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Thank you ed.
Amen
The Game Plan
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
Day 177 of the 2nd year of the 2nd term of this very stable genius. History is being made in the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2026.
The purpose and goals of President Trump are plainly visible by his actions and consistent: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world. It is validating, even to our battered conservative skepticism.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating. He hammers actions based on truth from one direction, then another, and they cannot mount an organized opposition against him.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. His promises are bold and he keeps them like no other president has. He continues to make massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in our country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass. This second term, he is weeding them out faster and choosing like-minded servants who multiply his effectiveness. No U.S. president has ever faced so much organized resistance and treason than President Trump
He has chosen to use his intellect and every skill he has to do what is right. He has tremendous faith that he can make a difference in this world. He has a confidence and courage such that he doesn’t care what others think, yet a humility to know he has to do it with the help of like minded people. Those people are the “common” people, and he ridicules those who think they are not common. He does not show humility before men, but his actions show humility before God.
He believes people are basically good. He believes that God is real. He believes that healthy people are happy people, and they need to be able to create wealth freely for their labor, and have the freedom to spend their money on what is good for them.
He believes the United States, with its Constitutional Republic, is the best environment in the world to enable and give opportunity for people to be happy and prosperous.
He believes that we can be a light for the world, but we must demand that the rest of the world respect us and our right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
He believes the enemy of our country are the stupid, greedy American people who have been selfishly taking advantage of this country; who betrayed the trust and obedience of its people; and who diverted the people’s wealth for their own selfish gain, at the expense of the principles of this country. He’s not going to allow that anymore. He is not afraid to call out our enemies.
He has cultivated and focused the family of MAGA. Identifying those people whose goodness, industriousness, trust, and obedience have been taken advantage of and abused. He has opened our eyes to this abuse, and to the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the same healthy distrust held by our founders of government and men with too much power. He has recultivated the desire to reclaim our freedoms and rights, and is empowering us with a hope and pathway to reclaim our spiritual and economic freedom.
He wants the US to be a light of hope on the hill for all people. He will negotiate win/win agreements with those nations and countries who respect us; who respect the principles and intent of our Constitution. If you do not respect us, however, we are not going to let you take advantage of our goodness, or share in our wealth at our expense. If you as a nation are treating your people badly, you are going to be treated less favorably by us, until you show that you value your people as much as we value ours. He believes that nations who treat their people well will also be good economic neighbors with us.
He is convincing those who are very wealthy (most of whom truly earned their money), that the best economic soil in which to build wealth is in a constitutional republic, which supports the ability of the common man to earn wealth in proportion to his efforts. The economic engine of the United States is the human spirit freed to enjoy the fruits of honest labor, and that engine has more natural and raw horsepower than any other governed economy.
The Trump Train seems to be remarkably aligned with universal principles of Truth, which reflect the will and design of our Creator, and are the best standard by which we should live. These same principles were what our country’s founders used to declare independence, and framed into the Constitution of this nation.
Our founders believed that a nation should preserve the right and freedom of an individual to seek, understand, and live by God’s principles. They believed that free individuals working together in humility would make a stronger nation than a government which dictates its will on the people. President Trump professes and seeks to lead and restore this nation back to these same principles.
These principles resonate deeply within all human beings, down to our DNA in every cell, in our spirits, and produce fruit that “miraculously” multiplies. Because we follow universal principles, we see the snowballing acceleration of momentum. Lord please bring your power and might in the daily working of this sacred Nation you gave us.
AMEN
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Amen. Go God beat the devil.
Amen.
Amen!
God is the Holy Trinity.
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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End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
!!! NYC Department of Buildings rejects plan to save a 174-year-old church in Bushwick that burned via arson
Demolition is set to begin in August
Ahmed Tigani leads the agency
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2077029777806860493
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A Muslim allowing Christian history to be destroyed….not surprised.
Time to start demolishing mosques. Demolish them all.
If the Christian churches keep burning down, I expect to start seeing some Paul Kerseys meting out justice with the burning down of mosques.
There should have never been a single mosque allowed in this country. Islam is not a “religion” as recognized by the Constitution. It is an anti-liberty totalitarian ideology opposed to, and completely at odds with the American Constitution.
Those who adhere to ideologies that reject our Constitution forfeit their own Constitutional rights. All Muslims reject our Constitution, and for that reason all Muslims must be ejected from America before they destroy our country. This didn’t used to be a complicated matter. And it shouldn’t be now.
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Using the term ‘ideology’, IMO, gives rise to adherants of said manner of behavior claiming that their beliefs are not to be regulated due to 1st Amendment protection.
Better to refer to this as a government system, which is incompatible — and illegally usurping — our U.S. Constitution, and as such, needs to be removed from our borders to countries whose governments are based on this belief and behavior system.
Like Communism!
yes, both are world domination systems, plain and simple.
islam cloaks itself in faux religious trappings (allah being coopted from a pagan moon idol)
and uses hate and cult-like control to advance itself,
while sanctioning (recommending?) a profound lowering of adherents IQ
through inadvisable genetic combinations which makes succeeding generations
even more susceptible to manipulation.
add in the vicious treatment of women, regular use of atrocities, and willingness to sacrifice children,
and you’ve got a real humdinger of a threat to civilization itself.
The Muslims have been in the USA since the 1800’s. The problem is the last 50 years.
yes Johnny ..problem start when we start bomb them and welcome them here…
Our Constitution has been used against us. CAIR has very efficiently hijacked the First Amendment. There have been week attempts to fight back, such as against The Holyland Foundation lawsuits and note the connection of the HLF, to Hamas. Also, note how long ago, the connection to Richardson, TX:
AI: “The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the largest Muslim charity in the United States until it was shut down by the U.S. government in December 2001 and designated as a terrorist organization for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.
Founded in 1989 as the Occupied Land Fund and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, the organization stated its mission was providing humanitarian aid to disadvantaged peoples in the Middle East, but federal prosecutors proved it served as a fundraising arm for Hamas, supporting families of suicide bombers and prisoners”
Since 9/11, the arguments of it, Islam, being a religion versus a political theocracy, has not been firmly addressed. Because “that is not who we are”.
Its the ‘one generation away from losing our freedom’, that Ronald Reagan often spoke of.
Ronald Reagan also mentioned that those who lost their freedoms, were never able to reclaim them.
I give PDJT a lot of credit for trying.
God Bless America.
Another memory from my way back machine…1978…the girl who lived across the hall from me, was dating an Iranian, who routinely assaulted her. She was always covered in bruises and when one black eye healed, she would get another.
I don’t ever recall hearing what happened to her.
Some version of “We will use your system to destroy your system.” has been a taking point for jihadists since the first attack on the World Trade Center towers.
Lawfare by jihadists.
1000% a culture mostly and anti-thetical to us constitution and laws= exclude/remove, no arguments, not religious freedom for others. period.
EVERY SINGLE ONE
This is when you need an Historic Properties Commission.
Is the Open Thread gone? Ad rem?
OT Still absent.
5:28 am, IL time, I have it.
Wash your hands and your lettuce. As cyclospora illnesses surge to a record, Michigan officials eye lettuce as a possible cause
https://apnews.com/article/cyclospora-michigan-lettuce-taco-bell-244196c6f2a1b17ed872ef245ca6868f
Washing isn’t going to cut it.
I’ve heard that spraying the lettuce with hydrogen peroxide and then washing will kill it. Let the H2O2 sit for 5-10 minutes.
Pshaw! I have a better idea. Forego the salad and just eat the steak.
Best solution. Maybe some dessert too.
Fries are OK too. Especially if made using beef tallow.
😁
💯 🎯 And the fat that comes with it.
https://xcancel.com/SamaHoole
Or chuck roast. I just bought (2) and cooked them both in my crockpot stacked. My Lion Diet week.
I tried rib eye in the air fryer. Amazing!!
That surprises me, but I like hickory charcoal smoke.
according to Cooks Illustrated test kitchens, use one part white vinegar to 3 parts water. I dunk for a minute and then rinse.
Grow your own…very easy to do, even in a small pot of even a bucket.
I had read initial reports included fruits like raspberries, lots of places on the berry, to lurk…
…but its always the lettuce?
Am wondering if those bags of cut up lettuce aren’t left overs from big ag, packaged to sell (profit off of ‘waste’?), where the germs proliferate.
snippets from AI
In the Midwest, lettuce is primarily hand harvested by growers, who typically pick the outer, older leaves from each plant or clip all leaves at once to ensure continuous growth.
While large-scale commercial production in the US is dominated by California and Arizona, regional Midwest states like Michigan contribute to local summer harvests, often serving local markets, farm stands, and foodservice operations rather than the national bulk commodity chain
Labor Method: Almost all salad greens and lettuce in the Midwest are hand harvested because the crops are highly perishable and better suited for local production than long-distance shipping
Symptoms typically appear 1 to 2 weeks after ingestion and include watery diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal cramping.
The illness is seasonal, peaking between May and August, and is transmitted through food or water contaminated with feces, not through person-to-person contact.
JMO America needs to revisit who picks/harvests our produce.
Who’s going to add cyclospora seasoning when hand picking our lettuce if we don’t have illegals do it?
Here’s an unsavory fact: in CT human sewage has been used for fertilizer. Personally witnessed it being used in a field and the stench was incredible. Probably used in agriculture in other states as well. Worth a google.
Just moved from Nevada.
Local alfalfa growers bringing in double bottom dumps en masse full of human sewage from Ca to save money on buying fertilizer.
They spread it on the fields and the wind blows it straight towards the elementary school, clinic and senior center.
The county says they can’t do anything because once it’s in the bottom dumps, it’s no longer called human sewage, it’s called “biosolids”.
I left Nevada July 3rd, my allergies cleared up July 4th.
What about lettuce from local farmers?
It’s been so hot here that vendors at the local Farmers Market don’t bring lettuce any longer. Season is over.
Does your local farmer wash his hands after using the bathroom and before picking the greens?’
Does your local farmer higher migrant workers? If he does are facilities provided for them for bathroom breaks and hand washing.
I can remember when they passed legislation for the big farms to have to provide those type of facilities and people complained it would increase the cost of greens. Well yes it does but it is better than the illness.
Bathroom (toilet) facilities for agricultural workers doing hand-labor in the field were first established in U.S. rules with specific requirements when OSHA issued the field sanitation standard for agriculture (29 CFR 1928.110).
Effective take-effect date: May 30, 1987
Employers required to comply with toilet & handwashing facilities: by July 30, 1987 (with the earlier dates for water)
These requirements include providing toilet facilities within a one-quarter-mile walk of the worker’s place of work in the field.
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1928/1928.110
Do not buy lettuce from Mexico, or any produce from there.
I picked up on the correlation to lettuce for every manner of food borne illness well over a decade ago.
At that point, I began ordering everything prepared without lettuce. No dinner salads & no lettuce on sandwiches of any/every kind & I definitely never buy cut/bagged lettuce.
Beyond that, all produce gets washed in vinegar/water as others have posted.
Fortunately I haven’t been plagued by food borne illnesses.
I’ve always suspected the jokes about a famous taco chain are actually rooted in that nasty lettuce.
Vegetables again. I’ve never gotten sick from cake.
Well, sugar-free, no-carbs, no seed oil cake at least. 😉
sugar-free, no-carbs, no seed oil cake
Isn’t that just air?
Iranian pistachios????
I have at weddings, cake and beer don’t go that well together.
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid. /s
What states are reporting higher than normal numbers of cases?
Key States with Elevated Activity
Michigan: By far the hardest hit, with state reports of ~3, 300+ cases (far exceeding its typical ~50 per year). CDC data shows it in the highest bracket (501–900). Suspected link to salad greens/lettuce.
New York: High case counts (CDC: 161–300 range); one of the states with notable clusters.
Ohio: Significant increases, especially in northwestern areas (hundreds of cases reported by local/state health depts., contributing to a potential multistate cluster).
Illinois and Texas: Among the states with higher numbers following Michigan.
North Carolina: CDC range of 81–160 cases.
Other states with notable activity or clusters include:
Kentucky and West Virginia — Part of a potential linked multistate outbreak with Michigan/Ohio (over 400 cases in this group).
States with 31–80 cases (CDC ranges): Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Texas.
States with 11–30 cases: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.
Many other states (e.g., Alaska, Colorado, etc.) have lower but reported cases (1–10 range).
As of July 13, 2026, the CDC reports 1,645 such domestically acquired cases.
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Are there any other food related disorders that are more prevalent than this one?
Yes, many other food-related (foodborne) illnesses are far more prevalent in the US than cyclosporiasis, both in typical years and during this 2026 outbreak.
Pathogen, Estimated Annual Illnesses, Hospitalizations, Deaths, Notes
Norovirus, ~5.5 million, “~22, 400”, ~174, “Leading cause; highly contagious, often from contaminated food/handlers.”
Campylobacter, ~1.87 million, “~13,000”, ~197, “Common from poultry, unpasteurized milk.”
Salmonella, Hundreds of thousands, High, Notable, “Frequent outbreaks from eggs, poultry, produce.”
Clostridium perfringens, “~889,000”, ~338, ~41, “””Cafeteria germ”” from improperly held foods.”
“STEC (e.g., E. coli O157)”, Tens of thousands, Significant, Some, “From ground beef, leafy greens, raw milk.”
Listeria, “~1,250”, “~1,070”, ~172, “Rare but severe, especially for pregnant people/elderly (deli meats, soft cheeses).”
Media is trying to warm up the hysteria, covid style.
Yes! It’s up to us to stop the spreading!
Cyclospora cayetanensis infection happens because oocysts (the parasite’s eggs) are shed in human feces. The oocysts then need time in the environment (often days to about 1–2 weeks, depending on conditions) to become infectious. After that, people get sick by ingesting the contaminated material—commonly via:
Fresh produce washed with contaminated water or handled by contaminated hands
I look at fast food workers these days and think no wonder we have a problem.
Ivermectin, folks. Have it on hand.
Ivermectin doesn’t treat this. Bactrim is the best way to treat it, if you’re not allergic to sulfa.
OK, thank you! I thought Ivermectin worked on all parasites? No?
Please, let’s not make this another fear monger narrative for the Media.
MAHA
https://mahadailybrief.substack.com/p/daily-brief-71426
Quantum Physics 101, Schrödinger’s Turtle Experiment:
Imagine a box with a radioactive source, a detector, poison, and a turtle inside—closed so nothing escapes.
While the box stays closed, quantum mechanics treats the radioactive outcome as being in a combination of “decayed” and “not decayed,” so the turtle is described by a combination of “dead” and “alive” at the same time.
When you finally open the box and measure, you get one definite result—either “dead” or “alive”—and the combined description “collapses” into that outcome.
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/einsteins-1950-letter-to-erwin-schr%C3%B6dinger-ec6eb8d9624a
If Erwin was up and about, he could have helped us re: Mitch McConnell!
Or is this the essence of how Mr. McConnell acquired the turtle nickname?
Decayed and not decayed, that Schrodinger turtle.
“He criticized his fellow physicists for being blind to the problems and limitations of quantum theory, and for being satisfied with a superficial and incomplete description of reality.”
I rarely saw that taken as the criticism that was meant to be. Most students and teachers treated it as secret mind blowing wisdom.
Greatest stupidity to me is the cat is an observer, so the waves will always be collapsing to reality.
Second is that people who think torturing animals is great tend to grow into serial killers.
And the cat always dies if you just wait long enough.
If taken as criticism, then associating the problem with opening a box to find a dead cat is suitably off putting to make people pay attention.
We had a new kitten just turn up in our barn all hungry and shell shocked. After a few days of TLC she’s acting like a proper kitten again and we named her Gracie.
If anyone tried to shove Gracie in a box with a vial of poison they’d quickly find themselves punched in the mouth.
thank you!
THAT is the takeaway, and always has been.
to wit:
Schrodinger’s thought experiment was designed to illustrate
the difference between observed reality and unproven conjecture;
a rebuke to using speculation without facts as a basis for doctrine.
evaluating some of the comments here…Schroedinger’s Treehouse? 😂 🤣
Like:
Observed Reality: Evolution has never been observed to happen, eg no evidence reptilian scales turned into feathers.
Unproven Conjecture: The Big Bang – first there was nothing, then it exploded.
interesting comment.
i do believe that ADAPTATION occurs, to what extent i do not know –
if over thousands of years it might not be observed in the first person.😊
your second analysis cracked me up – it’s priceless! 😂
never before such a stunning rebuke of TBBT condensed into 7 words.
bravo, Stu!
Happy Birthday to Peter Navarro – his birthday is July 15th!
Happy Birthday and God bless you!
how young he is ??
77 years young/old-take your pick! <smiles>
Yes, “Age” is a state of mind… It is a choice… You can be young or old, take your pick!
…see Mickey Jagger/Paul McCartney/Ringo Star……
He’s a great guy! I always enjoy seeing him on Fox/Fox Biz.
This evening’s meditation music:
Captain Chesley Sullenberger announces that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
https://www.sullysullenberger.com/statement-from-capt-sully-sullenberger-july2026/
I don’t wish him ill, but I lost any respect for him when he started going after President Trump.
I remember when he did and since then I have wondered if he was a Epstein Island pilot is his downtime.
“@newtgingrich
says “The Iranians are gradually losing power and capability… [Trump] is moving methodically.”
Cont and video…
Did that eye in the sky watch the dervishes invade Israel on Oct 7th in real time?
Really? And that would have been us watching that for Israel? Oh, I get it now……….
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DanDeplorable
Thank you Dan !!
Thank you, Dan 🕊💕
Thank you Dan,
I will be missing your posts on the OT.
With or Without the War, the Islamic Regime Is Going Broke: A Complete Analysis
https://www.osint613.com/article/with-or-without-war-the-islamic-regime-is-going-broke
GLAD TO SEE YOU THRILLED…ABOUT RESULT OF 4.5 MONTHS OF MILITARY SHOW……
47 years.
and they still going..going and going and show up over 40 millions for funeral…. Val1 do you know what VSGPDJT said when he seen that…I thought they hate them… have a blessed day….
It’s their problem. Not ours. President Trump is not trying to change their mentality.
Let the ‘rebuilding’ begin as soon as they quit playing games of war for profit and population control – culling the Christians.
Losing the war will get them back on their feet in no time at all. Taxpayers pay for war, rebuilding, and peace.
God Help US
AND the nuclear underground – not manufacturing, just buying and storing as usual – will have money to continue. What luck, huh? Ready made nuclear off the shelf. The pretense of manufacturing was a prelude to war, and the Strait another war strategy will get them what they wanted all along.
Breaking the US using NATO and Our obligations to ‘help’…….. the big objective of war. Getting out of NATO and the UN will be one of the most profitable moves We ever make.
“Getting out of NATO and the UN will be one of the most profitable moves We ever make.”
Sorry PAW, our politicians don’t have enough intelligence to recognize that fact…
Tousi TV recently was broadcasting clips of heritage Iranians out protesting, despite warnings to wait (to avoid slaughter). They were chanting they’d rather die than to live in humiliation.
“Freedom comes when there’s nothing left to lose…”
NEWS: The U.S State Department is offering grants of up to $3 million to European political activist groups that fight censorship and mass immigration
https://nitter.poast.org/BasilTheGreat/status/2077256960496263354#m
Marine Le Pen’s poll numbers have SKYROCKETED Before the last Presidential Election in 2022 Macron was on 27% Le Pen was on 23% She’s currently sat on 36% Her nearest competitor is on 16% France will deport millions
https://nitter.poast.org/BasilTheGreat/status/2077083897674830114#m
Mitch McConnell – Thriller
https://youtube.com/shorts/K0sYsYGfQ5U?is=CH7cubc9hpmhi0gd
That’s the most and the best that Mitch has moved in YEARS !!
Greetings Treepers 🙏✝️🙏
morning
Seriously? Elon is gonna play videos now, but no audio if you dont have an account?
Open source will take the whole market if he doesnt back down on the viewing.
silent movies how quaint.
😂 😂
The only reason I use Twitter now is to go down and block every single person who has a negative comment on some uplifting video President Trump puts out.
A friend with an X account sends me links to some of his posts. I use the xcancel.com option and have success in viewing them all. I hope this continues.
Given that the entire Branch Covidian psyop was an experiment on the global population, perhaps we ought not be surprised by this:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/07/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-7-14-2026/#734279
NYU Professor Admits ‘Brain-Dead’ Patients Are Being Used for Experiments
“In a bone-chilling confession, a prominent American bioethicist has admitted that patients declared “brain-dead” are being kept on life support and secretly used for medical and scientific experiments at research facilities across the United States.
Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, discussed the practice during a recent podcast.
Professor Caplan revealed that NYU Langone Health operates a research ward using the bodies of neurologically injured patients for experimentation.
Caplan referred to the patients as “neomorts” and the experimental facilities as “bioemporia.”
For the brave of heart, here is the original podcast:
When I was an idealistic college student, in nursing 102, circa 1977-78, the lecture on ‘surgical consent’, back then, had clauses that included allowing the hospital to take ownership of the products retrieved/removed during surgery.
I can’t even keep a cracked wisdom tooth the dentist takes out. I’m losing my wisdom! /s
Sanctity of Life has been replaced with experimentation for ‘manmade’ ways to maintain ‘life’ and even ‘cure’ it in our most vital organ, the brain.
Control of the brain, DNA, and organ transplants to make a better life……….what could go wrong?
God Help US
Science may ‘save’ human life some day from eminent death; with the sacrifice of other human parts from a ‘dead’ person.
Heck they may ‘manufacture’ livers hearts , and brains from plants, meat free.
‘Soulless’ is the goal they strive for. The UniParty is pretty close over the target; 100% of the Ds are there and 50% of Rs.
Obama’s Arab Spring has worked like a charm.
Who needs a brain when ya have NWO/communism and Islam running the show. Abortion will remain rampant for population control and culling/eugenics, God will no longer be needed nor guns.
Ethics is a thing of the past.
BIL went to a teaching hospital for care. Lung cancer. Every time he started doing better they conducted some new procedure, putting him back in ICU. Then after all that teaching “care” killed him, they stuck my sister with bills for all their teaching.
Does not surprise me at all that people who teach that we should make people sicker so that med students can have more opportunity to learn would produce researchers who experiment on other patients.
PS That interview reconfirms for me that ethicists purpose is to find ways to do unethical things and claim that is ethical.
Modern day grave robbing. Sick.
Does this mean ol’ Mitch McConnell is currently the subject of one such experiment? Asking for a friend…
I am impressed with the new American political approach in which you pretend a deceased U.S. senator is still alive by manufacturing false evidence. Under this new plan, all elderly U.S. senators may be kept “alive” and in power for long periods of time even after they die.
Senator Landru
We seem to have precedent that no one has to clean up the voter rolls after death, and the dead can keep casting votes in a general election. So we are just extending that practice to Congress…
In some towns, the Registrar of Voters is in charge of keeping voting rolls up to date and releasing a report. Rolls were just purged in my town by the Republican Registrar.
That’s because the idea of a representative has to be functioning both physically and mentally has been eliminated by those serving in congress without the ability to reason or even be on the floor.
They did it with Biden; autopen and AI is the future.
So the Senate is heaven where you achieve life after death!
same as dear leaders of Bolshevik Russia …1980-1985.. O on top of the cherry cake they also did fight stupid war in the Afghanistan… and on the end of the decade Evil Empire went down……is it sound same what we are now ?????
Amen!
73 Million abortions yearly takes it’s toll on the future; it is a weapon of choice. tsk tsk
God Help US
His children our future is the choice that has been made; Wrath is gonna be bigger than any war ever was.
Good morning America, how are ya?
Kankakee has 72 and clear with 90% humidity. Due for a high of 92.
Farther north in metropolitan Chicagoland, an Air Pollution Action Day in effect until midnight tonight. Recently and somewhere on Al Gore’s internet, I had read something about Canadian wildfires affecting the mid west and east, again.
67 with a high of 93 at this part of wild wonderful
Good Morning, 75 here in Fraudopolis, Mn. On its way to the high 90’s! Where Tampon Tim declared an emergency to fight the forest fires.
Even a blind squirrel finds and acorn once in awhile!
Morning. Back from a lovely vacation at the beach in SC. The ocean soothes my stress and relaxes every part of my mind and body. I need to visit it more often. Those of you who live near the oceans on either coast are very lucky indeed.
The weather here in WNY is high 80s, low wind, humid and partly cloudy, hazy all day. Typical summer day in our area.
Praying for a good day in our national political world. The economic reports were very good and the Iranians are still learning the hard way that they need to settle this war. God bless all of us and we should practice being grateful and joyful in counting all our blessings.
morning Treepers……….be well
If that is the idea of a ‘Canadian Wildfire’, I am all in!
morning
nothing like a little pot to start your day
🙂 🙂 🙂
Pot or kettle, either way it is black.
we been given another day…….live like you are thankful .
Rejoice and be glad, for this is the day The Lord has made!
and I beheld a light
Amen! Thank you for more beautiful pictures!
“Morning has broken like the first morning”….Cat Stevens (his real name).
GREAT SONG..
Yes. Thanks be to God.
Beautiful picture.
Thank you.
Have a blessed day.
SD reposted this & frankly it’s an honest & factual analysis of Lindsey Graham.
https://xcancel.com/realJeremyCarl/status/2077047265525690438#m
a very good fact based read. Never been a Graham fan and his influence regarding his friendship with President Trump always gave me concern since he had a closer friendship with McCain the evil. His last reported conversation with a friend saying he couldn’t die because he still had the Iran, etc. to solve. My opinion was he didn’t solve but instead tried to keep the fighting continued. I won’t miss him. Have also noticed President Trump’s speech on Thursday has not been hit upon by an anonymous source. Fired? or dead?
There is a balance to be had between disparaging the dead & an honest assessment of their deeds.
He is the same “statesman” that disparaged Capital Police for not shooting all of J6’s protestors in the head.
I’ve pretty much gone silent on his passing because I refuse to pretend. He was a despicable man that was no defender of the Republic for which he claimed to stand.
May God have mercy on his soul. I do not. Nor is granting mercy within my perview.
+ + +
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 throughout the entire Levant, especially the villagers of Taybeh in the West Bank, from the Evil One and his servants worldwide who prepare to welcome the Anti-Christ.
+ + +
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Holy Orthodox Christian New Martyrs of Russia under the Bolshevik Communist Yoke pray for us!
Holy Orthodox Christian New Martyrs under the Turkish Yoke pray for us!
From our DEI lib friends at WGN:
:Historically, the most commonly contaminated foods were raspberries, basil, cilantro, green onions, snow peas, lettuce, mesclun and salad mixes. A study reviewing outbreaks since the 1990s found cyclospora may also have contaminated blackberries, watercress, mango, and vegetable trays.”
https://wgntv.com/news/the-foods-most-likely-to-carry-diarrhea-causing-parasite-cyclospora-and-which-are-safe/
As kids in the old Canal Zone, we used to retrieve mangos, from the ground, at the stables…well, we never thought of what the mangos were near (manure), we picked ’em up, sometimes rinsed them, sometimes not…and ate them…ah the ignorance of youth.
the old Mitch question is getting old………….
Why is McConnell’s wife hanging out with James Carville?
https://x.com/EliseStefanik/status/2077147940163060174
Criminal charges for Jack Smith????
I won’t hold my breath……………
Headline: Trump pledges to escalate attacks until Iran relents on Hormuz
This had better be it. The natives are beginning to wonder about ‘The Art of the Deal’
Yeah…it’s past time to dictate terms…not “negotiate” with fanatics.
When someone tells you that Allah calls you “the Great Satan,” you’d better take them seriously. There will be no “deals.” If they could, they would kill you. Or die trying – and look forward to “eternal f&cking” as a reward for having done so.
Simply stated: You have to kill them first. But that’s not your choice: it’s theirs. Fire away and don’t look back.
Last one, to ponder:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YruNEsvvoVE
Are we paying attention yet?
I suggest we should be.
The Surveillance State came into its own with the “Patriot” Act. It has now metastasized.
The link below is, I believe, essential reading.
Nationwide Flock cameras plus AI equals nothing good.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/while-political-circus-distracts-us-flock-builds-digital-police-state
I knew this was a problem 10 years ago. The license plate readers are just as big a problem. My wife is from out of state. She never changed her registration down here in DC because it was cheaper. One day we got a mail piece stating she had been in this town with the vehicle over 6 months and needed to pay registration down here.
That was my first WTF moment with this tracking stuff.
I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like the camera caught someone committing fraud to avoid paying taxes, which raises the taxes on law abiding citizens.
Yes you are misunderstanding. Her year was paid for in another state. She did not need to pay the new state until her other registration expired. She doesn’t receive a refund from the prior state if she switches mid year. This is not fraud, it was not charged as fraud, and zero other tax payers paid anything on her behalf.
Thanks, could be true in her state. It isn’t in mine, after a period of 90 days, you need to get in-state tags even if your out of state tags our current.
It’s like that in most states I have lived in.
I only heard of “you can use your prior state‘s tags ‘till they expire” when I was in the military. Even then, it was supposed to be tags from your home-of-record, not your last duty station.
I moved to AZ from Illinois about 20 years ago.
I had not sold my house in Illinois yet, but was employed in AZ.
I got pulled over, and got a warning.
In Arizona you have 15 days to register your vehicle.
My Illinois plates were still valid.
Wait until you have to renew your license and they dig up an old unpaid speeding ticket from 1982 in Indiana.
Me: OnStar, please let me start the car. I need groceries.
OnStar: Sorry, I can’t let you do that. You still have two cans of chili left in your pantry.
One weekend, we had two cans of soup and two packets of unsweetened Kool-Aid in the cabinet.
“That’s enough,” say our new Tech Overlords, “No more soup for you.”
Negative news about alleged rapist Graham Platner was suppressed by Big Tech, shocking study finds
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/negative-news-about-alleged-rapist-graham-platner-was-suppressed-by-big-tech-shocking-study-finds/ar-AA27https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/negative-news-about-alleged-rapist-graham-platner-was-suppressed-by-big-tech-shocking-study-finds/ar-AA27OybxOybx
Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that both Apple News and Google News published exactly zero stories between last November and May covering controversies, including Platner’s Nazi tattoo and his offensive Reddit posts.
The study also found that the tech giants failed to promote “at least 112” news stories published by conservative-leaning outlets that investigated Platner’s disturbing history during that November-May period.
Apple News is a wasteland of leftist articles. I have it on my iPhone but I never even check it any more.
JMO.
The democrat / RINO participants in the 1/6/21 coup d’état against our Constitutional Republic, our Constitution and our President Trump
…..have been living in fear for 51/2 years
……….that the truth of their treasonous acts will be codified and worse yet
…………….the facts of their crimes adjudicated in a fair and just manner.
Their serious, treasonous crimes require serious personal consequences for them.
The facts of their stealing the 2020 presidential election are not in doubt ….. they bragged about their premeditated, seditious activities in 2019 – 2020 leading up to the November, 2020 election day.
They fully documented the activities in Molly Ball’s 2/4/21 article in Time magazine.
They said they wanted the world to know that they were the ones who removed President Trump from DC, never to return again.
Woe be them.
Little did they know that instead of removing him, they just released the tornadic storm known as his MAGA / America First movement across all 50 states predestined to return in November, 2024 to bring law & order justice back to DC.
Backed by a HUGE massive vote count for his election as President of the United States and for draining the DC swamp.
Creepy, treasonous Senator Mark Warner personifies the criminal gang of 1/6/21. This week, he is trashing around in the DC senate swamp trying to stop their day of atonement.
President Trump’s Thursday night’s national address is the beginning of the end of their worse nightmare ….. when fair, free and fast elections are being returned to America’s hinterlands.
Returning America to its citizens and driving out the globalist / communists who have infiltrated our federal government over the past decades using fraudulent local elections.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Proverbs 20:
Tina Peters went from being a Political Prisoner to Meeting with President Trump in Just 30 Days – Joe Hoft
Tina Peters is the Antithesis of Election Corruption Found in New York and Across the US by Martel Maxim
‘JUST SAY YOU LIED.’ TINA REFUSED. – YouTube–Lara Logan with Tina
Zechariah 4
6 So he answered and said to me:
“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
Says the Lord of hosts.
7
‘Who are you, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’ ”
Yes and Amen to the Lord of hosts! Good is the Word of the Lord!
Rest in the Vine: “President Trump is About to Declare a National Security Emergency for Elections” by Wayne Allen Root
Tina took an inconvenient backup …
I heard that the many in the media are saying they will not carry the national address on Thursday.
I hope to heck that the White House puts out a notice that any media that does not carry the address no longer has media access to the White House.
A Presidential Address is something they can NOT carry and expect to still be considered WH correspondents. Period.
Enough of this BS.
Well, I agree with most everything you say, we have been promised justice before, and it is not occurred. I will believe justice when I see justice.
Food stamp distribution by ethnicity. And the American taxpayer is funding the bill.
https://x.com/Milajoy/status/2076827837840150950?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Morning Treeps,
I’m still stewing on Amy Coney Barrett begging for more money to secure her soccer mom ass.
Our area up here is totally screwed up from women just like ACB, and we are beyond sick of them- these bleeding heart do-gooders that have their noses into everything, know nothing of value that is ‘real’ and are ruled by nothing by feeling and emotion and a sense of superiority because they have letters after their hyphenated last names. They are disgusting elitists of the poorest quality, we despise them and all that that they are and sadly POTUS put one one the bench- many of us had her number immediately because they all look the same, they all are the same.
What she’s done is created what is fast becoming a “Zero Trust Society” and now she’s complaining about the results of living in one.
We cannot be free people and then pursue our happiness when we live in a deadly no-go zone, when we’re all living in gated communities with armed guards, when we can’t trust a single person around us, and if we don’t have the means for living among the beautiful people, we live armed to our eyeballs and can’t even let our kids play freely outside, this is not at all what our founders or our Constitution designed for us and it’s her friggan job to understand this- and she doesn’t, she hasn’t.
They seem to have zero idea of what the big picture is going to wind up looking like as they work so hard to thwart ruling by ruling what it is that We The People are seeing out here and then voting in reaction to, to attempt to solve.
The found fathers were incredibly visionary, they had a picture in their minds of just what it is that they were trying to create here in America, Jefferson in particular understood very well that a beautiful structure is created by placing one brick at a time.
The recent era of Supreme Court Justices appear to be blind to this glaring overall vision and have created a disaster, one brick at a time with each decision they make that takes us backwards and not forwards.
We shouldn’t be where we are !!
We would not be where we are today if not for all this. They have played a huge part in why we are where we are today.
And ACB has the gall to emotionally ask the American taxpayers for more money to protect her from the results of her failures.
These people can go pound sand that is precisely what our founding fathers would have told them- I know they would have.
I’m quite pissed off at this woman.
She’s appalling and should she retire because she’s not fit to be on the bench.
Being a Supreme Court Justice isn’t just about what your educational and professional blessings look like, it’s about Temperament and she’s totally failed here.
We’ve got real problems with these women Justices on the Supreme Court, ALL of them.
I’d like to see more attention on all this- about the problem of too many high strung women in too many positions of power and the impact this has had upon us as a country, as families.. and I’m saying all this as a woman.
The DEI hire there as a result of Joe’s auto pen, this also needs to be dealt with.
Lets not drop the ball on this topic.
If I could like your post 1000x I would!
The attitude of moral superiority of the modern leftist woman is breathtaking in its perfect combination of arrogance and ignorance! (Sadly, it also exists in a fair number of “conservative” women as well but they tend to hide it better.)
The one “tell” that I always see, and this case proves it yet again, is that they suddenly decide men are quite useful when they need physical protection!
They scream “I am woman, hear me roar!”when they are demanding full access and “equal rights” but as soon as there is actual danger, or they are called to account for obvious failures, they immediately revert to the well worn tears and fears posture!
As a fairly successful professional woman, now retired, I fully understand why women did not have voting rights until the years following WWI (no, Ilhan, that is NOT an “i”, you foul moron!).
Now, we’re stuck with foul-mouthed, cringe harridans intent on working out their unresolved childhood issues in the public forum instead of the privacy of the therapist’s office.
BTW, the women’s suffrage movement had its genesis in the years following the close of WWI when Britain had been devastated by the bloodbaths experienced in the Somme and Verdun. It was part of the ideology that cam out of the Fabian socialist activism of the era. (Emily Pankhurst a major agitator.) Other mentally unwell suffragettes included a real ‘beauty’: Emily Davison – who threw herself in front of a galloping horse during a horse race – killing herself. While the horse miraculously was unharmed, the jockey eventually committed suicide. Other militant suffragettes went on hunger strikes when incarcerated for their folly and had to be force fed in horrible ways.
These were emotionally unstable, unnatural women – the founding mothers of women suffrage.
And Eleanor R. hung out with a bunch of their offspring.
I am a woman of a certain age and I agree with you 100%. Thank you for saying what a lot of us talk about amongst ourselves. The continuing wreckage and destruction being perpetrated on all of humanity by the now third – fourth generation of women who choose and chose to buy the lie of “you can and should have it all” is incalculable. I’m glad I’m my age but very, very sad.
Agree with you 100 percent. Speaking of emotion, I dislike her in particular. She’s a slimy two-faced weasel.
The Supreme Court is a mess. It’s so bad you’d think the left wouldn’t bother trying to make it worse. They got a real gift in Barrett.
This is worth looking at. It shows how bold these women have become in ordinary situations. They think it a duty to attack anyone and everyone they encounter.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15979123/Canadian-Kaitlyn-Tracey-deported-girl-MAGA-sweatpants-New-Jersey.html
Agree. I watched her and saw high strung weakness with anxiety mixed in. Not someone I would feel comfortable being near. She did not appear to be relaxed in her role, at all.
She looks like she’s really aged in just a few short years.
However, she’s much more rational than that total nutcase Ketanji.
It figures, the retards in congress would make DST the time to stay with instead of standard time which is the normal time.
They are all a bunch of blood sucking vampires that run around in dark places, they have no idea what daylight is.
It should be a State decision. For example, Arizona keeps standard time. (Except on the Navajo reservation.) When it’s gonna be 110°F all day, you want that morning hour.
I was wondering about that. Why did they choose not too I wonder?
Did you know that the U.N. General Assembly votes in opposition to the United States position nearly 95% of the time? According to UN Watch data, the UNGA last year only aligned with the US position on 5.2% of the votes. By contrast, they aligned with China on 87% of the votes.
https://nitter.poast.org/UNWatch/status/2077054280943522192#m
Not surprised at all.
I am glad that Franklin and Eleanor are not around to see it … They tried so hard.
Sarcasm Mike?
Everyone needs to read a real History book written in the 1950’s or before and find out that FDR and Eleanor were both communist supporters…
FDR and Joe Stalin were close friends, and Eleanor traveled to Moscow MANY times to “visit” Joe…
Yep, we, The People know that… But, our politicians haven’t been able to “figger” it out…
Argentina has gone from the brink of hyperinflation to fiscal surplus, reduced poverty, and more than $150 billion in investment commitments. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT…!
https://nitter.poast.org/jmilei_english/status/2077188903241433593#m
I hope Argentina beats the UK in soccer
Qatar:
Sheikh Hamad 1952 – 2026 Emir of Qatar Architect of coordinated global terrorism
Thread
1/11
https://nitter.poast.org/visegrad24/status/2077024908962398656#m
Because 16,000 strikes on Iran during the previous kinetic part of this war (which, by the way, we won and then for some reason signed an MOU that was a really lousy deal for the US) just didn’t do the job, but hundreds more will. This will not end well.
Daily Update
The US-Iran conflict entered a new phase of intensity overnight, with President Trump warning in a Fox News interview that strikes will continue “until I say that’s enough” and threatening [yet again – W] to expand targets next week to power plants and bridges unless Iran returns to negotiations [I thought we’d won — W] a threat [which Iran said if carried out they’d do the same to their neighbors’ power plants, oil facilities and, most importantly, desalination facilities which Iran’s neighbors are far more dependent on than Iran… which is why neither we nor the Israelis who would just LOVE to do that haven’t carried out on that threat – W] corroborated by multiple wire services.
Axios reported that Trump convened a Situation Room meeting Tuesday to discuss a broader offensive against Iran extending well beyond current Strait of Hormuz operations, while US strikes overnight hit targets across southern Iran including Bushehr’s Sixth Tactical Air Base, grain silos in Khuzestan, a mineral water factory in Ilam, Hengam Island, Qeshm Island, and the 388th Brigade garrison in Bampour — where the Iranian Army confirmed 7 soldiers killed by 13 US missiles and vowed “certain and imminent” retaliation.
Iran’s IRGC simultaneously launched at least seven waves of Operation Nasr 2, claiming strikes on the US 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, the Al-Azraq base in Jordan (targeting F-15/F-16/F-35 hangars and MQ-9 drones), and the main US logistics hub in Kuwait at Mina Abdullah — with satellite imagery published by Iranian state media purporting to show damage to the US 5th Fleet drone command center and Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, though these claims should be treated with caution as regime sources.
Iran’s government spokesperson announced over 30 civilians killed in recent US strikes on southern Iran, the IRGC threatened to close additional regional oil and gas export routes, and Iran executed protest participant Mohammad Amini Dehaqani for setting fire to government buildings in Isfahan during January protests — drawing a journalist’s pointed observation that the regime is simultaneously claiming to defend civilians while executing its own citizens.
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Well, you see the warfare capabilities that billions of Obumma CASH dollars can buy. All of it aimed at you.
Mr. President, you have to now be the ONLY thing that these madmen understand: the stronger, the more frankly ruthless, the more bad-assed warlord. Abandon altogether the negotiation table. You can negotiate with the people of Iran after their 47-year nightmare is ended.
Right now, the USA and her allies must bare its teeth and simply wipe the Mullah revolutionaries out. Whatever they manage to shoot, immediately destroy their ability to shoot it again. Place no command limits on what our military professionals know how to do, and will do.
This is the only way out. But it’s their choice, not yours. You gave them every chance: good for you! But, no more.
Continue patiently destroying every bit of Iran’s military and every bit of economic ability to cause problems in the world. Send them an unconditional surrender document that mirrors the previous negotiations every week and don’t talk to them until it is signed and delivered.
Every week PDJT tells Iran and the world that the destruction will stop as soon as the surrender is signed and delivered.
Right now, the USA and her allies must bare its teeth and simply wipe the Mullah revolutionaries out.
Offer a credible military plan — emphasis on credible — for taking down the mullahs and the IRGC without launching a massive ground invasion and occupation of the whole country
Let’s see a description of the Order of Battle for each side of the conflict and an estimate for how much combat resource in men and material it will take to accomplish the takedown, including the expected number of American casualties in men and material.
The plan is called “Whack-A-Mole”.
You truly are so very tiresome with these posts.
Well, afterall, he does by “Winston” – as in, you know, 2 + 2 = 5.
We, the USA, should have just let Israel handle the Iran problem…
Iran would have been over and done is a few days like Israel did to it’s arab neighbors in the “6 day” war in 1967…
Axios? 🙄🥱💤
Winston, Winston, Winston.
For 47 years the Iranians have been chanting death to America, and they mean it.
Just look at how hard they cling to their stolen power building weapons by the truck load all to kill us and all the other infidels around the world.
There was bound to be a reckoning with them, either under our terms or theirs. Considering they were focused on ICBMs and nuclear weapons, getting ever closer to actually having them launch in our direction the choice was made.
President Trump gave them all the rope the needed to hang themselves with the MOU and ceasefire, which they violated almost immediately. And the rest of the world now understands they were never going to honor anything written and signed.
Because they still want to kill all the infidels. And as long as you’re not kneeling on a rug and bowing in the direction of Mecca, you’re an infidel with a target on your head.
I can’t speak for the rest of the folks here, but as far as I’m concerned war is hell and hell has come for breakfast in Iran.
Not the chanting…
This is rich. Bastille Day… kinda important to “the French identity”. So who gets to march in the Bastille Day parade? Why, Ukrainian soldiers, of course!!! I mean, why WOULDN’T they?!?!?
“‘KICK THEM OUT!’: French Protesters Target Ukrainian Troops At Bastille Day Parade In Paris”
Don’t they have something else better to do, like fight in war or something?
Don’t go letting pesky facts get in the way of a good parade.
Deserters
“Let them eat cake”…
It’s not the first time that Nazi’s have marched in Paris.
:mic drop
sooo after 86 yrs….they go again…hmmmm
And, as usual, the French will wave their white flags as the parade marches by…
I’m sure the results will be the same after this Iran war fiasco.
What were the career repercussions for the high ranking officers and politicians primarily involved in the Afghanistan war? Who was promoted? Who went on to the private sector?
Promotions were common for many involved officers, following standard career progression, though some faced delays, holds, or controversies tied to the war or withdrawal. Politicians did not receive “promotions” in the same way but advanced or transitioned based on elections and appointments. Many officers and officials moved smoothly into the private sector, leveraging leadership experience for consulting, boards, speaking, academia, and defense-related roles.
Notable Promotions (Military Officers)
– Gen. Christopher Donahue (key role in 2021 withdrawal; last US soldier to leave Afghanistan): Nominated for four-star promotion and command of US Army Europe and Africa. Faced a temporary Senate hold (Republican senator) linked to the withdrawal but was confirmed in late 2024.
– Many Afghanistan commanders achieved four-star rank or senior positions (e.g., Joint Chiefs, theater commands) during or after their tours. Examples include rotations to high-level roles like CENTCOM or Army leadership. Promotions were routine unless politicized (e.g., some holds in Congress).
– Earlier figures like Gen. David Petraeus advanced significantly (e.g., to CIA Director) before his 2012 resignation over a separate scandal.
Reliefs or stalled paths: Some (e.g., McChrystal) saw careers cut short by relief from command but still retired at high rank. Overall, the system rewarded service with promotions more than it penalized war outcomes.
Private Sector Transitions
A large number of senior officers entered lucrative post-retirement careers. This “revolving door” is common in US civil-military relations.
– Gen. Stanley McChrystal (ISAF commander, relieved 2010): Founded the McChrystal Group (leadership consulting firm). Served on multiple corporate boards/advisory roles (at least 10 companies), taught at Yale, authored bestsellers like *Team of Teams*, and became a prominent speaker on leadership. Thrived despite early relief.
– Gen. David Petraeus: Post-CIA, joined KKR (private equity), taught at USC, and engaged in consulting/speaking. His path was impacted more by a personal scandal than Afghanistan.
– Gen. Mark Milley (Joint Chiefs Chairman during withdrawal): Senior adviser at JPMorgan Chase, faculty roles at Princeton and Georgetown, and high-paying speaking engagements.
– Other commanders (e.g., Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, various theater leaders): Many joined defense contractors, consulting firms, or corporate boards. Defense industry and venture capital roles were frequent, drawing on expertise and networks.
Politicians:
– Figures like Donald Rumsfeld returned to or continued in private business (e.g., pharma, tech boards) after leaving office.
– Presidents (Bush, Obama, etc.) and officials typically moved to foundations, memoirs, speaking, or advisory roles rather than traditional private-sector jobs.
Broader trends: Retired generals often capitalized on “battlefield experience” for corporate leadership training, crisis management consulting, and boards. Critics note potential conflicts of interest with defense contracting. Many Afghanistan veterans (not just seniors) transitioned successfully into business, though some faced challenges adapting military skills to civilian culture.
In summary, promotions continued for most officers (with occasional political friction), and private-sector success was the norm for high-rankers—often more rewarding financially than continued service.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is testifying today, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. The hearing is the Fed’s semiannual report to Congress.
guess the senate is in full display mode with all these hearings today. Hope everyone got their hair done
Goes with the song ‘give me my flowers while I live’ would be right for those who needed to be iced before they died.
That was fast…
President Trump checks Mullin…under the bus he goes.
Quite right.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15979287/Trump-throws-new-DHS-chief-Markwayne-Mullin-bus-ICE-bowed-Democrats-Maine.html
I’m sure Miller put Mullin in his place real fast. Collins is worried about optics in Maine and her re-election. Mullin caved or just like during BLM, bent the knee.
I have never been keen on Mullin, or his BFF Thune.
All huff and puff, but when the rubber meets the road, too ready of backtrack or “adjust” his stance.
First test?
FAIL!
Miller would cut him to ribbons.
If he were the one, oh to be a fly on that wall 😎
Looks like Mullins might be getting a pink slip shortly.
Unfortunately the timing is very bad for a redo.
The Italian Legislature just voted down a major election reform effort by PM Meloni’s Coalition Government.
Italy’s PM Meloni snuggled up to her EU buddies against President Trump and those buddies did what EU Leaders do stuck her in the back … rewarding her with this vote … note in the article that several of her “allies” did not vote … while was the margin of the loss was 1-vote.
Not a single one of her EU buddies rules over an EU Member that is not a coalition of leftist movements.
The grease that keeps the liberal machine running just got another lube job with the announcement of Joe Biden’s new book, Promise Me, America! His aides are said to be stunned that old Joe only got a ten million dollar advance…far below the 65 million bazookas that padded the Obamas’ pockets for their ghosted literary epic.
I don’t know a single person who’d shell out their hard-earned cash to read an auto-penned tome purportedly written by a man who hasn’t uttered a coherent paragraph in over half a decade!
Of course the way this works is that all the books will be bought by the deep state’s deeper pockets, (making PMA an instant NYTimes best-seller), then loaded into an empty warehouse to gather dust.
Presumably, the mice can read it for free!
The Obama’s were also rewarded with Board memberships for Netflix before it lost money after major investors cut their ownership stakes (i.e. Blackrock and Vanguard) when the Obama’s departed Netflix … funny how that works … the Obama’s got their pay day and the investors making the payments left Netflix.
Now the Obama’s are collecting royalties for documentaries and shows that NOBODY watches … and are being replayed on HBO .. along side all those other paragons of production excellence nobody watches but that collection royalties all the same for being on the HBO line-up as pay back for services and social media BS rants.
The Biden family was cut out of all sorts of goodies after leaving DC. That says allot about the worth of the Biden’s efforts and who actually controlled the Auto-pen.
I wonder what the left the vaccine advisory panel out of frustration Dr. Robert Malone will have to say about her.
What objections did CDC Director nominee Erica Schwartz have during her time as Deputy Surgeon General about COVID pandemic policies and what are her current or past associations with private sector medical or medical insurance concerns?
Erica Schwartz (MD, JD, MPH), a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, served as Deputy Surgeon General from January 2019 to April 2021 (during the first Trump administration) and was nominated by President Trump in April 2026 to be CDC Director.
Objections to COVID Pandemic Policies
Publicly available information does not indicate significant or prominent objections by Schwartz to core COVID-19 pandemic policies during her tenure as Deputy Surgeon General. Instead, records show she was actively involved in implementing federal responses:
– She helped lead HHS efforts on the COVID-19 response, including standing up public testing facilities (e.g., tents and drive-through sites) early in the pandemic and coordinating deployments of uniformed health professionals.
– As a senior official, she was part of the administration’s pandemic operations, including aspects of testing scale-up and vaccine-related activities (e.g., policies promoting vaccinations in military/public health contexts).
– Post-tenure comments and her background (e.g., as Coast Guard Chief Medical Officer with expertise in pandemic influenza planning) align with mainstream public health approaches rather than dissent. She has publicly supported vaccines as tools for prevention and military readiness.
Critics from vaccine-skeptical perspectives have noted her role in federal testing and vaccine deployment efforts, viewing them as supportive of the broader response rather than oppositional. Searches for explicit criticisms, internal dissent, or objections (e.g., to lockdowns, masks, or mandates) during her time in office yield no notable public statements or reports of her pushing back against CDC/Federal policies. She transitioned out around the Biden inauguration and was not retained in a leadership role by the incoming administration.
Her nomination has been described as a “mainstream” or qualified choice by some observers, contrasting with more skeptical figures in the current administration (e.g., associated with RFK Jr.’s influence), though she has expressed alignment with broader “Make America Healthy Again” goals.
Private Sector Associations with Medical or Insurance Concerns
Schwartz has notable post-government ties to the private healthcare and insurance sectors, which she has stated she would divest from if confirmed as CDC Director:
– UnitedHealth Group / UnitedHealthcare: As of recent years (including 2026), she served as President of Insurance Solutions. This role involved significant compensation (reportedly around $850,000 in salary/bonus plus stock options). She has commented on pandemic-related issues like social isolation in this capacity.
– Aveanna Healthcare: Joined the board of directors in May 2021 (home care provider for pediatric/adult services).
– Butterfly Network: Joined the board in September 2021 (medical imaging/ultrasound technology company).
– Other: Board member of the Searching for Solutions Institute (as of mid-2026).
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🚨 NOW: Sen. Eric Schmitt has officially filed new legislation to BAN birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and tourists in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling
Cont…
See Article I, Section 8 of Constitution …. this ACT or Law would remove the precedent and settle the issue of interpreting the 14 Amendment decided by the Sullivan Case.
“To establish uniform rule of Naturalization, and …”
Note search on Google leaves this one off when discussing this Constitutional clause, while Bing shows the Clause but does not address it. Both title Article I, Section 8 as “the necessary and proper clause” but do not discuss … “To establish uniform rule of Naturalization, and …”
An in Other News today, the Washington Compost can’t understand why Smoking is a thing again. SP clip is one of the best.
Cigarettes are ‘cool’ again, and the reason why might surprise you…
https://revolver.news/2026/07/cigarettes-are-cool-again-and-the-reason-why-might-surprise-you/