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Thank you ed,
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.
Day 119 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
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
Onward Christian Soldiers!!
Canadian PM Carney approves new Alberta oil pipeline to Vancouver. The proposed bitumen pipeline aims to deliver approximately 1,000,000 barrels of Alberta oil per day to Asian markets.
The new pipeline will not reduce oil exported to the United States but is bringing one million barrels per day additional oil to the market from Alberta’s vast oil sands. 😎
Construction on the pipeline won’t start any earlier than September 1, 2027, with oil expected to flow to a port in British Columbia by 2033 or 2034. And that is if environmental and indigenous lawsuits don’t gum up the works. So that isn’t going to help the Asian markets for many years.
The article mentioned that the pipeline would be operational by the end of 2027. FWIW
that just can’t be right. Even if they started construction today it wouldn’t be ready for several years.
That sounds more likely.
Got a link?
So the Chinese get the Oil Instead of the U.S.
From CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-pipelines-projects-changes-mou-9.7190522
Possibly Japan and South Korea.
Pie crust promise… easily made and easily broken.
But only because Premier Smith agreed to a massively increased Carbon Tax and the inclusion of the Pathways initiative to capture CO2 and store it underground.
These inclusions are how Carney ensures that he’ll personally make millions because of Brookfield’s investments in them.
But they will also result in this oil costing up to $50 per barrel (some sources say less) more than our competitors, so it’s highly unlikely that proponents will be found to build the pipeline.
https://nitter.net/ryangerritsen/status/2055673258616160678#m
And there’s pushback from this apparently First Nations group. Although it’s actually a foreign funded activist group with no actual Canadian First Nation involvement:
https://nitter.net/mario4thenorth/status/2055751190621933697#m
Talk of China buying oil/gas from U.S. must have lit a fire under the Canadian government. This is going to get comical; hope everyone is well stocked up on snacks.
A donut says that the Keystone Light pipeline gets finished and operating before that West Coast pipeline does.
Alberta will be in a good spot when they get both.
Isn’t Canadian oil that heavy crude stuff?
Where is it going to bee refined?
Funnier is that it still requires a lighter petroleum fraction and heat to lower the viscosity of the mostly bitumen mixture enough to make it flow in the pipelines at all.
Which is great for us in that the light sweet crude is fairly plentiful from hydraulic fracturing in the United States.
Petrodollars growing with increased production and international trade; economy on the improve for oil rich nations? A shift in ‘world’ leadership?
What’s it look like now that ‘climate change’ deadlines are now canceled? The old ‘world order’ resumed or a NWO even closer?
I’m more optimistic hearing ‘prayers’ coming out of DC; D.I.E. biting the dust, and the petrodollar economy.
If legal voting takes place in Nov.: I’d say We have a winning hand; Petrodollars, Prayers, Merit, and US getting the DC swamp swept clean.
God Help US
So much for that “net-zero challenge”, eh Canada?? Oh wait…it’s OK if you export the oil. 😉
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/environment/weather/climatechange/climate-plan/net-zero-emissions-2050/challenge.html
Good Morniong America, how are ya?
58 and heavy clouds after a good rain overnight. Badly needed here. a cooler week on tap but tolerable here in Fraudopolis,Mn.
It’s gonna be toasty here in ‘northern’ SC for the next several days with badly needed rain forecast for the end of week and into the weekend. Bring it on!
Jollyette….75 and due for rain…
Kankakee…”broken clouds” and due for rain…
Have a great day!
I am praising the Lord this morning because we got rid of Senator Cassidy. Our weather is wonderful, politically and real, lol.
Also because it’s crawfish season again!
And for the Conservative Treehouse.
I love you Aggiegirl!
Oh how I miss crawfish season in lovely Louisiana!
Northeast PA; Sunny, heading for 90 today, humidity high; time to think air conditioner for a few days maybe.
A sudden uptick in random shootings in Austin.
Did O-bummer come to town and leave his “democrat’s random-violence is ok” message for the young democrats?
“Austin police say that two suspects are now under arrest in connection with 12 shootings that left four people wounded during a rampage throughout South Austin, TX, on May 17, 2026.
One of the victims was a man walking his dog who was “shot in the back.”
“We are reporting multiple shootings throughout the area,” Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said at a news briefing.
”Two of them have been at two Austin fire department stations. These are occurring primarily in south Austin.”
Austin starting to sound a lot like Chicago.
And that is why I no longer go into “the city”….
The City of Austin is a dump…homeless, dirty with leftist policies to blame…leadership is awful, the police chief is a DEI hire and the DA won’t enforce laws because of “compassion” for criminals…suburbs are OK…
Austin puts out this “shelter in place” during the shootings…just another attempt to control people’s lifestyle…
It’s a crying shame that southern cities such as Austin have allowed these liberal woke crazy people to come in and destroy a once beautiful city. Ditto for Charlotte, NC. Everything that liberals/ Democrats/ socialists touch always turns to $h!t………… always!
Austin has always been a little lefty looney all the way back to the 60s. Heck, we had Jeff Friedman as mayor in the 70s – SDS (you old timers will remember the SDS) graduate. It is certainly worse today. What’s worse about DA Garza is that not only will he not prosecute true criminals, but he goes after the police instead.
The Red/Green bond.
WINSTON CHURCHILL:
“The influence of Islam paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
My thoughts on this are something like this: If everyone in the world were capable of living just like Jesus – and actually did live that way – we would live in a wonderful, happy world. On the other hand, if everyone in the world lived just like Muhammad, we would live in a hellish, violent, miserable world.
I don’t understand anyone who can’t see the difference. Our Christian God is all good, and good for everyone the world. Muhammad and Islam are pure evil – and their goal is the destruction of all that is good in the world. In my perfect world, Islam would be completely eradicated from planet Earth – forever – and Jesus Christ would rule – forever.
We are not God, but as men we have a responsibility to protect ourselves and those we love from evil on Earth, as best we can. The only way we in the United States can do that is by driving every single Muslim that lives in this country, out of this country, and never letting another one in.
How do we do this? I think the President already has the authority to remove those that he deems a threat to our way of life. Muslims are not here to assimilate, they are here to conquer, and that alone gives the President the authority to remove them. Some court is going to object? Screw the court, save the country.
The removal of all Muslims from the United States has to be done if we are to survive as a country. They are a cancer that will kill us all if they are not eradicated. Their presence here – by itself – is a tumor in the core of America. Combined with the communist D party, they are domestic enemies and the biggest threat we face in this country, now and in the future.
They must all be deported or removed by whatever means will save our American society. And we have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to remove these destructive, fanatical people.
Onward Christian Soldiers!
Very well stated. An evil, poisonous, cruel, heathen ideology straight from the depths of hell.
An excellent legal start would be to round up every single “imam” that preaches the takeover of the nation and dropping them in the middle of the Sahara desert (okay, the desert part maybe not – but they can be deported).
NEW YORK:
Muslims carry out prayers directly outside an all-girls’ Jewish school Why do they do this?
There is a mosque nearby.
There are actually TWO reasons:
1) The Islamic permission that establishes the rule that the entire earth is clean and valid for prayer. This comes from a famous saying of Muhammad regarding the unique characteristics given to his nation: “The earth has been made for me a place of prayer and a thing with which to purify oneself. Therefore, wheresoever a man of my Ummah (nation) is when the time for prayer comes, let him pray.”- Sahih al-Bukhari (335) and Sahih Muslim (521)
2) The idea in this particular instance of the Jewish school, however, is to intimidate everyone in the school, and everyone connected with the school and in its vicinity.
It’s a declaration not only that the Muslims are present, but that Allah is greater, greater than your god, and one day he will seize the domains of the false gods and give them to the Muslims.
This display is designed to frighten non-Muslims, and make them feel subtly threatened.
The specific command is: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” – Qur’an 8:60
When people know, and more importantly UNDERSTAND Islam, they can know exactly what is being asserted right under their noses.
Islam is only as strong as the west is WEAK
https://nitter.poast.org/MarkWRowley/status/2056139458945364197#m
“Why do they doe this…?”
Because they can.
Twenty five years ago, we were concerned of the issues related to those Islamic “freedom fighters”…
Now? Asleep at the wheel…the ‘soft jihad’ was predicted….
The soft jihad has been a succes…it was predicted, in academia, long ago, that the muslim faithful would use our Constitution against us.
We are there.
These a$$holes should be rounded up and charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Of course that will never happen in Mandamadingdong’s New York City. It nauseats me to see these vermin flaunt their ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and sub-human nature.
It is a declaration of supremacy.
Socialism is a ploy for the West to give its wealth to 7th century barbarians
Islam and socialism will not coexist for long. Yes they have teamed up to defeat the West but communist are godless and Muslims everything is god. Of course Islam is using the stupid communist and will eliminate them almost immediately if they ever gain power.
Remember the Iranian revolution? The liberals on colleges where instrumental in defeating the Shah. Has anything been heard from them since then? No. There are reports they were all executed after the revolution was won. I tend to believe that.
The ‘tactics’ of conversion to communism and Islam are exactly the same. They subdue/conquer together and then the ‘leaders’ settle in and control the population completely.
But who wins, Islam or Communism? They both demand total power. Islam to Allah as interpreted by the theocratic leader. Communism which denied God and replaces God with the State and the Party chairman is the Supreme leader.
If they ever win their alliance will become a civil war.
I think radical Islam will win, they are more committed to violence and terrorism and will never give up. The US Communist are not that brave or willing to die for the cause. Actually they are a bunch of cowards from the way they operate.
Sharia is communism. Islam is religion but also all consuming of it’s followers like communism.
Islam is the only bedfellow for communism. They are in total sync.
Persia had a large Christian population, it dwindled down to mere thousands; Iran persecutes Christians along with many other nations in the world. As Islam’s reach around the world grows.
https://globalchristianrelief.org/stories/countries-where-christianity-is-illegal/
Islam’s goal to get rid of Israel and the US are just one of the fronts Islam is fighting around the world.
God Help US
The NWO/Communism is spreading Islam for a reason. Obama’s Arab Spring was literally a spring board to the US.
I’d partly counter that Islam will not exist for much longer -least not in its current masked format as the “religion of peace.” Because we are in the Information Age and all mankind’s knowledge has been freely digitized, the only people still adhering to the tragically inconsistent gibberish that is Islam are actual supremacists. Those are the original tribal Arab supremacists, along with the arrogantly bitter tribal deniers refusing to admit they were conquered by them.
Finger pointing and blame game…Trump’s fault…
https://abc7ny.com/post/lirr-strike-enters-day-2-no-talks-scheduled-between-mta-unions/19117562/
My ‘adopted’ Grandpa, during the 50’s and 60’s was a huge union rep for the LIRR…before it was MTA…I wonder what he would have to say…?
Scroll to the bottom of this list…you will see Dashing Dan and Dashing Dottie, all masked up!
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrlogos.htm
M.T.A.
Kingston Trio
“M.T.A.”, often called “The MTA Song”, the song’s lyrics tell of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston’s subway system, then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). The song became a 1959 hit when recorded and released by the Kingston Trio.
Love that song.
No he’ll never return…
Thanks for posting…sang this during group singalongs at my summer camp in Michigan during the late 60’s…nice memories…
Cactus, I was 8 when this came out.
I could not figure out why Charlie’s wife didn’t include a nickle with the sandwich.
Just thinking,
And the class of ’57 has dreams
But living life day to day
Is never like it seems
Things get complicated when
You get past eighteen.
But the class of ’57 had its dreams.
Oh, the class of ’57 had dreams…
The Statler Brothers
The unions are asking for 5% for 2026. Inflation is likely to be about 3.9%.
It would probably be best to just overpay 1.1% and make up the cost by replacing high-maintenance equipment or by other means.
Primary Elections May 19, 2026 ——— TOMORROW, TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!
KENTUCKY — you have the honor to replace the turtle mc connell and throw out the manic massie.
Saturday, the Louisiana MAGA voters successfully threw out their RINO trash, RINO senator Cassidy.
We vote RINOs out in the primary elections, we vote democrats out in the general elections in the fall.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Great piece on what an egomaniacal failure Thomas Massie is…..https://lhgrey78.substack.com/p/thomas-massie-the-engineer-king-of?r=770m9o&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Make Tennessee whiskey great again!
I am not a whiskey connoisseur, but this article lists some other brands, besides Kentucky.
Not sure how they base their opinions, though…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemicallef/2025/03/25/the-best-american-whiskey-from-the-world-whiskies-awards/
Bourbon drinker here and the only TRUE bourbon as believed by bourbon purists comes from 4 counties in Kentucky on the Ohio River.
Don’t get me wrong I like Jack Daniels a Tennese whiskey too, but bourbons are my favorite.
Remember all bourbons are sour mash whiskey, but not all whiskeys are bourbon.
Recommended Brand names?
Cactus, I LOVE your daily reminder that “it is our duty!”
Thank you for it.
And God bless you today and always.
Let’s get Paxton in today, and for those in Denton County vote for Wylie for County Commissioner!
If McTurtle goes, Thune might loose his grip with the uniparty BS. Please let it be so!
Early voting started today in Texas. I got home about an hour ago from doing my part in voting to rid Texas of cornyn and chip roy.. Ken Paxton for Senator and Mayes Middleton for Texas AG.
DemScum candidate
The twerking trollip
Democrat congressional candidate ‘twerking for votes’ issues defiant response to critics
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15825757/Democrat-michigan-congress-shelby-campbell.html
Theyre bringing their best!
Can you imagine George Washington or Abraham Lincoln seeing this garbage and wondering what the H3LL has happened to America!?
I’m sure they are spinning in their graves as we speak.
Iranian men and women describe horrific abuse at the hands of regime guards specialising in ‘sexual torture’
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15675021/Iranian-abuse-regime-sexual-torture.html
They follow the Koran to the letter……..
Look what they did Oct 7 in Israel; tortured, sexually abused teenagers in public, then took captives and continued the assaults, filmed so the world could see. Terrorism is their middle name.
That’s how Muhammad waged war with infidels; they got away with it in many countries, too. They had asylum after all, what the heck!!
The U.K. let it happen until the gang rapes got to be widespread. White females are the biggest ‘prize’….
God Help US
Greetings Treepers!🌲✝️🌲
Howdy!
Three thieves attempting to break into a home in Florida were shot with fire from an AK-47 caliber weapon, that is, a Kalashnikov brand, by the homeowner! Police announced that under Florida laws, no charges will be brought against the homeowner.
https://nitter.poast.org/ImtiazMadmood/status/2056004839604441546#m
I just love a good story with a happy ending……. don’t you?
Nice story and video. But the same one from 2022?
https://nypost.com/2022/07/13/florida-sheriff-says-man-will-absolutely-not-face-charges-for-defending-home-with-ak-47-style-gun/
President Trump Tells Republicans to Pass the SAVE America Act NOW or Face an ‘Unrecoverable Death Wish’
https://wltreport.com/2026/05/16/president-trump-tells-republicans-to-pass-the-save-america-act-now-or-face-an-unrecoverable-death-wish/
Trump publicly ordered Republicans in Congress to pass the SAVE America Act immediately, telling them to use the Housing and FISA bills as legislative vehicles if that is what it takes to get it done.
He pointed directly at Maryland, where roughly half a million mail-in ballots were just revealed to be botched, as the latest proof that slow-walking election integrity is a losing strategy.
Veteran here – Each person’s freedom is a Gift from God (not the government as someone pointed out) – each citizen’s vote is a precious right protected by ALL of those who served and continue to serve (even -especially – old, retired Veterans;). It should be protected by those we elect to serve us. Name the names of those representatives who are still having trouble with this? It used to be simple common sense and something (unfortunately) We the People took for granted. Now We have a chance to secure it. Simple. Common. Sense…make it the Law.
Fake Pandemic – Mail In Ballots
A “theologian” I listened to on You Tube the other day said our Declaration and U.S. Constitution are at complete odds with each other. I say Poppycock as there is a diametrically opposed version of Liberty under God and liberty under sin. One cannot legislate sin because it was not done under God’s righteous liberty principles. “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Not freedom to sin against God.
“SAVE America Act”
Perhaps instead:
1. No ballot or equivalent for an election for the House of Representatives shall be issued with respect to a person who is not a citizen of the United States.
2. Violation of provision 1 shall be punished by a fine of $200/occurrence to be levied on the jurisdiction conducting the election, and also on the state of the jurisdiction, to be tripled if the ballot was issued was not contemporaneously transferred to the person.
3. If violations of provision 1 exceeded .5% of the total number of ballots and equivalents counted for an election of a federal constitutional officer, the President may prior to January 20, 2029 require the seat to stand vacant, each and every related voter roll to cleansed by the Federal Elections Commission down to only persons evidencing to the Commission of their US citizenship and entitled to have voted in the initial election, then frozen, and the election held over again.
4. After each federal election, each election database (voter rolls, registration records, voting machine data, etc.), certified by a custodian such as a supervisor of elections, shall be submitted to the Federal Election Commission in the manner and to the extent the Commission shall specify within 10 days after the time for counting has elapsed. The Commission shall make the information received promptly available to the Department of Justice. The information shall available under the Freedom of Information Act, subject to the provisions of that Act, for period starting 30 days after receipt and ending one year after the final day of the election.
5. Each jurisdiction having authority over the election shall provide such additional information and data sets as the Commission reasonably deems necessary.
NOTE: That doesn’t make it any more difficult for people to vote.
The internal Iranian regime narrative has shifted markedly in the past 72 hours.
Multiple officials have now openly acknowledged Iran’s structural gasoline deficit, war-damaged energy infrastructure, and the urgent need for consumption management.
Fuel shortages and tightened rationing are pushing drivers across the country into a rapidly growing gasoline black market. Citizens are describing hours-long lines at filling stations and sharply inflated under-the-table prices. a clear signal that the official quota system is breaking down on the ground. @IranIntl
On the export front, the picture is just as stark: Iranian crude exports have collapsed by more than 80% between mid-March and late April, measured against a March baseline of 23.4 million barrels. @Vortexa .
And there is no easy workaround. Iran’s overland export alternatives, via Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan, have a combined capacity of only 250,000–300,000 bpd. The math simply doesn’t work for Tehran. The cumulative picture: a regime now publicly conceding what it long denied, a domestic fuel market under acute stress, and an export channel with no viable replacement
https://nitter.poast.org/ImtiazMadmood/status/2055789637839561142#m
And a comment on the nitter notes they have bombed the places that refine their oil. Two ways of trade have to work for Iran. Export the oil and import gas and diesel.
From 2018…a sort of pictorial map of the North Slope Alaskan oil fields…
https://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Documents/Maps/ActivityMaps/NorthSlope/NS_ActivityMap_May2018.pdf
250,000–300,000 bpd….? Transport versus refinery…:
Whiting refinery, per AI:
recent operational data from 2024 indicates actual daily throughput has averaged around 346,500 to 435,000 barrels per day…
EGO consciousness is characterized by stress, fear, worry, racing thoughts, anger, revenge, tightness in the gut, confusion, forcesfully control yourself or others, lack of peace, lack of love.
GOD consciousness is characterized by “new type of breathing where you feel GOD is breathing YOU, SILENCE, PEACE, LOVE , … that is relaxing and calming … ONLY ONE VOICE that is WISE/POWERFUL and LOVING (not hateful, harmful, demanding,) … also has compassion for those caught up in EGO consciousness.
You can always switch between EGO and God, one feels GOOD and the other feels BAD.
You have as much time as you want to make the switch to GOD, but you might need to come back again, and again, and again … to move to GOD consciousness, YOU are a child of GOD and GOD will never give up on you. 🙂
WHO LOVES YOU … in your heart, soul and spirit …. you know WHO. 🙂
🙏💕
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
“RNC Chair Joe Gruters announces 130 LAWSUITS across 32 states to block Democrats from cheating in the elections — and MORE are coming”….
Cont….
Lawsuits? How about we just hold our breaths till were blue in the face and then stomp outa the room?
Baaaah, Baaaah, ………
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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 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)
Through CHRIST our LORD!
The more the mockingbirds try to silence, the more I want to listen to what the silenced have to say. Media can’t be trusted.
👍
100%
It seems a hedge fund called VR Capital owns the Ukraine. I wonder who its investors are?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-17/hedge-fund-vr-capital-holds-sway-in-ukraine-s-wartime-economy?
VR Stolen Capital.
or maybe
VR Robbed Blind.
Or maybe I’m thinking this wrong. Somebody has to sell things to all those government thieves.
Allot of names and links in the following wiki article.
Richard Deitz – Wikipedia
VR Capital is located in London … gee who else is in London.
The big thing is that VR Capital is a HOLDING COMPANY … i.e. it launders investments from banks and elites as well as MASKS the NAMES of the sources of those investments.
VR Capital is NOT a Hedge Fund.
Nice catch!
JMO.
Real Americans were MAGA / America First before it was popular.
Globalists, communists, democrats and RINOs never were and never planned to be MAGA / America First.
Self deportation is their best option as “visa-revoking” and “de-naturalization” are becoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s weapons of choice to remove the internal threat that they pose to America.
America’s Constitution isn’t a suicide pact …… there is no protection for treasonous, dangerous acts towards our Constitutional Republic, its Constitution or its citizens.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
..Cactus…if you do not know who is your real enemy…you never win WAR……
As a Classicist, I have been following the leaks about the Kulcher-War version of Homer’s Odyssey about to come to theaters in July.
If you do not believe that The World Communist Elite wants to erase Our Western Traditions, the evidence mounts against such disbelief.
The latest evidence comes via the HUGE outcry on the Internet against this movie version of The Odyssey from British director Christopher Nolan.
Out of the hundreds, if not thousands, of video commentators giving the basic pieces of anti-Western dynamite from Nolan in his twisted version, this man has one of the better titles:
“Cultural Erasure”
e.g. concerning ERASING “TOXIC MASCULINITY.”…
“By mutilating Achilles through the casting of a (5 feet tall, 100 lb. former female) transgender performer, this film severs the sacred, millenia-spanning lineage at its very mythic root.
It tells the generations of young men that the archetypes of strength, ambition, honor, and world-shaping heroism, which they once aspired to emulate, were never truly theirs to claim in the first place.”
In fact, I believe the situation is worse: it tells young men that aspiring to be strong, ambitious, honorable and heroic is simply wrong and evil!
Some years ago a book came out called The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers, which detailed the assault by the Communists against boys being boys to become men.
The attempts to “normalize” all sorts of Homosexuality is just part of this war.
Apparently Nolan’s Odyssey is another brick in the wall for imprisoning Men and turning them into Pee-Wee Herman or worse, Ellen/Elliot Page.
First, he did not use Homer’s Odyssey for his script: he used a “feminist re-imagining” of it by a woman named Emily Wilson. By no means can it be called a “translation.” She has turned the story into just another piece of fake, Communist agitprop.
Second, we have an African woman playing Helen of TROY! Just like with the completely ridiculous claim from decades ago that “Cleopatra was a Black Woman,” which still raises its lying head now and then, here is another ludicrous piece of racist agitprop from Nolan and The Communist Elite.
Third, we have this ridiculous and apparently mentally ill person called Ellen/Elliot Page playing Achilles!
Fourth, supposedly because “rap music is like ancient Greek poetry” (NO, NO! Not even close! Rap might be akin to ancient Greek doggerel scrawled on the walls of brothels and toilet stalls!) some Afro-American “rapper” appears in the movie also.
But, because Nolan apparently has an army of fans from his Batman days, the movie might make money.
It should not make one cent!
“This is social engineering at its most brazen and contentious. Hollywood is actively rewriting and degrading (our) European Heritage to demoralize and reprogram audiences, particularly the young, into believing that their foundational myths were never theirs to begin with.”
Again, I will quibble that his conclusion is not strong enough: Nolan wants his audience to believe that their foundational myths were not worth absorbing because they were wrong and evil!
This is similar to the bastardization of Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano was played by a midget and Christian was played by a black man.
This was my favorite movie and play. Jose Ferrer won the Academy Award for Cyrano in 1950. If you don’t cry at the end, you are without heart or mind.
True enough, although I’m rather hoping it doesn’t work with this one because that is just a crap translation and because it appears as though Nolan has really taken up the spirit of said crap translation — even the set design and costuming look like trash.
And people are noticing.
So rather than get upset (they want you upset), I’m more annoyed and willing to shamelessly mock.
Hollywood reflects California’s ridiculous collapse. All of it created by just silly stupid thoughtless “good intentions.” Tragic place to live.
Hollywood is dead.
I just won’t go see it or watch trailers. It’s like everything else coming out of hollyweird now – Trash and NOT worth spending money to see it. Heck, go bowling or to shoot some pool or something. Do something enjoyable that doesn’t give money to people who have no morals or values. If you HAVE to see a movie buy a used dvd where none of your money filters back to hollyweird people.
The Sheep Detectives was rather cute.
Thought I’d throw in this discussion of Cleopatra’s image.
There are quite a few images of her. Her coins, Roman art, and some depictions for Egypt.
The Coins are ugly Greek.
The Romans saw some beauty.
The Egyptian depictions are mostly discounted in this presentation.
Many other sources put coins and/or Egyptian images into the propaganda category.
This one even goes through her lineage, which has one or two holes, but is predominantly Greek with some Persian.
Hollywood shall belong to King Jesus, Amen!
Why Is The Left Triggered By My 7 Mountain Message?
Disgusting.
Young men can read the epic translated from Homer. The Nolan version is just a bad movie that will stink forever. I’m not worried “for the children” or about “abuse of history”. I think Matt Damon will be regretting what he got involved in. With the emergence of AI I expect the blowback to the stinker to be brutally real.
Early voting begins today for the Texas Primary Runoffs.
Do any Treepers have insight into the two Republican candidates in the runoff for Texas Attorney General, Chip Roy and Mayes Middleton? Info would be greatly appreciated.
Chip Roy is a weasel.
Does anyone have thoughts on RR Commissioner?
Ditto on your Chip Roy comment, he is a big NO!
As for RR Commissioner: Jim Wright, reelect him.
I have a little glitch when that name comes up.
I know, Wright?
I voted this morning for Ken Paxton for senate at 7:15 this morning and I hope to NEVER see cornyn’s name on any ballot ever again. Mayes Middleton for AG and Bo French for RR Commissioner.
Bo French….. the other,,,,,rino
but definitely mays Middleton, ya just cannot trust roy… he seems really in it for himself
Yes, and never forget he did not like Trump supporters!
I’m voting for Bo French. Wright is a rino.
Didnt Chip Roy BEFORE he was elected into DC attempt to oust remarkable AG KenPaxton? He joined all the Tx RINO Bushes to get rid of Paxton and they failed! VOTE KEN PAXTON. Forget ChipRoy.
Insight I have was during the State of the Union…our Lion enters the chamber…Chip Roy is standing on the aisle hoping for a photo op and is ignored by PDJT…
Enough for me…
Texas has produced some of the biggest scumbag politicians outside of South Carolina over the past 20 years.
Chip Roy is perhaps the biggest scumbag offender.
Middleton gives me the yips, but he would get my vote.
Mayes Middleton is endorsed by a large state-wide activist group called True Texas Project.
Very good and influential group.
Hope to help get Mayes over the finish line today. Pray he wins.
Oust Chip Roy.
And this is our chance to get rid of RINO John Cornyn.
crush..crush…Soy Ch*p…….
Don’t know anything about Mayes Middleton….
But Chip Roy has been a problem for Trump/MAGA in the past.
First, he openly stated that Trump completed an impeachable offense over January 6. The only reason he did not vote to impeach Trump waere because he had problems with the wording on impeachment document:
Rep. Chip Roy: Trump Committed ‘Impeachable Conduct,’ But Will Vote Against Impeachment As Drafted
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And second, Trump spoke against him in 2021:
Donald Trump denounces Chip Roy’s bid for U.S. House Republican leadership post: “He has not done a great job”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/13/chip-roy-leadership-donald-trump
FYI …..Trump has not endorsed in this race.
Trump’s Texas endorsements for May runoff elections
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/05/13/trumps-endorsements-ahead-of-texas-gop-primary-runoff-elections/89997222007
Not Soy Chip…please..antd vote for Paxton…..
Joseph Hidlebrandt
“According to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a recent speech on her Elect-Me-To-The-White-House-In-2028-Based-On-Nothing Tour, the American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. Now, I will admit it has been a minute since I was in school myself, but what the hell are they teaching in History and Civics classes these days?
Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence does Thomas Jefferson write an incoherent screed that rails against the British billionaires oppressing the proletariat of the colonies. Nowhere in the Constitution did James Madison write in the separation of wealth from the people who earn or create it. The American Revolution was very simply an anti-government revolt and this is plain in the construction of the United States Constitution.
Madison and the other Founding Fathers made sure it would be a very anti-government document that preserved and protected, but did not provide (since they are inherent) American citizens’ rights. The Founding Fathers did not rise up against billionaires and their oppression; they rose up against the oppression of the British Crown and its government over the people of the colonies of North America.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez supposedly graduated from Boston University, a very prestigious institution that currently bills its students around $90,000 a year for tuition and other expenses. Given she graduated a decade and a half ago with an incomprehensible degree in Economics and International Relations, I am sure it was a fair bit less. Yet, she somehow has made and continues to make bafflingly vapid, inane, wildly inaccurate, and sometimes dangerous mistakes in her verbiage that makes me question whether Boston University should have their accreditation revoked. There is no way someone should be able to graduate after blowing that much money on a double degree like that and be this consistently wrong and historically and economically warped from reality.”
I have no idea if anyone could be considered a billionaire of that time.
But, if anyone could be, wouldn’t the King be the top of the list?
Not to be funny, but it matters how you count things.
Much easier to be a billionaire, if you’re counting in pennies vs dollars and that is a only a hundredfold difference.
Rotchilders……
They should count their blessings that they got their start in a weak Germany and spread out to other European Countries. They set up shop in London in 1798. A little too late for AOC’s comments.
Earlier attempts to make loans to Phillip the Fair of France all got their money taken. Especially Jewish lenders. But he also took assets from the Lombards and of course he killed the Templars. So lucky to not have that abuse.
And who the heck named this greedy lout “Fair”?
https://www.timeref.com/people/philippe_iv_the_fair_king_of_france_1285_1314.htm
Education UNIONS do not teach ANYTHING anymore, except hate and retribution. Unions pocket BIG MONEY personally and fund DEMO-RATS. Rush described it for years.
Homeschool!
Alexandria Occasional Cortex
Didn’t she believe that Venezuela was south of the Equator?
A guiding principle of conmunism and Marxism is: “envy.” You, of course, are always the proletariat – never the bourgeoisie. So, you are the “have not” who is being trained to hate the “haves.”
But you are also never supposed to consider the social status of everyone who is preaching that to you. Without exception, those people are busy stealing anything that moves. 🤡
Some things never change. Listen to “millionaire Bernie” raging against millionaires. Or, how about the “on again, off again wealth” of you-know-who?
I’ve always appreciated that country song: “I know you’re lyin’ – your lips are movin’.”
I’d call it a manipulation, and a deception, not a principle.
Ever notice that when it all ended, the people, the workers, the farmers, etc owned NOTHING!
And guess where the Oligarchs came from?
Just another ruling elite, stealing everything for themselves.
HOLY SMOKES.
Karen Bass COLLUDED to get Nithya Raman running for LA mayor because she’s terrified of Spencer Pratt, and now privately ADMITS Pratt is surging
Bass now desperately hopes to force RAMAN into the runoff, because only the top 2 vote getters win
SPENCER WILL DEFY HER!
TMZ FOUNDER HARVEY LEVIN: “I spoke to somebody in Karen Bass’s office…I got some recon…she is more afraid of Spencer Pratt than she is her former employee who is now running against her, that she acknowledges the traction he has gotten.”
“She is much more fearful that he’ll come in second as opposed to her.” @SpencerPratt knew all along, Karen is terrified. In a 1v1, she may be COOKED. Force him through!
https://nitter.poast.org/EricLDaugh/status/2056179849782341644#m
Commie LA Mayor and sociopath CA Governor using FRAUD “climate change” to destroy CA has been successful. 2 million residents escaped and their North state forestry region is a GHOST AREA, while their South burns to the ground. Socialist/Commie wipeout!
The Dem run communist cheat machine will make the support for Pratt disappear after polls close on election day (month).
The HOLY SPIRIT gave this message to me on an earlier thread.
HE told me to reprint it here~
“It’s good vs evil”
In Truth it is not even God vs Satan–
JESUS CHRIST DEFEATED Satan 2000 years ago on the Cross!!
What are we fighting?? A DEFEATED enemy who ‘is like a roaring lion’??
NO!! We do not fight but stand behind our VICTORIOUS GOD Who is our Protector!!
We are to give Honor, Praise, Glory to a HOLY GOD! HE will guide us if we are humble, seek HIS Face, confess our sins! We have ‘this’ to do! Surrender to HIM!
We cannot win against the enemy without JESUS CHRIST leading us—
“Onward Christians Soldiers
Marching as to war
With the Cross of JESUS
Going on before”……..!!!
morning Treepers…………………..be well
Aaaah! Thank You, bjorkdream.
A little breath of peace and quiet.
No wonder Sasquatch lives there.
A peaceful day to you.
😍
Morning bjorkdream
Another absolutely beautiful picture of creation.
Thank you for the soul food.
Have a great day.
A country brook
within a nook
life most everywhere.
Below in shade
in grandeur made
a gift of peace most rare.
Morning all with a peck of peace.
Live long & prosper.
Good morning, Sundance, May 18th – 2026– AMEN! #
Most fans of El Rushbo (forever missed/RIP) will certainly remember his lead in music which was from the song: My City Was Gone by The Pretenders. The fourth stanza has the lyrics:
“I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride”
I drive the beautiful country roads through Ohio farmland from the Columbus area to the Lake Erie Islands and back most every summer weekend. Mt Gilead, Galion, New Washington, Attica and Bellevue just a few of the great towns along the way. Unfortunately in the past 12-18 months, my pretty countryside has been paved down the middle by Solar Farms. Hundreds or thousands of acres of the most fertile farmland in the state converted to satisfy the failed dreams of the Green New Scam.
These same towns will have banners on the light posts of all of their veterans who have given their lives in service to this great country. It makes me both sad and furious to wonder their thoughts at the “Gov’t that had no pride” to sell out their towns to the WEF/Globohomo.
Have the song on my playlist…brings back great memories of listening to Rush while attending the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies…in my car eating lunch during the noon hour…
Trump’s ‘Rededicate 250’ Prayer Gathering Highlight’s US Divisions
https://religionunplugged.com/news/2026/5/15/america-at-250-how-trumps-prayer-gathering-highlights-countrys-divisions
This is driving the Democratic politicians insane, but they can’t say to much against the country.
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Whitewashing & Corruption Surrounding America’s 250th Birthday
https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/ranking-member-huffman-blasts-whitewashing-and-corruption-surrounding-americas-250th-birthday
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Democrats called out Republicans for allowing Trump to hijack America’s 250th Birthday celebration to sell access, hide his donors, and rewrite history — turning the country’s founding anniversary into a party exclusively for billionaires and a platform for Christian Nationalism.
Of course it’s not about this Great Country and what it has accomplished, they make it all about President Trump again. And the Democrats are suddenly worried about corruption after ignoring it for the last 4 years or Biden.
Imagine if the Democrats were that upset about Mamadani forcing millions of Christians in NY City (a city that has a population of over 8.5 million, which is more than the entire population of 38 states) to listen to the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.
You can thank Eric Adams for that, not Mamdani.
But NYC notes your concern.
Aug 2023 –
“New York City issued new guidance Tuesday allowing mosques (masjids) to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer on Fridays between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. without obtaining a permit and despite sound restrictions in city neighborhoods.
According to the city, the guidance also allows the call to prayer to be broadcast in the evenings during Ramadan, a month-long period of fasting and prayer for the Muslim community.
“Today we are cutting red tape and saying clearly if you are a mosque or house of worship of any kind, you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer. You are free to live your faith in NYC,” Mayor Eric Adams said while announcing the new guidance Tuesday.”
Same ilk.
Pausing joint defense board with Canada
https://twittee.com/uswpcolby/status/2056348054106619957?s=46
Elbrudge is a good follow and seems to be steering our defense policy.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Australia has ordered Chinese investors to sell their shares in Australian minerals.
https://x.com/MichaelFranzese/status/2056089511223025804 “ANDREW WEISMANN. The most corrupt prosecutor
EVER! Framed my friend Michael Sessa. Tried to frame president Trump as lead prosecutor in Mueller investigation. A documented history of corruption. Destroys lives. SCUM of the earth. Let’s expose him.”
Mrs. Ausonius has The Today Show on.
An overweight (possibly clinically obese) woman doctor is giving advice on blood pressure and…diet and “eating healthy foods.”
Okay! I kept thinking, however, of Luke 4:23 – Medice, cura teipsum!
Apparently the MSM is blind to self-satirizing irony!
Don’t trust fat doctors and don’t trust fat faith leaders.
Here, take these miracle weight loss drugs too.
The U.S. government soon to cover their cost.
Prince William is selling the family silver.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/build-conserve-heir-british-throne-prince-william-plans/
Likely they will make much fanfare of helping the poor and homeless with almost zero money applied to solve the problem.
Trump’s closing the straight and cutting off the theft of American tax dollars must be starting to really hurt.
No problem he sold his soul a long time ago from what I’ve read.
Similar to what I always tell people that claim they are offended. My line, “I’m offended that you are offended. Where do we go from here?”
Dead air and blank stares I’m assuming,
I approve👍🏻
Always avoid “victimhood chic”— where people derive a sense of moral superiority from feeling offended. Being constantly offended is addictive because it provides a high of self-righteousness and attention, especially on social media.
True growth comes from choosing what to care about wisely, and being offended wastes emotional energy that could be spent on meaningful challenges.
Yes.
My husband always describes such people as “Well balanced”.
They have a chip on both shoulders 😎
Every time!!
You snooker them. They have no capacity for rebutting. Well done.
Yes Betsy!!! And many who can’t deal with life, haven’t learned self control, end up on meds, bitter and hateful…just as the shrinks like it.
They don’t repent, can’t forgive and don’t know a loving God.
It’s one thing I suppose, sis, to “be offended”.
Another entirely to advertise the affliction in shrieking decibels to anyone and everyone within earshot and beyond.
A good way to sort out who is not marriage material at least 😉
And then they vote Democrat.
Yep. 🙂
It’s a liberal disease, no question.
lol….speaking of liberal disease…I was gifted a lifetime membership to Babbel, and as a life-long learner was thrilled. But (curiously) after the trial time wherein a refund could have been made, I began seeing the repeated intrusion of overtly gay elements in the lessons. 😮
Naturally, I objected and did some research, which clued me in to the fact other Babbel learners have objected to its gay/DEI agenda and I found several letters posted online expressing the same feelings I have about it.
I again complained to Babbel and got back some mealy-mouthed excuse about inclusion and how they were just trying to be inclusive and reflect to their students the world as it really is.
I replied that I’d changed my mind about gifting subscriptions to friends and family because our traditional faith and values do not support promotion of the gay agenda and lifestyle.
So for a few months I stopped getting the gay stuff in my study feed, but late last month it gradually started up again. So as soon as I was asked for feedback I responded that I now abruptly end any study session that includes these unwelcome and unwanted elements, because they make me feel so excluded and disrespected.
LOL…. 😜 😜
I’ll keep you posted on how my reverse psychology strategy works.
You go girl!!! 😂
Factions with ideological bents like this one don’t know how to respond when astute, clever people such as you are, use their own tools against them. It upsets their psyche.
Similar to the nauseating application of “Human Rights” to (non) diverse populations in order to drive the hideous agenda of Islamic invasion, all in the name of “diversity and inclusion”. No one ever queries, ” THEIR Human Rights? What about OURS?”
One sided, until someone points out the obvious flaws in their fallacious propaganda.
Carry on, sis 💕 👍🏻
I look forward to the next update.
I love this
lol…we’ll see what happens.
You’ll be the first to know.
They’re based in Germany, so they might try and have me arrested for human rights violations. ~snrrrrk~
They’ll have to come get you first, Ma 😂
I don’t like their chances 😎
heh heh heh.
Takes one to know one, my dear sister. 😁😘
The feckless Republicans howl and fund raise but that’s all they do!
While I have never understood the whole Parliamentarian thing, this funding has nothing to do with security and is all about the underground data center. They should just say the truth of what they are building and why. We know Trump won’t even be in office when completed and there is lots of concern for loss of personal freedom from whatever all of these data centers represent. Nothing good comes our way.
Thune could have fired her Jan 20th 2025
Why is Thune even the speaker or whatever the lame title might be. He does nothing. A democrat appointed is running the senate and why is JD Vance doing nothing? Perhaps what was reported might be wrong, and if so should be announced, but its been written that Vance can fire this woman. Wonder why voting is becoming a vanishing act, ask the senate republicans. For that matter ask them why they are doing nothing to stop this either. Capito ran on being with Trump and MAGA. Haven’t seen much of that from where I sit.
Two losers…Thune and Lankford…
there are 52 other GOP senators. They are innocent bystanders? Thune is getting paid to be the villain, just like Paul Ryan was. These other 52 asswipes could bounce Thune later today if they wanted to. They do not want to because their paymasters would replace them.
I wish people wouldn’t be so easily led around by these social media profiteers. Think about it for yourselves. Thune is a creep, but so are the other 52 that support him as senate leader.
Ding, ding, ding!!
The Senate is a private social club, filled with corrupt bureaucrats who all band together to enrich themselves, their families, and their donors, at our expense, all whilst pretending that they can’t stand each other, and desperately wish they could do something, but, darn it, they just can’t get anything passed!
Thune is following in the footsteps of Cocaine Mitch, who followed in the footsteps of Harry Reid. They buy and sell their votes, and right now, they are making far more money tying up the process than they would if they actually passed any bills. They will continue to do this unless someone with inside knowledge breaks the logjam and exposes all their dirty little secrets…(hint, hint Marco Rubio?)
agree but, if I understand correctly, is letting another more or less run the senate. Others can’t stop that along with Thune is responsible for bringing bills to the floor. However, you are correct others can and should stop it all.
Thune is at political war with President Trump. President Trump and the people are hostage to our own hostage taking regime. I read in amazement that this is allowed to stand.
The people should hold every single Republican Senator responsible. Thune could be removed easily if the will to respect the people’s choice is honored.
IMO, the failure to work on the over 700 bills is tantamount to insurrectional behavior by the entire Republican Senate because they are aiding and abetting Thune’s behavior.
Will someone, anyone in the Senate make a move to remove Thune from leadership?
Are there no real Americans with spines left in the Senate. Disgusting!!!
Amen and Amen! Apparently there are no America Firsters in the Senate!!!
US consumers are paying about $30/more per barrel and the US uses about 17 million barrels a day.
That’s $510 million/day, the cost of several brand-new tankers filled with oil.
Congress could authorize Trump to use $1 billion to buy tankers stranded in the Gulf, fill them with crude, and have US Navy sailors run them through the Strait (or send them through by remote control or autopilot). A helicopter could be on each tanker in transit in case the crew needs to come off.
Congress could authorize Trump to have another 60 days if:
1. any US vessel is attacked while passing through the international waters of the Persian Gulf or the waters of Kuwait, Saudia Arabia, the UAE or Oman,
2. an Iranian vessel, missile or torpedo enters the waters or airspace claimed by Kuwait, Saudia Arabia, the UAE or Oman within four miles of a US vessel,
3. an Iranian vessel fails to promptly and harmlessly sail to Iranian coastal waters when signaled by US military flare.
The US tankers are unlikely to be attacked. Does anybody here think Iranian thugs want Trump to have another 60 days to whack them?
There is a way to drop oil and gas prices fast.
I think people should stop complaining about rising gas prices.
Don’t you know it’s patriotic to pay $7/gallon?
I paid $3.87 yesterday.
Traveling westerly Indiana $ 4.20 Illinois $ 5.00 (passed on that deal) Wisconsin $ 4.30 Iowa $ 3.90
p.s.
with the bladders on empty and the gas tank on full…the best part of driving near the Chicago metro area along I-80 construction zone, was
getting past the area, twice (eb and wb), and living to tell about the adventure.
imho
p.s.
it was quality time to visit family (for hours), before memorial day weekend.
love thy neighbors
sure do considering the millions if not billions that President Trump loses everyday to help turn our nation around.
Today, the USA can domestically produce more than it needs. In the 1970’s, that was not the case. The Federal government can use war powers to enforce domestic price controls, and to cease importing oil of any kind. Our pumps would not go dry. The tankers would not stop coming to Texas.
Congress is not limited in its war power.
Trump is limited by the War Powers Act, unless he decides to test it in the Courts.
Congress can declare war against anyone at any time for any duration, no preconditions apply.
folks in WI may remember this, but back in 2021 after the great 2020 Steal, private election groups in WI had a case make it to the state supreme court claiming hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots were counted in the 2020 election. The fake-conservative WI supreme court agreed and then did nothing about it. They ruled that in-excess of 200K illegal ballots were counted and should not have been. In WI, that’s a huge number of illegal ballots and most were from Dane and Milwaukee counties so they were almost all democrat votes.
My point here is you can pass the SAVE act and the SAVE II act and the SAVE III act and it won’t stop the cheating. The cheating must be addressed via law enforcement. You are not gonna legislate your way out of this. That’s why time is so critical. Once Trump is gone, this piddles-out quickly and we go back to fraud as usual…….. Trump’s people have to put a death blow on this nationwide fraud. The clock is running low…….
As you state, managing elections is a state and local issue. Seems you folks in Wisconsin have work to do to clean up your election fraud. Please make your elections fair so the rest of us won’t have to tolerate another Joe Biden.
In my state of Georgia, ID is required. But, that didn’t stop what those surveillance cameras FILMED. (And “TDS”-addled law enforcement then completely ignored.
And, oh by the way, many other states also used arenas and such, which ALSO have such cameras … But no one has subpoenaed them, yet. If one group of cheaters was careless and stupid, they were not alone.
Maricopa County expensively audited itself, found fraud, then also did nothing.
“Laws” mean nothing and protect nothing if ignored.
Spotsylvania County, VA Commonwealth’s Attorney Slams Democrat Gun Grab as “Unconstitutional” – Vows He Will NOT Enforce Radical So-Called “Assault Weapons” Ban or Public Carry Restrictions
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/spotsylvania-county-va-commonwealths-attorney-slams-democrat-gun/
Tasnim news agency is reporting that we agreed to lift the Iran oil sanctions, while we are negotiating with Iran on their latest 14 point plan. So they will load the tankers and sail through the Strait anyway.
I knew it; I knew it. All the rhetoric about really hurting Iran this time, by blockading their oil until their tanks were full and their wells collapsed, was just gaslighting. I said the blockade would not be effective, they would just dump the oil in the Gulf. Sure enough, soon as an oil slick appeared, we backed down quickly. This is how things go, with the State Department in the driver’s seat.
We need the Pentagon calling the shots, regarding Iran policy. The negotiations with the Islamic Republic are a side show, because negotiating with terrorists is futile. Everybody knows that. There is no point to blowing this magic bubble, pretending that a deal can be made that is satisfactory. We need to win this war quickly, and many including myself have said that from the beginning.
Don’t believe everything you read. “Propaganda,” remember?
Al Arabiya is reporting it as well.
These are not AMERICAN sources.
The USA isn’t going to give up the blockade, promise to quit shooting, or accept a 14-point plan tendered by the same insane Mullahs they are fighting. The strategies are being extremely effective, while avoiding troop exposure. They’re squeezing them straight in the wallet.
Your “suspicious cat” should tell you all you need to know. In time of war, “EVERYTHING is Propaganda, and both sides are doing it, including yours.” Think accordingly.
If the Pentagon was allowed to call the shots, the world would have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust decades ago.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Trump Education Sec. Linda McMahon just found out that DEAD PEOPLE were getting student loans from the federal government BILLIONS of dollars are now being saved.
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Which seriously raises the question: Where is “all that money” actually going? College profs don’t drive Porsches. Do the institutions ACTUALLY get a quarter-million (give or take …) per student in four years?
If the recipient is dead, how did they apply for the loan, and how and to whom was the money paid? Does anyone even know? Is anyone looking?
If anyone DID care to look, whether at the schools or at Wall Street or both, this entire thing is obviously DRIPPING with fraud!! At every angle.
Yawn. Typical. You’re just tipping off the perps. Why not track down who’s accounts these are AND REPORT THE ARRESTS???? or do they just get away with the billions?
How do we throw dead people in prison for fraud?
Just kidding. Somebody living spent that money given to dead people.
Now, did the applicants commit fraud, the school commit fraud, or both?
(Legal) update on Mississippi redistricting
I. Prelude
Primaries are done.
Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) did not rule out a 2026 redistricting: It’s a question of when the tenure of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS2) is over. [1]
II. SCOTUS sent election case back to U.S. District Court of Southern District of Mississipi “for further consideration” following their ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which rejected race-based gerrymandering. [2]
Justice Jackson, dissenting:
“This case presents only the question of Section 2’s private enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U. S. ___ (2026), did not address. Thus I see no basis for vacating the lower court’s judgment. Instead, in light of Morse v. Republican Party of Va., 517 U. S. 186 (1996), I would summarily affirm.”
[1] Mississippi governor cancels session to redraw judicial map
Order List (05/18/2026)
(Legal) update on redistricting in North Dakota
I. Prelude
The U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota found that the state’s legislative district map unlawfully diluted Native Americans’ ability to elect their representatives of choice, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. [1]
II. SCOTUS remanded the case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for further consideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais [2]
Justice Jackson, dissenting:
“This case presents only the question of Section 2’s private enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U. S. ___ (2026), did not address. Thus I see no basis for vacating the lower court’s judgment. Instead, in light of Morse v. Republican Party of Va., 517 U. S. 186 (1996), I would summarily reverse.”
[1] Supreme Court tosses racial redistricting rulings in Mississippi and North Dakota
[2] Order List (05/18/2026)
So you can Gerrymander for Natives, but not for Afrikans?
Or am I getting this wrong?
They will probably react by cuddling The Panda.
SCOTUS will review Growther, Thomas v Board of Regents of University Systems of GA
“Whether Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., provides employees of fed erally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment”
Brief of Sauer/Dillhon in support:
Crowther v. Board of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga.
Since nearly all, if not ALL, “educational institutions” receive “Federal funding,” teachers throughout every level of the systems should have the right to “redress of grievances” against their employers. Just as employees can do in other sectors.
Furthermore, if institutions knew that their employees couldn’t bring action, do I really need to tell you what WILL happen? (“Horny b&stards …”)