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Blessings 🙏 and … good night 🌝, ed!
Zzz-zzzz…. 💤 😴
And blessing right back atcha Lorri….good night !! I’m out of work in 8 hours and already I can’t wait to crawl back into bed !!!
Amen
AMEN
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
The purpose and goals of President Trump are plainly visible by his actions and consistent: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world. It is validating, even to our battered conservative skepticism.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating. He hammers actions based on truth from one direction, then another, and they cannot mount an organized opposition against him.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. His promises are bold and he keeps them like no other president has. He is making massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in our country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass. This 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 91 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.
Yes, equality has always been the big falsehood. Read what Robert Bork had to say about equality in his book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.” The man was brilliant.
The Reckoning 💥
@sethjlevy
There were those who said that Ghalibaf had lost the power struggle.
Some even claimed he may be killed for the sin of negotiating with the US.
Instead he gave a televised speech to his country last night where he explained to the population the realities of the power disparity.
In that speech he championed the Iranian accomplishments while never mentioning the nuclear file.
If the IRGC were in control, refusing a deal and demanding Iran fight on, why allow such a speech to be broadcast to the country?
Then today we get the announcement that delegations are headed back to Islamabad.
I assess this to mean that the civilian leadership is still sufficiently in control and a deal is possible.
Cont….
Ghalibaf defends Iran-US talks amid hardline backlash
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604199471
I get the sense that there is a civil war happening within the Iranian government, and I don’t think one side or the other has the upper hand right now. It’s obvious that the civilian side has little control over the IRGC, although there may be elements within IRGC who favor rapprochement with us. But the lunatics are obviously still in control. It’s the lunatics that need to be liquidated. If Iran remains under the control of Muslim lunatics, then this whole effort was pointless.
العربية عاجل
@AlArabiya_Brk
Translated from Arabic
Pakistani media sources: An Iranian delegation is expected to arrive on Tuesday despite its public denial
#AlArabiya_Breaking
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10:56 PM · Apr 19, 2026
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“Gaps between America and Iran have been narrowed in recent days: Al Hadath”….
The elimination of the IRGC is the only thing that matters. They are not under the control of any Iranian government; they are an independent entity all to themselves. They have always been the problem, as far back as 1979. This is really simple: to resolve this conflict, the IRGC must be permanently eliminated.
And how do you suggest the IRGC will be eliminated without deploying US troops on the ground?
Always remember, they are liars. They don’t make deals, they knife you in the back.
Or, not?
𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐌𝐒: 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐒—𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 “𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒” 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄
Prayers for President Trump for further unity between him and our Creator, that he will continue to be blessed with wisdom and strength and that there may be visible transformation in Donald that is clearly of the Lord. Continue to protect him. Protect and mold us as a nation.
Amen
FTR, not my favorite
Follow on the X, but….I wonder who may be just off screeen(hopefully far off screen). Wishes. Pehaps a friend of ours….
“ Here it is:
A decade in the making!
This is: United States Press Secretary Karoline Claire Leavitt:
“Now, nearly ten years later, thanks to the declassification of documents by the Director of National Intelligence, @DNIGabbard, the truth has finally come to light — and it vindicates President Trump and his family.”
Barack Hussein Obama, along with his entire administration, conspired to overthrow the United States government in 2016.
@PressSec:
“While pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power, Barack Hussein Obama, in private, went to great and nefarious lengths to sow discord among the public and sabotage his successor, President Trump.
The new evidence released by the Director of National Intelligence confirms that the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence, which was later used as justification for baseless smears against President Trump — an effort to delegitimize his victory before he even took the oath of office.
The truth is that President Trump never had anything to do with Russia, and the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetrated on the American people from the very beginning. The worst part is that Obama knew the truth, as did all the other officials involved, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and many others.”
📝 Do you hear it? Do you hear it in the halls of Congress? The silence is deafening.
Remember how they fought to appoint their co-conspirator Robert Mueller?
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Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Lisa Monaco, Adam Schiff, Peter did Lisa, Lisa did Peter, Bruce Whore, Nellie Whore, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Andrew Weissmann, Valerie Jarrett, Ben Rhodes, John Carlin, Mary McCord, James Baker, Jonathan Moffa, Michael Kortan, David Laufman, Samantha Power, John Kerry, Denis McDonough, Jim Rybicki, Bill Priestap, Christopher Steele, Richard Dearlove, Alexander Downer, Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud, Sergei Millian, Sidney Blumenthal, Cody Shearer, Terry McAuliffe, Jonathan Winer, John Podesta, Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, Jake Sullivan, Robbie Mook, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Peter Kadzik, Rachel Brand, Matthew Axelrod, Mary Jacoby, Preet Bharara, Josh Campbell, Jennifer Palmieri, Sir Andrew Wood, Robert Hannigan, Alexandra Chalupa, Michael Sussmann, Dmitri Alperovitch, and officials from the DNC, CrowdStrike, and Fusion GPS — including Glenn Simpson — as well as Perkins Coie, including Marc Elias, falsified intelligence as part of a seditious conspiracy with the sole intent of toppling the United States government during the 2016 presidential election.
And Christopher Wray!!”
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
President Trump on negotiations with Iran: “If they don’t sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown up”
Video linked…
Is JD Vance part of this 2nd negotiation team, or not? Someone suggested if JD isn’t going it might be because Trump expects a deal is possible and may be flying out himself to sign it. Who knows? Can’t believe the Iranian bluster…nor Trump’s blustering responses (the language Iran understands). The real talks are behind the scene.
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Trump says he’ll send negotiators to Pakistan, Iran suspects trap
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/iran-talks-pakistan-witkoff-kushner-ceasfire