be the next target.
Those look like gravity bombs, thought the ‘analysts’ were claiming that the US was predominantly using stand off munitions due to Irans amazing, two shoot downs in thousands of sorties, AD.
Talking of that, AD has been grotesquely misrepresented by the MSM and their ‘experts’. Air defence’s role is what it says on the tin, defend assets and critical infrastructure from aerial attack, shooting down or damaging aircraft is a bonus. By this metric the Iranian AD has been shockingly poor, failing to defend any target from destruction, including this critical bridge, their armed forces, their senior leadership chain of command, their military infrastructure, including prize nuclear facilities. They couldn’t even stop a CSAR mission using low flying C-130’s, a plane type that was forbidden to operate over the combat zone in daylight, during Desert Storm, after the loss of a Spectre gunship, to an AD system that was decades older.
It’s beginning to remind me of the, ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ sketch from ‘The Life of Brian’.
The only effective AD they have now is shoulder-fired heat seekers.
The Soviets found out how lethal Stinger was in Hashganistan.
I am thinking one of those damaged the F-15 and prob the A-10 as well.
You have to be really good with a gun-based AD system to bring down a fast mover.
The helicopters caught ground fire from small arms. Choppers are notoriously vulnerable to ground fire. (See: Vietnam. My BiL got shot down in a Huey during Operation Lam Son 719 in 1972.)
2WAY
@2waytvapp
“If the Europeans want to get NATO dissolved, they couldn’t be doing a better job,” says
@MarkHalperin. “We’re the big dog, we’re the Top Gun, we’ve got all the juice here. And so if they want NATO to survive, don’t attack Donald Trump and don’t have a 30 country conference call chaired by the Brits to say, ‘well, we’ll get involved in opening the Strait when the war’s over.’”
Video linked…
They were tired of paying.
These lousy and ungrateful partners definition of ‘paying their NATO dues’ included routine domestic infrastructure expenditures. They won’t get away with this with their CCP overlords. Good riddance.
UN next please.
We pay with our tax dollars, but more importantly we pay with out blood. While London and Paris do worse than nothing.
The NY Slimes always has an agenda
The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome.
Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
https://nitter.poast.org/HansMahncke/status/2040841473558466707#m
Every generation has to relearn to distrust the experts.
“Important analysis by Zainab Riboa in The Free Press on 7 miscalculations that destroyed the Revolutionary Guard”….
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
BREAKING: The U.S., Iran and regional mediators are discussing terms for a potential 45-day ceasefire that could lead to a permanent end to the war.
Cont…
M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐔𝐙 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐘𝐒𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐆𝐁 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 “𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓” 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊
Cont…
“Death cult regime.” Spot on.
Sounds too much like a delay trick where Iran would simpky restock its missile supply and regroup.
Their scriptures(!) tell them to lie to “the infidel.” And to pretend to withdraw and make peace until they become strong enough to attack again. Look at thousands of years of history of fighting “Muslim hordes.”
If the Mullahs remain in power, then “they won.” And Epic Fury will have been for naught. Another history-ignorant politician will hold up a piece of paper and declare that he secured “peace for our time.”
Trust what President Trump tells you. He has not placed any mediators in the region, nor is the President interested in a ceasefire while France and the UK decide how much money they can get from any deal. He is blowing things up until they say uncle.
They will eventually say uncle.
The president said he would prefer negotiation to more bombing. OK, I will trust him. LOL
No, he said he would prefer negotiating but there is no one from Iran doing it in good faith.
Until there is someone of good faith to step up, President Trump will continue to destroy their ability to manufacture or transport anything that can be used for terrorism.
Big difference.
Are Dems throwing Swalwell under the bus?
More like tying up a loose end. Didn’t Nick Sortor just record a drunk Swalwell spilling his guts to lobbyists? And now this.
Time to shut him down. He’s become a loose cannon like Prince Andrew or Harvey Weinstein and that’s a threat to the rest of them. Swalwell may end up taking one for the team to quiet the news cycle then quietly retire with his bank accounts intact.
Let’s talk about the $240,000 in “Childcare” reimbursements Eric Swalwell received during his time in Congress.
The FEC’s “Incremental” Test
The FEC does allow for childcare reimbursements, but the standard is exceedingly strict.
To pass legal and ethical muster, these payments cannot simply cover a politician’s everyday domestic overhead. They must meet a rigorous, three-pronged test…
Direct Causality: The childcare must be explicitly and directly triggered by campaign activities… such as travel, canvassing, or fundraising events.
Strictly Incremental: Donor funds can only cover the extra coverage needed precisely because of the campaign. Paying a sitter for a Saturday night fundraiser that otherwise wouldn’t require coverage is permitted… subsidizing a regular, pre-existing, year-round nanny schedule is explicitly prohibited.
Meticulous Documentation: The expenditures must be cleanly tied to specific dates, hours, and campaign purposes.
A Predictable Drumbeat of Payouts
A review of Representative Swalwell’s campaign finance disbursements, however, paints a picture that appears deeply at odds with the unpredictable, ad-hoc nature of campaign events.
Instead, the filings reveal a ledger that looks remarkably like a fixed, weekly payroll.
Consider a sequence of transactions logged across a single summer.
Rather than fluctuating to match the erratic schedule of a campaign trail, the payments roll out with the steady, high-dollar rhythm of a salaried employee:
June 6, $1,858.50.
June 13, $1,607.75.
June 20, $1,799.50.
June 26, $1,711.00.
July 3, $1,386.50.
July 10, $1,829.00.
July 25, $1,622.50.
August 1, $1,919.82.
August 15, $1,681.50.
August 22, $1,829.00.
These are thousands of dollars flowing out on a near-weekly basis, totaling a staggering $240,000.
The clockwork regularity of these transactions raises an unavoidable question…
Is the Swalwell campaign truly generating between $1,300 and $1,900 worth of exclusively incremental, campaign-specific childcare needs every single week?
Or have donors unwittingly become the financiers of his family’s baseline expenses? The burden of proof rests squarely on the Congressman.
To justify this $240,000 expenditure, Swalwell will need to do more than point to the theoretical legality of childcare reimbursements.
He will need to produce the receipts… matching every single payout to a specific, documented hour of campaign work. Until he does, donors might rightfully wonder if they are financing a political movement…. or simply paying the babysitter.
https://nitter.poast.org/lamps_apple/status/2040981178291749159#m
More at the link above
Those weekly amounts scaled up is roughly $80-$90,000 a year…
Miranda Devine: Gavin’s first partner is a ‘New’sance
https://nypost.com/2026/04/05/opinion/gavins-first-partner-is-a-newsance/
Gavin Newsom’s Sinister Wife Has a Plan for YouTube
I want to be his “babysitter.” I’ll move to Minnesota, so no one will ask questions. 🤡
This is TOTAL MADNESS.
Back in 2018, the Head of Interpol was a CCP Vice-Minister of Public Security (!!!), and even so, on his visit home from France, the CCP made him disappear.
Soon after, Interpol received his “resignation” and CCP so-called “anti-corruption” officials announced he was under investigation; he was later tried and sentenced to over a decade in prison.
The sitting Head of Interpol, while certainly a nasty character as a top CCP Public Security official, was swept up in a political purge and forcibly disappeared by the regime, and the rule-of-law nations didn’t really bat an eye.
And now they want to hold their annual meeting in a place that’s having its rule-of-law rapidly eviscerated by the CCP.
Again, TOTAL MADNESS.
https://nitter.poast.org/JanJekielek/status/2040968978659459442#m
Interpol: How Shock Hong Kong Meeting Shows China’s Power In Interpol
https://www.newsweek.com/interpol-how-shock-hong-kong-meeting-shows-chinas-power-in-interpol-11773145
Very interesting from a geopolitical perspective….
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@RippleXrpie
🇨🇳 Chinese Professor says that President Trump might be a genius.
🇺🇸 THE BIG PLAN
Video linked…
If Alberta cuts loose from Ottawa…
Also, this guy assumes the US (Trump) will lose the war with Iran. He might want to rethink that. But as I have tried to convince others, the move on Iran follows the move on Venezuela and there is way more at play than those two countries by themselves. These are not isolated events.
I think he is being sarcastic. He says trump is a retard idiot who is so dumb he manages to win even if he loses which is why he is a genius.
Trump is simply the CINC. The power and ability lies with the US Military. Which finally has a commander who will let them run.
Bank Sepah outage disrupts salary payments to Iran’s IRGC personnel
Excerpt:
Exclusive information obtained by Iran International indicates a widespread disruption in the computer network of Bank Sepah, a major state-owned bank tied to the Islamic Republic’s military.
Informed sources told Iran International the disruption on Sunday left the bank unable to pay the salaries of the Revolutionary Guard’s personnel and military officials.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604059321
GOOD!!!
What’s this “pay” stuff ?? I thought they served for allalala….not $$.
Most people claim to serve their “God”. Reality is they serve something else.
John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Yes, despite all the Xperts on the law of armed conflict, targeting bridges, power plants, oil and gas facilities, airfields, and other dual-use infrastructure like factories, communications nodes, and rail lines that serve both civilian and military needs may be lawful.
Cont reading….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2040877782566346994.html
Hogan’s Heroes always seemed to be blowing up a bridge or train somewhere.
Just sayin’. ☺️
The only law of War is to WIN IT. Decisively, and as efficiently as you can.
Greetings Treepers!
Looks like it’s time for the people of Iran to slip on their big boy crusader pants and start making Iran sane again. 🙏✝️🙏
“Socialism always attacks 3 basic social institutions: religion, the family, & private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; & property, because it means material independence of the state
https://nitter.poast.org/DurhamWASP/status/2040885011012792511#m
And, where has socialism/communism EVER worked?
The gigantic social experiment called the USSR was ultimately abandoned. With a whimper, not with a shout.
The CCP is a “blip” in the ancient history of China. It will not survive much longer. The Chinese will replace it with a new form of government that will be uniquely their own.
The tiny island nation of Cuba will one day restore the twice-a-day ocean ferry service to Key West. They have a lot of cleaning up to do …
The reason in all cases is the same: it doesn’t work. They all tried very hard, but it fails intrinsically. You can’t govern people that way, and keep it going.
China imports US oil for Asian fuel markets amid Hormuz crisis
Excerpt:
China is moving to resume large-scale purchases of United States liquefied natural gas (LNG) and crude oil, as supply disruptions in the Middle East and tightening fuel markets across Asia force Beijing to recalibrate its energy strategy.
Some observers view the move as a significant concession by Beijing, or even a strategic reward to Washington, after China halted US LNG imports in early 2025 when trade tensions escalated under US President Donald Trump’s tariff measures.
https://asiatimes.com/2026/04/china-imports-us-oil-for-asian-fuel-markets-amid-hormuz-crisis
Why is this happening? Should there not be a ban on exporting our oil to the murderous, anti-American Communist Chinese?
I understand that we cannot – yet – sever all trade with Red China, but this would be a start and would hurt them economically, at least in the short term!
Is not isolating Communist China a goal? I loathe and detest the label Made in China because it has been gnawing away at our country for over 30 years, thanks to The Reprehensibly Corrupt Clinton and RINOS back then.
Unfortunately, at this juncture, we are dependent on China for electronic goods and rare earths. Hopefully, that changes soon. So we can’t cut them off completely…. yet. This about leveraging. Bringing them the heel, and putting our boot on their neck, instead of the other way around for a change.
I recall that an American scientist has invented a way of reclaiming rare earth minerals from old junk electronics by basically frying them and harvesting the vaporized metals. It only requires a small amount of electricity to do.
I hope this technology will not be shelved.
There’s a company near me that’s been doing that for years. Mostly to recover gold. There really aren’t “rare earths” in circuit boards. Other companies are reprocessing batteries to recover lithium.
I share your sentiments.
Oil is a world market.
Cutting off China would be like damming up a creek. At some point the water is going to find an alternative path and continue downstream.
Oil would still go to China but in a roundabout way.
Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary
https://www.amazon.com/Killed-Order-Harvesting-Industry-Adversary/
Same day delivery?
I would certainly think so:
The maximum time for successful transplantation varies by organ: hearts and lungs must be transplanted within 4 to 6 hours, livers within 8 to 12 hours, kidneys within 24 to 36 hours, and intestines between 8 to 16 hours.
The “donation” would be freshest if the “donor” were transported live to the transplant site.
But they may not want to have that many people participate in the process. So they could have “donation” sites and maybe have the sick travel to the “donation” site after matches are determined but prior to “donation”. That would also result in fresh transplants.
But both processes are not single day processes, even if harvest and implant are same day.
Hospitals can certainly be donation sites for the right price. I read that a hospital in Philly harvested organs from a patient without the family’s knowledge.
They discovered it only after a funeral home discovered foreign material stuffed into their loved one’s chest cavity, presumably to conceal the missing organs, which are typically sold on the black market for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And yes, the patient must be alive to successfully harvest their organs.
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO.
They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US.
France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done – showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates.
France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
https://nitter.poast.org/AriFleischer/status/2040191474462265368#m
My message here clearly struck a nerve.
A few friends from when I was press secretary, domestically and abroad, don’t like what I said.
Instead of seeing how Western European nations must change, they just want to attack Trump.
The reason it struck a nerve is because they recognize that this time NATO nations are being held to account. They know they’ve come up short for decades and by denying us overflight rights, they’ve gone too far.
Americans are fed up, especially with France and Spain.
Trump won’t stand for it and they know it.
They now fear the consequences of their inaction.
The UK, unlike its days under Thatcher or Blair, is wishy-washy.
They’ve often been a good allie, but this time they want to sit it out and have it both ways.
We can use their bases, but only for limited operations.
At least the UK spends real money on defense. France, Spain, and Italy are another story.
So too is Canada.
None of these four contribute seriously to NATO.
They’re laggards, trying to get away with it.
Spain and France force our pilots to fly thousands of miles out of the way (I thought they didn’t like carbon footprints) en route to Iran.
Eastern Europe is a different story. They spend more on defense and they understand power.
They lived under Soviet domination and recognize weakness when they see it. They won’t be weak.
Western European governments, especially France, are good at issuing communiques and statements. They enjoy hosting conferences. They love to ponder deeply.
Getting them to act is another matter, unless it’s to purchase Russian LNG, which they still do. The world is changing. Out of this war will come a new group of younger nations that understand real power and the importance of strength.
The UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Eastern Europe will emerge stronger than ever.
Western Europe will continue to fall behind.
As for Trump, you don’t have to like him. He often says things none of his predecessors would say.
But don’t underestimate the fact that US taxpayers are fed up with nations that don’t pull their weight, and then force our pilots to take risks and longer flights so we can rid the world from the menace that is Iran.
Today’s Western European leaders would rather mollify Iran and pay them ransoms (trade) than support the US.
Things are different today. We all know it.
The UK, France, Spain and Italy (despite its Prime Minister) have earned the consequences that will unfold. They could have and should have supported us.
Not as a NATO alliance. But as individual free nations.
All we wanted was overflight rights and full access to airfields. They’ve made their choices. Soon, they’ll see the results.
https://nitter.poast.org/AriFleischer/status/2040836692593057943#m
Remember Charlotte they illegally bombed Holocaust victim Serbs in support of Nazis.
Could you please pin that down to Ari Fleischer’s involvement?
He was there when Florida votes were counted, when 9/11 happened, and when we started forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Lots of bombings that we can pin on him.
What I see about his prior jobs is sketchy. He helped GHWB lose reelection. And was Congressionsl staff in the first Clinton term.
That might give some involvement in the 1995 bombings. But there is no information about Fleischer from the time of the 1999 bombings.
Not that I remember Bush or his campaign spokesman even making that an issue, let alone protesting what happened.
That is the problem with uniparty rule. We keep shuffling the playing deck, but the results never change. So it is hard to remember what each Joker did as Press Secretary.
Programing malfunction?
Nothing like mocking somebody for giving you the benefit of the doubt.
“My message”
“I was press secretary”
Only at the very end is there a hint that these are not Charlotte99’s words.
Not even quotes. Or a from blurb.
But citations are appreciated.
Thanks
Who in reality was the “press secretary” mentioned by Charlotte99? Anyone know?
It is in Charlotte’s link at the bottom of her post.
Ari Fleischer. Press Secretary for GWB 2001 to 2003.
Charlotte likes to post other’s words and then put a link at the end.
This time his name is even in the link.
“No constraints on fecal use”
Astronaut receiving permission to do a number 2. 🙂
In between all the action, it’s easy to forget there’s a mission around the moon. Awesome.
What ID do you use to buy alcohol if you are too stupid to have a DL?
You can get a state issued picture ID for people that can’t/don’t drive.
My wife has an autistic adult son that is not capable of independent living (let alone driving), but he still needs that state ID for all kinds of things. Obviously my wife had to apply for him, and take him in so they could take his picture so the ID could be issued. So a drivers license is not essential to having a state issued picture ID. You cold also get a real ID or passport.
You do not need to have a driver’s license to obtain a Real ID. You can apply for a Real ID using other forms of identification, such as a state-issued ID card.
You can get a valid state-issued photo ID for absolutely no cost. It doesn’t have to be a driver’s license. It will conform to modern “Real ID” standards.
More to the point: if you can’t prove who you are, you are vulnerable to all sorts of brutal exploitation.
EU
Chess???
Fake News.
YMMV
(BEST IF USED BY 4-7-2025 8:00PM ET)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iran-us-receive-plan-end-hostilities-immediate-ceasefire-source-says-2026-04-06/
More Fake News.
I am very sure that the next “Supreme ruler of Iran” will NOT be a Mullah named Kahmeini … 🤡
NATO should have been dissolved in 1991.
This is not complicated. It had a purpose, it fulfilled that purpose, and then that purpose ended. The Soviet Union was gone. Things were moving in a positive direction.
Russia was not a threat and was, in fact, moving closer to the West.
Then, despite explicit promises from Bush 41, NATO kept expanding, launched a war in Yugoslavia, and steadily absorbed much of Eastern Europe, including former Soviet republics.
From Russia’s perspective, that inevitably raised a basic question. If NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, why did it keep moving east after the Soviet Union no longer existed?
What, exactly, was the target now, if not Russia? And spare me the Ukraine argument. NATO expansion has been underway since at least 1999.
https://nitter.poast.org/HansMahncke/status/2040966094421103075#m
Somehow Mahnke makes it sound like papa Bush bears no responsibility for the lies his team promised.
Nor for the underpinnings given in Cheney’s 1991 speech and implemented by Wolfowitz in the 1992 National Defense thing.
True, Clinton did the first non German expansion of NATO, and borrowed Brzinskies Cold War thinking to do so.
But the foundation for continuing the Cold War against Russia was laid by the Bush people who felt cheated of victory against the Soviets. And cheated of credit by the Reaganites they despised and kicked out during the transition.
Clinton implemented control through graft. And also expanded NATO.
But W and Cheney expanded it too. Even kicking off this Ukraine in NATO garbage which Biden resurrected.
And of course there are the W and BHO coups in Ukraine. And the BHO War of Ethnic Russian extermination in Ukraine.
Democracy always means the right side wins. Or else.
Russia tried its best to negotiate in good faith. Then, they turned to demonstrate to the world that they still knew how to fight and sustain a war – and that their opponents don’t. They have the military and industrial depth to keep it up – and their opponents can’t.
But Russia’s objectives, clearly stated on day one and kept to this day, are alien to them.
Half, 16, of the 32 NATO countries joined after the fall of the USSR in 1991.
Which just confirms NATO only exists to attack Russia, after all. The UN only exists for the same reason. To goad the US into attacking Russia because we pay taxes for our Military to be used for the UN purposes.
If you want to understand Trump’s on-again, off-again tweets about what he’s going to do to Iran, remember what he said in 2015.
I get it’s easy to criticize Trump.
But it’s more important to understand him:
In a 2015 radio interview with @hughhewitt , Trump repeatedly emphasized that U.S. leaders (and he himself as a potential leader) should avoid being too predictable in foreign policy and military matters, as this telegraphs intentions to adversaries and weakens negotiating or strategic positions.
When pressed on specific foreign policy scenarios (e.g., responses involving China or Middle East groups), Trump declined to detail plans, arguing that unpredictability was a strength:
“I wouldn’t want to tell you, because frankly, they have to, you know, somebody wrote a very good story about me recently, and they said there’s a certain unpredictability about Trump that’s great, and it’s what made him a lot of money and a lot of success.
You don’t want to put, and you don’t want to let people know what you’re going to do with respect to certain things that happen. You don’t want the other side to know.”
He also told the WP: “I don’t want them to know what I’m thinking, does that make sense?
I want people to be guessing … I don’t want people to figure it out.
I don’t want people to know what my plan is.
I have plans. I have plans! But I don’t want to do it.”
https://nitter.poast.org/AriFleischer/status/2040971442565558298#m
Just read his excellent books. Very carefully. Trump knows exactly what he is doing [to you …] with those “infernal posts.”
He has all the power and authority in the world, and YOU DON’T know what he is actually going to do with it, from one day to the next. Yet, when he does act, it is with great boldness AND shrewd foresight.
Now you understand how he became a BILLionaire that everyone in the world still wants to do business with. If you lend or invest your money with him, you know that it is in good hands. Stay in one of his hotels, and you’re treated like a member of the family who is also royalty – yet the price is fair.
The difference between the Trump Administration and the Obama Administration is now abundantly clear. When Americans are in trouble Trump will move heaven and earth.
Obama/Hillary didn’t lift a finger. They abandoned our men and women serving in Libya. Which America do you want to be a part of?
https://nitter.poast.org/Schwalm5132/status/2040799464487620954#m
Read this carefully. Carney fast-tracked the Grays Bay road project in Nunavut.
$750 million in taxpayer money. It leads to the Izok Lake mine.
Who owns that mine? A Chinese state-owned company.
Your taxes build the road.
China mines the strategic resources from your Arctic.
The same Arctic Carney says we need to defend for sovereignty.
You’re paying to defend territory you’re simultaneously handing to Beijing.
We are compromised.
https://nitter.poast.org/mario4thenorth/status/2040928852629668067#m
So many topics for President Trump and Pooh to discuss next month.
Canada is in the same predicament as Western Europe. When the U.S. became overly dependent on cheap Chinese consumer goods, it appears Canada and Western Europe became doubly dependent. Now, if the boat from China is late, they won’t have any toothpaste. China took their money, and in all probability turned around and bribed and bought their politicians and rigged their elections with it. That’s how the CCP rolls.
And the people who make the toothpaste are essentially slaves. They make just enough to survive, sort of.
Second in command of IRGC, the intel chief taken out.
BREAKING: Reports indicate the U.S. Air Force carried out a precision strike on an Iranian uranium enrichment and research facility, allegedly destroying it. The site was reportedly linked to nuclear weapons development using partially enriched uranium. (RealBababanaras
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2041026030530330904#m
Shocking discovery of secret China-linked biolabs housing vials of COVID, HIV and Ebola… amid fears America is a ‘sitting duck’ for bioterrorism
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15678197/Secret-Chinese-biolab-California-Las-Vegas-bioterrorism.html
https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/2040781053867004389?s=20
helluva review, why, “…they will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman. The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties (and risk more equipment loss) to rescue one air force jet jockey?”
it is why our civilization is the greatest civilization ever.
other armies threw human waves, including 10-year olds, into a fight – without even a weapon.
Meanwhile. our Commander-in-Chief sends out a bulletin, “We Got Him”.
‘not’ rescuing the pilots
would make them among the missing in action ( MIA ) of which other wars have many u.s. soldiers still unaccounted.
In addition, the i ran and u.s. media propaganda machine would exploit the missing ( and whatever else that would occur).
Doubt that?
( the media covered the bodies being hung from a bridge in Iraq, 20 years ago. )
( the u.s. media does not cover the thousands
thousands of I ranians that were killed- by i ranians on their own streets in Jan 2026.
They have had 4 months to report it…but are silent )
More Evidence of bad reporting?:
p.s.
for instance,
the c-dems ( and media ) continue to exploit that 2 people were killed in mnpls
to the extent that continued non- funding of u.s. homeland security, including tsa, ice etc and placing the u.s. at high risk of harms.
( and at the same time the media ignores the c-dems paid protestors / agitators
and months and months of endless harassment etc of u.s. peace officers including the legal immigration control and enforcement ( ICE ) – and playing pretend that the agitating harassing etc months of paid protestors were innocent ( but not ).
The whole truths needs some well past due daylight.
Saving downed pilots in I ran,
exploitation.
the bad decades long propaganda u.s. media from its usual miss exploitations.
( but sadly, they will miss create something, again )
( the latest is that the u.s. is bombing innocent good people in I ran – also wrong. But, fake propaganda is their endless child hood like playing pretend games upon innocent good people in the usa. Not good. )
After decades ( including the 1930’s holocaust way, way under reporting at a huge cost to lives),
maybe
they will learn… ?
Love thy neighbors…
Imho
morning Treepers………….be well
Good morning bjorkdream. I can imagine a chilly but peaceful canoe trip along that river. 🙏❤️
morning
Why are Federal Services including Federal Judges and Magistrates still supplied, and paid, in Sanctuary cities and states.
Stop paying Federal workers in those Sanctuary cities and states.
They are no longer American.
Following Jackson’s analogy the sanctuary cites owe allegiance.
Have the judges stolen a wallet, yet? 🤡
Trump’s passivity on the Strait of Hormuz shows his genius
We can do—our military has planned for it—yet Trump hasn’t acted. One man thinks he knows why, and it shows Trump as a strategic genius unlike any other.
Andrea Widburg | April 5, 2026
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/trump_s_passivity_on_the_strait_of_hormuz_shows_his_genius.html
A whole lot of things have “failed to be addressed” for 47 years. The times, they are a’changin’ … at long last.
Europe, in particular, should be humiliated by their present impotence and hubris. Where the hell did they go? Winston Churchill needs to pop back up out of his tomb and kick some ass, methinks.
Good Morning America, how are ya?
41 and clear in Kankakee…
morning to you as well. 35 with a slow walk
33 and cloudy here in fraudopolis.
All last week we saw nothing but clouds.
Clouds and snow.
There were a few days where the weather warmed up a little and melted some of the old snow, but it was all replaced and more was added on Friday. And we have been “stuck” at home due to our long ice covered driveway since Friday, but we’re good with that.
Today we will not get above freezing, 30 degree high, 8 degree low.
Spring?
Flowers?
Warmth?
Sunshine?
The one wonderful thing is that God gave us a bright, sunshine filled, blue sky yesterday — Resurrection Sunday — and all that glorious light streaming in was amazing.
So today’s freezing temps and our killer driveway are soon to go away. Starting tomorrow the temps look like Spring has finally arrived. 40s and 50s all week! The three feet of snow on our back deck will melt, our driveway will be drive-able, and green — glorious green — will appear again.
Are you seeing green in Kankakee, Aggiegirl?