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The Still Hour – Saturday’s Prayers and Verses
Treeper Prayers and Prayer Requests
Dear Father, please bestow your peace beyond understanding upon Tulsi and her husband, surround them with your deep and abiding love, and be with them during their battle. Be too with all those whom have lost their loved ones in the service of our nation, whom we honor this holiday weekend, and may their ultimate sacrifice be not in vain. In Jesus Christ’s name we pray.
Amen
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:13
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Thank you Harrison.
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Amen. Go God beat the devil.
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!
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The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
Day 124 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.
America First Legal
@America1stLegal
🚨NEW — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is attempting an ILLEGAL POWER GRAB over early voting.
They advanced a resolution this week to SET UP early voting drop boxes.
But Arizona law gives that power ONLY to the County Recorder.
They’ve been warned.
Cont reading thread (and document linked)…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2057883477605810411.html
Chevron Fights Back Against Radical Left’s Vandalism Campaign – Slaps “Sacramento Policies Did This” Signs on California Gas Pumps After Newsom Tells Californians to Avoid the Gas Company
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/chevron-fights-back-against-radical-lefts-vandalism-campaign
@AMercouris
May 10
Putin’s press conference yesterday was interesting because it highlighted his deep feeling of anger and betrayal by Europe.
(1) He reminded the journalists (all Russians) that the crisis began with the EU insisting Ukraine ratify an Association Agreement incompatible with Ukraine’s free trade agreement with Russia. When Ukraine demurred the Maidan coup was the result;
(2) He said Europe’s objective in 2022 was to engineer Russia’s collapse so that the Europeans would be able to help themselves to its parts. In a truly extraordinary passage he spoke of Finland joining NATO in order to participate in the plunder;
(3) He gave a very bitter account of the events of April 2022 and of the failure of the Istanbul Agreement.
Briefly: He revealed for the first time that it was Macron who called him and tricked him into pulling Russian troops back from Kiev, telling him that “the Ukrainians could not be expected (to sign the Istanbul Agreement) with a gun pointing at their head”.
He was careful to say that the Russians recorded the conversation and have Macron saying all this on tape.
He then spoke about how, once the Russian troops had been withdrawn, ‘another colourful character’ – Boris Johnson – told the Ukrainians to ditch the Istanbul Agreement in return for unlimited Western support.
I came away with the clear impression that Putin believes Macron and Johnson were working together and had it all worked out in advance;
(4) he accused the Europeans of using Ukraine as a proxy in their conflict with Russia;
(5) he signalled that the only major West European political figure in whom he retains any trust is Gerhard Schroder, who is of course out of power;
(6) Contrary to many reports, Putin did NOT say that he believes the Ukraine conflict is coming to an end.
This belief stems from misreporting of his words by a TASS journalist.
If Putin’s words are read carefully it is clear his meaning was quite different. It is that with the failure to bring about the collapse of Russia that which on The Duran we call ‘Project Ukraine’, ie. the West’s (in Putin’s view, Europe’s) bid to use Ukraine as a tool to destabilise Russia, is coming to an end.
Perhaps wrongly, Putin appears to blame the Europeans more for ‘Project Ukraine’ than he does the Americans.
(7) Putin did float the possibility that with the failure of Project Ukraine, and with the crisis this has caused in Europe, a new generation of European leaders might find a way back towards a reconciliation with Russia.
However he did not seem to me to say this with much conviction;
(8) As for the Americans, Putin appears to think that their various diplomatic initiatives of the last year to end the war have run into a wall and are effectively over. Many people will say that Putin has a paranoid view of Europe and its intentions. He however would point to Europe’s actions (eg. he spoke about Europe’s work fabricating Ukraine’s drones) and its rhetoric, which is frankly terrible.
Certainly in Russia his opinions are widely shared. This is where in Europe relentless hostility, extreme rhetoric, and a total rejection of dialogue with the Russians, has led us.
If the Russians and their leader now entertain these views of us, we should not be surprised.
https://nitter.net/AMercouris/status/2053543625112301989#m
Thanks Charlotte
Let us not forget the Demon Victoria Nuland….Perhaps someone can present her history…and lineage…
The Military Industrial Complex is just begging for an all out war…for their pocketbooks. They are purposefully poking the bear.
Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex 70+ years ago. Apparently no one listened.
Of course Putin knows who is behind this. He got wrongfooted by them too. He has a right to be angry, but more productive would be to wrongfoot them back.
Nonetheless, it’s time for this war to be over. The Duran/Mercouris have their own ideological blindspots that don’t allow them to see beyond that ideology as well as to insist upon it.
Thieves and thugs don’t change their stripes simply because they change their addresses…
Such a great value to our country. /s
If they legally come, become Americans and thrive is one thing, but they are mass imported as refugees and bring their 3rd world nonsense with them.
For a democrat, the Skinnies serve the purpose to dilute a population and set up fraud funnels for the DNC, NGO’s, money, votes, cultural, you name it. If you dare point it out they start scream RAAAAACIST…like the Hallelujah Choir, except out of key and vomit inducing.
Time to get these goat herders the hell out of the USA.
MAGA!
They try to sew discord and chaos!
My guess is that Somalis are still being allowed to legally immigrate!! Hope I’m wrong? The Federal Govt can’t seem to stop anything once it gets started whether it’s spending or immigration! The loathsome Immigration Act of 1965 gave preference to POC from third world hellholes in order to turn America brown needs to be repealed!!!
One by one, the Govmt shits are thinned out! It took decades to get this way with non-elected entities, it will take decades to fix! God bless POTUS and We the people! Bring God back into our elected people and country! True colors sometimes take time, but in the end, cream comes to the top!
Georgia’s idiot candidate is FOR amnesty – a “fine or community service” is amnesty. NO AMNESTY – NO STAYING HERE. Deport them all!
This might be starting from a somewhat weak position. How about “deport ALL of THEM + Congress + leftist governors and mayors + FBI + CIA + teachers’ union + packaging engineers + urban traffic planners + NPR .” Start there.
Add the corrupt “court” system to your list…
Roy stunk as a Congressman – he sure doesn’t need to be the AG of Texas…
Lying @chiproytx should stop sending text messages referring to himself as “President Trump’s top ally in Texas.” He is not an ally.
Here are the facts:
❌ Chip Roy ran an anti-Trump Super PAC in 2016.
❌ Chip Roy defended Liz Cheney after she voted to impeach Trump.
❌ Chip Roy worked against Trump during the 2024 election.
❌ Chip Roy called MAGA patriots “motherf***ers” and told us to “kiss his ass.”
Chip Roy is NOT MAGA!
Pretty sure Roy has also said “I don’t work for you” to multiple constituents on camera too. Ditch that grifting faker.
So many Establishment RINOs that are incumbents are out there trying to clean up their actual records of what they did or didn’t do.
It just shows how easy it is for them to lie and misrepresent to facts to manipulate.
Chip Roy has been like a chameleon and he’s really good at it. He’s all over the talk shows getting exposure promoting himself as someone he is not.
In Texas he’s known as just another treacherous Bush Republican. We are saturated with them.
After their lawless impeachment attempt against Ken Paxton, I can’t believe most of them didn’t end up in a remote arroyo as feral hog feed.
Grassroots America is/was a highly respected orgainization. I can’t figure out why in the world they would endorse Roy.
Unfortunately Grassroots America (very influential in Texas) and Deborah Georgatos (America can we Talk – also from Texas) are both working hard to get Chip Roy . There must be some $ involved somewhere.
Ebonics again
UPDATE—
57-year-old Gwendolyn White has been identified as the woman accused of shooting attorneys Mary Harris and Jeffery Whitley outside the Raleigh, North Carolina courthouse in broad daylight.
Police say White became “belligerent in court,” went to her car, retrieved a handgun, and opened fire as the attorneys exited the courthouse.
Mary Harris is currently fighting for her life in surgery. Pray for Mary, her family, and everyone affected by this horrific act of violence.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2057961257873924566#m
We don’t just shoot people!
What the heck is so difficult to understand?
I don’t get it. What changed? Maybe nothing did and I. was just unaware.
Pray for Mary. And our country.
What changed: We let LBJ start the change of the Democrat Party to the current Communist Party…
1040’s our Military whipped the entire world in WWII…
1950’s we had the BEST music, the most powerful cars, and the hottest women…
November 22, 1963 JFK was assassinated by Vice President LBJ who assumed the office of President and immediately put the Democrat Party in a hard left turn… The GOP signed on with the newly leftist Dimocrat/Commie party, creating our current “uniparty” of communist leaning…
Meanwhile, we, the American people, sat on our hands, did absolutely nothing to prevent the aforesaid “uniparty” from outlawing our freedoms a little here, a little there, until President Trump arrived on the scene and exposed the uniparty to relentless daylight…
The question now is: Is is too late to save our nation from communist takeover?
President Trump has recently stated that a Uniparty “win” in the mid-term “elections”, or a stolen Presidential “election” of 2028 will be the death of this Nation, and I, for one, am convinced his thinking on this matter is correct…
The America that we all grew up in and believed in is near death, what we are experiencing now is the “Death Throes” of a once great nation. 🤔
@realMaalouf
May 21
It’s been 50 years since this photo was taken.
Palestinian terrorists invaded the Lebanese Christian town of Damour and massacred 582 Christian civilians. It was an apocalypse, said a priest who survived the massacre.
“They were coming in thousands, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad.’
They were slaughtering everyone, men, women and children.”
Men were lined up against the walls of their homes and gunned down. Women were tortured and gang-raped. Babies were shot in the back of the head. Pregnant women had their babies cut out of the womb.
Just one of the many massacres committed against Christians by Palestinians.
This is how Muslims became the majority in Lebanon.
https://nitter.poast.org/realMaalouf/status/2057475307087548529#m
Your post is gritty truth. Thank you.
Remember: Islam IS Sharia. 🤜✝️🤛🫵
For perspective…Direct Effects of the Nakba on ChristiansPalestinian Christians suffered alongside Muslim Palestinians, but the impact was proportionally severe due to their urban and educated demographics:
The Nakba affected all Palestinians regardless of faith, but for Christians, it accelerated a decline that has made their community increasingly vulnerable. Many Palestinian Christians today view the Nakba as a shared national catastrophe that continues to shape their lives, alongside issues like restricted movement and emigration pressures. Perspectives on this history vary widely depending on sources, with Palestinian narratives emphasizing expulsion and Israeli ones often framing it as a consequence of war initiated by Arab states.
Your source, please?
Unlike others who post here ( 👁️👁️ you know who you are), I will accept her data as truths…
Why?
Right?
The fact that 5 “people” agreed with “Deplorable Grunt” says a lot.
Cut it out. The Arab interlopers are culturally appropriating a term “Palestinian” that used to be synonymous with Jews, the people G-d gave the land to – even poor quality Bible translations affirm that.
Jews were Palestinians millennia before naked body painted barbarians from some unknown island wore clothes. Jews were the Palestinians millennia before genocidal pagan barbarians stopped worshipping a kid with a hammer. Jews were the Palestinians millennia before egg painting pagan barbarians had a written language.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
+ + +
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.
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I upvote that post every day.
Glory be to God!
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)
A holocaust to Mohamed.
All anyone needs to know about Islam.
An evil offering to their evil God, Mohamed.
The Greek Genocide Resource Center
http://www.greek-genocide.net
Fox News Politics
@foxnewspolitics
Republican AGs launch an $11 million TV ad offensive targeting Democrat incumbents in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia and Kansas — betting that crime and border security will flip attorney general seats in 2026.
RAGA raised a record $29.3 million in 2025 and already has early ad buys locked in. The strategy: nationalize AG races as referendums on cashless bail, fentanyl trafficking and progressive prosecutors who refuse to enforce the law.
Cont…
Great. I hope they will tell us who to vote FOR.
Democrats beat this kind of effort by splitting votes. Inform voters who is the best possible candidate.
Research and decide for yourself who the Conservative candidates really are…
If you rely on information from the RNC, you are gonna hear that RINOs are the best candidates…
⚠️ 🚨
My heart goes out to everyone in the area! 🙏
🇺🇸Memorial Day weekend, plans for family gatherings
and cookouts …and they have to pack up the family,
sick, elderly and disabled and…..Evacuate!
Area is also very close to
Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm.
NBC News
40,000 Southern Californians ordered to evacuate amid threat of chemical explosion
Yahoo News
Evacuation orders issued for 40,000 people in California over explosion threat
Prayers 🙏
I truly struggle to feel sympathy for those who have chosen leaders for decades based on DEI checkmarks and a (D) by their name.
Very, very, very corrupt elections.
I question the “chosen” leaders.
They and NY run neck and neck.
…”Rule #40: If it seems someone is out to get you, they are”. and….
“Rule #39: There is no such thing as coincidence.[”
This is a sacred day for our country.
Problems in NYC? And over in CA?
Do they have water this time?
Remember Fatal Attraction?
Michael Douglas jumps in the sack which Glenn Close then after the short fling is over he thinks the crazy lady is just going to let him walk away.
Sound familiar? 😎
No. It doesn’t. What do you mean?
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Egypt
In Egypt, Christian are called “The Garbage people” they’re not allowed to work in something else
https://nitter.poast.org/Shariakill/status/2057360399406657550#m
“In Egypt, Christian are called “The Garbage people” they’re not allowed to work in something else”
This is Bull Shite to the Nth Degree of Magnitude!
I lived and worked in Israel for two years, went to Egypt MANY times… There are millions of Christians in Egypt, and like other ethnic groups, there are rich Christians, middle-income Christians and poor Christians… Some so rich they don’t have to work… Most Christians in Egypt either work for, or run their own businesses… Yep, the poor ones, like here in America, sit on their butts and complain that their government provided “welfare” checks aren’t as large as they would like…
The Coptic Christians are the real Egyptians. Arabians are not. Copts used to be 1/3 of the population but interloper Muslims have reduced them to less than 10 percent.
Chronicles Magazine
“Letter from Egypt: The Ongoing Plight of Christians”
September 10, 2020
By Srdja Trifkovic
Foreign Affairs Editor
Dr. Trifkovic is an astute historian and consistently on point in his observations of current affairs. He is also an Orthodox Christian.
He discusses the ways in which Egyptian society hems in the remaining Coptic Christians.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/letter-from-egypt-the-ongoing-plight-of-christians/
I stumbled across this, then after watching it, spent an hour trying to find it to post here.
It radically changed my understanding of what is going on in the ME w/Iran, and what our President is going to have to do.
It runs a half hour, I think you will be hooked after the first minute or two about the Helios systems, but the background delves into the deeper extent of the problem
I am going to watch some more from that channel…
Herr’s a description of the video for those who don’t want to watch the whole thing.
“U.S. Navy Just Deployed A Secret New Weapon Near Hormuz — Iran Is In Total SHOCK
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May 22 2026
Today’s video breaks down a major new development near the Strait of Hormuz: the U.S. Navy has reportedly deployed an operational directed-energy weapon system into the theater. If confirmed, this could be a turning point in the fight against Iran’s drone swarms, fast attack boats, and asymmetric naval strategy — because it attacks the core weakness of Iran’s swarm doctrine: cost and volume.
In this video, we explain why systems like HELIOS matter so much. Iran’s strategy depends on launching cheap drones, small boats, and saturation attacks to overwhelm expensive missile defenses and exhaust ship magazines. But a high-energy laser changes that equation by engaging targets at the speed of light, with a much lower cost per shot and no traditional missile inventory limit.
We also analyze how this affects the Strait of Hormuz battlefield. With advanced radar, ship-mounted laser systems, and layered defenses working together, U.S. destroyers could detect, track, dazzle, disable, or destroy drones and fast boats before they reach dangerous range. That means Iran’s old playbook — swarm the target, confuse the sensors, drain the interceptors — may no longer work the same way.
Finally, we look at the bigger strategic picture: Lamprey underwater drones, SPY-6 radar, Arleigh Burke destroyers, Gulf partner security, China’s reaction, and what this means for any future U.S. operation against Iranian nuclear or military targets. Iran built its remaining leverage around drones, fast boats, and asymmetric pressure in Hormuz — but directed energy may be the weapon that turns that leverage into a target list.”
That generated description misses the discussion in the second half about how Iran is claiming control ownership of all the waterways inside and outside the strait, up to the shores of the other countries; essentially a takeover of the middle east.
It’s just to give an idea of what the video is about.
If anyone hasn’t noticed, we overcame Iran’s drones and missiles long before this capability was deployed. A few get through, but most don’t.
But why wasn’t it deployed from the start? And ships take time to reach theater. The underlying thinking should be interesting. I hope they are not prematurely being deployed.
This is something that requires eliminating human decision making to function quickly. Perversely, keeping the human delay might help prevent overheating.
DEW have a line of sight problem. This means that the range is larger the higher, but it is shortest on the horizon at the surface. If that horizon is 13 miles, (up high on ship), and a drone flies 130 mph, it has 6 minutes to reach you while you can shoot it down. If you can fire once every 2 seconds, you can shoot down 180 drones before one reaches you. (numbers were chosen for ease of calculation, but are in the ballpark.)
I wonder how long it will be before we have mobile land systems and or air mounted systems?
Did anyone else notice how he danced between saying radar is irrelevant because of thermal and optics and hyping the new fangled radar but not the thermal and optics?
Overlapping fields of fire are still being used I would bet, this new “Toy” is just another layer.
That and the MIC’s desire to make money will always be a factor.
New lawsuits against Trump’s DOJ ‘lawfare’ fund
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/trump-doj-fund-republicans.html
Trump is sued over everything he does, it’s all part of resist. Nothing new. One thing, if they can block Trump on this, that should end any talk of reparations.
“Trump got no money in the settlement. But the fund is intended to compensate many of his supporters”
No you don’t have to be a Trump supporter to be compensated, you just need to have been harmed by the Biden Administration. Yes seeing the targeting was political against Trump supporters, most who would get compensated would be Trump supporters. That is not Trump’s fault but Biden’s fault.
Reparations will fall into the same trap if Trump is blocked, it will mostly compensate black Democrats supporters, and only few black Republican supporters. Democrats should be careful for what they wish for, they just might get it. The promise of reparations will never be fulfilled anyway, it is unconstitutional, but blacks might finally figure out it is never going to happen and is an empty promise to keep them on the Democrat’s plantation.
President Trump posted about it yesterday:
“I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward.
I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK IN of Mar-a-Lago, for an absolute fortune.
Instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!
President DJT”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116618545735076530
Juxtapose 🦁 👑 President Trump’s accomplishments with destructive actions (or non actions) of the other two branches. The contrast is pathetic.
Reagan signed a law that gave reparations to SURVIVING Japanese Americans who had been interned. Their property losses were recompensed back in 1948.
The last slaves in America were freed by Indian Tribes in 1866. 160 years ago. No SURVIVING slaves left to give reparations to.
BTW Kentucky and Delaware waited until the 13th Amendment freed their slaves. So Juneteenth does not represent the day the last slaves were freed. Just those in rebelling states. The Amendment included the territories, but Indian Tribes were excluded, so we renegotiated with those Tribes to free their slaves.
Congressman Randy Fine
@RepFine
Feb 19
Islam teaches that dogs are dirty animals. In Morocco, they are right now shooting 3 million dogs to prepare for the World Cup. I’ve got a newsflash for people who think this is fine. In America, we will not allow Mainstream Muslims to tell people they can’t have dogs. This should not be CONTROVERSIAL.
https://nitter.net/RepFine/status/2024287890419650759#m
AKC needs to open their mouths on this one…but they won’t. Even though they have a lot of members from foreign countries.
Its not pretty when an AKC member (at an event), is in ‘protective mode for their dog’….an organization full of angry old women, liberal and gay members and many who also parrot the accepted ideology…
it can get ugly…and I am not joking.
Well – he is straying too far on this one. They haven’t a “Humane Society” to clean things up, so abandoned dogs just roam and multiply until there get to be too many of them and have to be rounded up enmass – especially when lots of media cameras arecomin..
Putin vows retaliation after accusing Ukraine of hitting student dormitory
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y74lwx395o
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/05/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-5-22-2026/#726600
Pork Sausages on the Menu as Ireland Deports 24 Men on First Charter to
Pakistan
Am looking forward to a Southern Benedict this morning.
Experts Say AI Unlikely To Replace Government Bureaucrats As It’s Not Soulless Enough
INSTANT CLASSIC! Trump Posts EPIC AI Video of Him Throwing Stephen Colbert in Dumpster, Then Doing Trump Dance After Colbert Fired by CBS (VIDEO) (22 sec)
https://rumble.com/v7a92em-trump-posts-epic-ai-video-of-him-throwing-stephen-colbert-in-dumpster-after.html
morning Treepers………………….be well
Being raised in S. Georgia, I’ve been on roads like that the Live Oaks are beautiful. Watch out for the Red Bugs in the Moss.
Yep. Looks like some old stagecoach road down in the deep south.
Southern forests are lush and gorgeous.
Put a little garlic in everything you cook, Stan… The red bugs will avoid you like the plague…
🌄 💞
Alien vessels overhead? Run for your life!
Morning bjorkdream
Glorious.
Thank you.
Have a blessed day.
Looks like “Avenue of the Oaks” in Floral City, Florida…
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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 villagers of Taybeh in the West Bank, from the Evil One and his servants.
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Trump is getting things done:
Trump admin hires 82 new immigration judges to speed up deportation process
https://notthebee.com/article/trump-admin-hires-82-new-immigration-judges-to-speed-up-deportation-process
‘EXCELLENT!’ Trump sends immigrants back to home countries to apply for green cards
https://www.wnd.com/2026/05/excellent-trump-sends-immigrants-back-home-countries-apply/
Trump’s Deputies Shut Legalization and Amnesty Pathway for Millions of Economic Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/05/22/trump-deputies-shut-legalization-pathway-for-millions-of-migrants/
The Coup Abides
“Leftists can’t name & blame specific individuals for the 2024 loss because they’re an undifferentiated blob who function unconsciously according to enmeshed group think.” —Aimee Therese on X
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-coup-abides
In all the chatter about the Democratic Party’s 2024 election “autopsy” report you might have missed one little important detail: autopsies are generally performed on the dead. Stephen Colbert’s final week on CBS’s Late Night Show was the funeral. It was like the zombies’ ball. Poster-boy old Bruce Springsteen plugged a self-parody song about “King Trump” that might have been a rare case of career suicide on live TV.
The Democrat Party if following the trajectory of all parties, both Left and Right, who abandon their core principles and core voters. The creation of the MAGA movement could not, therefore, have happened at a more opportune moment as supporters from both the R and D columns naturally gravitate to a party that uniquely offers to represent the values that have been abandoned by both traditional parties.
The mess the UK is in at the moment is that we’ve reached the first stage, realisation the parties are simply self-interested constructs serving a globalist elite, but we don’t have a MAGA-like replacement. Reform either are a controlled opposition movement designed to split the right, or a single issue party with decidedly leftist economic priorities and embryonic policies for everything else. We certainly don’t have a Trump like architect overseeing any challenge to the existing order, Farage and Co are decidedly cut from old cloth and offer nothing like the political opportunities you have in the US.
There’s another problem which prevents the UK following the US path, our institutions are virtually unscathed with Reform even proposing to strengthen some (more money for the cash sponge called the NHS). Even if a UK first party miraculously coalesced to win the General Election then its agenda would be opposed at every bureaucratic level with unshakeable ideological zeal. One only has to see the sabotaging of Brexit to see the likely fate of a truly radical platform.
I’ve deliberately left the Conservative Party till last because they embody all the worst of the RINOs with a uniquely Anglo-twist of complacency. Unable to address the takeover by the shadow state they are left twisting in the wind, and by trying to portray themselves as social conservatives paradoxically highlight their complete abdication in other areas, such as the inability to espouse any Conservative economic principles beyond managing the current ideological construct with more efficiency.
We need a Trump, but the system we have is specifically designed to make that occurrence as rare as a socialist programme that actually delivers on its platform. All very sad really, so I amuse myself in vicariously following your growing revolution and throwing sand in the gears at every opportunity.
Springsteen still had a career?
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Trump is the best humorist politician in my lifetime. I’m sure many of us wonder what funny and comic thing he will do TODAY! I do.
Trump humor just confuses and confounds the Leftist’s so much, the meme of LEFTIST Lady screaming after listening to TRUMP (probably Trump saying something TRUE and FUNNY and with a smile, and dancing to YMCA. 🙂
When I go inside to commune with GOD, my impression of GOD is he is comedian (a lot like TRUMP’s humor), and I have been going inside for 40 years communing with the BIG GUY (GOD takes any form for YOU that makes you feel comfortable, understand GOD is ALL LOVE and EVERYWHERE present … we LIVE IN GOD, and GOD can live in YOU consciously if you want to consciously hang out with GOD ALMIGHTY. In the beginning although GOD LOVED ME, he would instruct me in a embarrasing way. GOD would say I’m too stiff, and judgemental, and used fake way of talking to HIM/HER (?). It took a while to get used to finally understand, GOD was trying to help me, but in the beginning I thought GOD was putting me down. HE wasn’t! GOD was just using humor to make me be “right-sized” and as I got older, GOD would show me images/history/etc … where I would cry like a river, … from what GOD’S children have done over the century’s, truely ugly and wicked. I many times just hang out in SILENCE with GOD, and GOD’S LOVE starts to fill me (at times), I’m a CHILD of GOD in the making, and so are YOU.
a great devotional
Leftists have special filters. They can only see scowls and frowns. And of course any unapproved humor is seen as an offense against humanity. Not that they let themselves have any humanity.
John Thune should explain exactly what his agenda is. What is trying to accomplish?
What do his leadership and fellow travelers believe in. What bill do they want to pass to improve life for America?
Newsweek Article Nov 13, 2024 by Mandy Taherj Thune Oct 2016 Trump should “withdraw from the race” urging “Mike Pence to be the nominee effective immediately.)
Described Trump’s actions “to undermine faith in our election system and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power” as “unexcusable”, referring to the 2020 election and subsequently January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Thune voted with Biden 35% of the time.
Thune’s leadership as well as the Democrats do not have any plan to make things better for America. They are simply obstructionists without ideas of their own. Trump is bad and we are holier than him.
PS I didn’t misspell inexcusable, the writer Taherj did it.
Look up the record of McConnell, that will give you the insight.
John Thune should explain exactly what his agenda is. By now, its Agenda2050
What is trying to accomplish? Staying alive.
What do his leadership and fellow travelers believe in? Nothing except keeping the grand deception alive..
What bill do they want to pass to improve life for America? Not one. They do what they are told – what is necessary to relegate America to yet another globalist nation state.
Thune’s agenda is exceedingly clear to most Conservative thinkers:
He is trying to accomplish the takeover of America by the communists, and his thinking is that getting rid of President Trump is the best course of action..
But, Thune himself is actually irrelevant; could be replaced at any time by the so-called “republicans” in the “senate”, so let’s place the blame for Thunes agenda on the republican party, where it should be…
He will be forgotten in span if one election cycle. He stands for nothing and pleases no one. Obstructionist to common sense.
Good Morning America, how are ya?
Remembering those who gave us this 3-4 day weekend.
…not forgetting the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard or Guardsmen–and the unsung forgotten heroes of the US Merchant Marine…I have a special soft spot for the Marines…I often wonder how “The President’s Own” felt about having to perform for the auto-pen?
Patriotic, healthy, not suicidal, brakes work…
Massie’s Masterclass: ‘Losing’ His Seat – Gaining A Movement
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/massies-masterclass-losing-his-seat
Massie is a sore loser who voted against what we the people asked President Trump to do.
He has been in Congress for seven years. He only heard about Epstein last year??
What has he been doing all this time? Taking trips to South Africa with his lover?
Kentucky voted him out. <-period.
Massie has been in office almost FOURTEEN YEARS. Accomplished ZERO other than voting against important bills that would have benefitted his constituents. He is a perverted narcissistic freak.
What, Congress work for the people who voted for them? Enabling their grift and graft? And obscene wealth?
While “We the People” struggle and suffer, for decades?
He never cared about the Epstein files until Trump became president and then he championed the Epstein files. He never helped Trump on anything, but he helped the Democrats on almost everything. That is all I need to know.
Disappointed in Trump then support the Democratic candidate, because it’s the only other real choice. A third party or independent president is a pipie dream and would get nothing done because neither party would work with that person. Hopefully you will love a Harris, or AOC or Newsom administration.
Interesting article…makes excellent points and I guess time will tell. I believe there is a whole lot going on behind the scenes that we know nothing about. I also don’t believe Gallrein won fair and square, but just one person’s opinion.
Calf rope!
Pull the slack!
Chronicles Magazine
“The GOP Is Better Off Without Massie”
By Matt Boose
The author deftly shows several points on the “big picture” (my words) and does so without innuendo, slander, or smears.
He also refers to another article by a Chronicles author that clearly reminds readers that the Left does not want unity with the majority of Americans.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-gop-is-better-off-without-massie/
Sayer Ji published a great post on the Gates/Epstein Plandemic:
BREAKING: The Epstein Files Illuminate a 20-Year Architecture Behind Pandemics
as a Business Model—With Bill Gates at the Center of the Network–-and Jeffrey Epstien, too.
Massie could have focused on that, instead of grandstanding.
We wanted to like him. He talked a great game–but all his actions targets PDT, the only one trying to restore America. Therefore it helps the Oligarchy and Deep State, whom he claims to oppose.
And his recent Jew-baiting doesn’t help.
“Thomas “Hot Mess” Massie (did Trump ever call him that?—he should have if not),”
-Steven Hayward (powerlineblog.com)
😅
the only movement that guy is going to gain is in the bathroom. Democrats or those pretending to be republicans might but little else.
WARNING
World
Why drones will carry out the next 9/11
But what preoccupies Velicovich now is not a potential conflict with China (which has the US over a barrel with its dominance of drone supply chains), or the Iran war (although he believes it’s shown the US military to be “cocky” in estimations of its own abilities). It’s the prospect of a terror attack here on US soil – specifically, one this summer with the US playing host to both the World Cup and the Olympics.
“I feel like there’s going to be another 9/11, but this time without the martyrs because you don’t need humans anymore to cause sensational damage,” Velicovich said. “It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a drone attack on America by somebody who had some sort of training either in Russia or Ukraine. There just has to be the will to do it.
“We’ve got the World Cup and Olympics coming up and there’s hardly any protection. I speak to DHS officials who flat out tell me we’re not prepared. They say there are too many agencies involved, the FAA handcuffs them and says they can’t test things in certain areas. Or that they have to get the FBI or the FCC involved. There’s too many cooks in the counter drone world in the US. Most police officers not only do not know how to shoot a drone down, but they’re not authorized to in a lot of cases – that’s a big problem.”
The warning may seem far-fetched, but at the outbreak of the Iran war the FBI warned police departments in California that Iran could retaliate by launching suicide drones at the West Coast. The small, inexpensive and mass-produced drones that Velicovich envisages might be used in such a terrorist attack are also exactly what the US military needs. “Future wars are not going to be won by the countries that have the biggest army. They are going to be won by the countries that can innovate fast enough.”
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/05/why-drones-will-carry-out-the-next-9-11/
He’ll never get elected the Democrats can’t afford to let that happen! “No body is coming to me they’re all in on it!” The money quote! The Democrats will not allow him to get elected! Democrats protect their fraudsters, just look to Minnesota!!! Fraud is systemic in the Democrat Party! They’re experts at money laundering!
This is why they want illegal aliens able to vote in local elections. The chance of there being a tidal wave of legitmate voters making to it to big to cheat and voting for Pratt has them sweating.
Outrageously, Nashville Obama Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. just dismissed federal human-trafficking charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, pretending there’s vindictive prosecution.
The Trump Justice Department must appeal this dangerous ruling by this leftwing DEI judge.
https://nitter.poast.org/mrddmia/status/2057905901298975024#m
This is an Obama “judge” claiming Abrego wouldn’t have been charged had he not been ordered to be returned, and instead of that being a totally self-evident point, the judge treats it as if it somehow justifies dismissing the charges.
He wasn’t charged because he was gone. But once it was ordered that he be returned, the reason for not charging him no longer existed.
https://nitter.poast.org/HansMahncke/status/2057911944670290216#m
Our judicial system is a joke. Why? Because everything democrats touch turns to siht.
We can thank Bammy, George Soros and the democrats for that. Anyone who paid attention to the confirmation hearings for these Biden appointed dingbat judges knows how screwed we are. Soros whispered in Bammy’s ear who then told Biden and next thing ya know there’s another leftist, activist-judge wearing a black robe in a judicial seat.
Back in 2019, when Maryland Man survived three separate federal judges ordering him deported,
the first adjudicated that he was a gang member and ordered him sent back to El Salvador,
the second adjudicated that he was a gang member and ordered him sent back to El Salvador,
the third accepted his admission that he was a gang member and his admission that he murdered a member of a different gang,
ordered that he be extradited, just to anywhere but El Salvador because that other gang will enact revenge.
The key here is that he (or his lawyer) confessed, in federal court, to murder in El Salvador.
Why haven’t we extradited him to face murder charges?
he might get killed. Now I ask you would you want a killer to be killed by a killer of the family he killed? Where’s the justice? Out having coffee?
The victim’s gang is also operating in America. But no revenge attempts to date. Even after all the notoriety.
vindictive ajudication
Interesting I made a simple comment on a Yahoo article that “Something weird about this whole situation. Why him of the 1000s of illegals?
Looks like something is REALLY weird cause the comment got censored by Yahoo.
Have to wonder what Kilmar Abrego Garcia has on ???
RCMP taking its marching orders from the Chinese Communist Party
“The RCMP says it won’t release the full agreement it signed with China’s Ministry of Public Security without Beijing agreeing to do so, despite demands from the federal Conservatives and NDP for answers on what it contains.
In a statement to Global News on Wednesday, RCMP spokesperson Robin Percival said the memorandum of understanding signed in January “outlines specific forms of mutual collaboration” on policing, the exchange of information and investigative assistance, but did not give further details.
“The RCMP will not unilaterally make public or share the contents of an MOU with a third party without the concurrence of the other party,” Percival said. “As such, the RCMP is not releasing the contents of the MOU at this time.””
https://nitter.poast.org/cbcwatcher/status/2057576165255127161#m
They have been mounted, alright.
Exactly! From the rear and they don’t even know it! British Columbia’s population is now more than 10% Chinese, and growing! “Within BC, Chinese origins represent the largest visible minority group at approximately 11.2% of the population, followed closely by South Asian origins at 9.6%.” Canada is toast economically and ethnically! JMO
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.
Psalm 32:11
An excellent article from American Thinker on the crimes committed by Osama Obama’s team of dirtbags…is prison too good for some of them? Outlines the crimes we all know took place. Seems as though more and more are reporting on the criminals’ activities and why WE will be the targets next.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/is_prison_the_best_place_for_certain_prominent_democrats.html
Negotiations with Iran continue with Pakistan and now Qatar acting as intermediaries. Reports say the US and Iran are not close but making slight
progress. Now will the impass be broke? Will it be as collapse if the Iranian economy due to the blockade? Will it require restarting the war? Will negotiations finally come to an agreement or international pressures win out? Or will this become a long stalemate and a new normal for international shipping violating universal norms.
Trump needs to shut down this key Iranian transit artery — ASAP
Increasingly desperate and eager to take advantage of the cease-fire, Tehran is moving fast to reopen one artery Washington has not yet closed: the sky.Iran’s airlines are flying again. Mahan Air, which the regime used to send child soldiers to Syria and weapons to Hezbollah, has relaunched routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Moscow and Islamabad.
Iran Air is flying again to Istanbul, Muscat, Doha, Baghdad, Najaf and Baku.
At least 15 international routes from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport have been restored since April 25, days after the cease-fire took hold.
The regime wants the world to see this as a humanitarian lifeline. Families reunited. Trade restored. Normalcy returning.
Don’t believe it.
These are not ordinary airlines. They are instruments of the Islamic regime and its Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Every flight that takes off is an operational asset for a regime that is not done fighting.
Iran Air is wholly owned by the government of Iran and is sanctioned under authorities covering Weapons of Mass Destruction nonproliferation and Russian sanctions for facilitating Iran’s drone transfers to Moscow.
Here is what those flights actually carry.
First, cash. Routes to Istanbul and Dubai have been documented by the Treasury as bulk-cash corridors for the IRGC-Quds Force.
The mechanics are simple: IRGC financial facilitators procure US dollars at exchange houses in destination cities, then carry the cash back to Tehran on commercial flights as ordinary passengers.
Then there are the much-needed technical components.
Mahan Air’s network of front companies in the UAE, Turkey, China, Thailand, Pakistan and India has been used to acquire American-made flight computers, actuators, collision-avoidance processors and servomotors with drone applications, all subject to US export controls.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/opinion/trump-needs-to-shut-down-this-key-iranian-transit-artery-asap/
Additionally, there is the movement of fighters.
Mahan Air has flown militants to Syria and Iraq with their names missing from flight manifests.
It has shipped Hezbollah weapons under false cargo declarations.
As recently as 2025, its subsidiary airline moved Iranian drones to Caracas.
The resumed routes to Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil, and Mashhad serve a dual purpose: moving pilgrims to holy cities, and IRGC operatives across borders.
And here is the most urgent concern of all: It is highly likely the regime is counting on those same routes to bring Iraqi militia fighters and Hezbollah operatives back into Iran — to crackdown on the domestic unrest the regime fears most.
The United States doesn’t have to pass new legislation to take meaningful action. All of these airlines are already on the US sanctions list.
Secondary sanctions on anyone who fuels them, handles them on the ground or maintains their aircraft have been on the books for years.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made this explicit on April 27: “Doing business with sanctioned Iranian airlines risks exposure to US sanctions.”
According to ArabNews, Pakistan is saying Turkey and Qatar could join its defense pact with Saudi Arabia. It looks like the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, is expanding to include Turkey and Pakistan and getting military aid that way.
So, to analyze strategic interests in the Middle East, we find on one hand Israel and the United States, then the expanded GCC including Turkey and Pakistan, and on the other side Iran. In the recent war, Iran was attacking the GCC, as well as the U.S. and Israel. A ceasefire was called, perhaps at the request of members of the GCC, and the Islamic Republic in Iran remains in power there.
Why wasn’t the war finished, given it was near a point of total defeat of Iran? Perhaps the GCC does not want the Islamic Republic in Iran to lose power. Perhaps they see that a total defeat would harm their interests. What is their reasoning?
The GCC does not consist of democratic governments. Turkey and Pakistan have facades of democracy, but in reality challengers to the power elite there are either killed or beaten and imprisoned in those countries. The others are absolute monarchies. Perhaps they do not want democracy in Iran.
The Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, has called for a national referendum to establish a democratic constitution in Iran. It could include the monarchy or not, as the people choose. This process would be set in motion upon the defeat of the Islamic Republic. It looks like the GCC sees that as a threat. Why? Because if democracy breaks out in Iran, then the people of the GCC would become restive and demand democracy in their own countries.
So, we have the spectacle of the GCC denying the U.S. use of bases and airspace to conduct Operation Freedom. We have the negotiations between the GCC and Iran (for the emplacement of bribes). And Iran is likely to get its desire to levy fees on ships it allows through the Strait of Hormuz. Since oil is fungible, all of us will effectively be paying a tax, at the pump, to support the Islamic Republic. It is the price the GCC member states are willing to pay to preserve the power of their Emirs, Kings, and Sultans. The cost will be passed on to the rest of the world in the form of higher oil prices.
What about the long suffering Iranian people? It looks like the GCC only wanted us to bomb the IRGC enough to teach them a lesson, not actually overthrow them. So the Iranian people are out of luck. They will continue living under the boot heel of thugs and bums and dangling from nooses at the direction of religious fanatics. The Middle East does not want democracy breaking out, because it could spread.
IMHO, at the end of the day, the muslims from other countries…are still muslim, and are going to support other muslims. The ‘tribal’ thingy.
Praying for Abraham and Tulsi. Such lovely human beings–my favorite video of them-
Nice!
No matter what you think about the UFO/UAP phenomenon, there is something else to be gleaned from it. Louis Elizondo makes a startling claim and Burchett seems to agree. Elizondo claims that elements within the CIA were spying on Tulsi Gabbard and her conversations regarding possible UAP whistle blowers. If that is true, how and who has the ability to do that? If “they” were spying on Tulsi in that regard it likely didn’t stop there. It also feeds my hypothesis that Abraham’s diagnosis occurred around the same time that rumors started to swirl about her departure. If that is true, we have a serious, serious problem, and 47 is in perpetual danger. I have often wondered if the CIA is actually the front facing agency and there is something darker and deeper beyond the CIA itself. What that entity is, I have no idea. I’m just pondering the coincidences.
I have told the story before: a former student of mine joined the Air Force (the person has a father who is also in the Air Force at a high rank) and rose quickly into (what would seem to be) toward the top levels of Air Force Intelligence.
While visiting me at a time when Navy pilots were reporting all sorts of “impossible” UFO’s, my former student commented on what the Air Force thinks of these Navy pilots and their UFO reports.
“You do realize that all of those things belong to us!” 🙂
Yes, that’s true. Lockheed-Martin is just not allowed to put their logo on the crafts due to CIA national security rules. Many patents and inventions are seized for this very reason. As Trump repeatedly says, we have unbelievable weapons.
If any of you had watched this , you would be a little wiser, don’t believe everything you see and hear but always try to keep an open mind. It is long but worth it in my opinion, remember there is no such thing as Disinformation or Misinformation.
Dr Stephen Greer is renowned for his dedication to disclosing classified UFO and extraterrestrial information.
I like thinking about the reverse to put it in perspective.
What would it take for us to visit the nearest star? It is only 4.24 light years away.
That is 4+ years at light speed, 670 million or so mph. And the fastest we have achieved, using gravity boost, is about 400 thousand mph. What would that take, 7 millennium?
Even if we somehow can make our 0.1 c dreams come true, that would be a 42 year one way trip. A 20 year old crew would be retirement age when they get there! If they have children and can train them, it is unlikely any of the original crew would be alive when their children and grandchildren get back to Earth.
And expense! Look how much it is costing us to go back to the moon? Artemis II cost over 4 billion. And we are looking at over 100 billion for the program. Musk’s Mars colonization will cost much more. An interstellar exploration program will cost trillions!
As an aside, can you imagine a society devoting significant fractions of their economy to travel here only to have their explorers crash all over the place, and hotrod around leaving all earth’s vehicles in the dust, or conducting secret experiments on earth people?
And then there are the dangers. A trip to Mars is expected to exceed NASA limits of lifetime radiation exposure. Surviving a much longer trip in much harsher conditions?
And that doesn’t take into account the many other hazards that can kill the crew.
These realities aren’t impossible to overcome, but we are no where near doing so. Any alien visitor would have to have overcome them.
Also, there are limits to what star systems can know about us. Marconi’s first radio signal was in 1895. 131 years ago. 131 or so light years is the limit to how far that signal could have traveled. 65 light years for an alien to detect it and send an answer back.
I have no clue to our ability to pick up such small signals in a SETI type radio search. We are still communicating with Voyager 1 out in interstellar space, 16 billion miles away, moving away from us at 38,000 mph.
Can you imagine a 8.5 year response time between our explorers and us?
If SETI were to find an intelligent technologically comparable species, how long would it take us to develop enough to be able to travel there? How long would it take us to get there once we set off?
The implausibility of these accomplishments, near impossibility, makes it highly unlikely for us. Unless an alien society is already traversing interstellar space, it is highly unlikely for them to get here either.
Then we get to the ridiculous. Star Trek or Star Wars like technology. Things our physics rule out.
Any such aliens capable of visiting us would be so far advanced, they would seem near God like,
For those following the outrage against the super-woke debacle called “Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey” with an African Helen of Troy, a mutilated, 90-pound woman pretending to be a man and playing Achilles, and laughable modern colloquial talk as the style of talking (e.g. “My daddy is coming home” ), plus all kinds of other idiocies…
…check out what a YouTube person called “Demon Flying Fox” has done – following the art on Greek vase paintings and the descriptions from Homer’s Odyssey itself to depict scenes ACCURATELY!
As a Classicist and Keeper of the Flame of Western Civilization 😉 I have been following the controversy generated by the previews of the movie, which comes out in July.
The maker of this 90-second glimpse of what a person can do with CGI these days wrote:
“I was curious how an authentic Bronze Age representation and an accurate portrayal of the mythical beasts from the Odyssey could look, so I went deep into the research and additionally tested my AI film-making knowledge for this one. Enjoy!”
The Paris Statement of 2017
The True Europe
This is an affirmation of European Christian civilization by several conservative intellectuals and scholars.
36 short paragraphs
25 languages
https://thetrueeurope.eu/a-europe-we-can-believe-in/
“…The nation-state is a hallmark of Europe.
8. A national community takes pride in governing itself in its own way, often boasts of its great national achievements in the arts and sciences, and competes with other nations, sometimes on the battlefield. This has wounded Europe, sometimes gravely, but it has never compromised our cultural unity. In fact, the contrary has been the case. As the nation states of Europe became more established and distinct, a shared European identity became stronger. In the aftermath of the terrible bloodshed of the world wars in the first half of the twentieth century, we emerged with an even greater resolve to honor our shared heritage. This testifies to the depth and power of Europe as a civilization that is cosmopolitan in a proper sense. We do not seek the imposed, enforced unity of empire. Instead, European cosmopolitanism recognizes that patriotic love and civic loyalty open out to a wider world.
We do not back an imposed, enforced unity.
9. The true Europe has been marked by Christianity. The universal spiritual empire of the Church brought cultural unity to Europe, but did so without political empire. This has allowed for particular civic loyalties to flourish within a shared European culture. The autonomy of what we call civil society became a characteristic feature of European life. Moreover, the Christian Gospel does not deliver a comprehensive divine law, and thus the diversity of the secular laws of the nations may be affirmed and honoured without threat to our European unity. It is no accident that the decline of Christian faith in Europe has been accompanied by renewed efforts to establish political unity—an empire of money and regulations, covered with sentiments of pseudo-religious universalism, that is being constructed by the European Union.
Christianity encouraged cultural unity.
10. The true Europe affirms the equal dignity of every individual, regardless of sex, rank or race. This also arises from our Christian roots. Our gentle virtues are of an unmistakably Christian heritage: fairness, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, peace-making, charity. Christianity revolutionized the relationship between men and women, valuing love and mutual fidelity in an unprecedented way. The bond of marriage allows both men and women to flourish in communion. Most of the sacrifices we make are for the sake of our spouses and children. This spirit of self-giving is yet another Christian contribution to the Europe we love.
Christian roots nourish Europe.” ……..
Grain of salt (it’s sourced from Herridge) – but there is a reason that JFK thought they should be broken into a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds…
Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) reports the CIA was tracking every keystroke on computers used by DNI Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group, the task force investigating the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, COVID-19 origins, Crossfire Hurricane, Havana Syndrome, and UAPs.
CIA whistleblower James Erdman testified under oath that the CIA illegally surveilled the group’s computers, phones, and contacts with whistleblowers. Investigators looking into Havana Syndrome discovered third parties listening in on their secure phone calls. DNI IT experts confirmed someone had to submit an engineering work order to make that possible.
The CIA also denied the group access to key analysts, blocked requests to review internal communications about whether Biden-era Havana Syndrome intelligence was manipulated, and sent members demands to come in for questioning outside of normal security review procedures.
The group concluded the Intelligence Community’s analytic tradecraft under Biden was “defective” and recommended recalling the 2023 and 2024 Havana Syndrome assessments. Their final report was prepped for release but never made public. Judicial Watch has now sued for the records.
ps. Note that it would be ILLEGAL for them to do this, as they are strictly forbidden from domestic operations.
After the data centers are complete, we will be forbidden to even read or discuss such things.
Herridge needs to be careful, lest she be ‘Joan Rivered’. Daddy, who was/is alleged to be a ‘Pentagon Man’, may not be able to protect her.
Herridge needs to be bold as a lion, as do we all.
We will refuse to be forbidden.
Be ungovernable…
Would love to see SD chime in on this. Look at my post above regarding UAPs. Elizondo made the similar claims on FOX news but regarding UAP discloser specifically. The CIA was spying on Gabbard.
Chronicles Magazine
“Viktor Orbán, Down But Not Out”
By Srdja Trifkovic
Foreign Affairs Editor
Excellent read!
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/viktor-orban-down-but-not-out/
Sounds like a slightly milder version of Harari’s “useless eaters”…
A little comedy for to start the holiday weekend. Pretty good rant against Massie and takes swipes at the likes of Owens, Barnes, Fuentes, Tucker et al and their not so subtle attempts to create a rift in MAGA. Some colorful language involved, but well worth the watch and exposes Massie for the clown that he is.
A Monster and his Suck-Ups: Cuba on Our Mind :: SteynOnline:
Justin Trudeau and “some A-grade dictatorial crawling…
Your mom was. Your father was proud to call Pierre a friend.
Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s Dad. Nobody Has ‘Debunked’ Anything | by Karen Leibowitcz | Medium
2017: Castro’s Little Bastard meets with Castro’s Other Little Bastard to discuss truck-wrecking and forced injections over omelets at Montreal’s International House of Pancakes and Communism but Mostly Communism
The point is not the human foibles of the parents, but how the World Mafia was able to place the sons of Communist pornographer Frank Marshall Davis, Jr. and Communist thug Fidel Castro as the Puppet Rulers of America and Canada to wreck both nations.
And especially how our Great and Loving God used his anointed President Donald Trump to remove both jackals from power. Hallelujah!
Psalm 1
Yes, Lord!
Rest in the Vine: Havana Day? Dreamin’!