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Texas Dem candidate Talarico’s girlfriend…can anyone decipher the tattoo? Picked up from Citizen Free Press.
https://x.com/BMc039965722918/status/2061558527986925963
Looks a little like Tolkien’s Elven script.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-does-jai-guru-deva-om-mean-in-the-beatles-song-across-the-universe/
Sanskrit: “Glory to the shining remover of darkness.”
Kind of a take off from the Beatles 1970 excursion into transcendental meditation (and psychedelics).
“Six prior convictions for fraudulent conduct … no prison time!” “Once the money leaves the country it’s much more difficult if not impossible for us to trace it or recover it!”
If it was you or I we’d get the Tina Peters treatment. We’re not that far behind the UK.
Exactly! But I’m thinking about these quick rich fraudulent schemes of the Democrats! I was just put on Eliquis for my Afib which returned after years of quiet and the net after insurance is about $300/month that’s almost 10% of my monthly Social Security payment!! I hope and pray President Trump can get the costs of these blood thinners down!!! Godspeed President Trump!
You can get it mail order from Canada for a fraction. Try a google search to find the company; you just send them the Dr.’s script. Hubs was doing that when he was taking it.
Thought PT said we now pay the lowest cost of all countries?
80 percent of my copays have fallen to zero, they say that is why. I’m happy
He did, we don’t…
It seems to be a work in slow progress but we haven’t arrived yet…
Make sure it has an it
Canadian Independent Pharmacy accreditation. Then you know it’s legit.
Look for it on CIPA, some sites will lie they are accredited on their own site.
https://www.cipa.com/
Am sure you earned it, that is still a pretty good ss payment. Between my wife and I $2100 per month.
Pray and help others
Does the new Trump RX have it on their list? Maybe check that one out.
No I just checked! So I’m ordering from a Canadian Pharmacy and the Eliquis is from Turkey.
My generics seem to be free now. Not sure why and too afraid to ask. My wife’s meds are a whole different story. I should be part owner in the pharmaceutical industry by now.
I’ve been using CanAmericaPlus. The prescription is for apixaban which is the generic for Eliquis, one third the insured cost in U.S. The generic cannot be sold in the U. S. because of patents and legal wrangling. You can blame Big Pharma (again), this time it’s Pfizer.
Yes – when Hubs was taking it, I recall it was formulated in Turkey. Glad it worked out for you!
The question I have…..if the insurer is the first to benefit from the “lower” cost….is it up to them to pass on to the patient. Will they just profit from lower cost? Have you tried Trump RX site?
Bubby, try Cost plus dot com. They are 5 over cost and 5 to ship. My copay on a drug I have to have went from 30 bucks to 1385 co pay, the last 90 day from cost plus was 110 bucks. Best of luck this is very hard when they all work against you.
I checked “Your Drug Price With Us $345.00″ for a month too expensive! But thanks!
It used to be “pay off the house” and then try to live on SS. Now it’s “pay off the house” and “work till you’re dead”.
A lot of elderly folks are having to do that. It breaks my heart, especially when I see lowlife deadbeats living like kings at the expense of others. Boils my blood.
Warfarin (Lasix) is cheap and has been around a long time.
Warfarin is not lasix.
Please don’t misinform on this site
My bad.
Warfarin is Coumadin.
Lasix is furosemide.
Both are blood thinners.
I have been out of the pharmacy biz for a long time. I got them mixed up.
Not trying to misinform anyone- just trying to help a brother out.
Feel better?
Lasix is a diuretic, a “fluid” pill and makes you pee.
You or I would not do the crime even if we could get away with it.
It all seems untraceable as soon as yet-another Continuing Resolution is rubber-stamped.
17O million? 6 convictions and still committing fraud on the tax payers. That’s unbelievable that he could get away with this fraud for so long and nobody noticed anything. Yikes.
Some people get paid not to notice……… just saying!
The fact it got this far should mean the system is broken or corrupt and it all should be addressed. I bet there is an NGO that is behind all this. Who was his teacher?
Hummm…
If the Strait of Hormuz had truly been closed to the extent commonly portrayed, and if a major share
of world oil supply had actually been removed for roughly three months, the observable
consequences should likely be far more severe than they appear today. One would expect major
inventory depletion, aggressive country-level hoarding and competition for supply, refinery
cutbacks, fuel shortages, much higher sustained oil prices, and broader economic disruption.
Furthermore, even if Hormuz reopened tomorrow, global oil logistics would take months to
rebalance. The apparent mismatch between the claimed scale and duration of the disruption and
the relatively modest impact on everyday economic activity suggests that at least one of the
commonly stated assumptions is incomplete, overstated, or misunderstood—or that the situation is
being used to support economic or market narratives that disproportionately benefit entrenched
interests and major market participants. The behavior of governments, markets, and consumers
does not appear consistent with the idea that the world has been living for three months with a
sustained loss of an irreplaceable fraction of its oil supply. If the disruption were as severe as many
descriptions imply, one would normally expect more visible signs of strain in pricing, inventories,
industrial activity, and government responses than have been observed.
That would be the American view. Elsewhere the shortages are real. Many Asia countries are getting oil from Russia. We are asked to conserve energy as much as possible. Rotating blackouts are in effect.
Give it a few more weeks. The US reserve oil stocks are getting low. Something will have to give.
The difference is that USA is a net exporter of oil. The dynamics of the 1970’s no longer exist.
Yes but there is the question of refining. For whatever reasons the US does not have a lot of refineries that can refine the Texas sweet crude. They are coming though.
That reason is The Democrats Party.
And that’s because they screw up everything they touch!
On purpose.
And then blame the Republicans.
Yup, that seems to be the actual reason more often than not!
CA just closed a Refinery I believe. Colorado has tried to close one near Denver IIRC. I do not know what type of crude these refineries handle either.
The Tesla’s I see in grocery store parking lots have some kind of stickers on the hood saying ” I bought this before I knew Elon was a Fascist.” A year and a half earlier they all wanted praise for being good environmentalists and Elon was heaped with praise and glory.
Just like magic Elon became a Fascist overnight. New hippies and old hippies don’t realize hippy is short for hypocrite
I grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s, went off to college in ‘71. Never saw the reasoning behind the long hair and radical behavior, the drugs, the protests. Hippie is short for dumbass, imho! 🤩
True. But I don’t think there’s evidence that would blunt a roughly 20% drop in ME production.
That’s not exactly accurate. We have to import the heavy oil needed to refine diesel fuel and gasoline because we don’t produce it.
Yes, but not to the extent they should be roughly three months in to a “blocked” strait.
Outside the US, we should be seeing chaos.
Locally, Northern Suburban Chicago is around $5 a gallon, someplaces less.
I remember it being that in Lancaster, PA circa 1995, pre-QE 2.X!
Gas price is down this AM in SW Ohio. Hope it continues.
Also up here in Northwest Ohio: yes, may it continue to drop along with other prices!
Here in Washington state, we lead the country in gas prices, I think. However, I can drive across the border to Idaho and save almost a dollar a gallon. Just one more benefit for living in the communist state of Washington. NOT!
Exactly correct. Just this week drove to an Indian reservation in Idaho for gas from Eastern Washington. Saved $1.35 a gallon
Northern WI down over 60 cents in 5 days
Same in the SW ‘burbs of Chicagoland…down by over 60 cents a gallon, from last week.
…mycroft….hope…or hopium….
Yes, indeed, and you are not the only one noticing a disconnection between what is reported and what is seen daily.
Such a disparity – Truth vs. Lies/Distortions/Half-Truths – is typical of Communist societies.
Perhaps we have not sufficiently appreciated that America has been gradually transforming into a Communist society since at least 1932, if not earlier in the century via the “Progressive Movement.”
True Conservatives, now with the MAGA movement, have been the only Resistance Movement and have been in general unable to prevent the insidious transformation, which has been obvious to us for decades, but is only just now becoming obvious to more people than ever before.
Like the legendary frog in water being slowly heated up, we are perhaps recognizing that the water is almost at boiling point!
Yes indeed!
We all know that the Marxist left that hate our country has a virtual monopoly on messaging and messaging controls opinions and societies.
So, yes indeed, our Constitutional Republic is moving toward communism. Slowly, but surely until Obama hit the scene with his Transformation Of America. He has a lot of entrenched support to help-education, Hollywood, entertainment, community organizations, activists groups, Establishment Media, Establishment politicians, a corrupted judicial system, etc.
The more conservative messaging outlets drip, drip, drip out the conservative alternative messaging, but it’s overwhelmed by the left.
Even with strong beneficial policies of America First and MAGA virtually half the country do not even understand what they are and their benefits. The left has made it all about Trump and have very successfully defined him as evil.
So half the country think the main proponent and messenger of America First policies is evil. They don’t care to hear what he says.
There is an internal war on messaging that’s destroying our country, IMO. I think President Trump should continue his strong messaging, but the administration needs to also come up with some kind of strategy to combat the overwhelming leftists messaging opposition.
The America First drip, drip, drip is not working that well.
JMHO
Not just the President.
And just think , our nations largest city has a hating America,antisemitic, communist mayor.
Pray and help others
Who took his oath of office on the holy quran, shudder, a book that commands one to lie, enslave, terrorize and kill us.
Are people nuts or just ignorant?
The Republican candidate for mayor only rec’d 3% of the vote in New York City so being antisemitic wasn’t as much of an problem as being MAGA!
Maybe destroying the media instead of Iran would work better. PDJT could start with telling the FCC to force a name change on PBS and NPR and all their affiliates. They are no longer Publicly funded so they shouldn’t be allowed to lie to people with a name that insinuates they are.
After that declare that ABCNNBCBS is a monopoly based on their leftist reporting, and break them up.
I don’t think it is quite half the country but the Tucker Carlson Clan is not helping us one bit.
It isn’t half the country – a lot closer to 25%. Hence the 80%/20% split we hear about so often on issues. (The other 5% are checked out on drugs most of the time.)
And the Tucker nitwits have already flamed out. They hopped the horseshoe gap to the far left.
They’re talking to themselves now.
The problem isn’t Tucker Carlson. The problem is getting into a cage match with the crazy owners of a crazy country in the first place and expecting a rational negotiation with them.
I agree with you. If they are continuing to pump the oil in that “20%” that goes through the strait, and the world was short that amount, then after 2 months of this, a few things would happen in the market. A glut would be created in inventory on hand, and in an unfettered market, long dated futures would be at normalized levels, because the supply would outpace demand in the near future.
Also, with prices 60% over their normalized levels, it would be economical for the suppliers not reliant on the strait to increase output, and supply lines of the 20% would be adjusted somewhat to avoid the strait. There are always countervailing forces in any economic equation.
I also find it hard to believe that we are unable to secure shipping in the strait given what we were told about the decimation of the Iranian Navy, Air Force, and munitions.
We are not getting the full story, and I really believe we are getting played with oil prices, just like we have for the last 50 years. For the intermediate term, the economic cost of oil is not much more than the cost to refine and transport it, because on an incremental variable cost basis the raw material cost is near zero. Exploration and administration costs don’t come near to explaining the $60 cost, let alone close to $100.
I think we’re being played as well.
I think the Hormuz “shutdown” has inadvertent shown we are a lot less dependent on Middle East than we were led to believe.
If I’m wrong an apocalypse is coming.
My bet is on the former.
I too think we are being played on gas prices. At one point I read somewhere that the problem in the Strait was do to the Insurers ……Perceived threat …..I remember PT promising escorts and even providing the insurance. Someone is playing games here. They continue to blame “speed” boats in the news…like we can’t blow them out of the water with drones just like the drug boats….PT has been holding back on something.
Basically it’s about the risk future buyers are willing to take. Futures allow oil companies to go about their business at known prices and future buyers make or lose money on prices rising or falling. Big risks equals big rewards but can also lead to big losses.
Futures are not something I would invest in.
Isn’t there quietly being built a new land pipeline to bypass the Strait?
I saw a headline about a week a go that it’s 50% complete. I got the impression that it was some Arab nations building it.
Don’t know any more details such as capacity.
If this pipeline is being built in the U.S. it would take 20 years just to get through all of the permitting BS, not to mention the legal challenges and protests from environmental activists and other brain dead idiots.
Vaping alters thousands of genes linked to cancer, heart and lung disease, study finds – with fruit flavours and ‘mods’ among worst offenders
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15866661/Vaping-genes-cancer-heart-lung-disease.html
Blame and report on everything for cancer risk except covid jabs.
Vaping “main-lines” synthetic nicotine straight into lung tissue, rapidly causing irreversible damage commonly associated with “three packs a day” smokers.
We observed – while standing near the vicinity of a lower-class bar and grill for a Memorial Day Parade – that those with the least money are those also hooked on some of the most expensive vices: alcohol, smoking/vaping, tattoos, and gambling.
This is not to say that people with higher incomes cannot also succumb to similar idiocies: we have noticed plenty of those as well!
But when your money is already limited, why spend it on such absolutely unnecessary things?
Perhaps certain people are more likely to make poor decisions resulting in lower income but also poorer spending decisions as well.
That has been our experience in trying to help people in economic trouble.
e.g. Mrs. Ausonius volunteered to help a single (married once) woman with 6 children by 3 different men.
When she received increased Social Security payments after the death of her only husband (dead at 42 from Lung Cancer/Smoking), she quit her job!
Rather than seeing the payments as a way to save money and maybe rise a little higher economically, instead she saw it as an opportunity to spend more time with her new and unemployed boyfriend.
Poor decisions do indeed make people poor!
Once again, I think it is plausible that a lower IQ is at least part of the problem.
Then college is a waste of brain cells because ‘Tatts” are everywhere. Costly and completely full of heavy metals needled into the skin. Red is Mercury, cadmium is yellow, cobalt, is blue.
And they will be wanting your tax dollars to pay for all their treatments for cancer and other diseases caused by injecting poisons into their skin!
Right now it is between 1/3rd to 2/5ths of the population has disfigured themselves.
A great deal of people out there, who are self-loathing, self-hating, and attention-starved.
I wonder how many chirens she got now with a new baby daddy?
Your Faith should be a source of peace and comfort no matter your financial circumstance but often it is not the case. The reality is the finer things in life cost money. People of limited income live life day to day and long range planning is not on their radar. It is what it is.
Or perhaps at least some of this boils down to simply having a lower IQ?
Or just craving attention!
Stand by a lottery machine for 30 minutes. You would be amazed with the amount of $ spent on these lotteries.
Or go to any casino and watch folks who actually have little disposable income pulling the slot machine handle at $5 a pop. Sad that.
There are no handles anymore. In MN now it’s all electronic and I have seen some people hitting those buttons faster than the best typist in the world. Bring back the handles and the physical coins.
Propensity to waste money on bad habbits happens as a result of addictions. Unfortunately, some addicts find themselves unable to break those addictions, and thus continue on in a downward spiral.
They must be very lonely and unfulfilled people.
Why…..I will tell you what my opinion is…..for what it’s worth lol….when you are poor you can not go out to eat, go on vacation, buy things just because and usually can’t buy things that are an emergency need. Immediate gratification soothes some of the depression.
Popcorn lung is a plausible side effect of vaping. But gene edits? Hmm..
mRNA is included in more injections than just the Covid ones. I would suspect any injections now, especially those aimed at children (neutering) and the elderly (suicided).
I am convinced that ALL vaccines weaken our God given immune system. None are necessary. They are being administered in mass to make big pharma rich, to weaken us and make us sick there by needing more medical treatment, big pharma drugs.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-real-cause-of-the-decline-in-disease-mortality-6017594
Careful…..can we really trust such studies anymore….is the tobacco industry somehow involved?
Iranian MP Rasaei: “We are working so hard on our missile range that one day we will destroy the White House with Iranian missiles. The enemy officially threatened to assassinate Mojtaba Khamenei if found. We must have a deterrent!” Iran openly threatens America while negotiating with Washington.
https://nitter.poast.org/ImtiazMadmood/status/2061752104872485315#m
WHY THE WH NEEDS THE DRONES ON THE ROOF OF THE NEW BALLROOM
Solution: “explode him.” 🤯
Featuring, “Khamenei the Dead Terrorist.”
Charlotte…who bomb them(Iranians) in 2025 and 2026..while negotiations..last time(02/27/26} they been very close to sign up agreement…..
Which makes one wonder why so much effort to negotiate with folks who have no desire to negotiate in good faith. While maintaining a very high desire to kill you.
Because the cost of a full scale invasion and war will be very expensive in lives and money. President Trump wants to avoid that.
🙏🙏🙏 for Tulsi and her husband!!!
Thank you for sharing this, yes! Keep praying for Tulsi and Hubby, God has them covered.
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I wish them all the best hopes against this cancer.
That and, I hope, a personal visit with Dr. Stephen McCullough.
Big study results lately on ivermectin and cancer. Encouraging.
indeed …prayers up
GODSPEED, Tulsi and Abraham! 🙂
I will anxiously await Sundances take on this? A home building progeny now DNI?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-taps-housing-regulator-bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence
Seems out of left field to me… Susie behind this?
So did the appointment of the former President of Exxon Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State! President Trump got it right this time with Marco Rubio!!!
Pulte is the guy that pushed for 50 year mortgages to solve the housing shortage.
The 50 year mortgage wasn’t a bad idea at the time. It was merely an affordable strategy (the longer the term, the smaller the payments) for young people of limited means to get a foothold in the door of home ownership. Otherwise they’re just throwing away their monthly payments on rentals.
What people fail to understand is that borrowers can (and often do) refinance at more favorable terms after their financial condition has improved, if they so desire. Or they can prepay principal each month to shave years off the original loan term.
Nobody is locked into a 50 year term.
Balloon mortgages with pre-planned payment spikes and reverse mortgages aimed at the elderly are riskier options IMHO.
The way mortgages are set up, the reality is it is no different than renting . All your payment goes towards interest . The difference is in the hope that your home increases in value. At these inflated cost the market may actually push the value below what you paid for the home so there is that risk. Are we living through a housing bubble? If so, it may prove wise to wait.
Buy a cheaper home where you can afford to pay more than the mortgage and always pay more. That more comes directly off your principle, effectively reducing term and interest. You can build equity and buy a more expensive home later.
Wouldn’t it better to just get the oil and gas prices down, inflation down and interest rates down by not starting a war in the Middle East within 5 iron range of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE?
Hm. Interesting. Had some conversations about the Pulte family a couple months ago. The older generations.
The conversations were centered around their Catholic support in the Detroit area.
To me it says more about Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Lukas.
Doubt Wiles is behind the appointment.
Sec. Pulte is the guy that exposed the mortgage fraud of Schiff, James etc … and made referrals to DOJ.
Definitely not an establishment club member, and now he’s acting DNI. Everyone else stays in place and “keep on keeping on”.
Pulte is a bulldog and he is an action guy.
WTF another decision that will be a disaster?!!
WTF is happening in this administration?
Many things since G7 meeting (June 2025)….
Calm down…
Maybe he’s making appointments to give trolls like you a job?
He doesn’t want anyone left out of this booming economy…
Oh no.
Acting DNI.
Still seems a bit odd…
Does Pulte have a good reputation? There are builders who subscribe to “close enough construction’.
Pulte is Acting Director at DNI. Awaiting restlessly for Sundance to have an article on it.
Is he the right guy for the job?
Me too. This seems out of the blue. Hoping he is up to it.
Well, let’s see, he is not from the DOJ or the FBI or the CIA or the US Senate
……… he is a US citizen with no dual citizenship with India, Russia, China or any middle eastern country
……………… he is not from the Silicon Valley crowd
…………………….. that is a start
I didn’t scroll.
Should have.
Left a link below.
This is President Trump sticking to Thune and the Senate. Pulte ain’t in “The Club”.
I like this comment, your angle is sharp and sticking it to the Establishment is always a step in the right direction. Much like Paxton over Cornhole.
Pulte is an outsider, and if a man of action, can break stuff and most of all, Trump has to Trust him. Imagine the deepstate trying to forecast how and who would replace Tulsi – I am sure this guy was very low on the list.
I might see some “injustice” on the news, or around me, how should I respond to it. How do you respond to it?
If with worry, fear, anger, hate … and act immediately on those “impulses”, what did Jesus (filled with CHRIST) tell us to respond to it?
Remember, Jesus was dipped in the river by John to have a “water” event. Later , around 3 years later CHRIST would give you the “FIRE” event and the “HOLY SPIRIT” event, if you choose to go through the event when you are ready to accept it, and FOLLOW what Jesus went through, and INVITE CHRIST TO LIVE IN YOUR HEART, and the HOLY SPIRIT to live in your HEAD (3rd eye temple). Do you just have Jesus on your lips, or do you have CHRIST LIVING in your HEART, and do YOU ALLOW CHRIST TO SPEAK from your HEART? The voices you hear in your head, are the problem, they will not give you the solution. CHRIST LIVING IN YOUR HEART WILL LEAD you to GOD ALMIGHTY. The HOLY SPIRIT wants to use you, to allow all the “elect” to speak through you. With GOD ALMIGHTY using YOU, you JOIN the GOD TEAM. If you sit back, and react like a arm-chair warrior/critic … you have the name “Jesus” on your lips and are saying in effect … I’ll let jesus do it for me, let me relax in my chair and watch.
A personal relationship and faith in Jesus Christ is everything one needs. All other needs and rewards flow from that relationship.
Mrs. Sunshine and Besty Jones!
OK? !!!
I want you to be comfortable and not to worry, Jesus Christ and GOD Almighty will take care of it for you, both!
But wait! HOLD on a moment! Jesus just had to give it all to GOD ALMIGHTY and could sit in the boat standing like your picture. That is all it takes? Please tell us that Jesus Christ did NOT need to be tortured and killed, and many of Jesus’s followers were also killed and tortured, …. according to you, Jesus should have just trusted GOD to handle it , sit back, sit in the boat, “GOD got this!” I read the old testimony and the new testimony and it doesn’t seem most of those people just sat in the boat and said “trust GOD, it’s in HIS HANDS”.
That is not my experience. Honey, I lost everything following CHRIST and GOD, … I had very nasty dark ones watching me and blocking me every turn for decades. From the moment of baby Jesus in the crip( 2,000 years ago) , Jesus was hunted and gone after, until the day Jesus died. I see you have many that LOVE your viewpoint. When Jesus gave the message to this 12 followers, and the 72 listeners, … and others … they all left him, but the 12 stayed, and Jesus asked why? And the 12 said, YOU are the only ONE who speaks with authority and with POWER, nobody else sounds like you. They stayed “barely” ….
it is hard to follow Jesus the CHRIST. it would be nice to have your child-like faith, … one of the 12 said, many years after JESUS ascended, …. “we were babies when Jesus taught us, it took a long time to be grown human’s to FOLLOW HIM!
I mis-spelled crib. Sorry. Is it Jesus of N (Son of Man) joining with CHRIST (SON of GOD), Jesus did die, … and was brought back in 3 days, CHRIST had to go into HELL inside Jesus of N body, … it was quite a “shock”, when CHRIST AWAKENED in HELL, and SHONE CHRIST’S LIGHT. CHRIST claimed the earth. Jesus of N ascended, … it took around 40 days to ascend. Then the CHRIST and HOLY SPIRIT was allowed to descend and be given to those that follow Jesus’s MESSAGE. Cheer up, … we have to join Jesus, … unless you want to sink with the ship. :). Peace.
I am nothing, I had to empty myself to fill my center with CHRIST, you will have to do the same thing. Unless you want to go down with the ship. God does come down on me a little when I joke around. Sorry GOD.
–“Honey…”–
???
Either endearing or sarcastic.
The judge should resign or be removed.
She proved by her actions she does not have good enough judgement to be on the bench in any case before her… therefore, can’t be a judge.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/eleanor-ross-of-atlanta-is-judge-reprimanded-for-sex-in-chambers-94
FTA “Eleanor Ross is the federal district court judge who was subject to a private reprimand for having sex with a police officer in chambers in earshot of law clerks, according to a person familiar with the situation.”
Nothing of consequence will happen to her she’s a Democrat and a woman of color!!! Doing what she’s probably best at! Certainly she’s not a Judge of character! JMO
President Trump.appoints Acting Director of the DNI to take over from Tulsi.
Maybe I need more coffee…
Someone please make sense of this.
I’m struggling.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-taps-housing-regulator-bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence
Pulte still will be holding his other duties he’s already doing, and the word ‘acting’ as acting director seems to be important and most likely this is just another one of those moves by President Trump to make liberal heads explode. And it’s only Tuesday.
Am adopting the 72 hour rule, before making judgment, with this appointment.
I suspect the President had feedback from Tulsi Gabbard on this move, and prayers for her husband Abraham that his surgery today leads to a successful outcome for his health.
The 72 hr is a great rule. I use it myself
Just a hunch on my part but oftentimes trust wins over experience. Also, doesn’t it also avoid a confirmation battle?
If he’s already been confirmed by the Senate for one administration post, he can be appointed to another one.
It’s only acting DNI, so it does not require confirmation.
I used to think that already being confirmed eliminated the need if that person was moved to another position.
That is not the case.
New positions do require another confirmation in the senate. In theory, once confirmed should make it somewhat easier.
What a remarkably insane pick.
I cannot figure out how a guy with a finance and real estate background is even remotely qualified to manage national intelligence.
Did Trump just look around the room and point at someone?
I see we are entering the “Acting Director” phase to avoid Congressional oversight. This show is tired.
Hmmm, doesn’t Donald Trump have a real estate background?
President Trump is a finance and real estate guy and he is doing a great job running the whole country just saying
You know what’s really tired? This show you trolls put on. You were Pickleball Steve last week, right?
Marco was to busy.
I came here this morning to ask the same questions, Betsy! Not sure if this is just a temporary placement of a figurehead who will not get in the way, while the people Tulsi Gabbard put in place will continue to do their work behind the scenes?
Yes, sis…temporary. Perhaps a place holder for the moment for the reasons you state.
It was the shock and precious little ☕ this morning before my one brain cell left fired up 😎
i do hope so
If the mockingbird ENEmedia is in a tizzy over it then we can rest assured that the Acting Director is a good a pick as any.
Anyone amplified by the mockingbird ENEmedia or easily confirmed by CONgress is *not* likely to be a good choice. The reverse is also true.
Trolling? No one does it better than PDJT.
Just saw this too Betsy. Sorry I posted it, and didn’t see your post.
I did the same, girl. Posted before I scrolled. Should have known eagle eyed brothers and sisters would have seen it as well.
Just goes to show we’re all paying attention.
Right, thank you for your kindness… hopefully we’ll hear from Sundance on this.
Since Pulte is retaining his prior roll as head of Federal Housing it makes me think Trump may be using Pulte as Acting DNI to be the face of DNI if it is going to go after the prior (or current) crooked Intel people while Aaron Lucas still does the DNI work within.
Pulte is known as a fighter, and unafraid to take on big names.
Don’t forget as Federal Housing head Pulte was the one who went after charging people like Schiff, NYAG Letetia James, Fed Board’s Lisa Cook, etc with mortgage crimes.
So, perhaps trolling and putting a scare into Intel criminals…or, perhaps putting Pulte there temporarily to actually go after some bad Intel players and take the brunt of attacks for it from the left. Pulte does not plan to being a career government employee, so being attacked won’t matter to him (won’t be a career killer).
Yeah. Not doing DNI full time doesn’t give much hope for him to champion more good stuff.
But Acting is temporary. Time limited. And often agency heads are figureheads while their deputies do the real lifting. So who knows.
But why prematurely end the first Acting head?
Key to understanding from the article, “the safety and soundness of the Markets”. The intelligence services are the banks, and the banks are the intelligence services, little to no air gap.
Bernie Sanders is so creepy. A real yuck. How is it even possible someone so repugnant and from the gutter made his way into the US Senate??
Not to be glib, but really, the answer is in your question! 😉
Bernie isn’t any worse than most of the other democrat senators and, frankly, most of the GOP senators too. A creep and a liar is a creep and a liar regardless of party. There isn’t one senator worth keeping in office in either party. They are all really that bad. Some are just betters liars than others……
So true. As disgusting as Bernie is, at least he admits he’s a socialist. The others are scam artists and liars and narcissistic pricks.
Bernie is also a narcissistic prick and physically, very lazy.
True!
Tuberville……is the exception.
Now Governor. Guess he couldn’t stand it anymore. Alabama lucked out.
gulfaddict, I voted for Coach but really we had a sorry lot from which to choose.
Very true!
Sanders was an obscure congressional laughingstock for DECADES (even lefty Democrats shunned him) until the violent, Marxist Occupy Wall St. mob was astroturfed during (by) the 0bama Regime which opened up a pathway for Bernie to the national stage.
Now Bernie and his unworkable economic bullshit is not only mainstream in the Democrat Party, he’s actually calling their shots.
This is just one example of what I’ve been saying for years that – In his effort to bring down the USA, 0bama only succeeded in radicalizing and destroying his own political party.
All astute points.
I briefly saw him on FN and had to vent. He’s physically (and morally/ethically) repulsive. Of course his wife’s grift – iirc, involving community college funds? – was ignored.
I think the College was a 4 year private Catholic College that she bankrupted.
Everyone is blaming Thune for what’s going on legislatively, but the real blame is all 53 of these GOP senators. Thune is being paid to be the punching-bag, but the truth is, the GOP isn’t gonna touch Trump’s core agenda and the GOP senate is the official roadblock……ALL of them. Stop taking the theater bait and blaming only Thune. It’s stupid.
Think about this: Trump outvotes massive national vote fraud to get elected, he drags all of these useless, asshole GOP creeps with him on his coattails, now they have been openly working against his core agenda for a year and a half. They aren’t passing anything for Trump and will blame him for the losses in Nov due to his Iran decisions. See how this works?
The GOP senate has Trump in a corner and he knows it. He has been as quiet as a church mouse about it too. He normally talks on and on about everything. He won’t touch this topic and his bootlickers in the fake-right media won’t even ask him about it. As many others on this site have said, we are not voting our way out of this mess. The clock is not infinite and you will not get chance after chance to fix this. Fix it now or get ready for NY, CA, IL, MN, etc at a national level. That said, I have no idea how Trump gets around this. The GOP has all the cards.
We can only hope the new potential Republican Senators that President Trump endorsed win in November.
It was only a small group in the House that removed a leader that everyone thought was well and truly safe. Amazing that some of those same Republicans later decided to go against President Trump and stand with Massie. Go figure.
My point being that if we are fortunate enough to add more Senators who are America First, they will be able to mitigate, even in a small way, some of the resistance.
There are Senators that are up for reelection in 2028. If all of President Trump’s picks win they will have to rethink their position.
just a side note: there are 22 GOP senate turds up for re election in 2026 (including the vacated or retiring seats). That’s almost half of these liars in one election cycle. Like I mentioned, the game clock on our country isn’t infinite. When the democrats take full control again, it will be the death blow. They already have the plans ready.
When the democrats take full control, they don’t fart around. When the GOP takes full control, they immediately work to toss control back to the democrats. That’s the reality of the party we’ve been supporting now for at least 40 years. I hope people can at least see that.
Exactly. And President Trump should not endorse a single one of them. Not. A. One. MAGA only (and these incumbents are not MAGA).
You mean like not endorsing Ms. Lindsey?
Exactly. The man canot help himself.
Still people dont get the endorsement thing…..Trump endorses the one that is IS going to win whether MAGA or RINO. If he doesn’t like a candidate, or he’s not sure he stays mum.
This is why many good MAGA candidates were not endorsed by PT cause they were gonna lose even with his endorsement. The reason….Trump has to have perfect record of wins that enhances his “prized” endorsement.
PT uses this as a political tool against the GOP. Sure his endorsement means a better chance to win but it is not a garauntee Trump just wants them to think it is….thus he must maintain a close to perfect record.
He endorsed Risch here in Idaho. Risch is 82. He and Crapo (the other senator) take turns cancelling each other’s votes out on the important votes. I didn’t vote for Risch. I won’t vote for either of them.
Well, that’s it then. We should all just go sit in a corner and cry.
GOP senate is the official roadblock
Uniparty Senate is the big, greasy hairball plugging up the swamp drain.
IMO….these Senators become complete puppets to their donors, donors call the shots. Donors do not want the Save Act…it takes away their ability to pick the winning candidates. Remember these very powerful and rich donors play on both sides of the fence.
I hope PT uses whatever powers he has…..call National Security emergency, what ever, to oversee the election. Let them howl to the moon till the cows come home. I have been past ready for him to start shaking things up.
I agree with you. Thune and other RINOs want their old GOP back so they will stall and sit out the president’s term.
On the strange failures to investigate or to fire US Secret Service personnel after various, recently failed and successful assassination attempts compared to previous examples from US history. Video below is cued to that part.
On the Charlie Kirk part:
Official perspective on why Joe Kent was blocked from investigating the Kirk murder:
Jurisdictional turf: The FBI led the federal angle; NCTC’s role is intelligence coordination for terrorism threats, not primary criminal investigation. FBI Director Kash Patel and others viewed Kent’s access to FBI files on the Kirk case as overreach that could interfere with the prosecution of Robinson. This was discussed at high-level White House meetings.
Lone gunman determination: Authorities (FBI, Utah DPS) concluded it was a domestic case by Robinson acting alone. Once he was in custody with physical evidence, it shifted to state prosecution. Further federal “counterterrorism” digging was seen as unnecessary or duplicative.
Kent’s efforts reportedly alarmed officials as potentially politicizing or complicating the case.
So, it’s a “don’t go there” because it might “complicate the case” – the same reason, off the top of my head, used in the OKC bombing case and probably others. “We have come to this conclusion and you cannot work to challenge that via independent investigation because it ‘might complicate the case.'”
The murder of Kirk totally eclipsed all attention in the MAGA media of the Routh trial:
Routh trial originally scheduled for February 10, 2025.
Routh trial rescheduled to September 8, 2025 (jury selection begins)
Charlie Kirk assassinated: September 10, 2025
Routh trial opening statements: September 11, 2025
Routh verdict (guilty on all 5 counts): September 22, 2025 (jury deliberated ~2 hours)
Speaking of his Ukraine related activities:
Mike Benz Joins Matt Gaetz, Claims 95% Chance Routh, Trump’s Would-Be Assassin, Worked For U.S. Gov.
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Haven’t heard from MB in a bit – glad he’s still alive.
MB is uncovering entire private businesses devoted to censoring the internet. Pass a law, incorporate a business to enforce that law. Make tons of money.
Yep, that’s what he’s specializing on right now because he sees the great danger for 2028.
Always a big fan on timelines, they speak for themselves.
Funny how these major events happen when there are things they want off the radar. ALIENS are here.
MO….Robinson was a patsy. Obviously Kent had similar thoughts. There are holes in the prosecutions case….whose prints were on the gun besides Robinsons? Was the gun tested to see if recently fired? The wound does not fit with the caliber used.
The man that dropped off the roof did not have a gun, watched it many times . For the gun to fit in the book bag it would have to broken down….there was no time to do that. Then to turn around and reassemble while in the woods made 0 sense.
One of the more obvious things to think about…..Based on their history ,is it possible for our current 3 letters to be involved…if the answer is yes then on to the why. This is what Kent wanted to rule out and I don’t blame him. Unfortunately allot of people with these same questions chose to capitalize on the issue monetarily wise.
Well of course Robinson was a patsy, just like Oswald was a patsy. He even tried to tell us that.
Not about health…
“The fall 2026 booster decision represents the same regulatory theater we’ve watched since 2021: select a strain based on incomplete surveillance data, authorize based on antibody titers in small cohorts and mouse models, distribute to a public that has increasingly tuned out, and hope the mismatch between the shot and the circulating variant isn’t too embarrassing by the time respiratory season peaks.
No randomized controlled trial has ever demonstrated that this annual reformulation ritual reduces severe outcomes. No non-inferiority safety trial against the flu vaccine exists. And the virus continues to evolve faster than the regulatory apparatus can respond.
The carousel spins on because the institutional momentum, manufacturer contracts, and the political unwillingness to admit the lack of medical necessity or clinical indication. America knows the pandemic is over, why pretend the crisis still exists?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/the-booster-industrial-complex-marches?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
The influenza virus, like the coronaviruses which create “the common cold,” mutates rapidly. It is therefore quite likely that the virus you just inhaled does not match the vaccine you just took. (This phenomenon is also why you can “catch a cold” more than once in a season. And, why COVID so quickly became impotent.)
You can waste money on “a flu shot” if you want, but it’s extremely unlikely that it will do any good.
Note that there are other (legitimate …) vaccinations, such as polio and measles, smallpox and rubella, which are worth taking. The diseases are very nasty, and the vaccinations work.
The best way to avoid getting sick? Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, and don’t rub your eyes! Sometimes the very simplest precautions work best.
Nursing 101:
“handwashing is the single most important task one can perform, to prevent the spread of infection”.
This has been proven in hospital settings too eons ago. It’s not even the type of soap that matters the most, it is the mechanical scrubbing action and while flush thoughly with water. Learn to wash your hands properly!
I first heard it in 1976…
The mismatch between vaccine and circulating might make you more likely to get sick.
Yes, the last good Dr. we had said the same.
He quit the hospital as they forced him to vax people.
The best way to avoid getting sick? Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, and don’t rub your eyes! Sometimes the very simplest precautions work best.
That was the original recommendation when covid hit. Unfortunately making us wear masks blew that all to hell because you can’t wear a mask without doing what you’re not supposed to do!
I believe mask wearing not only didn’t work, it actually helped covid spread. In MN we had a declining rate of cases in July when Walz mandated masks, and from that point until December cases went up. Idiots!
Why why why does “vaccination, and all vaccines, are a SCAM” still not register???
Zero safety testing… secret ingredient recipes (“patent-protection-proprietary-formulation”)…
*** zero product liability.***… HELLO?
Organized crime by definition in US law
Injecting unknown substances into a muscle with the goal of improving health is just dumb. Especially true if one takes the time to read about ‘excipients’ which appear on the CDC website and are used to ‘help’ the ‘virus’ generate ‘the immune response’. The virus has to be alive in order to generate the response so a vaccine is not and cannot be sterile.
“Generating a response” is not whatsoever the same thing as literal immunization – making one immune; making a person impervious to infection or disease.
That *only happens* via innate-design response to natural exposure through the mucosal membranes – respiratory &/or digestive linings;
injection into muscle or below the skin changes the route of exposure, the timing and the dose-amount of contaminating substance (aka “antigen”), so the immune system innate design doesn’t recognize nor does it operate according to innate & optimal, efficient design to produce actual (long-term or lifelong) immunity.
The following phenomenon is examplified by pertussis Vx but is typical of the effect of Vx in general – I have the dot-connections about pertussis so to explaine;
also is why the Vx’d people get even sicker from subsequent exposure to subsequent exposure = immune system disruption/ hobbling by Vx.
Original Antigenic Sin aka Linked Epitope Suppression –
the first exposure = “primed” – by vaccination that prevents the immune system FROM RECOGNIZING/RESPONDING correctly to subsequent natural exposures (not because of the ‘number of antigens’, which is excuse-language used to “require new vaccine be developed”). Hundreds of papers are published on this phenomenon by both names – discovered mid 1940s & named OAS by Thomas Francis studying influenza
{ ‘The Wages of Original Antigenic Sin’ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3086238/ }.
Cherry claims pertussis Vx as his ‘baby’ for an entire career… found OAS & disguised it to preserve the Vx grift
{ 112-Year Odyssey of Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines—Mistakes … }
“…
In the last 13 years, major pertussis epidemics have occurred in the United States, and numerous studies have shown the deficiencies of DTaP vaccines, including the small number of antigens that the vaccines contain and **the type of cellular immune response that they elicit. The type of cellular response a predominantly, T2 response results in less efficacy and shorter duration** of protection. Because of the small number of antigens (3–5 in DTaP vaccines vs >3000 in DTwP vaccines),
**linked-epitope suppression occurs. Because of linked-epitope suppression, all children who were primed by DTaP vaccines will be more susceptible to pertussis throughout their lifetimes, and there is no easy way to decrease this increased lifetime susceptibility.**
…”
Following is the nuts & bolts *from a non-pretending person* of the switch-a-roo name change to officially disguise it & re-define it to keep from acknowledging what it is for a few more decades of vaccine profiteering…
{ https://www.beyondconformity.co.nz/hilary-s-desk/whooping_cough_and_chameleons }
She’s both technical AND explains it clearlyso lay people can understand what is written (technically-worded jargon) that demonstrates the switch.
ConMed is soooo deceptive in sustaining themselves & their perceived ‘relevance’; at great cost to their targets.
“… Original Antigenic Sin.
When a person gets an infectious disease for the first time, the body responds to WHAT it sees, WHERE it sees it. The body forms immunity on the basis of THAT experience. The immune system assumes that the next time that same thing comes around, it will come again, in the same form and place. HOWEVER, if a person’s immunity to a vaccine creates different pathways from natural immunity, that causes a problem. The body still sees “the thing” but the different immunity doesn’t work against the thing in the same way as it should.
… ((much granular & jargon explained I omitted here))
(Addition December 2013 addition.
Original antigenic sin has been confirmed by a recent study in 2013, by Warfel.(linked ref.) So when a vaccinated person contracts pertussis again, the bacteria can get a good hold, because there is no front line ACT defence, to stop the bacteria from attaching, and starting an infection. After a vaccine in which there is no ACT, the immune system will NOT respond to ACT in the future, because the programme has been set by the first contact which was the needle, not the bacteria. And here is the proof in Table 1:…
…
An “epitope” is part of the antigen.(linked ref.)
Imagine the whooping cough bacteria is like a jig saw puzzle. Imagine an outside envelope, genes , toxins and other stuff. Each different bit, is a “linked epitope”, and all the epitopes which are “linked”, are the bits which put together make up an antigen.
So the expression “Linked epitope suppression” is actually a very devious way of describing original antigenic sin. Worse, “linked epitope suppression” has been reframed to give it a slightly different meaning as well. What they are saying is that because the vaccine presents different epitopes to the disease, it gives a different immunity.
They say this means that the usual immune system patterns essential to natural immunity – are suppressed, because the body responds to the antigens which were in the vaccine, and not the real ones presented in the bacteria. “Suppression” though, infers that the vaccine “suppresses” the proper immune response – but this isn’t true. The proper immune response can’t happen, because the initial programming was all wrong in the first place. It isn’t suppressed. It just… doesn’t happen.
And unfortunately, unlike a computer, you can’t reboot, or reinstall immune system programming to correct the glitch. Once the programming is set by the vaccine, that’s how the programming stays from that point on, and that’s why it is and should be called…. “original antigenic sin”.
Original antigenic sin, is a very graphic term and it’s no wonder it’s been removed from their vocabulary, because it implies a man-made problem.
Now that you have these terms, perhaps you can follow the rest of the blog. PT stands for pertussis toxin. (You can look up the other abbreviations yourself if you have the need).
…”
read the full essay – she makes it understandable by being *thorough*.
That vaccines are “sterile or not sterile” has nothing to do with why they don’t prevent infectious diseases as propaganda advertises – OR why they injure, maim, & kill people.
Bacteria are lifeforms that can be recognized as such under a normal microscope. They are alive and move around. Bacteria are killed by antibiotics. Virus’ are incomplete lifeforms that cannot survive for more than a few hours at most unless they are able to enter and overwhelm a cell so that they are immune to an antibiotic that kills from the outside of the cell.
Vaccines were developed as a way to prevent a disease that cannot be stopped by an antibiotic. Whooping cough is caused by a bacterium with a name and should be treated with an antibiotic AFTER the disease is diagnosed.
The Doctor who explained this to me was an MD with a PhD in Chemistry and an Assistant Dean of Medicine at Northwestern University and later the Dean of Medicine at Loyola of Chicago.
It may be old fashioned Medicine but it does make sense to consider the knowledge of our elders with credentials.
I will look up and read the explanation of Antigenic Sin but I have to say the excipients in these things are supposed to be needed Because they are not sterile and they are not sterile because the bug needs to be alive even if attenuated to work.
My detailed reply to you was “not approved” aka scrubbed – it was factual;
here are the links I included for you to read in addition to the above essay…
Please do look up these also –
Stanley Plotkin Deposition – worth the time to hear it all
{ https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/the-deposition-of-stanley-plotkin/ }
“… Despite his best efforts, he was not able to put the truths he was forced to admit in that deposition back in the bottle; nor have his efforts succeeded in bullying everyone into injecting without thinking.
While the deposition, as he once wrote, was “traumatic” and “exhausted” him, my book has clearly pushed him far over the edge. Yet, again, and unsurprisingly, his only response, as you will see in his letter, is not about the substance of the book, but rather about how he (the world’s leading vaccinologist) needed more time to prepare for the deposition and that it went too long.
…” ~ Aaron Siri @ ‘Eight Years After Deposing Dr. Plotkin, the “Godfather of Vaccines,” He Sends Me a Letter’ @ his substack ‘Injecting Freedom’
Re: “consider the knowledge of our elders with credentials.”
These are the pHARMa-indoctrinated profiteers who perpetuate the religion of vaccination as science with claims, without any scientific substance.
Plotkin is considered the “world’s leading expert” so listen to this deposition – he was questioned thoroughly, and you may find it surprising.
Also
WHO Global Vaccine Safety Summit
{ https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/shocking-vaccine-admissions-from-inside-the-w-h-o/ }
“Mere weeks before #Covid19 became a household name, The Highwire aired an entire episode exposing leading public health authorities at the “Global Vaccine Safety Summit” held by the World Health Organization at the end of 2019. Listen to what Soumya Swaminathan, Marion Gruber, Heidi Larson and other leading experts were saying about vaccines before the pandemic hit.”
I’m not making any of this up Or making claims from ’emotion’ – I’ve been studying what creates health & sickness for decades… that has included separating medical myths from actual facts.
Defending a religion is fine IF you acknowledge it IS a religion; pretending it’s honest-science-Truth is disingenuous at best, criminal more accurately, as is the profiteers way.
That’s who these people are, so listen to & learn to understand them from the non-profiteers questions & observations & researching who expose the lies they tell to deceive & sell their toxic soup injections to their ‘true believers’.
Understanding infection (by a non-pretending, non-Vx-profiteer)
{ https://www.natureinstitute.org/article/philip-incao-md/understanding-infection }
Thanks for the links. I listened to the stanley plotkin interview sometime ago. I watched the Highwire’s Inconvient Study movie too.
Have it all bookmarked thank you.
The WHO summit is also relevant… I think they forgot there were cameras or maybe they didn’t know. They were very honest and a few even asked real questions and got honest answers. Extraordinary stuff specifically about how the excipients work.
Paging EPA Lee Zeldin…
“Google should stick to web browsers instead of conducting one of the largest open-air biological experiments in U.S. history that could result in irreversible ecological disruptions.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/google-to-release-64-million-bacteria?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
No kidding. Here we go advancing Bill Gates’ mosquito project using Google or Alphabet instead of Microsoft? Sounds like a plan to me.
They are desperate to get something going because Hanta isn’t causing anymore panic than ol’ Monkeypox or that other pox after MP that didn’t take off.
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Yes, Californians, your votes DO matter & I highly encourage every single Republican to make your voices heard.
https://truthsocial.com/@ScottPresler/116680824881533822
Yes! And Hilton was just on RAV saying that Trump lawsuits have made an impact in cleaning up the CA. Voter rolls.
Still he says SWAMP THE VOTES MAGA.
Go CA. MAGA, we are rooting for you!!!!!
I did and I am waiting for results tonight. Steve Hilton has a good chance.
Mule Train
1950’s
Frankie Lane
2000 Mules
The stolen election …
2020
France is burning……..pay attention…its coming here ………..
Horrific and am only half way thru the video…
Not only is freedom one generation away from extinction, it would seem peaceful living is as well.
Muslims now 9 to 10% of the French population. If/when they become that large of a percentage in any country, this is the behavior that can be expected. They destroy anything and everything non muslim.
5% used to be the percentage where change would occur as the push for ‘their’ lifestyles, would take hold in an otherwise ‘normal’ society…
‘What Islam Is NOT’ spells it out with receipts
I cannot wait for FIFA here this summer. I seems like a bad idea right now.
France is dead…Paris is burning……………….bring in scum ,you become scum….a lesson for us to learn ….
the footage of the burning is amazing.
it is well under way here as well…………………wake up America …..deport deport deport……shut the doors …..
Exactly!!!! Amen and Amen!!! But we won’t the Democrats will continue to legally import as many radical muslins as they possibly can!!!
Or they may simply refuse to send any muslims back home and bring world cup Soccer here?
🤣 it’s Al Bundy… he looks exactly like him!
“LMFAO!! Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman is FUMING as he walks outside a “mega master” immigration hearing, where the Trump admin is SURGING through illegal aliens’ cases so they may be deported”
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2061568924656009306?s=46
Strange that he didn’t mind the ‘assembly line’ of illegals, numbering in their tens of thousands, rolling through the borders.
He failed to mention that he’s not profiting from this particular “factory”… is why his panties are in a wad.
He’s a Beta like Al Bundy too.
Immigration law IS due process for illegal aliens, full stop.
from 5 days ago – go get the rest
“…
🔥🔥🔥
Yesterday, CBS ran a story under a boring headline designed to make your glazed eyeballs glide right past it, “DHS memo directs ICE to ramp up asylum-related fraud cases.”(linked) But buried deep in its bland beige exterior was a fairly explosive piece of news: the federal government is now authorized to civilly or criminally prosecute the activist lawyers who have long been coaching their clients to lie.
…
To be clear: we are not talking about a few bad apples. We are talking about what Percival described as standard practice. The legal equivalent of a factory assembly line, except instead of producing widgets, it produces asylum claims, each one carefully engineered to check the correct boxes, regardless of whether the underlying facts bear any resemblance to the boxes being checked….
… It turns out there is a meaningful difference between arguing your client’s case aggressively and entirely fabricating the case. The prospect of civil, criminal, or bar prosecution tends to help clarify that distinction.
…”
{ https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/squidly-wednesday-may-27-2026-c-and }
I left it here
{ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/27/may-27th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-493/comment-page-2/#comment-12604408 }
currently watching Sec. Rubio’s testimony on The Hill. Corey Booker seems to have taken his meds this morning. He almost looks and sounds like a rational person.
I’ve also noticed that most Dim Congress people seem to treat male members of this Administration much better than female members? I’ve been watching this for awhile.
Just saw this…
https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/us-news/trump-taps-federal-housing-boss-bill-pulte-to-temporarily-replace-tulsi-gabbard/?
Sorry, I posted before I looked…you guys are on the ball.
I grabbed a copy of a similar article, came over to this site and searched the page for DNI. Lots of discussion already.
So much for my needing to share.
But everybody is still welcome to chime in.
Lets make Cuba and Canada just one big data center.
There used to be a twice-a-day ocean ferry between Havana and Key West. The Cubans deserve to have their nation back, and to enjoy normal relations with their closest neighbor. JFK has been dead a long time …
We can do it. They can do it. Working together, we can restore things and heal this festering sore.
Communism: It doesn’t work. It has never worked.
Trade Embargo: Enough already!
Rubio is knocking it out of the park.
https://www.c-span.org/event/senate-committee/secretary-rubio-testifies-on-budget-request-amid-ongoing-iran-conflict/443487
<Rubio is knocking it out of the park.>
Agreed…
And it doesn’t hurt that the Dems are so stupid.
Cameron Highland Regiment at the beginning of WWI…and after.
Sobering.
But more than that, whatever for??
I almost hope their spirits and the spirits of millions of others who sacrificed to preserve the country they loved…in vain…perpetually haunt those who so abjectly and deliberately capitulated to Islam and the annihilation of all they held dear.
My Grandfather fought for the Brits in WWI on the western front and what he saw and lived through scared him for life! I asked him about it in the late 60s when he was visiting and he began to cry because of the “lads” he lost as a Sergeant to mustard gas. He said he saw them all falling and began crying when my Mother interrupted/ended our WWI discussion. I felt so bad!
“The use of mustard gas in warfare was first outlawed by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts.”
There was an episode in the excellent Foyle’s War when a colleague of the eponymous actor was speaking about the mustard gas attacks he and his soldier brothers were hit with. He went into exquisite detail about seeing the cloud creeping ever closer and what happened when it reached them. It was so well done that I could feel his terror…
I can understand that to this day as you remember your grandfather that you felt bad for asking. It sounds as if you were too young to know, Bubby. That was supposed to be the war which ended all wars. And I believe those who are not students of the deep history of it are unable to grasp how that one set the stage for everything which has since followed…in every respect. God bless your grandfather’s memory…
My Grandfather was gassed at the Argon in France. He was scarred for life.
He was blessed he even survived!!!
Someone make this make sense, besides the fact that he is loyal. There must be something.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/new-leftists-melt-down-as-president-trump-reveals/
Also, I don’t care that the Left doesn’t like it, they won’t like anyone unless its their guy. But no experience at all? Will this guy get railroaded by the “six ways” people immediately?
Go to Sundance’s recent post.
All the right people are *apoplectic*… this is a very good sign.
“Acting” DNI means he’s got zero incentive to “tow the line & save his job”… Tulsi probably left him a boat load of near-finished &/or finished work product to deploy and rabbit holes excavated.
Has Sundance ever talked with BP?…???
Trump had “no experience” in gov’t. either; this is what they are terrified of.
OH MERCIFUL HEAVENS!!!!
Look who’s trying to butch himself up…
The well manicured beard and a hat fresh out of the store, sitting behind a no doubt borrowed brand spankin’ new latest model Chevy Silverado…
I should have seen this coming…
(Edit: I just looked more closely. It’s what he thinks an authentic “cowboy” hat looks like 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 )
Don’t all cowboys have manicures and wear clear nail polish?
the side eye……lol
HAHAHAHAHAAAA!! Perfect dear sir!!
(…and if I do say so, what magnificent carving! What a talent you are 💕 Beautiful)
thanks for the chuckle. Wish I had half your talent.
😂 🤣 😂
I wish my hands and nails were as smooth and manicured as this “cowboy” 😂
I love your version of “suspicious cat”.
😂😂😂love this one Betsy ❤️
Can always count on you for this shot Betsy!
She’s going to get quite the workout in the run-up to November 👍🏻
Those hands have not done a days work in their lives.
There is a dude on the FB videos, called “Unhinged Rancher”…who is also a self reported ‘preacher’….shows videos of swearing worse than a sailor as he chases newborn calves to be ear tagged…..rough and dirty, drops F bombs by the dozens.
Good call. The skin on his arm resembles that of my 8 month old grandson. The forearm lacks muscle tone.
His straw hat is so clean, no dirt marks, he hasn’t done any work in it because there are no sweat stains!! Polished nails! Work will get dirt under your nails! You work in the Texas heat with a straw cowboy hat on there will be sweat stains! I have dirt and sweat stains on my straw hat from working outside in South Texas heat and working on my SIL’s cattle ranch in Arkansas! He’s a drugstore cowboy at best! He’s a fake all the way through!
Add a brand new straw hat sitting on his EARS?
The mandibular prognathism shows an unfortunate amount of in-breeding in Wannabe Amann’s background.
That he allowed such a picture of himself to exist also shows a below-average intelligence. 😉
What a stud, eh, Ausonius?
Lily white, stay out of the sun skin, hands which have never done even one day’s hard work…
What he doesn’t realize is that by orchestrating this absurd photo is that he shows he is incapable of being a conviction politician. Rather he is a seedy political shape shifter. Read the room, read the memes, read the reports, read the polls… then metamorphose into a caricature of who he believes he needs to appeal to for votes.
A ridiculous figure with his wetted finger in the wind, facing in the wrong direction.
I say no one should stop this pitiful but revealing pantomime.
Ridicule and laughter are powerful.
Bring it on….
Look out! It’s the Cosplay Cowboy.
Bet he has WetWipes in the glove compartment to clean his sticky fingers after chowing down on veggie brisket.
As they say where you are, Peg, what a plonker.
Sorry for lowering the tone, but that right there is your common-or-garden Chutney Ferret.
Gee, that’s a British term if ever I heard one.
Spot bollock on, my duck. 😉
That too 😂
They should have put some dirt under his well manicured fingernails too. Just sayin’….
😁
I get on CTH every day but somehow I missed who this fella is. Who is he?
Mark it well, Jh…
Dem candidate for the Senate, James “Rough, Tough, and Working for all Texans” Talarico
has ANYONE EVER Seen Him Ride a Horse or Herd Cattle ?
Let Alone Bale Hay ? …
There’s an OLD Saying –
It’s early days..just you wait 😎
That is the most pristine cowboy I have ever seen!?!
Did a couple of skinny, mangy rats camp out on his face? That is so gross to look at. Yikes.
Texan to Talarico: You couldn’t come off as more of a nutball if you tried.
Talarico: Hold my mimosa.
😂
Phony…Dems did the same with Walz…showed him Hunting…making him look like a real “man”…
It’s a typical straw hat worn in the summer when it’s pretty darn hot. The open lattice work allows sweat to evaporate.
Just received a text from his campaign to donate. Weird, since I have lived in Arkansas now for the last 18 years and I’ve been registered as a Republican for 56 years.
He’s playing a game. “All hat and no cattle!”
Yes, Eagle. I got that after i posted. I’ll issue my mea culpa. I do know better…
So they’re tracking you 😎
Can we just end it, already??
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/917545/iran-threatens-red-sea-blockade-as-ceasefire-talks-falter-and-regional-tensions-mount
And of course the Bab el-Mandeb straight isn’t located anywhere near Iran’s territory. It is interferred with by another Iran supported terrorist organization, Houthis….and why Iran, as a state sponsor if terror, needs to be confronted now before it has nuclear weapons.
The roots to all problems in the Middle East originated with Iran.
If you want to smile for the rest of the day, read Jeff Childers Substack, Coffee and Covid.
Thanks Lindy for sharing…that was a fun read !!
Red on red attack. Thou must not go against Soros…
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Soros-backed nonprofit accuses NJ Gov Sherrill of spreading ‘MAGA propaganda’ on ICE detainees
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-backed-nonprofit-accuses-nj-gov-sherrill-spreading-maga-propaganda-ice-detainees?dicbo=v2-R9uWUY5&intcmp=fn_amp_ob_more_from
Minnesota GOP chaos. A couple thousand delegates spent hundreds of dollars and a weekend of their time only to have the head of the GOP tell them to GTH. The articles explain that the GOP endorsement process failed and delegates wasted their time because the GOP basically un-endorsed it’s candidate by suggesting the terrible RINO that came in second run in the primary against the endorsed candidate. This is idiocy except for the fact that MN grassroots will be allowed to vote for their candidate Mike Lindell and sets up for a very interesting Trump endorsement.
The MNGOP is a waste. This 2nd place RINO Lisa Demuth voted yes on every single bill that Walz got and signed. She also made a deal with democrats to seat a radical leftist that won by 14 votes where 20 votes turned up missing, in exchange for the democrats approving her as speaker! She also pushed, signed, and help pass a resolution praising Somali’s in MN.
https://alphanews.org/minnesota-gop-releases-demuth-from-endorsement-pledge-after-convention-issues/
https://alphanews.org/breaking-house-speaker-lisa-demuth-announces-she-will-run-in-august-primary/
There are more states with the same problem. It’s a long road to overcome them but it will be worth the trek.
totally true. WI to the east and IL to the southeast for starters. If people want to see what lies ahead for the national GOP, look no further than IL. The GOP slept with the democrats for decades, looting the taxpayers, getting rich, getting their friends and families rich. They thought they had a “deal” with the IL democrats and slowly got pulled into a trap that snapped their heads clean-off. There is no IL GOP today. They don’t exist except to get coffee for the democrats as house slaves.
WI is a few years behind IL, but catching-up very fast and it sounds like MN is basically like IL. Add-in NY and CA and a few others and the road ahead will not be easy. When the dems get a chance to chop-off the heads of their opponents and go to authoritarian rule, they do it. They also make sure the voting system can’t “undo” their complete control. You are not outvoting the fraud in IL. Not ever.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the U.S.A., stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous. The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, “It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!” President DONALD J. TRUMP
6/2/26, 1:00 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116681581361115247
Prayers for Tulsi’s husband as he heads into surgery…
EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes TalibanOn Monday, the EU sanctioned Israel. On Tuesday, it invited the Taliban.
On Monday, the European Union announced sanctions on Israelis, including Daniella Weiss, the 80-year-old former mayor of a Jewish community in Judea and Samaria, and on Tuesday, it invited the Taliban, an Islamic terrorist group allied with Al Qaeda, to come to Brussels for talks.
“Extremisms and violence carry consequences,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned Israel. Obviously. And the consequence of extremism and violence is an invite to Brussels.
SOURCE : Daniel Greenfield
Pulte…
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There is some truth to this observation:
“Trump never appoints people at random. He studies their exact strengths, the timing of each phase, and the specific needs on the board, then puts the right operator in the right seat to move the mission forward.”
— Derpstated, @Derpst8d —
So, I think Trump is either simply trolling the Dems (much like he did when he said he was thinking of appointing Gaetz as AG)….or he will use Pulte as the attack dog against intel bad players.
We will know soon enough.
Either that….or he appointed Pulte as Acting DNI because Rubio was busy. 😁
If for no other reason…this is why I like our Secretary of State….Duckworth could not fathom the pushback he gave!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/when-do-i-get-talk-here-sec-marco/
here is a Highland calf….love and trust, is in the air….
Tousi TV discussing the Nowak situation…including protests…he mentions some censorship of his news programs, over there, as well……Brits are not lost, yet….
The crowd chanted “I can’t breathe” chanting outside the Southampton Police Station…..and also gave dear Henry a beautiful moment of silence….
Police were ordered to push the protestors back…clashes reported….now riot shields and forming a line…
another link @AY-AUDITS
Sometimes it is something involving one person, or a one time too many situation, that becomes a catalyst for historical change (someone stands in front of a tank, someone refuses to sit in the back of a bus, a leader gets assassinated).
Sometimes you reach the point of no return no matter what.
I pray Europe can turn things around (Canada, and us too).
Yesterday:
Trump expects US-Iran deal to extend ceasefire and reopen Strait of Hormuz within a week
US President Donald Trump told ABC News on Monday that he expects the United States and Iran to reach an agreement within the next week to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump called a peace deal with Iran potentially ‘even better than military victory,’ acknowledged it is ‘not a simple matter,’ and mentioned he resolved a ‘small problem’ by calling on both Hezbollah and Netanyahu to stop attacks on each other, with both sides agreeing.
Today, published 37m ago:
Israeli airstrikes hit multiple towns in southern Lebanon
Israeli fighter jets bombed several towns in southern Lebanon including Hadatha, Debin, Sarifa, and Qa’qaa’iyeh, according to Al-Mayadeen and Tasnim News. The strikes are part of Israel’s continued air operations over Lebanese territory despite ongoing ceasefire negotiations in Washington.
There is an agenda afoot….?
Wow, amazing considering that he’s on The Daily Wire:
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole sh*tshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.
12:20 PM · Jun 1, 2026
2.3M Views
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
I hope you get to keep your job after this post.
7:58 PM · Jun 1, 2026
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The United States Military Academy, in negotiations lectures, used to emphasize that ‘one must define their victory, the least that you are willing to accept’…while delays are painful, I think Trump understands that…and maybe those two, don’t? Advertising is not a good thing…we gots the basics…”no nukes”….and “open the Strait of Hormuz”….
IMHO–clearly (outwardly) defining the victory details for all to see and hear, including the enemies…is not a good tactic.
I think those two suffer from being ‘outside the loop’?
Just me from the kitchen table headquarters…
Matt Walsh is no Trump fan and never has been.
I don’t think he’s anyone’s fan. But the content of his show is 95% in-line with MAGA.
PSA, another recall…also other vendors mentioned in the article…including Target, Meijer and Supervalu…
https://wgntv.com/news/recalls/cheese-bread-sold-at-costco-walmart-recalled-over-salmonella-concerns/
Blaming the failure to solve an intractable problem on the guy who suckered him into helping to create it:
Fox News
@FoxNews
“You’re f****** crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”
That’s what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel’s military actions in Lebanon.
Trump was reportedly furious that Israel’s moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: “What the f*** are you doing?”
7:01 AM · Jun 2, 2026
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Q: Did the Israelis and Mossad lead Trump to believe that the Iranian citizens would revolt relatively early in the war while US intel agencies disagreed?
Grok 3 AI:
Yes, according to multiple reports, particularly a detailed New York Times investigation.
In the lead-up to the 2026 U.S.-Israel war with Iran (which began with major strikes on February 28, 2026), Mossad chief David Barnea presented a plan to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Trump administration officials. He argued that Mossad could galvanize Iranian opposition shortly after the war began—through intelligence operations, fomenting riots/rebellions, and capitalizing on strikes that would weaken the regime’s repressive apparatus—potentially leading to its collapse within days or a relatively short period.
– Netanyahu adopted this optimistic outlook.
– Trump and Netanyahu embraced it, with Trump publicly calling on Iranians to seize the opportunity and take over their government.
U.S. intelligence agencies and some Israeli counterparts were skeptical. Senior U.S. officials (including CIA Director John Ratcliffe) viewed the regime-change/uprising scenarios as unrealistic or “farcical,” assessing that while decapitation strikes and military degradation were feasible, a popular uprising and full regime change were not reliable or imminent outcomes. They saw the Israeli pitch as oversold.
This created a clear divergence: Israeli/Mossad assessments (pushed by Barnea and adopted by Netanyahu) were more bullish on a relatively quick internal revolt, which influenced Trump’s decision-making and public messaging. U.S. intel took a more cautious, pessimistic view on that specific element.
Context and Aftermath
– The uprising did not materialize as hoped early in the conflict (or at all in the expected timeframe), leading to reported frustration from Netanyahu toward Mossad.
– Some Israeli sources later pushed back, claiming their assessments were more cautious/long-term than portrayed and that optimism came more from parts of the U.S. side.
– The war (sometimes called the Twelve-Day War in its initial phase, though fighting extended) achieved military degradation of Iranian capabilities but not the swift regime collapse some had anticipated.
This aligns with broader patterns in intelligence sharing and advocacy during high-stakes decisions, where allies may emphasize certain scenarios to align policy preferences. Reports are based on U.S. and Israeli officials and reflect post-hoc analysis amid an ongoing/tense situation as of May 2026.
Trump’s role: Trump publicly announced and confirmed the start of “major combat operations” in a video statement on Truth Social and other channels. He described the objectives as eliminating threats from the Iranian regime, preventing nuclear weapons development, destroying missile and naval capabilities, and supporting regime change. He also called on Iranians to rise up against their government.
Approval and coordination: Reports indicate Trump approved the operation following lobbying by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (and Saudi input), including discussions about targeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Strikes began on February 28 after Trump gave the order on February 27. Khamenei was killed in the initial wave.
Q: Was it predictable that eliminating the highest levels of Iranian leadership would result in difficult peace negotiations due to uncertainties about who is actually in control and was it known that lower level leaders were even more radical than the eliminated ones?
Grok 3 AI:
Yes, it was predictable—and widely anticipated by analysts—that decapitating Iran’s top leadership would create uncertainties in negotiations due to unclear command structures and a power vacuum.
It was also known (or strongly suspected) that survivors and lower/mid-level figures, particularly in the IRGC and hardline factions, were often more radical or uncompromising than some of those eliminated.
Predictability of Negotiation Difficulties
Leadership decapitation strategies have a mixed historical record. They can disrupt command in the short term but frequently lead to:
– Power vacuums and factional infighting: Without a clear, authoritative figure (like the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) to arbitrate, different centers of power (IRGC, clerics, pragmatists) compete, leading to hesitation, performative toughness, or stalled decisions.
– Unclear interlocutors: Negotiators on the other side don’t know who can credibly commit Iran to a deal. Recent reports highlight exactly this—divisions among Iranian leaders, Mojtaba Khamenei’s seclusion (possibly injured), and the absence of a strong arbiter complicating U.S. talks under Trump.
Analysts and think tanks (e.g., CSIS, CFR) warned pre- and post-strikes that removing top figures would not necessarily produce surrender or easy deals. Instead, it could harden resolve, empower decentralized networks, or create chaos that makes coherent diplomacy harder. Iran activated constitutional succession (a temporary council: president, judiciary head, senior cleric), but this hasn’t resolved fractures, especially with ongoing or fragile ceasefires.
In practice, post-strike Iran has shown resilience but also internal tensions: hardliners vs. more pragmatic figures (e.g., over concessions on nuclear/missile programs), leading to failed or stalled talks, maximalist positions, and difficulties in finalizing peace.
Radicalization of Lower/Hardline Elements
This was a known risk:
– Survivorship bias and hardening: Those killed included Khamenei (ultimate hardliner but sometimes a balancer), senior commanders, and figures like Ali Larijani (seen by some as more pragmatic/negotiable). Survivors and risers—often IRGC-linked hardliners with backgrounds in repression—have consolidated influence. The war itself radicalized elements further, as conflicts tend to empower ideologues.
– IRGC dominance: The Revolutionary Guard has gained even more economic/political power, with figures like Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf navigating pragmatism for survival but hardliners dominating discourse. Reports note new national security advisors, IRGC heads, etc., with extensive domestic repression records.
– Precedent and analysis: Experts noted that eliminating “restraint-preferring” leaders risks more extreme successors. Hardliners were already embedded; removing layers above them elevated committed ideologues less inclined to compromise. Mojtaba Khamenei (hardliner, low public profile) as successor fits this pattern.
Decapitation didn’t collapse the regime—it reinforced resilience in some ways while creating the very uncertainties now hindering talks. Iran has rejected “maximalist” U.S. demands, demanded its own terms (e.g., on Hormuz, reparations), and shown unity in toughness even amid fractures.
Bottom line: These outcomes aligned with expert warnings about decapitation in resilient, ideological systems like Iran’s. It created tactical disruption but strategic complications for negotiations, with hardliners filling voids in ways that made compromise harder, not easier. The regime adapted rather than folded.
Q: What country was primarily responsible for those leader eliminations in this war?
Grok 3 AI:
Israeli execution of many decapitation strikes: Israel (primarily its Air Force, with Mossad intelligence support) carried out the airstrikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, 2026, along with numerous other top Iranian leaders, commanders, and officials. Reports describe Israeli jets using precision munitions on Khamenei’s compound and other high-value targets. Israel publicly announced and claimed many of these leadership targeting operations.
Me: The IDF X account proudly touted their elimination of Iranian leaders as the war progressed. Since the ceasefire, they’ve continued to do the same for Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon.
https://x.com/IDF/
“Danny Citrinowicz, listed as an Iran expert and senior researcher at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies has said, ‘If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care less about the future…or the stability of Iran.'”
Your agenda is showing, and stop using AI and start using your own brain. ‘Expert opinions’, that should make anyone stop and think, given the experten have a very poor track record recently.
AI — at least the AI we have access to — spews back what someone feeds it. It can also make computations and complete tasks based on what it “knows”.
But it can’t think. You might as well be having a “conversation” with any left-winger. Would you have bothered to do that, and then reported the conversation?
That said, if you did want to do this, you would need to consider all possibilities and combinations of potential events (war games). You and Grok didn’t even come close to that. Surely you must be aware that the military has done that and done it with more intelligence and more sophisticated tools.
Recall that it was first reported that Israel took down regimeleaders one and two.
I don’t consider “Grok 3 AI” to be anything but regurgitation. I don’t read vomit.
may all Treepers have a restful good evening…………..
Have a Good Night bjorkdream
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Salute !
quinn…much thanks my friend…..
good night have a peaceful rest
jayne………be well ……
You, as well, bjorkdream.
Thank you for the beautiful country road.
Live long & prosper.
Korea Obama II just wants to end lawfare, until the election is over.
“President Lee Jae Myung Pressures Prosecution to Cancel Indictments”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/06/03/FIV7MFKCGZCS7G5D3U4MA4ACOA/
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-06-02/national/socialAffairs/US-professor-seeks-court-ruling-to-lift-travel-ban-amid-defamation-allegations-against-Korean-president/2606888
“President Trump announces executive order directing Sec. Scott Bessent to *SHUT DOWN* bank accounts used to facilitate illegal immigration or to give illegal aliens welfare
Trump is moving to DE-BANK illegals”
Explain how Israeli money spent in the US as result of Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act could increase Israeli political influence in the US.
Grok 3 AI:
Section 224 of the House’s 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”—would channel U.S. defense dollars into joint research, co-production, and licensing deals with Israeli firms. Critics say this spending increases Israeli political influence in the U.S. in three key ways:
1. Job creation in U.S. congressional districts
Section 224 would enable Israel to expand or build new co-production facilities on U.S. soil (like its existing projects in Mississippi and Arkansas). When Israeli companies build or scale production in a member of Congress’s district, they create local jobs. That gives Israeli interests a direct lever: lawmakers become more likely to support Israel to protect employment in their district.
| Mechanism | Political effect |
|———–|——————|
| Co-production plants in U.S. states | Jobs → local business community & unions support pro-Israel positions |
| District-level economic stake | Lawmakers from those districts become reliable allies on Israel votes |
2. Deeper integration of defense industries = “lock-in” influence
The provision would fuse U.S. and Israeli defense supply chains across AI, drones, cyber, missile defense, quantum, and autonomous systems. Once Israeli technology and firms are embedded in critical U.S. military systems, it becomes politically and operationally difficult to disentangle them. Critics argue this gives Israel “incredible leverage over America’s own defense priorities” because the U.S. military would depend on Israeli tech and expertise.
3. Shift from transparent aid to opaque acquisition
Traditionally, U.S. military aid to Israel is visible and debated annually in Congress. Section 224 would move much of the relationship into defense acquisition and procurement channels, where oversight is weaker and more technical. This reduces public accountability and makes the partnership harder to challenge or reverse, effectively entrenching Israeli influence in U.S. defense policy regardless of shifts in public opinion.
In short: by turning U.S. defense spending into joint programs that create American jobs, embed Israeli technology in U.S. weapons systems, and operate through less-transparent procurement channels, Section 224 could significantly increase Israeli political leverage over U.S. lawmakers and defense priorities.
I would love if Sundance puts up a primary election map and links so we can see how MAGA does tonight.
Like a mini- rally in the primary election thread. 🙂
Well..there is one…
Dem Harold Ford Jr on ICE facility riots…”this is wrong”…
Bernie Sanders is standing strong in his defense and support of Graham Platner.
This to me is one of the mysteries of the ages:
How was it that Bernie Sanders wrote an article – with apparent impunity forever – advising men that their wives or girlfriends actually want to be raped and that they fantasize about that when being with their husband or boyfriend in bed; he was very definite about this!
Meanwhile, is the Republican Party offering anyone besides Susan Collins?