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JUST IN: Biden Judge Finally Caves to Supreme Court, Lifts Block on Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians – DHS Responds
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/biden-judge-finally-caves-supreme-court-lifts-block/
Last Friday, US District Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, lifted her block on the termination for Somalia Temporary Protected Status.
The Department of Homeland Security responded and said all individuals with terminated TPS will be deported.
<Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW.>
Those with terminal TDS should also leave NOW 🙂
Yes!
I’ll second that motion and move to vote…..
I’ll vote Aye . . .
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Love it!
Or…
Leave it!
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WITH DEFERENCE TO WORDMAN:
<Those with terminal TDS should also leave NOW>
Those with STDs should also leave now!
Very good WordMan!
Close the Learing Centers and claw back the $19 billion in Medicare fraud.
Oh but that jackass Cassidy is talking about needed Medicare changes.. cause going broke.
Nothing will happen to them
BOMBSHELL: Trump Says Census Bureau Analysis Confirms Over 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Election as 32 Million Records Remain to be Analyzed: “I WON THE ELECTION!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/bombshell-trump-says-census-bureau-analysis-confirms-24000/
The top 10 countries of birth for the identified noncitizen voters (from federal immigration records) tell the story:
What about illegals from Mudslime countries?
How about anyone who overtly, or, covertly, calls for the establishment of a caliphate, or overthrow of the United States?
The Gates of Vienna links out to an important article by Daniel Greenfield:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-18-2026/#739494
Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S.
i would like to attend a conference for christians on how to convert the muslim world, like we’re supposed to.
Are you looking to lose your head? Make sure you take a gun training class first.
I think you missed this key part:
“establishment of a caliphate, or overthrow of the United States”.
Try going to a Muslim country and demand to overthrow their government. Let me know how that goes for you.
Yes, the most powerful Nation on the planet has been trying to do that in Iran since February, to no avail…
How about let’s not waste any more time or resources trying to convert a bunch of savages. Deport them all back to their native $h!t hole countries and let them fight amongst themselves. We don’t need that toxic, septic, barbaric ideology polluting our nation. We’ve got enough problems already!
This is pure hogwash.
Do you favor letting the islamic regime, the biggest source of terrorism on the planet, obtain nuclear weapons and use them as they’ve announced they intend to?
NO, I think we oughta just finish the job instead of “negotiating” with a bunch of known liars…
Having worked and lived in Israel for two years, knowing how the Israeli people have to live their lives in constant fear, knowing that Israelis consider Bibi a National Hero, I HAVE NEVER SAID THAT I FAVOR LETTING IRAN HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON…
In fact, I think President Trump should stop telling Israel to “stand down” and let Israel take care of Iran…
I await, with “bated breath”, your next comical attempt to assassinate my character…
With the exception of your accusation about character assassination, I completely agree with your post.
As to your accusation, please let me clarify: I called your post hogwash, not you, and asked you a direct question about what you support, which elicited a reply I found very gratifying to see. So thank you.
I’ve read many comments by you here, some I agreed with and some I didn’t, but have never seen one that warranted questions regarding your character.
I figure the fact we’re both regulars here puts us on the same team.
“overthrow of the United States”
Sounds a lot like insurrection, sedition and maybe even treason depending on who is funding these people. Our enemies on the terrorist lists like Iran, Syria Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis/Ansarallah al-Qaeda, ISIS or al-Shabaab.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube about that.
As a Christ follower I agree but here are my conditions as a citizen for all muslims or former muslims:
If your enemy tells you what he wants and what he will do… you better open yours ears and listen.
Prepare Accordingly.
Wouldn’t it be something if El-Sayed just up and mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night.
Oh, we’re not allowed to talk about them. That would be racist. /sarc
Good question, and let’s not forget the serious number of Americans who routinely engage in voter fraud.
What? No “Russian Interference” (TM)?
Well it seems the Russians interfered to help Hillary with their Steele Dossier
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee retained the law firm Perkins Coie, which hired Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS then subcontracted the London-based firm Orbis Business Intelligence, where former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele compiled the memos.
The dossier was plainly intended as opposition research and was politically useful to the Clinton campaign and the broader anti-Trump effort,
Seems like Russian election interference for Hillary to me.
….and Perkins Coie had a terminal with access to the NSA database.
Perkins Coie partner at that time, Josh Kaul, is now Wisconsin’s attorney. Hard core lefty, of course. If Perkins Coie is a true partnership, all ‘partners’ are responsible for the actions of all other partners. Therefore, Kaul would be culpable for any action taken by his firm at the time.
BTW, his mother preceded him as Wi Atty Gen. During her tenure she drove a state vehicle off the freeway in a significantly drunken condition. Was subject to no meaningful punishment. Peggy Lauteschlager (sp).
Why even bother giving out that small number when the left will just use it for fodder.
You mean that they weren’t the most secure elections in forever after all? I’m utterly flabergasted.
It was the most secure cheat ever.
All of government backed it up. FBI, DOJ, CIA, House, Senate, Supreme Court, all the lesser Courts, multitudes of State Governments, All the Media, All the Social Media. The entire illegal Government Industrial Censorship Program. Even the military leadership was taking part in the coup.
Never was an election stolen more securely.
Agreed.
Jim, please remember Big0 replaced the generals and fired all flag officers. That was not our “military leadership.” It was a coup-prepared military. Remember our military parading around in high heels. Remember the obesity that settled in. Coup military!
Come on man, working at Mickey D’s was a stepping stone for President Trump.
And more than a few remain on active duty I’m betting.
Their aim is to destroy the institutions.
Dems have hated the military since Vietnam. Remember BJ Clinton being caught on a hot mic saying “I loathe the military?”
Obama accelerated the destruction.
You mean to say a liberal judge didn’t step in and stay Obama’s firing? WOW, one did every time Trump fired anyone. I wonder what the difference was?
Oops, sarc for those that can’t recognize sarcasm.
Well it may be a BOMBSHELL, but I doubt it. To me the messaging or lack of it on the corruption of the 2020 election has gotten no traction.
Using this example with President Trump saying he won the 2020 election will be buried as inconsequential.
As bad as it is that 24000 illegals voted in 2020 and may even go to 30000 after all is counted, that’s less than .02% of the vote. Biden claimed 81M votes and President Trump received 74M votes. That’s a 7M vote difference. 24000 or 30000 illegals voting, if they all voted for Biden is noise and the naysayers sayers will say just that.
I don’t think Biden received anywhere near 81M legal votes and the 2020 election was totally corrupt, but this BOMBSHELL is not going to prove President Trump won.
To me, there is so much evidence out there in GA, AZ, PA, MI of vote irregularities, manufactured votes, lost ballots, Dominion, on an on of a corrupt 2020 election that needs to be officially told.
I guess I’m just frustrated that with all the evidence out there that people still think that Biden won. They will say-Yes, a few dead people voted and yes a few illegals voted, but it didn’t change the outcome. Stop whining and move on.
Our messaging can’t get past the leftist, Establishment UniParty, media claims of an honest election and J6 was an insurrection.
You are exactly right as a matter of fact …that small number actually hurts. Almost like it was done on purpose. Why is PT so child like on this issue. His threats of …he just may well declare a National Emergency….operative word “may”, as if there is any other choice in order to save this nation. Just another attempt to get our hopes up that he just might do it this time? Sorry, I am so tired of it all especially from Him. He should know the threat of 2026 cheat is real and dangerous for all our lives. As a matter of fact …our lives depend on it.
That ignores all the mail in stupidity.
JMO.
Good News:
“Liberia agrees to take 1,200 deportees from the US”
Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States
ByThe Associated Press
August 18, 2026
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Hey, hey, ho, ho send ’em back to mexico,
Hey, hey, ha, ha send ’em back to africa,
Hey, hey, Li, Li, send ’em back to Liberia
Hey, hey, R, R, send ’em back to the country of R-choice.
Just get the ILLEGALS the hell out of the USA! NOW!
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In WWII, the USA defeated two major enemies across two oceans in 3 years and 8 months.
Mass deporting the millions of ILLEGALS is doable within that same time frame.
There are 10s of thousands of troops returning from the EU and the middle east.
Use them as needed to expedite the removal of the ILLEGALS.
The JAG officers can be used in the legal processing and the large transportation planes can be used to fly out more illegals / day.
Turn the legal beagles loose on the jurists who are trying to slow down the deportation process. They are obstructing justice ……. charge ‘em.
We have a country to save …… treasonous, domestic commies should not have a vote in stopping the process.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
We also have Texas to save. The race between socialist/communist Talarico and AG Ken Paxton is too close for comfort.
The followers of Islam are even more dangerous.
Ha.
The mexican government has been bitching about its US illegals being deported to Guatamala and Honduras……let’s see how they like Liberia.
BOMBSHELL: Abdul El-Sayed’s Mother Worked for Terror-Linked Group That Funded Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and Hamas
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/bombshell-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-terror-linked/
Just yesterday, the Gateway Pundit reported that El-Sayed’s half sister is a radical leftist professor at the University of Chicago who allegedly assaulted a police officer at an anti-ICE protest and now this. What’s next?
Option number 1: she won’t need to abort her ‘eggs’.
Option number 2: she’d be better off to abort her ‘eggs’.
P.S. One note of correction: it is Islamo-Fascism, just like in WW2.
Option number 3: she sits on her ‘eggs’ until they hatch!
👏🏼 👏🏼
It is my observation how many up in DC need a trim these days.
RINOS…..in the CONgre$$……
Too bad she no longer has a sperm donor.
2.0 versions are always plagued with new worse bugs than 1.0 – plus all the ones never fixed in the previous…
It works pretty well for the dictator. Not so much for anyone else though.
I think that’s how socialism is designed. Everyone thinks they will raise all boats until they all start sinking into the muck instead.
International Atomic Energy Agency Digs TONS of Nuclear Material Buried in Clandestine Site in Syria!
al-Sharaa Regime Reverses Plan and REFUSES To Hand Over the Findings
A former al-Qaida terrorist is now sitting on a treasure trove of nuclear material that can be weaponized.
A United Nations team has excavated a ‘previously undisclosed site’ in Syria and found several tons of nuclear material from the days of the Bashar al-Assad rule.
The agreed plan was for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove the material from Syria – but that’s not what’s going to happen, anymore.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/international-atomic-energy-agency-digs-tons-nuclear-material/
Reading this it sounds like a combination of unenriched material and material salvaged from the reactor Israel blew up. Which could be enriched up to 20% or less.
For some reason they always talk about this range as being ‘weaponizeable’ as dirty bombs.
20% is the level used in breeder reactors. I do not know the enrichment in Syria then or now, but regular reactors use much lower enrichment levels. If it were a plutonium weapons program, it would have been a breeder reactor.
20% is also near the minimum needed to make a Uranium bomb. Much much higher levels are needed if you want a bomb that can be flown, launched on a missile, fired as artillery, or carried as a suitcase.
But holds of ships, trucks, cargo containers, don’t need 80%-95% enrichment.
Hahahahaha!!!!!
🤣🤣🎯🎯🎯
To this day I still believe the Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were wrong, for many reasons … However ..
Just a minor historical note, for those asking about WMD in Iraq before Deseret Storm 2.0 … there were published reports, at the time, that Iraq was moving Nuclear Materials to SYRIA just ahead of the Invasion and parts of the Iraqi Air Force actually flew to IRAN .. what else went to Iran while those planes escaped.
The chemical WMD stuff was a given as Iraq and Iran “gassed” each other’s forces with wild abandon … using industrial insecticide (for nerve and blood agents) and manufacturing chemicals (for the more mundane chlorine gas) materials supplied by the EU to make their gas.
Also, hard to ignore that Saddam Husein was willing to submit to inspections and surrender nuclear materials.
Just pointing out some things that did happen …. that do not always fit the anti-Bush narratives.
Caravans Truckloads of material left Iraq heading to neighboring countries…
Did you rely on the MSM for that information?……. Knowing what we know today how much do we really know about anything…… Thought of the Day.
…They (Iraqis) with western help specially German(IG FARBEN Co) ..doc00… you may remember Zyklon B….”gassed” up 350,000 +Iranians in the war 1980-89….they never forget it…. soo many commenters here wander why they did not give up ???…because they never will………
The worst of it was that like many blowhards in the region, Saddam greatly exaggerated his capabilities, and so many fell for it. It was and still is the way of the middle east. Did you hear Iran is now going on offense? We shouldn’t underestimate but also shouldn’t freak out.
How Did We Get Here? Morocco Demands the Return of Unaccompanied Illegal Migrant Minors From Spain — And Spain Says NO!
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2026/08/how-did-we-get-here-morocco-demands-return/
District attorney in central Pa. vows to continue ICE partnership
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2026/08/district-attorney-in-central-pa-vows-to-continue-ice-partnership.html?
Pa. needs to stop courting the muslims.
Sad news. Lol. Poor Alexander Vindman lost his primary for Florida Senate. Outspent his opponent 36 to 1 and still lost.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2026/08/18/florida-us-senate-special-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates/
LOL, a ‘deplorable’ return on investment!!!
Thank you Florida!
corvaifan….did any foreign -unregister here- support him ????
Nuclear power on the back of a truck moves closer to reality in the US
The Australian
https://archive.is/mjCyl
It was transported on the back of a truck to the site where it was tested.
They leave out the details of the actual test, shielding, cooling, conversion of radioactivity to electricity, or even if it is safe to put the used reactor on the back of a truck any time soon.
The propagandists and the article writers all want us to think it can be run on the back of the pickup truck. Maybe even next to you on the road.
But read their words carefully and they don’t actually say that.
From the article
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The next step is to add the hardware to allow it to be turned up to produce the heat required to drive a steam turbine to generate electricity.
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And
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The heart of the Unity reactor was delivered to INL on the back of a Ford F-150 pickup truck. When complete, the whole package will fit into a shipping container.
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And
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It does not require water for cooling, can be buried underground,
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This article does provide a little bit of detail.
Since they say it can run for 5 years, why hasn’t any media asked about disposal? Leave it abandoned in the ground? Transport it to Yucca Mountain or some large Nuclear facility?
Or about national security safety. Just add conventional explosives to a used one and you have a dirty bomb. Think Marine baracks in Lebanon or Oklahoma City sized bombs.
The first question I thought of was where does the cooling water come from. Unless someone accomplishes cold fusion electric generation that is profitable, it is not happening.
Proof of concept is an important step
Agreed. But then that should be the news.
Hype and propaganda shouldn’t be news substitutes.
H and P is ALWAYS the news. It’s even more so now blanketing every story the msm puts out from politics to going back to school. There is no honest news reporting and maybe there never was.
Absolutely.
New energy concepts are exciting and anything is possible but most are so far from being ready for prime time.
Interesting to have another innovative energy source to watch. Production and storage are worth watching.
Having houses powered by kites or truck sized nuclear reactors, not any time soon. If ever.
Lots of claims out there but many just don’t pan out. Lockheed Martin gave up on truck sized fusion after announcing wonderful breakthroughs.
President Donald J.Trumps Iconic Champion Dance! song!
Joe Biden’s FBI accused of unprecedented stunt to keep his family’s alleged crimes secret
Republican lawmakers are demanding that Trump’s top intelligence officials fork over classified documents that may shed light on an FBI effort to ‘misclassify’ files on the Biden family’s alleged wrongdoing.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson penned a letter to the Justice Department, the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence asking for access to classified files on potential wrongdoing by former President Joe Biden and his family.
Allegations in the classified documents allude to claims that the Bidens were allegedly involved in wrongdoing, notably Hunter Biden‘s business dealings in Ukraine when his father was Vice President.
‘To-date, the available records cause serious concerns about how federal law enforcement and the Intelligence Community used its resources to downgrade allegations of criminality relating to the Biden family apparently without sufficient investigation,’ Grassley and Johnson wrote.
The letter was addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton.
Sent on Monday and first reported by the New York Post, the correspondence directly calls out former FBI Director Christopher Wray, who served under Trump and Biden, for allegedly establishing additional ‘obstacles’ making the information on the former Democratic president’s family and business dealings harder to obtain.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16062207/Joe-Bidens-FBI-accused-unprecedented-stunt-familys-alleged-crimes-secret.html
What a joke … the Republican Uni-Party owned Congress in 2016-17, these same senators were around when the AIG Horowitz Reports were published, still owned the Senate 2017-2020, and the same Republicans own the senate AGAIN in 2024-to date.
Like them or not … Representative Jim Jordon and Speaker Johnson have sent referrals to DoJ that have just gathered dust ….
Current “trusted” members of the President’s Cabinet and former ODNI Tulsi G have sent referrals to DoJ that have just gathered dust ….
Now the Republican Uni-party and “conservative” media are working overtime to assist in making President Trump a lame duck President … while breathlessly exposing crimes, without referrals to DoJ one may add. A “letter to the AG” does not equal a referral for purposes of instigating an investigation and prosecution. Ever notice how none of this reaches the ears of the 50% of la la land dwellers via the MSM unless there is a “prosecution or investigation” involved.
Unfortunately …Joe Bidens’ FBI is Trumps FBI. Patel told on himself right after entering office. That he intended to reform the FBI…that we couldnt expect him to fire those that were just following orders.
Fill in the blank….What is Kash Patel? ________ A. Idiot B. Compromised C. Crook
The Ulchi Freedom Shield Exercises will end this Friday the 21st cutting a full week from the schedule.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/us-south-korea-drills-cut-short-trump-north-6326936
Is California a designated Anti-American Terrorist State yet?
It’s not the state, like everywhere else it’s the blue cities, if there were free and fair elections, it would be a red state.
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I like it!!
https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8-18-2026/#739602
Texas Cop Disables All Flock Cameras Across County: ‘Warrantless Tracking Doesn’t Belong in Free Society’
Can he disable cell phone tracking too?
Chinese FM Wang Yi set to arrive in Seoul for talks on N. Korea, bilateral issues
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20260819/chinese-fm-wang-yi-set-to-arrive-in-seoul-for-talks-on-n-korea-bilateral-issues
One learns something new everyday. Until my perusal of Gates of Vienna this early morning, I never knew that August is “National Breastfeeding Month!”
Maine Breastfeeding Coalition Celebrates ‘Trans Lactation, Chestfeeding, and Two-Spirit
Families’
To mark National Breastfeeding Month, observed every August, the Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition posted an image “celebrating trans lactation, two-spirit & chestfeeding.”
The image was posted to the coalition’s Instagram page earlier in August, however, the account appears to have since been deleted. The image featured a large trans-identified male hooked up to a breast pump. The male is seen holding a mug that reads “Milk Makes Families.”
Thanks to the Google AI Machine, I also just learned, what a “Two Spirit Family” is, replete with footnotes!
A Two Spirit family centers on or is led by an Indigenous Two-Spirit individual—someone who embodies both a masculine and a feminine spirit. These families reflect traditional, non-binary, and holistic Indigenous kinship models that honor gender and sexual diversity as sacred community roles. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
This kind of made up nonsense makes me sick. The word ‘chest feeding’ is just cringe worthy and trans lactation sounds as ridiculous as it is.
The level of stupid should be considered and the person laughed out of the room.
…..right after we microchip them.
They’re latching on (ahem) to American Indian beliefs.
The Northern Cheyenne had s similar “third gender.”
Other tribes did as well.
UGH ! Woke lefty scum
Didn’t Butt Gigles use a rig to feed from bottles in a halter during his “maternity leave” eternal vacation?
Apparently, when he was allowing trains to dump toxic waste all over Northeastern Ohio.
This is so important to remember. I still subscribe to “East Palestine off the Rails!” on facebook. They are still waiting for settlement from Northfork Southern.
I am pretty sure it has contaminated the drinking water supply in coastal New England, too.
Lahaina and East Palestine, Ohio, were two localized genocidal actions by the Obiden Junta, along with their Poison Death shot global humanity reduction psyop.
Yes….. the idiot
MAGA
Becky
I read all this stuff and wonder how they aren’t embarrassed by their behavior. How embarrassing to have actual photos of this lunacy. SMH…
Good Morning Treepers,
I am posting this for the morning crowd, and I am asking the Treehouse for support in my project to bring back free elections and return power to We the People. I believe the President has been raised up by God as a warrior to lead us, and in our fight against those who wish to enslave us, the only other main resource we have is we outnumber them.
To participate will cost you a few dollars (not paid to me) and a little bit of your time, it’s not much individually, but with enough of us participating we would be an unstoppable force, one that could show our so called representatives that we have had enough and demonstrate to President Trump that we have his back.
Please go to my comment from mid-day yesterday, give it fair consideration, and join in the lively conversation thread that was had, read the other comments and then offer your own questions, thoughts, suggestions, and opinions; I will try to respond later this evening.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/18/august-18th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-576/comment-page-2/#comment-12759090
If you want to visit my website first to give it a once over and watch the videos on the video/social media page, in order to gain your own initial impression before reading other people’s thoughts on the matter, go to usmaga.org.
Thank you for your time.
If you want to promote your website, do it on your website.
Not promoting my website, promoting a solution to the problem of taking back our country. Not asking anyone for money, in fact I’m spending all of the little I have on this, disagree with me all you want, but please consider not impugning my motives.
“If you want to visit my website first to give it a once over and watch the videos on the video/social media page, in order to gain your own initial impression before reading other people’s thoughts on the matter, go to usmaga.org.”
Your motives are clear, lol. Don’t try the victim play.
Not the victim, not playing the victim. The quote that you posted represents the logical fallacy of omission, or the out of context quote.
“Good Morning Treepers,
I am posting this for the morning crowd, and I am asking the Treehouse for support in my project to bring back free elections and return power to We the People. I believe the President has been raised up by God as a warrior to lead us, and in our fight against those who wish to enslave us, the only other main resource we have is we outnumber them.”
This quote provides the context and describes exactly what it is that I’m promoting, “to bring back free elections and return power to We the People.” That is the end goal, not the website, which is only a tool used to promote that idea.
Respectfully Alleycats, would you please reconsider the implication that I am only out to promote the website, instead of the idea.
I would much rather you give the idea fair consideration and then hear your constructive criticism applied to why you think it will or won’t work, and most interested in ways to improve the likelihood of its success. This is why I brought this to the Treehouse in the first place. MsWords and others have already provided some good ideas yesterday, as well as some others that posted comments that forced me to defend my position, which is a good thing, because it already faces long odds.
Will you not join them and offer your own thoughts on the actual subject, even if we are in complete disagreement? Please.
Thanks, John.
I’ll ck it out.
Slick try.
All the best to you anyway Alleycat.
please excuse me for wading into the discussion.
you seem sincere, but i’ve always been uncomfortable
with promoting a personal web page here, too.
fine to ask for thoughts and suggestions about an idea and use them as you say,
but somewhat unseemly IMHO to tie them to your website.
gives a vaguely scammish impression, like trying to drive traffic for financial gain.
not saying any of that applies in your case,
just saying you might rethink your approach for better results.🙂
folks are especially cautious nowadays.
p.s.: Alleycats is under tremendous personal pressure at the moment
dealing with a SEVERE health challenge.
glad your replies were at least civil.
mods have issued a caution or two lately, but that is their purview.
we commenters can afford a little leeway.
had my own epic back and forth with her, but by maintaing equinimity,
found out that in the big picture, she’s one of my very favorite posters.😁
not always easy to temper our tempers, but in the long run it pays off!
👁️👁️ 🖖🏻
Thank you Zoom.
I am definitely sincere, but I find your advice very helpful, your concerns legitimate, and I thank you for informing about Alleycats personal struggles, it does take on a whole new look.
I will be looking for new ways to present my cause of free elections and secure borders.
As for me, I’m technologically impaired and the stress of trying to use it to advance the cause of electoral reform is taxing, but certainly not anywhere near the stress of physical issues.
Thank you again Zoom, I really appreciate the insights.
I am promoting –
*morning 🙏
*a hot ☕️
*watching 🌅
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Do not speak for me. Do not presume you know a thing about me. No, I am not under personal pressure. I have never been admonished by admins. Only the cowards who used to beat the red flag to death with enough flags to AUTO DELETE a comment, rather than engage.
Nice try though. John can defend his own attempts to use the massive audience here for free to promote his website.
never would i presume to speak FOR anyone else,
but i do occasionally speak in SUPPORT of others,
which was my intention here. 🙂
if i MISINTERPRETED some of your recent comments
alluding to cancer and/or hospital visits, I’M GLAD!
not something to get wrong.
i do have 2 screen shots of a caution –
just want you to know i wouldn’t make something like that up.
hey, it happens – i just got deleted here twice in the last two weeks.🤣
anyway, i’ll stick with saying we agree on a lot of things,
and the motives of ANY poster generally become apparent with time.
Long standing understanding, perhaps tradition, not sure it’s still in the guidelines for comments or not, but promoting other sites has been widely frowned upon and Alleycats comments are appropriate to that tradition.
If the flag option was still available I would have flagged your comment to promote a different site.
That said, this Last Refuge has been and will always be, for me at least, a place of conversation, and if other sites one believes would enhance the conversation gets posted, that’s one thing – I am guilty of that because the posts I share are to source material or to sites that contain actual source material within those links, as a means to encourage greater informed conversations.
The “will you not join” is an unnecessary guilt-tripping maneuver. Please do better. Just a personal opinion.
Thank you.
John knows, and the dogpile knows, exactly what they are attempting. I don’t sweat them.
Thank you for your civility Bessie, it is much appreciated.
Respectfully, have you considered my side of the argument?
Before I get into that though, the question of motivation was the main point of AC’s comment, and there was not any honest attempt at engagement to ascertain what that was, or even a polite repost as yours was to tell me that it was in bad taste, just an automatic sentence of snake oil salesmen.
As far as my motivation goes, it was well stated in my first paragraph, and following the link to yesterday’s comment and the thread that ensued would have demonstrated honest engagement about one thing, opinion of my plan and ways to make it better.
Although I have only been posting here at the Treehouse for a little over six months, I have been coming here for years, because it has indeed been a refuge, a place for considered thought, and new information, and that is precisely why I asked Treepers to look at it and comment, and the “will you not join” statement was an honest invitation for AC to tear the plan apart, because I may have gained a nugget or two.
The website is the tool, the object of promotion the plan. I worked very hard on finding a way for people like me that don’t have any resources to effect change to be able to do so with the following criteria: inexpensive on time and money, based on the strategic situation as it exists today, and easily deployable. Fionnagh’s comment below is all the confirmation that I have succeeded to some degree; home bound, ravaged by chemo, yet an actual way for her to still fight back, to save the country.
Again respectfully, you could examine the evidence and decide for yourself, am I charlatan trying to make a quick buck, or someone who is making a legitimate attempt to introduce a system, that can provide a way for us to take back our government, that does not require breaking the law, that does not require violence, that does not force us to travel great distances, and that cost at most three dollars and 15 minutes for each round. Something that I believe to the core of my being will work, if one out of every ten people who voted for Trump participated with only one $3 round. It would only take 1 out of every Trump voter if each did a $30 ten rounder, and it would unite an army of We the People for President Trump to deploy.
That is what I am promoting.
Not suggesting charlatany motivations; simply remembering finding this site, goodness, late 2011, 2012 and watching now and then the incremental moves by some who posted as a means to create the sidewalk to attract people to walk on over to a commentators own site, simply to build an audience.
Which is, even in that case, fine as it is important to find ways to inform people. News aggregator sites are a perfect means to do so.
But often this exposure becomes a glimpse to see how the puppet strings are attached, especially noticable when tag-teams appear to pile up when observations and questions turn into attacks by others.
This entire medium (internet) is an interesting dynamic of watching, freedom of communication along with manipulation of the same ala lines of the splitter strategy – dilute, divide attention by introduction of the Q’s, Candace’s, Tucker’s glowing moves to see what type of distractions will work and keep people being the audience instead of discovering their individual best means of being a participant in reclamation of the republic. Everyone has their talents and timing of using them.
So wishing you and your endeavor well; change is certainly needed.
I just finished six weeks of chemo. The side effects are dreadful. I face my 12th surgery for cancer late September. Absolutely none of this is any of your business, let alone the tens of thousands who read here, but I am posting this because Mr. Stark has presented a way I can fight back — confined to my home as I now am – to try and keep our country OURS.
As I posted earlier, if you’ve got a better idea, then share it. Other than posting snide little remarks, what are YOU doing to keep this nation sovereign??
well, good on you Fionnagh – you checked for yourself so you could make up your own mind.🙂
my point was merely that a lot of us don’t click on unverified links/websites
given the current climate of malware infestations, scams, and trackers on everything
(the other day i got a notice that “Safari blocked 14 trackers on this site” –
and it was an online organic fruit retailer! where’s the big money in THAT? 🤣)
and, if not too presumptuous, may i encourage you to hold your head up
and keep fighting the good fight regarding your health challenges.
cerainly not easy at times, but hopefully you are through the worst of it.
you have my sincerest prayers for a remarkable and complete recovery.🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your comment, I hate that you have to go through all that, my Aunt has been going that, but for me your comment is validation that my plan is a way for all of us, no matter how slim our circumstances are, to fight back. I know we can do this and be successful in the end, if just enough people climb on board for $3 a pop.
Any admonition might best come from the site administrators? And so far Mr. Stark has generated some lively discussions. He seems to be promoting taking our country back before it’s too late. He is one of the few treepers I’ve seen who actually presents viable ideas to do that. If you’ve got your own plan, post it.
John, I remember when the NRA had a letter-writing campaign for 2A years ago, just prior to email and SM, and members filled the halls of Congress with physical mail. Tubs of mail stacked high. It made the news.
Aside, responses to your post here and yesterday give me the key-code confirming what I’ve been searching for for months: Who’s Who among commenters on this website.
This is part of the basis of the strategy, if it makes the news, especially in DC, President Trump will promote it, then the floodgates really open, and millions will be united and focused on fixing the electoral system.
Also, one of the four documents is a bill for Congress called the ROW Act. Passing that into law would overturn Trump v Barbara by restoring the original intent of the “…subject to the jurisdiction clause…” and lead to an immediate self deportation of millions of illegals. Check it out.
Your web site is a magnificent and brave effort. Especially appreciate the form letter as to the SAVE Act. It reflects my beliefs and I could not have written it half so well. Thank you for providing a housebound lady with a viable way to fight (“Fight! Fight! Fight!) back:)
Thank you again.
Fionnagh, thank you.
And prayers up for your comfort and complete healing.
+ + +
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 Christians in the Holy Land and the entire Levant, especially the Palestinian Christian villagers of Taybeh (formerly Biblical Ephraim) in the occupied West Bank, from the Evil One and his servants who prepare to welcome the Anti-Christ.
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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.
Thank you Alleycats.
❤️
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
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.
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.
Day 212 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.
Amen
Amen
DSA Co-Chair in NYC Reportedly Lives in $1.5 Million Home His Rich Parents Bought for Him
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/course-dsa-co-chair-nyc-reportedly-lives-1/
Last night was the Jake Lang Christian Crusader protest about the Islamification of Dearborn Michigan. Apparently a couple if arrests and some speeches at City Council. Local TV covered it live. Otherwise no big conflict, seems underwhelming with smaller attendance than anticipated but did get a lot of publicity.
Protest draws large crowd, riot police response, several arrests outside Dearborn City Council meeting https://share.google/WqL2gmuCe2OHtDeCv
I am going with The Gipper Lives; Lang is likely is a glowie agent provocateur.
The Conservative side is hesitant to be vocal and/ or physical in their actions, unlike the left they have jobs, families and other responsibilities. This aspect makes it difficult for them to publicly protest for fear of doxing/ retaliation, that being said I believe there are millions who are quietly watching and waiting for the milk to boil over. 🇺🇲
PSA:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/250000-minifridges-sold-amazon-recalled-following-reports-fires
“The minifridges were manufactured in China by Ningbo Iceberg Electronic Appliance Co., Ltd., and imported by Brooklyn, New York-based Lisse USA LLC.”
Globalism, ain’t it grand/s?
“I go before you always….come follow Me…”
in absolute control as praises rise
🙏❤️🤍💙
@EFischberger
Aug 15
Bombshell:
Erdogan’s AKP set up a $6.2 million Washington HQ and met with Mehdi Hasan, CAIR, John Kiriakou, and….Tucker Carlson’s business partner?
According to several FARA filings from the past year, submitted by the political party of Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and which I personally reviewed, the party spent $6.2 million to establish a permanent Washington office that is now run by Halil Mutlu, Erdoğan’s cousin.
This has already been reported on.
But what has not yet been covered is that in the three FARA filings going back to early 2025, nearly every one of Mutlu’s logged activities is recorded as either “Discussion regarding U.S.-Turkiye relations” or “Public Event” — so the public has no clue what was actually discussed.
But several notable meetings stand out:
On June 11, 2025, Mutlu met with Mehdi Hasan.
In October 2025, he attended CAIR-NY’s banquet
On April 23, 2025, Mutlu met with John Kiriakou, the disgraced former CIA officer who leaked the identities and classified operational roles of covert CIA officers to journalists, and now hosts a show on Russia state-run media.
Kiriakou has spent the last several years promoting anti-American conspiracy theories.
They met again on March 11, 2026.
On March 12, 2026 — one day after the Kiriakou meeting — Mutlu met virtually with Neil Patel, almost certainly the same Neil Patel who co-founded the Daily Caller with Tucker Carlson, and is also a co-founder and current CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network.
About 5 weeks after the Patel meeting, Tucker hosted Kiriakou on his podcast.
The Tucker Carlson Network is also publishing Kiriakou’s forthcoming book.
Despite all these bizarre findings, a lot is still left unanswered.
What the heck did Erdogan’s cousin talk with all these people about?
And why are we only learning about it from a FARA filing?
https://nitter.poast.org/EFischberger/status/2088721093301563834#m
Looks like @JohnKiriakou is crashing out after I exposed his meetings with Erdoğan’s AKP party.
I never accused him of being “bought” by Turkey, despite how the description in his YouTube video characterizes it.
I just pointed out that it’s weird he never disclosed the meetings.
What’s even stranger is how he responded: first he claimed I was lying and that the meetings never happened, then he said there was only one meeting — and that it took place 18 months ago.
Yet the AKP itself acknowledged meeting him again in March 2026 in its new FARA filing, and there’s also a photo from that meeting that I found on X.
Very strange and suspicious behavior from a very strange and traitorous man
https://nitter.poast.org/EFischberger/status/2089695546009137378#m
Have you noticed all the commercials telling seniors to wait longer to collect Social Security to get more benefits?
Not only are you giving up those benefits in between age 62 and 70, you’re giving up what you could earn by investing that money. But beware of the effects of taxes. Yes, after a lifetime of paying social security taxes, you must pay income tax again when you receive the benefits. The effects can be complicated when you combine other income with social security, so be sure to consult a tax or financial advisor if you’re unsure how it all works.
Also don’t forget about minimum required distribution at 73 years of age.
The time it takes to break even versus taking it earlier is substantial. They are also hoping a few will meet their maker before they collect.
🎯
Thus the clot shot?
Of course…
the clot-shot is the “finishing touch”…
Jake, our financial advisor told Gus it would take 14yrs to make up what he would lose if he waited til 70 to collect.
He asked Gus if he thought he would live 14 more years.
Gus, who retired a year early d/t health probs, said, man I’m not sure I’ll live 14 more hours!
So, yeah, ‘they’ really hope you will croak and get nothing.
Men die nearly 5 years younger than women on average — 76.5 years versus 81.4 years. – theglobalfiles
Few men will make it to 80. I think those wait to collect till 70 commercials are a government psyop ‘
Truli, and old joke: Do you know why married men die younger than married women? Because they want too!
No, Jake, we convince y’all you want to! 😎
I told Gus not to fear the Reaper as I ain’t through torturing him, yet.
Sounds like the reaper will be bringing Gus a medal when the time comes! LOL
that would make it unanimous
Everybody thinks they’re going to live forever. But the actuaries who compile life-expectancy tables make rules like these.
The odds of you making it to 70, let alone 80, are significantly less than making it to 62. And, if you die (too bad for you …) sooner than the date you were shooting for, they pay you(r family) nothing. You paid all those taxes, all those years, and received no money back at all. (Idiot …)
Last year, my body “fired a warning shot across my bow” that reminded me that every day is a gift, not a promise. As soon as the government offers to pay you money, TAKE IT NOW.
Every month that you are entitled to payments, and don’t take them, is what an accountant would call, “opportunity cost.”
I retired at 62. In addition to receiving SS, I also save a lot of money on vehicle fuel & maintenance, eating healthier at home, doing my own home repairs and upgrades, doing my own lawn, growing and preserving vegetables, finding the best deals on everything, sleeping better, etc. Less stress has health benefits too.
Also you have to take Required Minimum Distribution at 73. That is were a good financial advisor comes in. They can figure if better to retire early or late depending on how much you have in your retirement savings an if you plan to continue to work after 62 or until 70. Which way you come out better on taxes.
I did early collect and invest.
Added to my savings 🪺.
😊 👍
What’s bad about retirement?
IMO — absolutely nothing.
Every day I wake up is Saturday.
I ❤️ it!
ditto!!
love it…
How appropriate–today was payday! I’m a 62er as well. Take it when you can
yup… no tax on social security confused me but my friend/CPA said that only applies to extra money you might earn…My social security is still taxed and always has been …that I do not understand.
I’ve asked every financial advisor I come across why they don’t analyze both scenarios, and they all say because most people can’t wrap their heads around the totals and shortsightedly only focus on how much per month they can get.
I’ve looked at it and believe if you have limited savings, you can work longer, and have worked lower paying jobs resulting in lower SS payments, waiting will improve your monthly situation, which could be a benefit to some.
Investments, across the board, are doing quite well. Collect the money as soon as you can get it, invest it, and simply figure on taxes.
Yes. They taxed you to collect YOUR money that they are now paying back to you … and taxing it again.
Roth is a good strategy if you do it early enough. Roll over an amount every year that doesn’t affect your taxes very much then every year, you pay the tax now on the rollover, but when you withdraw there is no tax on the roll over or the earnings.
You have to wait 5 years to withdraw from each rollover but if a person started doing that at say 50 they would have 12 years saved by 62, 7 of which could be withdrawn immediately. The downfall is most people are making the highest salary in those years so the extra tax can put you in a higher bracket.
AND the loss to inflation.
Also the higher monthly checks could get taxed at a higher rate if you have other income. And Medicare premiums will be higher.
Looks like Zelensky is getting called out by his former defense minister.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-jd-vance-asked-ukraine-to-halt-strikes-on-key-location-as-russia-says-child-killed-in-attack-12541713
Al Jazeera gloating about the Islamic takeover of Europe is very on-brand for Qatar
https://nitter.poast.org/EFischberger/status/2089579155755008412#m
President Thomas Jefferson once had a few things to say about that sort of thing … 💥
morning Treepers……….be well
Good morning bjorkdream. 🙏❤️ Thanks for the extra cup!
☕️ ❤️
Morning bjorkdream
What a beautiful sunrise. 🤩
Thank you.
Have a great day.
And over on the left coast, the comments are worth the read:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/california-energy-commission-bans-sale-majority-tires-far/
Tire dealers in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon are licking their chops.
Watch the black market on tires explode.
Rolling resistance has always been at the bottom of my tire buying list.
Adding 2-3lbs of extra tire air pressure works pretty well.
Changing STOP signs to YIELD signs where possible, would do more for mpg.
“At the center of this is a tire’s rolling resistance, or how much energy a tire uses as it rolls down the road. Lower resistance means a vehicle uses less gas or electricity. ”
It is the resistance that allows a car to climb a hill or turn a corner.
And they are never going to bother to discuss HOW MUCH fuel this would actually save!
Their fat-paid government job is to create rules …
Like the thingy that turns off your car’s engine at a stop light, unless you turn it off.
Stopping or turning on rain and snow too!
And the “rolling resistance reduction” that these unelected bureaucrats are champing about … is negligible.
It just repeats my observation that Californians have no idea how to govern themselves. They constantly pass “ballot initiatives” that do no good before an also-unelected judge sets them aside. And they spend millions if not billions on “useless eaters” in endless government agencies. Who create “rules” like these that nobody ever voted for.
And, to top it all off, they present their State as the one to be imitated! 😂
More sad is many states look to Cali!
Good morning America, how are ya?
48, cloudy and 88% humidity in Christchurch.
68, cloudy and 95% humidity in Kankakee.
79, fair and 94% humidity in Ciudad de Panama’.
83° this evening with 73% humidity. A slight breeze. A very pleasant evening.
56* no humidity, just a beautiful start here in Fraudopolis, Mn. Where even the boy mayor Frey is dancing to the temps.
Good morning treepers,
77 degrees near Livingston, Texas
Happy hu,mp day
MAGA
Rainy this morning and cool in WNY. We need the rain but I hope the sun comes out later!
Betty’s weather report for the entire United States for this week coming:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YOmfHs1ghzk
(And remember, ya gotta get Jesus and ya gotta get a percolator.)
0.o
ALL ABOARD……….may Treepers have a grand day….hang tuff
bjorkdream, I just may hop that train!
Save me a seat.
Truly: My Hubby was Engineer for MKT (Missouri,Kansas, and Texas RR) for many years… He drove the “Katy Flyer”, a “crack” passenger train from Dallas to St Louis, Mo… The passenger trains would stop and pick up passengers standing beside the track with a suitcase…
The trains were a very pleasant way to travel… And another example of something good that our “government” pissed up the wall…
ty B your usual beautiful picture
MAGA 🚊
Love it.
Thank you.
Have a grand day, yourself, bjorkdream.
Time for heads up and real action! Yesterday Angie Nixon, a progressive DSA candidate for Florida US Senate handily beat Alexander Vindiman 55-45 for the Democrat nomination. I watched the two being interviewed by the Tampa Fox affiliate and was stunned by the number of I don’t know, I don’t have an opinion, I can’t answer that by Nixon. She appeared completely lost on an essentially siftball interview….yet she swamped the establishment candidate who spent 15-20 times what she did.
Now look at Michigan Dem US candidate El-Sayed who beat a multi term Congresswoman a little differently. Last night he was interviewed about the protest in Dearborn Michigan and somehow invoked the history of the US and the Constitution to demean those against Dearborn Islamification.
Rest assured, the DSA candidates are coming out against America. Tell any so called mainstream Dem friends to vote strongly against this assault on American values.
He needs to stay in his lane and stop pretending to be ‘presidential’.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-uss-abraham-lincoln-deployment
He just raised the tolls on the toll roads again…but but but we got a penny off the gas tax? From what WLS is reporting this morning…its because the unions wanted ‘more jobs’. And someone has to pay for it?
Good thing fatty wasn’t around during WW2
The guys that fought and won WWII wouldn’t tolerate the crap that goes on now…
In fact, if they were still alive, our WWII Heroes would have already gone to Washington D.C. and drained the swamp…
My relatives still living in IL call Pritzker “Fred Flintstone”. Those toll roads are perpetually under construction and people pay those tolls for what?
Trump Effect. “The 2030 Agenda: dangers, failures, and what no one is telling you”
For those who follow the strategic planning role that Agenda 21/2030/2050 plays in globalization and the gutting of America, this report from Spain may be of interest………………..
“The 2030 Agenda promised a shared horizon, a clear course toward a fairer, more sustainable, and resilient development model. But five years from the set deadline, the data points to a worrying shift.
Geopolitical tensions, climate crises, the retreat of multilateralism, and economic pressures have cast doubt on the viability of its goals. Is the 2030 Agenda doomed to fail as a global strategy, or is it still useful for guiding the direction of businesses and governments?”
https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/agenda-2030-failure
Stay in the the battle Patriots! – without the blood, sweat and wealth of working-class Americans, these parasites and weasels are doomed.
From over at Breitbart:
“Roughly 70 percent of incoming H-1B workers are Indian, partly because prior H-1B workers have become executives and hiring managers in U.S. companies. Even Indians admit the inflow includes much corruption.”
“The Indian government and Indians in the United States have begun an extensive PR campaign to rebuild support among U.S. citizens. The Times of India reported in March:
Give American workers with competence and education first priority when it comes to American jobs. That’s it. Nothing else to discuss.
When the native people of a country watch you stealing their jobs and say in no uncertain terms that they want you gone … that’s not a hate crime.
You aren’t “the best and the brightest.” You’re just cheap indentured servants, trapped in jobs you can’t leave. In defiance of the 13th Amendment. They like you because you are cheap and you can’t say “no.”
These ‘indentured servants’ are living in million dollar homes. This is pure nonsense. Companies may be paying them less; but taxpayers are picking up the tab for the healthcare etc. entire generations of families are living off the American taxpayer, while the ‘indentured servent’, likely with fake credentials, goes off to the job he:she stole from a citizen.
I know this, because I see it every day. Oh, and they populate very rapidly and often. Their culture does not mix with ours. Not long ago I read an expose by an Indian gentleman who immigrated to England decades ago. He stated it took him 10 years or so to get accustomed to Western ways of thinking. Basically, in India, cheating and lying is considered good. If you’re from a lower caste, and take advantage of the upper caste, you are admired. There is very little validity to your indentured servant analogy. In fact, the poor caste, who are treated as such, are not the ones immigrating in large numbers.
The Administration continues to not get serious about these visas. Nothing says meh to America First that the HIB visa scam.
They Saw it ComingHow American military planners anticipated failure in Iran
https://www.amerikanets.com/p/they-saw-it-coming
This is nonsense: there is no “failure in Iran.”
This regime can’t be toppled by blindly putting American boots on the ground in what would be an operation no more well-thought-out than Korea or Vietnam. It requires a multi-faceted, “unconventional” approach that is now being taken.
The Iranians understand “propaganda” extremely well.
They have held power at ruthless cost for 47 years, and their weakness is that they cannot conceive of ever losing it. They’ve got bombs and missiles and little boats. In their mind, what else do they need?
Very well said, however I don’t care how you remove a target you can not control an asset unless you have “Boots on the ground”, eventually there will have to be said boots on the ground. They just need to be someone else’s boots not ours. 🖖🏻
in addition to 25000 persian citizens taking a deadly hit,
there is a consequence that the i ran economy is taking a hit…. ongoing… getting worse…
How long will the persians like their miss leader$ ?
5 charts about i ran economy: not good
https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-economy-war-impact-oil-exports-inflation-unemployment-gdp-currency-2026-8
p.s.
For comparison to the i ran 50% inflation (see charts in link),
the u.s. bran done regime miss lead the u.s. economy to 15% inflation ( unpaid credit card balances went to record amounts as people tried to pretend that bran done inflation was not a problem, …no thanks to propaganda media…. but reality was….(different than pretend) )
the u.s. trump admin has lead the u.s. economy to 5% inflation ( and people complain about high prices while still pretending that brand done had previously nothing to do with it … hmmm…. no thanks to propaganda media…)
Love thy neighbors…
I was really looking forward to 50% Tarriff Day for Canada. Had my play list loaded up with Rush and Triumph tunes, six pack of Labatt Blue in the fridge and some seal meat to fry in whale blubber. I am sure President Trump has MAGA in mind for whatever deal he is cutting, but have to admit, I am kinda bummed.
What’s a can or jar of whale blubber cost these days?
<grins>
If there are no “ongoing talks” now with Iran….and if Iran is still firing missiles at us and Allies (2 targeted UAE last night)….then why the heck are we not hitting Iran as hard as we can?
We are. You are just seeing that you have been lied to for the past year. You really think Joe Kent was stupid?
..he was not……and he is not…….
They are hitting Iran hard….Just not with munition bombs right now. There are many strategic games afoot.
It makes more sense to strangle Iran to death economically than to bomb them.
Thank you, PDJT for keeping our US military deaths low. Genius!
They were wrong about everything!
Natural immunity and the infant….new moms have always been encouraged to breastfeed early on because the initial breastmilk has colastrum which is full of nutrients and immunity producing substances. That has been known since, forever. It’s natural and it works.
Even the dairy and beef ranchers strive to get that ‘good stuff’ into the newborn calves, for the same reasons.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: I’ve Been Warned NOT To Bring YOU This King Charles Story…
King Charles and the Cambridge eco-mosque Turkey built and which Erdogan himself opened.
The same Erdogan who hosts Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
Where were MI6, MI5, and the UK government in this matter?
Its the first 16min
Who warned you?
Kudos to the brave whistle blower in the Michigan Secretary of State’s office exposing more witchery in Michigan:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/mi-sheriff-drops-bombshell-whistleblower-reveals-how-sec/
Sheriff Dar Leaf has referred the evidence to the DOJ.
I haven’t had time to peruse the article itself, but I do have a comment about all this dropping of “news bombshells” that so many use in headlines.
One would think that after years of dropping all these empty bombshells that someone would learn to actually put some actual and factual news material in these empty bombshells! But nope, all we get is the shell.
Would be nice to be ‘bombarded’ with actual news instead of just an empty shell!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is back bigger than ever…thanks to the voters in Broward County Florida. DWS has close ties to shooter Nicholas Cruz, who murdered 17 people at Parkland High School. I believe she even intervened to get him a color TV in his cell and better meals.
How Badly Does Debbie Wasserman Schultz Want to Stay in Congress? – POLITICO
The total U.S. debt reached $400 billion for the first time on January 1, 1981.
U.S. July deficit was $432 billion
Bessent’s hat trick: In the first joint yen operation since 1998, Bessent bought yen for Tokyo and paid in euros, not dollars. The European Central Bank was told after the trade had closed. Days later, Tokyo said future defenses would be financed by borrowing dollars against its Treasuries at the Fed rather than selling them, and Bessent asked for that facility to be expanded. Bessent re engineered the plumbing, so its largest creditor would not have to sell its bonds. Nobody protects a market that is fine.
Bessent’s box of “tools”: the stablecoin law he championed requires the new digital dollars to be backed by bills, a buyer he projects at two trillion dollars by 2028. Bank leverage rules are being loosened so dealers can warehouse more. The Fed rolls its maturing mortgages into bills. And the deepest drawer, the Treasury’s gold, still stands on the books at the statutory 42 dollars and 22 cents an ounce, a hundredfold understatement, and Bessent has publicly mused about monetizing the asset side of the balance sheet.
Notice the pattern. Not one of these tools lowers the debt. Every one of them manages who must hold it. Repression’s opening chapter, written by the debtor’s own treasury head.
Thank you.
The debt is a ticking time bomb that deserves immediate attention from this administration, and deserves more discussion on this site.
Can we grow our economy enough to escape this problem? Or do we just inflate?
That is the issue that deserves more attention.
Is the interest on our debt now greater than what we spend on defense and entitlements? We need to discuss this matter and solutions in greater depth.
Our representatives are to blame for years of kicking the debt can down the road and now here we are.
Zero dollars to foreign aid is a starting point.
Definitely should be first.
I’ve got a wee bit different set of debt numbers than you posted.
On 1/1/1981 the US debt was approximately $935 Billion and we hit $1 Trillion for the 1st time on October 22nd, 1981. And I have the US deficit for July 2026 at approximately $212 Billion.
Both figures, historical and present, are from the US Treasury.
But I certainly agree with you that there are lots of ‘innovative’ tools and ways that our government uses to calculate, separate, and manipulate any true financial accounting/reporting!
Thank you for pointing that out.
Should have stated “The total U.S. debt reached $400 billion for the first time on January 1, 1971)
Went back again to look at the July 2026 deficit:
Figures are in ($millions)
Table 1. Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and the Deficit/Surplus of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026, by Month: July $432,308 Year to date: $1,798,816
Page 5 in the link below:
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-reports/mts/MonthlyTreasuryStatement_202607.pdf
At 8:33 AM ET the U.S. Treasury released a statement saying it is increasing (at least doubling) the maximum size of its liquidity-support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities (10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year sectors) from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation. The change takes effect September 9, 2026.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0607
When the announcement was made, long-term Treasury yields dropped significantly (as bond prices and yields move inversely, buying pressure pushes yields down), providing temporary relief to the fixed-income market.
Long-term interest rates (especially 20-year and 30-year bond yields) have experienced sharp upward pressure, reaching multi-year highs (with the 30-year yield touching levels not seen since 2007).
Yield curve control is now in the mix of Bessent’s tool….have to get yields down in order to service our debt
https://qz.com/treasury-long-term-bond-buybacks-liquidity-081926
Rest in the Vine: “The Delicious Humiliation of the Man Who Poisoned the World and
the Ignominious Death of ‘The Science’.” by Elizabeth Nickson and “Ignore Her” by Jeff Childers
Would be worth a watch…
“A new Novak Djokovic documentary titled The Wolf in Winter is set to be released on Amazon tomorrow.
In the pre-release publicity, Djokovic has stated the film reveals the ordeal he suffered at the hands of Australian authorities when he arrived in Melbourne in 2022 to compete in the Australian Open”
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/djokovic-film-details-his-2022-ordeal?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Where is his Lent statement?
This country is lost before the battle has even begun.
I can not understand why. Never mind, I know why.
“Just say ‘No'”
He’s betraying a long held belief of the left, separation of Church and State.
Forgot to add that Abigail will be next with this nonsense
Something to consider when pondering … why 60% of mainstream citizens in the US DO NOT see Islam as a threat and see it as just another religion.
None of them have read the Koran nor supporting Hadithes.
None of them comprehend the meaning of the term nor have seen news from “Islamic Republic of (name of nation)”.
The term “morality police” from Islamic nations fell out of sight after the hostages were rescued from Iran.
The vast majority of Muslim “Citizens” in the US, EU and elsewhere live “peaceful, normal” lives. Many have visited Islamic Nations and had a “good” experience. Even the travel and history channels in the media show “great place to visit”.
They have seen splashed across the media every single bad and rotten thing done by established, cult and sect level Christians around the globe.
They have read the Bible, that includes; a highly murderous, violent and at time bigoted OLD TESTAMENT, which many even here selectively use for quotes.
They have seen splashed across the news and in history books the rotten behavior of Christian Missionaries toward indigenous populations. Notice how the same messages about Islamic Conquest and Invasions are not covered …. and even the older movies showed Islam as benevolent contrasted violent and greedy Christians.
Nobody studies nor even bothers to comprehend that Christianity and Judaism have evolved FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT to become “oriented on forgiveness and redemption” .. while Islam is still stuck on Forced Compliance. Kicking the tires comparing the religions is the reason Communists and Islamists violently suppress Christianity and Judaism.
Notice how the honor killings and crimes are no longer reported in the US.
Notice how crimes similar to those in the UK are not reported or are reported with lack of attribution.
Notice how the reporting from UK is suppressed, period.
Notice how reports from France and Cueta are suppressed.
Everybody has seen the current Pope NORMALIZE relationships with Islam and has seen Multi-Faith Community Counsels in their communities doing PUBLIC Service.
Thus to over 60% of Americans “SEE and EXPERIENCE” Islam is as much a religion as any other, and one that claims common roots with the Judeo-Christian Bible. To them they are just a 10% Minority of highly faithful people … who are more committed to their faith than many “Christians”.
Sure there is a vocal minority of about 20% who have seen all the above trying to overcome the the above but are opposed by the those in power exploiting the situation, the supporting Media, current SEEN CONDUCT of Muslims among us as well as 20% who flat don’t care because they have common cause. It is going to take UK level incidents to change the minds of the 60%.
Tawriya -Tawriya is an Islamic rhetorical device and legal doctrine involving double entendre or deliberate ambiguity, where a speaker uses words with two meanings: an obvious, surface meaning understood by the listener, and a hidden, intended meaning known only to the speaker.
… and your point is???
A large majority of Muslims know nothing of what you speak, same as a large majority of “Christians” have zero knowledge of the Bible.
The difference is one of the acceptance to blind belief to Act once told to do so or being guilted, if not coerced, into blindly following a leader (i.e. the clerics) … then again there are Christians cowed by the same beliefs who follow without thinking .. just as most Muslims do not read the Koran.
I have lived and worked in Muslim Countries. The situation is far more complex than the simplistic BS you spout.
They will be the perfect lawyers then in this country.
When we get to the UK level it will be too late.