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The Still Hour – Sunday’s Verses and Prayers
Treepers Prayers and Prayer Requests
May all Mothers and Mothers-Yet-To-Be have a most blessed Mother’s Day, spent surrounded in deep abiding love.
Happy Mom Day!
I know that my mom is smiling down from Heaven! 😇💕
Love you! 😘
Miss you! ❤️
Proverbs 30-31
Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth he Lord, she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Thank you Harrison.
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.
This is Day 111 of the 2nd year of the 2nd term of this very stable genius. History is being made in the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2026.
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 continues to make 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 does not show humility before men, but his actions show humility before God.
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 is not afraid to call out our enemies.
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. Lord please bring your power and might in the daily working of this sacred Nation you gave us.
AMEN
Amen
Amen
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
You Won’t Believe What They’re Selling at the Obama Presidential Center GIFT SHOP (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/you-wont-believe-what-theyre-selling-obama-presidential/
Glenn Beck had a total meltdown over the Rules for Radicals thing. Watch:
Rest in the Vine: Assassin Nation: “They have a saying in Chicago, Mr. Bond:
‘They Only Caught Capone Because He Claimed Barack Hussein Obama as a Child Tax Credit’.”
Oh, the irony, so sweet!
There was quite a commotion last night…
When ‘Mouse’ posted on this very site.
The thing to remember…
Is we respect every member…
At the Treehouse we love…We don’t fight. 🙂
Thanks to all TReepers for kindness
Even giving a rodent’s behindness
For questions ill-raised
After a minor post blaze
Towards the truth we continue with spryness
(self-reference as rat’s 6 intentional). Should have known – I well remember the hounding and calls of ‘post blogging’ back when SD posted regularly on FR and the results thereof.
Glad you are still with us, Mouse. There is a passage in Ephesians: “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ”. I meditate on that nearly daily, and it is powerful in keeping me humble.
WATCH: Trump Responds to Journalist Asking if He Will Rejoin WHO Over Hantavirus
Despite the low-risk assessment, some media outlets and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have used the incident to publicly pressure the Trump administration to rejoin the organization.
Tedros expressed hope that the outbreak would prompt the U.S. and Argentina, which also withdrew, to “reconsider,” according to a Politico report
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-trump-responds-journalist-asking-if-he-will/
UN health agency chief says hantavirus outbreak shows why US should rejoin
The World Health Organization and U.S. health officials are working together despite President Donald Trump’s withdrawal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/07/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-who-tedros-00910213
Four States Are Now Monitoring Potential Hantavirus Cases
Virginia, Georgia, California, and Arizona all reported that residents of those states were on the MV Hondius, have returned home, but are not showing symptoms of the illness, according to Newsweek.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/four-states-now-monitoring-potential-hantavirus-cases/
I thought they were all going to be held at that quarantine centre?
Just the ones still on board.
These people had already left. Only booked for one leg of the cruise, or something.
Aren’t all of the states you write about the places where THEY CHEATED in the last election? I wouldn’t trust any of them and their monitoring of anything.
Pretty obvious this whole cruise ship thingy is being done on purpose to turn the US into a Communist Country.
I am supposed to be all terrified of some unseen, computer generated sequence of letters because an Ethiopian Man with a Phd in philosophy say it causes a disease in human beings?
To top the charade off, the ship is Netherlands flagged, left from Argentina, and fortunately carried volunteers from Virginia, California, Georgia and Arizona so that they can go home and continue the attempt to steal yet another election.
All we need now is for some Veterinarian like Albert Bourla to declare you can be infected but have no symptoms so a shot from my Company is the only way to stop this disease.
Our Heavenly Father gave me a very good immune system and provided all we need to exist healthfully and naturally!
An Ethiopian man with a PhD in Philosophy, and a Masters in Communist terrorism from East Africa,
One more cruise ship infection:
Over 100 Passengers and Crew Stricken with Highly Contagious Norovirus on Caribbean Princess Cruise Ship
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/100-passengers-crew-stricken-highly-contagious-norovirus-caribbean/
Another cruise ship nightmare is making headlines and this time, more than 100 passengers and crew members reportedly fell ill aboard the Caribbean Princess during a norovirus outbreak.
Any Treepers up for a cruise? Have on scheduled?
Just in time for the midterm elections and mail-in ballots. Whoopie!
Norovirus is unfortunately fairly common, and there are well-established crew protocols for dealing with it. Makes you feel like crap on your vacation.
Legionnaires disease is, at least, caused by an identifiable (under a microscope and moving) bacterium.
This is not an unusual occurrence on cruise ships. We hear about it all the time but the media is now hyping any story about illness on cruise ships as a potential pandemic. So predictable.
‘Just got off one…This Novovirus is very common on cruise ships….
Hantavirus happens in the US every year especially in the SW. The likelihood of human to human spread is very small. Good they are monitoring those who were on that ship, but the threat of a widespread contamination of this virus from this ship is highly unlikely. The media, being prompted by the globalists and left wing agitators, are trying to foment panic and get people all riled up. As usual. The WHO is desperate to get America back to paying the bills again. Hopefully that doesn’t happen. The USA can monitor this kind of outbreak and do what’s best for America.
Apparently it is mainly transmitted by bodily fluids.
Considering the average age profile of ‘cruisers’ they mabe not able to ‘get up to it’
Another circle jerk from the WHO (nice name bty) desperately wailing for MONEY from President Trump to remain relevant.
“Look see President Trump, there’s a new virus (been around for ages) that we need money to strike fear into the hearts of mankind.”
And funding to keep us relevant.
I hope President Trump tells them to go pound sand. Again.
WHO is probably planning to knock of a a few more million people from the world. Just like they did during the covid scam.
Wonder what the treatment will be other than isolation.
Will they allow Hydroxychloroquine ?
Will they allow Ivermectin ?
WHO will probably recommend or mandate isolation- Only mail-in voting in elections will be allowed.
Treatments are all anecdotal since they haven’t gone through “double blind” “triple whatever” testing. However the mNRA vaccine should be used anyway just because.
Just a bit of morning sarcasm about our medical community.
JMO
As long as we can inject something into you, everything will be fine.
OMG thank you for the laugh.
😁🎯
Tedros should be in chains, and the U.S. should actively work towards the total destruction of the sleazy, communist WHO and its main benefactor, Bill Gates. Make WHO and Bill Gates extinct.
Exactly!
I am getting a strong feeling that another manufactured pandemic panic could result in massive mail-in voting, especially in blue states, which may enable the Dems to steal the mid-term elections. Moreover, scuttling the SAVE Act greatly facilitates election fraud. “There are no coincidences.”
Please refer to Gibb’s Rules #39 “and #40.
39–There is no such thing as coincidence.
40–If it seems like someone is out to get you, they are.
Gibb’s Rules hang in my kitchen.
Thank you! They are rules to live by.
Count on it.
And the USA got what for the $600 million per year in dues/contributions?
Leftists trying to corner President Trump into supporting the corrupt, leftist, globalist, useless WHO!
RFK Jr. Declares U.S. “Will Never Be Ruled” by WHO as America Finalizes Withdrawal – [your]NEWS:
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is drawing global attention after the United States officially completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, marking one of the most dramatic shifts in international public health policy in decades.
The withdrawal, originally initiated under President Donald Trump through Executive Order 14155 in January 2025, formally took effect in January 2026 after a yearlong separation process.
Kennedy and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement accusing the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, failing to implement meaningful reforms, and operating under inappropriate political influence from member nations, including China.
The move immediately ignited celebration among supporters of the administration who view the withdrawal as a major stand for American sovereignty and independence from global governing bodies.
Videos and social media posts circulating online amplified Kennedy’s forceful rhetoric surrounding the decision, including the message that America “will never be ruled by them again,” a statement that quickly became a rallying cry among supporters critical of international organizations and pandemic-era mandates.
The administration argues the WHO lost public trust during the COVID crisis by delaying emergency declarations, echoing Chinese government messaging during the early stages of the outbreak, and failing to fully investigate questions surrounding the origins of the virus.
Federal officials also cited concerns over proposed amendments to international health regulations that critics feared could open the door to expanded global authority during future health emergencies. Kennedy previously warned those measures risked threatening American constitutional protections, speech rights, privacy, and national sovereignty.
Under the withdrawal process, the United States halted WHO funding, withdrew personnel from the organization, and shifted global health coordination efforts toward direct partnerships with individual nations, private organizations, and independent health initiatives.
Supporters of the withdrawal say the decision sends a clear message that U.S. public health decisions should remain under American control rather than international oversight.
Critics, however, warn the move could weaken international disease monitoring, reduce global coordination during future pandemics, and isolate the United States from major worldwide health initiatives if these psychopathic Bond Villains ever think they want to try to kill 7 billion of us again and we have to start stringing them up from lampposts by the neck until dead, but in a nurturing and inclusive way.” …….
I quote from memory.
I can’t share my thoughts about Tedros, WHO, and the WEF on an open forum…but the short answer is !!NO!!
A reminder of what their now in-place agreement/treaty allows…
It appears that down in Argentina, on the outskirts of Buenos Aries, there exists a gigantic rubbish dump.
It is infested with rodents and scavaging birds.
It is reported that a Dutch guy who was a keen bird watcher – many of the passengers were also – went birding on this site.
He is/was patient zero as the saying goes, and he and his wife were the first to die.
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Alberta separatist group says it has enough signatures to trigger referendum vote on leaving Canada
A yes vote would not mean automatic independence.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/alberta-separatist-group-says-it-has-enough-signatures-to-trigger-referendum-vote-on-leaving-canada-00906087
I see no way whereby Canada and the UK allow Alberta to secede.
I agree, if Quebec which is French not English couldn’t leave how is Alberta going to pull it off?
For a province to secede from Canada, it must first hold a referendum where a clear majority of voters support independence. Following this, constitutional negotiations would be required between the province, the federal government, and other provinces to amend the Constitution for the secession to be lawful.
Canada absolutely is not going to allow them to “legally” depart.
However, this is the same question that periodically arises about Texas. People who go on and on about how it’s illegal are completely missing the point. The real question isnt what is legal. The question is how far is each side willing to go? Would the departing entity be willing to fight for their independence, and would the governing entity be willing to fight to keep them? Texas is not there yet. Is Alberta? And would Trump allow the US military to be their backstop?
Add in the question – “with what military” in the case of Canada…
Lincoln proved nations will go pretty far to preserve their union. Alberta’s problem would be that same as our South suffered. Lack of manufacturing. They won’t have the needed resources for the fight. It is also why the Whites lost to the Reds in the Russian civil war. The Whites won every major battle but lost because the Reds controlled the industrial heartland and had more manufacturing of weapons of war and money.
What is required for them to secede unlawfully?
A bunch of Virginia Democrat legislators are willing to consult. /s
Read my above post, it’s all there.
Quebec never wanted to leave, it was just an operation to extort more money and benefits, paid for by Alberta, through the federal government.
Also, I read an article (don’t remember where) that presented an argument that contended that the federalization of Canada was never legitimately completed to begin with and that the provinces already have complete sovereignty themselves; it seemed quite plausible to me at the time.
Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why Democrats Are Losing Power and What They’re Planning to do to Keep It (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/victor-davis-hanson-explains-why-democrats-are-losing/
An article about the “First Partner” (gavin’s wife). If gavin runs for president, it shouldn’t be a “hands off” approach when speaking / writing about his wife since she’s inserted herself repeatedly into progressive politics.
https://www.sodoesitmatter.com/p/jennifer-siebel-newsom-is-not-a-victim
If they’re stupid enough to nominate him as their candidate, it’s going to be a wipe-out. He and his wife are the richest target environment since McGovern.
Both of them are dumber than dirt.
My apology if I offended dirt by including it in the same sentence with this pair of grifters.
And as arrogant as Satan.
Yes California Democrats have other options than Newsom:
Newsome has some burned down credits too. Remember Paradise California burned homes to the ground leaving trees standing in spite of the fact it was a ‘wildfire’ too. Killed many in their autos trying to escape on the road out of town.
just sayin
“Want your lighter back?”
California’s ‘Billionaire Tax’ Could Reach Far Beyond Billionaires
Last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced it had gathered more than 1.5 million signatures — nearly double what it needed — to put a sweeping new wealth tax on California’s November ballot. The initiative is called the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act.
The name is designed to make you stop reading. Don’t.
SEIU has spent months positioning itself as the champion of nurses, teachers and caregivers. What it has actually done is run a $24 million campaign to put a measure on the ballot that could eventually be used to tax virtually any Californian who owns assets — with no return trip to the ballot box required.
The measure would impose a 5 percent tax on the total net worth of California residents worth more than $1 billion as of Jan. 1, 2026. Buried in the fine print is a provision allowing the California legislature to expand the tax — lowering the threshold, adding asset categories — by simple majority vote, without voter approval.
The Tax Foundation has warned that the measure’s design could push the effective rate on some taxpayers well above the advertised 5 percent.
SEIU leaders will tell you pensions and retirement accounts are excluded.
That’s true … for now. What the union won’t tell you is what happens to those pension funds when California’s investment climate deteriorates.
CalPERS — the pension system for California public employees — manages roughly $556 billion in assets and is already facing more than $179 billion in unfunded liabilities.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/californias-billionaire-tax-could-reach-far-beyond-billionaires/
Note to CA resident …. democrats have a really neat habit of redefining the term “wealthy” during past campaigns to raise taxes on the rich nationally and at state level.
In 2009, that definition rested in the $Billions … then dropped to the $Millions by 2012 and by 2016 had come to temporarily rest at $400,000 with some calling for a drop to $250,000.
Average price of a home in CA rests somewhere between $500,000 and $750,00.
If you own a small business, taxable savings instrument and any other “asst” deemed Taxable, the “assessed” value of these is added to your property value … and will be taxable.
Communists generally define “wealthy” as anyone who isn’t already sucking at the gubmint teat. It pisses them off to be irrelevant. Parasites aren’t at all picky when they redistribute *other* people’s wealth.
But God forbid they are expected to contribute one cent toward their own welfare, no less to support anyone else.
I just took a walk at the end of the Chicago North Western rail. This little town has been over-run by people who dont speak English, and have seven new cars/SUVs crammed in the driveway. The last remaining “locals” are all over 80. The invasion is complete.
This week, am seeing burka’s in my wally world…
Been seeing those and at Costco and Sam’s, too.
Yeah and packed with Indians from India!!!
It’s been like that around our area in WNY for awhile now. Our county supervisor is very quiet about where illegals are settled here. NYS as a whole keeps very quiet about where they settle them other than those that go to NYC. There are many more illegal immigrants in NYS than most people are aware of.
Like the reference to the C&NW…
I know both those areas, well. Pulaski, east, is pretty bad, too.
Don’t forget the new ‘little Palestine’ business enclave that is a little east and north.
From the Twitter post…
“Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.”
Agreed
It’s actually a long running plan to genocide Western peoples and their Christian-Nazarene civilizations. This goes back to the time of the Essene’s and before even that.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed President Trump never called him — but Trump provided call logs to Fox News’ John Roberts showing they spoke for 16 minutes on Saturday.
John Roberts: “Well, President Trump contacted me from Air Force 1 on his way to Fort Bragg, North Carolina… he said: ‘First call was not picked up. Second call, Gavin picked up, we spoke for 16 minutes. I told him to, essentially, ‘get his a$$ in gear,’ and stop the riots, which were out of control. More than anything else, this shows what a liar he is – Said I never called. Here is the evidence.’”
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2053236066732138515#m
Real world demonstration of the old saw, “if his lips are moving he’s lying.
MNN BREAKING NOW…
* SPEAKING AT AREA 51, BIDEN PROMISES TO FOCUS ON CALIFORNIA
WILDFIRES “WITH LASER-LIKE INTENSITY”Manufactured News Network: “They May be Wild and They May be Fires, But They’re Not Wildfires!”
WATCH—Canada has gone dangerously far in adopting the Muslim Brotherhood’s weaponized “Islamophobia” narrative. MB-linked activists and NGOs, including former Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood official Khaled Al-Qazzaz, helped shape Canada’s policies while receiving government funding.
Now many of these same groups are spreading hostility toward Christians and Jews across Canada. The infiltration of the West continues
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2053226000318640637#m
WATCH—China has formally ordered its companies to ignore U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil, issuing written guidance through its Commerce Ministry. Beijing is no longer hiding its defiance as tensions over Iran escalate globally
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2053223483560403205#m
Pres Trump should cancel his trip to Beijing
This strikes me as prep for the meeting.
The Strange Timeline Behind the Hantavirus Outbreak
China may have a hand in this
Speed up by clicking gear icon and watch in fast mode. 1.5/2.0
Greetings Treepers! 👊✝️👊❤️🫵
morning sir
Good Morning Frank.
I’ll just leave this here…
{ Furious Democrats in Tennessee move to SECEDE Memphis from the state because they’re so angry Republicans redrew the Congressional map… }
LOL Memphis is not capable of governing itself as a city let alone a state. Nor is any other blue city. The idea that they could survive without the rest of TN is absurd.
If I’m Tennessee…I’d say good riddance…no State would want them anyway…
The Democrats gerrymandered a “Black” district to have this clown be their congressional Rep. Complete Circus act. The Democrats use Black people while looting and trying to destroy Heritage America. I’m surprised we are not seeing more memes about this “Black” Democrat gerrymandered TN district having Steve KFC Cohen as their Congressional rep.
As was shared yesterday, the current rep for that area is a white boy (Dim) and the Republican candidate is a black woman. So that dude can take his racist claptrap and shove it.
Further, if he wants to “Let his people go”, I suggest United Airlines. They make regular trips to Africa…
Chinese EVs Absent From U.S. Roads, But Parts Under The Hood Are Alarming
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-evs-absent-us-roads-parts-under-hood-are-alarming
Austrian Hotel Defends Burkini Pool Ban As Hygiene Dispute With Muslim Guests Heads To Court
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/austrian-hotel-defends-burkini-pool-ban-hygiene-dispute-muslim-guests-heads-court
‘An Epic Madness Burns In The Minds of Californians…’
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/epic-madness-burns-minds-californians
Intel Leak: Russia Mulled Giving Iran Un-Jammable Drones To Fight US Forces
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/intel-leak-russia-mulled-giving-iran-un-jammable-drones-fight-us-forces
I would consider that, presumptively, to be “Fake News.”
My suspicious cat merely opened one eye and yawned.
Meh. We give Ukraine stuff to fight Russia. Sometimes it’s to clear inventory of outdated platforms. Sometimes its to battle test new things. Even if true, a total non-story
Now ask yourself – with Russia in the middle of a large scale war with Ukraine, do you think they would send new, top-of-the-line drones to Iran – denying their own troops?
It’s nothing more than another red smear attempt and the kind of stupidity that comes out of the UK and EU.
If they can’t be jammed they can be shot down right? I don’t have a military background but I trust our Navy in the Hormuz Strait can handle any drone.
In Chicago, we thought they could never have a mayor worse than Lori Lightfoot, and they elected Brandon Johnson.
In New York, we thought they could never have a mayor worse than Bill DiBlasio, and they elected Zohran Mamdani.
In Los Angeles we think they could never have a mayor worse than Karen Bass, and …
Among those three cities, there might never again be enough people with common sense, and a tolerance for ideas other than their own to make a change for the better.
I don’t think “elected” is the literally-correct description of how the usurpers’ minions get into official gov’t. positions.
Shhhh.. we’re not supposed to know about election fraud and the Republican majority that refuses to address it.
Couple that with all of the sensible people fleeing places like NYC, Chicago, and L.A., and the flood of people not born in the U.S. to those cities, and you end up where we are now. As long as they get their freebies, they don’t care that the cities are nonfunctional. It reminds them of home.
WHO Inexplicably, Immediately Releases All Passengers on Hantavirus Cruise Ship Without Quarantine
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-05-08/who-inexplicably-immediately-releases-all-passengers-hantavirus-cruise-ship-without
Inexplicably? That’s because they want another plandemic! Sort of like all the Chinese with Covid traveling to Italy and America to get the spread going worldwide! Remember Africa had the lowest Covid infection rate because so many were taking Ivermectin for river blindness! JMO
Not so inexplicably…
US To Revoke Passports Of People Who Owe ‘Significant’ Child Support
A passport holder who is abroad at the time of revocation will need to visit a U.S. embassy or consulate to obtain an emergency travel document that allows them to return to the United States, according to the State Department. They will also have to contact the state where the child support is owed to pay off the debt, it added.
“You are only eligible for a limited-validity passport for direct return to the United States until HHS verifies repayment of the debt,” the website said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-revoke-passports-people-who-owe-significant-child-support
If Only There Was an Explanation 🤔
@nypost
67% of voters say New York’s cost of living is out of control: poll https://trib.al/zlsSwpe
It is… that’s why they are waiting for Mamdami’s free stuff…after visiting last weekend…they are all in as hardened libs…
Clowns like this ‘representing’ a gerrymandered Black Democrat district in Congress. The absurdity is way beyond a circus clown.
They should have put a Democrat KKK hood on him
“Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.” (or for them) This article is a great exposure of the Hegelian Dialectic False (Uniparty) binary system which PDJT & the Trump Republicans are up against
Looking For Someone To Blame? Try Congress
https://www.plaintalk.net/local_news/opinion/article_751a1a72-f54d-11ef-a025-9f572b84f08e.html
Clowns like this ‘representing’ a gerrymandered Black Democrat district in Congress. The absurdity is way beyond a circus clown.
“Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.” (or for them) This article is a great exposure of the Hegelian Dialectic False (Uniparty) binary system which PDJT & the Trump Republicans are up against
Looking For Someone To Blame? Try Congress
https://www.plaintalk.net/local_news/opinion/article_751a1a72-f54d-11ef-a025-9f572b84f08e.html
Only 67%? The other 33% must be getting the ‘free’ stuff.
JMO.
Who? Who? Who let the virus out on the cruise ship?
Well, it is obvious, the agents of the W.H.O. did it.
What’s a few dead passengers to scare the USA from quitting the W.H.O?
Sure won’t work with President Trump’s administration.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
This entire current hysteria was started by two elderly Danish loons who decided to go visit a rat-infested landfill in Argentina.
Only a terminally stupid leftist loon takes an ocean cruise — to visit a landfill.
They’re both dead, so it’s a self-correcting ideology.
But the WHO and wicked globalist left will try and stoke the hysteria for all its worth with the dim-witted mask idiots.
101% right, OS!👍🏻
“Human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus (ANDV) was first claimed to have occurred
as part of the 1996 outbreak in southern Argentina,
and since then a number of studies have reported more cases and suggested
the involvement of this form of transmission in both Argentina and Chile.
Importantly, however, there have been no reports of human-to-human transmission
from Europe, Asia, and most countries in the Americas where the disease exists,
and other studies in Argentina and Chile did not find evidence of it.
The balance of the evidence does not support the claim
that human-to-human transmission of hantavirus infection occurs.
Well-designed cohort and case-control studies that control for co-exposure
to rodents are needed to inform public health recommendations.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9574657/ (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9574657/)
bottom line, nobody really knows if human to human transmission of ANDV is possible.
those stating definitively that it IS are not being truthful, either intentionally or out of ignorance.
far more likely, as the review states, is that these cases resulted from co-exposure to rodents.
granted, an engineered virus might behave differently,
but there is no factual data to support that, either.
if you want to scare YOURSELF silly, that’s one thing.
but trying to scare others, for whatever reasons, is irresponsible and malicious.
better to read up on preventive measures which apply to ALL hantavirus strains to avoid exposure.
(to clarify: i would characterize the W.H.O.’s motives, for example, as malicious –
they WANT something that has nothing to do with the facts of the case so far.)
Not just your opinion, dear Cactus….
The Covid years and what followed have sharpened the senses of all of us. Well,the senses of most of us I’m betting, who can now spot malicious evil. Too predictable really, as the inhuman monster Billy Gates has been warning us of his plans to finish what his mRNA “vaxxxxine” didn’t with an even “worse plandemic”.
He should have picked something more believable than this obscure virus, the likelihood of contracting which is magnitudes less than being struck by lightning. So says Dr Drew whom I don’t follow but caught describing.
Or put another way…
To be honest, don’t care if it was the most contagious virus in existence – would still tell them to stick themselves where the sun doesn’t shine…
Nor do I care, Harrison.
Their game is so obvious. Tritely, we’ve seen this movie before.
I am with you.
WATCH—China has formally ordered its companies to ignore U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil, issuing written guidance through its Commerce Ministry. Beijing is no longer hiding its defiance as tensions over Iran escalate globally.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2053223483560403205#m
morning Treepers…………………….be well
💪😎
Thank you!
Wonderful picture! be well!
Morning bjorkdream
Love this. Delightful.
Thank you.
Have a blessed day.
Just want to pass along Happy Mothers Day to all Mothers. Thank you for all you do.
+ + +
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 in the West Bank, from the Evil One and his servants.
+ + +
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)
Flailing Democrats pushing to redefine ‘election’ in appeal of Virginia loss
https://www.wnd.com/2026/05/flailing-democrats-pushing-redefine-election-appeal-virginia-loss/
The Virginia Supreme Court struck it down because the state’s constitution requires an intervening election between two legislative votes on such an amendment.
The legislature, last year, took its first vote on the dispute after early voting already had started in the election.
So the Democrats, who long have argued that elections should be flexible, what with early voting, absentee voting, in-person voting, late voting and such, now all of a sudden are insisting that it actually is an “election” day.
LOL, when the Democrats can’t cheat they want an ELECTION DAY! Not and election month.
Hantavirus risk
Dr. John Campbell
Reports US has hit four tankers while waiting for Iran response on one page proposal to end conflict.
More “Love Taps”? US Reportedly Struck 4 Iranian Tankers As Qatari LNG Tanker Traverses Strait | ZeroHedge https://share.google/LxZeU3kS94aNW8pFw
The Paris Statement of 2017
The True Europe
This is an affirmation of European Christian civilization from conservative intellectuals and scholars.
36 short paragraphs
25 languages
https://thetrueeurope.eu/a-europe-we-can-believe-in/
It would be nice if this recognition of Europe’s real contribution to the world spread through their countries and ignited a MEGA movement.
It would be, except much of Europe has been traumatized and demonized for the Wall St funded National Socialist movement into being guilted into apathy-inaction to save themselves. The mental illness psyop of Liberalism does that rather well. Liberalism is really totalitarianism behind a mask of false compassion
“The Liberal urge to ‘save’ humanity is a false front to control, plunder, enslave, and genocide humanity”
I have never heard of Oswald Spengler, but that quote makes me interested; it also highlights how the left infiltrates and changes language to further their goals. In this case, the changing of the meaning of classical liberalism from its root of liberty to today’s meaning of complete submission to a list of propaganda positions designed solely for our enslavement.
Germans have suffered even more so than many other Europeans, dating back to at least Fredrick the Great, as fodder in the banksters battle for domination.
Thanks for posting Colkitto.
My pleasure sir.
In a quick scan of WSJ/Bloomberg this morning neither mention the Obama/Carney confab.
Maybe nobody gives a sh!t or they are trying to hide the blatant Logan Act violation.
This is how they’ve done it, for five decades. Long article but explains much.
https://www.malone.news/p/penetrating-the-cabinets?publication_id=583200&post_id=196894016&isFreemail=true&r=1b7pya&triedRedirect=true
Maybe, but “ mental health awareness day “
would also be appropriate.
🥂
🎯
October 31st is also appropriate – they should all be over-the-moon happy they get so many days of recognition for all parts of their shattered psyche & multiple personalities.
But of course… nothing makes one of those Happy so they’re just lost-in-space; Because…
the failure to accurately identify the root cause – the core issue(s) – of the unhappiness & mental torment, means always every remedy is aimed at the wrong target;
which defines the entire “mental health industry” accurately. Another pHARMa-based religion, right there.
Individuals insisting on They/ Them pronouns are appropriately admitting – confirming – their multiple personality disordered broken-mind functioning;
the actual solutions to the plight(s) are ignored & suppressed as hard as possible.
It’s a feature not a bug of the for-profit “healthcare” industry.
Seems clearly obvious to me.
Medical Stockholm Syndrome is real.
2h ago
NEW: Irans National Security Spokesman Ebrahim Rezaei to President Trump: “The Best Course Is to Surrender” “As of today, our restraint is over. Any aggression against our vessels will be met with a heavy and decisive Iranian response against American vessels and bases. The clock is ticking against the Americans’ interests; it is to their benefit not to act foolishly and sink themselves deeper into the quagmire they have fallen into. The best course is to surrender and concede concessions. You must get used to the new regional order.”
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2053429522859532624#m
Bomb the crap out of them
نوید محبی
@navidmohebbi
32m
The regime is more emboldened than ever and believes it holds the upper hand. It sees the U.S.’s reluctance to go to war and assumes that, as long as regime change is off the table, it can survive another round of conflict. A credible regime change option must be on the table to put the regime back in its place.
https://nitter.poast.org/navidmohebbi/status/2053458326227214550#m
They have gone from ridiculous to strait up comedy sketch.
It is what they Believe. Is my guess.
Cultists are gonna cult, and the 12th Imamers of the IRGC are definitely cultists.
Time for a little FAFO bomb run from the B-52’s.
“So, they [appear to …] surrender.” Their holy books talk about that. Right where they also talk about lying to the infidel.
There’s one way out of this: “you HAVE TO beat the sh&t out of them.”
This culture doesn’t understand diplomacy. Read the “boring middle-eight” of your Bible. If you beat the sh&t out of them, then they will (briefly …) respect you. If you don’t, or if you stop, then “Allah has delivered you into their hands.”
They know how to play the game. IMO: There is not as much fracturing of the IRGC as President Trump is told.
This is my take.
The IRGC knows that a deal cannot be made if the US does not know who is in charge. There is no way to make a deal if there is no unity. Hence, good IRGC vs bad IRGC.
One group lies and says they want peace and begs for more negotiations. The other continues to attack. In reality they are both the same IRGC. They know they can play the U.S. this way to drag things out until at least the 2026 election. The IRGC hopes that Dems win and President Trump is forced to end the operation in defeat.
I hope that President Trump makes up his mind that they have no real intention to surrender even if it looks like things are close. How would the final agreement be enforced if they are still playing the game?
We have a great Commander in Chief, but his desire for a peaceful conclusion as things stand has a slim hope. I surely hope I am incorrect in this hypothesis.
They just cannot shut up. Why do they bluster and lie like this? What does it gain them? Somebody needs to explain how they are getting anywhere with this kind of speech except for delaying the inevitable.
This needs to end, imo, but what do I know about the inside plans really. It’s costing everyone involved in playing these ridiculous Iranian games a lot of money and time. It’s also become quite annoying to see and hear the Iranian tactics being employed over and over to no end. Just shut them up for a change.
British Army launches parachute aid mission on Tristan da Cunha to treat Hantavirus victim – as passengers on rat virus-stricken cruise ship disembark in Tenerife amid protests from locals
Meanwhile, a specialist team from the British Army have been parachuted on to the British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha – the world’s most remote inhabited island – with medical personnel, aid and equipment to treat the Briton suspected to have hantavirus who disembarked there.
The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius on to the island, where they live, with a suspected case of hantavirus.
Six paratroopers, an RAF consultant and Army nurse from 16 Air Assault Brigade parachuted, while oxygen supplies and medical aid was dropped on to the remote island, which is normally only accessible by boat.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15805221/Hantavirus-stricken-cruise-ship-arrives-Tenerife-despite-protests-officials-prepare-evacuate-passengers-fly-home-quarantine.html
Some of us have been expecting them to try this again
That’s all the British Army is good for these days…from ruling the World to now parachute in to help one Brit with medical supplies…a dangerous mission…
Archie Bunker was right…
Good grief! They are really this stupid. Losing any respect I ever had for GB quickly.
EXCLUSIVE
IRANIAN MONSTERS
I witnessed unimaginable horrors in Iran’s torture dungeons including screams of rape victims – guards threatened to execute my brother in front of me if I didn’t sign false confession
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15797791/I-witnessed-unimaginable-horrors-Irans-torture-dungeons-including-screams-rape-victims-guards-threatened-execute-brother-didnt-sign-false-confession.html
“Our battle is not against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in regions above.” [Eph.6:12] Jesus/God conquered death for us, through his crucifixion death and resurrection, for every human who confesses with their lips that he is Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead. [Romans10:9-10] He will come again to reclaim the earth and reconstitute Eden the way he originally intended, ruling with his glorified human believer/imagers and divine imagers. “Do you not know that the believers will judge the world? Do you not know that we are to judge angels?” [1Cor.6:2-3] “God planned it before all ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age knew the mystery; if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.” [1Cor.2:7-8] The spiritual forces of darkness continue to fight to keep their influence over nations and draw as many humans as possible away from believing in Jesus. Peace
@Electroversenet
22h
A new Science Advances study shows offshore wind turbines actually warm the sea surface.
Spikes near as much as one degree Celsius, which is as large as natural summer variability. Turbines slow the wind, explains the study. This weakens mixing, shuts down upwelling, and in turn traps heat at the surface.
The warming appears within days and spreads tens of kilometers from the wind farm. These warm waters then heat the air above, creating extra upward heat flux and a more unstable boundary layer.
Stack this onto bird kills, sediment disruption, underwater noise and microplastic shedding, and the picture is clear: Offshore wind isn’t solving an environmental problem, it’s becoming one.
https://nitter.net/Electroversenet/status/2053127862501453959#m
Scorecard: Day 476
How long does / should it take?
Two years?
Three years?
When is it too late?
Tulsi forwards criminal referral to DoJ on Eric Ciaramella (CIA) and Michael Atkinson (ICIG). {day 451}
Bondi Fired, finally
Convictions… ???
Still waiting.
Promises, promises, promises.
Clock is ticking
Things that still haven’t been accomplished:
No corrupt trials overturned
No corrupt judges held accountable
No FISA court abuses corrected
No prosecution of ACT Blue
No prosecution of Ilhan Omar
No prosecution of Adam Schiff
No prosecution of Comey, Brennan,
No Huma Abedin laptop.
No Hunter Biden laptop.
No Seth Rich files.
No Benghazi files.
No USS Liberty files.
No Deep State actors convicted.
No Justice for Tina Peters
No Justice for Ashli Babbitt
No Autopen prosecutions
No Autopen signatures overturned
No corrupt judges held accountable (listed this twice for reinforcement!)
Fort Knox gold question (why silence?)
2020 election fraud still stands
Ukraine money laundering continues
Ukraine war continues (Victoria Nuland’s role?)
January 6 government collusion
Who is funding Minnesota insurrection?
Day 250: SCOTUS rules Trump can withhold foreign aid
Day 234
– Charlie Kirk assassinated
Day 194:
– corporation for public broadcasting shuts down, PBS & NPR continue.
– Tulsi exposes 2020 election fraud, Feds covered up.
Day 181: Tulsi Gabbard issue statement containing words “treasonous conspiracy, years long coup, manufactured intelligence“.
Day 135: DoJ starts investigating Biden’s auto pen pardon scandal
Day 96: Pam Bondi admits thousands of Epstein videos showing underage girls being abused (April 28)
===remember=====
Deep State actors. (Fauci, Christine Grady, Terry Adirim, Miles Taylor, Chris Krebs, Brennan, Holder, Garland, Mayorkas, Schiff, etc.)
(Merchan, Erdogan, ‘34 felony’ convictions)
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“The issue is not Patel or Bongino’s intent or motivation. The problem is their ability.”
“(they are low competence, high motivation)”
“Kash Patel is to the FBI as Pam Bondi was to the DOJ.”
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“Attorney General Pam Bondi is not failing President Trump because she is incompetent.
AG Pam Bondi is not failing because she was always unqualified for the position.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is failing to hold corruption accountable because she intends to fail.”
Just running the clock out on Trump. The GOP senate would have never approved Patel if they thought he was going to reform anything. They (GOP) spent years getting things where they are today. No way anyone is changing that. Not even Trump.
@jjauthor
13h
Why does Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama have a Deceased Connecticut man’s Social Security number?
https://nitter.net/jjauthor/status/2053267346265903149#m
Obama is a CIA psy op. Just like madami is now. Both have dads or granddads who were in the CIA and are designed to sow dissent to help usher in a 1 world government . Crazy right? I know and would have thought it was crazy before Covid was unleashed on us! Now I’m awake like many others
https://nitter.net/PittsburghJohn/status/2053469091042652396#m
I agree completely. Its been a long running plan and many Pre-WWI moves were made to set the table for their WWI theater Operation.
If Sundance ever does a thread again, about Barack Obama’s background, I might retell the story of meeting him in 1983, and relate what he told me about his history. And I will share a photograph I found, of his mother and his real father together. It had been hiding in plain sight but not identified as such. The problem is he has not told the truth about his patrimony, and the truth can’t help but hurt him. He should take an opportunity to reveal the truth himself.
I am frankly grateful to Barack Obama, for helping to elect President Trump. It was Barack Obama, who threw Joe Biden under the bus in 2024, by forcing him into an early debate that showed the American people their president was completely senile. Someone had stirred a little discord between the two, and Obama did not trust Biden any more. Vengeful about the debate, Biden then endorsed Kamala Harris, the worst possible candidate for the Democrats, to get back at Obama who wanted an open convention. It all worked out splendidly for President Trump.
Should we care, if Barack Obama talks to Mark Carney? The futility of it says no. Nothing can stop the demoralization that is coming for Canada and the liberal European states. The Bush-Clinton-Obama world order is so much water under the bridge. No use trying to paddle upstream against confluence with the Trump flood.
enjoyed the read.
This was part of the oppositions investigations into Barry when he was running along with his place of birth and parentage. It was quite the story. Plenty of info in archives when searching for it all. The Hawaii connections are particularly interesting. Lawyer Leo Donofrio had some great arguments with folks on the Obama side about natural born citizen status and what it means in the Constitution.
The social security number anomaly was never answered to my knowledge.
Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms here. Hope you and your family have a blessed day.
My thoughts today are about President TRUMP’S attempt to bring about a Golden Age in America, and how that obviously depends upon our younger generations today, in whom I, as a retired teacher of German, Latin, Ancient Greek, and History (Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Europe and America), still have great interest. My route may seem circuitous at first, but stay with me!
Over 30 years ago, a movie appeared called The Sandlot, which depicted the adventures of baseball-loving boys in the 1950’s. Much like Peanuts or the short comedies from the late 1920’s and early 1930’s called The Little Rascals, adults in The Sandlot were either not present or were tangential to the story, i.e. much like my own childhood in the 1950’s, when, apart from school days, you left the house and returned only for lunch and supper for most of the day.
You rode your bicycle everywhere in the neighborhood (and maybe farther than your parents would have liked!), formed your own baseball or football teams without adults around, invented scenarios about re-fighting World Wars I or II or even new scenarios about Russian invasions for World War III, or had Wild West adventures, Tarzan-style quests through jungles, and so on. Girls had their own activities, of course, and only occasionally might be included in the masculine games and historical events.
When The Sandlot appeared, and for many years afterward down to my retirement in 2022 (in my 70’s), I was always struck by the reactions of my students to the film, at which they simply marveled, because it showed a kind of childhood which they did not have!
The film seemed to show children experiencing Life in another dimension or another planet: children freely roaming the streets, creating their own teams, playing on swings, slides, spinners/manual merry-go-rounds, with adults rarely around and certainly not interfering in their games and fantasies. Both my high-school and grade-school students looked at The Sandlot and at, if they happened to catch them, The Little Rascals comedies, with a certain wistfulness and even melancholy: Was it really like that when you were a kid? Well, in essence, yes it was.
In 1980 (note the date), a professor named Neil Postman wrote a book called The Disappearance of Childhood. His thesis was simple: with the rise of cable television and the R-rated movie and a few other factors, Childhood had changed drastically backward to the kind of non-childhood in the Medieval Era, i.e. Postman defined childhood as being delineated by Types of Knowledge.
Modern Childhood was very young, in his definition, when in the 1800’s adults slowly developed the notion that children in a technological age should be educated much better than usual and that focusing their minds away from the adult world was an advantage to their education and development. Specifically, Knowledge of Sexuality and World-Wide Violence needed to be severely limited, until children became adolescents and could be introduced to certain truths.
Medieval and early modern children were not shielded from anything in the adult world: living in cramped quarters and even one-room houses, they easily picked up on the sexual activity of their parents (or others). Public executions were considered entertainment and also learning experiences for children. Children were usually put to work at a very early age, either on the farm or in the new factories and even in mines. They were not in school at all or very much and were not engaged in uneconomic play. Postman concludes that because of these and other things, those children were basically little adults.
The Disappearance of Childhood did not know about the Internet, but it would have added a huge amount of fuel to Postman’s fire. Surveys show that children as young as 10 or even younger have watched “hard-core pornography” while surfing the Internet, despite efforts (obviously feeble) to prevent that. Postman also did not know about the Cell Phone, which became ubiquitous around 2010, which also offers a small window constantly into “The Virtual World” and which – if parents have unwisely given their children such a phone (and most of them have!) – prevents the child from concentrating on anything real around him or her.
Some recent books – descendants, so to speak, of The Disappearance of Childhood – have appeared to show the effects 40 years later of such technology on the last two or even three generations. The titles are self-explanatory: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, Childhood Unplugged by Katharine Martinko, The Coddling of the American Mind by Gregory Lukianoff (and co-author Jonathan Haidt), and in particular, Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy.
She had been nationally ridiculed on major networks for allowing her child to ride a New York subway alone:
“When I wrote a column for The New York Sun on “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Take The Subway Alone,” I figured I’d get a few e-mails pro and con. Two days later I was on the Today Show, MSNBC, FoxNews and all manner of talk radio with a new title under my smiling face: “America’s Worst Mom?”
“Yes, that’s what it took for me to learn just what a hot-button this is — this issue of whether good parents ever let their kids out of their sight. But even as the anchors were having a field day with the story, many of the cameramen and make up people were pulling me aside to say that THEY had been allowed to get around by themselves as kids– and boy were they glad. They relished the memories!”
See: https://www.freerangekids.com/about/
Some of the books above detail the neurological research done on children’s brains and the psychological research on their behavior, and the results are less than favorable: the loss of a 1950’s style “free-range” childhood, and the rise of online-cellphone-video-game childhood, has led to rises in depression, anxiety, and suicide in the younger generations.
Haidt mentions the rise of “Safetyism” in his book: Mrs. Ausonius and I had noticed this in the 1980’s because of two “Panics,” both of which turned out to be hoaxes. One was about Halloween, with reports about lunatics passing out apples filled with razor blades, or poisoned candy, etc. The other was worse: day-care centers accused of not just child abuse, but even Satanic rituals against children.
Some people, who ran day-care centers in Texas (The Keller Case) and California (The McMartin Case), were convicted of crimes against children and spent years in jail based on the fantasy-filled testimony of Kindergartners! (Eventually, the Truth literally set them free, but their lives had been ruined.)
One of the results was the rise of empty playgrounds, especially in large cities. Since the later 1980’s, playgrounds and sidewalks have been desolate: no children anywhere at any time, unless you happened to see a parent running next to a young child trying to ride a bicycle, or if a well-organized and well-supervised T-Ball or soccer game was happening. Another result was the rise of “Trigger Warnings” and their cultivation in high schools and colleges.
“Safetyism” really took off 6 years ago with The Chinese Wuhan Flu, and the mania about masks and “safe distances” and other idiocies.
“We just want you to stay safe!” became a mantra, and is still heard too often today.
The decline of “free-range childhood” led to a change in housing developments: gated communities (seen by Italian semiotician Umberto Eco as part of “Neo-Feudalism” or “Neo-Medievalism,” about which there are interesting websites q.v.), “neighborhoods” with no sidewalks, narrow streets filled with parked cars, no playgrounds, no open fields (except maybe a dog park), and no alleys, all areas where children might gather to play before the 1980’s.
To be fair, developers designed such places because families with children became a minority. Children since the 1970’s have been aborted or birth-controlled into a small part of American society.
However, Mrs. Ausonius and I have also noticed throughout the last 50 years that, in our experience, Free-Range Childhood does still exist…in the small cities, towns, and villages in rural areas. The fears found in Manhattan or Chicago, et al. do not exist in e.g. New Bremen, Ohio.
One realizes why so many people today in the U.S. Military hail from those small-towns and rural areas!
Fearful children will often become fearful adults: which institutions benefit from having a timid, fearful, risk-averse population?
Could one such institution be a Government, especially a dictatorial, Communist government? “We just want you to stay safe!” says the government, and you will be very safe in those chains around you!
And so, you can undoubtedly foresee my conclusion: for a Golden Age to occur in America, we will need fearless, creative, and independent adults, and the only way to achieve that goal, is to nurture fearless, creative, and independent children.
Parents must both shield in some cases and in others monitor their children in relation to the Internet and cellphones. They must foster imagination through books and non-video games and other such things. And schools do NOT provide such nurturing with a politically correct curriculum and constant “group activities.” No more “group” Science Projects or History reports: independent work is needed – where Failure is possible and Success is NOT guaranteed! “Staying safe” from bad grades is not an option!
I have not mentioned Religion so far, but as a product of Catholic schools through a Master’s degree, I will say that the morality and behavior cultivated from an early age by my Catholic religion helped me in childhood and beyond. Knowledge of Divinity is a necessity: Atheism shows a reprehensible failure of Imagination!
Thank you in advance!
To all the mothers here at The Conservative Treehouse, Happy Mother’s Day!
I am about your age and grew up in that same era. I lay the failure of our society really starting with the advent of the welfare society under Johnson’s Great Society. When they forced the fathers out of the homes so that the mothers could get benefits it just destroyed the families. Crime soared and people started locking their doors and changed their habits completely. Society has never been the same since.
“If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government” Dwight D Eisenhower 1949
We as a society have created prisons for our youth where to be risk adverse is to be hip in the modern world. The Marxist always target the children with the cell phone, where the demon always whispers in their ear.
Right on Ausonius. : )
I read an article long ago, true or not I cannot say now and I don’t remember where I found it, but it was a history of the cell phone and in particular the Apple company.
It seems Apple did numerous studies on how people would adapt and use the iPhones and whether the public would really like them. Well they found out people more than liked them. The test participants became addicted to them quite quickly. Apple was supposedly mulling over whether to tell these facts before releasing the first phones for sale. Apparently they decided to not release that study.
The rest is history as they say and we all know now what the cellphone addiction disease really is. Our kids have been the most harmed individuals from these phones and we the adults were the ones who gave them to our children after we were addicted to them first. A very shaky outcome from that technology for sure.
Yes, that is a major theme in one of the books mentioned, The Anxious Generation : the author dates the beginning of major rises in Anxiety, Depression, and Suicide – especially among adolescent girls – to 2010, when Apple introduced the i-Phone.
Your Post was nostalgic & magical for myself. I am 72 years old & remember my youth exactly as you describe it. Born & raised in NYC , Riding our bikes to The World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. Riding The Subway system to Yankee & Mets Games. Yes , it was Magical & SAFE ! Unfortunately , Liberals Took Away The Safety of my children . I would Never let them operate as my friends & I did . Criminals are Coddled now. Victims have No Rights. Criminals , Pedophiles & Freaks never experience Justice . There is No Deterrence Or Accountability for Bad Behavior. Yes , Lack of GOD in Schools , Judicial or Legislative Systems are a Great Loss for our Culture & Civilization. We should be very Joyful that we experienced , what Sadly , our children never will. God Bless America !
It seems as if the Communists, unsatisfied with phobias based on falsehoods, have worked to create Real Fear based on Real Dangers!
The normalization of Homosexuality and the push to normalize Pedophilia (e.g. the National Man-Boy Love Association), along with all the usual “Criminals Are Made By Racism/Poverty/etc.” judges, who give them early release, probation, community service, etc. have indeed made certain areas and cities dangerous today.
e.g. What sane person with children would live in San Francisco today?
Yes, indeed: God Bless America, Amen! We need His blessings more than ever to realize President TRUMP’S vision of a Golden Age.
It has taken c. 60 years to bring us to this turning point: let us hope that we turn toward an Age of Golden Achievement, rather than an Age of Rust and Failure.
Excellent post Ausonius. As a product of a ‘free range upbringing’, I can say you speak the truth. We ran through our neighborhoods and had a blast. We learned the art of getting free of bullies and how to make decisions on our own. We learned how to do many practical things for ourselves and we enjoyed each others company and imaginations. Our games were legendary, in our own minds. When we needed necessary boundaries, rules and corrections the adults stepped in and we got them. When we had questions we couldn’t find an answer to, adults were there for us.
School was a respectful place for kids and teachers. We learned manners and we learned compassion too. We learned to respect authority as needed. Teachers taught subjects and didn’t give social service time. When we were outside together we learned how to cooperate and solve problems and who was a good leader of our pack. We also did our own homework and projects. It was just a wonderful time in general to learn how to grow up.
Was it perfect? Of course not. However in comparing the childhoods kids get today and how we managed to grow up, ours was so much more useful, nurturing, educational and fun. No question. Why did it change? Many reasons for sure but technology certainly played a huge role and the lack of parental control over how their kids were allowed to obtain that technology.
Sundance ran an article yesterday on this meeting …. with participants describing themselves as a “Think Tank” (to promote cooperation among International Socialist Movements).
Keep in mind that Barrack Obama along with the Ex-Cabinet and Staff members from his and Joe Biden’s regimes are already EMPLOYED by a US Based Think Tank and Obama Foundation …. operating under the context Obama’s 2017 statement to “stay involved with US and International Affairs to promote the change he started 2009-2016.”
In 2017, Obama publicly acknowledge setting up a SHADOW CABINET to operate in direction opposition to President Trump’s Administration … operating in DC and his DC owned property.
In 2018, Obama’s SHADOW CABINET took on the EU, Iran and North Korea as clients with the publicly stated objective, “to instruct them how to deal with President Trump”. Recall John Kerry Kerry enjoying a coffee and pastry with Iranian diplomats in Paris during the Iran-Nuke Deal effort.
From 2017 to date, it has been publicly acknowledged by Obama as well as Ex-Obama AG’s Holder and Lynch that they periodically have meetings and lunch with Federal Court Judges across the US, to “discuss issues”.
In 2020, Obama publicly declared that “his people were in charge of the White House” (for the period 2020-2024).
The Think Tank and Obama Foundation have never disbanded and have now been “hired” again to “advise foreign governments in how to deal with President Trump’s administration”.
An investigation at least needs to be publicly started to do something to slow if not stop this effort.
There is a reason there are and have been so many Muslim-Socialist Parties and movements since the 1920’s.
To be implemented …. socialism and communism require a brutally totalitarian form of government headed by ELITES to be implemented and sustained.
Islam was founded as a political entity used as a basis for material conquest … parading as a religion by scabbing on the most popular elements of the Judaeo-Christian religions to create a false sense of commonality for those whom Islam forced to submit to it’s RULE.
Islam as the political system fits nicely with the social systems called socialism and communism. That is why so many brainless idealistic US Young folks have no problems working with and joining local Islamic movements … to include quite a few Young Women and Teens blinded by socialistic idealism who are never able to see beyond the blinding fanatical shades of idealism they wear while submitting to being turned into the property of their male companion.
The only way the spread of Islamic poison can be stopped in our current environment lead by elitists steeped in relativism and who believe they can actually control Muslims is to remove the cover granted Islam as being termed a religion … and including it in the dictionary as a political system that is akin to Marxism and fascism. Until this is done, Islam will continue to operate using modern Western Law as is it’s shield vs the very same Western Nations they are attempting to RULE.
While it makes great stories in the media, garners allot of political points and donations to “take actions to halt local Islamic actions” publicly … there is not single court in the land that will let stand actions taken vs Islamic movements trying to establish themselves in any community so long as that Islamic movement stays with the law as a defined religion.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there.
A new strain of the highly contagious and dangerous election virus.
I’ve heard there’s an antidote. Its called Save America Act. Keeps the nasties at bay.