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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 84 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!
Someone needs to edit Truth Social.
The pics of Trump as some kind of Messianic figure gotta go.
I agree.
Me, too. I question whether Trump is actually personally writing all of the posts attributed to him. It’s not the same as “autopen,” but it would be uncomfortably close. And, it could happen.
I believe little to nothing that I see expressing hatred for Trump and that is what those things always express, hatred. Today you cannot even believe a picture or anything that is not verified by eyewitnesses.
This has gone to far. I am done supporting anyone who thinks they are greater than the Lord.
Are you talking about President Trump? Who said that President Trump thinks he is “greater than the Lord”?
“Who said that President Trump thinks he is “greater than the Lord”?”
Folks who rather watch America literally BURN and get Virtue Points for losing or outright Agent Provocators.
This asinine “purity model” that Conservatives have is why we are in the dire straits we are in. Democrats stick together no effing matter what. If only Republicans did.
Yes, who said? Apostle Paul said all believers have various gifts, some teachers, some prophesy, some healers.
That’s what you think Pres. Trump thinks he is? Lol.
Are you insane?
Donald Trump bloviates. He is bombastic at times.
However, he harbors zero delusions that he is literally the Messiah.
He is not responsible for memes generated by others.
But he is responsible for sharing it to his own account…
Something is happening here and it isn’t good!
Definitely not. Those images are disquieting to say the least.
..hmmm…. is he responsible is someone publish this kind of stuff on Truth Social ????
I think he does it to keep Democrats in a permanent state of frustration.
Oh come on. He’s just trolling. This is the stuff that gets under Liberals’ skin, and we ❤️❤️❤️❤️ it.
He does not think that and has made that clear for years.
Give us instances? I haven’t heard anything like that other than from you.
President Trump is neither god or the devil. What he is is the federal politician with the best policies. That is why I voted for President Trump. Policy, Policy, Policy.
Agree. . That doesn’t look like something President Trump would post.
I wonder who is posting in his name.
People can be so stupid thinking President Trump thinks he is greater than the Lord.
I hope is not well nourished Susie W….
This is where it originated from. It represented “healing the nation”…
Thank you!
Afshine Emrani MD FACC
@afshineemrani
Excerpt:
This isn’t about claiming to be the Messiah; it’s about the biblical principle that we are the hands and feet of God on Earth. Just as the disciples were called to heal and serve in His name, there is a growing belief that this movement is fueled by something higher than just “politics as usual.”
What the image represents:
The Healer: A symbol of a leader intending to mend a broken country.
The Protector: Surrounded by the symbols of our freedom—the flag, the eagles, and the brave men and women who serve.
The Mission: A recognition that he feels called to a purpose greater than himself.
You can call it “boomer posting” or get outraged by the imagery, but you can’t ignore the spirit behind it. When a leader leans into God, the world takes notice. The scoffers are still scoffing, but the vision is becoming clearer every day.”I can do all things through God who strengthens me.”
Uh huh
Well said and expertly articulated.
Ok I dont see that and I am on truth social. However your concern is noted
I approve his message.
God Bless the USA!!!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116394704213456431
Maybe you gotta go. Doesn’t the Bible tell believers to be like Christ, let the world see Christ in us? Be perfect?
The Bible tells us to be Holy and to be humble…
Do I have to go now, too?
Well, what do that they suggest he do?
With all the the business of our country these pics are the least of his problems.
He is engaged with Iran and he’s supposed to work on something trivial like stopping pictures ?
That is silly … does he have to monitor pictures and explain what it could mean?
Yesterday, I was thinking, when my husband was watching the Masters on TV,
wouldn’t President Trump enjoy relaxing and watching the Masters Golf tournament, too.
President Trump gave up thinking about himself.
He’s working for the American people.
The unfortunate Obamas as apes split second clip at the end of one of PDJTs clips, and this picture seem to be unforced errors. is someone sabotaging him?
Iran’s president signals openness to US deal if Washington shifts approach –
Iran’s president signals openness to US deal if Washington shifts approach.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that an agreement with the United States is still a possibility if Washington takes a different stance toward Tehran.
“If the American government abandons its totalitarianism and respects the rights of the Iranian nation, ways to reach an agreement will certainly be found,” Pezeshkian said in a post translated from Persian to English shared on X.
“I commend the members of the negotiating team, especially my dear brother Dr. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and say, ‘God gives you strength,’” he added.
Statements like that are not going to bring the US back to the table. Iran is still miscalculating.
Something about trains, “I can see you’re out of aces…”:
Trump predicted they would come back begging.
JD gave them the final offer.
What exactly are they asking for? Very vague statement by if the US “respects the rights of the Iranian nation”?
In plain Texan language – when the US agrees to allow us to have nucs, we can have an agreement.
As a mom of 4, I will expand on that just a bit:
What part of “No”, don’t you understand….? The “N” or the “O”?….
That was a great country song … 🤡
She eventually married a TN senator.
Now you got me curious. Can you provide sample responses please😊
All Iran has to do is say, “OK. No more nukes.” Instead, they BS about America needing to abandon “its totalitarianiasm.” Clueless stubborn fools.
I think it is Chyna standing behind the radical mullahs of Iran, whispering in Iran’s ear, bribing them with support. China has nothing to lose anymore. Chyna is using Iran to try to get PDJT to make a mistake and lose his support.
PDJT has not just the support of his country, but nearly all the common people of the world.
If they think they can disguise a Chinese made hypersonic missile, they have another think a comin’.
“and respects the rights of the Iranian nation… to have a nuclear bomb and ICB Missiles to destroy the Great Satan, ways to reach an agreement will certainly be found,”
Not happening Bub.
Sorry, no one believes you. Delay and delay while they try to build their military back or perhaps use that uranium for something or move it to hide it again. Whatever they are doing it’s not for peace. When your past actions have been committed over and over under the guise of lies, you won’t be trusted to be telling the truth this time around.
You know what? The next Supreme Leader of Iran is NOT going to be a Mullah named Kahmeini …
The tactics espoused by your scriptures are well-known: lie to the “infidel,” and pretend to make peace to buy time to attack again. This planet has a thousand years of history with “muslim hordes,” and 47 too-many years with you. Iran deserves to be free again. Free of you.
Reza Pahlavi talks a good game and has widespread support if the Iranians can overthrow the current government. I don’t totally trust him, but maybe he also learned something from his fathers brutal regime and overthrow, that is not the way to rule.
He says this is his main goal:
Constitutional, secular democracy: He advocates replacing the Islamic Republic with a secular, constitutional democracy guaranteeing separation of religion and state, individual rights, and rule of law.
Reza Pahlavi has said he would not seek to become president or prime minister of a future democratic Iran; instead he has framed his role as supporting a democratic transition and enabling Iranians to choose their own leaders.
Can he be trusted?
..Mike ..why this country is buried in the endless worries about freedom of rest of the world…when politicians here start worry about freedom here in the USA ???? to have a real election not a selection ??? VSGPDJT IS 63 MONTHS in the office and CONgre$$ still did not secure elections…events (wars) since June 2025…turn off lots ppl….it’s up to ppl of Iran to change government no one else ..if they had nukies we would not be in their front yard and bomb them…just ask “rocket man” in the North Korea…. many wander here why Orban lost ???is it because association with those who start this wars ???
Totalitarianism, hahahahahaha from a tyrannical dictatorial islamic fool.
Good Morning America, how are ya?
66 and Light Rain in Kankakee…
Not Presidential issues but well, “if you see something, say something”….
On my way to living my best life, yesterday…I noticed what I believe there is what ..I believe to be a new mosque…not sure, there used to be a Hindu temple nearby…will research it later…
Not yet a national story but I think there is potential, (in a manner that will cause angst)…I once a long while’s back, mentioned an area in suburban Chicagoland, that I had serious concerns for…about becoming a “No Go Zone for Infidels”. This was the area.
Well, I think that the idea is progressing in a ‘dignified’ manner, of course/s–while emphasizing ‘business development’, the soft creep…
…which will potentially have an impact on two businesses relating to the canines in our society, if you get my drift…there are a few businesses that work with dogs…one is a rescue and the other is a multimillion dollar venue with a pet store, groomer, veternarian, dog rehab, doggie day care, canine/feline boarding and multi faceted dog training…
I am familiar with these towns, due to living my ‘barely affordable’, “best life”…one area, the homes are hidden behind wooded areas…multi million dollar homes…
On Southwest Highway, there is a stretch where they are digging up the road and looks like installing new huge pipes…Things that make you go ‘hmmm’.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/illinois-town-unveils-new-sign-desginating-it-little/
A friend texted me about a sign going up on 83rd &harlem in bridgeview Welcome to little palistine. The mosque on 99th changed the area. Didnt see your link, sorry bout that
This is on 83, going south…towards 171…and the bridges going over the cal sag(?) channel…
Also on that stretch…provides back roads to Argonne National Laboratory.
And a new Gas and Watch and Loves I think…close to each other…that stretch is about 7 miles from the road construction on SW highway, which is a suitable place to play the Forest Preserve Games on 83, known as “Dodge the Deer”….
The Arch Beaver should have put in a smaller place…
People in NYC and Minneapolis are reporting something strange. Calls to prayer over loud speakers 5 times a day. (ADHAN) Startig at 5a.m. and going until dark. This could be a sign of new Mosques moving in.
If I lived there, I would have a bigger boom box playing gospel music when their wailing started.
“Our God is an awesome God, he reigns…”
I’m in.
Not to put too fine a point on it, in Florida I’ve noticed a number of women in supermarket wearing a hijab. Definitely not something I’ve noticed before , and it may be a sign that something is changing.
I saw one. She looked lost walking in circles on the parking lot island. I wonder if it is like the blacks from Martin Luther King Blvd., we always see in the stores in the spring like they are being sent to shop in our neighborhood. Somehow they think it is going to upset someone and I just laugh.
They are being placed in your city, or state and you have no idea who is doing it but it is happening. Can anyone explain how no one saw millions of Somalies invading Minnesota. Then stealing ten of millions of dollars, fake businesses. For low IQ people they sure did snow the people of Minnesota.
Funny how low IQ people can concoct elaborate schemes to defraud the US Government programs , almost as funny as how illiterate non English speaking invaders can navigate and defraud our social welfare programs within 5 minutes of crossing the border illegally.
Yep. Bridgeview. I used to live in Oak Lawn, just a few blocks away from Harlem Ave.
Even back in the late 70’s and early 80’s there were droves of “Palestinians” moving to the area.
We had some of those neighbors behind us. From time to time they would be roasting something on the grill that apparently still had the hair and the skin on it! The smell was awful!
My Father-in-Law would come out the back door and say “What the heck are they cooking”
I would reply:
“I think they are barbecuing a yak!”
He would crack up!
53 spring like degrees here in Fraudopolis,MN.
Joliet due for rain and thunderstorms later on…64 now….
Enjoy the warmer weather…
Passing through Georgia this morning
Sundance, I see you commenting about Rich Baris THE PEOPLE’S PUNDIT on “X” – can you explain what’s up with him & comment on or educate us on his polling that shows Republicans which includes PDJT are going to get buried in the mid-terms?
Baris claims polling shows that a certain segment of Trumps support has abandoned him and either won’t show up at all in the mid-terms or will actually voted Democrat in order to blow things up.
They obviously haven’t learned a thing from the NYC and Virginia elections. But if that’s what they want, give it to them good and hard.
But I don’t trust this Baris guy. It’s very doubtful that with even CNN’s poll showing MAGA supporters close to 100% recently, that this support has eroded away so fast.
It’s 7 months until the election and that is a lifetime in politics.
Imagine still believing the pollsters after they claimed that “Hillary has a 90% chance to win” and “Harris is going to win Iowa.”
DJT won the last three elections.
The only way the 🧠 dead will achieve their goals is to install & cheat.
Biden was the “install & cheat” president with zero brain cells to govern — and not enough legitimate votes to have truly been elected.
I wonder how much 💰 it is worth to join the team who is hell-bent on the destruction of America?
Baris= Steve Bannon.
Enough said.
I think I figured out that Bannon hates China and President Trump wants to be fair with China, but they aren’t allowed to own the world and this upsets Banning because he wants China destroyed for some reason or another.
See, they are lying. They call a bunch of independents and democrats and ask them what they think. Then they say “likely” voters hate President Trump. These are people who probably have only voted once or twice in their whole life.
I don’t think it’s so much MAGA abandoning him as it is the independents, libertarians, green party supporters, and some Dems who felt abandoned by their party or knew their party couldn’t win etc who came out strong for him in the last election. They were sick of the left so threw their hat in the ring for President Trump. They are the squishy middle that both parties fight to win while appeasing their base. I listened to Baris a lot during the run up to the ’24 election and then he was insisting that PT would win because in polling he was winning those who are not part of either party and who were very motivated to vote this time around after the Biden disaster. The squishy middle are not fully aligned with either party but because they are unhappy with PT due to some of his decisions, they aren’t as motivated to come out and vote and if they do, they will go more to the left for mid terms. Granted, I haven’t been following Baris since then, but I’m thinking it’s this segment which makes or breaks elections is what he is referring to with his polling.
Baris has been accurate in the past, and what you’re saying is accurate, particularly for young men. If things don’t change, young men won’t turn out for the midterms, and if they don’t we lose. We need the economy to continue to improve and less of a focus on international affairs, plus a get-out-the-vote operation.
Baris is full of crap…
Yes, there are Trump Supporters that are unhappy about the fact that the DOJ, FBI and CIA are still under communist control, are unhappy about the present war in Iran, are unhappy with the present “deport only criminal illegals” policy, etc..
BUT, those folks haven’t “abandoned” him and will STILL vote for Trump, will hold their noses and vote for spineless republicans, rather than vote for dim/communist candidates…
praying for Hungary bummed that Victor Orban will not be leading that country i despise the E.U .
Recall that 5 years ago we had a similar situation through epic and blatant levels of cheating.
A battle lost is not the end of the war. In time Orban can return, just like Pres. Trump.
We have the aging of politicians that present a challenge…’old men, old ideas’ that is used against them and their massive knowledge/experience of ‘how international politics work’….which is something the younger and now eligible voters do not understand or “identify” with…and are incapable of engaging in any deep thought…
Reaching out to the younger voters…
Orban has been in office for almost a generation…so that must be taken into account?
Then throw in the cheating…?
Am remembering when TPTB gave “the 18 year old”, the voting privilege
The other major issues were money and history.
History ….. The fear of Russia still matters in Eastern Europe and Orban was also also portrayed 24/7 in the “authorized EU” social media as a friend of Russia.
The money angle is Orban being the cause of allot of money NOT being available for use to improve Hungary … especially when that money is “Russian Money” owed to Europe.
If I had to choose between the EU and Russia, it wouldn’t be the EU. They are all crazy bureaucrats. Not a brain between them.
Good points. However, I agreed with the 18-yr-old vote, which happened because 18 yr olds were being drafted and sent to fight and die in Vietnam, without being “old enough” to vote for who was sending them there. Fair is fair.
Chronicles Magazine
Archive of articles that feature Viktor Mihály Orbán with a lot of history. They are not in chronological order, but can be good reading to keep a perspective on this era.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/search/Orban/
Were the elections rigged? Was this a suprprise?
News reports did say that there was epic amount of Gerrymandering and re-district lines drawn before the Magyar election. Financed btw….by weekly checks to Magyar campaign from BFF Zaleski in Ukraine. Hmmmmm..scratching head 🤔
It has become impossible to believe any election is valid these days.
Yes, although Sundance prepared us, letting us know how much the EU wants Hungary, it stinks.
Feels like 2020.
The uniparty EU are thrilled. They hate Orban because he refused open borders and buying energy from Russia plus going to war with Russia.
The EU politicians will live like kings while the people have nothing.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2043520193423462726?s=20
Trolls are all over trying to spin this but when this batch publicly celebrates you know the fix was in.
“Let them eat cake”…
Imo under Nuland, USAID and the factions of liberal EU facists they had 4 years to brainwash and indoctrinate the Hungarian people. Or there was election tampering… What’s the new guy like?
Orban is a fantastic Prime Minister in standing up to the EU, no migrants, getting Russian fuel for Hungary at reasonable pricing. The pipeline through Ukraine was dismantled by beggar boy Zelinski. Good luck to the new PM when Russia raises the price of fuel or cuts it off completely.
We must understand that Russia, politically, is more conservative than Western Europe and the Democrats.
The left absolutely controls the media, education and the legal establishment in the free world. The left hierarchy are comprised of bureaucrats, government contractors and beneficiaries of handouts.
In the USA Romney was right when he stated the Democrats start off with over 45% of the votes from people dependent on government.
My thought was that the Hungary and EU celebrations will be short if Zman opens up the pipeline and Russia does not put anything in it.
President Putin, like President Trump is an Orban supporter…
Putin will help the Nation of Hungary if at all possible…
And, zelenskyy is not going to repair the pipeline…
Although the EU has gotten Hungary, They lost their ability to make war with Russia. NATO is on life support. They now have to think twice about the USA bailing them out when they start a war with Russia.
JMO: this is simultaneously a Chestertons fence moment, as well as a semi-modern failure to train your replacement.
The entire point of teaching is to pass on what you learned to the next generation (a philosophy that ties back to the Great Commission, “make disciples”). Orban had already been in power long enough to have someone who can carry the torch, but seemingly didn’t run them instead. This is very evident in the US with JD and Rubio (regardless of our opinions of them).
None of this excuses the electorate, of course, but great leaders must know when their time is up.
That WAS a disappointment. (Still trying to make sense of it). The new guy Peter Magyar, sold himself to voters as “Anti-Globalist”. Yet it appears that this will push Hungary right into the arms of the EU Globalists? Maybe low-information or high% of young voters?
Same thing happened when the folks in NYC elected Mamdani-the Commie. There is no free lunch and Mamdani is wearing out his welcome very fast. Mamdani can do a tremendous amount of damage in 4 years.
Yet all the Globalists are celebrating.
Zelensky even contributed our looted tax dollars.
Fear not!
Genesis 50:20
You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring this to pass and to keep many people alive, as it is this day.
Magyar was selected and groomed for this role, like all of the effeminate WEF soy boy leaders they install- Mamdani,Macron, Rutte, Trudeau,Carney,Obama,Starmer etc. Grad of Erasmus program, lived in Brussels for a while…..They have a formula and a process for installing “leader”
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
While Swalwell has not resigned from Congress, the deadline to file to run in his Congressional district was March 6.
He will not be on the ballot. His career in Congress is likely over.
Cont…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/breaking-swalwell-drops-california-governors-race/
“I am suspending my campaign for Governor.
To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.
I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s.”
Per the article, there was also this: “Meanwhile, the Manhattan District Attorney has launched an investigation into Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell over serious allegations of sexual assault.”
But wait, there’s more:
“More than 50 former Swalwell staffers on Sunday demanded the California Democrat resign from Congress.”
Governor is only half the problem with Swalwell the other half is him remaining in the Housel
A few of his victims came back for more.
We will have to wait and see. Blackmail? Threats of violence? Threats of violence against family members? Threats of being fired and job loss?
Right now I say keep and open mind and see what comes out.
Will Swalwell get the same treatment as Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein? Both got long sentences and many of those women came back too. Swalwell supported them, every woman has to be believed, but now says the women are liars. Ironic.
Now will tom massie and his buddy ro khanna look into the congressional rape fund and release those files? After all muh victims…
Asking for A. Friend.
They won’t release the sexual harassment payout over Congress people, including the accused ladies, so don’t bet on it.
Remember the Democrats got what they wanted. Swalwell out. This will increase the top two Democrats percentage points and eventually votes in the first primary above the Republican candidates. That means two Democrats and no Republicans in the runoff election.
Steve Hilton — ~16–17%
Chad Bianco — ~14–16%
Swalwell and the other two were all tied about 15% even if they split Swalwell’s 15% that puts them at 22.5%. Unless one Republican drops out a Democratic win is now almost assured.
If Bianco selflessly drops out that would put Hilton over 30% and give the Republicans the better chance (with no other cheating).
That would put a Democrat and Republican head to head in the runoff election.
Yup, that was indeed the plan. They needed fartwell out.
“While Swalwell has not resigned from Congress, the deadline to file to run in his Congressional district was March 6.”
Well that’s interesting, its almost as if he thought he had the CA GOV race in the bag…
Or like all these victims, it was his for the taking.
There would have been residency lawsuits before the election.
swalwell knew the corrupt courts would take care of that problem for him…
Maybe Pelosi told him he did?
I surmise that Swalwell will be divorced, out of politics, and homeless by next year.so long, loser.
I don’t know, he is a long term Democrat so he probably has a $billion he has gained from corruption in his time in Congress.
Yep… He won’t be homeless…
As Rush used to say, just a resume enhancement…..
Divorced? Yes. I hope his wife files for divorce today.
Out of politics? Yes, too toxic. Disgraceful.
Homeless? No. Perverted Democrats will house him.
Bankrupt? Absolutely and completely
He will return to where he really lives, Maryland , and Wes Moore will put him in some government position probably. They take care of their own, and they know the public has the attention span of a flea.
Could not happen to a more deserving clown. You could see the arrogance in him everytime he stood before a mike. His behavior finally got to him. The wheels of justice ran like a steam roller over him. Well See Ya!
NewsMax and Fox are both reporting Swalwell’s sexual crimes were the worst kept secret in DC.
So when Swalwell was falsely attacking Republicans why did Republicans let his sexual crimes remain uncovered?
Karma got him, not “the wheels of justice”…
Noticed Swalwell was being “investigated” by the Manhattan DA for his crimes.
I digress to 2018 and very same DA Office and DA .. different perp being “investigated”.
Ex-Governor Cuomo was contemplating getting back into politics at the same time as the investigation opened for “sexual misconduct while in office” and for good measure the Federal Southern District of NY opened an “inquiry” into the “deaths at nursing homes during COVID, which he forced to be over crowded”.
Cuomo dropped from site, politically, and all the investigations disappeared.
Do the math.
That is how they do it baby…
You don’t drop out when they order you to, they release the hounds and people love themselves a good ole sex scandal…
Ya gotta find the humor in some of this mess…too funny but sad as well…
Sometime yesterday evening…
Also from our friends at TGP-the DOT has been busy, and in Florida, it shows:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/florida-cops-pull-dozens-truck-drivers-roads-including/
Zero driving license whatsoever – illegal aliens & the non-English speakers *cannot drive any vehicle safely*.
What a MESS.
Chicago newscasters no long mention if a roll over involves a big rig…unless it leaks out.
Problem is places like NY and CA will still find a way to keep issuing new ones to foreigners.
A video from Florida Highway Patrol showed a semi truck moving across lanes on Interstate 75 — prompting several other drivers to call the police.
WOFL reported that the driver blew a 0.27 — seven times the legal alcohol limit for commercial drivers — during a breathalyzer test.
They even found alcohol in the front seat.
The driver lives in New York but originally comes from Uzbekistan, and body camera footage indicated that he had limited understanding of English.
That’s good it gives FHP something to do other than sit on US 1 running radar in the am and pm on people driving to and from work.
𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐊𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐎-𝐑∗𝐏𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒—𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐘
Paul Skallas, known online as “LindyMan,” has been 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐂𝐄 after authorities discovered numerous antisemitic and pro-r∗pe posts on social media. Skallas, a lawyer and internet personality with a large following on X, built his brand around “Lindy” philosophy—the idea that things that have been around a long time will continue to endure. He cultivated a pseudo-intellectual following in right-wing internet circles.
He is expected to be 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐲 sometime this week. Under the Trump administration’s expanded enforcement, ICE has increasingly targeted individuals whose public statements cross into incitement or material support territory. Skallas’s antisemitic posts reportedly included Holocaust denial and explicit advocacy for violence. 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐲. 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭.
https://nitter.net/MichaelARothman/status/2043551337326219674#m
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋: 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏’𝐒 𝐔𝐊𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐍𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐋𝐄𝐃𝐆𝐄
Newly declassified memos—released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard at the request of Just the News—reveal that the CIA analyst who triggered the 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 against Trump submitted false information, offered only hearsay, and had documented “potential for bias.”
The alleged whistleblower’s own words from his August 2019 intake form: “𝘐 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵.” 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐝 in the nine-page letter Adam Schiff released to launch the impeachment.
What the Intelligence Community Inspector General found about the accuser: — He was a 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 who had “𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯” on Ukraine issues and traveled with Biden to Ukraine — He disliked Republicans around Trump, including Devin Nunes and Kash Patel—even requesting 𝐍𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 despite being a Gang of Eight member
— He called NSC staffer Michael Ellis “𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘺”
— He 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 by not checking the box for Congressional contact—despite having already spoken with Schiff’s staff
— When caught, he apologized to the IG for “𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥”
And perhaps the most explosive detail: Schiff told MSNBC in September 2019 that “𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳”—while his staff already had.
The accuser’s ally, identified as “Witness 2,” was the 𝐜𝐨-𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 on Russian election meddling—the same assessment the CIA now admits was based on “𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵.”
That witness also disclosed he “𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘻𝘰𝘬”—the FBI agent fired for anti-Trump bias.
Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, one of Trump’s defense lawyers: “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2019 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴.”
Mark Meadows confirmed GOP lawmakers during impeachment were “𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴” and said “𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 ’𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥’ 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵-𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦.”
Devin Nunes called it “𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳” and said the memos “𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵.”
The accuser has been identified in media reports as retired CIA analyst 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚, who now works at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as Ukraine Initiative Director and regularly appears on the anti-Trump Lawfare podcast alongside Benjamin Wittes—described by Politico as “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦.”
Trump’s lawyers were 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 because it was kept classified—preventing potentially exculpatory evidence of bias from reaching the Senate jurors.
𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦, 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐟’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/ukraine-bombshell-long-secret-memos-expose-whistleblower-bias-hearsay?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
Failure to disclose exculpatory evidence to the accused is a criminal offense:
https://uslawexplained.com/exculpatory_evidence
Is this the release we have been waiting for of Atkin’s testimony?
Edit: Never mind… you answered your own question 😉
“While Atkinson kept the memos secret, he did grant a closed-door classified interview to lawmakers during the leadup to the House impeachment proceedings. The House Intelligence Committee is expected to release the transcript of that interview as early as this week.”
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐇 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐙 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐁 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈-𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀—𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
Savannah Hernandez, a journalist for Turning Point USA, was 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 by multiple people at an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota—pushed to the ground by a mob that didn’t like her being there and recording them. As Jeffery Mead put it: “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵.”
He’s right. Imagine this in reverse: “𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘣 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥—𝘴𝘩𝘩.” The good news: the 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 into the assault. “𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯.”
This is what happens when Democratic leaders spend years demonizing ICE agents, comparing detention centers to “concentration camps” (AOC, 2019), and calling immigration enforcement “fascism.”
Their base hears the message: 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝. 𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐛 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
https://nitter.net/MichaelARothman/status/2043551885463089347#m
Are you sure the FBI launched an investigation? Or did they instigate the cover up?
FBI Investigations are coverups.
𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐄’𝐒 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑. 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐀𝐃 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐏 𝐁𝐘 𝐈𝐂𝐄. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄’𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐌𝐄.
Lorenzo Garcia, boyfriend of 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐤𝐨—the same Paige who recently 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 @𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 (Savannah Santos), a conservative social media influencer—is an active-duty Marine who has now launched a GoFundMe.
Why? Because 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 while Garcia was at Marine boot camp at Camp Pendleton.
So let’s connect the dots:
— His girlfriend physically attacks a conservative influencer
— His father is in the country illegally
— He’s begging the internet for money while serving in the military
The Savsays assault was caught on camera and the 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 the incident.
Ostroushko and others involved are expected to face charges.
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲? 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.
https://nitter.net/MichaelARothman/status/2043551672769921346#m
Lorenzo Garcia, boyfriend of Paige Ostroushko, the same Paige who recently assaulted and battered @Savsays, is an active-duty Marine running this GoFundMe.
He’s begging for money because ICE detained his dad while he was at Marine boot camp at Camp Pendleton.
He lays out the whole sob story about his mom struggling, his siblings, the financial mess, and how hard it’s all been. Then he brags about going to Whipple protests, No Kings protests, Iran protests, and every other anti-ICE demonstration he can find.
He even did an open mic at Whipple to tell his story.
And right at the end he signs off with “F**K ICE.”
An active-duty United States Marine is using his service, his boot camp experience, and his uniform to solicit donations while publicly attacking a federal law enforcement agency and standing shoulder to shoulder with the same radical left crowd whose daughter just assaulted an American woman on video.
@SecWar Hegseth, this is completely unacceptable. We cannot have Marines out here trashing ICE, aligning with domestic terrorists who assault citizens, and then turning around and using their military status to beg for cash.
Please address this issue.
https://nitter.net/KimKatieUSA/status/2043409384907456812#m
𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑: 𝐃𝐇𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘
Stephen Miller just revealed that Customs and Border Protection will soon hit the milestone of 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲. That includes a 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫 on the Rio Grande—five miles already in place, stretching to cover the entire river crossing to stop water-based human smuggling.
When host Brian Kilmeade raised the “Dignity Act” from Republican Rep. Mike Lawler—which would offer legal status (not citizenship) to illegal immigrants who’ve been here 5+ years, pay back taxes, have jobs, and don’t collect benefits—Miller shut it down:
“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺. 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺.”
Then Miller reframed the entire debate: “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴.” “𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦, 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥?”
Miller’s bottom line: “𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦.”
Under Trump 2.0, over 𝟏,𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 of barrier now exist along the southern border (CBP). The cost runs approximately $𝟐𝟎-𝟐𝟓 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 for new steel bollard fencing (Government Accountability Office).
𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐍𝐨 𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲. 𝐍𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 “𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞” 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 “𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞.”
https://nitter.net/MichaelARothman/status/2043550613817156089#m
Good news!
1933 miles of land border. So 500 or so miles to go at a mile per day.
It should be finished in a year and a half.
Well before Trump’s second term ends.
DHS states there is about 700 miles of border wall completed and they will add another 250 miles of wall by 2029…
The wall is not all “wall”, it consists of wall, repaired fencing, and other security measures such as cameras and sensors.
So, by 2029 we will have about 1000 miles of “wall” on a 1954 mile border… Illegal invaders will have only about 954 miles of open border to squeeze through to enter the USA.
I was using the amount Miller said above. 1400 miles of barrier.
I do not know who is right. DHS or Miller.
The 1954 miles of border includes 21 miles of border in the oceans. Both Pacific and Gulf of America. That is why I reduced it to land border. The border wall can extend into the ocean, but not for 9 or 12 miles.
The mile per day is also questionable. We have a little over 1000 days left. Starting at 700 miles completed, at a mile per day, we could have 1700 finished when Trump leaves office.
Yet DHS says they will only add 1/4 th of that.
DHS sure is a downer.
Again who is right?
DHS is a “downer” for posting the facts of the matter?
Don’t know about you, but I would find what is posted on the DHS site far more believable than what Miller says…
… and (Miller forgot to add) not a single one of those Auto-Pen and Illegal Immigrants has any interest in assimilating not adding to the fabric of USA.
If your biggest concern is posts on truth social that I have not seen. Then you must be a democrat troll.
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I saw the post by PDJT on TS early this morning, I thought dang I know people are going to misinterpret this, so why post it? I have to wonder if someone is sabotaging him–that Obama as monkeys thing was very unfortunate.
Of course someone is sabotaging Trump…
His administration is filled with Trump haters, just like the GOP is filled with Trump haters…
Amen
How odd.
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“Ghalibaf vanished from public view during the war, but his English-language tweets continued, sharp, strategic, and aimed at Americans. An IranWire investigation traces them to a close advisor based in California.”
Cont…
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Article linked:
Meet the Man Behind Ghalibaf’s Tweets – Based in the U.S.
https://iranwire.com/en/features/151128-meet-the-man-behind-ghalibafs-tweets-based-in-the-us
Surely the Administration has to be aware of this?
This explains where the Media is getting their misinformation from. Right under our noses no less.
First, the speaker of Iran’s parliament has hacks running pro-Iranian propaganda from the US. Targeting the US. While we are at war.
Deport them all!
Second, I saw a post saying the reason why the delegation was so large was that they brought a bunch of spies with them.
Ban them all from coming to the US.
Is that not Treason? Aid and comfort to the enemy…
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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, from the Evil One and his servants.
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Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death, and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life. (Thrice)
What has happened to OPEC controlling the price of oil?
Has anyone heard from them lately?
I was asking that about a week ago…reposting a link that shows member countries…
https://www.opec.org/member-countries.html
scroll down on the left, (LOL) for the members…
And this, not sure if it is accurate…or updated…
https://oilprice.com/
AI answer but they make sense. Here are the first 3 keys of 6.
The world is far less dependent on—and more able to counterbalance—OPEC today than in the 1970s. Key reasons:
Much larger non‑OPEC supply (especially U.S. shale, North Sea, Brazil, Russia) that can ramp up quickly.
OPEC+ fragmentation: coordination now includes non‑OPEC partners with different incentives, making unified, sustained cuts harder.
Demand-side changes: lower oil intensity, more fuel efficiency, diversified energy mix (gas, nuclear, renewables, EVs) reduces price sensitivity to OPEC moves.
How soon everybody forgets the news ….
Before and after the Operation Epic Fury started … the leading members of OPEC negotiated with and have been negotiating with President Trump … oil output which directly impacts pricing.
There are more PROVEN oil reserves under the CONUS than in the entire middle east…
OPEC controlled the price of oil simply because our politicians wouldn’t let our drillers drill…
Morning Treepers……………be well
Morning bjorkdream
Beautiful spot and yes, I will have a cup, thank you.
Thankful God is in control as another day unfolds.
Have a blessed day.
morning had my first one already and the other will be with breakfast. Have a safe, peaceful day.
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Cheers!
The best part of waking up…..
Am I misreading the apparent silence in support of Iran by China/Russia? Of course, both are continuing to supply weapons and maintaining economic relations with the mullahs but I’m not hearing public support for Iran against the United States. Maybe because it’s not worth it to go against the US in this war operation? Maybe the economics are too favorable for the US in this struggle and too perilous for China/Russia? Or maybe, I’m misreading the situation.
They are supporting Iran through ongoing weapons/economic channels and behind-the-scenes help but in ways that are deniable, limited, and calibrated to bleed the U.S. effort without triggering a wider war or economic blowback on themselves.
Self-interested alignment rather than ideological solidarity or willingness to match the U.S. head-on. The “silence” is really calculated restraint.
China is also afraid of losing the lucrative US market.
I am not sure but I think Russia remains relatively quiet because they don’t want the US upping it’s support to Ukraine. Kind of a trade off for US support of Ukraine, but Russia doesn’t want a head on confrontation.
China and Russia are also countries where you don’t speak out unless told to speak out.
Russian Citizens have more freedom than we have here in the USA… Freedom of speech is no problem there at this point in time.
re: Russia: There is no doubt that President Trump and President Putin have made a “deal” whereby Russia stays out of the Iran conflict other than a few token efforts for political purposes…
re: China: China is presently starved for fuel and energy, it’s economy in a recession, is staying in the background hoping that the USA will let them get crude and refined oil products from the middle east…
Great list of resources.
x.com/drjamesbjoyce/status/2043453361769316604?s=20
Thanks for sharing this!
Not to brag or anything, but I expected this. I thought the US would take over Kharg Island and stop Iran’s oil business at the spigot. But (as President Madison has said on this board) there are risks to occupying an island off the coast of nasty fanatics. So a blockade that stops everything coming and going from Iranian ports has the same effect, with less risk.The US shuts off the flow of Iranian oil, and in a month or so the IRGC will be bankrupt: end of regime.
Meanwhile, the Chinese can get all the oil they need from the US, and Venezuela (which is the US, too). By mid-May, when President Trump visits Chairman Xi, all will be hunky-dory. And gas prices will be below $3 before the mid-terms. If the US can get the Save America Act passed, it will win them, too.
They very likely have rigged that island like Iwo Jima. I certainly would.
US Navy versus Iran’s ‘speedboat swarms’: New fighting set to break out in Strait of Hormuz within hours as Trump blocks all shipping and considers fresh strikes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15728329/The-lethal-Iranian-speedboat-swarm-standing-way-Trumps-destroyers-Tehran-fleet-fast-attack-boats-wreak-havoc-Strait-Hormuz-despite-US-sinking-navy.html
Throughout history, asymmetric warfare has been the bane of empires.
I happen to own a couple of jet skis. They are 11ft long and can top out at 60mph. Someone with slight technical skills could easily turn them into a drone loaded with enough explosives to cause some damage. Or simply have an Aloha Snackbar rider go kamikaze. They are faster than any of the large naval ships in the gulf and perhaps small enough to avoid detection until its too late.
I trust our Navy has the capabilities to combat such challenges, but this could turn into a proverbial hornet’s nest of small Iranian crafts.
Another AI answer:
Typical US warship options against small explosive boats or suicide coxswains
Deck guns (direct fire)
5-inch/54–62 Mk 45 (surface fire at medium range)
57 mm Mk 110 (on Littoral Combat Ships, some frigates) and 30 mm autocannons (close-in patrol/escort craft)
.50 cal and 25–30 mm remote weapon stations for very close targets
Close‑in weapon systems (CIWS)
Phalanx 20 mm Gatling (air/surface 1B surface‑engagement upgrades)
SeaRAM (RAM missiles in CIWS role)
Short‑range surface missiles/launchers
Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM), short‑range antiship interceptors (used against small fast targets)
Surface‑to‑surface and naval gunfire support
Harpoon/NSM/other anti‑ship missiles for larger threats or to engage standoff bases of small-boat operations
Aviation and small boat interdiction
Shipborne helicopters (armed with guns/rockets/torpedoes), embarked V/STOL aircraft, and small‑boat boarding/interceptor teams (RHIBs, Coast Guard cutters)
Sensors, C2 and non‑kinetic measures
Ship radar, electro‑optical/IR targeting, AIS/communications monitoring
Electronic warfare (jamming), warning shots, and non‑lethal interdiction tools (entangling nets, maneuvering escorts)
Emerging/experimental countermeasures
Directed‑energy (laser) systems for disabling engines or sensors, high‑powered microwave, unmanned surface vessels and decoys.
Tactics: layered defense (detect at range → engage with stand‑off weapons/aircraft → use CIWS/guns for last‑ditch), use of interceptors and small‑boat teams, and non‑kinetic options to reduce collateral harm.
The US has had years to prepare for this defense.
How the U.S. Military Lost a War to Iran (In a Simulation, That Is)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-us-military-lost-war-iran-simulation-207099
In 2002, the Pentagon convened a fictitious wargame to test a future enemy equipped with advanced technology and tactics. Dubbed the Millennium Challenge, the congressionally-mandated exercise pitted the “blue” U.S. team up against the “red” Iran-like Middle Eastern team, set in a timeframe five years in the future. The warfare practice involved both live exercises and computer simulations, which cost approximately $250 million.
The games grew to encompass 13,500 service members participating from 17 different simulation locations across several training sites. Within a matter of days the red team sunk 19 blue team’s ships and rendered its carrier battle group ineffective. While the rules of the game remain controversial, its outcome emphasized the detriment of group thinking and the power of innovative asymmetric warfare.
AI left out the close air support of Marine and US Army Helicopters as well as USAF A-10’s.
Too bad the A-1D Skyraider is no longer available … it would actually fit this mission even better than the A-10.
AI isn’t perfect, but on information it can save some time of trying to hunt it down on the Internet yourself. I am always careful as I have gotten wrong answer many times. I might be looking for something like a date on something I am well aware of and it gives me a totally wrong answer.
Sweep the oceans with machine gun fire. A few hits will sink a speedboat or blow up its weapons. Should take out the pilots, too.
Yes! Also, the “Venezuelan fishing boat” treatment has proven to be quite effective.
Release the Warthogs
Any of our navy’s point-defense guns could annihilate their speedboats for a couple bucks.
I’m in favor of methods that cost less than their methods of attack as that will just bleed them dry even more quickly.
I’m also hoping to hear that we’ve taken out some rail lines/bridges near the eastern borders of Iran that could be used to transport war material into Iran from China.
Yes one jet shot down is very expensive:
25 Most Expensive Military Aircraft in the World (2026 Prices)
https://militarymachine.com/most-expensive-military-jets
Here are the top ten:
1. $152 million – F-22 Raptor – US
2. $122.8 million – F-35C Lightning II – US
3. $121.8 million – F-35B Lightning II – US
4. $110 million – Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle – China
5. $107.7 million – F-117 Nighthawk – US
6. $105.7 million – Eurofighter Typhoon – Europe
7. $94.6 million – F-35A Lightning II – US
8. $93.6 million – Dassault Rafale – France
9. $79.8 million – F/A-18E/F Super Hornet – US
10. $76.4 million – Su-35 Flanker-E – Russia
During World War II, a B-17 Flying Fortress cost about $250,000.
Yep… Having a couple of ol’ Marines with Ma Deuce on deck will solve the “speedboat problem”…
The daily mail rarely reports real news but you always post articles from them. The US has a minesweeper in the straight and Navy vessels. Do you really think we can’t take out speedboats? lol. In that article, they’re assuming based on IRGC threats. C’mon!
They also park them in large numbers. We see them in photos. So, we need one or two air-burst frag bombs with napalm.
The “Daily Mail” = the “National Enquirer”… Mostly click-bait crap…
The UK Dailymail rooting for Iran. Typical pablum.
The latest outrage on X even by MAGA people is POTUS posted a pic(on Truth social_
of himself portrayed as Jesus laying his hand on a man head (who is laying
in a bed)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFwGS-BbAAAzYmW?format=jpg&name=medium
Scroll back on this page to a post by “Trouble…” at 4:04 am. It’s a fair explanation.
I think it is pretty funny, myself, but I can 100% understand why people would be bothered by this. I have family members who think this is literal blasphemy. The optics would look even worse if the post was taken down, though.
Welp, we will just have to live with it.
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MAGA: What’s the problem?
Independents and Trad Republicans: Cringe
Left: See, he’s effing crazy.
When people get outraged about this you can tell they haven’t read their Bible.
Billionaire kicks Eric Swalwell out of his mansion and wants $1M back after heinous sex allegations
FTA –
Lefty billionaire Stephen Cloobeck dramatically cut ties with Eric Swalwell and revealed he has kicked him out of his mansion — hours before the congressman dropped his run for California governor.
“I am no longer supporting Eric,” Cloobeck told The Post in an exclusive interview. “F—ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F— you, Democrat Party. I’m a libertarian now.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/us-news/billionaire-stephen-cloobeck-cuts-ties-with-eric-swalwell-and-fumes-f-the-democratic-party/
Good morning, Sundance, AMEN! April 13, 2026.
Sneako chants “Khaybar Khaybar Ya Yahud” in New York City. Gangs of young Muslim men immediately join in with screams of “TAKBIR – ALLAHU AKBAR.” The Bali Bomber terrorist Amrozi sung this chant as he was sentenced to death in Indonesia for killing hundreds of Australians. It references a massacre of Jews in early Islamic history: “Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!” Every single person in this video needs to be immediately deported. Pretty
simple
https://nitter.poast.org/DrewPavlou/status/2043323509565530153#m
I don’t understand why the admin is hands off in NY. There are so many illegal radicals that need immediate deportation. Guarantee they are benefiting off the fraud too!
Let the stupid Dem majority steep in the misery they cause? At a certain point even worms learn to steer a different course.
I’m certain that obama and Samantha Power are celebrating the destruction of Hungary as it becomes s full pledged Euroweenie member!!! Hungary will now have to pay tribute to Zelensky! Too bad for Hungary!
That proves to me it was stolen. Sorry but those people didn’t want uncontrolled immigration.
Orban lost in a landslide with almost 80% of the electorate coming out to vote.
I trust that the people of Hungary know their situation better than a bunch of armchair QBs who have never travelled outside of their own state.
81 million again.
Massive turnout, never seen before…the EU wanted them in their clutches! Idk the specifics (paper ballots or machines) of their elections but I agree with you!
Similar to how Republicans always lose in a landslide in California!!! I trust that the people of California know their situation better than a bunch of armchair QBs who have never travelled outside of their own state.
Hi from British Columbia,
I am good friends with a Hungarian whose family emigrated to Canada thirty five years ago.
They are good folks, work own property and are still involved with the local Hungarian community.
None had anything particularly good to say about Orban..
While I personally admire him, it is apparent that there was a massive political and media operation against him.
Many Hungarians genuinely fear Russia..those that were crushed in the fifties are very old, or dead.
However their children and grandchildren are still around.
As President Trump often states.
“ We will see what happens.”
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Please someone in the FBI arrest Obama and Powers
Orban has been a “voice crying out in the wilderness” against Europe’s mad rush for WW3.
Because: Hungary remembers, and Russia celebrates “Victory Day” so that its people will never forget. Their nations paid a very great price. 🩸
But, when you look honestly at the history of Europe, the one thing you see, every page you turn, is: WAR! Europeans are, as a society and since ancient times, thoroughly addicted to it. Even though they immediately forget it. They fought great battles over “Catholic vs. Protestant.” (History does not record what God thought about that …)
Can a British schoolboy spell, “Blitzkreig?” No. Does he know what it means? No. Likewise, Germany is preparing to draft its children again. “Eighty years of peace” is very uncommon there. To be at war, with someone somewhere, is their default condition.
3-interesting points of history left out when one considers the “Fear of Russia” due to the response to the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
In WWII … the Hungarians contributed 2-Armies to the German order of battle on the East Front, and Hungary did not switch sides until 1945 after Budapest Fell as well as after the Russians (USSR) made an offer they could not refuse.
In 1968, the Hungarians contributed land forces to the Russian (USSR) Army Group that invaded Czechoslovakia when Alexander Dubcek tried to take that country out of the Warsaw Pact.
In the 1980’s, Hungary was ready to contribute forces to the USSR’s threatened intervention into Poland to counter Lec Walensa’s movement.
… and just for the Israel detractors out here … in 1948 and 1955 … Hungary provided refurbished German WWII equipment to Israel .. mainly infantry weapons and Me-109 aircraft.
The Israelis also got surplus aircraft from Romania, especially Avia S-199s (German BF-109s modified by Avia postwar for the Romanian Air Force).
They were beasts to fly, by all accounts, as the installation of a different engine than original changed the handling characteristics of the aircraft for the worse.
Some of those old ex-Romanian 109s were used in the film ‘Battle of Britain.’
Yep … those Avia S-199’s flew along side Spanish made He-111’s in that movie.
Also true that those refurbished German aircraft were not the best but at the time (1948) and (1956) anything flying was better than nothing.
In WWII, the Hungarians joined the German army to fight the Communists…
After the war, both General Mac Arthur and General Patton said we should have been fighting with the Nazi’s to defeat communism…
I have a diabolical thought.
Whatever Iran does, they will always have mountains filled with uranium. Natural Uranium is one of their natural resources.
They will always have uranium to start a new nuclear program. Unless of course it somehow undergoes a natural reaction. But that is too rare to count on.
Did you know though that sometimes bomb designs use neutron sources as triggers? A little D on D fusion or D on T fusion makes a lot of neutrons.
So my diabolical thought. Can you trigger a reaction in natural uranium using a Neutron bomb? Can we deplete the natural Uranium from the mountains, leaving just radioactive waste in its stead?
I wonder if they have already calculated or tested something like that? Forcing stockpiled cores to blow up might have been a secret goal of the neutron bomb project. A first strike that destroys weapons and stockpiles..
Easier to trigger enriched uranium than natural uranium. And we carped about killing people while leaving buildings intact.
Of course, even if feasible, it is highly unlikely we would ever do something like that.
But unless we do, we will always be faced with Iran having Uranium. And they are the idiots who want bombs to start the Apocalypse.
No. This is why we keep focusing on enrichment. You don’t necessarily need enriched uranium for power, and un-enriched uranium is pretty useless as a bomb. The only reason to enrich is for a bomb.
Most reactors rum at 3-5% enrichment. Only the fast Breeder reactors run at 20% enrichment. They are used to make all sorts of nasty bomb stuff.
Lots of places claim that 20% is also the minimum enrichment needed to make a uranium bomb. It would be massive, and needs an implosion design, but it is still possible.
They also say that 60% is relatively doable, needing 90 lbs.
Hiroshima was reported to be 80% and over 140 lbs. So I grain of salt the 90 lbs at 60% claim. The claim though is that Iran has 970 lbs and that is enough for as many as 11 bombs. Which is consistent with the 90 lb claim.
The 85%-90+% enrichment claimed needed for our bombs is a luxury that enables small bombs to be put on missiles.
Once you get to 60% enrichment, it’s a fast path to get to 90%.
That’s the reason for the urgency to act now.
A new version of Chernobyl, post meltdown? Or Times Beach, post ‘government intervention’?
You are still setting off nuclear bombs, yourself. No.
Not necessarily; Trump has his eyes on gaining Iran’s mineral deposits.
“If you want to understand the fatal dangers facing America today, read “The Gathering Storm” by Winston Churchill. The book is not about America, the Middle East or nuclear missiles. But it shows Europe’s attitudes and delusions — aimed at peace in the years before the Second World War — which instead ended up bringing on that most terrible war in all of human history. … Reading about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and the widespread retrogressions of Western civilization that followed, was an experience that was sobering, if not crushing. Ancient history in general lets us know how long human beings have been the way they are, and dampens giddy zeal for the latest panaceas, despite how politically correct those panaceas may be.”–Prof. Thomas Sowell
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.”--Historian Paul Johnson
“And so many of the blessings and advantages we have, so many of the reasons why our civilization, our culture, has flourished aren’t understood; they’re not appreciated. And if you don’t have any appreciation of what people went through to get, to achieve, to build what you are benefiting from, then these things don’t mean very much to you. You just think, well, that’s the way it is. That’s our birthright. That just happened. But it didn’t just happen. And at what price? What grief? What disappointment? What suffering went on? I mean this. I think that to be ignorant or indifferent to history isn’t just to be uneducated or stupid. It’s to be rude, ungrateful. And ingratitude is an ugly failing in human beings.”–Historian David McCollough
The storm is no longer gathering it’s arrived at Europe but it’s gathering here!!! Just look at Europe invaded by muslims and zero effort to repel them!!! Similar to the Somalis that have invaded Minnesota!!!
The Somalis didn’t invade. They were invited in and supported with welfare benefits. Big Difference.
And now the politicians are trying to sneak through amnesty for over 17 million more invited illegals and that is bipartisan as well. Go figure.
I haven’t had a television in my house in thirty years. In any hotel room, the “teevee” is never on. But, every room is a library.
The only books I find in hotel rooms are thanks to the Gideons.
Or books I brought.
Well said and wow!
Europe is lost now that Victor Orban has lost. The color wars and globalist agenda have won again. So dejecting.
The Paris Statement
The True Europe
This is an affirmation of European Christian civilization.
36 short paragraphs
25 languages
https://thetrueeurope.eu/a-europe-we-can-believe-in/
He better get to the US quick or he is going to be arrested and put on trial like Bolsonaro in Brazil.
He would be safer in Moscow.
For the crime of not going to war.
We’ll see. I doubt it is some kind of death knell. He lost by a lot even with any fraud. He was in power for 16 years. We’d prefer him, but sometimes it is just time for a change.
…generally ..ppl of the world generally do not like wars and those who start this wars (or who associate with them)..it’s hard to digest for many ppl to justify any war…..so here we are HUNGARY…..
Psalm 27:13
I would have fainted, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
You won, so we win, Lord Jesus, Amen!
Acts 4: 23-31
After they were released, Peter and John went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and everything in them, it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant:
‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples imagine vain things?
The kings of the earth took their stand,
and the rulers have gathered together
against the Lord and against his Messiah.’
For in this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
Iran is rushing to restore bridges and railways damaged in the recent strikes. Mehr News Agency claims they have already been fully rebuilt.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2043678872562987210#m
what goes up can come down again with more added
You know full well that such reports cannot be true.
In times of war, everything you hear from either side must be understood to be PROPAGANDA. That’s just the way it is. “Think accordingly.”
Trump threatened attacking bridges.
They got a ceasefire by manipulating calls to negotiate.
What Bridges were attacked?
And how on earth could a bridge be rebuilt in just days?
The propaganda is strong in this one.
Meh News Agency
Is that picture even of Iran?
That I don’t believe, this I believe!
Tehran police say they arrested a suspect in a raid on eastern Tehran, seizing a large cache of firearms, grenades, and military-grade ammunition after reports of illegal weapons storage.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2043676637993009244#m
Take out the grenades, and that could be almost any house on my street.
JUST IN
A military source warns the IRGC could respond as early as tonight, including potential strikes on U.S. and Israeli targets tied to Strait of Hormuz developments.
The IDF is bracing for escalation and a possible ceasefire collapse, updating its target bank and intensifying monitoring inside Iran. “Now is the time. Ground crews and technical teams are working around the clock to bring all Air Force platforms to peak readiness. We are reviewing targets, orders, and operational plans,” the source said
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2043660409131991290#m
I really don’t listen to such “sources.” Everything this “source” said is obvious.
Of course(!) “the cease-fire collapsed.” Everybody knew it would. We just needed a short period when we were not firing at them, when we knew they’d be firing fairly indiscriminately at everyone else. They obliged. Proving to the world that they were not “defending themselves.”
It’s one thing to be firing at Americans and Israel. But they’re firing at Arabs. Indiscriminately and with lots of weapons. They’re seriously gonna regret that …
if its a military source then its a leaker and needs to be found out and brought before military justice.
I’d just call this “propaganda speculation.” I expect information security to be airtight. This “source” isn’t really saying anything that anyone could not have made up. Sounds good.
BREAKING: US Clarifies Scope Of Iran Maritime Blockade The US military stated that its blockade measures will not restrict neutral transit through the Strait of Hormuz for vessels traveling to or from non-Iranian destinations, according to a notice to mariners cited by Reuters. Enforcement is expected to focus on areas in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea east of the Strait, with measures applying to vessel traffic of all nationalities. US authorities also indicated that humanitarian shipments, including food and medical supplies, will be permitted but subject to inspection protocols.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2043660766511759753#m
The “notice to mariners” (NOTMAR) is of course quite public … as all such notices necessarily are.
Automated readers broadcast them in several languages on established ship frequencies 24/7. There are official web sites. And, so on.
Time is short:
“U.S. President Donald Trump announced in a message on the “Truth Social” network early Monday, April 13, that the United States will block ship traffic to Iranian ports starting at 10:00 AM Eastern Time.”
9:00 am Central…
https://iranwire.com/en/news/151151-trump-orders-hormuz-blockade-to-begin-at-1730-iran-time/
The Michael Atkinson transcripts are available now on the HPSCI website.
https://intelligence.house.gov/2026/04/13/chairman-crawford-releases-transcripts-from-2019-hearings-with-former-icig-michael-atkinson/
Link at the bottom of the press release.
Thanks for posting!!
All my experience and instincts say that President Trump is getting set up. The latest Aha moment is David Ignatius, writing in the Washington Post, says that Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf (the Speaker of the Iranian “Parliament” that we requested Israel not to destroy, because we needed someone left from the regime to talk to), is an impressive guy that we can deal with, and who could be Irans new leader. Then, on the other side of the media, Gen. Jack Keane says that Ghalibaf is a hardcore, religious fanatic, who grew up best friends with Qasem Soleimani.
So we give the IRGC two weeks to regroup, repair their railroads, get resupplied, get new shoulder-fired missiles that can shoot down our jets. And we showcase Vice-President Vance and this Ghalibaf guy, not making a deal, because they never were going to make a deal in the first place.
I think President Trump is getting bad advice. It is to set him up to take the offramp from “Bonfire of the Vanities.” I think he is getting told we can’t do the things that will work to win the war quickly; and he is getting told we must do the things that won’t work. This promotion of Ghalibaf has Clown fingerprints all over it. And I think the President is getting pressure to fire people loyal to him and keep people who are going to betray him.
It can be turned around. The Israelis know who to trust, and who not to trust. People should stop saying Israel is pulling the president’s strings. That little country is a popsicle stand compared to the big countries interested in Iran. The desired outcome is an Iran governed by a liberal, pro-western democracy, dedicated to peace and peaceful relations with all countries. To get there the religious fanatics must be fully overthrown. And anyway, China is pulling their strings. We must be prepared for China to lose. If we keep playing games with these guys, sooner or later an accident will happen, and the end won’t be pretty.
I think that Trump and his professional military and diplomatic teams know exactly what they are doing. He is not “being set up.”
This brief “cease fire,” as expected, applied only to us. Iran never stopped firing whatever it had, and at anyone within “medium range.” Especially Arabs. This is all that those countries needed to see.
Read your Bible. The military history of these peoples is violent and vengeful, and their memories are very long. They know who the enemy is. Iran’s mullah invaders will sorely regret having done this. The Arabs also know that “the people of Iran/Persia” are not the ones responsible.
Presidents – and world leaders, CEOs, etc. – usually have many layers of advisors around them. While their interests vary, at the end of the day, they want the leader they are supporting to be successful. When the leader is successful, they are successful.
While I hear what you ate saying, my gut tells me that Trump is going on his own instincts rather than trusting those around him.
Praying for Ireland!!!!
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/irish-fuel-protests-the-people-of?publication_id=400535&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=zeqx&utm_medium=email
I just did a quick look at GP to see how they were reporting on the Hormuz situation while waiting on Tousi.TV. This is the article they have started with. Headline is overly dramatic as usual.
If true then there has to be a complete reevaluation of US troop deployment in Europe.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/hormuz-blockade-europe-mobilizing-against-u-s-not/
Did they drop the Atkinson testimony?
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/04/13/breaking_newly_declassified_docs_reveal_bias_of_impeachment_whistleblower_1176287.html
“On April 8, RFK Jr posted an announcement from his official government account on X that he, as HHS Scy, is launching a podcast. The announcement is bizarre. At the start of the clip, RFK Jr says “the government actually lies to us”:”
https://open.substack.com/pub/sashalatypova/p/robert-kennedy-jr-will-launch-a-podcast?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Times was there would be meeting of the minds around a pot belly stove, water cooler, kitchen table but now we just climb on a limb at the treehouse and feel better just being able to say our piece. Sundance says to live your best life and its getting awfully hard to do but here, at least, we have others frogs to hear our woes.
As we unpack all the insane details about how the fake Ukraine whistleblower was part of an elaborate plot against Trump, as well as Michael Atkinson’s role in covering it all up, I’m still blown away by the fact that @cernovich was warning everyone about Ciaramella 9 years ago.
HR McMaster appointed Eric Ciaramella to be his personal aid…